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Hey, Answerman! [2010-09-17]

I'd note that The Secret of Kells gets a R1 release in a few weeks, and it's totally worth seeing.

Funimation's release of Hetalia might just be a success.)

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(and I say crap because based on the last couple of seasons, most of it is actually quantifiably crap, not just “crap” where “crap” means “stuff”)

While I will admit, there have been many things I passed on because it looked like crap, I think some of the stuff they picked up in the last three seasons to be enjoyable.

loka wrote:

crunchyroll missed Angel Beats. they missed Arakawa Under the Bridge and House of Five Leaves. they missed Baka to Test and Seitokai Yakuindomo. every season this year they don't have the best shows. it's a sad thing indeed that there are people out there that believe crunchyroll streams enough anime already. certainly enough crap.

Did you really expect anybody to simulcast Angel Beats? I didn't, I mean, that had to have been an expensive license. And I mean, House of Five Leaves was already picked up by FUNi anyway, since they had that noitaminA deal.

crunchyroll missed Angel Beats. they missed Arakawa Under the Bridge and House of Five Leaves. they missed Baka to Test and Seitokai Yakuindomo. ...

And it is interesting to me that, despite the swing towards more shoujo and especially BL in the US, the dominating fujoshi-appealing shounen comics seem scarce.

Right now, Hetalia, Inazuma Eleven, Reborn!, and Gintama are juggernauts here in terms of popularity with teenage girls, enough that I just consider them "the big four." Excluding Hetalia, I can't think of a shoujo title that even compares. (Kimi ni Todoke would probably be the closest..?)

I can't help but assume they'd make more headway with those titles if they tried marketing them directly towards girls. (Although who knows - Funimation's release of Hetalia might just be a success.)

I would think Kuroshitsuji would be one of those shonen juggernauts. Unless you're already excluding shonen titles obviously aimed at gals in the first place. I've always assumed by the fans here that Hetalia is in the same group as Black Butler.

CCSYueh wrote:

I would think Kuroshitsuji would be one of those shonen juggernauts. Unless you're already excluding shonen titles obviously aimed at gals in the first place. I've always assumed by the fans here that Hetalia is in the same group as Black Butler.

I disagree. I think Soul Eater might be nearer to being a "shônen juggernauts" than Black Butler, or Gintama, but Black Butler? Nope.

As much as I love Netflix, the buyers have become pretty flaky when it comes to picking up new anime titles. When I first subscribed, I could reliably find any new title I wanted (granted, this was back before the bubble burst). Now, it seems like they aren't even buying all the new Funimation or Bandai titles, and the chances of finding the other distributors' releases have become pretty slim.

I'm almost to the point of trying rentanime.com or some other site for my anime rentals.

Funimation might know what to do with something like Soul Eater or Master of Martial Hearts, but if you ask them "hey could you guys sell this black and white 15-minute stop motion Belgian short about a depressed broke haberdasher who kills himself after realizing his dead wife never loved him", they would probably say "uh, no".

I've also been curious about non-japanese animation, especially French as it seems to get mentions in the forums from time to time (maybe for the sci-fi stuff?), but I have no idea where to start or what to look out for. I hear Gandahar is great, but I'm not sure if there was an R1 DVD for it.