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    Edens Zero is in Legal Hell Thanks to Kodansha Selling The Global Rights to It



    We all have heard of Disney and Netflix Jail, but this is a whole other level of legal hell for a anime. Edens Zero Season 2 is currently being held hostage with its global streaming rights by a French Company called Mediatoon. #Edenszero #rant Love you all so much thank you for all the support! Become a Chibit Today: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=chibireviews Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chibireviews MAL: http:// myanimelist.net/animelist/ChibiReviews Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChibiReviews

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    8. Xavier Stewart on

      Can’t believe this would happen to Edens Zero like this. A series that has grown on me ever since Fairy Tail. This is a huge mistake that Kodansha’s doing and it might be one of the worst decisions that a company has ever made

    9. Vic501🇪🇺 on

      French are the biggest consumers of anime after the Japanese. Normally it should be fine, but recently, the American companies have been very shitty with accessibility in various countries (including France). Rights now are often sold as global and not per country outside Japan. The number of issues with Crunchyroll and co blocking the distribution or putting up exhibit at costs in France and other non-English countries has been crazy. Now we will see the big consumers take the power in an unpredictable way. More media entertainment crap coming…

    10. Hero Kage on

      People trying to blame Netflix for not getting season 2 really don't understand how anime licensing works. You don't get a license for all animation related to it, you have to license every season, OVA, etc. seperate (In special cases you might get mutliple). Companies still mostly cares about Japanese viewers, global liccensing is a nice side hustle for them. And all licenses are expensive because those companies extrapolate a lot of the time from Japanese sale expectations.
      We also don't know if Netflix was even allowed to bid for the license. Kodansha could just have gotten a lot of money from the french company and be like: "You can handle the rest of it" We just don't know.
      TLDR Japanese media licensing is a shit show and we all have to suffer because of it.

    12. Peter Edwards on

      Anime should be licensed to any service that wants to show them, with general licenses, not exclusive licenses. Selling lots of less expensive licenses to lots of companies, makes more money by default than selling one exclusive one, as well as making more money in secondary revenue generation as a result of content reaching more viewers and more people buying merch and manga.

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