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Toboe Posts: 138 Location: Rakuen |
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This attitude to me smacks of the "console wars". FUNimation is like the Gamecube; people think it's underpowered and for children, but if they bothered giving it a second look, they'd realize it has a large catalog of wonderful games (or anime, in FUNi's case). To extend the analogy, PS2 and Xbox are the "cool" consoles, like Geneon, Bandai and ADV are the "cool" companies. I own all three consoles. Doesn't matter who releases what, so long as the content is good. FUNi did a wonderful job with Fruits Basket, Blue Gender, Kiddy Grade and the Lupin movies.. and they'll do a great job with Kodocha, I'm sure. I'm not looking forward to what Bandai's putting out, I'm looking forward to Wolf's Rain and Ghost in the Shell... am I making sense here? Doesn't matter who releases what, so long as it's a quality product. FUNimation has more than proved themselves. Of course, I also think turning DBZ from a Japanese children's show into an American children's show isn't the crime of the century, so I might be biased. |
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the_soultaker Posts: 685 |
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LMFAOOO, What "attitude"? I'm just gloating over the two aformentioned companie's track record of what i consider cool releases. Funi's catalog can't compete nor compare to Bandai,ADV,Geneon or even media blasters. I personally did not care for Blue gender (the "Starship troopers" of anime with a hint of genesis climber mospeada.) nor especially the DBZ stuff. If fruit basket is your thing, god bless ya.  Everyone has their onw preferences albiet videogames or anime. but no one on this thread ever mentioned "funimation sucks" and so forth.
As for the console wars, I too own all three systems and whatever game caters to my liking, i will purchase it for that specific system.same goes for anime. Apples and Oranges hun. 
Excellsior! Last edited by the_soultaker on Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:37 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Cassandra Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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| Just to add a bit to this:
AnimeNation's Ask John column yesterday specifically answered this question |
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VegettoEX Posts: 50 Location: New Jersey |
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| Wow, John's response was actually... well... fantastic. The analogies he brought up in regards to the other companies were dead-on, and absolutely truly represents the way some of these anime fans think (as seen by some of the posts in this very thread). | ||||||
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Tenchi Posts: 2901 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Here's a couple of announcements I would not be surprised to hear FUNimation make at Anime Expo and one of the other major summer conventions:
This is all nothing but idle speculation, though. |
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| Nagisa Moderator  Posts: 5991 |
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| The first two, I'd definitely put my money on. FUNimation seems to be more the type of company that licenses a few really long shows than one that focuses on licensing many, many short-medium ones (like Geneon, ADV, & Bandai typically are). I mean, they don't have that many series under their belt, and the four they appear to be putting the most publicity behind (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Kodomo no Omocha) all exceed 100 episodes.
The last one...sorry to say sounds more like wishful thinking to me. Don't get me wrong, I too would love to see it happen, but...yeah...going way out on a limb for that one. |
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| emory Posts: 586 |
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also since the show is being done for adult swim, I don't see how a name change is needed. nonetheless, this is my predicted future of Detective Conan in the US: - Conan's run will begin on Adult Swim in late May, where they will run the first 26 episodes. - Ratings won't hold due to the show's setting and dated animation. AS will immediately move it to the 1 AM hour, and it will soon be removed in the middle of the 26 episodes' reruns for reruns of another show. - During off-air time FUNi will begin pushing the DVDs out. - Conan will return to finish up its reruns in the 1 AM hour for a short period. - Conan will be returned to midnight for another 26 episodes later in the year. - The ratings for the 2nd set of 26 will be worse or even with the first 26 and history will repeat itself with the show returning to 1 AM or 1:30 AM. Meanwhile FUNi continues DVDs. - Conan will be pulled off the schedule yet again for a longer period of time. Meanwhile FUNimation's DVDs have gone past episode 52. - Having seen the ratings, Cartoon Network won't order anymore episodes. Conan will be brought back to the schedule for a few weeks around 1 or 1:30 every 5 months or so until the rights expire, and the show ends up in a coffin next to its fallen Adult Swim comrade Lupin the 3rd. - FUNimation will make a marketing attempt here and there while continuing on with the DVDs. - With no TV broadcast to piggyback on, FUNimation will decide that it's pointless to continue releasing the show and stop production around episode 100. of course, it's just my prediction. |
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littlegreenwolf Subscriber Posts: 3192 Location: Gainesville, FL *Go Gators!* |
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I for one would be scared and not surprised at their asking price to selling the whole Sailor Moon series to a single company. I doubt any company will buy it for how much Toei will be looking for. |
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Craeyst Raygal Posts: 1361 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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| I don't know if Detective Conan will be success in spite of OR because of the name changes, and I haven't seen Fruits Basket, but I can tell you this:
They did a dem fine job with Tenchi GXP, and if they keep up this five episodes per DVD stuff I'm going to keep being pleased with them. That they went this far out on a limb to license a series that, in all honesty, has nil chance of getting on TV or becoming a DVD blockbuster, speaks volumes about how willing they are to listen to the fan community. Heck, Kodoma is only about three steps away from Violinist Hamelin as far as "obscure fan favorite" status is concerned. |
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EmerjeSubscriber Posts: 4862 Location: Maine |
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Err, this doesn't make a bit of sence. For starters, while FUNi may have a lot of their stuff on TV, they also have a lot that hasn't been (Tenchi GXP, Kiddy Grade, Fruits Basket, etc.) Also they don't have a track record that would indicate that they'll give up on any title, so far they've followed through on every one of their titles.
Here's one for you, They have the rights to Full Metal Alchemist. Hey, they've already got the domain name so why not: from whois database: Registrant: FUNimation Productions, Ltd. (IJYPOCWQHD) 6851 NE Loop 820 Suite 247 Fort Worth, TX 76180 US Domain Name: FULLMETALALCHEMIST.COM Administrative Contact: Cocanougher, Daniel (22826462I) daniel@FUNIMATION.NET FUNimation Productions, Inc. 6851 NE Loop 820 Suite 247 Fort WOrth, TX 76180 US (817) 788-0627 fax: (817) 788-0628 Technical Contact: Network Solutions, LLC. (HOST-ORG) customerservice@networksolutions.com 13200 Woodland Park Drive Herndon, VA 20171-3025 US 1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620 Record expires on 26-Aug-2006. Record created on 26-Aug-2003. Database last updated on 17-Apr-2004 03:31:57 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS31.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.161 NS32.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.162 Of course, having a domain name doesn't necessarily indicate anything or than that they have the domain name, but I'd be pretty happy with the news if it happens. Emerje |
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Steventheeunuch Posts: 2973 Location: Australia |
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| isnt it going to be an eight disc release though? (tenchi GXP)
In which case, it'd be like, 5-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 |
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Mohawk52 Posts: 3963 Location: Our house in the middle of our street in Basingstoke, UK. |
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| Steventheeunuch Posts: 2973 Location: Australia |
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| Thye mentioned a while ago on AoD, that they couldn't get the actors or whatever.
Also, I thought GXP was an eight disc release, like Kiddy Grade. |
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| Nobuyuki Posts: 450 |
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It is. |
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Godaistudios Posts: 2003 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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| And it's such a shame too. I was hoping for more releases like what was done with Fruits Basket. The price point for that number of episodes was perfect. I would have loved for Kiddy Grade to have gotten a 4 DVD release. | ||||||
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