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Funimation Comments on Streaming Metrics in Crunchyroll Press Release

This is going to sound dumb, but what was the article trying to say? For some reason it made no sense to me. Yet, like someone said, I felt like "Oh snap!" why is that? Can someone fill me in?

This is going to sound dumb, but what was the article trying to say? For some reason it made no sense to me. Yet, like someone said, I felt like "Oh snap!" why is that? Can someone fill me in?

Seeing as Funimation's parent company is a publicly traded one, getting them to reveal things is quite easy, actually.

Did Funi reveal how much they've been making with streaming? Because that's what I meant, since that's this thread's subject.

1 - FUNimation is right to point out that Crunchyroll's numbers are a bit exaggerated, if you factor in all the other details.

2 - Crunchyroll nearly destroyed the R1 North American DVD market, and it deserved to destroy it due to the utterly hapless response to "the interent" by the R1 companies.

Think about it: ADV, FUNimation, all the rest: they *had* the resources to expand onto the internet, but they didn't.

The R1 companies are living in a fantasy where "DVD is the primary medium by which people watch anime"


Okay, to spell it out:

*During the 1990's when the R1 market developed, you were all basically "a hobbyist's industry". A handful of hardcore collectors buying things for large prices.

*In the 2000's, anime tried to shift to pulling in "mainstream numbers", to permeate general pop culture...yet it retained the business model of a hobbyist's industry.

*the result was that it *turned back into* a hobbyist's industry in size.


Every single anime fan cannot possibly buy EVERY DVD. You act as if every single one of us is a hardcore collector.

This is specifically what caused the comics industry crash of 1993.

FUNimation: I *want* to watch your products legally, and online, for the price of some commercials. Why just earlier today, I watched "Hetalia" on your website.


If "online distribution isn't profitable"...HOW THE HECK DID CRUNCHYROLL DO SO WELL?

They did nothing wrong, you refused to advance with the times.


"We have to teach new fans that anime is meant to be watched on DVD"

1 - no it isn't.

2 - what are you going to do, set up summer training camps where we instruct noobs on how to watch things?


There is money in internet streaming. If you can't make a profit on it YET, its because you don't really seem to be trying hard enough.

YES you have better numbers than Crunchyroll, but the fact remains that DVD simply isn't the primary medium of anime anymore.

Having just watched Hetalia, legally on your website, for the price of watching a few ads (i.e. free, but now I want Doritos...)....why would I have ANY need to buy the DVDs now?

egoist wrote:

Did Funi reveal how much they've been making with streaming? Because that's what I meant, since that's this thread's subject.

That gets a bit too specific for what is made available. Unless you see Funi's books, you probably won't get specific streaming revenue. From what I can gather from the article, this was more about CR saying that they were bigger than Funi, and Funi pointed out that they had flawed numbers.