@@LuigiTheMetal64Kadokawa is also the same company that let their shares be bought by Tencent. Causing a panic in the Japanese business scene in 2022. I have very grim outlook on this situation.
Thank god they didn't lay their dirty wokified hands on classics like Naruto and Chrono Trigger. They already screwed with One Piece by convincing everyone the main character of a JAPANESE-made medium is a Mxcan and not an East Asian. Imagine they doing this with all Japanese medium. I don't see where Latn-merican shows are casting East Asians as iconic main characters. Refuse to believe in the Western-made COPOUT that Luffy is a Mxcan. That character is JAPANESE. Get it right Western medya!
That’s great, but I am concerned about the long term of the internet and piracy. Time is always fickle and things can quickly change for the better or worse.
@@adventuresteamstudios242 I really hope you are right, because everything going on with the internet is getting really dire besides a very few small spots. Don’t be surprised when things truly go south and there’s nothing you can do about it.
@@regret.932I wasn’t disagreeing on that part. However, I do have concerns about long term of it and the internet based on how things are in current times. Like I said above: Time is always fickle.
I couldn’t have said this even better. There’s absolutely no need for Sony to buy anime, manga and light novel at all. What the hell are the people over at Sony doing?
@@Gigachad7717 You think the censorship won't get worse? You think they won't westernize anime more? Sony has already done this and thrown the Japanese under the bus in the video game space, why won't they with anime?
@@DosonTheGreat dude you're acting like they are gonna buy every single right to all of anime and Manga ever created. Kadokawa is a medium sized company that has a few titles that's it, it doesn't own every single anime like how chibi is tryna make it seem.
@@Gigachad7717 Once the trend starts, it's never going to stop. MANY Japanese titles have been DEI'd over the past years without people knowing it, and it's just getting worse. But I like how you're here discrediting everything, just like the paid shyll you are.
@@Gigachad7717 Didn't he like list notable things kadokawa had in the first few minutes and did chibi say it would be the end? You might see it as medium sized especially to sony but kadokawa does own a lot of anime, manga, LN's and games. It definitely won't be the end but at the same time its really not a good thing for Sony to own all these companies
Everything is getting worse and worse because the Biblical End Times are close at hand. Jesus Christ has said that, upon His return to Earth, society will be just like in the days of Sodom, as well as just like in the days of Noah.
@@Gigachad7717 It will happen, slowly bure surely. With the likes of BlackRock/WEF pushing this dei/woke bs. The head of BR said "you have to force behavior". We already seen it gaming now.
Chibi always makes these type of videos with exaggerated titles and thumbnails for views. kadokawa is just a medium sized company that owns a few anime, not ALL OF ANIME AND MANGA LIKE CHIBI IS TRYNA MAKE IT SEEM LIKE
This was coming. People here in the west are way too happy supporting monopolies. Anti-monopoly sentiment is probably at record lows. It baffles me how so few people understand that competition breeds innovation. In the comment sections I've gotten into arguments against people who were like "I want a company that has everything in one place". Well now there will be one, and we will all be worse off for it.
Well, I'd support a Japanese monopoly of all anime in a single store/site which everyone has to buy from. I trust them mostly, even if they have woke women over there too.
This is just as bad when Disney bought Marvel & Star Wars . Disney bough all it’s competitors and now Sony is doing the same . This is bad and only way I think we can help is to support kadokawa with as much money as possible because if this goes through we are doomed .
Sony buying KADOKAWA....uh oh. Done some digging - Kadokawa has a lot of big titles - Your Name, Re;Zero, Overlord, 86, Mushoku Tensei, & Made in Abyss is just some of them. Not only that but they're the majority owner of FromSoftware with a stake of around 70% of the company which means if the takeover goes forward they'd also own Elden Ring, Octopath Traveler, Sekiro and a hell of a lot more. This isn't just detrimental to the anime space but also for gaming as well. This would be very very bad.
@@guliverjham8148 chibi is just having a breakdown cause he won't be able to watch degenerate loli anime anymore if this goes through. This is a good thing for anime
Anime fans especially in Japan must mail (preferably physically mail) their representatives and watchdogs to turn this into an antitrust case. I am not sure how aware Japanese people are about the seriousness of this. They seem mostly naive about how bad Western influence is, and how compromised Sony is as a quasi-Western firm.
Japanese pretty aware about this situation, if the worst scenario happened, there will be a very huge protest in japan and a lot of authors in japan will either join the protest or quit their career.
authors and people want to become author will definitely quit their career because they don't want their imagination to be limit by westerner cencorship. Without them The japan entertainment industries is dead for sure.
Most likely don't, and it's a long shot of a gamble using the earnings of anime and maga to recover what they lost. It's a loose-loose situation though. If it succeeds they only buy themselves time before they ruin what they bought and go back to losing money. And if it fails then they're screwed unless they do more layoffs and that is bad press and more losses.
More companies need to stand their ground and flat out say no to any offers from companies wanting to buy them! I've lost count of how many good companies and their products have been ruined after they've been bought out.
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This is basically colonization in a way. Different method (colonizing by buying businesses eg: Sony buying Kadokawa) but same results (colonized gets ruined eg: anime, manga, LN).
@@Marky-Mark1337 It's effectively under the control of executives in LA. The home country of a corporation is more often or not irrelevant when it comes to business among the US and its allies. Now if China or Russia are involved, suddenly it matters.
