WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.420 Since the beginning of the summer 2017 anime season there has been a lot of discussion surrounding, Netflix and Amazon 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:08.500 Particularly the way that these two 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:15.240 Companies have lapped up a bunch of the most popular and highest profile and outright best anime of the season 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:22.170 but have made it somewhat unavailable Amazon Strike in the fact that they put a ridiculous pay wall between you and the anime and 00:00:22.330 --> 00:00:27.930 Netflix in that they outright aren't releasing series until a later date people have been asking me to weigh in on this issue 00:00:27.930 --> 00:00:34.919 But personally I find it difficult to be bothered a lot of the complaints about this seem to be based around the idealization 00:00:35.170 --> 00:00:41.309 Of being able to watch all of your favorite anime legally and at a relatively inexpensive price 00:00:41.379 --> 00:00:48.059 But to some extent I have to wonder about the benefits of even doing things that way I'm wondering who it even 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:53.909 Rewards to watch anime legally and to pay money for it. What are you getting out of it as a viewer? 00:00:53.910 --> 00:00:59.939 what are you actually throwing your money down for it's difficult for me to see a strong correlation between 00:01:00.129 --> 00:01:07.259 The $7 that I pay Crunchyroll to use their service every month and the money that is being made by the people who actually 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:11.699 Created the shows that I want to watch on their network if I am indeed 00:01:11.830 --> 00:01:14.999 Supporting those shows in some way by watching them on Crunchyroll 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:21.150 It is such a miniscule amount of support that it's hard for me to even really feel good about it 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:23.879 It's hard for me to feel as though. I've really done anything 00:01:23.890 --> 00:01:29.519 I don't necessarily give my money to crunchyroll because I think it's the right way to watch anime 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:35.189 Or that it's the best way to support the industry I give my money to crunchyroll because their service is convenient for me 00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:40.499 I think downloading anime is a pain in the ass the way I tend to watch stuff is very spur-of-the-moment 00:01:40.990 --> 00:01:44.790 I tend to suddenly have an interest in a show and want to watch it 00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:49.799 Immediately, so I'm going to go online and find it as fast as I can and watch it right in that moment 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:54.868 I don't want to have to wait for it to download. I certainly don't want to go around looking for a torrent 00:01:54.869 --> 00:02:00.869 I'm personally not the biggest stickler for video quality in the anime that I watch I just want it to look at least 00:02:00.969 --> 00:02:06.599 Presentable, I don't really care how good the subtitles are because I can understand Japanese fairly well 00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:11.759 And I even kind of enjoy getting to correct the subtitles when I think they're not quite accurate 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.880 so for me all that really matters is that the show is of 00:02:15.880 --> 00:02:21.360 watchable quality has subtitles at all that aren't in horribly broken English 00:02:21.480 --> 00:02:28.680 and is available so 99% of the time when I want to watch a show what I do is I open Google 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.880 and I type "watch [the name of the show]" 00:02:32.100 --> 00:02:37.319 for instance "watch 'Made in Abyss'" now If I type watch "Made in Abyss" and the first result is crunchyroll? 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.580 I'm going to click on Crunchyroll 00:02:38.580 --> 00:02:43.080 And I'm going to watch it right there if I type that in and the first result is kiss anime 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:47.699 And there's nothing else on the page that looks official? I'm going to watch it on kiss anime 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:52.980 Why? Because kiss anime is providing the service that I actually want. I want it to be available 00:02:53.079 --> 00:02:58.769 I want it to be in halfway decent quality and I want there to be readable subtitles. That's all I want 00:02:58.769 --> 00:03:00.280 I have a Netflix account 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.049 And I don't watch much anime on there even if it's available 00:03:04.329 --> 00:03:10.019 Because the Netflix subtitles are often planted right at the bottom of the screen where they're barely readable while also 00:03:10.090 --> 00:03:13.470 looking up at what's happening on the screen and sometimes they're not even 00:03:13.750 --> 00:03:17.309 Synchronized correctly the first time I really tried to watch anime on Netflix 00:03:17.430 --> 00:03:24.030 I watched Samurai Champloo back in 2014 and the subtitles were like a full second and a half off from the audio 00:03:24.030 --> 00:03:29.699 It was extremely jarring. They simply aren't giving me the experience. I want I don't care how legal it is 00:03:29.700 --> 00:03:35.160 I don't even care if it's cheap if they're not giving me what I want, they're not getting my money Amazon strike 00:03:35.160 --> 00:03:40.259 Just charges too absurd an amount of money for me to throw it at a service that I can't see the clear 00:03:40.450 --> 00:03:44.339 Correlation between how my money is supporting the people making the show 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:44.859 I 00:03:44.859 --> 00:03:45.730 understand that 00:03:45.730 --> 00:03:50.429 Amazon is getting a lot of my money and the production committee behind the show might be getting a lot of my money 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:54.329 But are the people who actually made the show good seeing any of this money? 