Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation Adds Sengoku Basara TV Anime Series
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Generic #757858
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QFT, they're easily my favorite production company. I'm 99% sure that Eden will be picked up by someone, but I despair more everytime the licensing companies fail to mention Ghost Hound. |
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vulcanraven01
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I'd love to see those as well. Problem is that the current climate isn't very welcoming to series such as Ghost Hound or Real Drive. Both are quality series, but probably wouldn't sell all that well in the west, hence crap getting licensed over it, ie fanservice tripe that will sell no matter what. Eden of the East will no doubt get licensed though. I imagine companies are a little warry at the moment since you basically need the movies to finish plot, so it'd be a rather expensive deal.
That's my concern as well. Well not just Hell Girl, but other series such as xxxHolic Kei. It's all fine and dandy getting all these licenses, but at least put priority of finishing current properties before overloading their dub cast with new projects. |
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vashfanatic
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Part of it may be that I don't think anyone has finished fansubbing it. If you're like me and you've only seen part of it, it's a little less exciting because you're hesitant about a total craptastic ending. Well, that, and a lot of us are still waiting around for...what's the word... not better... deeper titles to get licensed. Sengoku Basara may be wild fun, but we've already got a lot of wild fun.
Especially xxxHOLiC Kei, which was way better than the first season thanks to virtually no filler and consistently higher animation quality (a lot fewer off-model shots). Kei I'd actually consider buying. |
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hikaru004
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Don't forget about the xxxHOLiC OADs, Negima OADs and One Piece movies, TV specials and Romance Dawn also not released yet.
New announcements are nice but when is FUNi going to give us the second seasons and beyond of these titles? |
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doctordoom85
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FUNimation has already said they intend to release more One Piece movies, we just don't know when. Considering the boxset releases are really speeding up (Season 2's 2nd and 3rd Voyage are only a month apart in release date), I don't think it'll be too much longer.
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l33tmeatwad
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I agree with most everything you said there, but I would also like to add that the encodes of the Digital Distribution aren't very good. Not quite sure why they haven't been able to master frame handling and PROPER interlace removal, yet fansubbers have...I can rip the DVDs and make better digital copies for myself than buying a one audio track digital copy with crappy encoding. |
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CCSYueh
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Mr. Green was on Gokusen's dub which is more recent. Don't forget for the longest time (& still) VA's are very much regional so it matters if the work is done in Texas, California, Canada, or New York. Yeah, now we see some greater mingling of the VA's, but it's still not really the usual thing. More of the dubs are moving to Texas than in the day when CPM was releasing new titles regularly & used the New York actors. I remember the interview where Liam O'Brien talked of heading out to the West Coast (was it on DNA?). It usually taked the rescuing studio being willing to fly in the actors. I seem to recall a certain amount of praise for Sengoku Basara in the season review stuff, so I find the hate here a bit hard to understand. Heaven knows, I've been interested from day one practically because of the topic & the cast (Kazuya Nakai, Norio Wakamoto, Souichiro Hoshi, Kouji Tsujitani, Romi Paku, Sho Hayami, Takehito Koyasu, Tesshô Genda, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Masakazu Morita) I mean, these are some pretty big talents, not unlike the SDK cast where the director commented he hired names knowing they'd all try to outshine one another. I really don't care who they cast in English because I'm most likely going to be listening to the Japanese track. As for the 2nd season stuff, I've been wondering if it's not all tied into the Geneon thing. I know I'd love more Kyo Kara Maoh, but that was finished up by Geneon thru Funi. Wasn't Hell Girl also Geneon's first? I'd also love the Saiyuki OVA, but we're also talking Geneon. |
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jedimaster5000
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YESSSS, another awesome news. Can't wait for it...and I love it that Lisa Ortiz is still going to be Lina, she was the best in that ones (but I wonder how good this Michael guy be, since I have seen the first 3 seasons in English already).
BTW, anyone know if Xellos voice in Japan, I mean, is it deep or anything like that? |
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mglittlerobin
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I'm SO Happy! They got most of the dub cast back. I wonder what happened to David Moo anyway. I thought he disappeared off the face of the Earth. Look forward to the new guy. Lisa Ortiz, Eric Stuart, Crispen Freeman and Veronica Taylor FTW!!
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Mr. sickVisionz
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I agree with alot of what you said but you seem to be under the impression that digital distribution means free streaming. I wouldn't be surprised if a site like Crunchyroll is profitable or becoming profitable. Also, I purchased all of Death Note via Direct2Drive for $2 an episode. I bet systems like that are profitable as well. I'm sure i'm in the minority so i'm not suggesting that it's blowing DVD out of the water, but I think it helps in allowing people to make impulse buys with anime. Usually if you find out about a show and you're hooked... there is no way to purchase it at all. You have to wait like months or even years (Naruto Shippuuden, i'm look at you) to buy it. With digital distribution you can at least offer the willing customer an option rather than saying, "oh well, but please remember us in 2 years when we finally release the show but you've already moved on and forgotten about it." Also, stuff like Direct2Drive and sites that sell digital content is pure bonus money. The cost of hosting a show online for download can't be too expensive. They aren't streaming, they're just straight up selling. That's basically one download ever per customer. You have options to redownload but you can back up your files to HDD and discs so it unlikely to really need to. If you can sell 5 episodes a month, you've probably covered the server and bandwidth cost for hosting that one show. Sell 30 episodes and you've probably covered the server/bandwidth cost for every show that you host. Also, Hulu has yet to be profitable for Hulu, not the content owners. However, it's approaching that. Hulu is like maybe two years old. Most companies aren't profitable their first couple of years anyways due to fixed costs and the price of setting up a new venture. They're not just doing a new business, they're operating off of an entirely new business model and media distribution system. The fact that they're about to see profit so soon is kinda a feat in itself. |
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Xanas
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If the video quality of direct 2 drives version is anything like Amazon's version of death note I think you made a bad choice.
And the file size was also horrid. I was able to slaughter it with my own crappy encoding skills. |
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