@SemekiIzuio not all manga is under their thumb. They can dip their toes into anime they're not in ownership of, but hard to control the artist working from home posing that shit online themselves.
@oriongear2499 given the scale probably international, and though I don't know about Japan, I know for a fact the USA has laws to prevent consolidation to a certain degree, even if it is rarely enforced.
It just doesn't stop at anime and manga but affects everything, if this goes through then it will set a precedent and many other companies will try to monopolize their respective products.
The anime industry is one of the last large creative mediums that are completely free from western politics and censorship... This is truly a dystopian nightmare for art in general as we know it.
On the gaming side of things too, Sony absolutely fucked over more than half the entire countries of the world with HD2, so if this does happen most of the world more than likely will not be able to play Fromsoft games legally anymore
Well, I always imagined Disney would eventually buy Sony to get the exclusive rights to Spider-man. Right now they have to share the rights, and they don't like that. With the Spider-man adjacent movies (aside from Venom) not doing well, I'm sure Sony would be bought so Disney could have a complete entertainment monopoly.
This makes me worry for Kadokawas more niche and more “adult” titles (like gushing over magical girls) Let’s all hope this all just a rumor and Kadokawa won’t get bought
Thing is, Kadokawa is the same company that let their shares be bought by Tencent & caused a panic in the Japanese business scene in 2022. I have very grim outlook on this situation.
Kadokawa owns so freaking much; countless anime studios, major global manga outlets that serves both Japan and the English-speaking world like Bookwalker (ebook manga/novel volumes), or Comic Walker (online web manga releases, where most scanlation manga raws are from, so this affects us sailors too...iykyk), niconico (videos)...so on and so forth. Sony is going after not just the Western localization market, but now they're going straight to the source. They're going to be like Coca Cola or Nestle draining the main source of drinking water of a village. This should be stopped at all costs, especially since it's likely illegal with antitrust laws. I wouldn't be surprised if they killed off assets like they took Funimation and Rightstuf to the back of the shed with old yeller. If you thought Sony's censorship was bad, get ready for titles to cease to exist before it ever gets published, we wouldn't even know something is was censored or not.
And if you thought that was bad, the central banks and the UN are also targeting Manga and Anime. And they are winning. Several art websites forced to stop displaying artworks they consider depiction of or are close to CP and any adult content, otherwise making money through credit card companies would be revoked. And earlier this month, shortly after a UN report that Anime and Manga inspires violence against women and children, two Japanese manga websites had their credit card services revoked, one of them shut down soon after. We've got to stop them before they decide to also openly regulate our video games, comics, books, movies, shows, and more. SBI and other DEI groups controlling our favorite media are bad, but UN control will be so much worse unless we get off our asses, unite and stop them now!
@@LuigiTheMetal64 4kids weren't supported by activist investment-group managers controlling over 20 trillion dollars globally. This new wave of censorship is.
god I HAAAATE sony. And what are they thinking, buying a mostly anime related company yet constantly pretends anime doesn't exist on their main business that is Playstation? Actually insane people working for Sony. It's not even really a japanese company anymore, I hope Kado will refuse no matter what.
Sony is actually an Electronics manufacturer. Think along the lines of radios and TVs. From there they naturally expanded into gaming consoles which is how we got the Playstation and they broke into the Entertainment market. They bought up Crunchyroll and Funimation mostly because they wanted to join in the streaming wars. They got in too late to get their hands on western libraries but saw that western media was losing profit value and that the real value was anime. Being a company of Japanese origin, they had an easier time breaking into that and fortifying their postion. The kick to the nuts is that they moved the Sony HQ to califonia which put it in the control of the Progressive Left. The business decisions they've made with that kind of control is why they're bleeding money hard and panic buying anything they think will give them a cash infusion.
In the words of Saruman, “a twisted and terrible form of life”. If this happens, we will be facing the end of all good things as we know it! Damn it all and why can’t they just leave things alone?! Especially things everyone loves?!
Sony changing their HQ to California and acquiring kodakawa hell no I OPPOSE. Anyone from Japan having a high hierarchy in the country save the manga and anime. I am begging you at this point 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
All censorship is bad. Remember that. I don't care you love 4Kids as your childhood or whatever. Loving or hating never changes the fact that censorship is historically evil.
If only it were somehow illegal for a company to buy another one so stuff like this doesn't happen. Obviously it can't be made illegal, but I wish there was some way to at least stop Sony from potentially gutting anime and forcing their politics into everything
@@LuigiTheMetal64The only difference is that sony is a billion dollar company while 4kids is not and its already gone. So boycotting sony definitely wont work. Especially since boycotting rarely works nowadays. Especially companies like them
@LuigiTheMetal64 compared to a billion dollar company like Sony? You know how long people been boycotting Disney for ruining Star wars and marvel? Yes their movies failed but they still making a lot of money. I want Sony to fail but that's unlikely gonna happen
The real problem here is that even if we sail the seven seas,Sony will make it so that the treasures we find are just mediocre no matter what we find or where we look
Spike Chunsoft have also done plenty of Bandai Namco and Nintendo games like the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. They're also the folks behind Danganronpa and so much stuff! Sony has (allegedly) lost so much money due to Concord's failure and I'm concerned that they will meddle with all these studios to make profit fast. I'm so tired of the consolidation in the game industry!
