QFT. How many people only know Gundam Wing.Originally Posted by Rtificial
I had high hopes for VJ as an anime. Great artstyle, funny characters,etc..
Then it comes out and .....uh
I know, we'd talked about this in a thread earlier on. We definitely have it better than our eastern friends, but even so, it's enough for many people, even enthusaists, to look for cheaper or free means to get their anime.
It all boils down to when they can get it to us. We also talked earlier about how licenses are sat upon, allowing time for superior fansubs to take root.
A great way to solve this problem is also what I suggested earlier, a shonen jump style channel where U.S. publishers air newly subbed anime as little as a week after the original Japanese air date. Charge a subscription fee and there you have it, a no doubt sure to be popular method of seeing your new anime.
My problem, and this started years earlier with live action Asian stuff, when Miramax would buy a film such as Shaolin Soccer, ban all versions of it across the world and then make us buy their version in the US if we wanted to see it.
I think copyright should allow the US version to be locked down, but it should have no rights over the Japanese version. I mean I can still go on Playasia or yesasia or whatever and buy the import Japanese DVD of the movie when it comes out.
I for one would have no where near the love of anime that I do without fansubs and also I am not gonna wait for 5 years to see episode 170 of Naruto when the Japanese got to watch it on TV for free (cable costs of course), uncut years before. Sorry but Naruto on Toonami eats ass. The dubs suck and so do the cuts.
Remember that most of these animes are TV shows that are watchable on Japanese TV for a simple cable subscription, yet they come over hear and get us for 30 bucks for 3 episodes. Fine you want to make some money, so make it. But fansubbing Japanese shows years before they hit the US should not be a problem. I mean lock the stuff down, but it pissed me off when Naruto was licensed and all of a sudden I'm supposed to stop watching the show and wait how many years to see wtf happens next. Lame.
ssb
"50,000! You scored 50,000 points on Double Dragon?"
Yeah, MTV pulled that lockdown shit on Volcano High. I had to buy a damn pirated copy to watch it at a convention. I don't even want to know how bad the US version was. If it's anything that nobodyknows+ has taught us is that Japanese + Hip Hop = lol
...except M-Flo. They're classy.
Viz at least went the right way about censoring Jojo. The creator actually redrew the panel they didn't like. I don't mind that.
...besides, there's no consistent scantranslations for it.
Man, fuck Manga Entertainment in particular. Idiots don't even publish manga and sat on the Gunbuster license for years without doing a thing.
In a serious note, though, if it wasn't for fansubs, I wouldnt've been able to see or like or even know half the stuff I like. This is just a big case of both companies saying "MONEY MONEY MONEY! WE LIKE MONEY! WE LIKE BEING THE ONLY SAY IN THINGS AROUND HERE!"
It's crap like that that makes me even less likely to buy their stuff just to spite them.
That's how the economy works, yeah.
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