i don't care, kill it, too much shit show and moe anyway

and...?

Shit, I just remembered I left Potato Wedges in the Oven...................

How can I buy something that is not sold in my country?

>You are literally killing the anime industry.
but that's a good thing

>>33949408
they are pricing the goods at levels that the average user isn't going to be able to justify. If they want to earn some more cash the anime industry needs to get off its ass and think of some alternative ways to bring in revenue.

>>33949439
>too much shit show and moe anyway

because those are the shows that are currently selling. you didn't buy your cowboy bebops and hellsings so they aren't going to make more of them.

But since japanese studios don't get money out of sellin subs, only the rights it doesn't matter
And since most anime don't get subbed we have no other option

>That's not true, if the anime was no good, you wouldn't have pirated it.

That's some shit logic you got there.

>>33949489
Unless you live in a third world African country chances are that there are some anime distributors in your region.

>Implying foreign sales make a difference... aside from being a troll.

tl;dr: I am a huge faggot from ANN and I am literally killing /a/.

inb4 300+ posts

It's not theft, its copyright infringement.

jesus christ.

While I understand anime doesn't have the volume of many other TV shows on DVD, the price hike is hard to justify.
I've also seldom liked a profession translation. It seems like they either localize too much or don't even bother.

OP is a faggot

No, because the anime industry doesn't give a shit about the global market. WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS.

>>33949555
I live in Brazil, there are no anime distributors in here, that's why it doesn't matter if I pirate or not.

>>33949496

they already have alternative ways. tons of anime is being streamed legally through crunchyroll, hulu, funimation channel, the anime network, youtube, etc. and it's all free. it gets paid through advertising revenue so it's no different than watching something on dvd. also anime prices have declined significantly over the last few years. what used to be $30 for 3 episode singles is now $30-60 for half season / complete box sets.

ITT OP trolls uses intentional logical fallacies such as implying every potential sale = an actual sale, and everyone responds seriously.

I buy all my anime, and im not against freedom of information the like OP appears to be.

Bullshit. Japanese studios get money from selling the rights, not from weeaboos buying Funi DVDs. If you dont buy Funi DVDs, Funi will die. The Japs will continue their shit.

>herpdiherpdurp
All the anime shit I've bought has been shit I've pirated, shit I haven't bought sucked. 99% of anime sucks, your favorite anime sucks, you suck.

You would only buy anime if you knew it was good. You can only know if it's good by watching it. The only option for the foreign market to watch anime is through piracy. Hence, piracy generates potential for a sale instead of removing it.

>You are literally killing the anime industry.
>No anime industries in 2000 miles of me
>My face

>>33949646
That's not true. Animax has it's own division called Anime Brazil that broadcasts anime down there.

>>33949408
>By pirating an anime you eliminate the potential for a sale
There was never potential for a sale, because I would never buy any anime that I couldn't pirate first.
In fact, since I would be inclined to buy the DVD's of an anime that I enjoyed when I pirated it, pirating actually creates potential for a sale. So there is now a potential of $50 after the "theft" instead of $0 the creator would have made.
>That's not true, if the anime was no good, you wouldn't have pirated it.
I have downloaded terrible anime before. Like, really terrible stuff. I don't see your logic here.

>But since japanese studios don't get money out of sellin subs, only the rights it doesn't matter

This. If Jap studios wanted to actually make money off foreign sales, they'd employ some of these subbing groups to sub for them, then find a local distributor to split the sales with them. Instead they sometimes sell the rights to translate the anime to some shitty American company who does a horrific job on both subbing and dubbing such that the actual fans don't want the product because people who do it for fun do a way fucking better job.

I bet this is a modified copypasta from /v/.

Potential sale is the most stupid thing in the world: you may print as much stuff as you want, and if you don't sell each and every copy of it, blame it on the pirates and force them to give you the money that only you expected to get.

If you have no way to make people buy your stuff, it's your damn fault. I, for one, have noting against buying shit I like.

If I'm getting this straight, it all stems down to "we have to make everyone who sees/hears this product buy it!!!"

Which is bullshit.

.>>33949809
That's a neat idea, but I wouldn't actually like to buy gg subs.

But for Eclipse's FMA:B...

