1. Bamboo Blade streaming at ANN

    Published: Mon 14 December 2009
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    Only yesterday Omo was talking about about Crunchyroll, Hulu, et al, and naturally he didn't mention ANN: they never were a player, even though they tried (the most interesting part of their video site was the trailers). Today, they opened streaming of Bamboo Blade. Omo's caution about doing streaming on …

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  2. Omo on the streamed anime today

    Published: Sun 13 December 2009
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    And when we say "streamed anime", we mean "Crunchyroll". Because:

    [O]nly Crunchyroll is a real player in simulcasting. Their only serious competition is Funimation and Viz, and let’s just say Funi have only one or two shows that I wanted to follow and Viz has zero, and couldn …

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  3. Amazon and anime remixes

    Published: Sun 29 November 2009
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    I visit Amazon from time to time and check if any interesting J-pop appeared in MP3 store there (so far nothing except Hikaru Utada who I do not like much). What's notable though, there's a large number of cheap knock-offs and remixes. I always assumed that they were made by …

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  4. The intense suffering of dub watchers

    Published: Tue 24 November 2009
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    I had an urge to rewatch Magical Play 3D and since Crunchy was dead, visited Youtube, where apparently remains of ADV made their last stand. The advertisements are not the worst part at all, but the horrible performance was a real pain. Spinning dots kept appearing even while the gauge …

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  5. Robert on sales of manga in 2009

    Published: Mon 05 October 2009
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    In an unusually long post, Robert essentially discusses what's going to happen to manga market now that it goes out of print so quickly. This phenomena was known to DVD buyers for years, it's nothing new. Buy it now, or buy it never. Manga readers? Welcome to my world.

    It …

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  6. Crunchyroll's "simulcast"

    Published: Wed 30 September 2009
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    Various people were making much out of the quantity or quality of anime that's getting available on Crunchyroll. Indeed the expansion is tremendous with the 13 new "simulcast" titles for 2009 Autumn season. However, my answer to this is: no DTO-minus-DRM — no deal. See this credit card, Crunchyroll? It's yours …

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  7. DIVX has taught Japanese nothing

    Published: Mon 14 September 2009
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    Seen at Anime Nation with a reference to Variety:

    Japanese DVD distributor Visionare has introduced its first anime DVD offering pay-per-view access. Consumers can now purchase Ashita no Joe DVDs from Visionare for 525 yen ($5.83) each, then unlock the ability to watch individual episodes on the discs for …
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  8. Anime Almanac on digital distribution

    Scott's latest opus reminded me that Funimation supposedly offers a DTO with the following off-hand remark: "After finding success in the “download-to-own” model of digital distribution, FUNimation entered the simulcast game last September blah blah blah". After the reprehensible move away from DTO on Crunchyroll asserted itself this season, this …

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