Japanese streaming overtakes home video market

[Jman]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-05-07/japan-anime-internet-distribution-market-overtakes-home-video-market/.159304
 

This is supported by both overseas and domestic anime industry growth (fitting given every streaming service chomping at the bit for anime) but it represents a turning point away from the traditional “low population high volume” purchases of otaku in favor of everyone watching something.

 

[CaptainStarwind]

Makes sense to me.  Home video in general is declining in favor of streaming so it would make sense anime would follow the same trend.  It also helps that anime doesn't seem to have the same "closet otaku" stigma that it had years ago.  It's still there, to be sure, but anime seems to be more recognized among people, or at the very least accepted

[MasqueradeOverture]

Buying BD / UHD discs is now the equivalent of collecting 35mm reels for your personal home theater in the old days.

A niche game, but still the best quality and cool as fuck.

[The1gairon]

Holy god. That is a milestone!

[Top Gun]

8 hours ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

Buying BD / UHD discs is now the equivalent of collecting 35mm reels for your personal home theater in the old days.

A niche game, but still the best quality and cool as fuck.

So I'm the coolest motherfucker on the planet, then. 😎

[CaptainStarwind]

15 hours ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

Buying BD / UHD discs is now the equivalent of collecting 35mm reels for your personal home theater in the old days.

A niche game, but still the best quality and cool as fuck.

I don't think I could do without buying them in some way.  Streaming seems just so transient to me.

[Chapinator_X]

We’ve come along way from being arrested and disgraced for streaming One Piece online. 

[MasqueradeOverture]

12 hours ago, Top Gun said:

So I'm the coolest motherfucker on the planet, then. 😎

No.

That award goes to Quentin Tarantino and his whole ass theater he bought just to screen his film reel collection.

 

[QueenoftheDorks]

Japan's insistence to stick with CDs/DVDs always baffled me. Glad to see the tide is turning and they are realizing that streaming makes everything way more accessible to consumers, especially with their weird rental laws.

Edited May 8, 2020 by QueenoftheDorks