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NEWS: Funimation Channel Asks Fans to Petition to Stay on FiOS

Ha ha, this tells me that Funimation is truly perturbed by this and feel it's hurting their business. Where's the petition to congratulate Verizon for making the right choice?
<-- HATES Funimation.

Past wrote:

Ha ha, this tells me that Funimation is truly perturbed by this and feel it's hurting their business. Where's the petition to congratulate Verizon for making the right choice? <-- HATES Funimation.

So in order to see a company you don't like fail, you'd watch one of the few means of introducing people to the genre get tanked?

That's about as pyrrhic a victory as you can get here.

IMO, anime is only really fun to watch in two situations:
1. Weekly premier. A new episode of a show that airs every week. And longer than a week in between and people forget what's happening but any shorter and you risk people missing episodes.
2. Full viewer control. Meaning DVD release and online streaming.
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R315r4z0r wrote:

IMO, anime is only really fun to watch in two situations: 1. Weekly premier. A new episode of a show that airs every week. And longer than a week in between and people forget what's happening but any shorter and you risk people missing episodes. 2. Full viewer control. Meaning DVD release and online streaming. ...

It might be trying to close the door after the horse has bolted, but I really like the idea of airing series in blocks of three/four episodes, with the blocks updating on a given day (say, thursday). It would be much easier to be sure that there is a series starting in every week if many of your series have runs of three weeks or six weeks.

Past wrote:

Ha ha, this tells me that Funimation is truly perturbed by this and feel it's hurting their business. Where's the petition to congratulate Verizon for making the right choice? <-- HATES Funimation.

So in order to see a company you don't like fail, you'd watch one of the few means of introducing people to the genre get tanked?

That's about as pyrrhic a victory as you can get here.

R315r4z0r wrote:

IMO, anime is only really fun to watch in two situations: 1. Weekly premier. A new episode of a show that airs every week. And longer than a week in between and people forget what's happening but any shorter and you risk people missing episodes. 2. Full viewer control. Meaning DVD release and online streaming. ...

It might be trying to close the door after the horse has bolted, but I really like the idea of airing series in blocks of three/four episodes, with the blocks updating on a given day (say, thursday). It would be much easier to be sure that there is a series starting in every week if many of your series have runs of three weeks or six weeks.

But airing constant reruns of a few episodes of a show will drive people away. Granted that people who haven't seen the episodes might still stick around to view them, people who already seen it/them are more likely to change the channel or turn off the TV.

Yoda117 wrote:

Past wrote: Ha ha, this tells me that Funimation is truly perturbed by this and feel it's hurting their business. Where's the petition to congratulate Verizon for making the right choice? <-- HATES Funimation. So in order to see a company you don't like fail, you'd watch one of the few means of introducing people to the genre get tanked? That's about as pyrrhic a victory as you can get here.

Maybe, just maybe Funimation is part of the problem that there are so few means of introducing people to the genre. Their approach seems to be to exhaust any and all means for their competition to succeed, sucking the life out of the industry by capitalizing on every venue possible.

Maybe, just maybe Funimation is part of the problem that there are so few means of introducing people to the genre. Their approach seems to be to exhaust any and all means for their competition to succeed, sucking the life out of the industry by capitalizing on every venue possible.

To me, I think diverting all funding that goes into the Funi channel, which has minimal availability) to trying to get a nationally carried cable channel (ie SyFy, Cartoon Network, Spike, etc) to to devote 1 or 2 hours a week to anime is a better way of spending money than trying to keep a channel that almost nobody can access or wants to access up and running.

Past wrote:

Maybe, just maybe Funimation is part of the problem that there are so few means of introducing people to the genre. Their approach seems to be to exhaust any and all means for their competition to succeed, sucking the life out of the industry by capitalizing on every venue possible.

I'm curious where that line of reasoning is coming from. Not trying to be snarky, but my observation is a bit different.

My perception is that Funimation was actually slow to the digital distribution method, VoD, and even a dedicated anime channel. CPM, ADV, and others beat them to a lot of the newer venues (ADV, now Sentai, in particular beat Funimation to all three, IIRC). This was especially true when they were under Navarre.

The hits to the industry have been more about other companies refusing to identify the market within the US, and further refusing to adjust their strategy to match that (Bandai is a great example of this). Some companies were just the victims of bad luck or management, and some just decided to go a different route (AnimEigo, for example still does a bunch of stuff, but 90% of it is live action).

One thing I do have to give Funimation is that their business people are very observant to the market and move accordingly. Sometimes they move a bit slower and have to play catch up, but they seem to do a good job of researching, and so far it's paid off.

I shop at Right Stuf and I've been buying Aniplex releases as they've been dishing them out. I also am working on getting a digital manga subscription once I find a legit site that releases gender bender titles (and writing them to encourage them to do so). I give my all to help keep the anime industry alive and I don't think avoiding Funimation is having a negative affect. It's my money and those Funinazis are not getting any of it. And that's that.

Past wrote:

I shop at Right Stuf and I've been buying Aniplex releases as they've been dishing them out. I also am working on getting a digital manga subscription once I find a legit site that releases gender bender titles (and writing them to encourage them to do so). I give my all to help keep the anime industry alive and I don't think avoiding Funimation is having a negative affect. It's my money and those Funinazis are not getting any of it. And that's that.

Funinazis?

Just a question...When you shop at RightStuf do you buy shows that are licensed by Funimation when they're on sale?

It's not really about which company got the most high tech soonest, since getting in the game first is not always the most advantageous, usually it is but I think there are many other factors involved. At least there are ones that appeal to me, and Funimation just has always missed the mark, to me, in delivering the variety I like, the marketing approach and the sense that they truly care about the artform and fans, not just their money.

I watched that video someone posted about how the Anime Industry is dying (watch it I highly recommend it) and I cringed east time the commentator mentioned ways to support the industry and cited Funimation as one of them. One can only spend their money on so many anime sources and I think my contribution is satisfactory, I pay dues to Crunchyroll each month, I shop at Right Stuf and I've been buying Aniplex releases as they've been dishing them out. I also am working on getting a digital manga subscription once I find a legit site that releases gender bender titles (and writing them to encourage them to do so). I give my all to help keep the anime industry alive and I don't think avoiding Funimation is having a negative affect. It's my money and those Funinazis are not getting any of it. And that's that.