NO. I STILL HAVENT SEEN IT YET NO

Wtf crunchyroll 🤨 That’s literally one of my favorites 😢

​@@ArgoBargo If you wanna watch "Utena," look up Nozomi Entertainment here on KZfaq. Their channel has the entire series posted (subbed and dubbed). It's not in the best quality, mind you, but it's certainly better than nothing. I hope you enjoy it. 😌

@@ArgoBargo *cough* aniwave + uBlock origin *cough*

Im glad I own Utena twice on DVD.

We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot

Aye mate give no quarter

Drink up me hearties, yo ho

adblock for those websites is a must tho

DRINK UP, ME HEARTIES YO-HO!

Its actually service but I do get it.

Oh dont worry, the corporations know. They just dont care, cuz theres no money in it.

I mean this is about money, piracy is only an issue because hypothetically it could maybe cause them to create less profit. and we can't have that! and you might say "well stream it!?" well what if streaming it didn't make enough profit to be worthwhile, like those licences lapsed. these streaming services would have renewed the license if they felt it was worthwhile. seems like they don't think that's the case.

Gabe was right when he said Piracy is 100% a service issue. If you can't view something legally you have to pirate it.

Yep. Over the last year I really made a point of getting back into anime after only sporadically watching it over the last 15 years, and despite subscribing to every streaming service (including hidive) I was so disappointed to see what was missing! Or the fact that physical media is all but non-existent now.

I also remember the time before Crunchyroll was legit. I would watch so many Japanese drama there with fan subs. They too were once pirates.

As someone who has never torrented and doesn't even know where to begin, is there a good place to learn? Certain software/websites to look out for? Good resources?

@@JustNardoGoogle: how to torrent.

The irony being that he is the same guy that did a video on why piracy was never justifiable whilst dick riding Toei and his video's sponsor before later taking it down when Toei started striking channels.

RIP Funimation, honestly so much better than Crunchyroll.

@@lovesplus3879 Now I can't watch The Slayers legally anymore. If only AZN Television was still around...

​@@lovesplus3879which is saying a lot cause funi sucked as well

It was much worse for Latin American users, Funimation promised to dub most of their back catalog that was never available for Latin Americans, they managed to dub shows like Soul Eater and Black Butler, but when they merged with Crunchyroll they canceled all those plans. People were hoping shows like Haruhi Suzumiya, Gurren Lagann and Code Geass would finally receive dubs into Spanish and Portuguese, but no

Remember when Crunchyroll use to be a pirate site?

Ah! You beat me to it.

Funnily enough, piracy has never legally been theft, that's just a bit of propaganda from rights holders. Legally it's only copyright infringement

Good old Saint Augustine logic... Emperor: How dare you rob the sea? Pirate: How dare you rob the world? Because I do it in a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. Because you do it with armies and a great fleet, you are called an emperor.

Why do people keep saying this when It does not apply? when people buy a subscription for one month of a streaming service they all know that they don't own anything on there. They are purchasing a month of service. When you purchase a movie ticket at the theatre, do you get mad that you don't own the movie? No because you are paying for the service that the movie theatre provides

If you want to pirate stuff just do it. There is no need to justify being a freeloader that never "purchased" anything in the first place.

I just ignore Conqueror of Shambala. It's a redundant epilogue in my eyes.

Her relationship towards Ed isn't romantic, but one where she offers him a home to come back to. Because his last one burned down. It's actually clever how he leaves his old home behind upon coming of age to settle into his new home, the other side. There's a point being made in the epilogue that the other side is now their home, and they're willing to accept it as a new reality (rather than a bad dream). Her desire was always to help Ed on his journey, and she got to do that by giving him new automail after he once again busted it up. She's always longing for a way to help him emotionally and physically, and she actually got to do both of those things throughout the story (with automail and her welcoming house).

