agila61 wrote:


There are two sides. First side is if they think there may be a more lucrative distribution deal ~ normally DVD ~ and one or more of the potential bidders don't like to see a prior stream into their country. An example for Spanish America would be Giant Killing, since some Futbol anime have done very well in Spanish America.

Second side is that they do not expect the income to be worth the while of even analyzing whether the stream makes business sense. In that case, some production committees have a strategy of "stream everywhere unless there is a reason not to", but most seem to have a strategy of, "only stream if there is a clear reason to do so".

For series that come from manga, both can be in operation at once ~ there might be a prospective licensor for language rights to the manga, and the expectation is that the anime stream won't be worth enough to bother looking into the conflict.

I don't know who the Spanish language manga publishers are (well, that is I don't know anything at all current ~ I know that Rose of Versailles was published in Spanish out of Madrid, since between Japanese, French and Spanish, Spanish is my best bet at reading the manga), but since Beelzebub is a Shonen Jump manga series, protecting the character rights in the Spanish language publication rights market could easily be part of it.

So its murky because there are so many moving parts:
* what are the relative hit rates in Portuguese and Spanish language markets for different types of English-subtitled anime?
* what are the streaming ad markets like in Brazil and in major Spanish markets for streaming English-subtitled anime?
* what are the attitudes of DVD distributors, if any, in Portuguese language and Spanish language markets?
* what are the attitudes of manga publishers, if any, in Portuguese language and Spanish language markets?
* and what is the attitude of the production committee, "stream unless reason not to", versus "stream if reason to do so"

With only one or two moving parts, its is often possible to work out what is going on behind the scenes from the results alone. But, when there are so many moving parts, its hard to work out what is going on behind the scenes until an insider lets some information slip out.



See "stream unless reason not to", versus "stream if reason to do so" above ... I think that "stream unless clear reason not to" is the wisest long term strategy, but clearly there are lots of production committees that do not agree with me.