Bloodborne losers are celebrating it because they might get Bloodborne 2. Imagine upending and destroying an entire sub-culture to make a sequel for a game that doesnt even need one
@@-lord1754 Shit like this is why as Ive gotten older Ive gotten so jaded. Everything I fought against has gotten to the point people are conditioned to accept it and I feel like IM the one taking crazy pills. Why are people so okay with monopolization and censorship? Is this a boiling frog kinda thing?
The rights to Re:Zero is still owned by Tappei Nagatsuki. Most of the rights to each series are still owned by the creators and are then licensed out from the author/artist to keep things fair but the exact details of those licenses are only known by those involved.
@Furska. You know what I mean. Playstation oversees their games, they say yes or no and according to developers PlayStation or Sony is excellent with giving them freedom and time. You'll likely mention Concord next because that's the new favourite buzzword for haters but you'll also ignore all the other games and whine that you probably don't like PlayStation games or something. I'm not new to people blindly hating Sony/PlayStation.
@edwardweaver6869 Who doesn't? We have Microsoft releasing their games wherever someone can play games and making their consoles obsolete, we also have Nintendo making weak machines that struggle to play great games (Xenoblade franchise is my favourite but Holy shit I would sell my family to get that on a PlayStation or Xbox) whilst also being scummy by suing others and being dirty. You know what I do though? I focus on the good stuff instead of hovering through social media and being angry at the world.
AI is taking away your job and ability to live off creating art, and censorship and heavy-handed agendas are taking over all entertainment Fun is very slowly being eliminated
Sony is getting sued for its many thefts and so it bombs its last liquidated cash to drag everyone to hell with it. Never merge with shit, keep kicking when its down.
I'm an aspiring mangaka from Eastern Europe and this is just depressing to hear. I was planning to move to Japan to publish my works there because I was afraid of American censorship. But now it seems you can't outrun censorship anywhere.
I hope this doesn’t happen 😢 I love anime and manga . I actually want to be a animator for kadokawa . If this happens it will be a HUGE blow to anime and manga industry for good or bad .
(Unless I’m wrong about this) For all we know. Sony could just straight up Cancel a bunch of stuff as Tax Write offs. For example they could straight up Shut Down Studio Dunga Kuba, Cancel certain light novels, And Straight up Cancel some anime shows in General!!! I can legit see them doing something like that Especially since they’ve been losing A shit load of Money lately!!!!
We desperately need the FTC to file an anti-trust lawsuit against Sony at this point. Lina Khan doesn't play around, but right now, every single industry is rapidly consolidating into monopolies. It's an epidemic that cannot be defeated without aggressive anti-trust enforcement.
All of those suits will be dismissed in January. Trump is vehemently and outspokenly all for deregulation. Hell, i don't put it beyond him to just outright abolish the FTC and give the individual states the right to handle FTC's role however they see fit. He will do that with the Department of Education already.
Sony is one of the worst companies in the modern landscape, and this push for cultural control they've been making is awful. I thought they were going the way of the dodo after Concord, seeing how Playstation has been their only successful subdivision in years (their cameras are popular, but the market has shrunk too much to make money), but it seems they pulled money out of nowhere. Likely, Blackrock's.
People who are for monopolization don't understand anything. If Sony gets Kadokawa they are going to go after Shuiesha next, and then if they get that it's really over.
If this goes through, then Sony will prevent many loli manga from being released, as well as desexify many ecchi and hentai. Not to mention the DEI crap they will shoehorn into our favorite manga/anime.
Hard to tell. It is the expected result, but Seven Seas is from California and put out a ton of sexual manga despite California being the place where woke is everywhere.
Japanese companies need to understand that a company does not need a company to be a company because they are already company. Saying otherwise is like saying a lamp needs a lamp to be a lamp.
The only difference is sony is controlled by woke westerner investors ( the Japanese CEO is just a puppet for show that sony is a Japanese company) and kadokawa is controlled by true Japanese. That's the difference
You support censorship the moment you said "weeb". Metallica fans have nothing to do with it, and never wish to be called that bigoted slur, even if James Hetfield said it in 'Whiplash'.
@ When did I tell Japan they were weebs? I was referring to western culture. Japan will be fine. They will have new studios pop up locally. It’s the west that will be monopolized. Stop getting so easily offended cupcake. Self righteous-betas only use the word “bigot” unironically.
@@LuigiTheMetal64Stop putting words in people’s mouth. He merely stated the obvious hit this will do to western Weeb culture. He didn’t call anyone anything. TriggeredMuch?Sheesh.
If Sony gets ahold of fromsoftware they will completely ruin gaming for me because at this point fromsoft is the only company I trust to make a good game .
This is a Monopoly as far as anime goes. Kawdokawa is huge, not only in anime and Manga, but in Film and TV. I hope this purchase is blocked as this would hurt the industry and impact watchers.
What’s the point in being an anime fan anymore, I’m tired bro, I just want to quit hoping for a better outcome. I’m tired of censorship, I’m tired of all these bad news. I’ll just become a basic NPC and entertain myself with NPC media
Westernization is the main thing that's going to happen. Expect anime to lose alot of creativity as these Japanese companies are forced to include certain topics and changes to dialog. unfortunately, this will be a bad sign for the anime fans who enjoy the diversity of anime and not the assembly line style of anime. It happened with the American comic book industry and now it's coming for the overseas market.