Is Conqueror considered canon? Not that I care too much about such things, but the way Brotherhood ended tied up enough of the loose ends that no further sequels were needed. Of course with such a popular IP, money becomes the biggest factor in deciding whether to pump out more content whether it's necessary for the narrative or not.

@@coolplanet8232 Hello there, I slightly disagree with you on this point. It is obvious that the 2003 anime did not want to explore a romantic relationship between Edward and Winry ( of course, they preferred for some obscure reason to highlight the character of Rose... God, what a horror ). Edward never has any loving feelings towards Winry, it is shown several times despite the tenderness that the latter shows him. To me, Winry truly loves Edward. The sentence of the film shows us when she says when seeing Edward fly away to leave: "he will not make me wait anymore..." Sorry, as a woman, that sentence is literally a confession. A heartbreaking confession from a woman who understands that she will never see the man she loved again. I clearly remember having a pinch in my heart when I saw his sad face and the tone of his voice. I sincerely like the 2003 series, however some scriptural choices like the treatment of the character of Winry always irritated me deeply! cheer !

@@petitetassedethe8024 That line was exactly why I changed my mind about her ending. It was a callback to the episode where Ed realizes he still has a home in Resembool thanks to her. The episode is called "House of the Waiting Family.", a reference to the days when Trisha would flash a light in the second story window signaling them to come home. Which Winry does in her stead. I don't think she loved him romantically, but as a close friend that she wants to help out on his difficult journey.

I started my DVD collection in earnest when I first learned of movies being removed from Netflix.

Geneon still has a ton of shows not rescued

This was aways a big lie, streaming licenses cost money, servers cost money, and when you ask a single monthly price, to acess the entire library, those things in the end will not pay for themselves. The only way that streaming can make sense financially is if they constantly rotate what’s available, treat it like what it is: rental. The way streaming platforms dominated the market and people’s habits to believe that this should be the main way to get their media is a shot in everyone foot, themselves, studios, artists and the public, everyone loses eventually on this format. On tv and cable, people get paid through advertisement, cinema, dvd, collectibles are products that pay themselves. Streaming services can relly only on subscription and (probably selling users data), and this is a shit model

@@TheDanishGuyReviews you be a lucky one to have space and money for that physical media problem it that it take up space and cost more money

@@USSAnimeNCC- Thank you. But most of the time a DVD tends to be $2. I think that's not a lot of money for a better guarentee that I'll still be able to watch that movie next year.

Funny fact: Crunchyroll started as a pirate site.

@@supersasukemaniac I'm aware.

when capitalism does it's thing and starts hurting you and what you care about, it tends to change your view on the world. good on him for turning his back on the people who never cared about him to begin with and just liked the propaganda he unfortunately helped spread.

If I remember he did acknowledge uniquenameosaurous critique of his video

@@airplanes_aren.t_real Ironic, given how Uniquenameosaurus is now a cryptobro who pushes NFTs and AI art.

I watched it on DVD years ago and I still remember being really impressed with the optional Pop-Up-Video-style cultural reference and dialect annotations. (I mean, the anime itself was excellent, but I've never before or since seen anything like those annotations.)

I had the first 3 discs way back when ADV was releasing the series. I still have yet to see the end 😭

Hi dive

Bruh how does a Birb hold the rights to it?!

​@@Dullsonic3 I think K-on is a Universal anime, Universal is owned by Comcast, which also owns PEACOCK.

Licensing is weird because K-On is on the German Crunchyroll available, but only German or Japanese dub and only german sub (no English, French, etc.). Meaning Crunchy has the license for German K-On but no other language....

You don't have Hidive? Jellyfish, oshi no ko, call of the night, insomniacs, kongming, dangers, k-on, clannad, girls last tour, non non biyori, dark gathering, bloom into you... lots of great shows.

There is no honor among thieves or crooks.

Pirates have more honor than thieves. (Sony. Sony is the thief in this analogy)

really, they just became a privateering company now.

I stopped using it the moment they stopped being a pirate site lol

Really?

