Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - Anime Strike Out
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nionel
 Posts: 415 Location: Nebraska |
|
|||
|
I agree that Amazon wasn't the best platform for GQuuuuuuX to land on. They did minimal promotion for Magilumiere and they've been radio silent on Ubel Blatt (though that's probably a good thing).
Amazon has GQuuuuuuX and From Old County Bumpkin to Master Swordsman next season. With the release of these shows about three weeks away, Amazon has made one social media post regarding GQuuuuuuX and uploaded a single trailer for Country Bumpkin to their YouTube channel. This makes it seem like they almost care about their anime when they've made constant posts about Invisible over the past few weeks and continue to make posts about previous Prime shows like Secret Level. |
||||
|
||||
|
Silver Kirin
Posts: 1296 |
|
|||
|
Sharing my opinion from a Latin American perspective, I feel that out of all the major streaming services, not counting anime-only platforms, Amazon Prime Video is one of the least popular here, at leat comparing it to other ones like Netflix, Disney+ and even MAX, and in terms of anime distribution Netflix is the one with most content, Max having quite a few titles and only a couple of originals (mostly the [adult swim] productions) and Disney+ only having titles that they own their exclusive rights. Amazon does have a sort of varied library of licensed anime shows/movies, but when it comes to exclusive anime, the only titles that I can think of are the Rebuild of Evanglion movies, Lupin III vs. Cat's Eye, Look Back and Magilumiere, very limited compared to the competition, even Disney+ has more exclusive titles.
In regards to Gundam, I think Bandai wants the franchise to grow in popularity worldwide, but I don't think they have achieved it quite yet, I think it has managed to grow significantly in the U.S., but here in Latin America it's not very popular, The Witch from Mercury and its LA Spanish dub weren't much talked about when it came out in Crunchyroll, the same could be said for the Netflix productions (though I really liked Hathaway and its dub). Not sure if it was a wise decision on the part of Bandai i choosing Prime Video instead of Crunchyroll or Netflix, even the last Code Geass series was distributed by Disney+ outside of Japan I just hope that GQuuuuuuX gets well made dubs into multiple languages, especially in Latin American Spanish, but out of all the streaming services, Amazon has had quite a bad reputation in regards to their LA Spanish dubs, particularly for the originals dubs of their most popular series like The Boys and Invincible, which had to be redubbed later, and their recent announcements of AI generated dubs, and they're the only ones that had done that. |
||||
|
||||
Joe Mello
 Posts: 2361 Location: Online Terminal |
|
|||
|
I would still imagine even in 2025 that most people think of Prime Video solely as "the thing that shows lousy NFL games on Thursdays"
|
||||
|
||||
|
Dr. Wily
Posts: 418 |
|
|||
|
Ugh, just mentioning the Stone Ocean/Tiger & Bunny 2 releases makes me sad all over again
Don't forget the terrible straight-to-streaming movies! They're really moving in on Netflix's territory there. |
||||
|
||||
tintor2
 Posts: 2262 |
|
|||
|
For some reason Netflix has the 79 trilogy movies but not Zeta. Imagine jumping to Char's Counterattack and be confused by how Char's actions escalate a lot. Then again, only a video game seems to have explained well the whole Char --->Quattro--->Char change.
I had to watch 79 vanilla online to see what the movies changed. Then again, Zeta's A New Translation retcons more stuff than the Code Geass movies. |
||||
|
||||
Wizardizar
 Posts: 27 |
|
|||
I mean I don't think it's fair to ignore the massive success of The Boys, Fallout and Invincible. |
||||
|
||||
|
lemurs
Posts: 115 |
|
|||
|
Iroduku is one of the better titles Sentai picked out of Amazon Strike's charred remains, now that I think about it. But weirdly, Re:Creators never got picked up and has no physical release to this day. That one seemed relatively popular and a no-brainer, but nope.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Joe Mello
Posts: 2361 Location: Online Terminal |
|
|||
Of those three, The Boys is probably the one that most likely escaped containment but critical success is not the same as commercial success. |
||||
|
||||
|
Epidehl
Posts: 1 |
|
|||
|
I think doing the theatrical release at all, and now it going on Amazon is such a big whiff for how this show could've gone. Imagine if that first episode had aired for everyone at the same time! Instead, Instead, the cool twist of it came out months beforehand, and even if you didn't get exact spoilers, I think it still lessens the experience, personally.
As far as watching stuff on Amazon, I think my big issue is just formatting of subs. I don't know if they've gotten better, but I really don't like the black background on subs (even if it's partially see-through). At the very least I hope NYAV post is still doing the dub, they've done amazing work with Gundam. And hopefully GKids means it'll still get a home release. |
||||
|
||||
|
SlimeDrawsNear
Posts: 11 |
|
|||
|
I'm just amazed that searching for anime on Amazon results in some anime but also literal children's shows.
|
||||
|
||||
|
PseudoFiction
Posts: 100 |
|
|||
|
definitely going to have to keep an eye on gundam.info in the next year or so to hopefully be able to see the rest of Quuuuuux
|
||||
|
||||
|
Silver Kirin
Posts: 1296 |
|
|||
Now that you mention it, I searched anime on MAX Latin America and the first result was the Rick & Morty Anime (I mean, it was animated in Japan, it counts), followed by other [adult swim] originals like Uzumaki, Ninja Kamui and then licensed stuff like Fairy Tail, Death Note, Naruto, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, etc., but then it showed stuff like the originl Rick & Morty, Primal, the 2003 version of Teen Titans (that at least was inspired by anime), ¡Mucha Lucha! and Five Nights at Freddy's for some reason, then it returned to anime with Dragon Quest 2020, Lupin III Part 6, Steam Boy, and then a lot of non-anime stuff.
Oh yeah, I hate those shadowed subtitles, for some reason it seems that only on Netflix you can adjust the subtitle's appeareance even on the app, but for some reason on Disney+ it depends where you use it, but not from your phone apparently. |
||||
|
||||
NJ_
 Posts: 3168 Location: Wallington, NJ |
|
|||
Blame Aniplex |
||||
|
||||
gloworm
 Posts: 53 |
|
|||
Ironically, that's exactly how a whole generation of western fans first experienced them in the early 00s. The DVD releases went straight from 79 to CCA, and only got to Zeta over two years later. |
||||
|
||||
Beatdigga
 Posts: 4706 Location: New York |
|
|||
|
I’m pretty convinced at this point it’s less an Amazon deal and more a Khara one, since Prime Video is where the Rebuild of EVA movies landed after the rather nasty fallout with FUNi.
It’s also worth noting that while Amazon has a very large amount of stuff from the old RetroCrush/Discotek library and a few originals, they didn’t really do any sort of big advertising for animation of any sort until Invincible, and that was enough of a success that they went in with stuff like Vox Machina and Hazbin Hotel. The market wants a competitor to Crunchy, and Netflix only has so much room (it might why despite being on both services, DanDaDan tends to be seen as a Netflix show more than a Crunchyroll one). And Bezos’s baby has enough money for a dub cast at least as good as the Sakamoto Days one. Whether they give the show those resources to succeed is another matter entirely. |
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group