Crunchyroll: The Anime Monopoly Exploiting Artists | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Go to http://joinhoney.com/casket to get Honey for free! Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Since the early 2000s, Crunchyroll has been a go-to source for streaming anime content online. The service has greatly expanded access to anime and other East Asian content to those outside of Japan, and has contributed to anime’s massive popularity and profitability. Recently, however, the company has come under fire for its recent merger with Sony and for greatly underpaying its voice talent. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/cizav Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Nathan & Jess Hubbert This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you were an anime fan back in 2006, it's
0:05.0	a gee, you could no time.
0:07.0	But peace!
0:09.0	If you were an anime fan back in 2006,
0:12.0	then it's safe to say that you were probably in heaven.
0:15.2	The niche industry was slowly but surely becoming more popular in the United States, and one company
0:20.3	in particular, crunchy role, was making the genre more accessible than ever before.
0:25.9	For decades, anime was an obscure and difficult to find form of art, but now it was being
0:31.0	brought into the light. Everyone rejoice.
0:34.3	With the simple click of a few buttons on their keyboard,
0:36.8	users were allowed to upload their own videos
0:39.1	and access shows they had never dreamed
0:41.0	of getting the chance to see before. Then, when the streaming
0:44.2	service began to introduce its own shows, life just seemed to get even better.
0:48.2	Like the massive streaming services that had garnered incredible success,
0:52.8	crunchy roles soon started to develop their own original content,
0:56.2	hiring their own writers, voice actors, and animators to bring new and exciting
1:00.4	content to the world.
1:01.8	But there was a problem. Everything wasn't quite as wonderful as it seemed.
1:06.4	Sure, the platform brought anime into the limelight in a big way, and it seemed to be a dream company.
1:14.6	But the people who worked for them clearly had a different story to tell. While they were promising their fans the world, they
1:18.8	were promising their voice actors next to nothing. People would sign up to work for the next big thing,
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