Do you think Japanese fans get upset about how American companies treat anime compared to Japan? In America, you can buy a Blu-ray with a complete season or series set that is much cheaper, whereas Japan still uses single-volume releases like it is the 2000s, and complete series sets cost an insane amount. Also, you can stream anime for free, even officially, on platforms like Tubi, whereas in Japan almost everything costs money. Anime also gets rerun longer in the West, while in Japan they tend to do one broadcast and call it a day. Anime often does not get reprinted or stay in print forever there unlike titles such as Bubblegum Crisis and streaming platforms in the West host older titles that Japan ignores. America even gets remasters of shows that Japan never receives, sometimes alongside with extra features. If a show is popular enough in the US, producers might fund a brand-new season specifically for Western audiences. Additionally, major American IPs like Batman or the X-Men receive anime adaptations, while certain Japanese properties are ignored. But what do you think? Do you think Japanese otaku get upset with how America handles all of this for anime, while in Japan a series broadcasts maybe once with very few reruns, receives an overpriced home media release usually just once, and that is it? Do you think Western anime fans in the US watch more old stuff because it's easier to access? I feel like the ''wannabe retro fan'' is a western thing.
Reminds me when a Japanese guy on X found out about Tubi and was shocked by the anime on it.
>>290838523Judging by the holy war on anime piracy that was going on on twitter several months ago, at least some amount of people are very upset about it. But what's more important, it feels like anime is shifting from being THE big thing of Japan to just a thing. So no one gives this too much thought an that "not too much of a though" keeps decreasing.That's further confirmed by the article some anon posted here about how anime studios are shifting focus from the domestic market to the overseas markettl;dr I think japs will just end up consuming anime from Western services, so it's no big deal
the type of ppl who buy japanese BDs want more stuff to buy not less
>>290838692Actually this. Imagine how pissed japanese buyfags must be about sony right now
>>290838692I heard some Japanese just import English releases, it's why subs get stuck on Japanese audio tracks for some releases but like that matters really, oh no English subs I can't turn off meanwhile they're saving 100s of dollars kek.
>>290838714i imagine sony will keep selling empty boxes with redeem codes just for those kind of people
America cares more about preservation and keeping old shit relevant, look at all the Boutique labels for physical media that refuse to die even if physical media isn't mainstream now and all the old shit you can watch everywhere also you got FAST channels which play nothing but old stuff all day.
>>290838773I love FAST channels, it reminds me of being a kid stumbling across random shit on cable which only thing I miss about cable is bumpers but they went to shit years ago.
Unironically being a Japanese fan for anime sounds like it fucking sucks lmfao.
>>290838523for every 1 anime thats successful in america there's like 100 forgotten titles that never get exposure that jp has to handle
>>290838942Yeah but in the US, lot of those forgotten titles we get are still easy to get ahold of here outside of really obscure stuff that only got VHS releases and never ripped online or the torrent is dead.
>Physical media getting rarer and worst along with pirate sites gettinge shittier to the point you don't get made fun of on /a/ for buying anime.