I enjoy anime because of how very little restrictions it has thus making it very weird and that is what I love about it. The sky is the limit with animanga
if Sony hadnt played around with DEI-ESG, we wouldnt have had issues with this. But...man, this is a nightmare to every anime/manga enjoyers to have more censorships.
I pray that Kadokawa says no and stands their ground. They're trying to monopolize EVERYTHING. It's not even funny anymore.
I doubt it
One can only hope. It would be catastrophic If Sony got their hands on Kadokawa.
monopolizing is literally illegal but cooperation these days are doing it, its so dam corrupted
Does Japan not have monopoly laws? Cos this is fucking ridiculous.
Sony trying to make Money. They disappoints me once and they probably might do it again
J.R.R Tolkien: "Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good."
Amen!🙏
It is moral to boycott Sony. It is in the prophecy.
Omega W comment
@@LuigiTheMetal64 you can't, Sony is HUUUUUUUUGE
@@LuisSierra42Spend no money on sony products. That includes their woke online service.
Just Pray that Kadokawa refuses.
Kadokawa censor before, and will make censorship life.
@@LuigiTheMetal64Kadokawa is also the same company that let their shares be bought by Tencent. Causing a panic in the Japanese business scene in 2022.
I have very grim outlook on this situation.
@TheRibbonRed China > USA
Yes.
Thank god they didn't lay their dirty wokified hands on classics like Naruto and Chrono Trigger. They already screwed with One Piece by convincing everyone the main character of a JAPANESE-made medium is a Mxcan and not an East Asian. Imagine they doing this with all Japanese medium. I don't see where Latn-merican shows are casting East Asians as iconic main characters. Refuse to believe in the Western-made COPOUT that Luffy is a Mxcan. That character is JAPANESE. Get it right Western medya!
I'm planning on pirating everything Sony owns now. An Eye for an Eye
That’s great, but I am concerned about the long term of the internet and piracy. Time is always fickle and things can quickly change for the better or worse.
Piracy will never die, it will last forever no matter how the Internet changes, but for Sony, they ain't got years left
@@adventuresteamstudios242 I really hope you are right, because everything going on with the internet is getting really dire besides a very few small spots. Don’t be surprised when things truly go south and there’s nothing you can do about it.
@@mrconroy4672 Let's be honest man, monopolizing everything is pretty much encouraging people to pirate. It's like they're gatekeeping.
@@regret.932I wasn’t disagreeing on that part. However, I do have concerns about long term of it and the internet based on how things are in current times. Like I said above: Time is always fickle.
Sony needs to piss off with buying anime, manga and light novel period!! 😡😡
Sony needs to piss off, period.
Frr
I couldn’t have said this even better. There’s absolutely no need for Sony to buy anime, manga and light novel at all. What the hell are the people over at Sony doing?
@@f.b.l.9813 they really dont nothing wrong with sony
Its just another incompetent Ai shit stiring willing to destroy mutual human relations.
If this happen we’re cooked
Chibi always exaggerates, he's been saying it's gonna be the end of anime for years now.
@@Gigachad7717 You think the censorship won't get worse? You think they won't westernize anime more? Sony has already done this and thrown the Japanese under the bus in the video game space, why won't they with anime?
@@DosonTheGreat dude you're acting like they are gonna buy every single right to all of anime and Manga ever created. Kadokawa is a medium sized company that has a few titles that's it, it doesn't own every single anime like how chibi is tryna make it seem.
@@Gigachad7717 Once the trend starts, it's never going to stop. MANY Japanese titles have been DEI'd over the past years without people knowing it, and it's just getting worse. But I like how you're here discrediting everything, just like the paid shyll you are.
@@Gigachad7717 Didn't he like list notable things kadokawa had in the first few minutes and did chibi say it would be the end? You might see it as medium sized especially to sony but kadokawa does own a lot of anime, manga, LN's and games. It definitely won't be the end but at the same time its really not a good thing for Sony to own all these companies
Lets go back to when Sony was just a Radio repair store
I don’t think Sony can do that.
I thought that was radio shack?
Why does everything get worse and worse.
Please let there come some good news!
Everything is getting worse and worse because the Biblical End Times are close at hand. Jesus Christ has said that, upon His return to Earth, society will be just like in the days of Sodom, as well as just like in the days of Noah.
Nothing will happen chibi has been saying this same talking point for years now just for views
@@Gigachad7717 It will happen, slowly bure surely. With the likes of BlackRock/WEF pushing this dei/woke bs. The head of BR said "you have to force behavior". We already seen it gaming now.
Yeah, if this happens, it's definitely the beginning of the end. Anyone who is happy about this hates anime, manga, etc....
braindead sony fanboys are praying for it
Nothing will happen I guarantee you. This guy chibi just wants clicks that's it
@@Gigachad7717 Explain yourself
Chibi always makes these type of videos with exaggerated titles and thumbnails for views. kadokawa is just a medium sized company that owns a few anime, not ALL OF ANIME AND MANGA LIKE CHIBI IS TRYNA MAKE IT SEEM LIKE
@@Gigachad7717 Makes sense, but still is kind of annoying that this is happening...
Thanks for the reply
I WAS HAVING A NICE DAY SONY
@@Gigachad7717 rude
This was coming.
People here in the west are way too happy supporting monopolies.
Anti-monopoly sentiment is probably at record lows.
