Ryu Nakayama (Director of CSM S1) announces that he is involved the creation of a new anime studio (possibly confirming he won’t be a part of future MAPPA projects)
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    Unfortunately things won't really change until the business model changes. Production companies syphon the money to the top, leaving animators and anime companies with little resources to have a good environment.

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  • Rant on crunchyroll
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    They've just gotten the mobile app past Funimation standards, so the TV app is probably going to take a while to upgrade, which sucks. Missing out on a lot of users

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  • Hidive will no longer be available in certain areas outside of North America as of 12/14/2023
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    Not a good look for the future. Anime is still a somewhat niche market outside of Asia that it's hard to have two anime focused streaming platforms succeed. With Crunchyroll having Sony's backing and all that it entails, hidive was always going to be second fiddle

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