Amazon shuts down Anime Strike

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

After launching Anime Strike less than a year ago, Amazon has shut down its anime-specific streaming channel.

The company has also shut down Heera, its Bollywood-focused channel. "We have decided to move the curated catalogs of Anime Strike and Heera into Prime Video so that more customers can enjoy this content as part of their Prime membership," a spokesperson from Amazon told Forbes.

As such, Amazon's catalog of streaming anime, which previously required both a Prime membership and a $5 per month Anime Strike subscription, is now available to all Prime members. Since the launch of Anime Strike on January 12 of last year, Amazon received a fair amount of criticism from anime fans for its double paywall.

In the United States, Anime Strike served as the exclusive streaming home to a number of critically acclaimed series that were released last year, like last summer's Made in Abyss—which was among IGN's Anime of the Year 2017 nominees—and Land of the Lustrous, which aired during the fall 2017 season.

www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/05/amazon-officially-shuts-down-anime-strike

That's kind of sucky they tried to hide that shit behind a double paywall 

[eJm]

I don’t usually like writing ignorant posts but considering that I have an Amazon Prime account, I have to ask...

...the f*** was Anime Strike?

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 5, 2018 19:49:44 GMT -5 eJm said:

I don’t usually like writing ignorant posts but considering that I have an Amazon Prime account, I have to ask...

...the f*** was Anime Strike?

I didn't even know they had an Anime service

[eJm]

Jan 5, 2018 19:51:24 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Jan 5, 2018 19:49:44 GMT -5 eJm said:

I don’t usually like writing ignorant posts but considering that I have an Amazon Prime account, I have to ask...

...the f*** was Anime Strike?

I didn't even know they had an Anime service

I mean, that kind of explains how we got here. Especially since I at least know about a couple of places outside Crunchyroll and Funimation TV because they’re exclusives for other stuff.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 5, 2018 19:52:47 GMT -5 eJm said:

Jan 5, 2018 19:51:24 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

I didn't even know they had an Anime service

I mean, that kind of explains how we got here. Especially since I at least know about a couple of places outside Crunchyroll and Funimation TV because they’re exclusives for other stuff.

And you got VRV which allows you to get like 6 other channels along with Crunchyroll and Funimation for $10 a month

[eJm]

Jan 5, 2018 19:55:54 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Jan 5, 2018 19:52:47 GMT -5 eJm said:

I mean, that kind of explains how we got here. Especially since I at least know about a couple of places outside Crunchyroll and Funimation TV because they’re exclusives for other stuff.

And you got VRV which allows you to get like 6 other channels along with Crunchyroll and Funimation for $10 a month

Which I hope gets on Euro PSN soon because I want Channe Federator to catch up on Bravest Warriors, I’m so behind.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jan 5, 2018 19:57:09 GMT -5 eJm said:

Jan 5, 2018 19:55:54 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

And you got VRV which allows you to get like 6 other channels along with Crunchyroll and Funimation for $10 a month

Which I hope gets on Euro PSN soon because I want Channe Federator to catch up on Bravest Warriors, I’m so behind.

I've been meaning to get into that

Every time I log into VRV lately, that's always what popped up

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Jan 5, 2018 19:49:44 GMT -5 eJm said:

I don’t usually like writing ignorant posts but considering that I have an Amazon Prime account, I have to ask...

...the f*** was Anime Strike?

Anime Strike was Amazon’s US-exclusive anime service. American Prime members had to pay an additional $5 a month to watch the exclusive anime they put on the service, which included several of 2017’s most acclaimed anime series, such as Scum’s Wish, Re:Creators, Princess Principal, Girls’ Last Tour, Made in Abyss, and Land of the Lustrous, those last two being among the recurring picks for anime of the year.

For all of these shows, plus several others, it was the only legal way to watch them, which made things hell for American anime fans who don’t pirate anime. Needless to say, this news has been warmly welcomed by American anime fans.

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I heard of it when it was announced and then never again.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

Double paywalls are complete and utter bullshit.

[Glitch]

Exclusive contracts for certain anime are bad for business. No one service is goona have all the anime you want to see. So people will pirate anything outside of what they already pay for.

[Zenengage]

Good. Now I can finally watch Made in Abyss.