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Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie heaped praise on the TBS drama “Until the T-Shirt Dries” on his TOKYO FM radio show, while venting frustration that streaming platforms “only release episodes to match the original broadcast schedule.” He appeared to be referring to how older shows get rolled out episode-by-episode on services like TVer. On 5ch’s entertainment/sports news board, many posters questioned the complaint itself, with comments like “just subscribe to a streaming service” and “demanding a same-day binge release for a show that’s still airing makes no sense,” while others agreed that “the staggered rollout of older dramas really is annoying” — opinion was split.
Thu, Oct 22, 2:36 PM
Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie (53) appeared on TOKYO FM’s late-night program “TOKYO SPEAKEASY” (airing Mon-Thu at 1:00 AM), broadcast in the small hours of the 21st, where he talked about something that “really irritates” him about how TV dramas get streamed.
That day’s guest was Gentosha president Toru Kenjo. Horie opened with, “There’s a drama I watched recently that was amazing,” going on to rave about the TBS drama “Until the T-Shirt Dries,” which wrapped up its final episode last month, and recommended it to Kenjo as well.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Eat your vegetables
Yeah, that one I agree should just drop all at once
TVer was re-running "Galileo"
but because it came out gradually I missed bits here and there
TVer's approach is seriously a mystery…
for some reason Kantele (Kansai TV) dramas are the only ones that get dropped all at once
They want you coming back to TVer over and over, hoping you'll check out their other shows while you're at it —
a fleeting hope
Just watch it all at once on a paid streaming service
would he even be able to pull off the same thing himself? (a callback to his 2005 attempted takeover of Fuji TV's parent company)
Breaking Bad, Mad Men
used to watch them on a portable DVD player after getting into bed (´・ω・｀)
"why serialize manga in little chunks,
just sell the collected volume right away"
that kind of logic?
Hiroyuki: "♪Oi oi oi oi…"
Horie: "♪Ori ori ori YO! I'm Horie, YO!
The Uptown Tokyo, Sammer-Naai!"
Hiroyuki: "♪Let's Geron!" (a joke rap parody mashing Hiroyuki's and Horie's names into nonsense hip-hop lyrics)
that's probably something the streaming industry has learned the hard way
it happened with anime too
it'd be crazy to demand that an ongoing manga serialization let you read all the way to the end right now
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
It’s not uncommon for streaming services to release episodes “in step with the original broadcast schedule” rather than all at once; for catch-up services like TVer, this is reportedly tied to copyright considerations, tie-ins with the original broadcast, and a desire to keep viewers coming back. On subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services like Netflix, by contrast, dropping an entire season at once is the norm — and this is apparently the contrast Horie was drawing. The thread was split between posters questioning Horie’s complaint itself (“just pay for a subscription,” “demanding a same-day binge release for a still-airing show makes no sense”) and others who sympathized, agreeing that “the staggered release of older shows really is inconvenient.” Note: a number of comments unrelated to the topic, amounting to personal attacks, were mixed into the original thread; those have been excluded from this article.
*This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Horiemon opens up about what irritates him about TV drama streaming: “They only release it to match the broadcast date. Why won’t they let me binge it?”“
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