Apart from the Geneon disaster (actually, they no longer go into this DVD distribution anymore, now any Tom, Dick and Harry can make a crappy Geneon-owned releases to their whims), FUNimation has declared a C&D on one of the animé series, Romeo×Juliet. To me, this is a much better response to a halt in fansubs rather than Odex’s threatening criminal ligitations. (Which reinforces me that a typical Singaporean is an slit-eyed, money-grabbing opportunistic person. For a better description, see this video.)
In my opinion, the whole argument where “wholesale watching of said series is left to only journalists and authorized film critics” is bulls***. I don’t practically agree that people will have to fork out, and in the process, get screwed, money for something that’s ongoing, and the direction of the storyline is not static. Case in point, series that “jumped the shark.”
We, as an informed consumer, would not be willing to be part of a “scam” where art direction, as it is, goes down like Titanic. To pay for something that is not really worth my bucks: hmmph.
My main gripe is with the distributors, not the original content creators. So the onus is on the latter to make sure they make good shows, not lousy shows. If they still want to use the distributors, that is.
Oh well, that ends my rant.
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