BOST announces Druaga

As seen at their news page, BOST will show speedsubbed Tower of Druaga. Unlike the Keitai Shoujo, Druaga is a conventional-format series. It's not available in their store yet, so I don't know the price point.

I don't remember if I went on record about it, but I'm pessimistic about BOST, because I expect ad-supported streamers to win in the long run over pay services. This is how it always was on the Web. However, I'm going to stick with BOST until the bitter end, because no other service works with my hardware/software configuration as well as them. Therefore, I wish them success. Also, you cannot help but root for a 5-person underdog team.

UPDATE: It turns out that BOST is screwed, because Gonzo offers same titles to Crunchyroll and Youtube (via). Poor schmucks, media business is where dog eats dog. Although BOST streams in higher resolution than YouTube, there's no way anyone is going to pay $2 per episode for it. Myself? OK, I might...

UPDATE: CalAggie follows the story too:

The highest free quality out of the three websites would seem to come from BOST but YouTube has a boatload more traffic and reach than the other two, mainly due to its embedding option. Crunchyroll is buddy-buddy with select publishers but pretty much everyone else hates them.

Oh, that's right. It's quite possible that Druaga will be free on BOST, to test the website under greater load and longer episodes, and the introduction of paid service be delayed. This will insulate them from customer complaints somewhat in case of snags with the streaming. The question is, do they have enough money to last until opening of the revenue service?

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