A politely skeptical TIGA analysis

As a Hong Kong based (albeit founded and once owned by former employees of the more blatantly corrupt Chaiyo productions) business which frankly deserves just as much friendly bantering and chuckling from people like me (it’s mostly because respecting most of the less messed up Thai Royals is a lot of hard work, even though what it does require, in a good mood, sometimes contains healthy amounts of both politeness and sanity in the nation as a whole!), TIGA entertainment is known in its home nation for having politely tenuous links with both Toei and TMS, which (kind of) explains why it regards many of its own cash grabs as shabby old secrets which ain’t allowed to be uploaded (even outside of Thailand) without the company’s own officially explicit permission. Rose media and entertainment is also its friendly rival, so that’s kind of necessary. 

While fair dealing (although rather weak) does exist in practice (but not in law) for Thailand, it’s also lovely that Japan strongly tolerates safe for work Doujinshis of tv shows and mangas because, most of the time, it regards a huge majority of them as affectionate parodies rather than legal threats, albeit it’s only as long as they’re aren’t made for profit, which is fine. 

Even then, the company’s own (often pretty scummy) lawyers are often (like their counterparts from Japan) taking brutal lengths to hide videos of the Thai cash grabs from internet surfers; and that’s supposedly (although rather likely in turn) to prevent a ridiculous amount of (perhaps mostly frivolous) lawsuits from the lawyers of TMS and Toei animation, which compete with each other on a regular basis. 

Another major reason for the cash grabs being mostly hidden away from home video for a long while (resulting in them becoming pretty much forgotten outside of Thailand, but that’s mostly due to murky legal reasons), is that many if not all of them are fairly blatant knockoffs of Anime shows and the like. Also not helping is that the Thai entertainment industry is known for being very corrupt, as with others from the rest of Southeast Asia.