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Panoptican
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As someone who lives in the US, this sounds pretty great to me. Maybe licensors in other countries will see how this plays out and look into partnerships in the future.
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Angel M Cazares
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I am cool if this benefits Crunchyroll, Funimation and the N.A. industry as a whole. I am content paying for subscriptions to both services, but if CR gets a lot of desirable content from Funimation, I might just pay for CR.
I also smell monopoly, but I can tolerate it if it can prevent "outsiders" like Netflix and Amazon from taking over an industry that they might not how to correctly handle. And I wonder if this further puts Sentai at a disadvantage in terms of acquiring new shows. |
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CrowLia
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The thing here is that it is well known that Funi has the rights for the entire American continent for pretty much everything in their catalog. That's the reason CR doesn't get those titles over here, because Funi gets the exclusive. It's not an issue of license but of Funi being unwilling to lift their region block. |
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DuchessBianca
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So if I understand this properly Crunchyroll and Funimation are partnering up, will share a large part of their catalogs with each site still being seperate. Crunchyroll will focus on subbing the titles they or Funi licenses that are part of this partnership while Funi will focus primarily on dubbing and home video releases for those select titles. Truly sounds like an absolutely amazing partnership that benefits everyone. For sub fans who like Crunchys site or translations will see them for both Crunchy and Funi licenses, meanwhile dub fans like myself get access to a whole new selection of content from crunchy and I don't have to groan anymore when Crunchy gets a new license as I don't have to worry about a title never having a chance at a dub or home video release. Also means Funimation doesn't need to spend budget on subbing and can work just on the simulcast dubs and home video releases! Increased dubbing budget just brings tears to my eyes and is truly wonderful news! So excited for this
Though I had figured maybe Sentai and Crunchy would team up since a large portion of Sentai titles are available on Crunchyroll so hopefully Sentai can partner with someone, maybe Amazon or Netflix? Are maybe just mainly deal with catalog titles. I love Sentai and would hate for them to go away. Last edited by DuchessBianca on Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:00 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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AstroNerdBoy
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As a paying CR subscriber, this sounds good to me. I'd love for CR to form more deals so that CR has all subtitle, simulpub streaming. (Ditto for manga.) CR just needs to get their app out onto smart TVs though so that I can stream them on any of my TVs.
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AnimeLordLuis
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So are we living in the Twilight Zone because I never thought in a million years that Funimation and Crunchyroll would enter into a partnership not that I don't like it the more dubs the better it's just that I'm shocked about this whole thing.
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Selipse
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As far as I know, Funimation gets the rights for all of the Americas, which is why Crunchyroll can't stream them here (most of the time they do stream them on places like Spain where Funi doesn't license them). One clear example I remember where this is explicitly stated is the Attack on Titan movies. Needless to say, it hasn't been released here. On your second point, I seriously hope they don't try to pull shit like that. Having a separate Funimation subscription here would be amazingly stupid now that this partnership exists in the US and Canada. Seeing as how big piracy is here, people won't even give it a chance if you have to pay double. |
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Razor/Edge
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I was wondering how Crunchyroll was going to release all the series it acquired. I was not expecting them to team up with Funimation. I'm pretty happy about that though, since it means it will probably be similar in price to Funimation's other anime. Time will tell, but I don't see a down side to this for the typical anime fan.
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Greed1914
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That is a fair question considering Sentai had previously picked up physical and dub rights for titles that streamed on CR, but CR was moving toward doing those things themselves, so things weren't looking up for Sentai already. Looking at the partnership, and the fact that they'll be working together on licenses, and it'l looking more and more like Sentai will have to rely on the leftovers. Also, upon reading the blog post on Funi's site, they say that subbed versions of shows will be migrating over to CR. Maybe I'm misreading, but is it the case that basically viewers will go to CR to watch subs and Funimation only for dubbed content? |
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MarshalBanana
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Am I just reading to far into this, or do Funi seem a little desperate, they got on the production committee for Dimension W, then it failed along with their investment. They are loosing a lot of the recent big titles to other studios. Off the top of my head. there is; One Punch Man, Hunter X Hunter, Parasyte, So this seems like a plan to get first dibs at the big titles. And if they are talking about merging, which I really hope they don't, then it must mean Funimation Now is not doing all that well |
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Zin5ki
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I fully concur. As much as some are expressing utter euphoria in reaction to this development, and as fructiferous as it promises to be for them, the all-too-familiar attitude of wait and see prevails elsewhere. Indeed, my present sentiments are not unlike those I adopted when Hulu first announced that they were to stream anime. |
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endallchaos
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Wait, so Cunchyroll will release the dub for 91 days? or does Funimation own the rights? Will it release in Blu-Ray?
Also, does anyone else feel like Aniplex USA is getting left behind? I'm kind of hoping they do, so they leave the US market, and other companies can get their shows and release them with a much lower price. |
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TheMorry
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A few broadcast dubs have been recorded in LA thanks to Todd home studio. I disagree with you. Reading this... im shocked... this partnership sounds really amazing. I think they were working on this for a longer time now. Considering funimation dubbed S1 of Free despite not having the license. More weekly dubs? YES! |
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Selipse
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Yup. Funimation will be dub-only now. If you want subs, you go to CR. What I find funny is that supposedly Funi was going to figure out how to use soft-subs and not have terrible video by next season, and it seems that the solution was to leave it all to Crunchy. 
And now that I think about it, the "will you dub in other languages" question on the FAQ makes me wonder. Maybe it'll all be better than we expect in the future. I can understand if Funi's trying to figure out making dubs in Spanish in order to come to Latin America in the same way (Funi for dubs, Crunchy for subs). Then I can understand why they're waiting to release their stuff on CR here. I just hope they don't take too long. |
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TheMorry
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Dont worry to much about AoA, they snatched a few titles of Funimation back to themselves. besides in Japan produces Aniplex titles will go to AoA always. AoA does its own thing with their overpriced releases, despite the dubs are awesome. |
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