ANN Acquires Nobody’s Boy Remi
Anime News Network has announced its exclusive acquisition of streaming distribution rights to the 1977 Nobody’s Boy Remi anime television series. The 51 episode series will premiere online on June 13. Five new episodes will be released every Sunday for 10 weeks. Due to contractual obligations, streaming access will be limited to viewers located in the United States. The series was previously released on American DVD by ImaginAsian Entertainment.
Throughout the summer Anime News Network will continue to expand its officially streaming anime catalog by adding more than 1,000 episodes of shows previously and simultaneously available through other streaming services.
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I’ll be honest…
I HATE streaming anime!
The Internet is one of the worst ways to “watch TV.”
Speed hiccups, territory restrictions because of licensing, and so on…!
It doesn’t engender loyalty from me.
Honestly, I like renting or buying this stuff from a store better than wasting bandwidth on it. I just have problems with a machine not being fast enough for streaming, software downloads for players, burps in broadband, and so forth.
… And I’m someone who generally knows what he’s doing with computers!
This is what we’ve come to with the collapse of the R1/anime DVD market.
It’s pathetic if you really think about it.
I guess it’ll be quite a few years before the convenience of being able to pay a nominal fee, download, and perhaps own-to-burn a permanent copy of a program on the same computer.
Right now, stores are still a better option for the higher-end A/V enthusiast.
Compared to sitting through choppy video fansub tapes which may or may not be using Chinese bootleg scripts which make Engrish look academic, by comparison, I’m ok with streaming. Yeah, it’d be nice if you could own some of these shows in R1, but it could be worse. You could not see them at all, unless you want to BT ’em or pay high import fees and learn Japanese. At least, this way, it makes the casual fans aware that there’s more to the genre than shonen dick-measuring contests and girls who look like they spend a little too much time at Hot Topic. Plus, it gives the Japanese end a much-needed shot in the arm with the cut it gets from the ad revenue and subscription fees. Anyway, you’re getting it for free, so what’s the big deal? Hell, I feel fortunate to have so much content that I couldn’t see before, unless I paid ransoms or dealt with Corn Pone’s stupid tape-trading bullshit rules.