>>34360
Does that overseas market include merchandise and streaming? I thought revenue from streaming was not that large...

And who makes up the majority of that overseas market share? From my guess it just has to be the Chinese and the worst Koreans. Both of those groups are huge weebs.

>>34373
Overseas is defined as "overseas Japanese animation revenues (movies, TV, videogram, MD, etc.). So yes I think the "in a broad sense" chart includes merchandise as well as revenue from character-branded gacha-games. There's also a second chart for trends in a "limited sense" which focuses more strictly on revenue to animation studios (e.g. the "merchandising" category for the "broad sense" is defined as "domestic animation-related merchandise revenue" whereas the "limited sense" is defined as "a total of distributions (read: royalties?) receivable by studios in connection with rights licensed for merchandising, promotions, and events").

But even here overseas revenue is still a substantial chunk. It can't just be streaming because even in 2002 overseas revenue is on the same order magnitude as domestic TV revenue. Maybe it's just the fact that "overseas" has everything rolled into one. If you were to separate that category further by TV revenue vs merchandise vs others I think it'd probably show that overseas streaming revenue was dwarfed by others.

Breakdown by overseas markets shows US, Canada, and China largest in terms of number contracts for licensing. I don't know how this translates revenue-wise.

Post edited on 22nd May 2020, 8:25pm

>>34370
>Is this sarcasm?
Indeed I am.

>>34374
Makes sense. So does that mean things like gacha and merchandise are still more profitable than streaming by a large margin?

>>34297
Excuse me but what the fuck kind of aspect ratio is that, oh god it's the worst thing since 9/11

>>34297
Both of them look kind of shit, just in different ways.

>>34297
The 'proper' version still doesn't look too good to me.

>>34303
There were some scenes that looked better in the drawn version compared to the CG. Of course the interesting part is that they bothered to fully-flesh and color a drawn version in the first place (unless they only decided to switch to CG very late).

>>34167
>>34170
Stop posting, for everyone's sake.

>>34170
>Pretentious, is that supposed to be deregitory?

Well yes, if you knew what the word even meant which you evidently don't.

>>34174
I know what it means; I, however, have no reason to believe you. Do you believe your word is better than mine? Oh my, then, it's almost like you're me, being pretentious, acting superior.
I mean, if we're equal, and I claim I am not pretentious but you claim I am, who is right? Neither of us, right? Because we're equal. Unless somebody is better than the other, unless you are superior to me or I am to you, then neither of us can claim to be correct.

>>34177

I wonder how often this actually happens in nature, if at all.

wow, I never really noticed how tiny she is.

Would you milk these cows?

Fun anime. Concept sounded trite but the execution saves the show. A good newbie anime but still has something for those who has seen a lot.

Typical male anime protag in a nutsell.

>>34194
I was streaming it with a couple of anons and I really thought it was boring. I really dont watch seasonal anime, and I havent really enjoyed one in years.

The girl has a cute design though, She reminds me of Remilia.

I couldn't resist picking it up, Iwanaga is too cute.

>>34199
Now that you mention it, I can see a little resemblance.

>>34194
One eye & one leg tsundere? Oh My Goddess.
https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/9377/Nendoroid+Kotoko+Iwanaga.html

I can't believe they did it.

Can't say I'm a big fan of blatantly traced or edited photos for backgrounds.

>>34253
They look so surreal – like those "2D girl in the real world" edits.

ep12 started so similar to the second half of ep4 I had to check at least four times to see if I was on the right ep.

On the other hand, with more average quality source, like 720p tv rips, it seems to always look worse. most of the difference this algorithm makes is with object edges, and with this the lines get larger and although they have sharper edges it looks off in motion, original is better in this case. Oh and this is halved side to side instead of top and bottom, more obvious though. Unfortunately, it can't be used to make bad things look good, it's really mostly good for making already good things look a little bit better.

Post edited on 3rd Mar 2020, 6:14pm

By the way, there is an update to this (v2.1) that looks way better with lower quality files. It removes most all of the sharpening artifacts all over the previous versions and looks pretty nice with 720p and even 480p upscaling. I would recommend checking it out.

>>34244
I finally had a chance to try it out, and I'm quite impressed – not necessarily because of the quality of the result but more because having an open-source, real-time upscaling algorithm is amazing. It doesn't even require obscene amounts of compute-power, running fairly well on an old laptop (albeit with an nvidia discrete gpu).

The results are as promised, resulting in crisper edges without too heavy of an "over-sharpened" look. I still maintain that the overall benefit is marginal since it's probably not going to revolutionize your watching experience.

>>34246
I agree it is impressive this sort of thing can exist now. The way I see it, functionally, is more of a one step replacement for all of those convoluted guides on how to set up MPC-HC properly that people used to swear by for some reason. I never once noticed a perceivable difference with those or any other player side tweaking except for putting my face an inch away from the screen looking at screencaps. With this it's easily noticeable even watching normally. I think it has gotten better than the stock upscaling algorithm in most all cases so I see no reason not to use it, at least personally. I don't even really mind low quality things as much either, most stuff I watch is purposely lower res to save on HDD space.

>>34209
Moemoe is now just moe.

I'm not a particular fan of the second new kouhai club member. Even with her tragic "backstory" the needless cynicism and pessimism seems quite out of place with the rest of the show.

>>34239
I think it's really cute to see her warm up and start to loosen up. Like in the newest episode when she suggested making the TeruTeru-Bozu and got really into it.

I'm going to miss them..

>>34230
The one i downloaded back when i saw it included the original jap track and legit english subs.
It wasnt good.Its true though that they couldnt market easily shows other than school adventures/space operas/action-adventures and most of us had to find the good series later on when internet came along.
But i dont see why they would care about being able to market it.
In europe there were numerous channels that bought the cheapest and lowest budget series from Japan, gave them horrible localizations and broadcasted them en mass.Its a matter of economics really.The fact that they ignored other more serious series has to do with the fact that they were targeted only at kids as "jap cartoons" thats why the adult ovas never made it here.And to a great degree this is still the case.Hence the self-censor of most series that are being imported in the west.Not to mention general censorship in all jap media intended for the wes hey are still considered to be targeted at younger audiences and only them.

>>34230
Yeah I saw the original version without a single clue the dub was famous, and I actually kinda liked it.

>>34232
I saw a lot of old OVAs that I thoroughly enjoyed only to find western anime journalists or dubbing companies made everyone hate it.

>>34232
I, too, enjoyed it to some extent. The OP is now nostalgic.

>>33028
Simple, this is how.

Wow, thats was a really sugoi punch.

>>33054
That it is... only one punch!

>>33028
the latest ova might explain that to you

Don't suppose you've ever considered precure? or is that a bit too long?

>>34120
I never really could get into it, I did try.

>>34114
Does Nanoha or Yuuki Yuuna sound like what you're looking for in terms of seriousness?

Watch Card Captor Sakura if you haven't already.
It's more serious than the shows you listed but it's one of the best magical girl shows out there.

Also, it's not 100% Mahou Shoujo but, you'd probably like Magical Pokaan.