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NEWS: Crunchyroll's Ellation Launches New Division for Original Animated Content

This is a GREAT time to be a creator, especially if your aiming to create your own animated cartoons. This is really good news. So many companies are getting into the independent animation market. Now the reality of making animation similar to what comes out of Japan, but aimed at a different audience, is becoming very possible. We have an American run animation studio in Japan trying to get things started, now Crunchyroll is jumping into the fray. Use to be the idea of an non-Japanese getting to tell their story in a anime format was a fairytail. Now it more possible than ever.

Kai99 wrote:

This is a GREAT time to be a creator, especially if your aiming to create your own animated cartoons. This is really good news. So many companies are getting into the independent animation market. Now the reality of making animation similar to what comes out of Japan, but aimed at a different audience, is becoming very possible. We have an American run animation studio in Japan trying to get things started, now Crunchyroll is jumping into the fray. Use to be the idea of an non-Japanese getting to tell their story in a anime format was a fairytail. Now it more possible than ever.

I absolutely appreciate and admire your optimism and aims.

Just always remember to keep your feet firmly on the ground, look directly evenly ahead, and try to gain a wider understanding of the world as your spirit soars.

I don't understand why anime fans seem to think Crunchyroll can't do two things at once or why anime fans are so prone to sinister conspiracies based on zero evidence.

I think what bugs me about this is the feeling of anime just being used as a stepping stone to Crunchyroll/VRV/Ellation/Otter going more mainstream. It feels like a slight to the existing subscribers, that our fees are not going to starving animators in Japan as promised, but to Steven Universe wannabes in Burbank. That's just not what I signed up for.

If, and that's a very big if, Crunchy goes this route and gets rid of its anime programing, you can do what I often choose to do and just not support things with my dollar anymore.

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:

I don't understand why anime fans seem to think Crunchyroll can't do two things at once or why anime fans are so prone to sinister conspiracies based on zero evidence.

My favorite reaction is the people who seem to think that Crunchyroll is going to just completely stop acquiring anime, basically torpedoing their entire business model, and instead make originals.

(Speaking of which, wasn't there a recent anime based entirely on a Crunchyroll original web comic or something?)

Like, where's Zac's old "Deleting all animes" icon when you need it?

My favorite reaction is the people who seem to think that Crunchyroll is going to just completely stop acquiring anime, basically torpedoing their entire business model, and instead make originals.

I think one of the reasons why I dislike this so much is maybe because it's so... safe. It might as well just be a cartoon network cartoon despite it's aesthetic appearance. What I like about anime is that it's unafraid to explore darker, and often gorey concepts. Castlevania on Netflix is the exception, and for that I really like it. Even for the safer Japanese animations this looks way too boring, and safe, and only appeals to people who like the aesthetics of Japanese animation and nothing else.

Another thing that someone pointed out to me is that for people who subscribe to crunchyroll specifically for japanese animation, most of them are going to actually be very pissed. Because crunchyroll says they support anime and yet they're not using their money to support actual anime. They're taking it and spending it on western cartoon animators with mild anime influence. And before someone comes and says that it's "anime", not even crunchyroll is calling High Garden Spice an anime.