Whether or not illegal copies circulating on the internet reduce the sales of legal products has been a hot issue in the entertainment industries. Though much empirical research has been conducted on the music industry, research on the movie industry has been very limited. This paper examines the effects of the movie sharing site Youtube and file sharing program Winny on DVD sales and rentals of Japanese TV animation programs. Estimated equations of 105 anime episodes show that (1) Youtube viewing does not negatively affect DVD rentals, and it appears to help raise DVD sales; and (2) although Winny file sharing negatively affects DVD rentals, it does not affect DVD sales. Youtube’s effect of boosting DVD sales can be seen after the TV’s broadcasting of the series has concluded, which suggests that not just a few people learned about the program via a Youtube viewing. In other words YouTube can be interpreted as a promotion tool for DVD sales.
The effect of YouTube on sales was particularly pronounced in the case of shows which had finished airing on TV. We can think of this as people who never saw the broadcasts becoming fans by way of YouTube and then going on to buy the DVDs.
3. There is no clear effect on DVD rentals from YouTube. At the very least we can say it seems YouTube has no adverse effect on DVD rentals.
4. Winny file-sharing has no effect on DVD sales, but does appear to decrease DVD rentals. People who download anime via Winny appear to be using it not to replace their purchases, but to replace their rentals.
Copyright holders who dislike YouTube and persistently request their works to be deleted from YouTube are likely to be harming their own business.
youtube=piracy in what world
I buy anime only after I have pirated it first to make sure I actually like it. Same goes for movies.
considering you can get free, legit streams on a shitload of anime (thanks Hulu, etc.), and now simultaneous broadcasting of fresh Japanese stuff, why would anybody need to pirate anime?
I pirate shit all the time and never but anything :rockspoiler (click to show/hide)I did buy MGS2 recently cus the dvd I took from my cousin's place was scratched. :shh[close]
I pirate shit all the time and never buy anything :rockspoiler (click to show/hide)I did buy MGS2 recently cus the dvd I took from my cousin's place was scratched. :shh[close]
American weaboos have no right to complain about anime DVD/BD prices, real talk. They sell DVDs here with 1 or 2 episodes for like 5000 yen. THAT'S 60 AMERISTACKS, YO. Another example: Akira BD in Japan costs $80 USD, $30 in the US. Smh
The fuck is Winny?
American weaboos have no right to complain about anime DVD/BD prices, real talk. They sell DVDs here with 1 or 2 episodes for like 5000 yen. THAT'S 60 AMERISTACKS, YO. Another example: Akira BD in Japan costs $80 USD, $30 in the US. Smh
You can rent here for filthy cheap, though.
American weaboos have no right to complain about anime DVD/BD prices, real talk. They sell DVDs here with 1 or 2 episodes for like 5000 yen. THAT'S 60 AMERISTACKS, YO. Another example: Akira BD in Japan costs $80 USD, $30 in the US. Smh
Where is Durarara?
"Part 1" is $42? No blu-ray?
:lol
I'm not paying $120+ for some DVDs. Fuck off, Bandai.
Japanese report: Piracy is still bad
Where is Panty&Stocking With Garterbelt?Why watch hentai when you can get real, unpixelated AV over here? It's really hard to understand you Japanese sometimes.
When the streaming site is owned and hosted by the people who license the anime, legally, yes.
goddamn i wish i could go back in time and stop myself from buying DVDs
Where is Panty&Stocking With Garterbelt?Why watch hentai when you can get real, unpixelated AV over here? It's really hard to understand you Japanese sometimes.
I used to love that show! I still have that burned cd rom you gave me in high school with it. I haven't watched it in ages though and I doubt it works.
So it actually holds up? I can handle that. I legitimately liked it when I was younger and I'm not a fan of anime outside of DBZ and Hand Maid May. Maybe you can recommend something else? I don't have anything against anime. I just haven't seen one that has interested me since early high school.I used to love that show! I still have that burned cd rom you gave me in high school with it. I haven't watched it in ages though and I doubt it works.
I actually bought that show on DVD [for $15] not too long ago. It's kind of a standard late 90's/early 00's scifi/romance anime, but I've seen worse.
Edit: I was going to say that it cropped during the post-Mahoromatic/Chobits android-girl craze, but it actually predates both of those [but not the Mahoromatic manga]. Hmm...all 3 might have cropped up following the success of Steel Angel Kurumi, perhaps?
Edit 2: The only really bad thing about Hand Maid May is the inclusion of late-90's/early-00's mandated super-annoying, hyper-active main character rival whose only purpose is to provide dumb comic relief from time to time. But instead of being funny, he's just really annoying.
