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It gets even worse when a number of anime aren't even licensed for your country so you can only stream them via VPN. Looking at you Crunchyroll
Or when Crunchyroll has seasons 2 and 3 of an anime, but not season 1. Looking at you, FLCL.
I still think one of the craziest examples of multiplatform streaming being required is from Pokemon. They have a whole guide on how to watch every season:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
Edit: oh, and this is AFTER the death of Pokemon TV, their own streaming service lol.
Unbelievable.
Reminds me a bit about how Weird Al was able to get a whole album worth of music videos funded by spreading them out across various platforms.
But that was clever and creative. This is just goofy.
It's more the result of there not being much demand for the entire 20 year run of Pokemon, so they didn't bother keeping them packaged together. Otherwise they'd have priced it accordingly, and the services may not have wanted it at that price.
It's like how classic Doctor Who and current Doctor Who weren't packaged together: the demand for one was diff than the other, so it made sense to let streaming services only pay for the one their customers wanted most.
A huge part of that is season 1 of FLCL is two decades and entire production companies apart. It's likely entirely down to a matter of how difficult it is to get rights for anime. Cartoon network was involved in the two new HD seasons, and is much easier to deal with that Gainax.
Crunchyroll's UI on Roku and other TVs also sucks balls, and is prone to crashing on the slightest whim.
It's a completely piece of shit. I've never seen so many bugs in a streaming app
TIL there's more than one season of FLCL - loved that show back in the day. Is the new stuff good?
Not really
I've only seen the first season lol. Planning on starting the second tonight. Apparently there's a 4th and 5th season as well that I'm just learning about, so 2 and 3 must have gone well!