MrTacobell said:Immahnoob said:
You do understand that Funimation isn't some kind of small, irrelevant streaming site right? Do you also understand that global markets tend to show their likes and dislikes by promoting or not, certain products?
Also, lolno, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, you're promoting self-censorship here. First of all, the issue is that these shows ARE INDEED POPULAR, but if they DO NOT get supported officially, they can't gain anything from that popularity. Second of, if they don't have that incentive, why would they keep on creating those shows?
A million viewers isn't going to do anything if they can't also pay you for your work, and the system is intentionally trying to stiffle this, not because of "economical" reasons, but "political" and because of "twsited morals".
If you can't understand how that is twisted and bad for the industry, I'm sorry, there's no way for me to explain this in a simpler way.
In the grand scheme of things funimation is a small player, the amount of money they make is not enough to change the industry.
And I don't still can't see how this cancelation was because of twisted morals, most streaming sites don't allow content that is explicit beyond a certain extent, but there still are places where this content can be monetized and where fans of this content can pay for it, if IR was completely cancelled even in japan i would agree with you that there was something twisted going on, but it wasn't, the western market got kinda fucked but that's all, and IR isn't the first and won't be last anime without legal streaming options in the west(and for people like me who live in places that funimation doesn't work, nothing changed).
At this point you're just not accepting of facts, I've already provided the reasons for why you're wrong. Funimation is also the reason other streaming services like Amazon no longer have IR up. Streaming services have become a big part of the revenue for anime, maybe you're not up with the times.BlueMaximilian said:
What matters to the industry are the DB sales in the end. That's why we have quite alot of shows about idols and they still make more.
The west opinion doesn't matter and they proved this many times especially with the goblin slayer and shield hero controversy and a Japanese channel Also canceled the show which surprisingly didn't bother the fambase so much (it's like most of them just wanted to flex and meme in the end of the day and not fight for a cause).
The whole situation with mal especially wasn't necessary and even tho IR stayed in the top 10 for a good while.That didn't get any response from funimation and only caused problems inside the community and now they are trying to save face by claiming it was all about mal and paying mods and giving the site publicity or some shit like that.
BD sales you mean, and no, they've been a very small part of anime revenue for ages now. What matters more is streaming and merchandise like toys, figurines, etc. Something IR knows full well, since they've already started selling them.