Anime is absolutely one of those things that’s bigger than it appears to be. There’s lots of people watching it all around the world. Yet, outside of Japan the media does not spend much time discussing it, and not much money is spent promoting it or discussing it on major media outlets.
Most people believe that anime is a niche interest, when it’s actually huge. Non-anime fans who even know it exists think it’s something that weird nerds are into. People who are into it believe they are a minority subculture, when they’re mainstream.
Saw a post where crunchyroll is going to be tripling their prices apparently, just cos? I don’t use crunchyroll so I’m unaffected but that sucks if it is tripling for those people. Capitalism gonna capitalism.
Anyway, saw this and agree, they obviously do not know who they are doing this to. The image comes after revelation that if you bought something digitally via funimation, crunchyroll is not honoring that and removing it from your library, despite the merger. I would think it would be easier to just incorporate everything as is rather than creating a way to identify and delete materials while merging, but I don’t have that software background to know if that’s accurate or not.
Bottom line is, if you love something, physical is the only way. As a weird horror nerd, I’ve bought my fair share of discs from shady vendors in the out of way places of the dealer room selling burnt discs of folk horror movies from the 70s because no one owns the rights to them anymore so who is it hurting anyway. I can see a point in my future where I decide fuckit and hoist the black flag on the main sail again. /shrug
Physical is not the only way. If you just have a digital backup of your own, you are also safe.
Fair; I guess I meant more “don’t buy a license” haha
That being said, I have had drives fail on me before; not recently, thankfully, earlier when SSDs became a thing. Luckily the 3-2-1 rule was being observed. So yeah, backing up digitally is fine, if you’re backing up digitally correctly (have y’all done an episode on that? I feel like the answer is yes, but not in the past few years…)
If we’re talking semantically, saving your media to an M disc is probably the best-est way; supposedly your issue then would be finding a way to play the damn thing haha.
This discussion reminds me that I need to do my monthly backup process, though!
Just buy a NAS, and do a cloud backup of things that are really important and can’t be re-downloaded. Most of that will be personal data, things you have created yourself.
Dunno if this counts as Anime News per-se or should be in a video game thread, but Sparking Zero just dropped a trailer that’s beat-for-beat a Toonami intro with the serial numbers filed off.
I am sure a whole lot of people here are fans of the Keiichi Arawi manga Nichijou, or at the very least the Anime Adaptation by Kyoto Animation.
Well, KyoAni just announced that they are doing an adaptation of Arawi’s manga CITY which is pretty much just as weird and fun as Nichijou was.
I own, and have read, the whole manga. Animating that sure will be something.