So it actually holds up? I can handle that. I legitimately liked it when I was younger and I'm not a fan of anime outside of DBZ and Hand Maid May. Maybe you can recommend something else? I don't have anything against anime. I just haven't seen one that has interested me since early high school.I used to love that show! I still have that burned cd rom you gave me in high school with it. I haven't watched it in ages though and I doubt it works.
I actually bought that show on DVD [for $15] not too long ago. It's kind of a standard late 90's/early 00's scifi/romance anime, but I've seen worse.
Edit: I was going to say that it cropped during the post-Mahoromatic/Chobits android-girl craze, but it actually predates both of those [but not the Mahoromatic manga]. Hmm...all 3 might have cropped up following the success of Steel Angel Kurumi, perhaps?
Edit 2: The only really bad thing about Hand Maid May is the inclusion of late-90's/early-00's mandated super-annoying, hyper-active main character rival whose only purpose is to provide dumb comic relief from time to time. But instead of being funny, he's just really annoying.
Sweet. Thanks, dude. How about something along the lines of DBZ. Action, cheesy, not overly invested into story or character development (I guess that depends on what version of DBZ you're watching too.) I've also read some Naruto manga. It was okay, but I don't know if the anime is better or not.
Sweet. Thanks, dude. How about something along the lines of DBZ. Action, cheesy, not overly invested into story or character development (I guess that depends on what version of DBZ you're watching too.) I've also read some Naruto manga. It was okay, but I don't know if the anime is better or not.
Jesus christ, rumbler those suggestions are horrible for a non-anime fan? Nadesico? Really?
Sweet. Thanks, dude. How about something along the lines of DBZ. Action, cheesy, not overly invested into story or character development (I guess that depends on what version of DBZ you're watching too.) I've also read some Naruto manga. It was okay, but I don't know if the anime is better or not.
Oh, I've got a good one for this:
http://www.hulu.com/fist-of-the-north-star
Where is Panty&Stocking With Garterbelt?Why watch hentai when you can get real, unpixelated AV over here? It's really hard to understand you Japanese sometimes.
So it actually holds up? I can handle that. I legitimately liked it when I was younger and I'm not a fan of anime outside of DBZ and Hand Maid May. Maybe you can recommend something else? I don't have anything against anime. I just haven't seen one that has interested me since early high school.I used to love that show! I still have that burned cd rom you gave me in high school with it. I haven't watched it in ages though and I doubt it works.
I actually bought that show on DVD [for $15] not too long ago. It's kind of a standard late 90's/early 00's scifi/romance anime, but I've seen worse.
Edit: I was going to say that it cropped during the post-Mahoromatic/Chobits android-girl craze, but it actually predates both of those [but not the Mahoromatic manga]. Hmm...all 3 might have cropped up following the success of Steel Angel Kurumi, perhaps?
Edit 2: The only really bad thing about Hand Maid May is the inclusion of late-90's/early-00's mandated super-annoying, hyper-active main character rival whose only purpose is to provide dumb comic relief from time to time. But instead of being funny, he's just really annoying.
YYH starts out soooooo good.I'll add that to Netflix as well.
The opening episode has the main character get hit by a car and die. It ownssssss.
If you want something short and sweet and action-y, also see if you can rent Hellsing Ultimate from netflix. It has vampires and blood and amazing action, and the story is stupid as fuck.
YYH starts out soooooo good.I'll add that to Netflix as well.
The opening episode has the main character get hit by a car and die. It ownssssss.
If you want something short and sweet and action-y, also see if you can rent Hellsing Ultimate from netflix. It has vampires and blood and amazing action, and the story is stupid as fuck.
Stories are what make me stop watching anime. When they get too serious or try to be serious, I stop caring. I love the cheese of DBZ. That's my kind of anime story. Stupid, silly and shallow.
sweet. thanks, dude. I used to watch ranma 1/2 in high school. I was pretty tempted to buy the whole series about a year ago but I don't know how it held up.
But you have Perfect Blue, which is really serious.Perfect Blue is more like a movie that happens to be animated. Like that WW2 one, can't remember the name. Exceptions, not the rule, etc. More often than not I find that anime can't pull off compelling stories to my liking.
The wife and I might have to buy it afterall then. Sounds like how I remembered it.sweet. thanks, dude. I used to watch ranma 1/2 in high school. I was pretty tempted to buy the whole series about a year ago but I don't know how it held up.