It baffles me how so few people understand that competition breeds innovation.
In the comment sections I've gotten into arguments against people who were like "I want a company that has everything in one place".
Well now there will be one, and we will all be worse off for it.
Well, I'd support a Japanese monopoly of all anime in a single store/site which everyone has to buy from. I trust them mostly, even if they have woke women over there too.
This is just as bad when Disney bought Marvel & Star Wars . Disney bough all it’s competitors and now Sony is doing the same . This is bad and only way I think we can help is to support kadokawa with as much money as possible because if this goes through we are doomed .
No we are not doomed this will be good for anime
Being a pirate has always been my way of life as an otaku/weeb and seems like it will continue to be !
"Weeb" is bigoted slur against Metallica fans.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 ?
? @@LuigiTheMetal64
@@LuigiTheMetal64 WTF THATS WHERE IT CAME FROM?!! I thought it was just to describe anime nerds/people who just really like anime.
@@smug_baboon No, it is like how people misheard Darth Vader as if he is saying "Loke, I am your father."
Sony buying KADOKAWA....uh oh. Done some digging - Kadokawa has a lot of big titles - Your Name, Re;Zero, Overlord, 86, Mushoku Tensei, & Made in Abyss is just some of them. Not only that but they're the majority owner of FromSoftware with a stake of around 70% of the company which means if the takeover goes forward they'd also own Elden Ring, Octopath Traveler, Sekiro and a hell of a lot more. This isn't just detrimental to the anime space but also for gaming as well. This would be very very bad.
Watch nothing happen if they do buy it 😂 just dooming over nothing
You need to change your name because defending a multi billion dollar corporation is about the most beta shit I ever did see. @@Gigachad7717
@@Gigachad7717 what you're saying is "Yeah, it's just the 2nd wokest company ever, just look away weeb, nothing bad will happen~"
@@guliverjham8148 chibi is just having a breakdown cause he won't be able to watch degenerate loli anime anymore if this goes through. This is a good thing for anime
@@Gigachad7717 Actual ape IQ take.
Anime fans especially in Japan must mail (preferably physically mail) their representatives and watchdogs to turn this into an antitrust case.
I am not sure how aware Japanese people are about the seriousness of this. They seem mostly naive about how bad Western influence is, and how compromised Sony is as a quasi-Western firm.
Japanese pretty aware about this situation, if the worst scenario happened, there will be a very huge protest in japan and a lot of authors in japan will either join the protest or quit their career.
@@nagiyanagi6501 they'll go to a different publisher for sure
authors and people want to become author will definitely quit their career because they don't want their imagination to be limit by westerner cencorship. Without them The japan entertainment industries is dead for sure.
Ken Akamatsu is a liar since he never did public speaking about artistic freedom. Give Noriko Sakai credit for warning people about toxins.
@@nagiyanagi6501The protesting needs to be massive that they gang up on Sony.
Anime and manga becoming mainstream was a mistake, and you can't convince me otherwise
Metallica being mainstream is already their downfall. And no, the Black Album does not count.
If it didn't, I would've never gotten into it.
@@anonisnoone6125 ok
Should’ve stayed niche.
OG anime fans are already out, is all so tiresome, anyway, let's move on.
How? How can Sony even afford this, especially after losing hundreds of millions on Concord?!
They launder money. They cheated. That is how they get rid of their competition.
SCE is not Sony.
Most likely don't, and it's a long shot of a gamble using the earnings of anime and maga to recover what they lost.
It's a loose-loose situation though. If it succeeds they only buy themselves time before they ruin what they bought and go back to losing money. And if it fails then they're screwed unless they do more layoffs and that is bad press and more losses.
@@GegoXaren Any Sony company is evil. Defending censorship is bigotry.
Bro these companies are huge
More companies need to stand their ground and flat out say no to any offers from companies wanting to buy them! I've lost count of how many good companies and their products have been ruined after they've been bought out.
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sony always fcks up the good stuff lets be honest
Especially senran kagura
This is basically colonization in a way. Different method (colonizing by buying businesses eg: Sony buying Kadokawa) but same results (colonized gets ruined eg: anime, manga, LN).
Time for another tea party
@@Drakuma35 Tea party?
Oh you mean the British Empire XD
@@Drakuma35ain't no party like an echidna tea party
Isnt Sony Japanese?
@@Marky-Mark1337 It's effectively under the control of executives in LA. The home country of a corporation is more often or not irrelevant when it comes to business among the US and its allies. Now if China or Russia are involved, suddenly it matters.
It's over boys. It's been a good couple years, but that's it. Anime is no longer a good time.
Guess I'll be going into reading manga more than ever.
Avoid any Manga that Kadokawa publishes.
It's was gone after the prime minister advocated for Blackrock investment... Look at the gameing industry no surprise there RIP
Ken Akamatsu let this happen. He lied to us.
Bro are you not paying attention!?! Manga is not going to be safe
@SemekiIzuio not all manga is under their thumb. They can dip their toes into anime they're not in ownership of, but hard to control the artist working from home posing that shit online themselves.
Shit like this is why I hate monopolies 😡
Ay yo?! Where are my anti-monopoly laws at?
Which country are you talking about? The US or Japan?
@oriongear2499 given the scale probably international, and though I don't know about Japan, I know for a fact the USA has laws to prevent consolidation to a certain degree, even if it is rarely enforced.
