Watching anime online. It's kinda illegal but it's SO GOOD.

I think that I would be right to assume that most of the anime people watch is online. I mean, when I have an option of waiting for a DVD that may never make it over the ocean or just watching a fansub, I'm going with the fansub. Anyway, I just wanted to get some opinions.

Do you guys support anime makers by buying DVD's? I am guilty of loving anime yet not having bought many DVD's.

whenever i get the chance i buy but only anime that i love and 4 me it has to be the complete season but the 1 thing i could get for free that i buy to support the cause is pokemon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im getting heart gold

I support the raw dvds and BD so it all goes right to the creators.

>Watching anime online... Streaming is dumb. Learn to torrent.

http://www.utorrent.com/

http://www.tokyotosho.info/

Almost any anime fan thats not swimming in money will say Fansubs, then buy a series they really like when it hits the states.

The sites I view from most have commercial interruptions. Either to pay for the service and maybe/not the royalty.

How is watching animay online illegal?

I never stream online unless I have to (i.e. the series is brand new and streaming before any d/l or rip is available).

My internet lags streams, plus downloads are in higher quality =/

Well, strictly speaking, watching anime online is illegal because the people who made the anime do not get any money.

Thanks, but I'm too impatient to wait for torrents. Any the quality difference doesn't really faze me.

I'm not buying the DVDs, simply because there are almost no shows coming out on DVDs around here (the newest show being broadcasted/sold around here is Naruto. Not Shippuuden. OLD NARUTO.) and ordering it from abroad would kill my budget, or force me to wait for a few years until there were enough series worth the cash availible.

[color=red]I think it's really the uploader who's doing something illegal, it's when you start downloading anime it becomes illegal.

I personally don't stream anime, I'm a quality fag meaning if something is low quality it irritates me easily and makes me not want to watch the anime.[/color]

lolwut the torrents come out first so they are faster. Makes no sense. Too lazy to wait for the download to finish? XDCC fixes that right up. No excuse to stream anymore these days. Enjoy having a improper subtitle renderer, lolquality, and terrible sub groups.





Technically in japan there was recently a law that said it is illegal to upload but legal to download for your own personal use. That changed when 2010 set in. Now it is illegal to download anime. Stuff like streaming sites are hated by anime companies and fansubbers included because other people are making money off their work while it rapes the quality and effort they put into it. It's basically one of the biggest middle fingers you can give to them.

Anime fans nowadays in general really have it made.

If you were a fan of anime back about fifteen years ago you absolutely had to buy stuff in the stores - and even then pick'ens were little. I remember that actually finding some sort of tapped fan subbed VHS tape by fans was actually a big luxury. For a while you could find them at cons but when the internet really started to boom up you could find people selling VHS fan subbed tapes online. I think the first anime episode I finally downloaded online had to have been around twelve years ago - and at that time I was still on dial up and it was small and crappy quality. Now I have a tetrabyte HD that's already full of anime and I'm working on filling another.

I think though that if all you do is watch your anime by downloading it online you are really missing out on quality stuff. Japanese raws on actual published DVDs or licensed titles over here are typically best. When you sub video, it takes a huge plunge in quality. I do think however that watching the fan subs are a good way to introduce people into something in particular. It's really quite novel because honestly there's so much out there that audiences outside of Japan would not have been exposed to anyway that fan subs can potentially gauge interest in whether or not something makes it's way over across the pond. When ADV Films, who recently went under not too long ago, were releasing titles in the 90's they were essentially just releasing products "blind." Sure they had a few hit releases like Evangelion, but most everything they released was potentially going into a blind market - they didn't know how stuff was going to work over here. Princess Rouge (Legend of the Last Labyrinth) is a good example here. Only two episodes of the series was made before it was ceased. By the time this was found out ADV Films had already brought it over and dubbed and subbed it.

Nowadays people can easily get episodes from multitudes of series' before they are released here. Notice that now instead of having certain companies here release titles the original creators themselves are having more influence on bringing titles over. Around a decade ago you basically had ADV Films, Manga Entertainment, AnimEigo, Software Sculptures, and a few other small companies. Nowadays, the actual producers like Pony Canyon for instance are finally getting deep into bringing titles over. I can imagine that the popularity of titles through distribution online played a role in this.

um its not nice to snipe people on a forum, lupin the third. mayhaps you should learn some internet ediquette

[color=blue]Tokyotosho is win. Torrent are mad fast.[/color]



[color=blue]This is why you have so little rep, bro.[/color]

Huh, I didn't know that torrents come out faster and dl fast. Excuse me for not knowing much about technology in general. And no, I don't "enjoy" having an improper subtitle renderer, lolquality, and terrible sub groups. I just didn't know that any alternatives existed. To my knowledge, what I see in stream is the same as what torrents would give me expect in low quality. Like, sometimes I will see the name of a sub group in the OP of an anime that I am watching in stream and I will recognize it from something else that I watched torrented. I didn't know that streamed anime was done by bad subgroups.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

So if I understand you correctly, because an anime was popular enough to get worked on by a subgroup, this gives producers incentive/reason to bring titles over? I never really saw it like that. I love subgroups for all they do but I always felt kind of guilty for watching subbed stuff because I know that the creators of the anime are getting zero profit. I guess everything's got more than one side.