Reading Dogsred has me interested in going down the Kamuy rabbit hole some day soon. When I do maybe I’ll make a video

@@mothersbasement oh my god, I can only wish for you to have so much fun... you're in for a real treat. good media be upon ye!😁

the anime wasn't as good as the manga but any talk of golden kamuy is welcome. its very underrated in the west

@@aroaceaspie and unwarrantedly so! it's got such a well crafted story, it should be WAY more well known than it is... but yeah, I consider the anime to be one of the absolute most fun things you can group watch with your unsuspecting friends... I've done this multiple times, and it never disappoints. but the manga is the best version for a solo experience, especially considering all the stuff that the anime wasn't able to adapt. (props to the anime adaptation though... for the most part they cut stuff sensibly, and kept the story intact. if they _had_ to pare things down, this was the way to do it... I just maybe wish we could've gotten Lightning Thief and O-Gin the Viper instead of Anehata Shiton.) also the manga has all the actually phenomenal wildlife illustrations. and just like... Satoru Noda's art in general.

Why would you want to watch legit? It doesn’t really do anything good.

Yep, you can’t watch Ashita no Joe on any streaming service for example.

You can watch all thay stuff legitimately by pirating them. Paying crunchyroll or hulu or any other streaming service for anime is straight up immoral. Either buy blu-rays, dvds, or pirate

That’s where I started, and the observation that Geoff didn’t mention antique anime shows how inevitable this is. It’s like watching your kid as their first pet dies; there’s not a damn thing you can do but hold them as they go through the grief.

Good day sir. I would like to watch Tomorrow's Joe (1970) legally. Surely all who worked on the project will receive their due residuals when I, a Canadian, stream their creation they all worked so hard on.

oh fuck I didn't know they did that. That fucking sucks, the original unironically did so many early major moments far better. Especially Kenshin vs Saito

@@In-The-Zone I really love the new openings and endings of the new one (I even have Sanosuke from ED2 as my profile pic), but the lighting and angles during fight scenes are a lot better in the 90s anime.

You know what's funny? Back in late 2020 Funimation finally entered the Latin American market, and while they screwed up with their horrible My Hero Academia Neutral Spanish dub (which is a story for another time), they quickly made up for it by making better quality dubs and most interesting, they began dubbing older shows that were never released in Neutral Spanish before like The Future Diary, Soul Eater, Black Butler, Spice & Wolf, etc. and they also re-dubbed other like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (whose original dub had a lot of problems) and they even managed to bring back Ed and Al's original VAs. But when Funimation merged with Crunchyroll they put an end to dubbing old shows, with Soul Eater being the last title to receive an Latin American Spanish and Portuguese dub back in February of 2022 I don't why Crunchyroll can't see that plenty of anime fans in Latin America would love to hear dubs for series that never received ones like Haruhi Suzumiya, Gurren Lagann, Eureka Seven and Code Geass, among others Luckily, there's a streaming service exclusive to Latin America called Anime Onegai that has been bringing and dubbing into Spanish plenty of old shows that were available legally before like School Days, Futakoi, Strawberry Panic!, Level E, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, etc.

@@pablocasas5906 Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you mean by Neutral Spanish? I remember when taking Spanish classes in school that there are some differences between Spanish spoken in Mexico and Spain with only one of them using vosotros, so I assume you're referring to only using Spanish that's present anywhere the language is spoken and not region specific.

@@ade1174 Neutral Spanish, or Latin American Spanish, is used to refer to the Spanish dialect used in dubs made for the Latin American market, while Spain has its own dubs for themselves. Neutral Spanish is mostly based on the Mexican dialect, but not all dubs are made in Mexico. Just to offer some examples, works like The Simpsons, Dragon Ball, Kimetsu no Yaiba and most Hollywood movies are dubbed in Mexico; SpongeBob, the majority of DC animated works and Rick and Morty are dubbed in Venezuela; plenty of Disney shows like Gravity Falls, The Owl House and Big City Greens are dubbed in Argentina; the original Rurouni Kenshin and Hunter × Hunter '99 were dubbed in Colombia; Avatar the last Airbender and Legend of Korra were dubbed in Chile; and South Park and My Hero Academia are dubbed in Miami, Florida, and by the same studio no less.

