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Kvicksilver
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Hopefully that means more new shows subtitled immediately and given for us to view.
Also, I hope they do it for free or an open pricing plan, like Gonzo did with Druaga. Despite counter arguments I'll get, it actually isn't fair that we only have the option to get crappy streams or xvids encodes for limited times, and pay for them. Even with satellite subscriptions, there's no way the Japanese fans are paying literally $3 per episode sight-unseen, unless it's some sort of pay-per-view, which I highly doubt it is. And as far as Bandai Visual, good riddance. It was a useless venture and offered absolutely nothing to the American market. Gunbuster for $60? Yeah, might as well not even exist then. Even if the show is amazing, there is no way, after 20 years, that each episode is worth more than $3, without a dub at that. Same goes for Diebuster. |
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Zin5ki
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Most of the debate-causing issues with the anime industry seem to be targeted by this new plan. It all sounds a little too good to be true.
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Daimao Raki
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hikaru004
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I'm expecting Bandai Channel to be in line with the American industry VOD prices outside of iTunes (ie PSN, Netflix and Vongo). You're talking high speed connections now so those that participate can afford to pay normal prices. |
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BleuVII
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I'm in. When this debuts, I will be one of the first people in line. I hope other companies do this too. The only thing that would kill this is regional IP restrictions.
I'm also laughing, because had the title of this article read "Bandai Namco takes proactive steps to phasing out fansubbing," this topic would already have 100 replies. As it is, I'm #5. |
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Dargonxtc
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They will if this turns out to be a success. It always takes one company to spend money and take the risk before others will follow and spend their own money. |
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Sam Murai
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Very good signs in anticipation of an English BC service. I'm glad to see the company take the right steps (so far) in trying to globalize its streaming efforts. BC has a ton of potential, but it remains to be seen how much of their library will make it outside of Japan (given that some of those titles belong to other companies not affiliated with the Bandai corporate family). Even so, Bandai alone has a great list of titles, so hopefully more about all of this will be revealed in the near future.
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Crawly
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I hope not. The Japanese don't exactly have a huge grasp on decent English subtitling. Not to mention, none of these download services really provide ownership even when they claim to and viewing tends to be limited to one computer and your iPod (subtitled anime on an iPod screen?). But so long as it all makes it over to R1 so that the regular suspects can retranslate and distribute on DVD, I don't really care. Perhaps it'll get all those people who don't ever pay for their anime to do so without punishing the rest of us (see the recent Toei thing as an example of punishing the rest of us). |
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hikaru004
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BOST TV does great subtitling work so companies that specialize in it has obviously improved nowadays.
Toei is putting up for sale titles that normally wouldn't see the light of day in R1 (Slam Dunk) or would make it here only after editing it down to US children's show levels (Pretty Cure, Digimon 02 Adventure). That's hardly considered punishing us. |
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ConanSan
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