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This Week in Anime - Shelf Life

Also, I hope it encourages all of you to share your shelf pics, like in the Shelf Obsessed section of ANN's old Shelf Life column. Because what's the point of going to all the trouble to hang these things up if you can't show them to others?

Yep, some good examples of why physical still matters in this streaming age. Aniplex declining to renew licenses might have made sense if they planned to do anything with them beyond a select few getting one printing.

If Akebi's Sailor Uniform doesn't have a disc release after three years, then I guess it's not happening? :?

Yep, some good examples of why physical still matters in this streaming age. Aniplex declining to renew licenses might have made sense if they planned to do anything with them beyond a select few getting one printing.

But, it also still depends on there being a physical option.

But as I said in the past, I have a major love-hate with streaming in general whether it's Netflix, Crunchyroll (before they went premium and Sony/Aniplex bought them out), Disney+, Prime Video, HBO Max. The problem is when it comes to 4K UHD is that the detail and the HDR (that applied to Dolby Vision) aren't as sharp or detailed like compare to the Blu-ray/4K UHD BD. My other problems with streaming:

• 3rd party exclusive titles aka any 3rd party titles with Netflix originals, Max Originals, etc... labels don't stay on those streaming sites for too long, they can be removed from that streaming sites/providers when their expiration date due and the facts that a lot of these 3rd party titles exclusives don't have physical media release. This is my biggest complaint, and Netflix is the biggest culprit of that.
  
  
• 3rd party titles that aren't a streamer provider's exclusives don't stay on there permanently and are subject to removal based on the nearing expiration date. That applies to most of my foreign TV dramas from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and non-English speaking European dramas I'm watching or planning to watch (or already have watched). This is what happened to Pili Fantasy: War of Dragons (the creators who made Thunderbolt Fantasy and Wulin Warriors also made this series) when it was on Netflix for a while back in 2019 and then it got removed in 2022. A lot of these titles include foreign-language TV dramas don't have physical home video release in the US, so that makes it harder for me to find access to these great TV dramas/shows from outside of the English-speaking environment.
  
  
• Subscription prices keep increasing like every year!!! I don't need to explain what that is. I also can confirmed that people are cutting back on streaming probably due to that.
  
  
• Password sharing crackdown. I mean when you got people complaining about the increasing subscription prices and leaning on their friend's streaming subscription to alleviate the cost and the password sharing crackdown from Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max. Yeah, this is not helping the customers/consumers.