GOATed Anime You Can’t Watch Anymore
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Classic, important anime are getting harder to watch by the day, and it's only gotten worse since Crunchyroll and Funimation merged. Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is just the tip of the iceberg.
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To give you some idea just how crazy this problem is, Crunchyroll lost Revolutionary Girl Utena *today* right before I posted this
EDIT: Also apparently Fandango/Vudu only has dead listings for FMA and DTB, you can’t actually buy them. So they are in fact completely gone
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 UA-cam. 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.
Yo-ho yo-ho. It’s a pirates life for me
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!
Piracy isnt a money problem, its an access problem. When corporations will learn that is a bigger mystery than the Holy Grail.
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 appreciate that you highlighted the crucial roll of "piracy" in media preservation and advocating that people learn to torrent. 20 years ago, nearly everyone I knew who was into anime or any niche genre of media knew how to torrent. Broadband was much less readily accessible and slower back then so we would regularly meet up in person to trade our pirated media, which was a great way to see what people were in to and discover new stuff. The decline in tech literacy since streaming became ubiquitous is staggering.
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?
I’m so glad I found the entire DVD set of FMA last summer used for $3 per disc last summer. Without it, I would’ve had no way to watch the series legally. The lack of FMA merch now is crazy too.
At that point, literally just find a streaming website
@@Che1seabluesdrogba11 wym? Dvds are goated bro
If purchasing isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft✨
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.
Remember when Crunchyroll promised to add all of Funimation's library to theirs? Yeah...
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?
FMA '03 does slap incredibly hard, but by far the biggest problem with Conqueror of Shambala as a capstone to that series is the absolute disrespect of Best Girl Winry Rockbell.
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.
Thanks for re-awakening my sadness about the lack of Baccano streaming.
I thought one of the selling points of streaming was that series would never go out of print, unlike dvds...
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.
K-On isn’t on Netflix or Crunchyroll anymore it’s on fucking PEACOCK. That’s why I sail the seven seas
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.
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi really deserves some modern love.
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 😭
It’s even worse internationally because, there is a lot of anime, even current anime, where nobody’s doing anything with the rights. Oshi no Ko, worldwide phenomenon that it is, is has already become inaccessible in most of the world since the first season ended. A lot of rights holders (especially HiDive, which now only operates in five countries, all of which are primarily english-speaking) have zero interest in either releasing their content internationally or selling their licenses to someone who does, meaning a massive chunk of content becomes lost media to us *on release*.
Geoff's character development from a self-proclaimed Crunchyroll shill to one of piracy's biggest advocates has been amazing to see.
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.
Funny thing to me is that Crunchyroll was literally a pirate site before going "mainstream".
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?
5:47 Golden Kamuy thumbnail spotted. nobody ever talks about this anime despite the EVERYTHING that it does. I am starved.
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.
Love that this was scored with Michiru Oshima’s FMA 03 OST. She did such amazing work on that series and I feel like people never talk about it!
As someone who tends to consume media slowly, this worries me. There are so many shows I still have yet to watch (many of them I only heard about because of this channel) and they keep disappearing before I get to them. I know the high seas are an option, but I’d really like to keep that as a last resort and support the official release… but that’s becoming increasingly impossible
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
The most frustrating thing is when Crunchyroll removes an older version of an anime they already have on the service like removing the 90s Rurouni Kenshin in favor of only the new 2023 one.
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.
The one that hurts the most for me is Kids on the Slope. The license is currently held by hulu and netflix and both have the thumbnail for the show still on my list, but the episodes aren't there so I get reminded of what I'm missing every 6 months or so.
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Being an Urasawa's Monster fan I feel this pain so, so deeply
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).
And this is just anime from 15-20 years ago. Imagine being a fan of stuff from the 90s/80/70s who wants to watch all their stuff legitimately...
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.
