Aniplex and Crunchyroll Establish Joint Anime Production Venture Hayate

>the global anime market more than doubled between 2013 and 2023, reaching approximately US$22 billion (3.3 trillion yen)

and they say piracy is a problem

anyway both crunchyroll and aniplex are owned by sony so this is nothing burger

@deg As the great Gabe Newell said, it is always a service issue.
Deliver me anime with no cuts, no subtitle censorship or changed meanings for a decent price. It literally is as simple as that. And what you own - you own forever.

Hopefully that means that E.U countries will stop getting cucked and having a huge portion of the anime Crunchyroll content region blocked

Oh no, Soyny and Cringyroll.
I smell woke DEI censorship incoming...

Can't wait for the next solo leveling to turn Sung Jin-Woo into a black woman in a wheelchair...

Short answer, not much. I saw the official website and it is explained like this.

HAYATE’s main business is planning, developing and producing anime content for the Crunchyroll streaming service available worldwide.

My observation is that Hayate's primary role is to be a market research company specificially for the anime industry under Sony. It is already based in Rokubanchō, Tokyo. It looks like Sony's future anime-related team will outsource its proposals and plans to animation companies in South Korea and China. This purpose is to create mostly original anime series based on Hayate's research data.

So, basically more anime.

Ironically pretty much all the people who work as anime producers for Crunchyroll are Japanese.

They even have a guy who was a producer for High School DxD working for them now...

Well the founder and first CEO of Funimation was literally Japanese and people still hated the fact that they were in production committees helping make anime, so I guess it doesn't matter how many Japanese people work for them, cause people will only look at the surface and see these companies as western.

Well the founder and first CEO of Funimation was literally Japanese and people still hated the fact that they were in production committees helping make anime, so I guess it doesn't matter how many Japanese people work for them, cause people will only look at the surface and see these companies as western.

@MadanielFL

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/03/sakurai-says-japanese-developers-should-avoid-trying-to-appeal-to-western-tastes

i need to play the lotto



if there was nothing to be concerned about, then articles like what i just linked wouldnt be popping up left and right (and this is way more common now than you probably think). not to mention shit like the credit card companies trying to cuck anime websites, etc

you're obviously just not paying any fucking attention to how much more theyre trying to cater to westerners, especially with their dying population or you just wanna be ignorant about it, oh well... you don't have to care. but if you don't pay any attention to this shit, idk why you have an opinion on those of us who do

you "it'll never happen" mfs are exactly the people THROUGHOUT HISTORY who have allowed bad shit to happen... well let me tell you what "it'll never happen" translates to... it translates to either "I'm not paying attention/my head is in the sand" or "i don't give enough of a shit, ofc until its too late"

fuck off bro

When I say "making up a ridiculous scenario that'll literally never happen," I'm referring to the other person you were talking back and forth with saying something about Solo Leveling changing Jinwoo into a black woman in a wheelchair. No matter how much anyone thinks "wokeness" or "DEI" (both of which are now meaningless buzzword that means fuck all these days btw) is affecting the anime industry, that particular example, even if it was only being used in an exaggerated and facetious way, is something that, as I previously said, will quite literally never happen.