A Higher Challenge, an Easy Way Out
Apr. 4th, 2016 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhile it may have snowed here last night, making the ground much whiter than I can remember it being for a lot of the winter, one however-skewed sign of "spring" is a new season of anime series starting up. I'm still in that evanescent early stage where I can at least consider watching the series as they stream, hoping they won't be dismissed by everyone else. For one series in particular, I was contemplating going a bit further to take it in; I hadn't quite expected the invitation to go that much further.
Seeing news the Japanese discs for the new Macross Delta series had been listed with English subtitles did remind me how the Macross Frontier movies had been released with them, and how I had gone to the point of ordering the box set from Japan as "I value it that much higher than these other titles" converged with "I'm not just spending money on an object I'd put on a shelf and never actually watch," although I tried not to make a big deal of that afterwards the way a certain number of importing English-language anime fans sometimes seem to do. It is, of course, the "end-run" way around the perpetual licensing enigma some people are very intent on assigning exclusive blame for; it's also going to get very expensive to buy all the discs the series is going to be split up among. I remembered all the times having got my hands on "fansubs" of an anime series would make me buy the licensed release before getting around to seeing the series, just because that was the right thing to do (even if I could suppose some insisting it was that much more righteous to import the Japanese releases). The simple, cheap, and unexciting solution is not to watch the Macross Delta fansubs. That, though, does happen to be a lot like what happens quite often with me.
Seeing news the Japanese discs for the new Macross Delta series had been listed with English subtitles did remind me how the Macross Frontier movies had been released with them, and how I had gone to the point of ordering the box set from Japan as "I value it that much higher than these other titles" converged with "I'm not just spending money on an object I'd put on a shelf and never actually watch," although I tried not to make a big deal of that afterwards the way a certain number of importing English-language anime fans sometimes seem to do. It is, of course, the "end-run" way around the perpetual licensing enigma some people are very intent on assigning exclusive blame for; it's also going to get very expensive to buy all the discs the series is going to be split up among. I remembered all the times having got my hands on "fansubs" of an anime series would make me buy the licensed release before getting around to seeing the series, just because that was the right thing to do (even if I could suppose some insisting it was that much more righteous to import the Japanese releases). The simple, cheap, and unexciting solution is not to watch the Macross Delta fansubs. That, though, does happen to be a lot like what happens quite often with me.