The reason Nebula and Dropout work is they are making their own content. Since most anime are sourced from the Manga or Light Novel sources, I don’t see an independent streaming company being able to get the rights and $$ to make animated content to stream. Also, animation is both expensive and takes a long time so any independent platform would need 2-4 of funding after making content to be able to survive long enough to make season 2 of anything.
The real question is, When will the anime community crowd-fund a crunchyroll alternative ??
We have Nebula & Igalia (Please Note that, Igalia is not a content-hosting company though)
Let’s call it SoftCream or something😅 Of course it has to be OpenSource. BTW, is Nebula OpenSource ?
The reason Nebula and Dropout work is they are making their own content. Since most anime are sourced from the Manga or Light Novel sources, I don’t see an independent streaming company being able to get the rights and $$ to make animated content to stream. Also, animation is both expensive and takes a long time so any independent platform would need 2-4 of funding after making content to be able to survive long enough to make season 2 of anything.
Ok understood, but if anime fans can shill out thousands in gacha games, then they can shill out for something actually meaningful