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You really have a point there people these days and times of trouble really can't deal. Then again for some of those anime in the above I might have but life really took a turn for the worst and also had other shows to think about as well as other things like games too along with the latest anime and also the reality of what was accepted given when that anime was made vs now along with other news since Toonami just came back under the name Toonami Rewind anyway check that out as well if you haven't and it's not totally like the Toonami you know also really have to be careful with anime organizations and suppliers or where it's taken sometimes it can be a rip off among other troubles caused.

That’s what happened to me with Silver Spoon. I kept forgetting the title when I would have the time, and then all the new stuff would drop. I still have a scary long TBW list, so that one sadly fell through the cracks into oblivion.

@@nightfall3605 Really is really harsh times also some of the old stuff on other channels can have audio problems or pass off missing episodes for seasons along with having tracking issues and TV ratings changes along with other shady practices along with groups that I suspect maybe poaching or dealing robbery of certain anime titles. Have to be really careful especially in these troubled times now.

Why do you care? If they don't keep it up, it's because THEY don't care, so why do YOU care?

Reasonable men being pushed to normally unreasonable things

Comment and like so Geoff sees

Same. I love Brotherhood, but I've seen the 2003 anime more times than I can count purely because the first 14-ish episodes of Brotherhood are so sloppily handled when I know the first half of FMA 03 handles the same material so much better. Plus, while it's not written nearly as tightly as Brotherhood is, the 03 anime just has a more compelling story to me, especially in how much better the presentation is.

​@@beancheesedip8337there is a fanedit to make the first episodes of original FMA fit better into Brotherhood apparently

@@beancheesedip8337 03 just had better character arcs all around full stop. My friend absolutely insisted that I watch both versions and holy hell does Brotherhood annoy me in so many places. FMAB is like a reverse shit sandwich imo. The beginning is shit, the ending is a bigger shit, but there's so much great stuff in the middle there.

Which is especially sad given just how big the 03 adaptation was back in the day. Like, it was THE anime to watch. And yet, as soon as Brotherhood came out, it was like there was some kind of effort to scrub it from the annals of history with it suddenly being seen as some kind of abomination.

it's on Netflix

​@@MaxIronsThird I've already seen it on Netflix. But I'm worried they are gonna remove Monster like they did with the original Saint Seiya and Gunslinger Girl . That triggerd me so bad I ain't gonna lie.

@@MaxIronsThird it is but the dub isn't

​@carmoodlenoodle Which is supremely frustrating for a Liam O'Brien fan like me (Kenzo Tenma is my Second favourite role of his after Nightcrawler in Wolverine and the X Men).

I didn't. Cause the translations are often inferior and weird. I hate the style of the guy who translates One Piece. He makes weird and bad decisions all the time and almost never includes translation notes. And they will still not call Zoro Zoro. etc etc Also the fan scans are often quicker

​@@mytimetravellingdogWAIT are they still romanizing Zoro as Zolo??

It honestly depends on the series for me. I prefer scanlations for JJK because the official is infamous for having an ass translation that misrepresents both the power system and some of the characters with how incompetent it is. I head and shoulders prefer the official MHA translation over any scans though, with how infamous the history of MHA scans are.

@@hedgehatchet3578 The MHA translator doesn’t have the greatest record either. He definitely has an issue where he has his own interpretation of the character, and he’ll ‘localise’ a translation to make it fit. It’s happened with Bakugou’s character a good few times, as he doesn’t seem to be a fan of him. Plus he often doesn’t realise when moments are important callbacks, and so doesn’t translate them properly.

