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NEWS: Netflix to Premiere Kakegurui Anime Outside of Japan in 2018

This is just insane. I really don't get why they don't do weekly release with ENG subs for the people that truly care to watch it. It doesn't harm the people that want to watch it dubbed later. Absolutely crazy that it's gonna take over 5 months for since it's airdate for this show to be available outside of Japan. I'll not even care by then. If I can't watch a show in it's current season, I generally forget it exists and never watch it because the fast pace of new releases overshadows older stuff.

It's like the impermanence of streaming media and the tortoise-like release schedules of DVDs/BDs had a baby...

ah, SAO was a huge hit when it came out in the West, so I don't know what you are talking about. It has since lost steam not because of the marketing end but because people realised they screwed it up and the anime is trash.

OT: I never understood why Netflix licensed Kakegurui in the first place. I absolutely love the manga, but nothing in there even remotely resembles "Mass appeal." Which is the whole reason Netflix started licensing anime in the first place. They wants shows that appeal to the non-anime crowd, which shows like Little Witch Academia makes perfect sense. But Kakegurui? Pseudo erotic gambling with outrageous/psychotic characters and completely over the top facial reactions and acting. I mean it's great, but how is that gonna appeal to any non-anime fan?

Realquick wrote:

So they want us to pirate?

Doesn't everyone already in some way, shape, or form?

So they want us to pirate?

Absolutely crazy that it's gonna take over 5 months for since it's airdate for this show to be available outside of Japan. I'll not even care by then. If I can't watch a show in it's current season, I generally forget it exists and never watch it because the fast pace of new releases overshadows older stuff.

Then you have publishers being dumb. Look at Sword Art Online. It could have been so huge in the west.

I certainly am not going to pirate something that is definitely going to be legally available to me.

I feel like people in this thread tend to forget that when Netflix releases their stuff they tend to release their stuff worldwide, simultaneously and with local subtitles. All anime and regular shows I have access to in my country has local subtitles. Even other weekly released shows have local subbing. There is nothing on netflix that has English subs only. LWA was released in my country at the same time as in the US and with local subtitles and english dub.

In other words, if Netflix were to weekly simulcast their anime worldwide they would either have to release their anime in English speaking countries ONLY or have people subbing this anime into several different European languages every week, which would require more time and effort than netflix would be willing to give I assume. And if they only release it in English speaking countries they'll have whiny Europeans like myself complaining about how they are being overlooked. If anything, at least netflix isn't playing favorites toward a certain country.

With that said, 2018 is way too long of a wait, I expected maybe October. Pull yourself together netflix!

Uhhhh how's that impossible, Crunchyroll's been licensing simulcasts worldwide with localized subtitles for years and they don't have anywhere close to the capital that Netflix has. That's the lousiest excuse I've heard for Netflix's bs policy

So they want us to pirate?