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What "Simulcast" Means in Anime — and How an Episode Reaches You in Hours
A new episode airs in Japan, and within a few hours comment sections everywhere light up at once. I read those freshly-lit comment sections every night for a living, and the more I think about it, the stranger and more impressive the machinery underneath is. Simulcasting: the system that puts a subtitled, official release in front of the world within hours of a Japanese broadcast, and quietly reshaped the rhythm of your week while it was at it.