July 14th, 2022
The Bad in Kaguya Sama Ultra Romantic
Anime Relations: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Ultra Romantic
I've done some analysis for Kaguya Sama Love is War Season 3 Ultra Romantic.
Overall I explain what I think worked well but a lot was missing with more uniqueness needed.
Here is the full video of the analysis: https://youtu.be/mweQVii1wBk
Overall I explain what I think worked well but a lot was missing with more uniqueness needed.
Here is the full video of the analysis: https://youtu.be/mweQVii1wBk
Posted by OnxEyedKxng | Jul 14, 2022 7:52 AM | 0 comments
August 10th, 2021
The Anime and Manga Communities NEED a Crowdfunding Website.
Anime Relations: Shinseiki Evangelion
Tl;dr: we need a crowdfunding website for anime, manga etc. An alternative to streaming services. Comment/dm me if interested and I'll make a discord or something to start organising making one.
It would be great if the anime and manga communities had a crowdfunding website, not just streaming services. For music, bandcamp hardly takes any revenue from artists sales on the websites. It provides a great way to support actual artist besides just using a music streaming service that doesn't really support artists.
Streaming services don't really support the industry that much and not the actual animators in Japan. Streaming services licensors pay an exclusive license fee to obtain an anime exclusively on their website. Most of this revenue just goes to the anime companies. The anime studios do get some revenue from royalties from viewers watching the episodes but this mostly goes to the streaming service to funnel into their revenue. This is also very anti-competitive in the industry having exclusive licenses and it goes against the free market concepts. Companies also ties anime titles exclusively into their streaming services to incentives the consumer buying a subscription in order to watch the anime. Now I know there's piracy but this is anti-competitive in nature. Sony has just announced today that they have bought Crunchyroll so now it is under the same umbrella as Funimation. It's likely that this unification will bring less anti-competitive practices and probably provides joint subscription purchase packages for both streaming services later this year.
However, if we have a crowdfunding website, it could give another alternative to streaming services. Here's how it could work: like Bandcamp: any creator could upload anime, manga or any type of webtoons eg onto the website for people to read/watch. Then consumers who enjoy the episodes/chapters can decide to purchase/support and be able to download it. Say you get three episodes to see if you like it or 10 chapters to decide if you want to purchase the rest. The artist would set the purchase price or could set it as let the consumer name the price. You wouldn't be able to just keep consuming the content as the website will eventually lock you out of the episode and you'll have to pay for the rest to keep watching/reading. Obviously there is exclusive licenses and even though I believe these IP laws are anti-competitive and should be legal alas. However, for new anime being released and anime that have had their exclusives licenses expired, the anime studies/companies could upload these anime also to these websites to make more revenue.
Besides the normal streaming services such as Crunchyroll, Funimation, Amazon Prime and Netflix, here are a couple of the ONLY crowdfunding/donation anime/manga services online that are pretty specific:
The Anime Dormitory: https://gogetfunding.com/2020-animator-dormitory-project/ (a crowd funding site to place animators in housing accomodation and other new initiatives.
Studio Trigger's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TRIGGER
Some noteworthy videos on YouTube about how to improve the industry:
1: You should pirate anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYGWeSh378&t=2s&ab_channel=Uniquenameosaurus
2: You should pirate anime 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nHOABMEns&t=2489s&ab_channel=Uniquenameosaurus
3: The Data Behind Digibro’s Stance on Anime Streaming: Legal vs. Illegal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmKCRRbTIM&ab_channel=AniNews
4: Utter Morons ForneverWorld & Half of Anitwitter Totally Miss the Point Of My Streaming Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ind6F6SRKQI&t=631s&ab_channel=BranchesOfYgg
If anyone's potentially interested or keen to make a crowdfunding website for anime and manga etc comment or dm me. This is something I'd love to do in my spare time. It wouldn't even be about making revenue just have enough to keep the website up pay those fees. Was thinking could be called something like animangacamp.
It would be great if the anime and manga communities had a crowdfunding website, not just streaming services. For music, bandcamp hardly takes any revenue from artists sales on the websites. It provides a great way to support actual artist besides just using a music streaming service that doesn't really support artists.
