anime

which come out of nowhere, and then disappear one day

"these sites are crap I'll run my own"

It's not easy to do though

Batoto deserves a lot of credit, they convinced scanlators to upload to their site

No one else comes close to that level of dominance

(outside of panda)

i miss batoto

Mangadex plays ball too much with DMCA

Mangastream and whoever else are cucks

I love Manganelo rn, but I'm sure it'll be gone within a year

Kiss is a meme, though it's not that bad (or wasn't last time I used it)

i wish manganelo would host the official translations when they are released close to the japanese release

what is with the bad fan translations of MHA

I don't know how nelo works tbh, I know they were a mirror for Mangakaralot

with how surprisingly tech-literate the weeb community is I guess I wonder why there isn't some better aggregation for everything

nyaa hosts manga too, just torrent everything

All the scanlators can have their own sites or whatever gay shit they're doing now, but have some way to connect the underlying levels

Torrents wont work though, you'll never get retards to seed like they need to

I say that, but panda is built on the backs of <2000 nodes, to distribute the world's hentai

maybe it could work

You'd need to convince every TLer to distribute their releases with standardized metadata via some sort of RSS or XDCC which you could probably accomplish

get one of those official manga apps to get rights to every manga magazine and independent publishment

pay $10/month for convenience

tbh Leg, I'm suprised nobody has

There is no real legal way to buy manga in English, as it releases

VIZ has a bunch

thats like the only option though

hey spooky want to make an app?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like paradox is getting enough of a catalog of ongoing releases, translating their back-catalogue

and then not having gay DRM fuck up your official app

A Windows Store app, I hope

I want it right up there with solitaire

do it like the old Pokemon Adventure releases where the flip it so its left to right without flipping the drawn text back

I wonder how big the "Western" market would be if it was sufficiently tapped

manga is the highest selling portion of the western comic market I'm pretty sure

DC and Marvel are slowly killing themselves

I think CR gets a vast minority of the potential anime market they could be serving

does Netflix promote their animes to a broad audience?

I think YenPress, LNClub, SevenSeas, and Viz do the bare minimum to capture the physical LN/manga market, and do fuck all on the digital side

LN Club could be amazing, if they didn't borrow the shitty Audible business model

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