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Saiki_Thorn
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I started to think that Funimation would be licensing more anime yesterday. As you did, I got the same feeling from Funi reps post. From the layout on the site, I am pretty sure Funimation will be announcing more anime. I think that they may announce all of the other licenses at midnight tonight. That would make a great New Year's Eve. |
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penguintruth
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Looks like a pretty fun series. I haven't checked it out so far because I've been busy with other programs, but it might be worth looking into.
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Kelly
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They could be waiting for a spring con. I'm not familiar with con timings, but a spring announcement would be consistent with, perhaps, a theoretical early spring release of a Season 2 boxset and Tokyo Revelations release in summer or fall. Assuming the cast is available, dubbing probably won't take long once the license is in place as I see in the encyclopedia it's only three episodes long (but what a set of episodes I'm assuming they are!). I can't imagine it won't be licensed fairly soon, as manga fans are aware of Tokyo's significance and will have probably read, as I did, the buzz that the anime version came out really well. Just speculation, but I'd be pretty shocked if we don't hear license news before the coming year is over. |
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Zoe
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There is considerably more fanservice and blood in Soul Eater. The anime did tone things down though. Edit: Maka's last name is Albarn, not Alban. (as in the guy behind Gorillaz) |
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MetatronM
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Naruto is a special case. It was treated better in terms of editing than anything CN has ever aired on the main network (i.e. not Adult Swim), and they did so because it was Naruto, hyped heir apparent to the DBZ throne (in the US, at least). Soul Eater is not Naruto, it never will be. They're not going to bend over backwards to give it the same kind of treatment. And even then, they can only barely even manage to get Naruto on the air to fulfill that contract now. Considering all the other shows that got dropped altogether in the past year, even that is currently happening solely because Naruto is the exception to the rule. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
Posts: 1540 Location: This space for rent |
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This is at least an interesting choice, now we can just hope they save Rebuild for the ball drop tonight.
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TheTheory
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Well, we knew it was going to happen eventually... I'm just relieved it has happened. Definitely been one of my favorite series, even with the sub-quality drop after the C&D. Also, as fun as an artbox would be, that would be mighty expensive. I'll be happy with the 4 "half-season" sets that FUNI has been fond of doing recently.
Happy New Year! YAY. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
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No offense, but fansubs are a legally gray area in the first place, and C&D orders are absolutely within the rights of the US distributors, be thankful you'll be getting it in a legal format and helping an ailing industry. |
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Apterous
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I agree. If they can remember that "shinigami-sama" means "Grim Reaper" in the dub, I'll be pretty happy with it. </flamebait> 
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TheTheory
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I feel like you're reading an upset attitude where i had none. |
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Unit 03.5-ish
Posts: 1540 Location: This space for rent |
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Sorry if I misinterpreted what you said.
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BrothersElric
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Well it certainly wasn't the best work of art in the entire world, but I'm with JG, that trailer wasn't quite as bad as some of you were making it out to be. Though admittedly it was kind of funny to hear the announcer say that Death the Kid is obsessed with symmetry with such a serious, straight sounding voice.
Well since I stopped watching it around episode 12 due to an overload of series I was watching at the time figuring there would be an inevitable license for it so I shouldn't worry about watching it now, this is obviously something I'm very excited about!  I knew the C & D was a precursor to it being licensed!  Looking forward to getting back into this series again. As I've said before around the same time it first premired, this has potential to be quite possibly one of my all time favorite shounen series, as well as my consideration of it as one of the best. Especially considering how good I hear it gets after the point in which I stopped, which quite frankly I'm saddened that I did at such an inconvenient time.... 
As for it getting on TV, I think it's pretty much inevitable that it will at least somewhere anyways. Most likely somewhere mainstream but where? CN is always the obvious answer to that but it's struggling so much with showing anime right now I'm not so sure..... |
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maaya
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It's a bit weird to keep the "Shinigami-sama", because in the series his name (signature) is shown as "DEATH" - shinigama is purely the translation for the Japanese dub. Most texts in the series are in english or french, don't remember but at least not Japanese ^^; So the characters are supposed to talk in English or so (like D Gray Man). And the only Japanese person in the whole cast is Tsubaki I think xD |
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Shadowlord
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Bad news from my point of view.
But it's no big surprise, after these C&D letters it was sure, that Soul Eater is going to be licensed very soon. I wanted to watch the trailer, but: "We're sorry, but due to your geographic location, we cannot allow you to gain access to this content." ...I HATE this! Soul Eater is very good, but I wouldn't collect such a long running series on LQ-DVD (compared to fansubs) or unnecessary expensive BD. But hey, I don't live in the US anyway... |
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BlackJaded
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The only thing I cared most about this series is that I'm gonna see alot of cosplayers wearing the Thompson Twins,Black Star and Tsubaki characters.............Oh it brought to tears on that those times!
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