Epsilon Wrote:Frankly, I find the idea that extremely popular series like Haruhi are successful solely because of fansubs really unsupportable. The fact such series were popular in Japan probably has more to do with why it was popular over hear as well. Unless you are going to claim that fansubs are responsible for the success of Haruhi in Japan?Considering that it was impossible to watch Haruhi in most of Japan when it was first broadcast, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that fansubs made the show popular there as well. Or, at least, that illegal raws made the show popular.
(Thanks to the mountainous terrain, there isn't a lot of cable or satellite television available in Japan. It's a crapshoot whether one can get any particular channel in any particular city, not counting Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Even Sapporo and Hiroshima don't get all the shows. Good luck getting anything in a small town or a village.)
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Rob Kelk
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