Lol at the people still complaining about localisation in 2024 in the replies

Sony is such a weird company. They're notorious for buying out companies or developing genuinely impressive hardware and software then doing nothing to support it after. They did it with the PS Vita and PS Move, they've done it with movie and game studios, they're doing it now with anime distribution platforms. It's like they forget what they own and develop, so they just get it, then immediately do nothing to support it.

I know this analogy might come off as insulting to non Neuro typical people but I see it as Disney: Obsessive Hoarding of ADHD Sony: Absentmindedness of ADHD

Disney has a lot, but they don't even have everything Disney. I wanted to watch The Weekenders last year, but I looked on Disney+ but it wasn't there. I don't think it's ever been there. House of Mouse is another one that I don't think has ever been there. It's a more notable title, but I accept there could plausibly by rights issues in it.

Me when I realized serial experiment lain isn't easily available

​@@Johncornwell103As someone who is one of those, yeah no that checks out

Consider software. How much of it would be lost forever if not for piracy groups and the warez scene. Pay the creators and buy stuff, but once you can't buy it any more, preserving is more important.

is he still available. because there is the lostwave community that would really use someone like your dad

My dad did the same thing but with like every movie and tv show he could find.

@@marmedalmond9958 he is! And he’s not that old (nearly 60) and still goes to concerts when he can. I’ll have to introduce him to lostwave!

You should watch it, it's great

@@The_BEST_Rookie_Cop Ya im on ep 38 of One piece atm so ill schedule OG FMA for sometimes circa 2031 when i have free time again :p

I hope you’re doing well. I’m in the same ballpark as you.

Torrenting is the way forward.

You call that ancient? For me "ancient" is stuff from the '60s.

@@arx3516they called themselves an ancient anime fan. I don't know if there are any anime fans who have been watching since anime from the 60s came out, but if there were, I'd be impressed. To watch evangelion when it came out as an adult you'd have to at least be 45. nearly 30 years is a long time to be an anime fan, yes

​@@OneHumanAdmireri super wish there was a way to do that easily. Plus i've heard ISPs can sometimes block your service if they detect torrenting from your device.

sounds like someone used to watch adult swim at midnight in the early 2000s

There's also the short 1001 Nights that all his stlye some dont count it as anime though that whole thing is just like looking at his paintings animated.

I can't believe that I haven't heard about Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust!! Thanks for mentioning this. I just watched a clip, and am looking forward to watching this movie soon

Also I'm pretty sure the first two Arslan OVAs were released as films, and had the budget, so they look a *lot* better than the OVAs released after them. The character design shifts are kind of wild, but I will stan the original film in terms of Amano's character design.

LimbO! LimbOOOO LimbO!

Sail the high seas for Big 0. YE NOT GUILTY!!!

it was rer-elased on bluray recently

Sometimes i still feel like the whole thing was just a fever dream because it aired for that one year on Adult Swim and i never heard or saw anything about again

That was one of my first favorites. Glad I spent my highschool job money on the first season box set, and then bought the season season box set the second I had a windfall of a whopping $60 I won in a contest in my poor undergrad days years later.

I am one of those weird people who prefer the theatrical versions of the Lord of the Rings, and we absolutely need to hold onto our DVDs. But the real victims are the more niche stuff

But sadly, not everyone has access to physical media these days, especially outside of the U.S. or Japan. Here in Latin America, very few anime got released on home video, and the majority were movies and OVAs, for many people streaming has become the easiest and most comfortable way to watch anime legally

@@kingsleycy3450 The new 4K UHD Releases also include the theatrical versions

Except when said physical media costs hundreds of dollars thanks to it being out of print. I got lucky as hell finding the first three season boxset of "The Slayers" for under $50 on eBay. It was beat to hell and required a bit of cleanup and repair, but the discs play perfectly fine on my computer thankfully.

I'm glad I still have most of my anime DVDs. Sadly some of them I had to purge due to lack of space. But I still kept most of the classics.

