What benefit is there to Crunchyroll to cut off libraries? In this political climate, it's a pretty awful PR choice and yet another way of booting the medium's target demo.
Anime fans start young and they don't have credit cards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/librarians/comments/1khux4e/crunchyroll_ended_their_library_outreach_program/?rdt=44809
Anime fans start young and they don't have credit cards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/librarians/comments/1khux4e/crunchyroll_ended_their_library_outreach_program/?rdt=44809
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It feels like they're stumbling right into rebuilding an onramp that has long decayed within the majority of the NA fandom.
https://bsky.app/profile/crunchyroll.com
I hate the level of thinking that consumers could just figure that out.
Ugh.
Yes, gotta survive, but the idea of infinite profit is greed.
"Greed is the root of all evil" comes to mind.
@mangalibrarian.bsky.social is Netflix or Hulu an option?
VIZ will also send you physical stuff like what we hand out for free at conventions (posters, manga samplers, free comic book day comics, etc.) if you work in a library or are a teacher.
If anyone wants the email, I’m happy to share it.
A real person checks the address you can send requests to, and I don’t want to accidentally get them spammed.
I do still have the old DVDs *somewhere*, but I've moved like twice since I got them, and lord knows which bin or box they ended up in.
Not that library patrons even have DVD/Blu-ray players anymore, I guess! They've really locked us in...
There was some outreach from official outlets back then, but it wasn't a normal thing.
Hard to imagine it's gotten smaller or less profitable since then. What a bizarre decision...