Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation to Expand Anime Streaming Outside N. America
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thelastgogeta
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I'd subscribe just for Assassination Classroom, glad that the UK is a pretty safe bet and a surprisingly untouched market outside of Sony's Animax service (PC and PlayStation systems) and Crunchyroll which is worldwide anyway.
If we get One Piece and Detective Conan as well (whether CR provide it or FUNimation only), I'll be pretty happy.
Well, as long as they don't every show streaming in every region forever, there will be some justified whining to happen. Expect people to be on FUNimation's case regardless, even Crunchyroll has an audience outside North America and English speaking countries.
As far as I know, FUNimation do a good job with subtitles, assuming that your issue is with their dubs or DVD/Bluray releases there is nothing to lose with them reaching a larger audience.
Presumably they don't have enough resources to rule the world even if they can stream across it and sell a lot of releases in North America. Manga Entertainment UK and Madman Entertainment (in Australia) are likely to be partners for much much longer. At most, their additional exposure may lead to them trying to sell more R1 sets worldwide much like CR does. |
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mdo7
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Uh, why don't you just continue to watch on CR and instead of complaining about Funimation? |
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Greed1914
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Indeed. Crunchyroll already shares the streaming rights to things like One Piece and Naruto with Funimation and Viz, respectively, so I doubt if that will change when Crunchyroll already has a foothold in other regions. |
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Yttrbio
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I would expect that if Funimation starts streaming in other territories they'll get exclusive rights which prevents Crunchyroll from doing the same, which is how it often works in the US.
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Agent355
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They already seem to have exclusive rights to some countries that they can't stream to. Funimation streams a whole bunch of shows that Crunchyroll streams outside the US--*except* for native English speaking countries. It's suspicious, and there is speculation that Funi actually has English streaming exclusive rights. Now they'll be able to actually stream them overseas.
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Polycell
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mdo7
Posts: 6284 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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And that's an issue because?? |
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Yttrbio
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Because it's a direct response to the nonsense advice you posted: you can't "continue to watch on CR" if they don't have it.
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Angel M Cazares
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Good on Funimation for trying to expand. And I had not realized how many shows Funimation is streaming this season; I am impressed.
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mdo7
Posts: 6284 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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So. Crunchyroll has One Piece on there when Funimation has the US license to it. I don't think CR will stop or region block anime unless I get report from it and so far none yet. |
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Yttrbio
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There are at least three shows this season that are available on Crunchyroll but not in the US because Funimation has the stream.
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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My crystal ball tells me that many people will buy a VPN service to keep using crunchyroll, it is cheaper than paying for two streaming subscriptions that overlap most of the time. |
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Polycell
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But if Funi expands outside the US, Crunchy's ex-US complements run the risk of being extinguished.
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