Episode 325 – Streaming Companies and Their Influence
The anime addicts anonymous podcast have covered the state of the streaming industry in the past. But in a fast-changing environment, there’s always updates to be made. As streaming companies grow globally, their potential to influence the anime industry grows as well. We discuss if we think this is changing anime as we know it, and, some of the best anime you can stream legally today.
May 24, 2016 @ 2:39 pm
Hulu gets their shows from other companies including Funimation and Crunchyroll. The main difference is the time of release. If you don’t care about when you watch it, Hulu is probably fine.
I’m curious why Chiaki hates Funimation so much. They pretty much have subs for everything they have on their streaming catalog and even have just a sub only subscription plan. It sounded like to me that she thought they just have dubs only which is not the case at all. Also you can tell Hulu directly uses Funimation since the subs are in the same style on Funimation.
May 25, 2016 @ 4:16 pm
[Chiaki] I actually don’t hate Funimation at all. And I didn’t know Hulu had licencing with them to use their streaming… But I still maintain that Hulu, Netflix, and Crunchyroll. The first two because they have a wider reach (even if Hulu gets some anime from Funimation that still implies their catalog is likely more vast because they scrape from Funimation and then can acquire their own) and they have other content. Crunchyroll because it has a vaster catalog in general.
I know Funimation has subs… But their market differentiation is really their dubs. That’s what they offer that none of the other streaming services offer. Because if it’s a competition of subs I would make a case that the other three are more comprehensive and the average anime watcher (or just media consumer) gets more out of them for their money.
May 24, 2016 @ 8:57 pm
I can only hear parts of the podcast on only one side of my earphones