Streaming services don't really support the industry that much and not the actual animators in Japan. Streaming services licensors pay an exclusive license fee to obtain an anime exclusively on their website. Most of this revenue just goes to the anime companies. The anime studios do get some revenue from royalties from viewers watching the episodes but this mostly goes to the streaming service to funnel into their revenue. This is also very anti-competitive in the industry having exclusive licenses and it goes against the free market concepts. Companies also ties anime titles exclusively into their streaming services to incentives the consumer buying a subscription in order to watch the anime. Now I know there's piracy but this is anti-competitive in nature. Sony has just announced today that they have bought Crunchyroll so now it is under the same umbrella as Funimation. It's likely that this unification will bring less anti-competitive practices and probably provides joint subscription purchase packages for both streaming services later this year.
However, if we have a crowdfunding website, it could give another alternative to streaming services. Here's how it could work: like Bandcamp: any creator could upload anime, manga or any type of webtoons eg onto the website for people to read/watch. Then consumers who enjoy the episodes/chapters can decide to purchase/support and be able to download it. Say you get three episodes to see if you like it or 10 chapters to decide if you want to purchase the rest. The artist would set the purchase price or could set it as let the consumer name the price. You wouldn't be able to just keep consuming the content as the website will eventually lock you out of the episode and you'll have to pay for the rest to keep watching/reading. Obviously there is exclusive licenses and even though I believe these IP laws are anti-competitive and should be legal alas. However, for new anime being released and anime that have had their exclusives licenses expired, the anime studies/companies could upload these anime also to these websites to make more revenue.
Besides the normal streaming services such as Crunchyroll, Funimation, Amazon Prime and Netflix, here are a couple of the ONLY crowdfunding/donation anime/manga services online that are pretty specific:
The Anime Dormitory: https://gogetfunding.com/2020-animator-dormitory-project/ (a crowd funding site to place animators in housing accomodation and other new initiatives.
Studio Trigger's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TRIGGER
Some noteworthy videos on YouTube about how to improve the industry:
1: You should pirate anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYGWeSh378&t=2s&ab_channel=Uniquenameosaurus
2: You should pirate anime 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nHOABMEns&t=2489s&ab_channel=Uniquenameosaurus
3: The Data Behind Digibro’s Stance on Anime Streaming: Legal vs. Illegal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmKCRRbTIM&ab_channel=AniNews
4: Utter Morons ForneverWorld & Half of Anitwitter Totally Miss the Point Of My Streaming Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ind6F6SRKQI&t=631s&ab_channel=BranchesOfYgg
If anyone's potentially interested or keen to make a crowdfunding website for anime and manga etc comment or dm me. This is something I'd love to do in my spare time. It wouldn't even be about making revenue just have enough to keep the website up pay those fees. Was thinking could be called something like animangacamp.
Posted by OnxEyedKxng | Aug 10, 2021 5:46 PM | 0 comments
September 27th, 2019
MAL DB Guidelines Need to Add Web-Comics
I think this is necessary to give further clarification to series that have manga and web comics.
For example, the Mob Psycho 100 comic story is a web comic not a manga how MAL lists it in their database.
Currently, unpublished stories such as web comics cannot be added to MAL because it violates their DB Guidelines.
One Punch Man's manga version is listed on MAL but not its web comic version which started the phenomenon in 2009! Many One Punch Man fans do not even know that another completely different version, the web comic exists. Adding the web comic in the database will give further clarity to fans, and allow new and existing fans to find new adaptions of series'.
Please share this blog if you agree to try and get the MAL DB guidelines changes so web comics are added.
For example, the Mob Psycho 100 comic story is a web comic not a manga how MAL lists it in their database.
Currently, unpublished stories such as web comics cannot be added to MAL because it violates their DB Guidelines.
One Punch Man's manga version is listed on MAL but not its web comic version which started the phenomenon in 2009! Many One Punch Man fans do not even know that another completely different version, the web comic exists. Adding the web comic in the database will give further clarity to fans, and allow new and existing fans to find new adaptions of series'.
Please share this blog if you agree to try and get the MAL DB guidelines changes so web comics are added.
Posted by OnxEyedKxng | Sep 27, 2019 7:11 AM | 0 comments