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Anime strike is dead and all of its content is now on regular amazon prime streaming. A separate subscription on top of a base subscription sucked and I'm glad it is gone. Who knows? Maybe amazon will stop claiming new anime licenses entirely, but for now there's some good poo poo on there. As a result, I am watching kara no kyoukai over the weekend.
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Just put everything on Crunchyroll, if it's gonna be on a separate service I will never see it because  and  .
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Jan 7, 2018 03:31
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Definitely some stuff I’ll watch now that I don’t need stacking amazon subs
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Jan 7, 2018 03:32
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I dunno how they thought they could get away with double paywalls. That poo poo's nutso. maybe they thought they could get into the lucrative "People who will pay money for something twice" market that the video game people seem to be chasing
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Jan 7, 2018 03:43
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OnimaruXLR posted:I dunno how they thought they could get away with double paywalls. That poo poo's nutso. they obviously didn't realize that their competition was torrents, not cr or netflix.
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Jan 7, 2018 03:50
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So now that I've remembered I have a Prime sub, what are some of these formerly-exclusive titles that are worth a look? Browsing through their video service seems kind of garbage.
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Jan 7, 2018 04:54
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Nipponophile posted:So now that I've remembered I have a Prime sub, what are some of these formerly-exclusive titles that are worth a look? Browsing through their video service seems kind of garbage. Yea I hardly use prime video, what did Strike have on it that Crunchyroll doesn't?
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Jan 7, 2018 05:47
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Made In Abyss was a name that was thrown around a lot. Princess Principal was also something people got behind. Then you have weird instances like Crunchyroll has Umaru S1 while Strike got Umaru S2. I can't comment on these since I do not have Prime or Strike when it lived. Except Umaru s1, which is good.
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Jan 7, 2018 06:31
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The spin off series to pick up chicks in dungeons was on strike.
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Jan 7, 2018 06:55
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lessee, from the last season or two that hasn't been mentioned yet there was girl's last tour, land of the lustrous, and scum's wish. there was also a bunch of flawed stuff like uq holder, inuyashiki and virgin soul. then there are all the primo older shows, but i'm not sure what was locked behind anime strike and what wasn't. also, the browser is terrible! it's honestly not that big a deal since for the duration of anime strike's lifetime most of us were pirating the good stuff.
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Jan 7, 2018 07:09
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I'm glad that I can watch Princess Principal legally now
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Jan 7, 2018 08:53
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Fune wo Amu is good and people should watch it now that it's easier to do so.
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Jan 7, 2018 09:32
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jeff bezos can get hosed!!!
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Jan 7, 2018 10:07
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Oh hey now I can watch Land of Lustrous and Girls' Last Tour finally.
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Jan 7, 2018 13:24
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OnimaruXLR posted:I dunno how they thought they could get away with double paywalls. That poo poo's nutso. I dunno how Amazon Prime works in other territories, but Amazon Prime in mine at least is basically just some Amazon exclusive content and then if you want any of their other content it's locked behind a second subscription. So you have the actual Amazon Prime content, but then a lot of other stuff is only included if you get a HBO subscription through Amazon Prime. Or a Starz one. Or whatever. Amazon uses double pay a lot I notice. Their Audible service is the same. Subscription gets you 1 to 3 free credits a month, which can be used to buy any book for 1 credit apiece but if you use up your credits then any further books are just offered at a slight discount. Fortunately, they do a daily deal, which usually discounts something to about $2 or $3 (or equivalent in £££s), and they have some good stuff at least once or twice a week on average. I'm pretty sure Comixology does something similar too, though I don't use it so I can't recall off hand. Which is disappointing, since subscription giving you unlimited access to their library of content for as long as you're subscribed would obviously be much more satisfying and is the model I've come to expect from online content producers. Fake Edit: Or at least, that was what I intended to say on it's own until I went to the Amazon Prime site on my laptop to double check which subscriptions they were advertising and now all of that stuff is gone. Which, I'm not sure if Amazon made a change in the last 24 hours since I last looked at it on my Playstation instead of my laptop or if logging in on my laptop for once and being asked to set some preferences when doing so made some massive change. Regardless of that, their anime offerings here are still pretty awful and it's mostly just the various Pokemon shows and a couple of older things like "Swiss Family Robinson". All the really good recent stuff like "Land of Lustrous", "Princess Principle" and "Made in Abyss" isn't available, so I can't even use it to see them legally. tsob fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Jan 7, 2018 16:29
