First of all, Dog Days is available in Ireland.
But aside from that, I had a very bad luck with Crunchyroll ads for quite a while. They used to show decent ads now and then (unless it's my faulty memory), but I think that I might've blocked their ad provider …
read moreApparently, they shot for a bunk announcement this year, but could not tie all ends in time. So far Crunchyroll announced: Horizon 2, Chitose Gecchyu (Hanamaru redux, apparently, promises to be somewhat more wholesome than usual lolibait), Campione, So, I can't play H (actually "I can't get an erection" due …
read moreThe most important thing about the Funimation lawsuit is that the suit has characteristics of massive "John Doe" lawsuit, the likes of which were considered in the paper "Large Recording Companies v. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations", by Ray Beckerman (published in …
read moreThis is so LOL that I have to quote Aroduc at length:
Just as a quick FYI, the primary broadcast for Mitsudomoe was CBC up until last week. Their broadcast skipped a week for whatever reason (as did the next one on Saturday on MBS), so now the primary broadcast …read more
Tenka Hametsu considers the old topic of online distribution (in the context of Onemanga's demise) and while the article is not breaking a lot of new ground on this conversation, it is a succint reprize of the argument that would take Omo a dozen screenfulls. Also, can't help noticing this …
read moreIn an update to the post about the streaming cancellations Calaggie points out that Manga Ent. puts the titles into several channels, and the material taken off Netflix remains available elsewhere (see You Must Survive of Gurren Lagann, for example). Naturally, rights owners will attempt to disintermediate Crunchyroll if only …
read moreChris Beveridge reminded me that Crunchyroll offers an iPhone application, and since iPhone and iPad have no Flash, that application surely has to have a way to access the videos directly from the Crunchy's CDN (with proper authorization and advertisement injection). But if so, nothing should stop Crunchyroll from offering …
read moreJust received an official notice from "The Crunchyroll Team" (not even Shinji -- was he ousted?):
read moreAs Crunchyroll continues to evolve, we add new features and remove ones that don't perform well. Recently we've made a decision to discontinue our Download-to-Own service, which lets users purchase DRM-free, downloadable videos of our …