So there are some fairly serious talks where someone wants to do this with my help.

https://riot.im/app/#/room/#Anime:matrix.org/$1535508591230126PGsxV:matrix.o...

Discussions start with this link, where we moved to matrix from youtube comments and I pretty heavy handedly explained why talking about this in a private chartroom won't likely get anywhere.

Basically the idea is to implement Taler in an ethereum DAO and create an liberapay like that, then tie that to a website integrating whatever existing peer-to-peer networks seem practical (peer.tube and IPFS seem like candidate).

People could pool funds, delegate votes, and the delegates could then leverage those funds to commission free culture anime from actual studios like Trigger (a studio already has a Patreon) and these studios are desensitized to foreign piracy.

Of course doing so while giving these studios artistic license and emphasizing that altruism now will support the model, support even larger // even more obsessed fandoms (from copying, modifying, and redistributing the art), and put your foreign audience in a position to directly gouge them by threatening to sell the anime to a japanese cable company and never sell the license to a foreign actor.

There are two conversations after that comment, the first is immediately after, and the second has about 140 irrelevant messages about anime in-between that and the first. (tongue fully planted in cheek, with the word irrelevant :))

tl;dr I told them why it would take about 10 years to do alone, and they still seemed to want to do it after having their heart broken.