At that point, literally just find a streaming website

​@@Che1seabluesdrogba11 wym? Dvds are goated bro

@@Che1seabluesdrogba11DVDs are so much better. You actually OWN the product. If netflix shuts down tomorrow, we have nothing

SAME! I felt so vindicated by the defence of the 2003 ending in particular. Yes, it's flawed, and the fact that The Conqueror of Shamballa compresses what could have been an entire extra cour of events into about ninety minutes of film is… a bit much, to say the least, but it's one hell of an interesting watch overall.

True. I tried to watch brotherhood but the first episode was objectively so bad as an introduction to the show for a new watcher that i dropped it.

Is this an uncommon opinion? I heard many years ago probably the best way to watch FMA was to start with the original until wherever it starts diverging, then switch to brotherhood. So 20 something to 12? Brotherhood was clearly written for those who had already seen the first, it's why they sped through the early arcs so much. (I actually haven't watched brotherhood at all, or the first since... before brotherhood was a thing? LONG time. Have read the manga though.)

Lots of moments are PEAK in the first fma. The “one is all all is one” scene, Dante’s philosophical lecture on equivalent exchange to Edward, sloths death scene, the list goes on and on

@@LynnHermioneI did the same thing. I’m glad I picked it back up because the back half of Brotherhood is definitely a tighter, more rewarding narrative but those first 10 episodes make me cringe. The beginning of ‘03 is so much better it’s not even close.

I love Wrath in that version giving the brothers teacher a whole thing and all the dynamics with the villains lines like "You where my one mistake" coming from Lust damn

When my bro watched Brotherhood I made him watch the first dozen or so episodes of 03 and connect from there. It was the best of both worlds.

I was legitimately traumatized from wrath’s death in that movie. I was like 10 and it never left me

@@Awe391 look up the deleted scene with Izumi

​@@senritsujumpsuit6021Where to find?

Great point! Insanely lucky indeed to have TWO ENTIRE VERSIONS of a masterpiece of a story!!!! FMA 2003 was fundamental to me, and now I'm thinking it would be worth a roller coaster of emotions to revisit the past and watch it again! ❤

a show not following the source material (at the request of the manga's author) doesn't automatically mean you should dismiss it. 2003 is an extremely well animated show with a fantastic OST that takes time to build a very different and more personal story while also delving far more into its racial politics in what should be done to the state that commit genocide. well worth watching, and i find dismissal in 2024 to just be extremely weird

Those "iconic" moments from the 03 show were most likely filler. People seem to forget that, before that anime started diverging to be its own thing, the first episodes still had a lot of filler.

@@joeywheelercabrosky528 huh? most of the first 26 episodes are direct from the manga. literally only 3 episodes are new, and are not filler

I never managed to make it truw brotherhood because I don't really care if the ending is better if i have to watch a worst version of the same show to get to it

Yep that and bloody aisha ctarl ctarl of the ctarl ctarl clan

@@marocat4749 You mean Aisha Clan-clan, who is a Ctarl-ctarl! Disrespecting best catgirl Aisha. Shame.

Kwak. You made a smart choice. I used to own the entire sekirei series and I still kick myself for not keeping it because apparently. It's out of print and to own a physical copy is a ridiculously high price

Smart call definetly keep doing it.

I should honestly do the same!!! When I have a job again... 😢 😭

Monopolies are the worst.

To corporations, everything you value is disposable and useless if it doesn't make money. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the big shows from now, will not be avaible anywhere either because they aren't worth investing into anymore.

The real pain of FMA 03 is that even if you try to pirate it it's so hard to find it because of it being almost the same name. So half the time you can look for it and since, of course, Brotherhood's more popular, you have to sift through a whole bunch of Brotherhood torrents. Perhaps it is the truest form of "piracy" because you really gotta dig for that treasure.

Ronald Reagan strikes again!

That line doesn't really apply to anime most of the time, since by far the most common way to consume anime is through subscription streaming services, and I don't think many people would call that buying or owning.

