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NEWS: Funimation Cancels Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians Limited Box, Keeps Regular Edition

Honestly, some people are getting too worked up over Funimation canceling a LE box for a shitty fanservice show and/or its website not working properly. WE ARE NOT SEEING THE DEMISE OF FUNIMATION PEOPLE.

I have been a detractor of Funimation for while because they seem too interested in releasing more ecchi shows than series with more substance. I also consider the "dub everything" policy myopic. Fortunately, they are addressing those issues by acquiring great new content and considering doing some sub-only releases.

If you add the recently acquired Sunrise titles, Funimation will have a great 2014. Next year they could release Psycho-Pass, Cowboy Bebop on BD, both seasons of Code Geass on BD, Escaflowne on BD, The Devil is a Part-Timer and Attack on Titan. That is a killer lineup for a company that is supposedly struggling.

victor viper wrote:

mgosdin wrote: On a somewhat related note : I was in Best Buy yesterday and the vast majority of their Anime is now Funimation LE Boxed sets. Only a handfull of titles, but 5 or 6 boxes of each. Made it look like the Anime shelves were stuffed until you realized just what it was you were seeing. How depressing. I rarely set foot in Best Buy anymore but the last time I was in my local store, the anime section was similarly grim. I can fondly recall strolling into Best Buy circa 2005 in any given week and finding basically every new-release title from ADV, Funimation, and Media Blasters on the shelves.

When I first worked at Best Buy in 2007, we have an entire half aisle of anime. It was a 16 foot long section with four shelves apiece, and it was full. Like you said, you could find just about every new release from the big guys.

By the time I left in 2011, the section was cut to four feet and it was barely full at that. I stopped at a larger Best Buy a few weeks ago, and it only had two four foot shelves with just a hand full of titles. Of course, Best Buy has cut way back on the amount of DVDs and blurays they sell across the board. It's not just an anime thing.