According to ANN, Daisuki is trying to add social elements:
Forget the hassle of having to bounce between anime streaming pages and the forums -- now you enjoy anime and congregate in one place!
I suppose the gratification is delayed when you e-mail to Author or post on your own blog …
read moreRemember when the largest incumbent of discs, Funimations, tried to stream? Good times. Tables are turned now, with Crunchyroll's announcement:
read more[W]e are super excited to announce that Crunchyroll has acquired the rights for merchandise and home video for the smash-hit Kabaneri!
Crunchyroll is excited to announce our entry into …
Omo polemizes with a comically bootlicking article, which claims that illegal streaming bankrupts anime, but bases revenue calculations on prices to legal uses multiplied by numbers of illegal users -- which are unknown. We heard it all before in the form of "if every illegal user of Windows in Russia paid …
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After years of being content with licensing (mostly) rubbish, FUNi chose to strike on the streaming front this year. I know at least of 3 shows that they put up at Hulu: Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, Madan no Ou to Vanadis, Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. The latter two were announced at …
read moreThis is what happens when you extensively research propaganda and PR declarations by corporate suits and then take them on face value (in particular Shibata'a promises of not strong-arming Crunchy):
read moreIn other words, Daisuki was meant as a complement to the already existing anime streaming websites. The purpose was not …
read moreAnimax pretty much work on the opposite business model to Crunchyroll, in so much as new episodes of “simulcast” shows are available for around two weeks to everyone, and what the subscribing user is paying for access to is catalogue content. I do have to give them props for …
I don't know about you, but I see Daisuki's adds all the time. Here's one from The Onion:
And this one is from TTAC:
Not sure who the ad provider is, probably Google. But it's figuratively everywhere. I saw banners, too.
read moreI just found that Omo was ahead of John noticing Daisuki, only he buried the important part deep down some general post.
read moreI hate to be pessimistic but there are not a lot of reasons why we should assume [Daisuki] can execute. To be honest the whole idea feels more …
This unification will maximize control & revenue for the original Japanese studios.
Great, just great.
Aslo, what is up with that "Kokoro. Furueru. Nihonni. Aeru."?
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