Wait, I live in a shitty country anyway, no english for me, boohoo

>>33949638

what? they give a shit about the global market. that's why they've been trying to expand upon it by doing simultaneous streaming and airing of shows in other countries and why they have been more willing to do co-productions with foreign studios over the last several years. also a lot of the companies that distribute anime in other countries are sometimes subsidiaries of japanese companies themselves (see Viz, Bandai Entertainment, Aniplex, Toei, etc.)

>That's not true, if the anime was no good, you wouldn't have pirated it.

How would I know if it's any good without pirating it first?

>Chances are you pirated some AAA titles recently.

Sure and I will buy them once the dvds are out.

>You are literally killing the anime industry.

No.

>>33949408
Does anyone actually believe this shit?

>implying anime is going to just spontaneously disappear because of piracy

I really don't care. I highly doubt any show worth watching was done solely for the money. If anything, the industry catering to this moe phase everyone is going through is fucking it up for every other genre of anime.

>explicitly stating that one pirated download = one lost sale

>>33949785
>broadcasts
And only. They don't sell stuff, and most of what they broadcast are old series.

The animation process some day will become so simple that a 7 year old kid can animate on the level of Miyazaki from his basement, the death of industry is only a natural effect of societies evolution towards constructive democracy.

It's discrimination. I'd watch it on satellite with commercials if I could, like the Japs do. The anime market doesn't want me as a customer so they can't whine when I'm not.

By this logic, not caring about a show at all and not watching it means the producer made 0 dollars instead of 50, so you robbed him.


Not too convinced over here.

>>33949785
Well I have cable, I guess im supporting the anime industry then, of course im not watching anything from animax after I saw them translating senpai to "big boy", on FSN.

I live in Greenland. There are 0 anime distributors here, let alone any stores that sell anime. There's a local store that sells about 10 manga series, but that's it. Therefore, I can not purchase the products locally. Though I could but them off the internet and get them mailed to me, the anime could be crappy and I could have just wasted the $50 on the anime DVD, and the 30$ for shipping it to fucking Greenland.

The bottom line is that the companies the Japs are selling the rights to the anime to aren't creating a product I would buy. I buy a lot of movies, and when I find a music artist I like I buy the CDs. People don't mind spending money on something they like. If they don't want to spend their money, the product being sold is shit. A supporting fact is the sales on the American version of Cowboy Bebop and the big-name movies (Mononoke, Spirited Away, Ponyo) they actually do a decent job on.

If the companies that are buying rights want to sell their product they're going to have to do a better job.

>>33950078
>>33950078
This.

>By pirating an anime you eliminate the potential for a sale, and no profit is generated.
No, since there never was any potential for sale.
>"But OP, I only pirate anime I wouldn't normally buy anyways!"
Wrong. I pirate everything.

>>33950019
>I highly doubt any show worth watching was done solely for the money.

Are you an idiot? No anime studio is going to make something unless they think they can make a profit from it. They are a business and their primary goal is to make money.

>>33949408
Show me an anime that's good enough to be worth money and I'll buy it.

Moe shit, softcore pedo shit and fanboy bait are NOT worth my money, therefore I will not buy it.

>>33950078
If you want to watch Japanese tv then watch it on keyhole. Since it's sponsored by the Japanese government.

>>33950078
You are right. Not only that, even the Japs themselves record late-night anime so they can watch it later. Even anime mention that. Most of us don't rewatch series (besides some really good ones) so watching them once is like seeing it on the TV. Also, I think that raw providers could leave the ads in the video, I like some of these.

If its good enough, I'll buy it after I watch it. Did with School Rumble and Hokuto no Ken. I would do it with Natsu no Arashi, but I don't think anyone has brought it over to North America yet.

>>33950199
>[Citation Needed]

I don't know, I wouldn't mind buying if they costed reasonable prices

Jesus, I like K-ON!
But not enough to buy 2 fucking CDs for $80.

And besides that, too many series aren't worth buying.
Loved GSD
Then it turned into shit
Love Gundam 00
Then it turns into shit.

I can't trust Sunrise to write a fucking anime that isn't balls to the walls stupid, yet they want me to buy their overpriced shit? Fuck that, mate.

>33950172

And that's why they are not woth buying.

>>33950199
HIT THE DECK HE'S GOT A GRAPH

>>33950222
>If you want to watch Japanese tv then watch it on keyhole. Since it's sponsored by the Japanese government.
>keyhole
>watchable
You're a fucking moron. You're trying to compare keyhole to HD satellite feeds?