Ever since Shin Mazinger, I’ve noticed that it’s been getting harder and harder to find anime openings and endings on Youtube. Oddly enough however, the song uploads themselves on Youtube go relatively unchecked.
What gives? I mean, I know the anime companies are getting more concerned about protecting their properties and preventing piracy, but I feel like having the openings on Youtube were some of the best ways to get people to notice shows both new and old. Why can’t fans keep their minute and thirty seconds of Durarara! opening from getting removed? It’s not like they’re entire episodes or even clips from the actual episodes themselves! There, I could see their point of contention, but I feel like this is different. I just want to show someone how cool an opening is without having them load the stream for an entire episode on Crunchyroll. Heck, they even do it for some decades-old shows! I’m tiring of this ham-fisted approach.
Basically, if companies are taking openings off of Youtube, I at the very least would like them to upload it themselves so that we may continue to enjoy it and they can continue to send copyright violation letters.
OGIUE MANIAX 
the way i see op’s and ed’s is that they are almost, if not totally, promo for the show it’s self. So having those on youtube would be wise for an anime company to keep them up there.
so i agree. ^_^
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They should at least leave classic older shows alone!
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From my experience, Tatsunoko Pro certainly leave their older shows alone on youtube. Possibly other studios do too, but they certainly stood out as having left OP’s for shows like the original Yatterman on Youtube for years.
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Okay, what do you get when you combine slimy corporate ethics of Google and (lack of) marketing sense of Japanese ? *shudder*
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I know that it makes life difficult for me whenever I have to review those OP/ED singles and find that a few months down the road, the video I’ve used has been removed :P
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Just upload them with flipped video over the y-axis :)
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Who wants to see flipped videos, really?
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The Japanese are very strange when it comes to what they demand YouTube remove and what they allow to stay up. Heck, I know a case where a guy uploaded several songs (done with anime picture slide-shows) of a popular Japanese group. Three of the songs were from the SAME CD-single, yet the record label only demanded that the main song be removed but left the instrumental and a 2nd version of the removed song alone. They didn’t go after the other songs from that group either. It made no sense.
Of course, the Japanese are petrified of places like YouTube because the “freemium” model is something they can’t comprehend.
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I also agree with Chii they all act as adverts for the show and push up the DvD sales
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I noticed awhile back that they had begun to target OP & ED with a vengeance. I had posted several OP & ED that I really liked and had hoped to link several friends to check out the anime associated with it.
Their behavior is really odd and defies logic. If we mask the OP & ED as an “AMV” would it stick then? Sad that we have to go through this ridiculous exercise of trying to work around YouTube (read GOOGLE) crap.
~td99
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It’s the classic geek-media problem writ large – when you have a market that will for the most part blindly consume any old shit you serve them, no matter how terrible, you lose the incentive to develop a business model beyond ‘produce stuff that fits the assigned category’. And if you started with a better one, it gradually devolves into that because you get paid either way, but you get paid more for doing less work by producing crap. And since your market will go to absurd lengths to acquire it, you benefit tremendously by making sure they pay for as much of it as possible.
Or, in shorter, more professional terms, entertainment is an elastic product, and when fans treat it as an inelastic product, production companies will follow, with enforcement strategies to match.
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I’m getting a headache trying to understand your post.
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I think it may be more simple. Maybe it’s simply whatever search ‘bot that has been developed to seek out illegal anime uploads is too broadly (or would that be poorly?) designed to be able to tell an OP title clip from an entire episode.
“SNORK Oh that totally shows your ignorance that can’t possibly be true, why just the length of the file alone would tell them blab blah nerd geek bull”
I dunno. Seems that given the vast amount of ground that has to be checked MINUTE BY MINUTE it would be much more quick and dirty to have some kind of ‘bot go and taste everything and if it tastes ‘right’ *ping* auto remove it.
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Steve: that’s exactly how music is handled. Youtube has something set up that checks for copyrighted content, and if it picks it up on a new upload, the uploader and the copyright holder are immediately notified. I’m not sure if this is done for video, but I figure it would be.
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you should download it from fansubs or cruncy rather than watch it on youtube, the decision to take “Anime Openings Off of Youtube” is just right for the company
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The initial problem is that anime studios aren’t properly advertising. This is compounded once you consider that this advertising (on YouTube, via OP / ED / trailers / etc) is absolutely free. This is compounded even further once studios then — after failing to properly advertise themselves — go after their fans that are properly advertising in place of them, once again for free. Ugh.
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i like anime it is very nice they act like real . it haves adventures like it real it is very nice
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What he just said. ^
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