DB to effectively drop Naruto on 1/15/09

DeathfireD said:


Joost wont ever stop doing HD since they use the bittorrent protocol to transfer the data while your watching the stream. Once one Narutard starts downloading and watching it, all the others will start getting the data from the people already watching it. Hulu probably wont stop doing HD either since their owned by major movie corporations and get paid to maintain their quality. It's not like Crunchroll or youtube where anime company's just start uploading their content and ask Crunchroll to advertise it so fans will watch it. If Naruto is going to be on Hulu and Joost in HD then I probably wont have a problem with DB dropping it assuming the subs are good and not engrish.

digiboy123 said:
Ahem, retrieved from tokyotosho:

Anime [DB]​_Pokemon​_Diamond​_And​_Pearl​_007​_[F3209F10].avi Details
Size: 170.00MiB | Date: 2008-11-27 05:46 GMT | Comment: so all of you fell for the naruto drop troll?

You'd think some people would learn after they've been trolled for the 100th time. :|

digiboy123 said:
Ahem, retrieved from tokyotosho:

Anime [DB]​_Pokemon​_Diamond​_And​_Pearl​_007​_[F3209F10].avi Details
Size: 170.00MiB | Date: 2008-11-27 05:46 GMT | Comment: so all of you fell for the naruto drop troll?

You'd think some people would learn after they've been trolled for the 100th time. :|

Neverender said:

fucking lol

TheUnknownX said:
Why torrent them? They are free to watch after a week anyway.

llxwarbirdxll said:
I heard that Joost and Hulu stream their shows in HD. Of course, that may change, once legions of narutards start sucking up all of their bandwidth.

YadGadge said:

Hulu is already a really popular site, I and many of my friends use it to watch episodes of NBC shows that we may have missed earlier in the week, I doubt their bandwidth will be hurt much by Naruto fans.

I just hope that VIZ does a good job with the subs, like good translation, and hopefully they don't use the ugly bulky yellow font.

Of course whatever they do I'm sure it won't be as nice as DB's subs, they'll end up with subs that try to 'Americanize' the show, which I don't always care for. I like a little taste of Japanese humor in my Anime, don't need the puns changed (and usually dumbed down) to make sense for the general US audience.

Also, I read that VIZ will be releasing 8 episodes every Friday starting January 2nd. Now does that mean we'll have to wait about 11 - 12 weeks for them to get caught up before they release the newest episodes out of Japan that we haven't seen yet? I'm assuming the answer is yes, I can't imagine that they'd release say.. episode 91 before the other episodes are up.

TV TOKYO Corporation (“TV TOKYO”) has announced that it will broadcast the animated television series
Naruto via internet streaming directly to monthly subscribers, approximately within one hour of its
Japanese premiere, with English subtitles. The new service is scheduled to launch on January 8, 2009.
The program will be available worldwide outside of Japan. The subscription plan will be commercial-free,
feature high quality video, and will be offered as part of a package that will include several other
brand-new programs as well as many library and classic titles. Details of the subscription plan, pricing
and programming lineup will be announced at a later date.
For this initiative, TV TOKYO is teaming up with Crunchyroll, Inc., based in San Francisco, California,
USA, and it’s making use of its streaming technologies, collections and marketing.
In addition, as early as seven days following the start of the monthly subscription streaming, Naruto will be
streamed online free of charge, supported by advertisements, also through www.crunchyroll.com. At the
same time, the program’s ad-supported streaming may also be available through VIZ Media, LLC on Hulu
and Joost.

Viz Media Announces Unprecedented Multimedia Campaign to Provide Near Simultaneous U.S.-Japan Release of New Naruto Shippuden Animated Episodes for Free on www.Naruto.com
Nov 17th 2008
A NEW GENERATION, A NEW DESTINY

Viz Media Announces Unprecedented Multimedia Campaign To Provide Near Simultaneous U.S.-Japan Release Of New NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Animated Episodes For Free On www.Naruto.com

San Francisco, CA, NOVEMBER 17, 2008 – Viz Media, LLC (Viz Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced an innovative and unprecedented multimedia plan to provide near-simultaneous Japan-U.S. release of NARUTO, one of the most popular Japanese animated and manga properties in the world. This campaign is the latest expansion of Viz Media's ongoing strategy to utilize the web to its maximum potential to stream a variety of hit animated properties.

