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NEWS: Funimation Offers Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!! Anime Digitally

I don't understand the whole "I don't know why FUNimation would pick this up" line when it's clear Fate IS BIG over here and people want to support it. That's why they picked up the license, duh.

Catsplay wrote:

I don't understand the whole "I don't know why FUNimation would pick this up" line when it's clear Fate IS BIG over here and people want to support it. That's why they picked up the license, duh.

My question is why haven't CR/Funi dubbed and released Prisma Illya 3rei!! on BD 2 years after it started airing. Perhaps you are overestimating the importance of the title.

And your condescending tone is unnecessarily.

Catsplay wrote:

The Prisma Illya 3rei manga is actually really well regarded with the fanbase if you look at it's score 8.29 on MAL and the movie adaptation of the Flashback arc with a score of 8.05. The series is awesome even with the stigma of "LOLIS ARE BAD". Source 1: https://myanimelist.net/manga/36131/Fate_kaleid_liner_Prisma☆Illya_3rei?q=Fate%20Kaleid%20Liner%20Prisma%20Illya%203rei Source 2: https://myanimelist.net/anime/34100/Fate_kaleid_liner_Prisma☆Illya_Movie__Sekka_no_Chikai

Actually I think the series is very good, and I’ve seen everything but the movie, given its unavailablity in the US. But it clearly only gets a fraction of the audience that some of the other parts of the franchise get.

Although I do know of at least one show that AoA has licensed that their Japanese counterpart didn't own the rights to (God Eater, which came from Bandai Visual), so that's not to say that them getting it would be impossible.

angelmcazares wrote:

Catsplay wrote: I don't understand the whole "I don't know why FUNimation would pick this up" line when it's clear Fate IS BIG over here and people want to support it. That's why they picked up the license, duh. My question is why haven't CR/Funi dubbed and released Prisma Illya 3rei!! on BD 2 years after it started airing. Perhaps you are overestimating the importance of the title. And your condescending tone is unnecessarily.

Because it was in licensing hell obviously.

Punch Drunk Marc wrote:

Makes me wish Funi could redub the entire series. At least then I could be confident that they could at least get Stephanie Sheh, Bryce Papenbrook, and Mela Lee to reprise their roles from the other Fate series.

Didn't Aniplex dub the other Fate seasons? I don't think Funi has ever owned the license to a Fate anime.

LegitPancake wrote:

Punch Drunk Marc wrote: Makes me wish Funi could redub the entire series. At least then I could be confident that they could at least get Stephanie Sheh, Bryce Papenbrook, and Mela Lee to reprise their roles from the other Fate series. Didn't Aniplex dub the other Fate seasons? I don't think Funi has ever owned the license to a Fate anime.

actually they did a license rescue of fate/stay night when geneon went six feet under!

also for those that want the original FSN cast to do prisma illya, ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN , and its for a multitude of reasons for it!

the most obvious reasons are those union/non-union rules as well that prisma have way too much of the loli/yuri/ecchi fanservice for some VAs to handle! (Girls Bravo & Tengo Tenge anyone?) which is why some of them have optioned would clearly use aliases, and it would be more than a given if LA union members like those three who might be against having their names be labeled in an uber fanservice series like this, they would more than likely use aliases too!

if it wasn't the case then they would have been use that cast all the way back to season one and they would have used sam regal (shiro's original VA) instead of byrce (which is also unlikely since its starting to look like that VA have also transitioned to do exclusively voice US cartoons like the ninja turtles). so i'm afraid that possibility is nothing more than a pipe dream to say the least.

there is also the worst case scenario is that funi might just pull a to love ru or zero no tsukaima and just have this season of prisma illya and the movie a sub only release which is something no one wants.

but at least its not being distributed by aniplex of america which would have had their versions RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE and they would DEFINITELY have them sub only!

When it comes to dubbing don't ever underestimate if a company can get a cast back together, Sentai Filmworks also hired Bang Zoom to do the Persona 4: The Animation dub and no one thought that was gonna happen, Funimation outsourced the English dub of Hellsing Ultimate so you never know, it's not like they can't get Bryce Papenbrook and Stephanie Sheh to do voice work for them, they are in a few Funimation titles.

Sentai lost this show? spoiler[I approve as the Fate/kaleid dub made Rin sound like a 40 year old woman]

Chiyosuke wrote:

Although I do know of at least one show that AoA has licensed that their Japanese counterpart didn't own the rights to (God Eater, which came from Bandai Visual), so that's not to say that them getting it would be impossible.

There was also Expelled From Paradise which they got from Toei.

When it comes to dubbing don't ever underestimate if a company can get a cast back together, Sentai Filmworks also hired Bang Zoom to do the Persona 4: The Animation dub and no one thought that was gonna happen, Funimation outsourced the English dub of Hellsing Ultimate so you never know, it's not like they can't get Bryce Papenbrook and Stephanie Sheh to do voice work for them, they are in a few Funimation titles.

NJ_ wrote:

Chiyosuke wrote: Although I do know of at least one show that AoA has licensed that their Japanese counterpart didn't own the rights to (God Eater, which came from Bandai Visual), so that's not to say that them getting it would be impossible. There was also Expelled From Paradise which they got from Toei.

That I didn't know. So 2 in their entire catalog

mglittlerobin wrote:

When it comes to dubbing don't ever underestimate if a company can get a cast back together, Sentai Filmworks also hired Bang Zoom to do the Persona 4: The Animation dub and no one thought that was gonna happen, Funimation outsourced the English dub of Hellsing Ultimate so you never know, it's not like they can't get Bryce Papenbrook and Stephanie Sheh to do voice work for them, they are in a few Funimation titles.

that might be the case, but it all changes once a series have a massive fanservice pandering like this series. many highly popular VAs tend to use aliases while voicing for anime series that fit into the ecchi/fanservice genre , especially miss sheh who used aliases for tengo tenge & girls bravo. hell even ash ketchum's old VA and yugi moto's VA used aliases while in voice roles during queens blade's run and it wasnt due to a union/non-union rule. same thing applied when sentai licensed samurai girls/bride!

its not unusual at the slightest and if crunchyroll does indeed decide to produce an english dub version for this season and the movie, dont be surprised if the VA choose to use aliases as well.

however, its possible they could just say "oh just screw this!" and get the old sentai cast to reprise their roles, and in my opinion, its for the best if they do that! using texas VAs wont cost as much as using LA union VAs like those two!