• Ramenator@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It gets even worse when a number of anime aren’t even licensed for your country so you can only stream them via VPN. Looking at you Crunchyroll

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          9 months ago

          Unbelievable.

          Reminds me a bit about how Weird Al was able to get a whole album worth of music videos funded by spreading them out across various platforms.

          But that was clever and creative. This is just goofy.

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            9 months ago

            It’s more the result of there not being much demand for the entire 20 year run of Pokemon, so they didn’t bother keeping them packaged together. Otherwise they’d have priced it accordingly, and the services may not have wanted it at that price.

            It’s like how classic Doctor Who and current Doctor Who weren’t packaged together: the demand for one was diff than the other, so it made sense to let streaming services only pay for the one their customers wanted most.

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        9 months ago

        A huge part of that is season 1 of FLCL is two decades and entire production companies apart. It’s likely entirely down to a matter of how difficult it is to get rights for anime. Cartoon network was involved in the two new HD seasons, and is much easier to deal with that Gainax.

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          9 months ago

          It’s a completely piece of shit. I’ve never seen so many bugs in a streaming app

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            9 months ago

            It’s what happens when the devs have to spend more time making sure the DRM works than actually improving the UX of the platform. Pirates/Non-DRM users don’t have that problem hence small FOSS projects can outclass big Streaming Services in UX quality.

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        9 months ago

        TIL there’s more than one season of FLCL - loved that show back in the day. Is the new stuff good?

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          9 months ago

          I’ve only seen the first season lol. Planning on starting the second tonight. Apparently there’s a 4th and 5th season as well that I’m just learning about, so 2 and 3 must have gone well!