Forum - View topicFUNimation December '13 / January '14 Solicitations
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Blood-
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While I understand dub lovers not being thrilled with this change in policy (I'd be interested to know if this is a one-off or the start of a trend), I think Funi is simply doing what it feels it needs to do to say alive in the NA anime distrib market. From a purely financial point of view, why would a company turn up its nose at making a bit of cash from a sub-only release versus making zero cash because a certain title is unlikely to recoup the cost of a dub?
Granted, Funi risks incurring the wrath of some of its customer base so the move is obviously not without risk. For myself, the lack of a dub would never prevent me from picking up a title I want and, in fact, I kind of appreciate the cheaper price since not that many dubs actually impress me. (However a good dub is worth it's weight in gold). |
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Megiddo
 Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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I can only hope it's Minami-ke. I've been wishing for that to make it States side for a long, long time. I wish they could have made that decision for Tatami Galaxy as it's an excellent show that deserved to be released here, but at least it has an official English release from Siren Visual. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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Given that this is unprecedented (outside of Arise, which is an import and probably mandated by the licensor) is there a Minion around who can verify the listing? |
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Megiddo
Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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I'd say the $49.99 MSRP all-but confirms it. Have they ever had a BD/DVD combo initial release of a 1-cour show for so cheap before?
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RightStufSpecialsMinion
Company Representative
 Posts: 331 Location: Iowa |
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The schedule we received from Funimation explicitly said "sub only" for that title. |
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GDFan
 Posts: 254 Location: North of Boston |
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Is it possible they couldn't secure the rights to dub it?
We all assume if an R1 company gets a title, it's their choice how to release it. If producing an audio track in English is something in the contract, the right to do so may have been withheld from them. Or simply overlooked. |
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Blood-
Bargain Hunter Posts: 23761 |
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I think we can safely assume this was not an oversight.
"Doh, we got the rights and forgot to make sure they included dubbing rights! Dang!" In the past, I'm sure if Funi could not secure dubbing rights to a title they would have simply not released that title. No, I'm pretty sure this has to be a deliberate act. What is unclear at this point is whether there will be more of this or whether there was some special "one time only" factor that we are not aware of. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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Ta very muchly. |
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potatochobit
 Posts: 1373 Location: TEXAS |
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Oniai, w!
I feel so conflicted I love akiko so much but the rest of the show was really bad. the price seems ridiculous for a new release so i guess its a must buy |
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Blood-
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@ WTK - do you have any educated guesses as to why Funi is suddenly releasing a sub-only title? I'm asking you because you seem to be fairly plugged in to the relevant Twitter/Facebook feeds and I was wondering if there's been any discussion about this.
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Ggultra2764
 Subscriber Posts: 3872 Location: New York state. |
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A sub-only release?
Granted there's no way I'm getting Oniai. But I've never recalled Funi ever doing a sub-only anime release. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7983 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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Jormungand and the Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians release if it's true.
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One-Eye
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Maybe it was part of a package licensing deal. In order to get one show they have to take and release this one. They may not be enthusiastic of its chances of selling well, so why waste a dub and money on something they are contractually required to release? Of course I'm just engaging in conjecture, but it could be a possibility. |
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publicenemy333
 Posts: 563 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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http://funimation.tumblr.com/post/61603135291/some-very-important-information-about-our-oniai-release
Here's there official statement about it |
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asimpson2006
 Posts: 3151 Location: USA |
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Funimation made a post on Tumblr about OniAi.
Funimation's Tumblr Post It covers a few things but here is the biggest one:
So my initial theory was right that this is litmus test for this type of release.
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