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Wooga
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My dog's name is Kaiji, she is the ultimate survivor, since she was going to be put to sleep within a matter of hours after adopting her.
and they both have pointy noses |
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Echo_City
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Excel Excel's "Emergency Food Source"? 
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fuuma_monou
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That's the whole point of calling copyright infringement "piracy". |
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shamisen the great
 Posts: 658 Location: Oregon, USA |
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Wyvern
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Good lord, your dog is awesome. As for one-eyed names, I guess I could point out that technically, Spike Spiegel only has one eye (the other one being a prosthetic.) But if you don't want someone who got by on a technicality, I like the names Guts (Berserk's perpetually angry one-eyed protagonist) Saito (from Ghost in the Shell, though this is another case of someone with a cool robot eye replacing the one he lost) or Zoro (One Piece's swordsman, who lost his left eye during the timeskip.) |
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EyeOfPain
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Just because something is out of your price range, that doesn't automatically mean it's not a viable option. |
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Student no.0
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Sure hope that day come sooner than expected when someone 'figures it out'. CR is really my only viable option for streaming anime so far. I mean, I likely have it easier than most other territories and countries much, much further away, but it'd be nice to see more Funimation-licensed shows available for people living in the Carribeans, South, and Latin Americas. Plus most of these are just available on their site but for US (and Canada I think) only anyway.
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kamen_otaku81
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What? No Sagat from the Street Fighter Series?
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noblesse oblige
 Posts: 280 Location: Florida |
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That's a handsome dog. As for naming him after a one-eyed anime character, how about Kitaro? Sounds like it could be a great dog's name, plus the character lives to be 350 years old.....so you could consider that an omen of good luck.
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CastMember1991
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Someone doesn't have a very optimistic mindset, do they? Whenever an anime title is announced, I'm always optimistic about it doing well (Attack on Titan and Doraemon are two examples). The only ones I don't see doing well are things like Anpanman and the Ninja Kids anime which later became a movie by Takashi Miike. Not to mention Sazae-san, which I'm sure if it were to air in the Statesm it probably wouldn't be licensed, and would air on something like TV Japan (a cable network owned by NHK). |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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Annoyingly, FUNimation has streaming rights to a lot of shows in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as the US and Canada. They rarely exercise them; other than a brief period when their own site was open (although the bandwidth was bad enough that I gave up trying to use it), the only way to watch any of their shows online is via YouTube where their videos are usually unlocked to any regions they have the rights in. Problem is, they stopped uploaded new shows to YouTube a few seasons ago so whether or not they are sitting on the UK streaming rights to more recent shows, we often don't get them (Crunchyroll has recently started shows some FUNimation-licensed shows in certain regions outside the US, but not in the UK).
I had assumed the YouTube-bias was because they could rely on Google to source ads rather than doing it themselves on their own site (this was before they moved to most of their free shows being Hulu embeds) so when they announced the Elite subscriptions I was hopeful we would be let in and they did make it sound like they were considering it, but nothing ever happened. I have an unfinished list of unlocked streams here: http://miyuki.thenexxus.org/wiki/YouTube#FUNimation And UKA has a somewhat outdated list here: http://www.uk-anime.net/newsitem/FUNimation_shows_currently_streaming_to_the_UK_-_January_2011_edition.html To take an example, for Haganai the regions are:
Unfortunately, for Haganai NEXT (one of the last simulcasts they put on YouTube) that changed to
Of the UK incumbents, we currently have Animax (via Kaze) and Wakanim (via Anime Limited). Both only make episodes available free for a week or two, the former has a subscription service (higher than Crunchyroll's for less content) and the latter relies on selling/renting episodes. Both are problematic if you get behind on simulcasts, especially the latter - one reason to get behind on something is it not being terribly gripping, and who wants to pay to watch something they're not all that interested in? I've only seen one episode of Samurai Flamenco for this reason. Neither MVM nor Manga UK are involved in streaming at all. Manga did dip their toes in by streaming Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, but that fell apart - the quality was lower than even YouTube (FUNimation's streams were briefly unlocked to the UK, probably accidentally since they were working with Starz Digital on the Manga streams), they missed an episode (I never saw anything beyond that point until I got the DVDs) and they never finished the whole series anyway. Manga US OTOH are putting all sorts of stuff up on YouTube and other places (including Nozomi titles for some reason I've never been clear on), most of which is available in the UK.
You do realise you've put Annie songs in my head now, don't you?
Actually "ginkgo". You see ginkgo leaves in anime a lot. 
There are a few one-eyed CLAMP characters, thinking about it - and oddly seem to come in pairs; Seishirou and Subaru, and Watanuki and Doumeki (at which point I realise I only think of those two by their family names) |
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vashthekaizoku
 Posts: 261 Location: The House of Rat |
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If we're accepting characters that only use one of their eyes like Zolo from One Piece, I'm surprised no one suggested Kenpachi from Bleach or Lag Seeing from Tegami Bachi.
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agila61
 Posts: 3213 Location: NE Ohio |
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Note that Crunchyroll seems to have got some kind of a working model on international streaming cobbled together, since I think all but two of their anime simulcast licenses for Spring 2014 had some form of region rights outside of North America.
But for any given region, it seems to hinge very much on how the original rights owners slice up the world. That is, there is a set of publisher that have rights in the Middle East or the Arab League, and all but one of those are available in the Middle East, and then a set of publishers that have no access in the Middle East. There's a set of publishers that mostly include Latin America, and others (like Showgate), that seem to never include Latin America. It looks very much like its based on slowly season after season talking the companies they are licensing from around on expanding their license regions, and then taking whatever they get offered. And even though on year-on-year comparisons (Spring to Spring, Summer to Summer and etc.) access has been steadily improving since 2010, individual regions sometimes take a step back, like the UK with the establishment of AnimaxUK and the increase in Funimation's simulcasts, or Belgium with one set of licenses that exclude German Speaking Countries and (bizarrely) treat Belgium as a German-speaking country and another set that exclude French speaking countries and (more reasonably) treat Belgium as a French-speaking country. Or a little while back Scandinavia dropped from getting 80% access to 40%, to recover back to around 70%. One strategy that seems to be a part of that is expanding their subtitling to additional languages. In Latin America in particular, Crunchyroll took a big hit two or three years ago when some package deals that had been including Latin America expired, but since they started picking up more Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese subtitling rights (including rights to subtitle One Piece in Spanish for Latin America), they've been able to get Latin American access back up to around 80% of new seasonal simulcasts. One thing that does occasionally happen is Crunchyroll gets free access to a region such as North America, UK & Ireland, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, but gets premium access worldwide outside Asia (or sometimes worldwide outside Japan). That could be a licensor putting a floor on what kind of revenue per episode they can expect from different countries, since the royalties from subscribers will have a much easier time covering that than the sparse demand for streaming ads in much of the world. In any event, the occasional license like that may help boost subscription rates in those "out of core region" parts of the world. |
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YotaruVegeta
 Posts: 1061 Location: New York |
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Cyclops is a good name for a one-eyed dog. X-men is an anime, after all.
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Gewürtztraminer
 Posts: 1028 Location: Texas - Its like whole other country. |
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Having mainly experience with retrieving dogs, names with one syllable or two distinct syllables are best, since you will be saying them a LOT (this applies to regular dogs as well, a distinct, clear sounding name is best).
Ginko is great for an everyday name. Of course the full name could be: Ginko Grey Fur Lord, Defiler of Rugs. |
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