Forum - View topicNEWS: TV Tokyo, Nihon Ad Terminate Yu-Gi-Oh! Deal, Sue 4Kids
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Lightning Leo
Posts: 311 Location: Earth |
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Yikers, bad news for 4Kids. I enjoyed Pokemon back in the day, but after that ferociously atrocious One Piece dub we respectfully went our separate ways.
This alleged underhanded dealing, too, is not cool. Can't say I understand the Funimation resentment, though. They don't butcher series, they listen to fans, they've got pretty good offerings and their prices are reasonable. What's the fuss? Ohhhh I see... it's the hissy whines of prepubescent pirates, desperately grasping for justification. Good luck with that "growing up" thing, kids. Or, you could check out Funi's One Piece release and see how real pirates roll. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
Posts: 1684 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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In a criminal trial, maybe, but this is a civil lawsuit. Very different set of rules apply. Either you're named in a lawsuit, or you're not. Normally I would accuse people of choosing sides too early, but when a Japanese company goes to the trouble and expense of suing a company in America, it's usually with very good reason. That's an expensive, uncertain and time/resources-consuming endeavor, and unlike American companies, they don't tend to do it lightly. |
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Warstar77
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i hope 4kids got the yugioh right back for fans and pay them back money they owe them and i think it goes like this 4kids say there sorry the pay give them 10 million dollars as settlement and 4kids have give some of there sharings to them got it back
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BeanBandit
Posts: 303 Location: Canada |
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I for one wish the Japanese all the best on this one, 4Kids has always seemed pretty shady to me and this does not surprise me one bit. Considering how much trouble it is to bring a lawsuit like this I would imagine they have a good case against them.
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Rukiia
Posts: 1897 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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So you're saying you approve of piracy? Please stop watching "free Anime" then as you are a waste of space. I'm curious as to why the company is now suing 4Kids. Didn't 4Kids buy the rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! almost 10 years ago? If 4Kids weren't paying up what they owed then the Japanese company should have sued them ages ago. This is sounding pretty fishy to me. But, as jsevakis has put, they probably have their reasons. |
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Weazul-chan
Posts: 625 Location: Michigan |
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uncutpokemon
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I smile when I hear bad news about 4kids
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belvadeer
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I'm sure the many 4Kids haters out there are laughing themselves to death over this and are actually hoping they do close down.
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Paploo
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Maybe they just discovered the issue? Or maybe there's other reasons? We won't find out for a good while [if we do find out] given how long this sort of stuff takes. I do wonder if this has been in the worlds since Funimation stopped distributing 4kids titles back in 2008/09 though. I know the japanese rights holders of the Yu Gi Oh card game [Konami] took Upper Deck to court over the franchise awhile ago, and have since taken over the franchise entirely http://www.yugioh-card.com/en/ I wonder if TV Tokyo has any plans in place for when the get back the rights to YuGiOh? While not as insanely popular as in the past, it's still a pretty big franchise. There's a wide array of fans still playing that game. Will they pull a Pokemon USA and distribute it themselves? Given the show's TV placement was on a 4Kids owned network, you'd think they had a plan for that. Thankfully, VIZ's books shouldn't be affected since they are the publisher in Japan too, technically, and the franchise originated with the manga. |
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Rukiia
Posts: 1897 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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Everyone seems to be ignoring my
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MugenKeiji
Posts: 59 Location: San Francisco |
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This. |
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MarzGurl
Posts: 142 Location: San Antonio, Texas |
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Speaking of the card game, how will the loss of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s anime effect it, you think? I realize, of course, that the card game is under license by Konami. But then, don't most players seem to get into it because of the TV series? Or does it have its own feet firmly planted enough? I mean, if the card game were called Dual Monsters (like it is in Japan) based on the actual card game in the series, maybe people wouldn't have so badly needed the TV series to cause the popularity of the card game.
I dunno, just curious, really. |
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DTJB
Posts: 671 Location: Dubuque, IA |
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Wow dude, that is just stupid.
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R315r4z0r
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The only way I can see FUNimation getting pulled into this is if they were to be treated like common media pirates... turning profit for other people's properties.
But then again, they could have just been a service payed for by 4Kids in which case they aren't guilty for doing anything other than doing what they were paid to do. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding the situation, but I don't see this as a big threat to FUNimation. |
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Cryssoberyl
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Nevermind 4kids. Win, lose, or die, they don't concern me.
The question is, did Funimation know. It doesn't matter if they can't be held legally responsible, if Funimation knowingly helped to defraud the Japanese companies, they won't be getting licenses anymore, needless to say. (And rightly not, if that's true.) Whatever the case, this is seriously bad for both sides of the industry... |
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