Yes, but do you think they’d buy the shows from those production committees and other organizations if people weren’t interested in paying subscriptions to watch them? That’s like saying Bandai doesn’t get money when I buy gunpla from a store like usagunplastore just because usagunplastore already bought the gunpla from Bandai months ago and Bandai isn’t getting more money from that particular purchase.
Animators being horribly underpaid is a different topic entirely.
That’s without even discussing the fact that not a single penny users give them will end up in the hands of any of the exploited artists who actually made the shows
That’s quite the assertion. How exactly do you suggest they’re buying the rights to distribute the shows then?
given that there are still plenty of passionate fans who would have done it for free
I’d imagine this is a non-starter from a corporate standpoint. I know if I were in charge I’d be terrified of the idea of just trusting community-submitted subtitles to not have random slurs or something inserted. That said I still think it would be super cool if they’d let people source and use their own subtitle files; I now it’s possible because I have a tampermonkey script that lets me do just that.
With how many things I log into on my phone I think I’d rather have no phone at all than one that’s too old to receive security updates.
I hadn’t seen peak today yet; thank you for that. Too bad it’s nigh unreadable though lol.
I love reading this guy’s words. It’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect the writer of Chainsaw Man to write and that’s wonderful.
They’re just excited because it’s kind of like they released Skyrim again and they haven’t had their fix in a while.
Maybe the reality is that 80-90% of their programmers actively use tools like Github Copilot and the CEO got really excited about what that might mean. I mean, how could he possibly measure this?
I would argue that it’s because the entire concept doesn’t revolve around it. One-Punch Man works because Saitama’s challenges are with depression and ennui, not physical monsters.
I don’t understand why there are so many of these. Surely even the people who like them can’t watch that many. Also, I don’t understand why Japanese light novels are almost always so low-quality. I realize a lot of them are amateur works but you’d think there would be more than just a few that stand out as good.
Thinking of my favorite seinen it comes out to Medalist, Skip and Loafer, Witch Hat Atelier, the One-Punch Man webcomic, and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. I definitely land more on one side than the other here, though I’ll definitely give Vinland Saga a try someday since I’ve only heard great things about that.
That’s like saying that Demon Slayer is similar to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure because they both use breathing techniques to harness the power of the sun to defeat man-eating undead. It’s technically true, but that doesn’t mean the experience of watching them is remotely similar.
He also seems like the kind of guy who stabs you as his special way of saying hello.
The artist is gar32drawshit on Twitter.
It refers to the Jappanese Language Proficiency Test, or JLPT. The easiest version of the test is N5, and the hardest is N1.
I don’t think there’s an industry on earth where it’s normal for the low-level workers to be paid directly when the customer buys something. It being filtered through a bunch of business stuff is the norm everywhere I’m afraid.