The moment VIZ and Shueisha started their system of having Shonen Jump chapters release in English the exact same time they did in Japan, I stopped reading fan scans and leaks. You provide for the consumer and they won't feel the need to turn to other methods
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
As a teen I watched the original FMA when it came out, and even though I love Brotherhood... It is only the 2003 soundtrack, like was playing at the end of this video very softly in the background, that will just randomly make me tear up when I don't expect it... I should check if I still have the old files, I really need to rewatch that
this makes me remember an anime convention around 2007 or so when crunchyroll was getting started and they sent people to rant at panels about how torrenting was killing the anime industry and only financially suppoorting them could save it.
which has gone about as everyone with half a brain expected
This is why physical media and piracy absolutely rule
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.
As much as Disney annoys me with their attempts to put everything on Disney+ whether it makes sense or not, Sony doing the opposite so badly that it's like they're somehow losing licenses to their own IP is so much worse.
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
Really happy to hear "Brothers" playing in the background at the end, even tho I never watched the original FMA, only Brotherhood, thats one of my fav songs. When i was trying to learn to play it on my ocarina (I already whistled it often cuz its so good) I tried briefly to find any original video of it playing in the show and didnt find one. I found a cover that was great and did, mostly, learn to play it.
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
As someone who's been pirating and emulating games since back in the day with GVA for GBA games, it worries me that not as many people know how to do these things because of apps and streaming services and the convenience of using them. Media literacy is important and so is knowing the way around these things. I get that the preservation of media isn't on the top priority list of problems in the lives of the average person, but it's an important to bring up in our lifes when given the chance.
Bro, I would love a 2003 FMA video. It does not get enough love in my opinion
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.
As an ancient anime fan who deeply remembers the utter joy that I felt when first seeing Outlaw Star, Evangelion, the first FMA, Eureka Seven, and... hell, most of the anime you've mentioned on this episode? This hurts my soul. Preservation of things like this is absolutely neccessary
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
Silver Spoon! I have a T-shirt from that show because Hot Topic sold one for some reason for a short while. I studied agriculture in college, and Silver Spoon is fairly on point for information about modern small-time farming.
FMA (2003) is my favorite anime of all time. It’s an anime I often go back to when dealing with attacks from my anxiety disorder, which is why it was genuinely damaging for me to have an anxiety attack one time, go to watch an episode as I usually do, and then find that it had disappeared from _everywhere._
So not only am I glad that Geoff opened this video by giving it the props it deserved, but also made a whole video pointing out why the disappearance of anime like this is such a big problem.
I hope you’re doing well.
I’m in the same ballpark as you.
I stopped streaming anime legally after the Funimation shutdown. I don't care anymore I'm tired of paying for a service just to lose all the 90's anime dubs
It's weird how many connections to 2003 FMA you were able to find for this specific issue. It's not even just another Bones anime, its the anime they made like right after FMA, wtf?
"Amano's character designs are not great for animation no matter how much money you throw at them."
Bullshit, D from Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust was designed by Amano, and the rest of the characters are based on that design as well, and it is without question one of the top 10 best looking anime in existence.
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.
Man....Escaflowne is one that I wish would get a new license on all platforms!!!! Also super sad about Samurai Flamenco!!!! Thank you for bringing that one up!!!!!
My father was really into the new wave punk scene in the 80s and 90s. In the early 2000s he spent a bunch of time digitizing his record collection (including scanning covers and print material that went along with them) and uploading it to every music piracy site. For many of these now defunct bands, he’s the only reason they got digitally preserved. He’d get messages from people thanking him all the time. Obviously, most of these were people looking for these obscure bands. But he’d also have people regularly reach out to him because they discovered the bands BECAUSE of him. I will always think about this when I think about piracy. That it’s fundamentally an act of love and care and dedication and community.
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!
I hate that Big 0 is slowly being increasingly forgotten because it’s languishing in limbo
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 grew up with FMA and honestly always found it pretty jarring that brotherhood compresses the beginning so much we lost out on most of objectively one of the best characters, if it’s so wrong to become a strawhat to pursue what you love then I don’t want to be right
It's so validating to see the original FMA get praised on its own merits after over a decade of smug Brotherhood fans slowly belittling it into obscurity. For its flaws its still a monumental masterpiece that paved the way for more mature and contemplative Shonen series. I would love it if Geoff covered it someday!