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tsob posted:I dunno how Amazon Prime works in other territories, but Amazon Prime in mine at least is basically just some Amazon exclusive content and then if you want any of their other content it's locked behind a second subscription. So you have the actual Amazon Prime content, but then a lot of other stuff is only included if you get a HBO subscription through Amazon Prime. Or a Starz one. Or whatever. Amazon uses double pay a lot I notice. Their Audible service is the same. Subscription gets you 1 to 3 free credits a month, which can be used to buy any book for 1 credit apiece but if you use up your credits then any further books are just offered at a slight discount. Fortunately, they do a daily deal, which usually discounts something to about $2 or $3 (or equivalent in £££s), and they have some good stuff at least once or twice a week on average. I'm pretty sure Comixology does something similar too, though I don't use it so I can't recall off hand. Which is disappointing, since subscription giving you unlimited access to their library of content for as long as you're subscribed would obviously be much more satisfying and is the model I've come to expect from online content producers. Anime Strike was a US only thing that was under a paywall after having Amazon Prime. Most of the content were licensed by Sentai in the US and they were using Amazon to distribute the episodes. Starting this season, either the agreement between Sentai and Amazon are over or Sentai just decided to stop using them and started using HiDive. For "Land of Lustrous", "Princess Principle" and "Made in Abyss", they were licensed by Sentai in the US and is on Amazon in the US. Worldwide, they are probably on HiDive.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:38
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I think it'll be interesting to see how much stuff goes where next season. Maybe Amazon will just drop out after putting out whatever they already signed the papers for, and it'll just be Crunchy/VRV/Funi and HiDive doing the simulcast thing while Netflix continues Being Netflix.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:18
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[Said with a dignified air - obviously an intelligent person] I Pay money for my Japanese cartoons.
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Jan 7, 2018 20:41
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VostokProgram posted:jeff bezos can get hosed!!! he is incredibly evil
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Jan 7, 2018 22:21
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Helter Skelter posted:I think it'll be interesting to see how much stuff goes where next season. Maybe Amazon will just drop out after putting out whatever they already signed the papers for, and it'll just be Crunchy/VRV/Funi and HiDive doing the simulcast thing while Netflix continues Being Netflix. the faster we get to the inevitable future of the CR/VRV/Funi alliance being the monopoly on anime the better. Unless they supremely gently caress up that's obviously what's coming anyway.
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Jan 7, 2018 22:32
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i don't think amazon picked up anything from the latest season. they might make another go of it eventually, but for now they seem to be out of the anime simulcast game.
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Jan 7, 2018 22:34
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My gut tells me that the reason anime strike is dead is because amazon is gonna buy crunchyroll's parent company, and that all this nonsense was to put pressure on them to sell. We're all gonna be watching anime on amazon soon.
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Jan 7, 2018 22:38
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:Anime strike is dead and all of its content is now on regular amazon prime streaming. A separate subscription on top of a base subscription sucked and I'm glad it is gone. Is it still NA only
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Jan 7, 2018 23:16
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Anime Strike dies, but so does Batoto. The monkey paw closes one more finger.
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Jan 7, 2018 23:46
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What's VRV?
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Nate RFB posted:Anime Strike dies, but so does Batoto. The monkey paw closes one more finger. Tell the Monkey's Paw it's a cheating gently caress. The deal is supposed to be that you get what you want in such a way that you regret getting it, not that it gets to do an unrelated awful thing. There's no style to that approach and we both know it.
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Jan 8, 2018 00:05
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sexpig by night posted:the faster we get to the inevitable future of the CR/VRV/Funi alliance being the monopoly on anime the better. Unless they supremely gently caress up that's obviously what's coming anyway. I’m curious to see if that alliance actually holds for much longer now that Sony has acquired Funimation.
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Jan 8, 2018 00:05
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Considering the whole point of the alliance was to serve as a bulwark against Amazon and Netflix being able to gobble up all the releases, I wouldn't be surprised if it died even ignoring the Sony purchase. It seems to have served its purpose for now, but I'm guessing it will continue for a while longer on inertia.
