Forum - View topicNEWS: Navarre to Decide on Selling Funimation in 2 Quarters
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mglittlerobin
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It does not surprise me that DBZ Dragon boxes and Kai is selling well, not to mention that Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood came out in the first quarter. So does this mean they did okay, even though sales were down?
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MarzGurl
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An earlier news story clued us in that this was coming, so I'm not too terribly surprised, just saddened.
My biggest concern is that they will be sold to a company who wants to do something completely differently, and I feel as though FUNimation for the most part has the right idea. We still don't know who's buying, huh? |
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BobtheBoss
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Don't troll
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firecrouch
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I don't think we have anything to worry about. The whole point of selling FUNimation is so they're aligned with a company that has more in common with what FUNimation is trying to do. There are some bigger companies like Viacom that are more familiar with what FUNimation is trying to do. It'd be nice if a big company like Viacom could pump more money into FUNimation, though I fear then FUNimation would be forced to become more restricted in terms of interacting with fans. |
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RestLessone
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Hopefully Funimation gets picked up by a company that is more capable when it comes to Funimation's line of business.
Ignoring that you were trying to ignite flames, I find it more funny that you didn't even read the article to create the response. For the future: read before you troll, or else your comments don't even make sense. Last edited by RestLessone on Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:58 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Shichimi
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That's an interesting point, actually. It's nice that FUNi does have a big presence with regards to interacting with its customers, and it would certainly be a shame if they were forced to become more ... uh ... 'corporatey'?
Your Troll-Fu is weak. MUST TRAIN HARDER. ¬_¬ |
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SilverPhantom
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I'm fine with this, just as long as the company that plans to buy them does not ruin FUNimation's upcoming plans.
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mglittlerobin
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Lame troll, they don't get it, dubbing companies love new people, but voice acting is not on the top of people's "I want to do voice acting" as my career list. They don't get a lot of pay, and they are at the mercy of shows getting licensed and auditions.
I wonder if ANN bans people who just come here to troll. I'm happy Funimation is doing pretty well, despite the fact that the DVD market and the anime market aren't doing too well. I'd love to buy more, it's just shows don't scream "Buy me! Buy me!" for me right now. |
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shinichi8
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I'm so upset about Funimation botching up the release of Detective Conan in the US. It has succeeded in every country but the US. Funimation is bad at marketing, and limited the potential of my favorite anime. I just hope they sell the Detective Conan rights to someone else, so that this series gets the audience and attention it deserves. of course if you put it in late night adult swim, it was going to fail. It needed to placed in Toonami or primetime weekend cartoon network cable, or I even would have loved to see a network take a risked on an animated cartoon in primetime. It works in Japan. Why not here?
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R315r4z0r
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Do you think it would be good or bad if another dubbing company merged into FUNimation? Obviously the chances of that are slim to none since FUNimation is by far the most profitable anime localization company in the US. But let's say hypothetically that Sentai and FUNimation became one company? How would you feel about that?
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firecrouch
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What else could be done to make "Detective Conan" work in this country? And I doubt it could show up on Toonami, too violent and the subject matter is not kid-friendly.
Also I'd be okay with anime companies merging, I mean it might help a weaker company to merge with a bigger one, but right now the anime industry needs diversity so maybe not. |
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MarzGurl
Posts: 142 Location: San Antonio, Texas |
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The problem is selling an anime program to a TV network. It's risky, and costs a lot of money. And take Cartoon Network for example, Toonami's gone, and the only time anime even comes on anymore is in tiny fragments at ungodly hours. It's cheaper for a company to own all its own shows anyway (much like Adult Swim does) so that they can own all of their own marketing and make money not only off of commercials during those time blocks, but also any merchandise that comes with that program. You don't get the option of merchandising if you don't own the show. So Williams Street makes super-cheap-crap that costs little more than a few brain cells, and then presto, they're gaining revenue. They don't want to license a show if they don't know it'll be a hit, and FUNimation doesn't want to pitch a tv show to a tv station when they know it's just gonna be put somewhere where nobody's gonna watch it. I can't blame 'em TOO much. But I DO wish more anime was in public display on TV on better stations in better time slots again. |
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keikanna44
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Funimation is my favorite anime company. I love everything about them from their fan interaction to their DVD prices. I hope this doesn't change the way they operate.
Side note completely off topic in response to another post. Detective Conan doesn't work in the US because people aren't that interested in detective shows. The same way they aren't interested in sports anime shows. These genres have little fanbase here in America which is why they work in other countries but not here. 
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BlackJaded
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I may get a lot heat for saying this but, I'm think Bang Zoom CEO Mike Sherman has something planned or someone in the California has interesting of getting Funimation by next year and it maybe interesting whoever has brilliant mind on bringing anime back to mainstream. Funimation did a good job for the last couple and they'll do more in years to come. |
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MarzGurl
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I'unno... I think if it was anything BUT anime, these things might work more on television. I mean, Monk and CSI have done really well, right? And I dunno about sports, but lots of people here LIKE sports. But giving it to the public in the form of Japanese animation? Probably a turn-off to the mass populace. Not like I admitting that anime is still pretty much niche, but... |
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