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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
It's pretty clear that they're trying to position Crunchyroll as the sort of "Amazon Prime" of the anime world, with benefits across multiple channels in a single subscription. Their premium offering is already sort of positioned that way now if you look on the website, and with Right Stuf benefits eventually to be included (as strongly implied by their FAQs), it'll cement it even more.
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Anyway... I guess we'll see what it means for us, but the reaction has been fairly negative. People certainly don't like how it seems like everything is being consolidated under one mega company that controls the market. That said... considering how the production committee system works in Japan, it's pretty much been the case that almost all the anime production side was controlled by a very small "cartel" of Japanese companies too, so it may not be that surprising. I suspect they're also looking at the interest of Netflix and Disney in this space as being what to worry about, rather than the field of tiny anime-only players the market had before.
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As per the previous post I had submitted, I am new to Mange and Anime. In relation to Anime, apart from a few films in the past, I have only started watching Anime this weekend through Netflix.
I was just wondering with the potential financial leverage that for instance Chrunchyroll and Netflix could have if they can increase Western consumption of Anime, do you think they would be be involved in exercising more creative control over Anime content to make it make it, in their eyes, more commercially palatable for Western audiences?