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Iafter FUNimation had already broken their "must dub everything" stance.

Damn it, Funimation. You licensed Outlaw Star and Speed Racer ages ago, either sh** or get off the pot. This is even worse than Sentai's LoGH hold up. Don't even announce a license until you have the material and have worked on it somewhat. If you can't handle the project, give it to a licensor who is capable of giving it their time. If the Japanese companies don't give you the materials, drop it, and tell us you've dropped it, rather than leaving the fans in suspense. Otherwise, don't come onto a show like this with so little to say.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have some big grudge. Most of my anime collection now is Funimation releases and I imagine more will be in the future. But the lack of information here is irritating.

So you expect them to say every month,we're working on it?don't know if you noticed,but FUNimation has been releasing Bandai's animes slowly but surely.is patience too much for you?that's what it looks like.

Joe anime wrote:

So you expect them to say every month,we're working on it?don't know if you noticed,but FUNimation has been releasing Bandai's animes slowly but surely.is patience too much for you?that's what it looks like.

I expect them to not string the fans along for years. It's not asking for much at all and is well within their power.

And I dont think they would want to intentionally do that. but its slowly looking more and more like Sunrise got paid, so they are no longer motivated to find these shows in whatever storage area they have been dumped in and send the masters to Flower Mound. So we are all SOL until someone over there finally cares enough to actually do something productive

Fair enough that not everybody who works at Funimation would be able to answer questions about how well one title or the other sold, since that's not their department, but you'd think that they'd know by now that they're going to be asked about that by Zac/the Twitter questioners at several points when they come on the 'cast. So why don't they bring on one of their staff who can say with authority that this title or the other did gangbusters, great, all right, uhhh...? Of course, that doesn't mean they have to disclose sensitive numbers; they just have to be able to prevent those frustrating "I don't know"s.