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Jan 8, 2018 00:30
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Triggerhappypilot posted:Considering the whole point of the alliance was to serve as a bulwark against Amazon and Netflix being able to gobble up all the releases, I wouldn't be surprised if it died even ignoring the Sony purchase. It seems to have served its purpose for now, but I'm guessing it will continue for a while longer on inertia. Amazon and Netflix can win against CR/Funi/VRV by simply outspending them, which they're fully capable of. Whether they want to or not depends on their priorities. Those two pay license fees that cost more than the production itself, and when the Japanese producers get a taste of those fees they don't want to go back to anything less if they don't have to. You'll never see a new Fate series on Crunchyroll again now that Netflix has their talons in it.
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Jan 8, 2018 00:39
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Is it still NA only Yes but I recently discovered that most (all?) of the stuff Amazon picked up for the the US only is on Hidive
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Jan 8, 2018 01:00
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livingfruitvirus posted:Amazon and Netflix can win against CR/Funi/VRV by simply outspending them, which they're fully capable of. Whether they want to or not depends on their priorities. Those two pay license fees that cost more than the production itself, and when the Japanese producers get a taste of those fees they don't want to go back to anything less if they don't have to. You'll never see a new Fate series on Crunchyroll again now that Netflix has their talons in it. I'm OK with Anime Strike going the way of the dodo, but I feel that, flawed as Strike was, it created a sense of competition.
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Jan 8, 2018 13:48
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Pewdiepie posted:[Said with a dignified air - obviously an intelligent person] I Pay money for my Japanese cartoons.
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Jan 8, 2018 15:04
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Wark Say posted:Aren't Fate/Zero, the UBW series and that Illya Magical Girl Spinoff on Crunchyroll? Or is that North America-only? Like, the only "exclusive" Netflix actually has on the Type-Moon cash cow is Apocrypha (which I've heard/read from everyone and their that, aside from some cool moments, it is incredibly lackluster/downright boring). None of those shows are new.
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Jan 8, 2018 17:58
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Wark Say posted:I'm OK with Anime Strike going the way of the dodo, but I feel that, flawed as Strike was, it created a sense of competition. Nothing is stopping Amazon from just putting new anime under Prime Streaming. Strike was pure double-dipping, which is why nobody liked it.
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Jan 8, 2018 18:12
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Wark Say posted:I'm OK with Anime Strike going the way of the dodo, but I feel that, flawed as Strike was, it created a sense of competition. The overall effect of Amazon entering the space actually created a lot less competition. I don't think we would have seen the Funimation / Crunchroll partnership happen without the Amazon threat, and the past year has seen a lot of smaller players drop out. Amazon does this in every industry they enter and it sucks rear end.
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Jan 8, 2018 18:19
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Also Amazon videos player sucks rear end
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Jan 8, 2018 18:36
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Here's a good take on Anime Strike. Amazon Studios isn't doing well and they're clearing house, this is likely a part of that.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:44
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Fabricated posted:Also Amazon videos player sucks rear end Amazon probably has the best video quality out of the streaming services in U.S. Netflix is not that good except 4k content. Crunchyroll has not improved since like 2012. HiDive is just straight up garbage.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:05
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LibrarianCroaker posted:None of those shows are new. livingfruitvirus posted:Amazon and Netflix can win against CR/Funi/VRV by simply outspending them, which they're fully capable of. Whether they want to or not depends on their priorities. Those two pay license fees that cost more than the production itself, and when the Japanese producers get a taste of those fees they don't want to go back to anything less if they don't have to. You'll never see a new Fate series on Crunchyroll again now that Netflix has their talons in it.  ) an actual dog, I'm thinking that spending just because you can is not the solution.I do find that last paragraph a bit less than favorable, though: quote:But Amazon did play a huge role in driving up licensing costs to their current stratospheric levels. Japanese producers are, no doubt, sad to lose them. Crunchyroll and Funimation... probably not so much. I don't think this will cool off license fees very much for the immediate future, but at least we're now less likely to see them continue to push higher.
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Wark Say posted:You know, I don't dismiss these posts or anything, but given the article linked by renowned goon (and undeniable good boy From what I read around, Amazon Japan is still licensing exclusive for anime. Whether those will come to the US or just be a Japan only exclusive is something that will revealed in the future.
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