I literally screamed in victory in my apartment when you said the first half of FMA03 was better. The state alchemist exam with the giant flower wreath and the first reunion hug with Ed/Al and their master after she realized what they had done and why. That is why we need anime preservation.
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.
Man, I loved the original FMA. Hughes and Nina hit so much harder when you've spent that much time getting to know them.
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?
Still sucks that Slayers isn’t legally available to stream anywhere.
At least I was able to purchase the physical DVDs of the first two seasons via eBay.
At my college anime club one of the members grew up on a farm. She said silver spoon is extremely accurate to her childhood.
I like the idea of owning things digitally. The problem is I can’t trust corporations in the best of times. If there is a way to disable my blue ray collection, companies would do it
The erasure of Hiromu Arakawa adaptations is unforgivable to be honest. She’s much more than just Full Metal Alchemist but newer generations won’t know that.
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.
12:36 Oh my God, THAT'S what Mumen Rider was a reference to?
I’ve been considering for a while now about ending my Crunchyroll subscription. I only got it when I was forced to switch from Funimation, but there’s so much missing, and the menus are a nightmare to deal with. Trying to find an episode when the dub and sub have their own entry is frustrating. DBZ is just one giant season you have to scroll through to find an episode you’re looking for. Idk. It just sucks. Funimation actually had a decent UI at least. Plus there’s a lot of anime available on Hulu and Netflix to make up for CR sucking so much. So idk.
Luckily I have a handful of these shows on DVD. Outlaw Star, FLCL, Abenobashi. I had the first quarter of FMA on DVD, but idk what happened to it. I may have given it away, but I honestly don’t remember. If I did, it could’ve been to save space at the time since I didn’t even have the whole series. But idk.
It really disappoints me how much the original FMA is dismissed. I remember the first time I rewatched Brotherhood and was absolutely shocked to realize how many moments in it that I considered ICONIC to FMA weren't actually in Brotherhood, or were in Brotherhood but to a far diminished capacity. Both series really stand on their own and it's actually incredible we got TWO great series from the same source material when so many things get done so dirty in their adaptations.
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
I feel so fortunate to have the DVD and Blu-ray collection for anime that I do. It's by no means a large collection, and I haven't bought any in a long time (I don't really buy many at all anymore, mostly just stream now). But knowing I have all of the original FMA and Brotherhood across DVDs and Blu-ray (including movies and OVAs), as well as Eureka Seven, FLCL, and several others I enjoyed in my youth is just a sigh of relief knowing how hard it's getting to watch so many of these in an official capacity anymore.
I got a free DVD disk from one of the Australian kids cartoon magazines in the early 2000s - it had an episode of "Magical Shopping Arcade Abenoboshi" on it that I was obsessed with! But by the time i was old enough to start actually buying my own anime, that free disk had been lost to the ravages of time (and a move or two). You've unlocked a core memory for me!! I'll have to go find it!! Also first half of the original FMA goes so much harder than the wackiness of all of Brotherhood. I said it.
Back when the rumors of Crunchyroll and Funimation merging were floating about, I made a decision to buy physical copies of a few select shows that I wanted to make sure I had access to, “just in case.” Seemed impulsive at the time, but I don’t regret the decision now.
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.
I'm really glad Geoff decided to talk about this because I noticed the lack of original FMA when I recently decided to rewatch it. I was truly shocked that I couldn't find it streaming legally anywhere. I get whiplash sometimes with how quickly shows seem to come and go on the streaming services.
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.
Pantheon, less than three months after its season 1 finale on AMC+, was removed from all platforms, and I could no longer access episodes I purchased on Prime. Only when Prime bought the rights to stream season 1 and season 2 could I get access back to the episodes I purchased. It's not a Japanese animated show, but it is inspired by series like Lain and Ghost in the Shell. It's a fantastic show, and from what I could tell, many animation fans didn't know that Pantheon was "lost" for nine months, let alone know about the show's existence in general, so it's really easy for even good shows to quickly lose their chance to build up a fanbase while they are still legally available. Geoff has talked a bit about Pantheon!