00:03:54.329 --> 00:04:01.199 Is there any way to actually put money in the hands of the people making the show without going through any 00:04:01.450 --> 00:04:03.359 middlemen? To be completely honest 00:04:03.359 --> 00:04:10.769 I stopped buying anime blu-rays some time ago because I don't want the product I would love to buy blu-rays if I felt that it 00:04:10.769 --> 00:04:13.619 Was a direct one-to-one correlation with the director of the show 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:18.329 I love gets to direct another show, but I just don't see that correlation happening 00:04:18.329 --> 00:04:22.168 I don't have the data to tell me that that is exactly what's going to happen 00:04:22.270 --> 00:04:27.810 I know that Funimation is getting some of my money, and I don't care for Funimation. I don't watch dubs 00:04:27.870 --> 00:04:32.699 I think they're subtitles are often inaccurate. They're blu-rays often lie about what level of quality 00:04:32.699 --> 00:04:36.929 They're at their streaming service looks like ass. I don't want to give them my money 00:04:36.930 --> 00:04:38.199 I don't want to own 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:43.649 Another blu-ray to take up space on my shelf that I will never watch because it's so much more effort to pull a blu-ray out 00:04:43.650 --> 00:04:48.900 Of the case than it is to just type "watch 'Log Horizon'" into Google and just watch it on crunchyroll 00:04:48.900 --> 00:04:55.470 I will buy anime products sometimes if I like the show and I like the product and I hope that some of that money is 00:04:55.470 --> 00:04:59.190 Going to the artists, but do I really want to support the production committees? 00:04:59.190 --> 00:05:00.880 do I really want to support the 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:05.639 Industry as a whole when the industry is so badly run when I feel like the industry should be 00:05:05.770 --> 00:05:12.570 Taken apart and rebuilt from the ground up on some level like we're not exactly supporting an industry with great business practices 00:05:12.570 --> 00:05:18.869 You've probably read a thousand articles by now about how animators are criminally underpaid and how people in this industry are 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.429 Constantly overworked and you see every single season the way that this industry 00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:30.959 Prioritizes quantity over quality of shows the way that we're throwing more and more and more talent and work into more and more 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.329 bullshit anime that doesn't need to exist 00:05:33.550 --> 00:05:41.490 If the anime industry dies it won't be because people weren't buying enough blu-rays it won't be because people weren't buying the right 00:05:41.590 --> 00:05:47.310 Streaming services it will be because the industry didn't figure out how to get your money from you in an effective way 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:50.099 They didn't figure out how to sell you the product you actually 00:05:50.289 --> 00:05:53.969 Want to buy at the price point you'd be willing to buy it which is what? 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.689 Economics is all about I shouldn't have to feel cheated out of my money 00:05:57.780 --> 00:06:03.690 I shouldn't have to feel like I'm giving money to people who I don't even know what they did really this is why I've been 00:06:03.690 --> 00:06:09.479 Such a huge proponent of this idea. That's been going around that is supposedly going to happen of Trigger 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:13.680 Opening a patreon page because I understand exactly what's happening there 00:06:13.870 --> 00:06:17.459 Especially if they lay out the way that the money will be working when they do it 00:06:17.460 --> 00:06:23.970 I understand who Trigger are, I've seen them all around they talk about their shows they explain exactly what they did 00:06:24.419 --> 00:06:27.809 And if I was giving money to Trigger, I would know hey 00:06:27.810 --> 00:06:33.810 I'm giving my money to the people who make the shows I like that's where the money is going I don't even need a product 00:06:33.810 --> 00:06:37.500 The product is to show I don't want a blu-ray of Little Witch Academia 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:43.470 I just want to pay them to make Little Witch Academia. If they just hosted up on a website with decent subtitles 00:06:43.470 --> 00:06:49.109 I'll be fuckin gold and before you say "Isn't that exactly what crunchyroll is?" When I pay for crunchyroll 00:06:49.110 --> 00:06:54.090 I'm paying for the entire service. I'm paying for all the shows that are on there, and I don't want that. 00:06:54.090 --> 00:06:59.039 I just want to pay the people who make the things I like I don't want to have to buy the entire 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:05.189 Anime industry (which I don't necessarily want to support) in order to pay some pittance to these 00:07:05.380 --> 00:07:09.120 Few companies that I actually care about now I do realize that crowdfunding 00:07:09.220 --> 00:07:16.289 Is not likely to work for anime because anime requires a lot of money to be made and most people aren't willing to shell out 00:07:16.290 --> 00:07:21.930 Just for a show what they would shell out for a blu-Ray, and so for those blu-rays to exist 00:07:21.930 --> 00:07:25.470 You've got to involve all these other companies who are going to co fund the anime? 