Comment on Anime Boom Fuels Netflix's Growth
SatouKazuma@ani.social 2 months ago
Netflix are so fucking terrible for anime, though. The way they handle “simulcasts” is absolutely embarrassing, and their exit from the industry cannot come a moment too soon.
ilhamagh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What did they do, the simulcast I mean? I don’t use Netflix.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 2 months ago
Netflix don’t simulcast. They always delay Western releases, too. The way they handled the US release of Violet Evergarden is forever unforgivable (making Americans wait three months after literally every other country on the fucking planet). I’ll pirate anything Netflix ever make for that. Fuck them.
wjs018@ani.social 2 months ago
They have gotten better about that. Dungeon Meshi was simulcast (at least within the same day), as is Orb this season. Netflix’s value proposition is pretty poor these days though after a series of price increases. This is especially true if you have a 4k TV and actually want to use it at full resolution since you need to pay a higher tier for 4k resolution.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 2 months ago
And yet they also fumbled Blue Box. Tbh anime piracy is the best value proposition in general, and I don’t see that changing.
zabadoh@ani.social 2 months ago
Netflix still does whole season drops of its original/exclusive shows (e.g. Kengan Ashura, TP-Bon, JoJoBA Stone Ocean), which kind of ruins the weekly episode anticipation slow burn.
A whole season is too much to digest, and without the weekly notifications, otherwise fine series just fade into the background.
Dungeon Meshi was an exception, for whatever reason that was released weekly.