Anime On Demand announce four new titles for streaming

I'm getting a bit stressed out by UK streaming now and how I have to visit a bunch of different sites to see everything that's on offer. It's sort of actively dissuading me from maintaining a subscription anywhere, especially since I bought one on CR and then their UK offerings kind of wilted with our own services popping up.

Might give Dantalian and R-15 (yeah yeah I know) a poke when I have some time, after catching up on Tiger & Bunny. I hope the UK sites can all get together at some point and make a lazy option for me (even if it's just a page on each streaming service which points you to the right service for the right show and the referrer gets a cut when sending people to other sites <_<).

Hmm, I guess I want it to be more like TV where I go somewhere and everything available to me is clearly shown, rather than now where I have to embark on a bit of a tour by which time I have lost interest. For example, here I saw NND was advertising Dantalian when I popped by to watch Uta No Princesama, but it turned out to be region locked. And now AoD have Dantalian, which is fine, but I have to remember it's on a different site to the one I'm regularly visiting to watch my camp idol show. And the camp idol show is of course not available on AoD, or CR - the site I actually have a paid subscription to despite having absolutely nothing I want to stream showing this season. Then if I want to watch Hetalia World Series streaming I can do so on YouTube. And this is without any of the other funny sites which stream older material completely separately to anyone else.

And dagnabbit, I have an iPhone app for CR but not the others, though YouTube works on it. And I want DVDs really anyway. Maybe I'm too old and set in my ways to embrace the digital age fully ;_;

In principle I'd prefer to support Nico and AoD most of all - the former because I like their player/site (if not the average quality of the comments on the English side...) and the latter because they are the most proactive about the UK market in general rather than treating it as a half-hearted side project.

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I'll give Dantalian a go. R-15 just got giggles when I read the plot description, but I expect it to suck.
 
And of the four, Dantalian and A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives are a watch for me. At least they're doing rapid catch ups too.
 
Exactly as expected from when Niconico and Crunchyroll didn't have them. (all from Kadokawa pictures)
i.e. nothing we wouldn't get if they simply didn't exist.
*sigh* still no TBS or Aniplex shows.
 
Rui said:
And I want DVDs really anyway. Maybe I'm too old and set in my ways to embrace the digital age fully ;_;
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I'll embrace the digital age when they will actually sell me high quality files I can download to own and not before. Streaming is for throwaway YouChube clips, not serious watching.
 
Not impressed tbh, unless they have more shows to announce. Dantalian and Kuro Usagi are yay!, but the shows from CR and niconico that we can't watch still loom larger than this list.

Rui said:
R-15 (yeah yeah I know)
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Don't worry, you'll soon drop that idea.

Rui said:
(if not the average quality of the comments on the English side...)
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I am trying not to be reminded of this, it's worse than I ever theorized it would be. D:

ayase said:
Rui said:
And I want DVDs really anyway. Maybe I'm too old and set in my ways to embrace the digital age fully ;_;
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I'll embrace the digital age when they will actually sell me high quality files I can download to own and not before. Streaming is for throwaway YouChube clips, not serious watching.
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For me, streaming is just like watching something on TV. Which I have been doing with many shows for years before buying them on VHS/DVD, and would be doing with anime if I lived in Japan.
 
ilmaestro said:
Not impressed tbh, unless they have more shows to announce. Dantalian and Kuro Usagi are yay!, but the shows from CR and niconico that we can't watch still loom larger than this list.
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These are the shows we can't watch on niconico (at least the English one).

So far AoD have some of noitaminA (Fuji TV) and Kadokawa Pictures shows. Which we got on crunchyroll anyway. The streams the USA has of Aniplex and TBS shows are still unavailable to us.
So, so far, they've just doubled the price of a Crunchyroll subscription in the UK for no benefit to us.
 
Rui said:
I'm getting a bit stressed out by UK streaming now and how I have to visit a bunch of different sites to see everything that's on offer. It's sort of actively dissuading me from maintaining a subscription anywhere, especially since I bought one on CR and then their UK offerings kind of wilted with our own services popping up.
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This is kind of a natural transition and it's something you'll start to see more of as the AoD platform matures I suspect. It's not a wholly negative thing especially if the technology grows as it's happening, which we're in the process of doing just now :).

Rui said:
Might give Dantalian and R-15 (yeah yeah I know) a poke when I have some time, after catching up on Tiger & Bunny. I hope the UK sites can all get together at some point and make a lazy option for me (even if it's just a page on each streaming service which points you to the right service for the right show and the referrer gets a cut when sending people to other sites <_<).

Hmm, I guess I want it to be more like TV where I go somewhere and everything available to me is clearly shown, rather than now where I have to embark on a bit of a tour by which time I have lost interest. For example, here I saw NND was advertising Dantalian when I popped by to watch Uta No Princesama, but it turned out to be region locked. And now AoD have Dantalian, which is fine, but I have to remember it's on a different site to the one I'm regularly visiting to watch my camp idol show. And the camp idol show is of course not available on AoD, or CR - the site I actually have a paid subscription to despite having absolutely nothing I want to stream showing this season. Then if I want to watch Hetalia World Series streaming I can do so on YouTube. And this is without any of the other funny sites which stream older material completely separately to anyone else.
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I'll start asking in future before the season begins what folks want - I can't guarantee I'll be able to get them but I will certainly try if there's sufficient consensus on the. Short term (the next two seasons) - my intention is to bring as much together under one roof as possible.

Rui said:
And dagnabbit, I have an iPhone app for CR but not the others, though YouTube works on it. And I want DVDs really anyway. Maybe I'm too old and set in my ways to embrace the digital age fully ;_;
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This will change shortly re access to AoD through other things (mobile particularly) in the same timeline as above.

Rui said:
In principle I'd prefer to support Nico and AoD most of all - the former because I like their player/site (if not the average quality of the comments on the English side...) and the latter because they are the most proactive about the UK market in general rather than treating it as a half-hearted side project.
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We're taking everyone's comments on board - change comes slowly but you all know me well enough to know I keep pushing with it until we get there :). Or I'm here to take the flak afterwards...

Now back to Hyper Japan for me!
 
Thanks Andrew; I'm hoping that when the time comes to renew my CR subscription I'll feel a bit more confident about the way things are going and can just replace it with AoD. It would be nice if some of the shows were less exclusive, i.e. the Nico shows were also on AoD (like how in the US Funi puts its shows on Hulu/YT/Funimation.com and people can pick an option which collects up the best selection of exclusives and shared series). Obviously I have no idea how the licensing side of this works for simulcasting, but I'd like it as an end user for the shows AoD can't grab exclusive rights to themselves.

R, who sees the R-15 warning from ilmaestro as a challenge :D
 
I actually really like the premise of the show, which makes it worse. D: And I will admit that there is a small chance I will go back to it now that it's streaming.

Interesting post to read, Andrew, next season I think will definitely be a big one for you in terms of fan perception (and, presumably, subscribers, since initial one-season people will be at the end of their free bonus season), so hopefully things go as smoothly as possible. No-one wants to be left thinking that "maybe" we're in an effectively worse position now that we have a dedicated UK streaming platform.

As for the shows next season, get Fate/Zero and HaGaNai and you will be golden in my eyes.
 
ilmaestro said:
As for the shows next season, get Fate/Zero and HaGaNai and you will be golden in my eyes.
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Add Shakugan no Shana III to that and I'll buy a year subscription when my seasonal runs out.
 
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