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CaptainAvatar
 Posts: 381 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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I for one am overjoyed. While I would prefer to own a physical release, at least being able to watch the rest legally makes me happy. If only Funi would at least do this much for Kodocha - not to be critical of Funi, I just would like to be able to legally watch the rest of Kodocha.
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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*Such as: OP/ED songs not translated for a singing anime (even though they were translated on DVD IIRC) non-existent onscreen text translation, some awkward lines ("Miss Ooshige is such worrier"), and wonky timing. And there's some dumb localization choices, like adding in "Masami" when Masami Ooshige refers to herself as simply "Ooshige." EDIT: Also, Viz screws with the video and the music. The title screens are blank -- neither the Japanese text nor any English translation is present. Ending videos are replaced not with a creditless version, but with a generic star background screen with scrolling English credits. As with many Viz credit scrolls, they're not episode-specific, so you'll see voice acting credits for characters that weren't in the episodes, and miss credits for characters that were present. Worse yet, Viz continues to use ED1 ("New Future") even after episode 7, where the show originally switched to ED2 ("Myself"). Note that the first 2 lines of "Myself" play at the very end of the actual episodes, after which the song is supposed to lead into the ED video. But no, with these streams, you get the first 2 lines of "Myself" and then a completely different song. So yeah, long story short, these streams fail on many levels. Last edited by Zalis116 on Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:54 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Gewürtztraminer
 Posts: 1028 Location: Texas - Its like whole other country. |
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I agree, I had watched the first 3 discs via Netflix, and started buying (I think only 4 volumes were out). I was going to wait until I had the whole thing before watching. I could not bring myself to continue once the remaining DVD releases were cancelled. Every time I would look at my shelves, those 7 discs were sitting there, reminding me of my disappointment. I am glad I can finally break the seal on the last 3 discs I have, and continue with the story legally. |
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Supermutant
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Well at least they are going to be online. I just wish Funimation would do the same for stuff like Case Closed, Kodacha, or squeals to series Galaxy Railways, When They Cry, etc. That is one thing I like to ask them at con if they ever tried or cost of license for even streaming is to much.
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Mad_Scientist
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That always bugs me, though it doesn't seem super common anymore (at least in my limited experience). Worst example I can remember is the end of Rumbling Hearts... hopefully nothing in Full Moon o Sagashite is on that level. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
 Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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What a wasted opportunity, don't they realize how much support there is from fans of this show to finish it? If they only released this for hulu subscribers or one of the other subscription based sites like Crunchyroll, I'd buy it up in a heartbeat. Sure they still make money off advertisers and Hulu subscribers can probably get a H(er)D version, but they really aren't exploiting the fans as much as I think they could. I support the success of streaming commerce and in order for content providers to be in the game, they should know their customers better.
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EmbraceMe
 Posts: 2013 Location: Growing old and jaded. |
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Maybe you should ask FUNi to squeal for you next time at a con  .
Anyways, I've heard some good things about the series so I might check it out sometime... After I finish 20gb of unlicensed animes and stuff not meant for young children. |
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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And while I did mention wonky timing, that could be attributed to the streaming player. Media-Blasters' Queen's Blade subs have poor timing on CR, yet are acceptably-timed on DVD/BD. |
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here-and-faraway
 Posts: 1528 Location: Sunny California |
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I remember one thing that initially stopped me from investing in titles like Kodocha, Hikaru no Go, and Full Moon was the fact that I knew they were long series and I would have to invest hundreds of dollars collecting them. I always wonder what would have happened if they had been released in 13 episode sets, which is more or less the norm today. Would more people have bought them? Were a lot of people waiting for Viz to release their titles in cheaper box sets, not realizing this would never happen? (It did for Kodocha.) Especially with Hikaru no Go it seems like releasing it as a bigger chunk would have helped.
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