It just doesn't stop at anime and manga but affects everything, if this goes through then it will set a precedent and many other companies will try to monopolize their respective products.
The anime industry is one of the last large creative mediums that are completely free from western politics and censorship... This is truly a dystopian nightmare for art in general as we know it.
On the gaming side of things too, Sony absolutely fucked over more than half the entire countries of the world with HD2, so if this does happen most of the world more than likely will not be able to play Fromsoft games legally anymore
You need Sony account too to play Fromsoft game later on if dat happen
Time to sail the high seas.
This will be full on Monopoly at this point right like I thought they already had a monopoly but if they do this it's a full on Monopoly right
Well, I always imagined Disney would eventually buy Sony to get the exclusive rights to Spider-man. Right now they have to share the rights, and they don't like that. With the Spider-man adjacent movies (aside from Venom) not doing well, I'm sure Sony would be bought so Disney could have a complete entertainment monopoly.
This makes me worry for Kadokawas more niche and more “adult” titles (like gushing over magical girls) Let’s all hope this all just a rumor and Kadokawa won’t get bought
Thing is, Kadokawa is the same company that let their shares be bought by Tencent & caused a panic in the Japanese business scene in 2022.
I have very grim outlook on this situation.
Kadokawa owns so freaking much; countless anime studios, major global manga outlets that serves both Japan and the English-speaking world like Bookwalker (ebook manga/novel volumes), or Comic Walker (online web manga releases, where most scanlation manga raws are from, so this affects us sailors too...iykyk), niconico (videos)...so on and so forth. Sony is going after not just the Western localization market, but now they're going straight to the source. They're going to be like Coca Cola or Nestle draining the main source of drinking water of a village. This should be stopped at all costs, especially since it's likely illegal with antitrust laws. I wouldn't be surprised if they killed off assets like they took Funimation and Rightstuf to the back of the shed with old yeller. If you thought Sony's censorship was bad, get ready for titles to cease to exist before it ever gets published, we wouldn't even know something is was censored or not.
They won't, once the boycott spreads. 4Kids is still boycotted to this day.
@@LuigiTheMetal64How can they be boycotted even though they’re not around?
@@oriongear2499 That is ensuring censorship should never come back in any form.
And if you thought that was bad, the central banks and the UN are also targeting Manga and Anime. And they are winning. Several art websites forced to stop displaying artworks they consider depiction of or are close to CP and any adult content, otherwise making money through credit card companies would be revoked. And earlier this month, shortly after a UN report that Anime and Manga inspires violence against women and children, two Japanese manga websites had their credit card services revoked, one of them shut down soon after. We've got to stop them before they decide to also openly regulate our video games, comics, books, movies, shows, and more. SBI and other DEI groups controlling our favorite media are bad, but UN control will be so much worse unless we get off our asses, unite and stop them now!
@@LuigiTheMetal64 4kids weren't supported by activist investment-group managers controlling over 20 trillion dollars globally. This new wave of censorship is.
god I HAAAATE sony. And what are they thinking, buying a mostly anime related company yet constantly pretends anime doesn't exist on their main business that is Playstation? Actually insane people working for Sony. It's not even really a japanese company anymore, I hope Kado will refuse no matter what.
nothing wrong with sony
Sony is actually an Electronics manufacturer. Think along the lines of radios and TVs.
From there they naturally expanded into gaming consoles which is how we got the Playstation and they broke into the Entertainment market.
They bought up Crunchyroll and Funimation mostly because they wanted to join in the streaming wars. They got in too late to get their hands on western libraries but saw that western media was losing profit value and that the real value was anime.
Being a company of Japanese origin, they had an easier time breaking into that and fortifying their postion.
The kick to the nuts is that they moved the Sony HQ to califonia which put it in the control of the Progressive Left. The business decisions they've made with that kind of control is why they're bleeding money hard and panic buying anything they think will give them a cash infusion.
@@gamerbeast3616pony
In the words of Saruman, “a twisted and terrible form of life”. If this happens, we will be facing the end of all good things as we know it! Damn it all and why can’t they just leave things alone?! Especially things everyone loves?!
Sony changing their HQ to California and acquiring kodakawa hell no I OPPOSE. Anyone from Japan having a high hierarchy in the country save the manga and anime. I am begging you at this point 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
At this point I'm not sure who's worse, Disney or Sony.
BlackRock.
All censorship is bad. Remember that. I don't care you love 4Kids as your childhood or whatever. Loving or hating never changes the fact that censorship is historically evil.
none of them
If only it were somehow illegal for a company to buy another one so stuff like this doesn't happen. Obviously it can't be made illegal, but I wish there was some way to at least stop Sony from potentially gutting anime and forcing their politics into everything
I hope Tappei still owns the full rights to Re:Zero, i pray he did not sign some BS.
Sony bought companies without consent before. That is a felony.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 Not in Japan.
We are so FUCKED!
It's all okay. We're just in the wrong worldline. Time to enter the gate
I hope this doesn't happen...
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Boycott Sony. It is easy. I still boycott 4Kids.
@@LuigiTheMetal64The only difference is that sony is a billion dollar company while 4kids is not and its already gone. So boycotting sony definitely wont work. Especially since boycotting rarely works nowadays. Especially companies like them
@@maverick9357 Bud Light and Gillette are still boycotted. That means boycotts work.
