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If you like anything I play please check it out for yourself and buy whatever they have, that's the best way to support the content producers. (also the best way to get sequels or second series). If you want more details on anything I play, feel free to contact me on justin.tv (ryloh) or on the forums (you can pm ryloh or use the contact page) and I will get you more information.
Also for as much crap that JTV gets, don't forget without them I wouldn't be able to cast in the first place (so maybe click an ad every once in a while.) Weebly has also made this site a reality, and easy to do at that. Free Forums also hosts the forums, and its been a pretty good service. And I might as well mention WordPress, which is what I use for my blog. Basically it costs money to provide the solutions that I use on my site and these are the sources that takes the costs. So while I don't ask for any money or donations, it wouldn't hurt to help out the companies that help me out.
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RFToons Purpose and Limited Existence
First and foremost, RFToons is an anime community. A place for animation fans of all kinds to gather and enjoy and share the medium together. The format of this community originated around the concept of an online tv channel with an attached chatroom. This allows for fans to gather and start a dialogue unlike those at local anime clubs or conventions. Specifically a chat room based dialogue accompanied by a live stream allows fans to talk and enjoy a series simultaneously without needing to interupt the show or the conversation.
Secondly, RFToons is an experiment on the availability and market for anime. We live in a time where anime has little exposure to the general community. Saturday Morning Cartoons and Toonami have long since passed, and Adult Swim has reduced its anime lineup to a single night which consists mostly of reruns. There is a lack of availability of anime to those who enjoyed those old programming blocks but never explored the medium for all it has to offer. The vast majority of anime fans are passive or enjoy anime but don't realize how much it has to offer. The active fans which constitute the market today are the ones that are actively searching for new shows to watch, attend conventions, and always find the BluRays they're looking for. The passive fans have little idea of where to start and often would rather spend more time watching than searching. In the past, the old programming blocks provided this easy access and exposure. Need proof look at the popularity of DBZ, Gundam Wing, and Cowboy Bebop or any show from Toonami. Today, there's Crunchyroll, Hulu, and a few series made available on some license holders websites. But there is nothing similar to flipping on the TV to a certain channel and having something already selected for you. These legal streaming options require research to figure out what show you may be interested in and more time to find out where it may be available. This deters many potential fans.
But this leads to the reason for the existence of RFToons. Where there has been a diminishing service of anime exposure for the fans, the fans themselves will take it upon themselves to fulfill that need. RFToons does not do this for profit(and refuses any form of profit), RFToons does not do this for any one of all possible juvenielle reasons, RFToons does not do this to hurt the animation industry. RFToons does this to help remind industry that they still have fans that enjoy their work, and it will try to help pick up the slack until such a time when the anime industry has decided that it doesn't want RFToons around anymore or when Ryloh gets tired of maintaining it. RFToons also tries its best to present the anime from the schedule in such a way to promote a show and not undermine the sales needed for continued development of the industry. (ie. less marathons, more like 1-2 episodes at a time) And lastly, RFToons probably more into this than it should be.
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If you like anything I play please check it out for yourself and buy whatever they have, that's the best way to support the content producers. (also the best way to get sequels or second series). If you want more details on anything I play, feel free to contact me on justin.tv (ryloh) or on the forums (you can pm ryloh or use the contact page) and I will get you more information.
Also for as much crap that JTV gets, don't forget without them I wouldn't be able to cast in the first place (so maybe click an ad every once in a while.) Weebly has also made this site a reality, and easy to do at that. Free Forums also hosts the forums, and its been a pretty good service. And I might as well mention WordPress, which is what I use for my blog. Basically it costs money to provide the solutions that I use on my site and these are the sources that takes the costs. So while I don't ask for any money or donations, it wouldn't hurt to help out the companies that help me out.
------------------------------------------------------
RFToons Purpose and Limited Existence
First and foremost, RFToons is an anime community. A place for animation fans of all kinds to gather and enjoy and share the medium together. The format of this community originated around the concept of an online tv channel with an attached chatroom. This allows for fans to gather and start a dialogue unlike those at local anime clubs or conventions. Specifically a chat room based dialogue accompanied by a live stream allows fans to talk and enjoy a series simultaneously without needing to interupt the show or the conversation.
Secondly, RFToons is an experiment on the availability and market for anime. We live in a time where anime has little exposure to the general community. Saturday Morning Cartoons and Toonami have long since passed, and Adult Swim has reduced its anime lineup to a single night which consists mostly of reruns. There is a lack of availability of anime to those who enjoyed those old programming blocks but never explored the medium for all it has to offer. The vast majority of anime fans are passive or enjoy anime but don't realize how much it has to offer. The active fans which constitute the market today are the ones that are actively searching for new shows to watch, attend conventions, and always find the BluRays they're looking for. The passive fans have little idea of where to start and often would rather spend more time watching than searching. In the past, the old programming blocks provided this easy access and exposure. Need proof look at the popularity of DBZ, Gundam Wing, and Cowboy Bebop or any show from Toonami. Today, there's Crunchyroll, Hulu, and a few series made available on some license holders websites. But there is nothing similar to flipping on the TV to a certain channel and having something already selected for you. These legal streaming options require research to figure out what show you may be interested in and more time to find out where it may be available. This deters many potential fans.
But this leads to the reason for the existence of RFToons. Where there has been a diminishing service of anime exposure for the fans, the fans themselves will take it upon themselves to fulfill that need. RFToons does not do this for profit(and refuses any form of profit), RFToons does not do this for any one of all possible juvenielle reasons, RFToons does not do this to hurt the animation industry. RFToons does this to help remind industry that they still have fans that enjoy their work, and it will try to help pick up the slack until such a time when the anime industry has decided that it doesn't want RFToons around anymore or when Ryloh gets tired of maintaining it. RFToons also tries its best to present the anime from the schedule in such a way to promote a show and not undermine the sales needed for continued development of the industry. (ie. less marathons, more like 1-2 episodes at a time) And lastly, RFToons probably more into this than it should be.