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NEWS: Fractale's French Simulcast Still Continues

Conan-san wrote:

Megiddo wrote: No, it doesn't. Because a license to stream in the UK is going to be a heck of a lot more expensive than a license to stream in Tunisia. It's not like every region has the same amount of cost associated with its region licensing. It would be quite foolish to think that. Yeah, everyone knows the UK internet is a series of tubes that are so thin that streaming is a sport reserved to the tyrant mobster kings of Glasgow. I mean, of course, don't you know anything about science?

Wow, so Manga UK is based in Glasgow now? I knew things had gotten bad for them since the 90's, but I didn't think it had gotten that bad.

Crunchyroll is global. It doesn't print DVDs (or did that 5cm/second DVD/Bluray ever come out lol?).

Whereas FUNimation is primarily using these streams to promote sales of its physical media, of which it only really cares about North America. Not too hard to figure out their business plan.

Wait. Funimation has to cancel their 360p stream, but France can keep it's FREE 1080p going?

What bullshit.

I think the theories about English subtitles possibly being put on the JP DVD or BDs being the reason for the US stream getting yanked are starting to sound a little more realistic.

And even if they weren't getting it from French streams, like someone said before, won't they just do it now? I mean I was always under the impression that they (the people i guess who do the illegal subbing/posting and what have you) get the stuff where ever and how ever they can. Sure, maybe it was easier to get it through Funi but it's not like thats really gonna stop too many people. And how much easier really was it to get it that way? And I guess the subber who didn't get it from Funi's stream got it from a RAW or something right?

here is a teaser for you, I have crispin freeman on my tweet list, and his last tweet had a link to an article by Yutaka Yamamoto and guess what he had to say about fractale.....

Quote: His latest anime series, "Fractale," to be aired from Jan. 13 on Fuji Television Network Inc., will target non-anime fans and one-time fans who have shifted away from the genre. Yamamoto said he hopes to create an interface with prospective fans overseas through such measures as adding subtitles to his works.

Link to entire article: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201101050206.html

so maybe this is bigger than we think.....

I guess it's a good thing I thought the first episode of Fractale was tepid, cliched, and droppable after the first episode, then!

That's a great idea, Yamamoto! Because it's a well-known fact that every single person in America can play Region 2 discs!

That's a great idea, Yamamoto! Because it's a well-known fact that every single person in America can play Region 2 discs!

rowsdower wrote:

That's a great idea, Yamamoto! Because it's a well-known fact that every single person in America can play Region 2 discs!

Isn't it equally well known that the Americas and East Asia share the Blu-ray Region A?

If I had to choose between paying my tuition, related fees, rent, groceries, every utility bill under the sun, and car insurance... or an HDTV and Blu-Ray player for a show I found uninspiring outside of its background art by a director who has never worked on anything I found interesting, I'm afraid I'll be taking the former.

#4 It's going to get a cheaper DVD release by FUNimation later, which the vast majority of NA interested in owning the show will buy. If you can't afford that, you can always rent or borrow from a friend.

#1 Anime is expensive. Both to make and to purchase.

#2 Some of us can afford to pay the bills and buy HDTVs/BR players. Life is unfair, but that's just how it is.

#3 Clearly, if you don't like the show, you are not the intended audience for any physical media release regardless.

#4 It's going to get a cheaper DVD release by FUNimation later, which the vast majority of NA interested in owning the show will buy. If you can't afford that, you can always rent or borrow from a friend.

It baffles me the blind fate people have that Funi will release a DVD after losing the chance to publicize the show using simulcasts. I repeat myself, how many show you have buy on amazon that you had not already seen? What makes you think that people will buy a DVD for a show they have never seen? It is not a worthy investment for Funi if the fanbase is just a few dozen fans.