The Complex World of Anime Companies

Always wondered why Naruto is legally available on Crunchyroll, Netflix, and even YouTube. But each with a different number of episodes. Guess viz sub licensed different amounts.

The production of this video is really good as others have mentioned. Props to YouTube for recommending a channel I’m likely to watch and keep up the good work!

the company Kaze was the biggest licensor here in Germany, they even had their own streaming service called Anime on Demand. Now Crunchyroll bought Kaze and shut down AOD and there are a lot of shows still missing on Crunchyroll that used to be on AOD.

Phenomenal work. You’re definitely going places. The quality of this video is amazing.

This was a really fun video and super interesting, hope you get a bigger audience soon, and I would love for you to do more videos diving into the rabbit hole you uncovered making this one!

Speaking of creative names of production committees, the original Spice and Wolf one was just "Spice & Wolf Production Committee", but the remake did the creative choice of using "Rowen Trading Guild"! Couldn't help but grin when I saw that.

Instant subscribe. Learning about the anime production system just made the situation more dire for the animators creating shows. There's just too many hands at play. Hollywood already sucks, but I can't imagine working under Asian work hours with pressure from more players to count.

Two corrections: Viz used to be owned exclusively by Shogakukan, but in the early 2000s, they switched to being owned by a holding company that includes Shogakukan and Shueisha. They are not (or at least weren't when I kept track) exclusively owned by Shueisha. Also the streaming services will own the license for streaming, but they don't necessarily sub-license to the ones who make the hard media (BD/DVD/etc) versions of the show. A company that makes hard media can license directly from the Japanese production committee. The only question is will they license the translation from the streaming company or just have it retranslated?

Incredible, I finally feel like I understand some of how this corporate nightmare works even if you didn't go into as much detail as you could have, like you mentioned. Great quality, easily digestible video and the simplified graphics helped me keep track. Excited to see what else you post, good job!

Amazing video , please do cover all the other tangents you couldn't do in this video , it's surprising to see this level of quality content from a channel that has less than 1000 subscribers

Incredible video, deserves way more views. Would love to see more videos on the topics you mentioned being for another time as well as for other entertainment mediums such as video games.

13:30 that title was originally licenced by Amazon, which is why it is on multiple other services, not just Netflix.

This was a WONDERFULLY well-researched video about the companies that have made/produced/licensed/distributed our favorite anime. Keep it up and thank you for sharing this with us :)

Wow I didn't check the amount of subscribers you had until I finished the video and I have to say I was surprised! This video is extremely well done and makes all of the info you explained interesting as well. Keep up the good work man and I look forward to see what other videos you post in the future!

Cool video on the industry, glad the algorithm recommended it and hope to see more videos such as this one from you

Absolute banger video. When i saw the stick figure at the very beginning i was like "Oh this is gonna be another low-quality video essay" but no. The production quality is off the charts, especially for a channel this new. Keep it up man.

Damn, this is amazing! I want to see more! Especially the Netflix situation (still mind-blowing that Netflix Originals don't involve Netflix as a producer)!

Thank you for enlightening us who didn't know, but wanted to know how it mostly worked in the background. I will watch your career with great interest.

I get what you mean, just seeing the Funimation logo gives me nostalgia

It was really really a very informative video about the animanga industry ngl ! Great hardwork, thanks man 🎩