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NEWS: The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity TV Anime Debuts on Netflix Outside Japan on September

No one is going to wait 2 months for this, Netflix already have the english subs and they are simulcating the show in SEA now. Netflix really blundered on this big time. I have a Netflix subsription but Netflix is not simulcating the show here in Australia so I will just pirate this instead.

OrangeRafi wrote:

No one is going to wait 2 months for this, Netflix already have the english subs and they are simulcating the show in SEA now. Netflix really blundered on this big time. I have a Netflix subsription but Netflix is not simulcating the show here in Australia so I will just pirate this instead.

I have a hunch that the reason that Netflix isn't simulcasting The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity weekly as they did it with Blue Box and now The Summer Hikaru Died is becuase they licensed show at the very last minute last month compared to the other anime shows that Netflix acquired/licensed such as My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, Ranma ½, and Sakamoto Days which were licensed 3-6 months before the anime premiered in Japan.

Even if they acquired the show late, they can still simulcast it even with a 1 week delay. They already have the English subtitles and they will be releasing every episode in SEA region with English subs starting July 13. Keeping the show on hostage just because they want to release the show with subs and dub at the same time doesn't make sense at all. By September, everyone who was waiting for the show will mostlikely have watched this elsewhere. Either by using VPN to watch the 1 week delay with English subs in SEA region or pirate the show entirely.

OrangeRafi wrote:

Even if they acquired the show late, they can still simulcast it even with a 1 week delay. They already have the English subtitles and they will be releasing every episode in SEA region with English subs starting July 13. Keeping the show on hostage just because they want to release the show with subs and dub at the same time doesn't make sense at all. By September, everyone who was waiting for the show will mostlikely have watched this elsewhere. Either by using VPN to watch the 1 week delay with English subs in SEA region or pirate the show entirely.

Again as I mentioned before, the reason Netflix acquired/licensed such as My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, Ranma ½, Sakamoto Days and Blue Box 3-6 months before the anime premiered in Japan was to allow for Netflix to fully prepare for their simuldub weekly releases, yet with Blue Box it took them 5-6 months for the dub to come out despite Netflix releasing the show weekly due to some clause from the production committee of the anime or the recording studio that did Blue Box not being acquainted with simuldub releases compared to Iyuno and Bang Zoom!

Now on the subject as to why Netflix is releasing the Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity internationally in September and didn't bothered doing a weekly release or a one week delay this month is becuase as I saidbefore, they licensed the show at the very last minute in June just one month before they premiered which gave them less time to have them do the simuldub weekly release for the show compared to My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, Ranma ½, Sakamoto Days which had the dubbed episodes recorded 2-3 months before the anime premiered, along with some clauses or contract stipulations by the production committee of Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity preventing Netflix from having an international simuldub release like the other shows (My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, Ranma ½, and Sakamoto Days) similar to what happened with Blue Box and now The Summer Hikaru Died were released weekly but not in silmudub as they are in Japanese language compared to Fragrant which ONLY has the first episode available in SEA but no where else until September 7 where they would release the first 9-10 episodes. Besides, Netflix is putting more attention on Sakamoto Days along with DanDaDan and Witch Watch for their simuldub weekly releases this month especially the former, which is why Netflix didn't even bother doing a simuldub release for Hikaru and The Fragrant Flower in July, plus Netflix ONLY has Dubbing Brothers USA and VSI Los Angeles respectively and are the remaining recording studios that does anime voiceover from the NP3 program after Netflix already dropped Bang Zoom! (since 2024, Iyuno (since 2024 due to the August 2024 leaks) and Studiopolis (since 2024) as their dubbing partners with the former two studios responsible for the simuldub releases.

Look, it's a complicated situation why Netflix never bothered doing a weekly release or weekly delay with a dub for Fragrant Flower but when it comes to their recently licensed anime shows since 2023 Netflix usually does two options:

1. Either Netflix licenses the show months ahead of time (4-6 months) and starts recording the dubbed episodes 2-3 months before the show premieres in Japan (e.g., My Happy Marriage, Delicious in Dungeon, Ranma ½, and Sakamoto Days)

OR

2. Release the show weekly on Netflix but not release this with a dub on the same day due to contract/clause stipulations by the show's production committee, and will only release the dub episodes either in batches every 3-4 months with the first batch consisting of the first 10-13 episodes followed by the next half of episodes 3-4 months later or Netflix drops the entire dub episodes in a batch once the show finishes airing it's season (e.g. Blue Box, The Summer Hikaru Died, The Fragrant Flower)