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Amazon Launches Anime Channel for $5 Per Month, Its First Branded Subscription Channel (variety.com)
Todd Spangler, writing for Variety: Amazon is rolling out its first branded on-demand subscription service for Amazon Channels: Anime Strike, offering more than 1,000 series episodes and movies ranging from classic titles to current shows broadcast on Japanese TV. The Anime Strike channel is available to U.S. Amazon Prime members for $4.99 per month after a seven-day free trial, the newest addition to the lineup of around 100 services now available in Amazon Channels. Amazon has struck exclusive U.S. streaming deals for several series on Anime Strike, including "Scum's Wish," "Onihei," "The Great Passage," "Vivid Strike!," "Crayon-Shin Chan Gaiden: Alien vs. Shinnosuke," and "Chi's Sweet Adventure."
Most of it is moe, slice of life, and fanservice garbage.
Stick with Crunchyroll or just go watch the shit for free on animefreak.tv as the Amazon list is a valueless waste of time.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Shouldn't that be attempt 437 after you've already tried everything people might actually pay for?
P.S. Where is sneaky pete?
1,000 episodes? Is 2/3 of the content One Piece? There are some really long running anime series, so if the selection is 1,000 movies and episodes, your options are
1) Only newer or shorter run series
2) Only select episodes of a large variety of series
3) The whole run of just a few series
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This is probably driven by Amazon.co.jp and not the American branch, which doesn't about what they can license for Prime.
It will be interesting to see if they can manage to pull people away from Netflix and Crunchyroll. Playing shows uncensored would be a good start, as both other services seem to only play censored versions.
Of this 1000 episodes they offer, how many require you pay an additional fee to watch?
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Here I thought Prime was their premium offering.
Now they are adding all these extra frills for just a few dollars more. How long until they start shrinking their prime catalog to make the other services look better?
I'm pretty sure they already did it once when they added stars by making sure there was no overlap in their catalog.
Amazon music unlimited:
Great now I can pay for nearly a whole other prime subscription just for the music that's not on prime and still have less selection than spotify.
Amazon anime:
Great! now all the anime will vanish from amazon prime.
Have to go back to netflix for that then.
I wonder if amazon will ever update their app so audio stays in sync past the first 10 minutes.
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I already pay for prime. I also already cannot watch prime video on any device connected to a tv since amazon forces you to use their fire devices.
If amazon was serious about this shit they would allow their video apps on non fire devices, like AndroidTV.
KonoSuba is the greatest show ever created. Shitty American television can't compete.
I wish we could add some other live channels to our accounts like ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX for a nominal fee.
Unless it's uncensored (and unedited), has the original Japanese audio and subs, has the original Japanese songs for the intro and outro, and has the complete series and is up to date with the Japanese broadcasts for anything that's still airing, it's going to fail.
You either have a no interest, a mild interest and just deal with what's already on Netflix / Amazon, or you care a little and you pay for Crunchyroll, or you really care and you download it uncensored, unedited, and poorly-subbed hours after it airs in Japan. (Or you pay hundreds to import every damned version they shit out of the Evangelion movie.)
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More splintering of the market. More titles Crunchyroll can't show. Do Not Want! Amazon and Netflix can die in a fire.
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Ninety nine point forty four percent of anime is crud. Unfortunately, cruddy anime is especially bad.
> What's the connection with geek culture and anime?
American geek: builds VR goggle technology to become rich and famous.
Japanese geek (otaku): builds VR goggle so he can go to the park on a date with Hatsune Miku.
What's the connection with anything? A bunch of people like it, a bunch of people don't. You could say the same for all the other geek stuff like D&D, techno music, comic books and so on. Anyone who claims people have to be crammed into a specific mold is an asshole.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Time-wise, about $4.50 of that anime $5 is Gogo and Vegetable grunting while powering up for an ineffectual blast Freezer shrugs off.
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I thought it was 90% of everything was crap.
So, you fork over good money for Prime, only to have to fork over even more for their "channels" like this? Fuck Amazon and fuck Prime. They should either include this for free with Prime or just have everything sold piecemeal like they do with subscriptions on iTunes and iTunes doesn't cost $100/yr. As far as price/value goes, Netflix has Amazon Prime beat and they have plenty of Anime. In fact, Netflix has been putting out their own Anime for a while now, some of it like the Seven Deadly Sins is actually quite good
I got a bad feeling about this. You think your cable bill was high? Just wait until every genera from various providers with varying content costs $5/mo.
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None of those are good. Attack on titan is just a silly ripoff of evangalion, SAO is just another MMO world trope. GITS and Cowboy Bebop are the only truly good anime's to ever exist.
The problem with anime (aka, Japanese television) is it's like US television. 90% is unwatchably bad, but 90% of what's left is still not good. There are some real jewels from time to time, but you really have to dig for them.
This sort of service is nice for those who are OK with typical TV quality, just want something on in the background or whatever, and prefer it to be animated slice-of-life over reality TV (very similar products in some ways).
Personally I stick with just the top tier, which is rare enough that buying the DVD (or Amazon download or whatever) is practical.
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Personally, I've always compared "slice of life" to either sitcoms or soap operas, depending on whose life is being sliced.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Japan is with moe, deal with it
I don't care, I always rated Curly and Larry more highly. :-P
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FWIW, the more you look at that picture, the less cute- if it ever was to start off with- and more downright creepy and weird (if not alien) it starts to look.
While that particular image isn't an example, I've mentioned elsewhere that a lot of manga and anime drawings- and especially those seemingly aimed at the fanservice/soft porn market proves (IMHO) that the "big eyes = cute" thing does have its limits when they push it too far, and the eyes start to look less cute and more just downright wrong- taking up most of the width of the face- to the extent that in some cases they start looking more reminiscent of flies' oversized eyes.
Which isn't cute at all. Well, not for me- but if the Internet has shown us one thing, it's that virtually anything has people with a fetish for it...
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I want to like pencil and paper d20, but whenever I see more than 30 seconds of it I just sit and think of things that could be automated.
I tried to read some of Lovecraft's writings but found it more dutiful than recreational.
I think steampunk is silly sometimes. I think furries are silly most times. I think dubstep is silly all times.
I wonder if it's best that the anime fandom stays stereotyped and ostracized, by the tireless efforts of the narutogaia tier. I don't want to see SAO on burger king cups. I don't want to see half-assed cash grabs. I don't want to see normals diluting the demographic and thus market efforts. Their demographic can have all the Kardashians they want, just keep them quarantined on your side of the internet. I'll try to keep Bebop on mine. Hidden from Corporate more than you.
Dear Amazon: You support practically every major device.
The Apple TV fits my family's use case the best. I want you to take my money, but I'm only going to do it if I can actually use Amazon Video with it.
Even if it's a "crippled" version which doesn't allow on-device purchasing and rentals.
But there's no point in paying for a service I can't use on my device.
At the end of the day, I only have so many HDMI ports on my TV, and my family doesn't want to deal with the added complexity of an HDMI switch and yet another device.
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