@LuigiTheMetal64 compared to a billion dollar company like Sony? You know how long people been boycotting Disney for ruining Star wars and marvel? Yes their movies failed but they still making a lot of money. I want Sony to fail but that's unlikely gonna happen
@@LuigiTheMetal64 Sony is worth more than that. People try boycotting Disney but that never worked
Welp. We had a good run.
The real problem here is that even if we sail the seven seas,Sony will make it so that the treasures we find are just mediocre no matter what we find or where we look
Their insistance that they are doing the audience a favor while spreading a fake product.
Welp, maybe if dat happen I gonna stop being a weebs
Spike Chunsoft have also done plenty of Bandai Namco and Nintendo games like the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. They're also the folks behind Danganronpa and so much stuff! Sony has (allegedly) lost so much money due to Concord's failure and I'm concerned that they will meddle with all these studios to make profit fast. I'm so tired of the consolidation in the game industry!
I hate Sony so much it's unreal.
Sony is the seven deadly sins of everything wrong with life
Neither Gamers Or Anime Watchers are gonna be ok with this. (Exemption for the typical contrarians)
Bloodborne losers are celebrating it because they might get Bloodborne 2.
Imagine upending and destroying an entire sub-culture to make a sequel for a game that doesnt even need one
@@edwardweaver6869 Perfectly said
@@-lord1754 Shit like this is why as Ive gotten older Ive gotten so jaded.
Everything I fought against has gotten to the point people are conditioned to accept it and I feel like IM the one taking crazy pills.
Why are people so okay with monopolization and censorship? Is this a boiling frog kinda thing?
@@edwardweaver6869 People are just super obtuse and short sighted
The rights to Re:Zero is still owned by Tappei Nagatsuki. Most of the rights to each series are still owned by the creators and are then licensed out from the author/artist to keep things fair but the exact details of those licenses are only known by those involved.
After they helped screw the gaming and movie industry, they now come for anime and co.
It's the beginning of the end.
They make some of the best games…how are they screwing up gaming?
@@Ichigo2k9 THEY create nothing, thats not how companies work, just because you own something doesnt mean they directly create it
@Furska. You know what I mean. Playstation oversees their games, they say yes or no and according to developers PlayStation or Sony is excellent with giving them freedom and time.
You'll likely mention Concord next because that's the new favourite buzzword for haters but you'll also ignore all the other games and whine that you probably don't like PlayStation games or something.
I'm not new to people blindly hating Sony/PlayStation.
@@Ichigo2k9And they also create the biggest clownfiestas on the planet.
@edwardweaver6869 Who doesn't? We have Microsoft releasing their games wherever someone can play games and making their consoles obsolete, we also have Nintendo making weak machines that struggle to play great games (Xenoblade franchise is my favourite but Holy shit I would sell my family to get that on a PlayStation or Xbox) whilst also being scummy by suing others and being dirty.
You know what I do though? I focus on the good stuff instead of hovering through social media and being angry at the world.
AI is taking away your job and ability to live off creating art, and censorship and heavy-handed agendas are taking over all entertainment
Fun is very slowly being eliminated
Ken Akamatsu let this happen. He lied to us about artistic freedom.
And what do you think happens when people cant afford bread and the circus isnt entertaining
Nooo please keep Sony away from Kadokawa. They already have a huge influence on the industry. Keep them away!!!
Sony is getting sued for its many thefts and so it bombs its last liquidated cash to drag everyone to hell with it. Never merge with shit, keep kicking when its down.
R.i.p manga AND fromsoft games 😭
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if this happens, we're cooked 💀
I'm an aspiring mangaka from Eastern Europe and this is just depressing to hear. I was planning to move to Japan to publish my works there because I was afraid of American censorship. But now it seems you can't outrun censorship anywhere.
we truly live in the worst timeline
I hope this doesn’t happen 😢 I love anime and manga . I actually want to be a animator for kadokawa . If this happens it will be a HUGE blow to anime and manga industry for good or bad .
You know your company is bad when everyone panics the moment you try to buy another company.
When they took away comments on CR & wokafied the dubs it was terrible.
Oda has prepared us for this day, the age of Piracy is upon us nakama!! 🏴☠️
No point in piracy when woke is pushed to the author before ink even touch the paper.
Oda already sold his soul to Netflix, and his health has gotten bad.
Sony helped ruining gaming. Now they're after our anime >:(
(Unless I’m wrong about this) For all we know. Sony could just straight up Cancel a bunch of stuff as Tax Write offs. For example they could straight up Shut Down Studio Dunga Kuba, Cancel certain light novels, And Straight up Cancel some anime shows in General!!!
I can legit see them doing something like that Especially since they’ve been losing A shit load of Money lately!!!!
they probably will
They can and would.
I hope this not happened because Sony sucks.
Sony is too big..... sigh
Re:zero and more titles need new publishers......
We desperately need the FTC to file an anti-trust lawsuit against Sony at this point. Lina Khan doesn't play around, but right now, every single industry is rapidly consolidating into monopolies. It's an epidemic that cannot be defeated without aggressive anti-trust enforcement.
Agreed.
All of those suits will be dismissed in January. Trump is vehemently and outspokenly all for deregulation. Hell, i don't put it beyond him to just outright abolish the FTC and give the individual states the right to handle FTC's role however they see fit. He will do that with the Department of Education already.
