10 days till xmas :P

[otakuden]

are you ready yet? i'm not. i'll be shopping the monday of the week of xmas. this week: bills.

the newest anime Kurokami will be broadcast simultaneously in both japan and the US. personally, that's kinda cool, but all i care about is when it comes out on dvd :P

be looking for some pony canyon to start showing up crunchyroll which makes me think

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[absolutekahn]

You've probably read the news about Toei Animation licensing Harlock 78 and the Galaxy Express 999 TV series to Crunchyroll.com. I sent you a text about it earlier. I'm happy about this but my reception is mixed because of the monthly subscription model to view the episodes in high quality.

Toei doesn't seem to have any DVD release plans at the current time.

I went and read Crunchyroll's licensing & fansubbing & market saturation primer and while it does make sense that too many fansubs kill any licensing revenue back tot he anime production companies, I think we'd have only more DragonBall-Z, Naruto and Inyu-Yasha quality kiddie stuff if it weren't for fansubs introducing interesting sounding titles in the first place.

Another troubling issue is that Crunchyroll.com has licensed GE999 and Harlock78 only for the North American and Canadian markets. If you live anywhere else in the world your IP address is blocked from even paying for a subscription. There are proxy servers, of course, but that's not exactly a true solution to the legitimate availability problem...

I'm in favor of the video hard copy distribution model but maybe the anime industry in Tokyo is really far worse than it seems to outsiders-- so much so that a web distribution model like this has more break even potential than a DVD release.

Or I could be thinking about it too much in "curmudgeon mode"

Love ya, miss ya. *HUGS*

-Craig