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TPP copyright laws come into effect:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...without-initiation-from-rights-holder/.141735

TPP Copyright Laws Come Into Effect in Japan, Allows Breaches to Be Charged Without Initiation From Rights Holder
posted on 2019-01-12 20:45 EST by Kim Morrissy


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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)'s revised copyright laws came into effect in Japan on December 31. The laws have also been changed to allow copyright breaches to be prosecuted without a complaint from the rights holder. Previously, the rights holder would have been required to file the copyright breach before legal action could be taken. The revision was made as part of an ongoing effort to combat piracy.

The law revisions also include an extension of copyright duration from 50 years to 70 years after the death of the rights holder for all works, a duration which previously only applied to cinematographic works. These measures were taken to bring Japan in line with the other countries participating in the TPP.

Although the developments may sound intimidating for anime fans, Negima and UQ Holder! manga artist Ken Akamatsu assured doujinshi creators on Twitter that this won't affect how Comiket operates. "The doujinshi at Comiket are exempt due to a compromise worked out between the government and those involved. For doujincreators to be charged, the rights holder will still need to file a complaint first. So you can keep doing what you do. (But if the rights holder says it's not okay, then it's not okay.)"

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Akamatsu also clarified what kinds of Gridman fan works are allowed to be sold after doujinshi retailer Melonbooks pulled all SSSS.Gridman works from their stock. "It's okay to distribute them at Comiket, but they can't be sold at doujinshi stores. They can tolerate fan activity as long as it's restricted to a few days (i.e. Comiket), but they believe that unrestricted sales through stores is a cause for bother. You must follow those guidelines. (In fact, the doujin mark follows this format, too.)"

The SSSS.Gridman anime website posted official guidelines for fan works in November last year, stating that "any doujinshi that is deemed to exceed the category of fan activities, such as production and distribution for commercial purposes, may have its sales suspended."

Akamatsu has previously spoken out against the TPP's proposed changes to Japan's copyright laws out of concern that this would have a detrimental effect on Japanese otaku culture. As a means of protecting fan activities in a post-TPP legal environment, he supported the "doujin mark" initiative developed by Creative Commons Japan, which allows an author to express direct permission to fans to create doujinshi based on their work to sell at limited-time events like Comiket.

Source: Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan) Official website and Ken Akamatsu's Twitter accountvia Hachima Kikō
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Just curious, what is the best anime network to subscribe to? Crunchyroll or Funamation or just pirate?
 
Secret Asshole said:
Just curious, what is the best anime network to subscribe to? Crunchyroll or Funamation or just pirate?
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If you don't care about dubs then Crunchyroll is probably the best legal choice. You could also pay 3 more dollars for VRV, that way you'd get Crunchyroll as well as a varity of different streaming services like Hidive and other non anime services.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHIvs0Q-uKI
To get it out of the way: Mudder. Fawder. Udder. Twee-hwee.

Past that, it's an interesting interpretation, well worth the watch in spite of the guy's speech impediment.
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I actually like that guy's content a lot, and yeah he's spot on with that interpretation of Eva. Watch his Kreia video too.
 
I'm so fucking hyped for the Vinland Saga Anime, but there's still no new trailer apart from the first teaser to my knowledge.

At least there's a couple of images of Thorfinn's village they released on their Twitter:

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garakfan69 said:
Then it turns out they're skipping the prelude and start off with the farm arc.
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You can rest easy in that regard. They tweeted out videos of the storyboard showing Thorfinn attacking that fort in the first chapter and his fight with Askeladd.
Dunno how to propperly embed them, so here's two links.

Either way, Farmland Saga wasn't so bad in and of itself. Not as much action, but I liked the characters and how it showed a different aspect of the live back then.
 
Somari1996 said:
I haven't had a theatical anime experiance this crazy since Resurection F. And with Broly coming out in a few months, it's more than likely this won't be the last time I have an audience like this.
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And even before the movie starts it seems like this will be even more insane since the screening I'm at got sold out, so they had to have another theatre open for an alternative screening, which even that I think is almost sold out as well.
 
Somari1996 said:
And even before the movie starts it seems like this will be even more insane since the screening I'm at got sold out, so they had to have another theatre open for an alternative screening, which even that I think is almost sold out as well.
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I can't get it in my head as to why it is theaters are underestimating the fact that if you screen a Dragon Ball movie, have more than one theater open. I'm seeing it tomorrow, and while it'll have showings throughout the day for the next week, the place I'm going to only has the one auditorium. But without looking, I just know they're thinking to themselves "Well shit, we should get two theaters tonight." That's how it went with the previous two movies, after all.

Well have fun, man. Dragon Ball fans are a bunch of spergs, but it brings about the right funky atmosphere (both meanings).
 
And I just got out of the movie, the pacing was a little slow in some areas, but as a Dragon Ball movie it was satisfying enough. I'll have to rewatch Battle of Gods again to see how it really compares to that, but it was definitely better than Resurrection F or any of the other Broly movies.
 
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