I'll buy a series and then stream on line so i don't degrade my hard copies.

@@metricstormtrooper What? Are you buying VHS tapes? Digital media like DVD and Blu-ray can't be 'degraded' by watching them lmao

​@@YixdyMusic CDs cant either right? Or sd cards? I also care about that stuff but idk if say somethimg like an n64 cartridge of oot would get degraded

Pretty much what I did. A friend of mine had it on DVD so I was able to finally watch it. Sucks that I only got to watch it because a friend happened to own it though. Most people won't be so lucky.

You really don't though, just stream it illegally. That is what I have done since I was a child, I don't think I've ever actually paid for a single anime.

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Depending on how you formatted it, it might have been easily recoverable. Quick Format doesn't even delete files, it just deletes the indexing references to the files. Some other types of formatting just writes 0's to all the bits, but with the right equipment that's recoverable. If you accidentally start formatting a drive, just kill the power and use software to recover the drive partition. Probably would be a good idea to unplug the drive itself until you figure out how to do that.

​@lordelliott42 This was YEARS ago, and had done a full format on it. It was a few hours later, and was already moving documents over when I realized the mistake. Did everything that I could to try and recover anything, including paying for recovery software (vetted of course), but it only managed to pull short clips here and there, 90% of which were just corrupted video. Truly a lost cause, and when I started *naming* all my external drives

You can blame the duration of any copyright being longer on Sonny Bono lobbying for that period to be longer.

Heh, I just read that on Wikipedia a few days ago, since it was its anniversary (the 31st of May).

Disney made billons on borrowing concepts/stories form European fairy tales in the public domain Then they turn around and try to circumvent public domain by changing the rules to favor them Yes there is a difference between copy right and trademark. They will forever hold on to the likeness of Micky and his friends etc but they tainted the well to creativity

I dunno about patriotic nor 200+ years-the copyright term was extended multiple times beyond those 28 years, well before the landmark 1976 Copyright Act, let alone the passage of the infamous Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998-and my suspicion is that outside of “smaller” creator spaces like KZfaq, you will find any effort to limit copyright terms anathema. It’ll be cast as a sop to Silicon Valley and the AI dudebros, and meanwhile everybody’s favorite authors and singers will scream bloody murder for denying their grandkids’ grandkids their permanent passive income (though of course they won’t put it that way). There are very real benefits to limited terms, including to artists themselves, but you can bet the creative community will be, at best, split on this. The situation worldwide may be even worse in some way, thanks to the onerous terms of the Berne Convention, and widespread, expansive interpretation of artists’ moral rights, apart from copyright. We’re gonna have our work cut out for us, and not just on the home front.

Disney lobbying

Exactly I loved Birdy the Mighty: Decode also there is an old OVA of Birdy the Mighty as well

Good lord this never even got an hd release. I remember trying to hunt down the dvds to try and get the best version of the series i could. I have the dvds now But at what cost?

I only saw it recently…. And let’s say the pirating website had way too much booty (ads) and ads on it on this sketchy website 😳 it’s so good. And I suffered to watch it with all those pop ups

I've been genuinely surprised over the years that Durarara has managed to stay pretty consistently available despite the constant neglectful treatment of Baccano.

@@kage6613Durarara was able to finish its story so that probably means it was way more popular than Baccano.

@@TheSkaOreo The creators are the same people, if there was more of a story to tell then it may not have been worth the creator's time to tell. Baccano! ended weakly imo but I didn't get the feeling that there'd be more. Ending on a flat note and expecting another season to pick up the tempo again isn't how you sell more copies. Doesn't even have to have a cliffhanger ending, Durarara's ending was satisfying even with Baccano!'s life goes on kinda vibe and I was really surprised when more of it came out.

As far as I’m aware Higurashi is on HiDive unless something changed since I last checked.

I noticed this too months ago! I was super disappointed.

