Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation Adds House of Five Leaves, The Tatami Galaxy
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vashfanatic
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You might want to think about it, though. The more people stream it, the more Funimation will be convinced there's an audience for it and the more willing they will be to release it on DVD. As for their player... yeah, after getting a subscription to Crunchyroll and seeing how ridiculously high quality their video can be, I have to agree that Funimation's site leaves something to be desired. Still, it's free, it's legal, and I'll put up with it. |
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hissatsu01
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I have sincere doubts about about the success of any possible DVD release of House of Five Leaves and Yojou-han. While I (and obviously others here) think these are two of the more interesting titles this season, the "enlightened" view presented above is going to be pretty common. |
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Reaper gI
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Actually Angel Beats! would more likely go to Bandai, they got True Tears. Which is by the same studio, they also have many shows with lots of moe chara. Hell it's so much like Haruhi, which did well for them. |
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JackCox
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Excuse me for not wanting to watch more of the same Moe crap churned out of Japanese Studios. Thank God Funimation has a brain to license quality shows. Though frankly Angel Beats isn't a bad show. |
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garfield15
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Okay, Freaking hell, Angel Beats and Haruhi are completely different shows. They don't even have the same damn premise
On topic, I've never been that partial to FUNi's player because it shuts down on me sometimes and then you gotta go through the same John Woo/cell phone commercial again.  I would have prefered CR but I'll live with the FUNi player.
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vashfanatic
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No, they just have the same main female character.  That's what most people are reacting to, I believe. Well, that and the exact clone of the Enoz concert scene.
Watching House of Five Leaves right now... |
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Chrno2
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I'm going to have to check out Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei. The style looks interesting.
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Sam Murai
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This is some seriously great news, since I was really hoping these two series would be streamed and was disappointed when no announcement was initially made.
However, I don't think that everyone quite understands just how major this announcement is. FUNimation will now be simulcasting Fuji TV's Noitamina block in of itself, not just these two series. There have been a great deal of notable and highly-rated works that have come on in that covented block and now we'll have the opporitunity to watch those same shows soon after they've aired. That's primarily why the key note of the press release is "streaming" and not "DVDs" as well. It would be both unrealistic and inflated of expectations to have each show recieve a disc release here, so it makes more sense to at least just cover the streaming aspect, as I'm sure there is an provision (or "first dibs") for FUNimation to do a disc run if any of the shows are successful. |
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Zilan
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look another anime about samurai, how rare! and one about school life, that's never been done before ! These shows are indeed very original. |
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garfield15
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Meh. Okay, maybe in the first few minutes I thought "Man those two are similar" and I won't argue against the fact that they have a vert similar chara design but like...okay, the first five minutes of Haruhi in Dissapearance is her freaking screaming and ranting at the SOS Brigade and getting stuff her way. Yuri is more like....Misato. As in actual leadership quality and not screaming and not being over-demanding and stuff like that . And does every anime with a concert scene have to be like the Enoz one? Is BECK ripping off Haruhi too? Anyway, I'm getting OT. What are these times in EST? Last edited by garfield15 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:02 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Reaper gI
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They also have a very similar use of references, a clueless everyman being droped into a group of stereotyped characters, and the animation style is also very similar (compare Asakura fight to fights Vs Tenshi) |
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Zilan
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Excuse me for not wanting to watch more of the same samurai/pyscho drama crap churned out of Japanese studios. |
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vashfanatic
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Yes, it's a period piece, but the premise is very different, as are the characters. I just watched the first episode, it was very good. As for the other... if you don't know the name Yuuasa Masaaki, I can see how you might think that. The guys specializes in experimental, creative style. Maybe it's not for you, but bear in mind that these are the kind of shows that pretty much have yet to be streamed, ever. A little variety out there is never a bad thing. ... Speaking of the first episode, as I said, I liked it. The character designs are going to take a bit of getting used to. But maybe their weirdness will be enough of a deterrent to keep fujoshi from taking over this series? I mean seriously, the scenes between Akitsu and Yaichi...  Anyway, it was an interesting first episode, I am looking forward to more.
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dragonrider_cody
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I probably won't bother checking these out until they pop on Hulu or YouTube (if they ever do.) I've pretty much given up on getting Funi's player to work.
However, they do sound a bit interesting, if not exactly original. |
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vashfanatic
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Of course not. BECK came out two years before Haruhi, so if anything it's the other way around!
Seriously, though, it probably will vary person to person, but watching Angel Beats! I couldn't help but feel I'd sort of seen these characters all before. And the concert scene, which was the crowning moment of awesome after an episode that alternated between boring and annoying, really did have the same lighting, the same shots, the same style band, as the Enoz scene. Not all concert scenes are identical; the ones in Nana were nothing like either of these. And I've actually never seen BECK, so I can't compare those. Still, things will affect people differently; I just don't really get the appeal of Angel Beats! That's a reason it's great to see the Noitamina shows get streamed, they'll just add a little more variety to the kind of shows that are out there. And variety is not a bad thing! 
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