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NEWS: Funimation, Sentai in Talks Over Former Bandai Entertainment Titles

Thinking about it though, this is kind of a weird announcement. What's the point of bringing up the fact that you're having negotiations before any deal goes through? Especially since nothing can end up happening. Does Sunrise expect fans to start pushing one company over the other to get them to sign a deal or something?

Lynx Amali wrote:

mdo7 wrote: -Turn A Gundam (that series need to be rescue, if Funimation dub it can we get Annika Odegard from DW: Gundam 1 and 2 to reprise as Loren Coheck for the dub and if they can't, can Cherami Leigh or Alexis Tipton voice Loren). I can't picture anyone else doing Loren aside form the VA that he had in DWG. Same thing for Gym. McNeil made Gym his and it was awesome. However, I don't see Funi willing to give it to Ocean assuming they get it. See the Shana fiasco.

Yes but Funimation managed to get Ocean to dub Black Lagoon OVA. So if Funimation can managed to get Black Lagoon OVA dub, then I think they can get Ocean to dub Turn A Gundam.

I just hope one of them releases Escaflowne on BD. Preferably in a nice neat little package. Or a pretty one that won't cost an arm and a leg like the Japanese import.

mdo7 wrote:

Yes but Funimation managed to get Ocean to dub Black Lagoon OVA. So if Funimation can managed to get Black Lagoon OVA dub, then I think they can get Ocean to dub Turn A Gundam.

That also didn't stop them from NOT getting back the casts for Tenchi, or Shana, or Trigun.... The fact they got back the Black Lagoon cast probably has everything to do with the fact it's so short and the Vancouver people already work for close to nothing, but I bet Funimation thinks they live pretty dangerously financially for doing that

My only concern is whether FUNimation or Sentai will release The Vision of Escaflowne with the deleted scenes and give it a new English dub, because it really deserves it (that, and one character's squeaky kid voice NEEDS to be given the shaft!!).

Dagon123 wrote:

mdo7 wrote: Yes but Funimation managed to get Ocean to dub Black Lagoon OVA. So if Funimation can managed to get Black Lagoon OVA dub, then I think they can get Ocean to dub Turn A Gundam. That also didn't stop them from NOT getting back the casts for Tenchi, or Shana, or Trigun.... The fact they got back the Black Lagoon cast probably has everything to do with the fact it's so short and the Vancouver people already work for close to nothing, but I bet Funimation thinks they live pretty dangerously financially for doing that

While you have a point for Shana & the Trigun movie, they DID get most of the original Tenchi cast back for the third OVA. The only Tenchi shows that didn't have them were only because their characters had very little (GXP) to no (War On Geminar) involvement at all.

mdo7 wrote:

Lynx Amali wrote: mdo7 wrote: -Turn A Gundam (that series need to be rescue, if Funimation dub it can we get Annika Odegard from DW: Gundam 1 and 2 to reprise as Loren Coheck for the dub and if they can't, can Cherami Leigh or Alexis Tipton voice Loren). I can't picture anyone else doing Loren aside form the VA that he had in DWG. Same thing for Gym. McNeil made Gym his and it was awesome. However, I don't see Funi willing to give it to Ocean assuming they get it. See the Shana fiasco. Yes but Funimation managed to get Ocean to dub Black Lagoon OVA. So if Funimation can managed to get Black Lagoon OVA dub, then I think they can get Ocean to dub Turn A Gundam.

They don't need Ocean Group to dub Turn A Gundam. They can use their own VAs. Turn A doesn't have multiple series with dubs, so there's no VA they'd need to bring back.

It seems Sunrise is developing a US presence on their own, but unlike Aniplex USA, will be distributing titles through other companies. Wouldn't surprise me if they eventually set up a full US branch.

PurpleWarrior13 wrote:

It seems Sunrise is developing a US presence on their own, but unlike Aniplex USA, will be distributing titles through other companies. Wouldn't surprise me if they eventually set up a full US branch.

Yeah! They could call it Bandai Entertainment, or maybe Bandai Visual.

Somehow I don't think that Sunrise is going to threepeat that strategy. They'll sell premium releases straight from Japan, and mass market releases through the locally based home video distributors.

.//hack series
Angel Tales
G-Gundam
Galaxy Angel series (MUCH needed anime to be released in US again)
My-Hime series (as well as My-Otome)
Pilot Candidate
Please Teacher
Please Twins
s-CRY-ed
Sola
Stratos 4
The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (THIS TIME, do the UNCUT version)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Wolf's Rain

Please correct me if I made mistake on the lists above.

Man, Those are the anime I needed (or to be correct, wanted) get, but they're long gone and are too expensive to purchase online.

NJ_ wrote:

TopGunman wrote: -Turn A Gundam (that series need to be rescue, if Funimation dub it can we get Annika Odegard from DW: Gundam 1 and 2 to reprise as Loren Coheck for the dub and if they can't, can Cherami Leigh or Alexis Tipton voice Loren). They don't need Ocean Group to dub Turn A Gundam. They can use their own VAs. Turn A doesn't have multiple series with dubs, so there's no VA they'd need to bring back.

If you played DW: Gundam 1 and 2. Annika Odegard does a good job doing Loren which I don't know if Cherami Leigh or Alexis Tipton can pull off, also as Lynx said Scott Mcneil nailed Gym really well, and given Mcneil voiced a character in FMA, maybe Funimation could get Mcneil to voiced Gym again for the anime for real.

FUNi gets Bebop.

Calling it now.