Bro Bloodborne is never happening at this rate
you will get Menarchborne next year, do not worry.
If you're having trouble getting light novels on crunchyroll, now wait till Sony owns yen press.
Sony is one of the worst companies in the modern landscape, and this push for cultural control they've been making is awful.
I thought they were going the way of the dodo after Concord, seeing how Playstation has been their only successful subdivision in years (their cameras are popular, but the market has shrunk too much to make money), but it seems they pulled money out of nowhere. Likely, Blackrock's.
SONY BEING SONY
STAY AWAY FROM KADOKAWA!!!!!
Kadokawa also owns talent agency GeeXPlus which manages prominent content creators such as Trash Taste. I wonder how this buyout affects that.....
I just hope Sony gets a lecture on antimonopoly laws.
Can't wait for Re:Zero to become a shitty Sony show… it is so over now
Perhaps I should suicide
People who are for monopolization don't understand anything. If Sony gets Kadokawa they are going to go after Shuiesha next, and then if they get that it's really over.
Fuck no, they better not touch Shuiesha. Dandadan is from Shuiesha and they will censor the hell of that shit 😭
It's only a matter of time before creativity and entertainment as a whole is bought and censored.
If this goes through, then Sony will prevent many loli manga from being released, as well as desexify many ecchi and hentai. Not to mention the DEI crap they will shoehorn into our favorite manga/anime.
Hard to tell. It is the expected result, but Seven Seas is from California and put out a ton of sexual manga despite California being the place where woke is everywhere.
We're not gatekeeping hard enough >:[
The end is nigh the end is nigh
Sony needs to stay out of Anime culture, it has no right to lay claim to it.
Boycott them, even after they die.
I love anime in my heart, and anime is my life, and I pray to God that kadokawa says no and rejects Sony.
Why bro. Why can't people in the West actually leave others alone. Its like the goddamn Colonial Period all over again.
Japanese companies need to understand that a company does not need a company to be a company because they are already company. Saying otherwise is like saying a lamp needs a lamp to be a lamp.
Now this is the unholy middle finger 2024 was saving until now.
Makes me wish anime never became mainstream now.
It's over, we're doomed.
Its Sonover 😔
If Sony get a hold on kadokawa they will ruin it with censorship and make it w0ke 😢
If sony gets kadokawa ima get mad
you better turn into an unstoppable green man
But they're both Japanese companies, though but this is actually the BIGGEST scariest change for Japan's culture and its entertainment.
The only difference is sony is controlled by woke westerner investors ( the Japanese CEO is just a puppet for show that sony is a Japanese company) and kadokawa is controlled by true Japanese. That's the difference
The golden age of the weeb is at its end. It’s been fun.✌🏻
You support censorship the moment you said "weeb". Metallica fans have nothing to do with it, and never wish to be called that bigoted slur, even if James Hetfield said it in 'Whiplash'.
@ Nope. I embrace weeb culture. It’s literally the western version of otaku. To call westerners otaku is what’s cringe.
@@IsekaiApostle Telling Japan to say "weeb" is also being a bigot like you are trying to own Japan, which you don't.
@ When did I tell Japan they were weebs? I was referring to western culture. Japan will be fine. They will have new studios pop up locally. It’s the west that will be monopolized. Stop getting so easily offended cupcake. Self righteous-betas only use the word “bigot” unironically.
@@LuigiTheMetal64Stop putting words in people’s mouth. He merely stated the obvious hit this will do to western Weeb culture. He didn’t call anyone anything. TriggeredMuch?Sheesh.
Well, this is just great, i hope we get more promising News on this.
What could be good Counter?
If Sony gets ahold of fromsoftware they will completely ruin gaming for me because at this point fromsoft is the only company I trust to make a good game .
They can’t keep getting away with this!
This comes too close anime is over
This is a Monopoly as far as anime goes. Kawdokawa is huge, not only in anime and Manga, but in Film and TV. I hope this purchase is blocked as this would hurt the industry and impact watchers.
At least Sony won't touch/get close to our off brand anime, right? xD
What’s the point in being an anime fan anymore, I’m tired bro, I just want to quit hoping for a better outcome. I’m tired of censorship, I’m tired of all these bad news. I’ll just become a basic NPC and entertain myself with NPC media
Shut up. Just consume product, then get excited to consume next product.
And here I was thinking Sony were decent for wanting to make Palworld big, but nope, they're gonna ruin everything
Chibi, I know this is a big understatement, but this is some terrifying news.
Yea this is horrendous news, let’s just hope & pray that this doesn’t go through.
The Japanese about to lose a shit ton of money (I hope it was worth it)
Sony laundered money. Japan should have boycotted Sony.
Westernization is the main thing that's going to happen. Expect anime to lose alot of creativity as these Japanese companies are forced to include certain topics and changes to dialog. unfortunately, this will be a bad sign for the anime fans who enjoy the diversity of anime and not the assembly line style of anime. It happened with the American comic book industry and now it's coming for the overseas market.
I enjoy anime because of how very little restrictions it has thus making it very weird and that is what I love about it. The sky is the limit with animanga
I really hope this deal fails
if Sony hadnt played around with DEI-ESG, we wouldnt have had issues with this. But...man, this is a nightmare to every anime/manga enjoyers to have more censorships.
Correction PlayStation headquarters is based in California, Sony headquarters is based in New York
Sony needs to be brought up on monoply charges.