00:07:25.470 --> 00:07:29.849 But again the problem is a shifting dynamic. Nobody wants blu-rays anymore 00:07:29.850 --> 00:07:34.590 We have to make it clear to people what they have to pay to get anime. They want 00:07:34.590 --> 00:07:39.509 We have to make it clear that if you want to have a show of this certain level of production quality 00:07:39.510 --> 00:07:41.250 here's how much that show costs 00:07:41.250 --> 00:07:43.440 Here's how much we need to make from you 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:46.890 And if we can cut out some of those middlemen and just make it a direct 00:07:47.260 --> 00:07:52.170 Understanding between the fans and the people creating the shows I think we'd be in a much healthier spot here different 00:07:52.330 --> 00:07:56.580 Businesses are run differently not everybody wants to be completely transparent about things 00:07:56.580 --> 00:07:59.460 But that's just the way that the world kind of works now 00:07:59.460 --> 00:08:03.419 It's hard to make people want to pay for something that they can get for free 00:08:03.850 --> 00:08:10.890 Especially if you're not going to offer a better version of the product then the free one. Selling anime cannot be an easy business 00:08:10.890 --> 00:08:13.259 Right now, but the solutions that are in place 00:08:13.260 --> 00:08:16.200 Just don't seem to work all that well in my opinion 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:21.689 And it's especially hard when the model by which anime is released is still this kind of antiquated 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:25.710 TV release style, shows coming out one episode per week 00:08:25.710 --> 00:08:29.039 And you don't know if it's going to be a good show all the way through until the end 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:35.580 You're basically buying a product in piecemeal that you hope will eventually be satisfying if you asked me 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:38.189 What would be the ideal model for me personally? 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.040 for viewing and purchasing anime 00:08:41.040 --> 00:08:42.550 it would be like this a 00:08:42.550 --> 00:08:47.760 13 episode series drops on a streaming service that I may be paying for then at the end a little 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:52.319 Donation box opens up and says put in how much money you thought that show was worth 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:57.329 And then I put in oh that show is great. I put in $50. Oh that show was kind of 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:59.339 It's 10 bucks 00:08:59.339 --> 00:09:05.818 You know I didn't enjoy it you guys didn't give me the product I wanted so I'm not gonna fucking pay you or you know 00:09:05.819 --> 00:09:08.819 This show sucked. I'm not gonna pay for it. I guess that's all 00:09:08.819 --> 00:09:14.669 I really would ask for it's just a donation button at the end of the last episode of every video that comes on 00:09:14.889 --> 00:09:15.389 crunchyroll 00:09:15.389 --> 00:09:17.669 Just give me a way to Fuckin pay for the product 00:09:17.670 --> 00:09:22.199 I actually want that's why I can't be too bothered about the Netflix and Amazon shit 00:09:22.199 --> 00:09:27.959 I already wasn't watching shows if they get on Netflix or Amazon or funimation. I only watch it 00:09:27.959 --> 00:09:31.349 If it's on crunchyroll because crunchyroll makes things really fucking convenient for me 00:09:31.350 --> 00:09:37.350 And if these services aren't going to offer something as convenient as crunchyroll or at least as convenient as kiss fucking anime 00:09:37.350 --> 00:09:39.029 Then well they can fuck off 00:09:39.029 --> 00:09:46.018 I am not going to feel any moral guilt for refusing to pay for a product that I do not want anyway 00:09:46.019 --> 00:09:46.980 That's all for this rant 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:51.990 I hope you enjoyed I probably didn't put any footage or anything on this just because of what the hell would I? 00:09:52.089 --> 00:09:55.919 Stick around on my channel for some more regular content coming soon check out my playlist 00:09:56.050 --> 00:09:58.379 of every YouTube video featuring digibro 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:02.339 If you want to see more from me check out my new music channel if you happen to be into music 00:10:02.339 --> 00:10:05.938 It's called digibro's Turntable. I've been putting out a ton of content over there 00:10:05.939 --> 00:10:11.279 I've been really excited about it, and you should check it out. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you in the next one