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quickthrowaway said:
What a goddamn sychophant. Let's ignore all the problems with KissAnime: being a haven for intrusive ads, trying to make people pay for pirated anime, etc. It has something all those streaming services won't have, and that's a giant catalog of anime. You could subscribe to every service this fucking shill mentioned and the ones that he didn't include like Netflix and Amazon Prime and you STILL wouldn't have every anime available to you. It is inexcusable that someone could be paying upwards of a hundred dollars per month between the all the subscriptions needed and you still wouldn't have nearly every anime in existence available. And as evidenced by the Interspecies Reviewers fiasco, they can't even provide every new anime being produced.

And that's ignoring anime like Toei's Yugioh which is only available if you pirate it. You'd be lucky to find those old VHS releases cause it's NEVER getting a rerelease. And there are dozens of these type of anime that are stuck in legal limbo and will never be released again let alone outside of Japan. American anime companies have absolute shit catalogs. And those are always in danger of being completely erased like Crunchyroll losing a ton of their catalog titles.

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Pirating anime is like a hydra. Take down one site and more will show up. Hell, Interspecies Reviewers was a special fire because not only did Funimation drop it because PR and being woke, IIRC people put the damn thing on Pornhub and a promo tweet showed Kissanime’s watermark.
 
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OneHandClapping said:
An airlines apparently wanted to get the rights to Star Trek Continues to show on their planes. Never went anywhere because STC would've been dickslapped harder than Axanar, but still, that's a insane for a fan passion project.

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Holy shit, that's some mad respect. The only thing stopping Vic's win was apparently CBS being super anal about rights.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
Holy shit, that's some mad respect. The only thing stopping Vic's win was apparently CBS being super anal about rights.
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Paramount, probably.

Last time a fan project got too big for its britches, Alec Peters took a legal dick up his ass and Axanar got yeeted. Vic did the right thing and didn't directly monetize STC, just kept it a passion project and used it to showcase his directing and acting chops.
 
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Quick question. Is Chuck Huber a liberal like the rest of Funimation or not? I ask becuase he is friend's with Mike norris (Chuck Norris's son) who is a conservative. Chuck has appeared in quite a bit of Mike's movies that he directed and stared in?
So i guess not a liberal?

Sorry to bring this up, it's just been itching me a bit to know.
 
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Oats12345 said:
Quick question. Is Chuck Huber a liberal like the rest of Funimation or not? I ask becuase he is friend's with Mike norris (Chuck Norris's son) who is a conservative. Chuck has appeared in quite a bit of Mike's movies that he directed and stared in?
So i guess not a liberal?

Sorry to bring this up, it's just been itching me a bit to know.
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Chuck is what one would call a Christian conservative.

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The Singer Of Songs said:
Chuck is what one would call a Christian conservative.

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Thanks the only reason, I brought it up, was becuase i had just got into the kickvic drama just a couple a months ago.

And I wasn't sure with Chuck, I heard someone mention he was a conservative, I wasn't sure if that was true or not. Throw like I said him Being friends with Mike Norris who is a big Christian conservative (like his father), made it clear to me that he most likely is. But I just didn't known if that was the chase until now. So thinks.
 
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OneHandClapping said:
An airlines apparently wanted to get the rights to Star Trek Continues to show on their planes. Never went anywhere because STC would've been dickslapped harder than Axanar, but still, that's a insane for a fan passion project.
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That's interesting. Perhaps the Qatari didn't understand STC's legal gray-area status at first.

I'm not a Trek fan at all but I do find it interesting that STC seems to have got a decent reception from Trekkies, unlike the last three official Star Trek productions (Discovery, Picard, and now that new cartoon).
 
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General Gunther said:
Voice acting in fields like anime dubbing is more of a passion if anything which is why most of them do it at all, which is strange considering how most anime dub VAs act like such elitists. You'd think they'd be nicer and humble towards people and fans because of that.
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Also, anime dubbing is considered a good entry-level job for voice actors that actually pays more than the "do it for free" wages of fan projects and web animation. A lot of VA's go into it to try and get their name out there and pad their resume so they can move onto other projects as a voice actor. It's also a way to earn extra money through the conventions as well.

As a general rule, it goes from Anime to Video Games to Western Animation in terms of the pay grade. Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, Steve Blum, and Yuri Lowenthal all got their start as anime voice actors and were the voices of several very prominent anime characters back in the 2000's and very early 2010's, and the latter two still regularly reprise their more iconic roles like TOM or Sasuke Uchiha.

The ones who stay in primarily in the anime dubbing game instead of exclusively moving onto video games and western animation typically fall into three categories.

1. They're genuinely passionate about anime (Vic Mignogna)

2. They're not good enough to truly break into the upper echelons but are just good enough to keep getting new roles and become big fish in a small pond (Monica Rial)

3. They're in it to try and gain clout in the actual dubbing companies' inner workings (Chris Sabat)

4. They're some mix of the above (Jessica Marchi is a mix of the second and third categories)

There's also a fifth category whose resume is mostly anime dubs because they're no longer in the industry, either because they're complete fuck-ups (Amanda Winn-Lee, Scott Freeman) or they're retired from voice work completely (Joshua Seth)
 
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Syaoran Li said:
Also, anime dubbing is considered a good entry-level job for voice actors that actually pays more than the "do it for free" wages of fan projects and web animation. A lot of VA's go into it to try and get their name out there and pad their resume so they can move onto other projects as a voice actor. It's also a way to earn extra money through the conventions as well.

As a general rule, it goes from Anime to Video Games to Western Animation in terms of the pay grade. Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, Steve Blum, and Yuri Lowenthal all got their start as anime voice actors and were the voices of several very prominent anime characters back in the 2000's and very early 2010's, and the latter two still regularly reprise their more iconic roles like TOM or Sasuke Uchiha.

The ones who stay in primarily in the anime dubbing game instead of exclusively moving onto video games and western animation typically fall into three categories.

1. They're genuinely passionate about anime (Vic Mignogna)

2. They're not good enough to truly break into the upper echelons but are just good enough to keep getting new roles and become big fish in a small pond (Monica Rial)

3. They're in it to try and gain clout in the actual dubbing companies' inner workings (Chris Sabat)

4. They're some mix of the above (Jessica Marchi is a mix of the second and third categories)

There's also a fifth category whose resume is mostly anime dubs because they're no longer in the industry, either because they're complete fuck-ups (Amanda Winn-Lee, Scott McNeil) or they're retired from voice work completely (Joshua Seth)
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Scott McNeil? The Canadian guy?
 
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