neko\’s thinkbox

Boredom turned into interest. Interest turned into curiosity. And curiosity, as goes the saying, killed the cat - me.

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Special Thinkbox entry for the last episode of ARIA The ORIGINATION, perhaps representative for the entire series, I think. ^^;

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ARIA The END. This is the episode summary only – a special Thinkbox entry will follow up soon.

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The climax.

Edit: YES, I am a fool. It’s OBVIOUSLY ARIA The ORIGINATION, and not ANIMATION. Thanks to Ayie for pointing out this horrendous mistake…

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…and it’s no other than Gonzo themselves.

Following this article, new Gonzo anime will be made available online by GDH, on the same day of their airing on TV in Japan.

The new titles, the Tower of DRUAGA -the Aegis of URUK- and BLASSREITER, will be available on YouTube, Crunchyroll and BOST TV, with English subtitles. I suppose this kind of Youtube service will remain free of charge, while the other two will provide higher quality videos for a small fee, depending on the situation.

This measure is said to counter the propagation of pirated anime files that have been circulating on the internet, known under the more common name of “fansubs”. It is to grant access exclusively for overseas viewers to legally view anime as soon as they are broadcasted in Japan.

Honestly speaking, I do not think this will be a very popular measure, albeit the legal aspect of the offer might seem attractive to some. Also, I highly doubt that Gonzo or GDH are going to put up with the trouble of translating all of their future animes in proper English. Furthermore, I cannot imagine such releases having a nice typesetting either, at least not at the same level we know from decent fansubbing groups.
The biggest problem with this, is that their solutions mainly provide anime over streaming platforms, and I guess that is the point where most leechers would resort to the traditional fansubs, to download and archive anime. I highly doubt sites other than Youtube will make those episodes available for download, because, who would eventually buy Gonzo’s DVDs then?

On the contrary, it might even help most fansubbers (especially the translators) to speeden up their work - since they already get a draft of the script by watching those subtitled versions, they might complete their work much much faster. So perhaps this marks the beginning of a new speedsub era?

I am pretty eager to know if this measure will be successful or not, and if there will be more anime producers who will follow soon too.

7 PM, spotted raw on Share, 7:40 PM, download finished, 8:05 PM, I bawwed.
11:10 PM, I finally managed to finish typing this text, and I finally get my first meal of the day.
Midnight 1:45 AM, I sort out the screenshots, and… it’s finally posted. That episode I have anxiously been waiting for a whole week.

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I couldn’t wait for today’s episode…

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