In the Split-Up Moment
Oct. 20th, 2018 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI've been watching anime for long enough to have come up with a few reasons for why I've stayed interested in it for all that time. One of them could be that I've been able to adapt to changes in style, subject, and ways to see it. (However, this boast of adaptability might have some small bearing on how seeing certain complaints about changes in domestic genre entertainment doesn't just annoy me but seems to detach me from those works themselves, which has been another reason I've come up with for my enduring interest in anime...) Changes in style and subject do seem to happen at a slow enough pace to only notice in retrospect, but sometimes changes in ways to see it can hit fast. The announcement the partnership between Crunchyroll and Funimation would be dissolving did feel that way. I can remember past seasons where I'd see Funimation license series for streaming and suppose I'd just have to wait for the home video release, given the grand shows of negativity some people kept displaying about their streaming service; the only problem there was that by the time of some of those releases initial interest had faded and I'd decided instead to buy titles Crunchyroll had licensed and Sentai Filmworks had wound up releasing on disc.
Of course, since the partnership began I'd merely gone from "not watching the series Funimation licensed" to "not watching the series on Amazon Prime or Sentai's own 'Hidive' service." (That might have been one factor in having gone several seasons without watching new series streaming.) The distaste of others for "having to pay for multiple services" is obvious enough, even if I can think a bit of the theatre chains the big studios had owned in the Golden Age of Hollywood and a previous era of winking at vertical integration as a form of oligarchical monopoly. So far as affording things goes, I am thinking of how I just contributed to the Kickstarter for Right Stuf's Nozomi label to go back and dub the Victorian Romance Emma anime, just perhaps more for a glow of altruism than having to face that long-standing subtle distinction "I don't seem to feel the disdain others display towards English dubs, but I always wonder if watching too many of them might develop that..." Maybe I'll just have to try harder to not be swayed by the disdain of others.
Of course, since the partnership began I'd merely gone from "not watching the series Funimation licensed" to "not watching the series on Amazon Prime or Sentai's own 'Hidive' service." (That might have been one factor in having gone several seasons without watching new series streaming.) The distaste of others for "having to pay for multiple services" is obvious enough, even if I can think a bit of the theatre chains the big studios had owned in the Golden Age of Hollywood and a previous era of winking at vertical integration as a form of oligarchical monopoly. So far as affording things goes, I am thinking of how I just contributed to the Kickstarter for Right Stuf's Nozomi label to go back and dub the Victorian Romance Emma anime, just perhaps more for a glow of altruism than having to face that long-standing subtle distinction "I don't seem to feel the disdain others display towards English dubs, but I always wonder if watching too many of them might develop that..." Maybe I'll just have to try harder to not be swayed by the disdain of others.