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maybe Parasite will open the audiences to more subtitled content

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weeb shit is the one place where I think I'm perhaps too insulated to know what the mainstream Western market would bear

I don't know if the business model in Japan, of hunting "whales" is the way to go about it for America

i'd rather not pay $300 for 1/3 of a movie

Americans are massive

whale hunting will work

Maybe that's what you do though, maybe you release digital content for near-nothing and than make it back on movie tickets, merchandise, and other overpriced BS

OR, maybe you put some effort in, and build a model that works for everyone

idk

I think weekly releases are really nice for anime/manga/WNs

Maybe Americans want to binge shit though

I think the value add of streaming services would be in all the extras you could add to your site maybe Americans just want the episodes and nothing else

let me turn on subtitled commentary tracks with my smart tv

Let me create clips of episodes within your site, and share them without having to mirror them, adjust the pitch, and set to 1.2x speed on YouTube

clips of <XX seconds, anyone can view, clips longer than XX seconds, require a sign-in

Add OVAs, extras, radio dramas, OSTs, clean OPs/EDs

full OPs and EDs too

Have a non-shit forum, integrate with MAL/AniList/whoever else

Offer uncensored shows

censorship is based on what the japanese decide the US gets afaik

Negotiate better then

Honestly, I feel like the clip thing alone would be such a big deal

Just be a pro-consumer platform, which doesn't suck

I don't even think you need some retarded back-catalogue

and make your player not awful like HiDive and Crunchyroll

I have no idea how big the seasonal anime market is/could be

maybe back-catalogue is everything

Maybe a show gets less than 20% of its views while airing

and I'm just wrong

HiDive has a big back catalogue but their service is horrible

they have the original LOGH which is neat

But I'd much rather see a site, decide to translate a show while airing, maintain it for 1-2 seasons after airing, and then sell the rights to CR/Funi/ whoever

it doesn't jive with every other idea I have said

but if that's what they have to do to keep it financially viable

I'd at least like to see someone try

The dream of course is to have a one-stop shop for everything

(the same dream for Western TV as well which will never happen)

But I feel like anime is almost small enough they could pull it off

One of the guests mentioned jojo at one point

Re:View Evengelion

what volume does konosuba get "good" according to you guys

I just finished explosions 3

so vol 7 is next

explosions sucks

I already know of your opinion of explosions

Volumes without Darkness are good

Volumes with her are meh

spinoffs (other than Explosions 1 and Mask 1) are a step below those

Also, whatever order you're reading them in is probably retarded

No reason to not just read the main series, and then spinoffs

timeline iliterally doesnt matter

especially because it doesnt fit release order

which is better to read in because release order is literally better for everything

release order is the only non autistic way to read/watch anything

anything else requires a degree of autism

there are very few cases where timeline order is better or you should even think about

Release order is super gay for Konosuba, because More Explosions came out chapter by chapter, between volumes

Main series --> spinoffs

KnK movies aren't in timeline order on release but that's so you can patch it together. The best way to watch KnK movies is once through release, then after it watch in timeline to help piece stuff together

is fine

Also Max, the official TL for MT is strange

it's not bad at all

the LNs?

yeah

i havent read them because theyre not done

I read vol 1 twice though last week

y

I wanted to know what the difference between them were

remember, I was stuck in an airport for like 10 hours

anyway, it's translated faithfully and is pretty good

Other than the usual refusal to use meme words

I read in release order

rip darkness

still better than aqua kappa1

what does release order meant to you though Bopit?

read main series first

don't read spinoffs until later