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Funimation's Baccano! License to Expire in February

DmonHiro wrote:

People seem to be forgetting that Baccano is not a top seller anywhere. This is not a big loss for Funi, and I doubt Funi cares about it.

Actually, Baccano has been in the Top 100 anime category on Amazon for a while.
https://twitter.com/BigOnAnime/status/691975240151363585

It does better than Deadman Wonderland for FUNimation on Hulu, and Baccano is got an Anime Classics release which meant that it sold well. If it didn't sell, it wouldn't have gotten that.

I'm pretty sure FUNimation would have loved to have been able to renew it. This is kinda a big loss for them.

XChampion wrote:

Baccano is a pretty old show and It never really sold that well for funimation on dvd or for AoA's limited edition bluray either. I dont think funimation is going to miss it and AoA wont release it again for a while. I mean the LE and regular edition bluray they released several years ago only got one print to begin with and it took a few years to sell out anyway.

AoA first released the LE which sold out in less than a year and after it sold out they released a standard edition which I believe took about a year and a half to sell out. This was after them stating that the LE was getting a limited run and once it sold out there wouldn't be anymore. I don't think they would release a standard edition if the first one sold poorly. The SE did end up on an RS xmas sale (if I recall correctly) at about $10 cheaper and then soon sold out a month or two later. So it really didn't take a few years to sell out. They said it would be a limited run, it did well enough to get a second standard edition and that was that.

People seem to be forgetting that Baccano is not a top seller anywhere. This is not a big loss for Funi, and I doubt Funi cares about it.

It doesn't have to be a top seller for them to make money off it. Its just one less show they could be streaming which is reduces their library. I'm sure there would still be people picking up the show on DVD in the long run, yea not a ton of people but some money is better than no money. Is it a tremendous loss like say if they lost FMA? No, but its still a loss even if its a minor one.

Percival King wrote:

Anime is a dying market in the west, and Aniplex is dead-set on being the one to bury it.

Not really. More shows are being licensed than ever, simulcasts are considered the norm and Funimation started doing broadcast dubs. Those are not the signs of a dying market.

This is the same nonsense TMfanboys say whenever Garden of Sinners get brought up. Selling out within a limited shipment doesn't mean much of anything especially when something like SAO can sell over 5000 copies per set alone and at a faster rate. Baccano alone didn't even have half the amount of shipment of SAO and might have been lower than Garden of Sinners (400 copies) and even then it still took a long time to sell out (GoS were sold out less than a month) so once again as the AoA model has proven time and time again hardcore fanboys are willing to shill out for something they love it doesn't mean that its breaking out of its niche.

DmonHiro wrote:

People seem to be forgetting that Baccano is not a top seller anywhere. This is not a big loss for Funi, and I doubt Funi cares about it.

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It doesn't have to be a top seller for them to make money off it. Its just one less show they could be streaming which is reduces their library. I'm sure there would still be people picking up the show on DVD in the long run, yea not a ton of people but some money is better than no money. Is it a tremendous loss like say if they lost FMA? No, but its still a loss even if its a minor one.

The problem is you guys are acting as if Baccano was some sleeper hit when it really wasn't, it sold well within its niche of a niche which is a fraction of anime fandom as a whole. Funi knew it wasn't a big hit, AoA knew it wasn't a big hit so why say otherwise? Its a personal loss but as far as business goes it means nothing.

Baccano is a pretty old show and It never really sold that well for funimation on dvd or for AoA's limited edition bluray either. I dont think funimation is going to miss it and AoA wont release it again for a while. I mean the LE and regular edition bluray they released several years ago only got one print to begin with and it took a few years to sell out anyway.

The responses to those tweets already said what I was going to say. Using an example from a Black Friday deal is not a good argument especially since Baccano was released here back in 2009 and the only reason its up now is due to the recent news about the license.

Doesn't mean much at all since DW didn't exactly heat up the charts either despite its Toonami push yet it still did better than what Baccano sold initially when it came out. Anime Classics has nothing to do with success, freaking Texhnolyze has an Anime Classics release and that sure as hell did not do well here. Everything in regards to Baccano shows that Funi loved working on the show and knew it was never going to be a top seller for them but they still pushed it with cheaper releases hoping it'll catch on to mainstream audiences but it never did and only stayed within its niche.