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

Sigh Funi really have been losing it lately

I suspect they kept making the anime just to support the line of figures associated with this series. I think they are in competition with Evangelion to see who can make the most figures of characters from the show.

Alan45 wrote:

Whatever, sarcasm doesn't work well in text and I think you expect too much of a smiley. Without your explanation, it would remain a rather pointless one-liner. You should be used to people not understanding you by now.

You're right. Apparently I've been giving everyone WAAAAAY too much credit.

Don't worry. I'll be sure to speak V E R Y S L O W L Y F R O M N O W O N.

funimation has lost it! the web site new look same servers and issues and past issues followed over to the new site.

Also Funimation release schedule is anemic at best, One has to wonder at the health of the company.

I own many a Funimation box set, I would miss the company if it were ever to fail like Bandai-Entertainment did.

One also has to question Funimation never picking up the second season of Index while jumping all over Railgun second season and it being a spin off of Index.

firedragon54738 wrote:

Sigh Funi really have been losing it lately

Too true. They've always had delays with their products but their delays lately have seemed worse IMO. They've been canceling parts of products lately (eg:this, Fujiko Mine artbook), their quality control has tanked (Sankarea debacle), their new website still has many of the flaws of the old (eg:still focused on social media nonsense, rather than streaming anime, first and foremost) and they've REALLY been slacking on the con front lately.

I guess that the blame for this rests in part on the shoulders of their "competitors" like Sentai Filmworks because if they were closer in size/clout with Funimation, if they could hold Funi's feet to the fire, then Funi wouldn't be able to be slacking off with impunity. Yet Sentai is choking on Funi's dust as their lesser moe-military shows and their ever-growing (groan) cache of quasi-BL titles can't touch Funi's offerings.

I plan on getting this solely for the dub cast. I buy this in the hope that Jonathan Klein will get more directorial roles and that Carrie Savage will be cast in more shows; Funi needs her back, they have no substitute for her greatness.

SpacemanHardy wrote:

Alan45 wrote: Whatever, sarcasm doesn't work well in text and I think you expect too much of a smiley. Without your explanation, it would remain a rather pointless one-liner. You should be used to people not understanding you by now. You're right. Apparently I've been giving everyone WAAAAAY too much credit. Don't worry. I'll be sure to speak V E R Y S L O W L Y F R O M N O W O N.

Just skip the jokes all together, we won't miss much .

Sort of off subject but since Funimation's recent struggles have been brought up, I'm starting to worry a bit about them Cowboy Bebop and Attack on Titan BDs that are due out from them in 2014. Though, I'd assume those will sell well and so Funi will do right by them, but idk...

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.

Really anemic pre-orders I would suspect.

Still, it never looks good for a business to schedule something, take orders, and then cancel it.

Always you end up paying a price in terms of customer trust, not to mention the money spent on overall design of the LE, plus any setup costs and / or deposits paid to the pressing company.

Something had to have been seriously off for Funimation to decide to do this.

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.

Mark Gosdin

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.

I've never understood how this monstrosity got so many sequels, but it does have its fan base.