Forum - View topicInterview: Gen Fukunaga on the status of Funimation
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agila61
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... uhmm, lessee ... how about ... Starship Troopers (canonical, not movie) would be another example. of a potential anime property. They could make a big deal of giving the heirs of the author's estate final signoff on the storyboards. Television and film rights for the Wheel of Time have been optioned several times. It would be possible to start out with the first book for a two season series, and kind of just keep going, with perhaps one season breaks in between, as long as it continues to draw an audience. The books regularly reach number one on the NYT bestsellers list and have sold 44m worldwide. |
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slipperybogle
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I think there already was an anime adaptation of Starship Troopers. I just hope Funimation doesn't see comic book properties (mainstream or indie) as conservative bets for their coproductions. Such a glut of that stuff already from Hollywood. |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Gah! Is that *salt*?? Are you pouring salt on the wounds Zac made by saying he *liked* the movie version of Starship Troopers?! I have been reading WoT since Eye of the World first was printed. Do you know HOW LONG I have been waiting for the series to end? Now the author is dead (RIP RJ, no disrespect intended) and we'll never have the ending he would've written, only one that he semi-wrote. But it would definitely be cool if they animated it. Honestly, though, the project would be huge, vast, gigantic. Even if you just did the first book (which can be viewed, sort of, as a stand-alone) it would be pretty long, I think. Still, the series ought to be done by the end of next year (according to the current author). In fact, one could view this as a western-themed IP that Funimation can put forward to co-publish, which is what I think you were saying. Yay! We tied this in to the main thread! Now Zac will let us live! |
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Greed1914
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And that's exactly what rational people should do. Public companies go through extensive audits with independent accounting firms because people should be able to use the information presented on those financial statements. Without them, it would be much, much harder to make informed investment decisions. Without a certain amount of trust, people would be unable to invest their money at all. Sure, it's always good to keep in mind that the information will typically be presented as best as possible, but there are extensive rules in place that dictate how it is presented to make sure that it is fairly stated. The news can make things look bad, but if people honestly believe that every company is out there trying to screw investors, then they're very mistaken. And, I'm not just making that up. My entire college career has been devoted to accounting, so I'm familiar with the rules governing financial statements and how much scrutiny goes into them. |
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ikillchicken
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There was an American CGI cartoon. Is that what you're thinking of? Although I don't think it was particularly close to either the movie or the book. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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No, there was a little-known 6-part OAV from 1988. It was produced by Sunrise, and though I never saw more than a snippet of it, everyone I know that checked it out wanted to throw the tape out the window. It's so terrible I don't think anyone ever bothered to even fansub it in its entirety. The encyclopedia notes say that it's pretty accurate, though not 100%. |
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E-Master
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Sounds like promising news as longer as the company's next partner is interested in their work and will help them get to where they desire.
Glad to hear that the live action movies releases are doing well. Cause that's what I've been buying previously along with the anime dvds. I'll be looking forward in hearing how all of this turns out for Funimation, cause I'll be supporting them in every way possible when it comes to buying their anime, live action movies, or co-produced works. |
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agila61
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But, that was to bring Tuor_of_Gondolin's post back under the umbrella of the topic. Starship Troopers as an anime is problematic for a lead-off implementation for Funimation's strategy precisely because of the existing high profile and several lower profile adaptations and the tensions between them. So there are safer lead-offs. If the original cast of the show that survived to the end of the movie will voice act, a season of Firefly is a safe bet to draw a substantial new audience to Funimation's streaming channels, and if the cross US-Chinese back story was highlighted more strongly, including the necessary couple of new cast members being Chinese celebrities, might also get broadcast in parts of China and southeast Asia. Spin it out to four seasons, it could have a shot at US and Australian broadcast deals. |
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LiuXuande
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This is the best thing I've read all week. The fish has outgrown its pond
I really hope Funi gains a lot from this transition, whoever the new owner ends up being, plus the man definitely knows what's up and seems to have great things planned for the future of anime in the west. |
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Crisha
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Oh God, man, you just gave me the longest and hardest laugh I've had in the past 7 days. Thanks.  Of course, you're obviously the sole reason all that happened - you have so much power, you're able to influence anything with the power of your voice and opinions.
Hey, haterade, if you have so much influence, why don't you use it for more worthwhile things? |
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Kimani
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Yes there was a Starship Troopers anime. It pretty much followed the movie scene by scene. If there are going to try to license american properties; it would be great if they can strike a deal an animate Buffy Season 8 & 9. Probably be too expensive though but I can wish. |
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agila61
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Yeah ... Week 1: "OK, 50 ideas on what we want to co-produce. Remember, established properties in other fields that will come with their own support base." Week 2: "Thanks for the great ideas. It turns out that these are the 5 we can afford the rights to." |
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Kimani
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Yeah I hear you. I wonder if there is any money to be made (on the American side) to animate another set of episodes of Berserk, Claymore, Chobits, Gantz etc.. I guess we will have to wait and see when their press release release comes out. |
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takimaki
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whether this is good or bad it'[s hard to say..
sound like funi has become a lead balloon to to parent company given its recent purchases, unless the likes of sony, pioneer or another entity to buy up funi, I think floating this type of market on the stock exchange was a bad Idea given the current stockmarket trend to dump a Co when it's down is always going to cause issues in the marketplace.. personally I'd like to see funi go worldwide, relying on a pissant Co to do a release in another region on substandard media is only going to kill which ever business in the long run.. sadly branching out into other avenues like live action movies and so forth while it is a practical Idea it should only be done in a limited, I've seen what happens when A Company lock stock and 2 smoking barrels into area's they do not belong, it tends to interfere with their primary mode of income.. before funi decides to do this route of selling pitch, I would strongly suggest them look at how overseas markets do it where other Co's do it.. look profitable it is for them you'll likely find out it isn't a rosey bed of flowers when you go this route.. while you might have the marketplace to do it I suspect you'll go bust trying to get a steady income from it, if a manga or anime has a live action series then by all means seek licenses for though 1 word of warning don't always rely on the content you get as in some cases a tv series and movie may have no cannon to the anime or manga.. classic example of this is the initial D L/A movie they couldn't even get the context of where the race fell within the storyline, yes the movie may have some good points, though fans of the anime and manga will hate it.. that being said I've seen some really well done l/a adaptions then i've also seen bad 1's. Personally I'd like to see more tv series get get released since there is alot of anime that has a asian subcontinent release yet there lacks a international english dub.. I series i'd like to see redubbed is sailor moon so the complete series can have a decent english dub the dic dub was bad and incomplete.. I'd also like to the lupin the 3rd tv series get a decent western release.. I also like to see a redub of robotech so it resembles something similar to the the japanese release instead of the useless context to where the english dub currently stands.. the other thing stop bastardising the animes you release its fine to give bs readings for domestic releases though for international you might want to start getting the grammer correct to where this place the anime is shot in, if it's based in japan then use japanese names for god sake same with monetary currencies.. this changing names to be politically correct tends to piss off the international audience that buys your products.. |
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agila61
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Based on what? The decision to keep versus sell is an expected incremental value to someone else if it is sold. Which suggests that Navarre's strategic direction has shifted since Funi was first bought, and there is no synergy any more. The way that they are signalling the availability for sale suggests that there's no urgent desire to sell unless one or more potential buyers thinks Funi would be a good fit. |
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