It's STILL Impossible to Live as a Crunchyroll Translator | The Canipa Effect
1,917Following on from his 2020 video, Canipa revisits the topic of low pay for translators and how the one billion dollar Funimation buyout makes that even more ridiculous.
It's Impossible to Live as a Crunchyroll Translator - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6K-FOK_MrY
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Sources and Further Reading:
Many chats and interviews with localization workers and experts (thank you!)
What we know about the Funi-CR merger - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2022-03-11/what-we-know-about-the-funimation-crunchyroll-merger/.183405
Amimaru on rates - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-08-29/translation-typesetting-company-amimaru-issues-statement-regarding-low-pay-rates/.163440
Amimaru on machine TL - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-12-23/manga-localization-company-amimaru-allegedly-trials-machine-translation-for-commercial-manga-/.180576
Funimation blog announcement - https://blog.funimation.com/2020/12/09/funimation-to-acquire-crunchyroll-fans-win/
Crunchyroll to Halt Ad-Supported Simulcast Streaming - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-26/crunchyroll-to-halt-ad-supported-simulcast-streaming-starting-with-spring-2022-season/.184038
Why are voice actors struggling? - https://wegotthiscovered.com/featured/anime-has-never-been-bigger-so-why-are-voice-actors-struggling-to-get-by/?fbclid=IwAR3gWnD6DRS07zxOR_Iggv8bpMoMokvl47Q4l8M0wNRRMQQAv62bPIQQqns
The Battle for Union Anime Dubs - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2022-03-28/the-battle-for-union-anime-dubs/.183842
Move to In-Person Dubs Sparks Union Conversation - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2022-05-18/crunchyroll-move-back-to-in-person-dub-recording-sparks-union-discussion/.185656
So, Crunchyroll Dubs... (Cartoon Cipher) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnmm8volClA
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Intro:
Animated by Christian Maize (@CookieficationJ)
Music by Steven Kelly (@Sarifus)
Produced for The Canipa Effect
Thumbnail illustration by: https://twitter.com/toumatoB0T (Thank you for coming back!)
Anime series featured in this video (chronologically):
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Kill la Kill
The Devil is a Part-Timer
Sakura Quest
Classroom Crisis
Mob Psycho 100
The Dungeon of Black Company
GREAT PRETENDER
91 Days
GANGSTA
Last Period: The Story of Endless Spiral
High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
Spy x Family
EX-ARM
FreakAngels
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
Dr Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist
Kaguya-sama: Love is War
A Place Further than the Universe
Persona 5: The Animation
Shaman King
Star Wars: Visions
Shadowverse
Snow White with the Red Hair
Fly Me to the Moon
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
Darling in the FRANXX
Hero Bank
Tomodachi Game
Oreimo
Deca-Dence
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
My Senpai is Annoying
Ya Boy Kongming!
The Executioner and Her Way of Life
The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt
Love Live! Superstar!!
Angel Beats
Log Horizon
Drugstore in Another World
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time
By the Grace of the Gods
Masamune-kun's Revenge
A Sister's All You Need
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Aldnoah.Zero
Durarara!!
Little Witch Academia
Yuri!! on Ice
Cells at Work!
Shelter: The Animation
Recovery of an MMO Junkie
Girlish Number
Seiyu's Life
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Space Dandy
Ascendance of a Bookworm
SHIROBAKO
Dragon Goes House-Hunting
Back Arrow
A Couple of Cuckoos
Tower of God
The God of High School
Odd Taxi
How Heavy are the Dumbells You Lift?
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Music:
00:00 - Main Theme - Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Tokyo Revengers)
02:13 - The Canipa Effect Intro - Steven Kelly
02:28 - Pioneer Man - Kohei Tanaka (Back Arrow)
03:51 - Massive Impact - Yuki Hayashi (Backflip!!)
06:34 - Sentou - Hitoshi Fujima (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
07:59 - Theme of DW - Go Shiina (Dimension W)
11:53 - tomorrow - Yuki Hayashi (Kiznaiver)
14:37 - Crowds - Taku Iwasaki (Gatchaman Crowds)
17:17 - Solid Quake - Masahiro Tokuda (Deca-Dence)
All footage is used for the purpose of review and is fair use.