Crunchyroll lies to it's customers!
7 years ago
Posts: 1143
Warn: Banned
The award-winning anime director of Recovery of an MMO Junkie just went nuclear.
Quote from Kazuyoshi Yaginuma
People involved in the anime industry and fans, please read!
The foreign anime community is having a problem with anime-streaming website Crunchyroll.Because it is complicated, I won't delve right into the politics of things. I'll explain the direct effects on the anime making process
Crunchyroll makes anywhere from $30,000 to $200,000 per anime title. Crunchyroll expanded it's demographics by telling consumers that they will give the money they profit to poor anime companies.
...This is obviously NOT the case!
Currently anime aired on TV is made at around $120~150,000, there is multiple problems with topping that with another $30,000 to $200,000.
Note: $30,000 is bare minimum, $200,000 is for popular titles.
If CR was paying money, it would be for the streaming rights. In Japan there is Kadokawa, Shogakukan, Bandai Namco, Toei holds those powers, and there is no way they'd let them stream without a contract.
If CR was paying for the streaming rights to those companies it might be legal. But Crunchyroll customers are told that the money is going to the anime creators! As a tip for the anime that they enjoyed watching!
Plus, the Cunchyroll subtitles are horrible to the point of changing the message. In the past avid anime fans made amazing fansubs for free, but Cunchyroll is making poor quality subs even with huge money.
There is conflict for other alternatives, however with CR, money will not go to the creators. Subtitles is just PR. Clearly, Crunchyroll is just killing off and demonizing competitors so they can hog all the money.
There are multiple streaming website other than Crunchyroll, but Crunchyroll has the most titles and sure, anime is now easier to access.
However CR has a huge problem. Hearing the foreigners stories, there is also a problem going on in Japan.
The reason Japanese anime budget is way lower than Hollywood is because Japan only has one hundred million, while America has three hundred million and the entire world as the market. However in modern times anime has grown and now foreigners also contribute a significant amount for the anime industry.
The conditions have changed.
Anime makes a profit when the total DVD sales make more than the production costs. There is also stuff on the side such as merchandise, but that's irrelevant for the foreign consumers because they want to give the creators the money!
I have summarized what I know.
Plus this: https://archive.is/TsP8M
"Crunchyroll lied to it's cusomters that they will support foreign customers, and used that profit to make their own series."Crunchyroll's inner workings, this is important: http://animationbusiness.info/archives/5698
The article he is referring to: Crunch Roll, AT & T is a policy under full umbrella? US media reports (Translation: https://archive.fo/cYkJK )
Quote from Animation Business Journal
The possibility that the management mother of crunchy roll of Japanese anime 's largest distribution overseas delivery may change greatly came out. Recode at the technology information site in the US tells that AT & T, a leading telecommunications company, is planning to acquire Otter Media shares of Internet distribution business owned by Chuning Group.
Here's the source article that the Japanese article is refering to: AT&T is getting ready to acquire all of Otter Media, the streaming video company it co-owns with Peter Chernin
Quote from Recode
AT&T just spent $85 billion on a media company. But it’s not done writing checks for content: The company plans on acquiring all of Otter Media, the internet video company it currently co-owns with The Chernin Group.
The deal, which should close this summer, has been in the works for a couple of years, but was on hold until AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition closed, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans.
Buying Otter will give AT&T full control of assets including FullScreen, a video company that began life as a YouTube network, and Crunchyroll, a subscription anime service.
I don’t know what AT&T plans on paying for Otter Media, but industry observers assume the deal will value the company north of $1 billion. When AT&T first started working with The Chernin Group in 2014, it said it had committed more than $500 million to the joint venture.
AT&T, Otter Media and The Chernin Group declined to comment.
AT&T’s plan to own all of Otter Media has been an open secret. Whenever I talked to anyone who worked at an Otter Media company over the past few years, they told me that they assumed they were eventually going to become AT&T employees.
I’m not sure what AT&T plans to do with Otter now, or how it fits into a content portfolio that suddenly includes HBO, CNN and Warner Bros. The JV is currently run by Tony Goncalves, a former AT&T exec. People familiar with the company’s plans say he’ll report to AT&T content boss John Stankey once the deal is finalized.
Also unclear: Next steps for The Chernin Group, which has stakes in startups including Barstool Sports, the rowdy sports programmer, and Headspace, the meditation app, along with a film and TV production arm. One obvious choice for the company, run by Hollywood veteran Peter Chernin: Raising a new investment fund.
Update: Jun Arai (The key animator for Ah! My Goddess: The Movie, Lupin III: Seven Days Rhapsody, Mahou Sensei Negima! Anime Final Gekijouban, and Persona 4 The Animation: The Factor of Hope) was just suspended on Twitter after retweeting the info from Kazuyoshi Yaginuma.
http://twitter.com/arasansan
https://archive.fo/klZdw
5 years ago
Posts: 1143
Warn: Banned
Crunchyroll Reveals First Slate of Crunchyroll Originals
Almost half the series have NOTHING to do with Asia. This is what your money is going towards, folks.
EDIT: Oh, and don't think that the Korean series are all in the clear.