Beginning on January 15th the latest episode of the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (English-subtitled) animated series will be available for free viewing on the ultimate destination for anything NARUTO – the official NARUTO website, www.Naruto.com, within days of its original airdate in Japan. A new English-subtitled episode will be added every Thursday thereafter.

On January 2nd, Viz Media will also debut, for free, 8 uncut, English-subtitled episodes from the beginning of the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN series on www.Naruto.com. Each Friday thereafter there will be an additional 8 uncut, English-subtitled episodes added on Naruto.com until the series eventually catches up to the current third season of the hit program. Also, coming this week, an exclusive sneak peek of NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (English-subtitled) debuting on Naruto.com.

FenixAiur said:
Some people in here seem to be rather misinformed. TV Tokyo are the ones who will start streaming their English subtitles episodes on Crunchyroll within an hour after they air in Japan (starting on January 8th). They will only be available to paying members, and after a week anyone will be able to watch them.

From TV Tokyo:


Viz will stream the episodes on their own page, http://www.naruto.com , just a few days after they are released in Japan. Once again, English subtitles (which means you don't have to worry about the craptastic dubs). Starting from January 15 with whatever the newest episode happens to be that day while also releasing 8 episodes from the beginning until the series catch up.

www.naruto.com">From ANN:


And regarding DB... While I do love their subtitles, I really hope this is not a troll. After all, it's the right thing to do. The industry is giving us free subbed episodes in a matter of hours/days (I'm sure waiting a few days for a new episode won't kill you), we might as well support them.

We shouldn't complain about the quality of the videos before even watching them. Besides, Stage 6 showed us high quality streaming was possible.

dmneyeskyo said:


From what I remember from the announcement on the 15th the will start putting up the newest episodes, but at the same time they will be releasing the backlog of episodes for people who need to catch up 'cause they don't watch fansubs. So there should be no delay in getting the new episodes. If I am right anyway.

Viperslayer said:
You guys don't get it.
Even though they are stopped around episode 91. Take a good look at their website. There are no links to the recently aired double feature ~ however they DID sub it and they released it off their website.

I hope they do the right thing and drop it.
However it looks like they're going to continue subbing it behind VIZ's back.

Late said:


The topic on their irc channel says that they are having problems with their tracker so they used another one for distributing the special. So, who didn't get it?

Icy-nee-san said:
Narutards, we must unite and create a organization against dattebayo and TV Tokyo from offering LQ subbed version of a LQ show on a LQ video share site! We must stop crappy LQ subs with crappy LQ subs!!

I hereby name this organization, Celestial Being >:P
]if you havent relized it yet this was a Gundam 00 Parody XD Wooo, I had nothing to contribute to the conversation D:

Pwnography said:
I gotta say I take back what I said earlier about the quality, just checked out the 720p sample and it looks really good. Might buy a one year subscription if the subs are decent, since I want to watch Skip Beat aswell.

Spade said:
Just tried to see how good Viz' video quality is and what happens?

"The requested video cannot be displayed in your region"

Europe, you just got owned once again! And this is supposed to be the great revolution in the world of Anime outside of Japan? Hello there, Viz, "Outside of Japan" is more than just America. Really, look it up on Google Earth if you don't believe me...

Sephor said:
Eh?, Some people gotta realize its not as simple as allowing everyone to view it. They need the license for that region.

darkninja_loki said:
I take back what I said about Viz...they don't care about the viewers...heck no company that charges money to let people watch anime cares about viewers.

Besides, it's just plain stupid DB dropped Naruto for Viz. Nevertheless, I'm sure a fansubbing group with be brave and justified enough that they will make subs and then show Viz that they ain't getting anything if they just show it on ONE country. But then the problem is, most Americans are corrupted...take Bush for example. He's so corrupt that an Iran reporter threw not one, but two shoes at him. But for some reason, he dodged all 2 like it was dodgeball.

conankudo4 said:
As a note for the Europeans, Shippuden is being aired under the same restrictions and timelines on both hulu.com and joost.com. if your problem is CR, then one of those might help.

Gin-iro said:
This doesn't really make sense if you think about it. DB subs Bleach as well, but Bleach has been licensed for a long time...

Technically subbing Shippuuden wasn't illegal until Viz bought it. So why does having official subs make a difference when official dubs don't? Am I missing something here?