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NEWS: Funimation Starts Initiative for Co-Producing Anime

I, for one, am incredibly excited about this. I think it's a good move on Funi's part, as well as Japanese anime studios. I'm pretty sure that the Japanese realize that they have a major fanbase in dozens of western countries and producing anime with a popular American anime distributor would help them enlarge that fanbase. (that's for the crazy self-hating American otakus out there).

KARAS (OVA) (Tatsunoko Production)
2009/10/28 *1,403 Full Episode Edition (Six OVA episodes)

Kurokami The Animation ***360 (6+) (Sunrise/Bandai Entertainment)
2009/05/26 **,*** Vol. 1 (Three episodes up to current volume)
2009/06/26 **,*** Vol. 2
2009/07/24 **,*** Vol. 3
2009/08/25 ***374 Vol. 4 Limited Edition
2009/09/25 ***324 Vol. 5
2009/10/27 ***381 Vol. 6

Witchblade *2,580 (8) (Gonzo/FUNimation)
2006/07/26 *3,538 Vol. 1 (Three episodes up to Vol. 8)
2006/08/23 *2,985 Vol. 2
2006/09/27 *2,845 Vol. 3
2006/10/25 *1,764 Vol. 4
2006/11/22 *2,341 Vol. 5
2006/12/20 **,*** Vol. 6
2007/01/24 *2,263 Vol. 7
2007/02/28 *2,325 Vol. 8

Devil May Cry *1,723 (6) (Madhouse/ADV Films)
2007/09/21 *1,896 Vol. 1 (Two episodes up to Vol. 6)
2007/10/25 *1,852 Vol. 2
2007/11/22 *1,728 Vol. 3
2007/12/21 **,*** Vol. 4
2008/01/25 *1,656 Vol. 5
2008/02/22 *1,482 Vol. 6

Kanon (2006) 18,399 (8, not including Prelude) (Kyoto Animation/ADV Films)
2006/08/25 13,174 Prelude
2007/01/01 20,097 Vol. 1 (Three episodes up to Vol. 8)
2007/02/21 19,609 Vol. 2
2007/03/07 18,540 Vol. 3
2007/04/04 17,966 Vol. 4
2007/05/02 17,371 Vol. 5
2007/06/06 16,648 Vol. 6
2007/07/04 17,693 Vol. 7
2007/08/01 17,438 Vol. 8

Code Geass -Lelouch of the Rebellion (Code Geass Hangyaku no Lelouch) 45,367+*5,185=50,552 (9, not including Fan Discs and recap) (Sunrise/Bandai Entertainment)
2007/01/26 62,527 Vol. 01 (One episode)
2008/08/22 *6,294 Vol. 01
2007/02/23 52,702 Vol. 02 (Three episodes up to Vol. 09)
2008/09/26 *5,303 Vol. 02
2007/03/23 47,710 Vol. 03
2008/10/24 *4,704 Vol. 03
2007/04/25 43,106 Vol. 04
2008/11/21 *4,439 Vol. 04
2007/05/25 41,132 Vol. 05
2007/06/22 40,453 Vol. 06
2007/07/27 39,643 Vol. 07
2007/08/24 38,783 Vol. 08
2007/09/25 42,249 Vol. 09
2007/12/21 14,815 DVD Magazine I (Fan Disc)
2008/01/25 12,890 DVD Magazine II (Fan Disc)
2008/02/22 *8,342 SPECIAL EDITION BLACK REBELLION (recap)
2009/07/24 *2,090 SPECIAL EDITION BLACK REBELLION (recap)

rep21 wrote:

Afro Samurai was actually based on a manga by Takashi Okazaki that came out years ago, and not an American property at all. I'm not sure why it would fit more with the so called "MTV viewer" rather than the average anime fan, i mean it had Music by The RZA in it. Most MTV fans today wouldn't even know who that is if you asked them. I'm willing to bet that most of the sales of Afro Samurai did in fact come from anime fans who maybe like myself are probably fans of the RZA, Samurai's and action in general. While Afro Samurai is far from the best, it is also far from being a crap fest.( i think that term fits anime like K-ON more than AS to be honest) The fact that it wasn't as good as it could have been has more to do with the fact that they let Gonzo animate it instead of MADHOUSE. If this promo is any indication it would have been superior to the Gonzo version in every way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJ4vDlFAPA

Thank you rep21, finally an anime fan here like myself who isn't going along with the "trendy" lets bash Afro Samurai. To be honest I've thought AS was solidly animated by Gonzo, but MADHOUSE is by far my favorite anime studio and after seeing that promo I can only dream of what could have been.

Wait a second, The Hobbit was animated by the Japanese?

I remember the animated adaptation of The Hobbit was one of my favorite movies when I was little...

Actually for the Japanese side its a bad decision. They lose money on those ventures. (And other stuff being said...)

Wait a second, The Hobbit was animated by the Japanese?

I remember the animated adaptation of The Hobbit was one of my favorite movies when I was little...

Personally I don't want to see this happen. There are a few reasons. Some legitimate and others not to much.

Firstly is that very very few properties from the US would mesh well into the anime medium. Witchblade worked but it was the exception to the rule. Look at the stuff like Dead Spaces little thing it was horrible.

The other thing is if this does happen and takes off then alot of the anime studios will be making shows based on US properties instead of adapting things that real anime fans want like Manga, Light Novels, Visual Novels and even original anime.

And last but not least the vast majority of these properties are gonna fail horribly in Japan even if they do well in the US. They need to succeed in both markets to be bothered with and they won't. Why would Japanese companies make stuff that's gonna give them no profit in the end?

Despite the heavy backlash by Japanophiles everywhere, OEL manga is actually pretty good

Firstly is that very very few properties from the US would mesh well into the anime medium.

Why would Japanese companies make stuff that's gonna give them no profit in the end?

Personally I don't want to see this happen. There are a few reasons. Some legitimate and others not to much.

Firstly is that very very few properties from the US would mesh well into the anime medium. Witchblade worked but it was the exception to the rule. Look at the stuff like Dead Spaces little thing it was horrible.

The other thing is if this does happen and takes off then alot of the anime studios will be making shows based on US properties instead of adapting things that real anime fans want like Manga, Light Novels, Visual Novels and even original anime.

And last but not least the vast majority of these properties are gonna fail horribly in Japan even if they do well in the US. They need to succeed in both markets to be bothered with and they won't. Why would Japanese companies make stuff that's gonna give them no profit in the end?