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NEWS: Funimation Adds House of Five Leaves, The Tatami Galaxy

Good thing for Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei and Yuasa, except for the English title which is just... maybe the worst I've seen in my entire life.

Funimation REALLY needs to knock it off with this licensing shows before they air nonsense. It makes it a lot harder fans who care about quality or if they're not USA to see these shows cause Funimation will jus send out a bunch of C&Ds to fansubbers. This just limits their audience which hurts both Funimation and the ORIGINAL creators. Stop being selfish already.

Funimation REALLY needs to knock it off with this licensing shows before they air nonsense. It makes it a lot harder fans who care about quality or if they're not USA to see these shows cause Funimation will jus send out a bunch of C&Ds to fansubbers. This just limits their audience which hurts both Funimation and the ORIGINAL creators. Stop being selfish already.

Ggultra2764 wrote:

I would have preferred Crunchyroll picking up streaming rights for these two since they at least gave you streaming options for whether you wanted the video in SD or HD. Funi doesn't have such options and as I'm typing now, I'm still waiting for the first episode of House of Five Leaves to get done loading up.

If FUNi's video player still isn't working for you, you can check it out on Youtube instead.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

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.

House of 5 leaves is on YouTube. And georestricted. *sigh*
Why can't FUNi at least state where they have the rights for when they license things, at least CR does that.
Not that FUNi streams are that good, the FMA stream we have from them is godawful quality. And this isn't going to do the, normally lax (this is general not just to FUNi), quality control on the subs any good either. I doubt they'll bother to fix any mistakes if it does get to disk release.

Flower Mound, TX – April 15, 2010 -- FUNimation® Entertainment is partnering with the leading and largest Japanese broadcast television network, Fuji Television Network, Inc., to simulcast anime series featured in its late-night Noitamina programming block airing in Japan on Thursday nights. The partnership gives the American anime leader rights to the online streaming and simulcast of the series in Noitamina in the U.S.

“We are excited to bring this programming to the North American audience,” said Koji Yamamoto, producer of the Noitamina block at Fuji Television, “and to bring it with FUNimation Entertainment, with which we enjoy a long and cooperative relationship.”

“This is a fantastic opportunity to work again with the formidable Fuji TV,” said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO at FUNimation Entertainment, “particularly on the debut of a new Noitamina lineup. This highly-rated block has already launched hits like ‘Eden of The East’ and 'Tokyo Magnitude 8.0' and we hope to extend that success for these new series in the U.S.”

“House of the Five Leaves” will premiere on Fuji TV on early Friday morning, April 16 at 1:30 a.m. Japanese Standard Time (JST) and at 12:30 p.m. CDT Thursday, April 15, just one hour after its Japanese debut, FUNimation will deliver the first episode of the series for North American streaming via www.funimation.com.

Sam Murai wrote:

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.

Werd. For those who may not be familiar with the Noitamina roster check this out this Murderer's Row of Awesomeness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noitamina

Both these shows look horrible. They should have gotten K-ON and Angel Beats.

FUNimation? I ask you to license another Noitamina show.

TOKYO MAGNITUDE 8.0!!! BRING IT HERE ALREADY!!!

Both these shows look horrible. They should have gotten K-ON and Angel Beats.

Excuse me for not wanting to watch more of the same samurai/pyscho drama crap churned out of Japanese studios.

Come on, Funi, spit out those Shikabane series, why dontcha? Or would you prefer I keep my money?

Would you look at that, they did!

Blood- wrote:

Come on, Funi, spit out those Shikabane series, why dontcha? Or would you prefer I keep my money?

check out the topic. animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-17/funimation-confirms-strike-witches-cast-fma-street-date
Basically it says that "The DVDs for the Shikabane Hime series will be available in summer 2010." I quoted the thread on that.

“House of Five Leaves” and “The Tatami Galaxy” are first on the list of simulcasts from the noitaminA (that's "Animation" backwards) block that we're streaming. You can read up more on the deal with Fuji TV on our blog or just get to watching on Hulu, YouTube or FUNimation.com.