It's held up pretty well, I think. I mean, it's pretty repetitive, but that's par for the course when you start talking about a show that's 100+ episodes. Still, it's a funny show and if you're looking for lighthearted fun that doesn't insult your intelligence every two seconds, you could definitely do a lot worse.
But you have Perfect Blue, which is really serious.Perfect Blue is more like a movie that happens to be animated. Like that WW2 one, can't remember the name. Exceptions, not the rule, etc. More often than not I find that anime can't pull off compelling stories to my liking.
A lot of the movies I suggested are in that vein and a lot of anime I prefer are like...regular tv or whatever except they're animated. I tend to prefer anime like that. Though wonky anime is good too.Like Ponyo? :heartbeat
Perfect Blue was directed by the late Satoshi Kon. A lot of his movies (Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers) tend to have serious tones with great writing. He also created a tv series called Paranoia Agent, which takes this even further.
Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's movies are like that too. In fact, most quality anime film is like that.
It takes years and ages to learn how to weed out good anime from the bad, though. The trek isn't even worth it.
To get all of these suggestions out of the way, I'd say start with Yu Yu Hakusho which is on funimation's site (posted earlier in this thread), Hellsing Ultimate, and the Satoshi Kon, Ghibli, Miyazaki films.
Miyazaki and Kon are excellent for any non-anime fan. Stuff like Excel Saga have a certain sense of humor that is only appealing to certain anime fans since they tend to be frantic and highly energetic and random. Even I don't like Excel Saga outside of the first five episodes.
To summarize, there's a lot of great anime out there, both serious and non-serious, but it's not best to go pick blindly. Certain anime have certain quirks, and certain fans have specific tastes.
I don't think anime is alone when it comes to veering off into the serious when it should have stayed light. I see way too many sitcoms and lighthearted dramas do this as well. But for some reason or another I think it's harder to deal with in anime.But you have Perfect Blue, which is really serious.Perfect Blue is more like a movie that happens to be animated. Like that WW2 one, can't remember the name. Exceptions, not the rule, etc. More often than not I find that anime can't pull off compelling stories to my liking.
As the resident animu maniac, I can tolerate serious stories in my animu, but it's definitely the case that some shows just get too serious business and end of flopping, when they could have kept being light and fun. It's also the case that a lot of anime simply don't have a very good story, so ramping up the story and getting serious turns the whole thing into a boring mess.
However, I can probably come up with a few that would still interest you:
The Big O - Noir mecha series, it's basically a bunch of the guys who animated Batman: TAS getting together and deciding to do the Japanese version of it. Some parts of the main story arc are kind of ridiculous [especially when everything comes to a head at the end of the second season], but a lot of the one-episode stories are really, really good. It's the kind of show that I can watch over and over because the stories, characters, and the world are just so compelling.
Patlabor the Movie 1 and 2 - These two are like Tom Clancy stories in animate form. There's intrigue, government corruption, rumination on the nature of war and peace, and giant robots [which Tom Clancy stories desperately need, in my opinion]. They have action scenes but they're not action movies, they're political dramas.
Witch Hunter Robin - it's basically The X-Files with witches and the people who hunt them. Most of the show is episodic, but the second half drops in the story. Not the best I've seen, but it's got a great gothic atmosphere and the main story isn't too bad.
Ghost Hunt - an animated version of all those ghost show documentaries, except the ghosts are real. It's actually a series of arcs without any real central arc, just a setup. Surprisingly good, this was one that I just picked up on a whim because it looked interesting. It's got a lot of genuinely creepy and scary moments.
Time Stranger - now here's a really obscure anime movie. It's actually the sequel to a giant robot fighting force series that probably no one can remember, but rather than simply being a movie version of the series, it's actually a psychological drama that has more in common with Watchman than Volton. It really surprised me by how good it was. It's a dark show with dark themes, but feels justified in going that route. Don't worry about the series, the movie offers enough setup that it's pretty easy to tell what's going on and who everyone is.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - easily one of the best written animes of this decade, series or movie. It's got great characters, great stories, great music, and great settings. It's the best of the best and always brought up in recommendation threads for a reason. It's a must if you like speculative scifi.
Kino's Journey - basically a series of philosophical quandaries as witnessed by a stoic, gun-toting girl and her sentient motorcycle. Not every episode is serious, but most of them are. It's one of my favorite shows, but I can see how a lot of people would really be turned off by it. Most of the time is moves slowly and is more concerned with examining some aspect of human thought or action, but never quite coming up with an answer. Good for when you want something to think about, not good for when you just want to chill out and see dudes beating on each other.
I remember hating Witch Hunter Robin's visual aesthetic.I won't check all of it out (tons has been recommended) but I'll at least give a lot of it a chance and try to define my taste more. I've been itching to watch anime for a while now.