Seeing FMA, Silver Spoon and Eureka 7 falling into the lost category is frankly horrifying. I cannot believe these companies just happened to drop them for no reason? Seeing Outlaw Star and FLCL also finding themselves in similar waters it worrying as well. Depressing. This whole video is depressing, these should have never been lost at all.
A brief history of copyright in America:
in 1790, the duration of copyright was set to 14 years, and you could renew it once, making it a maximum of 28 years.
A few decades later, they just made it a flat 28 years.
180 years later, it got changed to the fucking mess it is now, and Steamboat Willie got to keep its Copyright for a century.
With so much commerse being based on American practices, the whole world has been robbed of their right to Creative Commons, judging by this sudden change of +200 years of American standards.
I could see someone making an argument that its outright patriotic to pirate media that has been brought to America at the point of 28 years, at least.
That's a lot of 90s anime now.
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 UA-cam, 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
I think this piece of wisdom is useful now that we are seeing the dangers of monopolies, anti-ownership practices and incompetent management:
"If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing"
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
You've grown since the uniquenameosaurus video lol.
They don't have Eureka 7?!!!!!
I was planning on rewatching that as an adult now!
Thanks for mentioning Baccano! - it's my favorite anime and it is so stupidly difficult to recommend to people because it isn't ANYWHERE. Not on any streaming services, physically out of print. I am lucky enough to have bought the DVD/blu-ray box set back when it was still being sold, so my only solution has been streaming it for my friends on Discord. We've truly gone in a complete circle where you have to find the person with the right tapes to see certain anime lmao
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.
Absolute heartbreak about 3 years ago when I accidentally formatted the wrong external hard drive, and didn't realize my mistake until I had already started overwriting it. Lost 8 years worth of digital collecting of obscure anime (from as far back as the peak fansub group days) and tv series that you couldn't even find online anymore as of 5 years ago. Still feel hollow thinking about it
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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
Jeff, awesome video and thanks for the heads up!
An idea (if this already exists please point me in that direction): someone should create a website that shows those shows/media that will no longer be able to stream and is no longer making physical copies (just genarally dying & at risk of being inaccessible) so that those of us that have the capability can make sure that there is always someone to keep the seed alive.
Remember to always at least contribute back what you took, never hit and run!
So glad I bit the bullet over 10 years ago and bought all of the FMA Dvds. Thought I lost them and all the FMA manga during my recent move but found them hiding in a random box, safe and sound.
Birdy the Mighty: Decode.
That was the anime I tried to find in 2020 that made me realize that I need to have my own physical collection if I want to be able to watch my favorites without worry about licenses.
The downfall of PS Video made me realize that having digital copies of your favorites can't outdo physical ownership.
I might have to buy an external hard drive just to start torrenting anime that's too expensive to buy
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?
As a long time Baccano fan, I appreciate that it got a mention. It's impossible to find online legally.
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.
I actually own the FMA 2003 series on DVD. And when I realized it wasn’t on any streaming service the absolute HIGH I achieved whipping out the box set let me tell you . . .
the guitar riff in the opening of samurai flemenco (first op...does it have more?) haunts me and at least 7 times a year I have to listen to SPYAIR - Just One Life to scratch that itch its so good
Another one for the list is something I know Geoff can appreciate, but many have not heard of, Higurashi: When They Cry. I was at a convention recently and found someone selling buttons with their fanart of the Higurashi characters, so I bought them immediately because how often are you going to see Higurashi merch and also, support indie artists.
Back at my hotel room, my friend I was rooming with saw them and asked what they were. Taking this as a golden opportunity, I told him that I couldn't explain it and would have to show him. I opened up JustWatch to see where it was streaming, and the answer was... nowhere. Crunchyroll has the recent remakebootquel Gou, but anything from before that is not available to stream or purchase digitally. Original Higurashi is locked behind physical media or the seven seas. I was disappointed to tell him it would have to wait until I was back home before he could see it.
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 UA-cam 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.
