@rahul-balaggan said in Thoughts on the new Funimation “levels” of premium memberships?: @zing Region Lock sucks, that being said from personal experience you will not have to deal with their frustrating website and apps to actually watch something. Its fine, I still have my CR membership, which I've been using purely for reading manga recently.

On an off chance, I decided to watch O Maidens in Your Savage Season. Mari Okada wrote both the original story and the screenplay. It's an adolescent slice of life that doesn't have everyone behaving like typical LN characters. It's refreshingly different and seems rather "real". I haven't chucked quite so much since I watched Tsuredure Children. I won't claim it's everyone's cup of tea, but I'm enjoying it so far.

@travis-butler No problem man. I really like Eva too. It's just that I often feel it needs better resolution. (That's why I much prefer the manga.) Also, the way the Rebuild movies took a dark turn really left a bad taste. (Although it was probably intended.)

I think it is a sign that anime is becoming more 'mainstream', I'm finding content available (and some good stuff) on Hulu, Crackle (which shouldn't surprise me, the same corporation that owns Crackle, owns Funimation), Tubi TV, etc. Netflix signed exclusive rights to Neon Genesis Evangelon, and did an excellent job in coding/allowing me to binge (and is the home of several other popular series) At the same time, the net new content on Crunchyroll for the summer 2019 season, seems pretty thin (I canceled my premium membership, there were more new series I cared about on Hulu than on CR...Hulu gets my $$) What do you think anime streaming sites will need to do in order to stay relevant? or will the whole model die if At&T (owns CR) /Sony (owns Funimation/Crackle) /Disney (owns Hulu)/Amazon/Netflix/ Yahoo (owns Tubi?) figure out a way to deliver the commodity better/more profitably?

@doceirias I was like, "A shadowy organization to make wut...?!" But then again, if they have stuff like that, this sounds more interesting than I thought. Thanks.

THE DEPLORABLE HERO ARRIVES!

They kept Ray's initial Claude C. Kenny design https://i.imgur.com/cB0mdkB.png

For me, it depends. I will watch, play or read some works with corrupt creators, depending on how strongly I am affected by their dark side. Heck, my cousin probably has no idea about the Nobuhiro Watsuki disaster, so I bought him one of the live-action movies, as I just can't tell him the truth. It would break his heart. If a creator is a bigot to innocent minorities I am part of, my consumption of their work is guaranteed to at least decrease, but not guaranteed to fully stop.

@legitpancake any thoughts as to what this means (might mean) for titles that Hulu licenses from CR/Funimation (or wherever) any thoughts on "Western" companies and anime-esque stuff? Netflix/Dreamworks produced VOLTRON and it did well

Have to agree that the promo feels like it clashes a bit too much. With some of the colouring it feels like the team doing the foregrounds didn't even talk with the people doing the backgrounds. The characters seem ok, but at some points in that video they just look strange.

@the-green-death I think it is poetic that (I think) Stan Lee's last cameo is in the film that won the Oscar and in in the franchise he created.

Huh, there's no such thing as a Master of Ragnarok anime. It's too early for April Fool's. spoiler

anyone know anything about production company/director? other stuff they did that we might be familiar with? should I get my hopes up of this being any good?

@seltzermx I’m with you. Right now I pay $50/year for an Annual Crunchy subscription and I don’t honestly foresee myself paying any more regardless of what “value-adding” crap they offer. If they take away that offer I don’t watch enough to make it worth it. I’ll just watch what’s on Netflix instead.

@sinnoaria I think it depend on what you defined as an H-game, if it's something like Fate Stay/night, it's not a problem, if it's one of thoose game advertise on streaming/porn site then it's not really the same thing.

@bloodygaikotsu Yeah, I was just implying that the Twin Engine works might not translate to a huge surge in popularity for Amazon. On the other hand, the target audience for those anime might have less qualms to pay for Prime as a means to watch anime than, say, the average resident of /r/anime.