And WHAT is the point of watching Gou without the original? In my subjective opinion it was dogshit by comparison - and Higurashi is possibly my favorite story of any medium, I was SO HYPE for the remake just kidding it’s a continuation ruse. I wanted to love it. There are things i appreciated about it but they lost all subtly and sense of mystery, and I felt like it was a huge regression for Rika’s character to see her fall back into such heavy despair and face it alone. Anyway, my point is, if you just watch Gou and Sotsu and that’s all you know Higurashi for you’ve missed out on more than I can possibly express in a KZfaq comment. I’m so glad I found the series before the new seasons came out and the OG could not be found streaming alongside them anymore.

@@InquisitorThomas Nope. Just checked, in case it was there but didn't show up on JustWatch. HiDive has nothing. Gou is on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Disney+ (for some reason).

@@Blueell When I found out it wasn’t available a few months ago, it was because I was trying to introduce my friend to it. Now we found other means, but it sucks that I can’t just introduce my friend that’s more new to anime to the shows I grew up with. And yeah, Gou… 100% agree.

Got it! I ordered it on amazon! As well as duckman for my dad for Father’s Day! And maybe for his birthday Simpsons season 3 dvd

I wow! Cool observation! I have no memory of horror-coded in 2003 (save for Nina I guess)...but then again it's been so long!😂😅

Durara is on hulu

Get a big hardrive and torrent all of those shows.

I had tried to have a Cruncyroll subcription a couple years back, but these werd literally no anime available to watch in my country. Like at all, actually none, zero! So there was no point in me keeping that subscription. Even now you can't really watch anime in my country without either pirating or ordering dvd box-sets from overseas (which can be very hard to find and are typically alsof pretty expensive).

The same thing applies to a certain extent here in Latin America. Crunchyroll was one of the first major anime streaming services that arrive to our region back in 2016, while Funimation arrived in 2020, and while they have been dubbing tons of shows into Latin American Spanish and Portuguese, there's a major lack of classic anime shows, especially dubbed ones, save for classics like Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya

Yep. Region locked is also a big problem

@@pablocasas5906 That's why piracy is pretty much your only option, at least there are a lot of big sites that have most of the catalogue

Eureka Seven is legit my first series my mother was on a trip so middle school me got to sit alone an see brutal death

@@senritsujumpsuit6021 that's rough buddy. I hope you got some good hope out of the series.

@@Cole205 heehee since then I have been collecting screwed trauma fiction children Wrath from FMA03 is iconic

and outlaw star

Ja man, bei uns ist das wirklich teils unfassbar. Ich weiß noch, wie uns versprochen wurde, dass der AoD-Katalog übernommen wird... Wäre ja auch zu schön gewesen.

Torrent and download. Preservation is important.

Really wish a company like Discotek Media that focus on classic anime titles to grab it and release it on blu ray

Oh man, yeah. Genshiken has been lost for quite some time now.

2nd generation adapts the later parts of the Manga Og anime had an og ending

Just be careful with seeding, I almost got a friend sued once because I seeded on a laptop and brought it over to their house and forgot to turn it off. They started getting messages from their internet company saying they were going to get fined for $20000 because it was detected on their network. Thankfully it never actually went anywhere but it sure scared me away from doing it anymore.

​@@voiceofthelegion578what is seeding?

@@-_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_- Its when you store a torrent on your PC or local server, and when other people are downloading the torrent, you contribute, as a seed.

A real hero 🫡

@@-_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_- seeding is a step in how torrenting works. I'm not an expert but basically the more people you have seeding the faster the download speed will be for the next people when they go download the torrent. It's considered to be the polite thing to do when you pirate but it can get your network flagged if you aren't being careful to hide yourself.

As far as I can tell, Planetes has never streamed on any of the major platforms. Just on ITVX in the UK, perhaps to go along with Anime Limited's Blu-Ray release a couple years ago. Despite being a well-regarded series, it fell through the cracks when Bandai USA shut down, and no other US distributor has ever re-licensed it.