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NEWS: Funimation Adds Shangri-La TV Anime Series

I guess I should do so sooner rather than later since it will probably be removed from crunchyroll as Funimation's release get's closer.

the usual offensively stereotypical transvestites

BluWacky wrote:

the usual offensively stereotypical transvestites

Weren't they actually transsexuals? I don't remember exactly.

This plays back into Mr. sickVisionz's comments about Jellyfish Princess and "trannies," but there is a difference between men who enjoy dressing in women's clothes but are otherwise cisgendered (i.e. identify with their given gender) and men who actually identify as female. Kuronosuke from Jellyfish Princess is cisgendered (and straight), he just loves women's clothing and looks damn good in them. The characters in Shangri-La (one of whom was played by Jouji Nakata, which was weird as heck) identified as women and had female names. Not that anime is very good at making that distinction, though Jellyfish Princess did, and I applaud them for it.

The guy used the term "newhalf", to which my understanding means some kind of physical change to become more feminine, be in breast augmentation or hormone treatment.

They had a partnership, and licensed mostly everything from GONZO up until Saki and Shangri-La, which was when the whole recession hit and when GONZO went bankrupt.

Even with a great production staff, if the studio doesn't have enough time and money the show might not turn out that great.
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And now I'm wondering... Does this mean Funimation might actually license Saki...?

Merger's been done bro, lol They've been perpetuating this crap to make it look like its not their fault (which it always is), and if you do your homework, AND even ask the voice actors, they all say the same thing "FUNimation sits on there titles for upwards of 6 months for absolutely no reason"

Interestingly, most licensed Gonzo titles are still available for streaming on Crunchyroll, like Tower of Druaga, Blassreiter, and Linebarrels. I think these shows were during the time Gonzo partnered with Crunchyroll before they went bankrupt. Maybe Crunchyroll has separate streaming rights for these shows?

Yes, that's what it means. So I remembered correctly, they're transsexual, not transvestites or cross-dressers. I wonder how Funimation will handle the dub on that. They have the opportunity to improve on the original, which cast extremely masculine actors in what I guess was a joke (though as a straight woman, hearing Jouji Nakata's voice coming out of a D-cub body was a strange, strange experience...so many conflicted feelings!).