And Mupepe is not going to check all of this shit out.
I remember hating Witch Hunter Robin's visual aesthetic.
And Mupepe is not going to check all of this shit out.
Is GITS:SAC a sequel to the original one? I've seen that one a long time ago and liked it (Himu recommended it to me years ago).
Excel Saga - quack experimental anime, the only serious episode in the show isan obvious jokea parody of fist of the north star :rock
QuoteExcel Saga - quack experimental anime, the only serious episode in the show isan obvious jokea parody of fist of the north star :rock
anyway go watch welcome to nhk
Slayers - The six OVAs are the best, the main series gets too serious at times
At what point did you guys think YYH turns to shit? The final arc with the 3 Kings?
steve blum is the greatest voice actor of our generation
YYH starts out soooooo good.I'll add that to Netflix as well.
The opening episode has the main character get hit by a car and die. It ownssssss.
If you want something short and sweet and action-y, also see if you can rent Hellsing Ultimate from netflix. It has vampires and blood and amazing action, and the story is stupid as fuck.
Stories are what make me stop watching anime. When they get too serious or try to be serious, I stop caring. I love the cheese of DBZ. That's my kind of anime story. Stupid, silly and shallow.
In that case, I'll drop a few more suggestions:
Ranma 1/2 - Comedy about a boy who turns into a girl when he gets wet, 80's hijinks ensue
Slayers - The six OVAs are the best, the main series gets too serious at times
GR, I love ya man, but I gotta disagree. Slayers and Slayers Next are both more enjoyable. They got a good mix of light-heartedness and seriousness imo. Try on the other hand....
At what point did you guys think YYH turns to shit? The final arc with the 3 Kings?
yes
chapter black is acceptable
then its like ok how do we end this
another tournament? GENIUS
i should add that the three kings arc of yyh is still pretty awesome with the backstories and such
probably still the best shonen manga of all time
destroys one piece
Go watch this, Mups:What's this?
http://www.hulu.com/riding-bean?c=Animation-and-Cartoons/Anime
Go watch this, Mups:What's this?
http://www.hulu.com/riding-bean?c=Animation-and-Cartoons/Anime
Go watch this, Mups:What's this?
http://www.hulu.com/riding-bean?c=Animation-and-Cartoons/Anime
An animated version of an 80's action movie set in Detroit.
Go watch this, Mups:What's this?
http://www.hulu.com/riding-bean?c=Animation-and-Cartoons/Anime
An animated version of an 80's action movie set in Detroit.
And it's still awesome. The soundtrack was done by David Garfield, IIRC...so it's all American music and no J-Pop.
That's in contrast to the animated version of Gunsmith Cats, (which was a manga series that was basically Riding Bean re-imagined, only with the female character as a lead. Bean does end up appearing too, though.) which had J-pop themes. :-\
Black Lagoon is not CowboyBebop set in Thialand! Not even close.
I have't seen Kai. Kai is good?
I have't seen Kai. Kai is good?
If you liked DBZ but thought that the filler was fucking garbage that brought down the entire series, then yes. Kai is extremely enjoyable. It also has an infinitely better script than the crap they used to show on CN. It retains most of the Funimation cast, which I was kinda bummed out about, but honestly, they've come a long way, so it's not so bad. But yes, Himu, short answer: Definitely check it out.
I have't seen Kai. Kai is good?
If you liked DBZ but thought that the filler was fucking garbage that brought down the entire series, then yes. Kai is extremely enjoyable. It also has an infinitely better script than the crap they used to show on CN. It retains most of the Funimation cast, which I was kinda bummed out about, but honestly, they've come a long way, so it's not so bad. But yes, Himu, short answer: Definitely check it out.
Despite all the claims that the "filler" is gone and the pacing is supposedly better, I notice that Kai seems to be just as much "Drag-On Ball Z" as the original was. Stick with the comics, Himu.
Eh, it drags on, but it's nothing like the uncut episodes I use to own. Man those were terrible. Dragonball Z drags on no matter how much editing you give it. For instance, you watch vegeta and napa tear up piccolo, krillin, gohan, etc and unless you want to completely cut out Goku traveling from King Kai's planet, it's going to drag a bit. Not much editors can do IMO. It's still pretty enjoyable, at the very least for nostalgic reasons.
I like the Funimation cast, btw. Maybe because that's the version I saw on CN. Vegeta's voice is awesome from there. I hated when they changed it later.
Did Funi re-dub the rest of the series for DBZ: Kai?