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Nionel
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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. |
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Silver Kirin
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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. |
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Joe Mello
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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"
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Dr. Wily
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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. |
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tintor2
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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. |
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Wizardizar
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I mean I don't think it's fair to ignore the massive success of The Boys, Fallout and Invincible. |
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lemurs
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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.
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Joe Mello
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Of those three, The Boys is probably the one that most likely escaped containment but critical success is not the same as commercial success. |
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