In Japan, which is the production center of animation content, many overseas copyrights for animation are very scattered. Foreign media TheVerge means that as long as you” correctly subscribe “you can legally watch almost all animated content, and it will be within a few hours after the Japanese TV station broadcasts Will go live in streaming.
Then what is the reasonable subscription price? Adding members of several mainstream American streaming media such as Crunchyroll, FunimationNow, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HiDive that play Japanese animations, the total monthly cost is $ 42.95. And the animation content played by these different streaming media applications has almost no overlap.
This is certainly a bad thing for heavy animation enthusiasts, especially those who want to watch Xinfan animation in sync with Japan. In Japan, animation is generally played in batches in four quarters (January, 4Month, July, and October). There are about 30-50 new episodes per quarter, with an episode of about 25 minutes, and a week of episodes lasts about 11 to 13 weeks.
When it comes to the impression of overseas fluid service, it is generally more comprehensive content providers such as Netflix and Hulu, but just like China has A and B stations, the United States also has some streaming media services that specialize in providing animation content. Vendors, such as Crunchyroll.
According to TheVerge Introduction , Crunchyroll is the oldest website in anime streaming media. It started operating as early as 2006. Like AcFun and Bilibili, Crunchyroll initially provided unauthorized subtitle work.
In 2Around 010, Crunchyroll began to operate in a regular manner and switched to membership subscription and advertising. The content provided also became genuine subtitles in cooperation with copyright owners. Due to the subtitle support provided by copyright owners, it was faster than subtitle groups. In February 2017, Crunchyroll has grown to over 1 million paid users and 20 million registered users.
Crunchyroll once reached a cooperation agreement with competing partner Funimation and shared some content copyrights, but the partnership ended in October 2018 after Crunchyroll’s parent company was acquired by AT & T.
Crunchyroll competitor Funimation began in the 90’s. At that time, a lot of Japanese animations were introduced and released. The more famous ones are English dubbing of “Dragon Ball Z” and so on. Funimation launched a streaming subscription service in 2014 and changed to FunimationNow two years later.
In 2017, Sony Pictures acquired Funimation and licensed some of its exclusive subtitles and voiceover animation content to Hulu.
Amazon Prime Video is a service we are more familiar with, but Amazon entered the animation industry relatively late, and it wasn’t until 2017 that Anime Strike started to provide an animation streaming content area. Amazon Prime Video subscribers can watch Amazon’s exclusive animated content for an additional $ 5 per month.
From the lineup, the content provided by Amazon is not bad, such as the popular “Binghai War”, the more popular “Dororo”, “Engraved”, “Re: Creators”, and ” “Moonman” must-see “Fate / Stay Night” UBW line and more.
Recently they also exclusively released the new version of “Infinite Resident -IMMORTAL-“, and this animation has not been shown on Japanese TV.
Netflix is more familiar. Many popular animations can be found on Netflix, such as the very magical and beautiful “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Series” (the recent black brother said that the Japanese series is very popular on the Internet), “Asian “,” The Seven Deadly Sins “,” Blade Tooth “and so on.
In 2014, Netflix started the first step into the animation field and produced the first original animation, and gradually obtained more animation licenses in the following years. At the end of 2017, Netflix said that it will invest 80 in 2018. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on content, and a large portion of it went to animation licensing and production, which allowed Netflix to play a large number of well-known studios, such as Kyoto Animation.
