Comment on Anime studio bankruptcies and closures continue to rise for third consecutive year in Japan
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 days agoAnyone demanding that one platform carry all tv and movie content, even if just one genre, is not understanding the industry.
It’s not like music, and it’s historically not like music either. You never had one channel with all content. You never had one Home Video company with all content. And cable is not like a streaming service, it’s like the internet. Streaming services are more akin to channels.
Also, doesn’t crunchy roll have a very large percentage of anime? At least relative to something like Netflix having all Sitcoms?
HetareKing@piefed.social 3 days ago
If you go to the official Japanese website of a show and look up where you can watch it, almost every time you’re presented with a list of close to two dozen streaming services. The exception is when one particular service (always an American one like Netflix or Amazon Prime) has exclusivity rights to it, but they’re the minority.
Exclusivity deals aside, this seems to me like a much better setup, at least from a consumer perspective. Shows are for the most part not dotted across different services, but there’s no market consolidation. And even if something isn’t on the service you’re subscribed to, it will probably be available on a service where you can just rent an individual show or episode instead of having yet another subscription. And I imagine that if they’re not competing on hostage-taking, that would mean they’re competing more on price and quality of service instead.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That seems like a better culture and way of doing things.
I just don’t think it’s possible to have that in the US market, or others.
I would love for streaming platforms to compete on features. I use to have HBO via Apple TV Channels before HBO bailed on the deal. And I enjoyed it because Apple dos complete on quality and ease of use, at least when it comes to this specific situation. It was better than the official HBO app(s).