I am BEGGING you to make that fma03 video! It makes me sooo sad that people brush it off just because it doesn't follow the manga (though it literally couldn't bc at the time there wasn't enough manga out to follow). It's a genuinely good show that deserves it's flowers and to be praised on it's own merits. That show LITERALLY changed my life and I want more people to understand how good it is
PLEASE MAKE A VID ABOUT THE FMA FILM! it feels like a fever dream to me becuse I watched so long ago and the premis was so wack (at that time) I love to hear you take on it!
Yes please Geoff, I would love a comparison video between the 2 FMA tellings.
The Samurai Flamenco mention!! Watching that show week to week was so thrilling because NO ONE expected the first twist of the show. I loved the show before the twist, but after really had me recommending the show.
Moment of silence for the removal of Revolutionary Girl Utena from Crunchyroll on the first day of Pride Month
Edit: for those who were in the middle of watching it / planning to get to it, both the sub and dub are still available free and legally on youtube. The quality of the video and translation of the subs aren't great, but it's still a masterpiece worth experiencing.
I was so upset when I realized it was gone! And right as I'd finally decided to watch it too! 😢
Thankfully, Nozomi Entertainment has the whole thing up on UA-cam (both in sub and the very odd English dub if you're that kind of weirdo).
And it isn't even available by Nozomi, last I checked.
Whhhhhhat. I was watching it!!! 😭
Womp womp
I am interested in hearing you talk about the later bits of FMA03 + Shambala.
my personal favorite anime of all time, Tsuritama, was removed from Crunchyroll in 2021 and I'm still in mourning
You guys remember how popular Darker than Black was back in the late 00s and early 10s? You ever wonder why it seems to have been almost entirely forgotten in the modern anime landscape and is sometimes called a "hidden gem"?
Piracy has been the only way to watch it for YEARS, the DVDs went out of print like a decade
PLEASE make that video about the merits of FMA 2003! Having recently seen Brotherhood for the first time, I was really struck by how much less “horror-coded” Brotherhood was than 2003. The difference between Laboratory 5 in both versions was astounding to me.
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!😂😅
A couple I'd really like to watch
Nodame Cantabile - I wanted to show my wife the anime that got me into watching romance animes and just have no way to
then the G4 tech tv anime blocks are missing some big ones I can't find
Betterman was huge for getting me into not mainstream anime, and Read or Die was AWESOME
There's a common thread between a lot of the titles mentioned in the video and the comments, including FMA '03, Baccano!, Durarara, Paradise Kiss, Hell Girl, Shiki, Samurai Flamenco, Sekirei, No. 6, Zvezda Plot, Darker than Black, Katanagatari, and Silver Spoon: Aniplex. It's Aniplex. For whatever reason, Sony/Aniplex have not been big on keeping their older titles available and in-print. In some cases, like FMA, maybe they don't want an older version to interfere with the reception of the remakes. In other cases, perhaps they don't want the back catalog "competing" with newer releases. Although, Black Butler did get added to CR after Funi's streaming site shut down, so there may be hope for some of the in-limbo titles.
Either way, for those claiming MB is being hypocritical or has Joined the Dark Side or gotten "piratepilled" or whatever, they need to remember what his earlier videos actually condemned: the piracy of titles that *are* legally available in one's region, and the use of for-profit bootleg streaming sites. Not the revenue-neutral torrent/download-based piracy of titles that *aren't* legally available, as condoned here.
Not anime but max is literally REMOVING THE CLASSIC CARTOON NETWORK SHOWS! This is why I’m buying the dvd as well as my bride is a mermaid
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
Geoff, I am INCREDIBLY interested in a video about the original FMA run. I have super fond memories of it, but everyone I discuss it with thinks I'm crazy. Some of those story decisions were wild and great.
Love the usage of FMA 03 soundtrack in this video ^^ it’s one of my favorite anime’s ever and I recently finished collecting all the dvds so I can show it to my friends
Not Baby Steps 😭😭 I watched that show as it came out and it's such a gem. The "believe in yourself ^^" from the opening lives in my head forever
So glad he mentioned Baccano at 10:52 because I found it by accident on Hulu while I was in highschool, watched it all the way through twice, and when I recommended it to a friend 2 weeks later it was gone and I haven’t seen it since.
