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HIDIVE Streams Himouto! Umaru-chan R, My Girlfriend is Shobitch Outside U.S.




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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:47 pm Reply with quote
This might be one of the few times I've seen where the US customers get screwed over lol.
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Primus



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 8:53 pm Reply with quote
I'm guessing they'll just be Amazon Prime Video titles in Canada?
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kanjineogeo



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:36 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
This might be one of the few times I've seen where the US customers get screwed over lol.


So I'm guessing it's back to VPN then?
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MysticLeviathan



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:40 pm Reply with quote
If you want piracy, this is how you get piracy.
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LegitPancake



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:24 pm Reply with quote
Seems I'll be pirating these. Not happy but oh well.
Also, no Umaru-chan for Latin America?
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#872486



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:37 am Reply with quote
english subtitles for all the territories or each country will have his language ?
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AJ (LordNikon)



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 5:13 am Reply with quote
Amazing if true. An American company screwing over its core user base through ill-conceived licensing arrangements. And, from the Japanese side of things, let's push streaming to counter piracy issues. Did Netflix end up with an exclusive N. American licensing arrangement that they has chosen to stay mum about, or is this just going to be one of those deals where 90% of the anime community is just going to watch vial TOR/VPN or a locker stream?

Regardless, unless another legal streaming provider like Crunchy or Amazon makes an official declaration of airing, both these highly anticipated shows are going to be pirated right out of content creation's foreign distribution profit margins. Any case, Hi-Dive, way to CBS All-Access yourself out of your core demographic.

Meh, glad I live in Japan.
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TheAncientOne



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:25 am Reply with quote
AJ (LordNikon) wrote:
Did Netflix end up with an exclusive N. American licensing arrangement that they has chosen to stay mum about, or is this just going to be one of those deals where 90% of the anime community is just going to watch vial TOR/VPN or a locker stream?

Did you both miss the news before and skip the last paragraph of the article?:
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Sentai Filmworks licensed both. series and will stream them on Amazon's Anime Strike in the United States.
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dragonrider_cody



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:04 am Reply with quote
#872486 wrote:
english subtitles for all the territories or each country will have his language ?


Hidive also has Spanish and Portuguese subtitles for select titles, including simulcasts.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 2:09 pm Reply with quote
dragonrider_cody wrote:
#872486 wrote:
english subtitles for all the territories or each country will have his language ?


Hidive also has Spanish and/or Portuguese* subtitles for select titles, including simulcasts.


You have a deficient service when they get the rights to an anime for a region but they do not guarantee you will get subtitles in said region language. Furthermore, they could argue that getting translators to german, french, italian or turkish is difficult, but Senta's headquarters are in texas and they can't get spanish subtitles for every title they are simulcasting!? Add that to the fact that there is no schedule or list of what series in their catalog are getting non-english subtitles, well they still have a long road ahead.

*i.e. Flying Witch has portuguese subtitles but not spanish.
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Zalis116
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:37 pm Reply with quote
MysticLeviathan wrote:
If you want piracy, this is how you get piracy.
I thought piracy was supposed to be a "service problem," yet all the complaints about Amazon/Anime Strike boil down to "it's too expensive."

mangamuscle wrote:
You have a deficient service when they get the rights to an anime for a region but they do not guarantee you will get subtitles in said region language.
And here I thought that North American companies were obligated to service the entire globe because English has become a universal language? If English subtitles aren't sufficient for a given region, then maybe CR et al should stop bothering with those territories, and let homegrown, local companies who know the local language and fandom culture step in.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 4:32 pm Reply with quote
Zalis116 wrote:
mangamuscle wrote:
You have a deficient service when they get the rights to an anime for a region but they do not guarantee you will get subtitles in said region language.
And here I thought that North American companies were obligated to service the entire globe because English has become a universal language? If English subtitles aren't sufficient for a given region, then maybe CR et al should stop bothering with those territories, and let homegrown, local companies who know the local language and fandom culture step in.


You are placing the horses behind the cartwheel. Specifically speaking about latinamerica, crunchyroll (and netflix, and anime prime and youtube) knows it is a simple profitable market (similar to china), companies don't give service out of their generosity of their heart (by defintion they exist to generate profit). Either Sentai bit more than they can chew or they are imitating Anime Strike policy and looking if consumers will still pay for a service they know is not how people want it. Heck, they not even have an spanish version of their site, which is the basic of the basics. But they, SENTAI can leave latinamerica for good and sell their series streaming rights to crunchyrol (which is bringing spanish dubs soon) for all I care.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 6:53 am Reply with quote
Zalis116 wrote:
MysticLeviathan wrote:
If you want piracy, this is how you get piracy.
I thought piracy was supposed to be a "service problem," yet all the complaints about Amazon/Anime Strike boil down to "it's too expensive."
Paying monthly, a year of Crunchyroll is $83.40. Paying annually, Amazon Prime is $99; add in the double paywall and you're talking $159 a year, which you have to be able to stump up if you want anything from their catalog at all. Unless they address that(and all indications are that they won't), Anime Strike will continue to be a service problem.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:18 pm Reply with quote
Polycell wrote:
Zalis116 wrote:
MysticLeviathan wrote:
If you want piracy, this is how you get piracy.
I thought piracy was supposed to be a "service problem," yet all the complaints about Amazon/Anime Strike boil down to "it's too expensive."
Paying monthly, a year of Crunchyroll is $83.40. Paying annually, Amazon Prime is $99; add in the double paywall and you're talking $159 a year, which you have to be able to stump up if you want anything from their catalog at all. Unless they address that(and all indications are that they won't), Anime Strike will continue to be a service problem.
If the problem you have is with the prices they're charging, isn't that a PRICING PROBLEM? And if that's somehow not a pricing problem, then what the heck is?

And really, the "double paywall" complaints about Amazon are basically nonsense. If Amazon charged a single price of $13.25 a month for Strike, would all the double paywall detractors make a sudden about-face and start happily paying it?
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