Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate

What's wrong with watching anime dubbed, i believe anyone should be free to watch anime however they want, i often watched anime muted with subs only.

@tchitchouan imagine in 2006 you watched haruhi simuldub and had to hear a shit dub singer and not aya hirano for live alive

@ComeInReiAsuka I never watched haruri i dislike kyoani anime.

@tchitchouan that's just one example.

Anisong is part of the culture. Like it or not.

80%-90% dubbed fans? i dont believe this at all

What's wrong with watching anime dubbed, i believe anyone should be free to watch anime however they want, i often watched anime muted with subs only.

@tchitchouan Why not watch it with sound? The moans and sounds often add to the sex appeal, particularly in Japanese.

80%-90% dubbed fans? i dont believe this at all

@fanaticrat why would Netflix lie then? Even crunchyroll, an anime specific streaming service claims most of their fans are dubbed watchers

@fanaticrat You'd be surprised, vast majority of people who watch anime int the west are turbo casuals that watch the big thing on the front page of netfilx, and have never gone on anime websites like this one to find more anime.

Hopefully that won't lead to more general self-censorship to abide by censorship laws and age ratings of all the different countries.

@Zarutaku Japan already censors themselves in certain cases.

@iweebz This is stuff that doesn't happen. Everyone always has a boogeyman for the most random things.

Anime going mainstream isn't a mistake. It's good for the industry because it brings in more money and many more shows are available to watch legally. Netflix is shitty for what they did with Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku and other shows for delaying them a week after Japan, but they provide (piss poor, garbage) access to anime. A lot more people are more open to the idea of anime characters which didn't use to be that way 10 years ago. As much as nostalgic watching "The Law of Ueki episode 15 par 2/10" on youtube, I don't want to go back to that time.

It is surprising the majority of english watchers watch the dubbed version.

@Yuu_Kanzaki people who don't know how to torrent should never have been allowed to watch anime

@iweebz This is abs true. Anime is losing its own identity and charm, and is slowly shifting into something that requires western validation and acceptance. Even western fandoms are so much more fucking different than they used to be. Certain takes/opinions that were incredibly commonplace 6-7 years ago are blasphemy rn. It’s actually maddening.

Like i find a lot of parts of otaku culture/old anime weird and p objectionable, but i still want it to… exist lol. No artist should be shoved into a narrow, hyper-palatable box just to meet some externally approved standard of “correct” expression. Shit can be weird, messy and even off putting. That’s where the soul is and that’s how the most genuinely interesting/compelling stories are made.

@Sigma-

6-7 years ago lmao.

I miss 2000s anime culture.

Fr. I'm really missing the time when anime fans have bullied for their passion. Bring it back!

@iweebz
I don't see the relevance of that. There is so much anime that has been made in the past 40 years, that it can last you a lifetime, even if they stopped producing anime tomorrow.
Moreover, the fact that ecchi anime is being produced less (which is not exactly true) has little to do with the West and more with changing trends in Japan. Moe killed ecchi - moe aesthetic replaced the sexy adult characters that were common in anime prior to 2010's. Also, a maturization in manga comedy, and the emergence of manga writers who could write a good fucking joke, rather than needing to show panties as comedy. Pervy jokes became just as lame as fart jokes. As a result, ecchi became stagnant. In fact, there is no less ecchi than in the past, but rather, the same quantity that was produced in 2008, is produced today, but the industry grew; there is 2-3 to even 4, times more anime produced in a season, so the quantity of ecchi has been diluted.