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NEWS: Aniplex of America Streams 22/7, Darwin's Game, 'Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama?' Anime




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Friki del Mal



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:23 pm Reply with quote
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.
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paulchaested



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:23 pm Reply with quote
Ahhh Sony/Aniplex/Funi wants to keep playing these games.

Well...... YAAAAARRRRR!!!
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Darwin's Game is getting dubbed by Funimation, so that would be the first in-house Aniplex dub by Funimation since the merger.

Looks like they're still only dubbing action anime.
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Lynx Raven Raide



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:49 pm Reply with quote
Friki del Mal wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.

Actually blame the parent company, Sony, for buying them out. Or you can blame Warner for buying out Crunchy Roll.
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All these look awful. AoA used to put a filter on the anime they touched right? Now it looks filter-less.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:06 pm Reply with quote
Darwin's Game is the first Funi dub of an Aniplex of America license, such a shame Bunny Girl Senpai and Kaguya Love is War were too early to benefit from that :/
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Lord Vaultman



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:50 pm Reply with quote
LegitPancake wrote:
Darwin's Game is the first Funi dub of an Aniplex of America license, such a shame Bunny Girl Senpai and Kaguya Love is War were too early to benefit from that :/


I have a sneaking suspicion it may still be a bang zoom dub (hope I'm wrong since funimation typically does better dubs) and that aniplex may think highly enough of this show to do one like they've been doing with FGO.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:00 am Reply with quote
Friki del Mal wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.

Funimation and Crunchyroll are both sucks when it comes to territories.
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Lynx Raven Raide



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:31 am Reply with quote
ErikaD.D wrote:
Friki del Mal wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.

Funimation and Crunchyroll are both sucks when it comes to territories.

Sometimes it isn't exactly their fault, but local distribution. Madman had a basic lockdown on anime in Australia, only showing a few shows on AnimeLab and putting geolocks or delays on other platforms, but since Aniplex took over HIDIVE has shown up for Sentai works and AnimeLab is now showing more and more simulcasts.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 2:45 pm Reply with quote
Lord Vaultman wrote:
LegitPancake wrote:
Darwin's Game is the first Funi dub of an Aniplex of America license, such a shame Bunny Girl Senpai and Kaguya Love is War were too early to benefit from that :/


I have a sneaking suspicion it may still be a bang zoom dub


its not. Funimation confirmed on twitter that they are dubbing it
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:51 pm Reply with quote
Lynx Raven Raide wrote:
Friki del Mal wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.

Actually blame the parent company, Sony, for buying them out.


It wasn't a hostile takeover, Ken Fukunaga basically sold the company to Sony.

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Or you can blame Warner for buying out Crunchy Roll.

Since Funimation became part of Sony, Crunchyroll had no other option to compete than having a big media company as their owner, look at HiDive, at most they have whatever scraps Crunchyroll let's them have but now that they are playing nice with Viz, HiDive will never be a big player again.

The thing is, Funimation is only interested in 1st world/english fluent countries, they do not sell licenses they got for latinamerica just to spite Crunchyroll. But one of these days Fukunaga, bang! zoom! straight to the moon!
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Lord Vaultman



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:21 pm Reply with quote
getchman wrote:
Lord Vaultman wrote:
LegitPancake wrote:
Darwin's Game is the first Funi dub of an Aniplex of America license, such a shame Bunny Girl Senpai and Kaguya Love is War were too early to benefit from that :/


I have a sneaking suspicion it may still be a bang zoom dub


its not. Funimation confirmed on twitter that they are dubbing it


Where on their twitter page did it say they would be the ones to dub it? I only see where they simply state it's getting a dub
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LegitPancake



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:01 am Reply with quote
Lord Vaultman wrote:
Where on their twitter page did it say they would be the ones to dub it? I only see where they simply state it's getting a dub

It was in response to questions on the Aniplex of America announcement tweet.
https://twitter.com/funimation/status/1209581236462723077
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Lord Vaultman



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:08 am Reply with quote
LegitPancake wrote:
Lord Vaultman wrote:
Where on their twitter page did it say they would be the ones to dub it? I only see where they simply state it's getting a dub

It was in response to questions on the Aniplex of America announcement tweet.
https://twitter.com/funimation/status/1209581236462723077


Ah thanks I didn't think to check aniplex twitter account. Was only looking at funimations. That makes me very happy
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Lynx Raven Raide



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:32 pm Reply with quote
mangamuscle wrote:
Lynx Raven Raide wrote:
Friki del Mal wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Funimation. Thanks for screwing Latin America for an exclusive time period that screws Crunchyroll's distribution.

Funimation is the worst company that put its foot in Latin America.

Actually blame the parent company, Sony, for buying them out.


It wasn't a hostile takeover, Ken Fukunaga basically sold the company to Sony.

Quote:
Or you can blame Warner for buying out Crunchy Roll.

Since Funimation became part of Sony, Crunchyroll had no other option to compete than having a big media company as their owner, look at HiDive, at most they have whatever scraps Crunchyroll let's them have but now that they are playing nice with Viz, HiDive will never be a big player again.

The thing is, Funimation is only interested in 1st world/english fluent countries, they do not sell licenses they got for latinamerica just to spite Crunchyroll. But one of these days Fukunaga, bang! zoom! straight to the moon!

HiDive was going to struggle to begin with, since it is owned by Sentai. After the agreement between Funi and CR ended, CR struck up a deal with Sentai, which is what impacted HiDive. It was more logical and affordable for them to do that then run their own service.

sidenote: I don't know why you separated the quote. I never implied it was a hostile takeover, I was pointing out how both companies were bought out by major corporations that are in competition with each other, so any agreement between the two companies over sharing and joint licencing was going to end sooner or later
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