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NEWS: Niconico Streams Shana III, Future Diary, Haganai, C3, Maken-Ki

Jrittmayer wrote:

And besides, all these simulcast streaming titles that Funi's been having the past year or so, how many of them have been released yet on DVD/Bluray?

Almost all of them? I think the only ones not being released (in the US at least) are Tatami Galaxy, Rainbow, and House of Five Leaves.

Still don't understand why Funi snaps up titles like Shana and DOESNT DO ANYTHING WITH THEM. It's like they just license them so nobody else can.

I see no reason why Geneon would send materials to a newer show right away and not older shows. Chances are funi would have to wait on both seasons until Geneon gets their stuff together over in Japan. But again this assumes Geneon is the licensor or not. Either way if they end up having the rights to II and III i doubt they would release III before II.

This new venture would effectively assure the materials would be available right away, as they would need to be provided to Funico for the simulcast.

At least this venture makes it very likely we will see a simulcast of Zero no Tsukaima F in January.

Only if you want the broadcast version on the discs. The materials needed for simulcasts are also different - no need for separate music and effects tracks which are a requirement for dubbing etc.

Considering they've dropped the original series...

You have to consider we are talking about Funico here. Funimation may have dropped The Familiar of Zero, but Nico Nico Douga has some history of simulcasting Geneon Universal titles.

They haven't released many of the titles they got from Geneon and it's not Funi's fault. Geneon is doing some kind of merger in Japan with another company and is not sending the materials to Funi and they can't work on something they don't have the materials to. This is the case for Shana II OVA's, Movie, Index, Railgun, Hellsing Ultimate, Black Lagoon OVA, Lain and many more. Funi would have more then likely had a good portion of those titles released had Geneon been sending them the materials needed to get started but they haven't and FUni can't be blamed for that.

On topic. I kinda wonder what this even means. What exactly is the benefit for them doing licenses for streaming this way? Just lower cost? Will there be a better chance we will see these simulcasts get full licenses?

Sigh... while you guys cheer, the fans outside of America and Canada weep. (TT.TT)

TheAncientOne wrote:

You have to consider we are talking about Funico here. Funimation may have dropped The Familiar of Zero, but Nico Nico Douga has some history of simulcasting Geneon Universal titles.

I still don't see why this announcement makes it more likely.

2. No Geneon series had been simulcast in the United States since Geneon USA existed, and no new Geneon series have streamed later since that time, even after being licensed.

TheAncientOne wrote:

2. No Geneon series had been simulcast in the United States since Geneon USA existed, and no new Geneon series have streamed later since that time, even after being licensed.

Do you just really like the idea of selective memory or do you really not pay attention much to what gets licensed and simulcasted?

High School of the Dead is a GU series.
Sentai/TAN also simulcasted it.

Basically, based on precedent, the odds of a Geneon series being simulcast before were virtually zero, and the odds are now significantly more than zero, thus "more likely".

True, but don't forget that they licensed that series through Showgate. So even if Geneon wanted to hold up the materials, they wouldn't have been able to.