Forum - View topicNEWS: HIDIVE: Some Temporarily Unavailable Series Expected to Return to HIDIVE in Early 2023
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Glordit
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Let's hope they get Reideen again.
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Blankslate
Posts: 425 Location: Atlanta, GA |
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Clannad After Story, Elfen Lied, Highschool of the Dead, and the Patlabor movies have been missing for months. I won't hold my breath that these come back anytime soon.
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Erufailon4
Posts: 196 Location: Finland |
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I hope they use this opportunity to make quite a few titles available in territories they have licensed them in but for some reason haven't made available on Hidive. Their pre-Tsurune KyoAni licenses, for example - they were on Crunchyroll here before the removal but are still geolocked on Hidive. (And Tsurune seems to have disappeared recently.)
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FireChick
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Posts: 2468 Location: United States |
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Here's hoping the old Legend of Galactic Heroes OVAs are among those titles.
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RemGalleuSimp
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So 5 months ago it was a technical issue with an upgrade https://twitter.com/HIDIVEofficial/status/1547710057436962816
Now its "a regular and ongoing curation" of its library utter bullshit just trying to save face with a PR statement. Like ffs for anyone wondering there missing over 100+ titles, user made list - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cs-3KIZT3ijbf5cH6pF7BJlRqbm8JVCWHDUgKwtCY_Q/edit#gid=0 With Recent Additions Being The Like's Of "The Demon Girl Next Door Season 1" happening in the last 2 weeks. Funny how none of this is the ANN article. Last edited by RemGalleuSimp on Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Kougeru
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Based on all the evidence users have gathered (As seen above), the reasoning they give is BS and the timing they give should not be trusted. I don't expect they'll last another 2 years at the rate things are going. Sony/CR's monopolization will be complete soon. Disney could really do a number on it tho...
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2648 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Clannad (including After Story) is literally getting re-released physically in a couple of months, so I imagine AS will be returning to Hidive.
All of LOGH came back almost instantly after it was first taken down, so that's not a worry. |
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Angel M Cazares
Posts: 5494 Location: Iscandar |
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I am guessing that the missing series are in the process of being renewed. I assume that whatever does not return means that Sentai lost the license to it.
You are speaking as if Sentai/HIDIVE was still an independent company struggling to get by. Before AMC bought them I also believed that it was only a matter of time for Sentai to close shop or be bought by Crunchyroll. |
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el_morris
Posts: 249 Location: Tijuana, México |
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Well, AMC Networks is indeed struggling to get more money and reduce/cut spends to pay off their +2b USDLLS debt. |
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Greed1914
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It's not like AMC isn't feeling the pinch itself lately. animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-11-30/sentai-filmworks-hidive-owner-amc-networks-ceo-steps-down-announces-layoffs/.192414 |
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Joe Mello
Posts: 2295 Location: Online Terminal |
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There's no reason it can't be both, perhaps even intertwined. For example, it's possible the content publishing system flagged a bunch of shows for expired contracts erroneously and that's why they were pulled. In the process of trying to fix the issue, the contracts of the shows had/were set to expire for realsies and that creates further delays while the shows are reviewed and/or renewed. |
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MagicPolly
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Glad that Sentai themselves provided a list of shows that got removed and an ETA for when they'll return /s.
Hidive's service honestly feels like it's just been getting worse and worse and I hope they get their stuff together before AMC decides to cut them |
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Angel M Cazares
Posts: 5494 Location: Iscandar |
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I am aware that AMC is going through turmoil, but under them Sentai/HIDIVE went from licensing 2 shows per season to now 12. I could see AMC cutting Sentai/HIDIVE funding, but I doubt they are going back to the struggles before the buyout.
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ab2143
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Hozuki’s Coolheadedness s1 is probably never going to return
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paulchaested
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Man Crunchyroll... just buy out Sentai already. Mwuhahaha.
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