Forum - View topicNEWS: Crunchyroll Reveals Partial List of Anime Leaving Service on November 9, Tentative List of Dub
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TheAncientOne
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Since early December 2016, in fact. I often see people in the forums that ask for something to be on CR that Funimation actually brought over. Just the other day, someone in the US was asking for all of Slayers (also on CR via Funimation). I have to wonder what small percentage of people on CR browse their full alphabetical list once in a while to see what they might have missed.
I remember beginning to view the first series there, but as the half way point was at the beginning of 2009, people had to go elsewhere to complete the series (unless they waited the years it took before Funimation licensed and released it). |
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64BitRatchet
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Angel M Cazares
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I mean, it has to be Sentai; they are the ideal disc distribution partner. I will be very surprised if it is not Sentai. Crunchyroll has even started adding content from them. There is no reason to panic about who is physically distributing CR anime. |
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getchman
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Releasing stuff themselves would give them more freedom to do what they want and not have to work to someone else's tune.
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sourpatchthekid
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Highly suggest watching Nichijou if nothing else if interested. The only alternative once it's gone is the $50 blu ray since Funimation never put the series up for streaming on their site.
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CatSword
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Good news for dub fans who only had CR, bad news for pretty much everyone else.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I'm not a legal rights issues expert so I'm a bit confused as to why Crunchyroll's streaming rights would effect Funimation's home video rights to those titles? I always thought the home video rights were separate from streaming rights.
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jdnation
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Dang, there's a lot of good stuff going...
S'long Noragami, Blood Blockade Battlefront etc. |
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sdsichero
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So it begins… That's a bummer. Nothing really really essential on that list for me, but stuff I considered watching (just didn't have time yet)
Let's see what happens in the future. Thanks a lot Sony… |
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dragonrider_cody
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More often than not, the rights are bundled together. That’s why CrunchyRoll’s logo appears on several of the titles home video releases. Funimation is only acting as a home video distributor for the titles that CR has the master license to, and Funimation was sublicensing streaming rights from them for the shows that were dubbed. It’s fairly rare for the master license holder in North America to have just home video or just streaming licenses. Shows like Pop Team Epic are exceptions, but don’t happen often. |
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Toonces
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Technically stuff was added to VRV, not crunchyroll. While they are owned by the same company, it's still slightly different, and more beneficial to HiDive if I understand it correctly. Unless I missed something. Either way, Crunchyroll has the money, and had plans to distribute themselves. I expect them to start doing things on their own. Cuts out middle men and avoids any issues down the road. At most, low-tier series may be handed out, but for big things like the upcoming Shield Hero, they'll probably handle it on their own.
Crunchyroll said that anything that aired during the partnership should still be available for streaming, specifically citing MHA. I'm assuming Funimation will be able to keep the streaming rights to anything that they dubbed themselves. But even if they do keep the streaming rights, this is a huge blow to them unless they in turn get the subs for those shows (not likely). The content won't be exclusive, and will be available on their biggest competitor's website. The deal that Funiroll had honestly seems like it was massively stacked in Crunchyroll's favor. |
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Joshua Zarate
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I think what angelmcazares was talking about when he mentioned CR starting to add content from Sentai was due to this. |
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Toonces
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Ah, I missed that. Interesting, although I think it's also worth pointing out that those are kind of small or insignificant shows. I'm curious to see if any of their good/popular shows start popping up on Crunchyroll. It'd be a death blow to HiDive if they did. |
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Johnamine
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Sentai/HiDive would not do that for nothing. They will get something good in return. By the way, Crunchyroll may not have enough resource to "go bigger". In fact, Crunchyroll is in danger of being killed. AT&T/Warner are killing several of their streaming sites recently, it would not be surprise if they decide to kill Crunchyroll. (Afterall, AT&T/Warner plan to launch a major streaming service site in 2019; AT&T/Warner wouldn't want to keep Crunchyroll to compete with the major streaming service site.) http://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/03/hbo-will-lead-at-and-ts-challenge-to-netflix |
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dragonrider_cody
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I wouldn’t worry about that at the moment. While they did kill off two niche streaming services, both had considerably fewer users than CR. While CR May only have two million paying subscribers, they have several million more that use their ad supported service. Also, the decision to shut down DramaFever was actually made prior to the AT&T acquisition. Not to mention, AT&T has been actively promoting Crunchyroll and VRV. The latter is even offered as a free premium option, alongside Showtime and HBO, for their unlimited data plan customers. I’ve even seen VRV featured in several of their commercials for this plan. They could potentially merge CR into VRV, or align the two even more closely. However, I don’t think either is in any danger of shutting down, especially if the number of ad supported users remains high and subscribers continue to grow. FilmStruck and DramaFever were both less successful and well known than CR. The panic over their shut down is a little overblown, and doesn’t automatically mean that Warner will shut down all their remaining streaming services, even when their new one launches. Plenty of media companies have had no issues owning a chunk of Hulu, while also owning their own streaming services and also selling shows to Netflix and Amazon. |
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