Tag: Anime

Download video from tweets

Sometimes people post a video to Twitter (no, I won’t call it X) and I want to show it to other people without benefitting the guy who bought the site, or I want to keep a copy that will outlive that site. How do you download those videos?

There’s a utility called yt-dlp (a fork of a prior utility called youtube-dl). You’ll need to install that. On my Mac I used the Homebrew package manager; on Windows I think you can directly download and install it.

Once it’s installed you’ll need to login to Twitter in a browser. For this example let’s assume you’ve done that in Chrome.

Assuming we want to download the video at https://x.com/NEBU_KURO/status/1740862661506846922/video/1 the command you’d use is

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome "https://x.com/NEBU_KURO/status/1740862661506846922/video/1”

Sometimes you’ll get a bunch of errors because yt-dlp will try to use the text of the tweet as the filename and the resulting filename will be too long. You can tell it to limit the length of the filename, e.g. 

yt-dlp  --cookies-from-browser chrome "https://x.com/NEBU_KURO/status/1740862661506846922/video/1” —-trim-filename 80

Will only use the first 80 characters of the tweet to name the file.

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Kyoko Hikami panel at PMX 2015

Pacific Media Expo 2015’s anime guest of honor was Kyoko Hikami, a voice actress likely best known for her role as Momoko/Wedding Peach in the anime adaptation of Wedding Peach, or perhaps as the rabbit-ear-and-dice-wearing Rabi-en-Rose from Di Gi Charat. She held two panels at PMX, as well as at least one autograph session. PMX is small enough that neither was especially crowded – the panel I made it to peaked at about 20 attendees, and the line for autographs was similarly short. Continue reading →

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ANNFacts Kai

This is from the Kleckbait episode – the annual interview with RightStuf founder and owner Shawne Kleckner. The format I’m using here is a number or number range indicating about how many minutes into the episode relevant comments are made, along with a summary of what’s said. As usual, I’m not attempting to transcribe or even roughly summarize everything said – just trying to pull out data and factoids.

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ANNFacts NEXT

From the Big Funi Hustlas episode (2015 Jan 16)

  • At about 5 minutes, the following titles are doing very well for Funimation:
    • DBZ Battle of the Gods
    • Attack on Titan
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Bayonetta
    • Fairy Tail
  • Disappointments include:
    • Production IG’s movie Hal (mentioned around minutes 9-10), apparently because there was basically no awareness of it, good or bad.
    • The live-action feature Let Me Out (around 12 minutes in)
    • Also, the Magical Index/Scientific Railgun shows seem to do better on streaming than on disc
    • Around 15 minutes they mention that Future Diary on DVD didn’t do very well; they’re guessing home media collectors are holding out for the Blu-Ray
  • 16 minutes: the standard limited-edition releases (discs + chipboard box) didn’t see a drop-off from the prior year – they grew.
  • 19 min: Special editions are driven by availability of assets as well as projections (these are case-by-case decision). Kamisama Kiss’s special edition was diven by streaming numbers and a desire to see if those would translate into physical media sales. They did pretty well…
  • 21 min: Ideas for extras tend to come from fan requests
  • 26-27: the Funimation subscriber sub-only option caused a jump on without a corresponding jump-off from all-access subscribers.
  • 29-30: Space Battleship Yamato has been great for Funi
  • 36-38: Funi attempt to get all the rights they can. They aren’t especially focused on global streaming rights, if only because those are frontloaded (in terms of having to pay without Funi being able to gauage demand); they’re more focused on North America (???and on mobile sites?)
  • 42: According to Japanese industry, streaming successes are driving further production (the large number of shows each season). This “success” may not be short-term financial gains so much as access to a borader audience.
  • 56: Funi saw an immediate jump in subscribers after announcing the first broadcast dubs
  • 64: Funi’s online store has been doing very well.
  • 65: They’re looking at doing more retailer exclusives, for various retailers (not necessarily just Amazon- and Walmart-size ones)
  • 68: The 35+ demographic is big for Funi in both sales and streaming, despite conventional wisdom
  • At 70 they make a point of refuting (from data) the “girls don’t buy [whatever]” BS
  • 72: They’re finalizing plans to expand to South and Central America
  • 78: Download-to-own has been examined before and they look at it again periodically
  • 93: Funi has a pre-order-heavy audience

From the Meat Popsicles episode (2015 May 1)

  • 9: Hulu contracts are at-will
  • 10: Individual TV networks want to go on their own individual platforms rather than a shared platform like Hulu; that’s the big risk that may tank Hulu (apparently a major revenue sources for anime companies these days)
  • 15: Shirobako tanked in streaming
  • 31: There were long-standing issues licensing Robot Carnival due to APPP being burned on their prior attempt to enter the US market (presumably this is a reference to the Jojo OVAs)
  • 48: Discussing differences between ANN users and Crunchyroll users
  • 49: Discussiong of “solving the discovery problem” for catalog material “for casuals” (that is, introducing older material to folks other than hardcore fans)
  • There seems to have also been a discussion of anime members of the creative team who are revenue (not profit) participants?
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Uru in Blue (Aoki Uru) panel from Fanime 2015

A certain tokusatsu panelist couldn’t make it, so Gainax co-founder Hiroyuki Yamaga agreed to run a panel on Gainax’s pre-production film Uru in Blue. I took some rough notes – this won’t be a write-up of the panel so much as a transcription. Also, both the notes and the photos were taken on my phone; please set your expectations accordingly.

Some background: Uru in Blue (Japanese title: Aoki Uru) is a film project by Studio Gainax. Fans in and out of Japan have been seeing information about it since the 90s – Carl Horn ran a panel about it at Anime Los Angeles earlier this year. Carl also attended this panel, so if he runs his Aoki Uru panel again there’s a chance it’ll be updated with some of what what revealed here.

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ANNFacts the Origin

I guess I need to start with a statement of purpose? Anime News Network has a podcast (ANNCast), which sometimes lets slip bits of industry information that we as fans don’t otherwise hear – sales numbers, business processes, sometimes even gossip. My goal is to try to collect these tidbits, summarize them, and provide some kind of citation for each one. I expect it to start kind of rough…

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