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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Girls' Last Tour for Anime Strike Simulcast

Oh well I will just need to read the manga then

But people enabling AS because "they don't think about of the future" will only help them destroy the streamers that still hear their subscribers.

I do not agree with your position, but for argument's sake, boycotting could be an effective way to force Amazon out of the anime industry. The problem is who is going to support a boycott. I would not ...

I wish I could say the same, since this all boils down to money. You have enough to pay for all streaming services and twice that. But most people do not (I am one of those). That is why many people will no doubt drop AS this fall, because that money could be spent buying a couple blu-ray series (haven't done the exact math). Thing is if amazon drops the double paywall or exits entirely from the anime scene, some other company (hopefully better ot at least average) will take their place, the days when there were shows that went unlicensed for streaming are long over.

.., the days when there were shows that went unlicensed for streaming are long over.

You have enough to pay for all streaming services and twice that. But most people do not (I am one of those). That is why many people will no doubt drop AS this fall

Thing is if amazon drops the double paywall or exits entirely from the anime scene, some other company (hopefully better ot at least average) will take their place, the days when there were shows that went unlicensed for streaming are long over.

What about Symphogear AXZ, this past season?

As for the math, one season of Prime and strike will get you at most one Bluray,

^Considering Amazon has had the funds to bring some previously unlicensed shows (such as Nanoha and actually at least some of Macross), what makes you believe that one of the other streamers will be able to pony up for the most unreasonable licensors?

Certainly you can find bargains for Blurays, but will 3 or even 6 get you as many series as you want from Strike? Depends on how many shows Strike gets that you like, and I wouldn't rule out Strike getting enough to do that for enough people. Getting this show helps that.

DerekL1963 wrote:

If you believe these threads, there's pretty much nobody who is subscribed to Strike. I suspect the number of people who have made their peace with Strike (or who already have Prime and are thus not subject to the "double paywall" is vastly underestimated - because they have no reason to gripe. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that the noisy one are in fact a minority.

Except for that supposed "noisy minority" has representation all over the internet whereas the opposite has none by comparison. We have every thread posted on here, MAL, Reddit, or any other forum with users decrying Anime Strike. We have Sentais Twitter and Facebook that get berrated every time they make a strike announcement. We have Anime Strikes official twitter that was also highly attacked. We have YouTube videos with millions of combined views and thousands of likes belittling Anime Strike and Netflix anime.

Until that happens (which it won't) all we have is the overwhelming proof that the vast majority hates Anime Strike and that Amazon doesn't care one iota.

I wish I could say the same, since this all boils down to money. You have enough to pay for all streaming services and twice that. But most people do not

That is a different kind of problem, We are not speaking abour "why license it over here if nobody knows the manga/light novel/smartphone game" to "anime streamer did the numbers and while AXZ is quite popular in the east, numbers in the west do not warrant to continue paying the same/pay more for next installment of said franchise". This is no different from Hyouka, which is quite popular in the east so they asked for more money than it was worth in the west.