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NEWS: Funimation Adds Ikki Tousen Anime, Beta Video Portal

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

I doubt most people would be happy, or care, with a CCS rescue.

You're going to have to start reading the AoD forums. A lot of people there - including myself - would be thrilled and most certainly will care for a CCS "rescue".

I mean they could license Seto or Sayonara but instead are just rescuing Geneon titles.

Why would I feel the need to buy Last Exile, Gad Guard, Vandread or the other Geneon releases when I bought the complete series sets for $50 each through Right Stuf?

Besides, Funimation isn't simply re-releasing them, they're shrinking the sets down to four disk sets, stripping the bonus features from the sets and selling them for the same over-inflated price.

Yes, I'll continue boycotting Funimation ... oh, and Funimation better watch it ... if they obtain too large of the market share, they could find themselves under the eye of the FTC and an Anti Trust lawsuit and I would consider that poetic justice.

heavyweather wrote:

GATSU wrote: heavy: Quote: Why did they pick up Ikki Tousen? Why? Probably because it's cheap, and they actually believe it'll make money. But hey, I hope this'll keep up the hope for quality Geneon anime license rescues. I wonder if FY is next. I agree with you wholeheartedly - this probably will make at least some money, and was probably dirt cheap. And hopefully they'll pick up some of Geneon's better shows later. But I'm not so enamored about FY. I still think that Haibane Renmei should be near the top of Geneon's licenses that should be preserved.

Just to get your POV, why aren't you too psyched about someone rescuing Fushigi? I heard a lot of good things about it back in the day, but even then the series boxes were prohibitively expensive.

heavy: So basically, Fushigi Yuugi sorta does a similar thing to what Escaflowne and MKR did much better.


To get back on-topic, yeah, I bet FUNi will also get ahold of the sequel seasons. It's junk, but it's junk that sells. But why did the creators try to give the show a (incredibly shallow) illusion of depth by throwing in a half-assed bunch of references to the Three Kingdoms? What's more the DVDs didn't include historical notes or anything that would help someone unfamiliar with the tale sort things out.

Unit 03.5-ish wrote:

heavy: So basically, Fushigi Yuugi sorta does a similar thing to what Escaflowne and MKR did much better. To get back on-topic, yeah, I bet FUNi will also get ahold of the sequel seasons. It's junk, but it's junk that sells. But why did the creators try to give the show a (incredibly shallow) illusion of depth by throwing in a half-assed bunch of references to the Three Kingdoms? What's more the DVDs didn't include historical notes or anything that would help someone unfamiliar with the tale sort things out.

You would think at the least, if they wanted junk, they would've picked up NEW junk.

Like oh, I dunno, Koihime Muso? You wanna talk about pretty artwork, fanservice and mediocre plots? Look there. I loved it too, it was my kind of guilty pleasure.

Colonel Wolfe wrote:

Besides, Funimation isn't simply re-releasing them, they're shrinking the sets down to four disk sets, stripping the bonus features from the sets and selling them for the same over-inflated price.

When and where have they done this?

You really have no idea what you are talking about do you?

bayoab wrote:

Colonel Wolfe wrote: Besides, Funimation isn't simply re-releasing them, they're shrinking the sets down to four disk sets, stripping the bonus features from the sets and selling them for the same over-inflated price. When and where have they done this? You really have no idea what you are talking about do you?

Let's see ...

Suzuka, Ah! My Goddess, Desert Punk, Negima, Moon Phase, Samurai 7, Mushi-shi just to name a few. Condensed from six DVD's down to four DVD's? You can't condense the DVD's down and not get rid of the bonus features on the original disks ...

Quoting this, so more people can see this.

It also seems likely that they're hinting at Hetalia Axis Powers (set to air in Japan early next year) in the same card which has the hint for Evangelion, since it starts out "Hey Talia".