Welcome to current day Germany. Where licensing is a mess and your options for old anime are 10€ an episode DVDs from ebay or shipping the high seas.
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.
The same problem has been happening in western cartoons! Besides the ones that straight-up never premiere, there's been at least 8 to 10 series within the past few years that have been taken off of streaming services and aren't available to watch anywhere else. The biggest ones are definitely Final Space and Infinity Train.
When I was a teen we could only really get Anime if we bought the very expensive DVDs. But we did, because we loved it so much. This video really makes me appreciate my FMA, Eureka Seven, Darker Than Black, Gundam Unicorn; along with Gundam Wing and other favs.
One show I’m super struggling to find is Tenchi Muyo and Tenchi Universe. Crunchyroll has some stuff but not these and they are so fun!
Now please excuse me I need to hug some dvds
This is tragic.
Escaflowne, Eureka Seven, FMA 2003, FLCL, and Silver Spoon are among my favorites
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
Man, the worst is here in Brazil. In the 90s, animes came with great dubbing and opening and ending music adapted into Portuguese and now it's hard to find. InuYasha is an example😢
Thank you for reminding about Silver Spoon. Wasn’t too into anime growing up and not sure how I got into watching SS but man that anime got me feeling lots of warm emotions.
You were the reason i watched baby steps years ago, and it’s probably one of my favorite sports anime aside from haikyuu, to this day i’m upset it was never finished and i still need to read the manga
The manga never finished either but it goes a bit further and is worth reading
It's wild that I can't find shows like Durarara!! and Baccano! on streaming services. I'm planning to buy the dvds. Couldn't before but I'm finally making the big bucks.
Durara is on hulu
Get a big hardrive and torrent all of those shows.
On FLCL, I dont think it's gonna be those liscenses expiring cause I believe AS just outright owns the rights to FLCL.
True, but that still doesn’t help Canadians
Which means if David Zaslav continues to steer the WB ship into icebergs, I wouldn't be surprised if it falls out anyway.
@@mothersbasement Can anything truly help a Canadian, though?
@@AussieDragoonbeing annexed by the states to get access to us regional anime. (And hopefully the takeover leads to the states finally getting an actual health care system)
@@haosmagnaingram6992You say that like the US wouldn't trash the Canadian healthcare system while trying to generalise the obscenity laws so we can't even import the fun doujinshi. (I'm an American, I have reason to be cynical.)
This is why my Darker than Black DVD set is one of my most prized possessions. I had to search for it when it was already out of print and the fact I got it for under $100 is a miracle.
Darker Than Black is what I claimed to be my personal favorite anime for many years, and I can't confidently claim that anymore because I haven't seen it in years because I could never find it. I just want to track down a physical copy so I can fall in love with it all over again.
The selection on U.S. Crunchyroll is, despite lacking, still miles better than what is availiable in Europe. I seriously cannot imagine being an Anime fan here without pirating. Can't even watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Aria legally.
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
To me, the most heartbreaking "lost anime" is the first season of Genshiken, which afaik is not available anywhere. For all its flaws, it was a very detailed time capsule of early-2000s nerd culture (encompassing not only anime culture, but gaming, cosplay, conventions, etc.) You can still find Genshiken Nidaime ("Second Generation") on a few streaming platforms, but that is a distinct tonal and generational shift to late-2000s and early-2010s.
The fact that we basically lost the time capsule of the era says a lot about the state of said era.
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
Samurai Flamenco is one of my favorite anime of all time and it still saddens me that there is no means for me to at least own it on dvd/blu ray for my collection
I will put in a small plug for local libraries if you're in the US. They do a solid job of archiving series on DVD and Blu-ray that are checked out with some regularly, and if they aren't checked out often enough, they sell them in library bulk sales for cheap. It's not the best solution, but most library systems have fairly good anime collections at this point.