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TatsuGero23



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:03 pm Reply with quote
I moved the comment to the other thread.
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The panel opened with some statistics about their viewership; according to user surveys, the majority of fans prefer to watch dubs. In light of this, Funimation will continue to release all of their titles in both subtitled and dubbed formats, and has no plans of following the growing industry trend of releasing subtitled-only products.
In light of this, I will continue to support FUNimation, and have no plans of supporting the growing industry trend of subtitled-only products. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:19 pm Reply with quote
I wonder what kind of "user surveys" they are talking about. I doubt it is possible to get a good random sample of everyone who has voluntarily watched more than ten hours of anime, for example. Has anyone here ever filled out and sent back those cards that are sometimes included with DVDs?

Nonetheless, as long as they don't decide to drop the Japanese audio track and English subtitles, I will have no complaints on the sub/dub issue.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:44 pm Reply with quote
Funi- you guys are my hero! I, too, will be supporting you. But I support you even more if you give us some info on the release date of Hellsing Ultimate vol 5. And speaking of dubs, they better be continuing with the same cast. (Yes, I know Funi is not in control of this, but still..)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:49 pm Reply with quote
DavidShallcross wrote:
I wonder what kind of "user surveys" they are talking about. I doubt it is possible to get a good random sample of everyone who has voluntarily watched more than ten hours of anime, for example. Has anyone here ever filled out and sent back those cards that are sometimes included with DVDs?

Nonetheless, as long as they don't decide to drop the Japanese audio track and English subtitles, I will have no complaints on the sub/dub issue.

They may be talking about the surveys they run on their site every now and then. Then again, most of the traffic to their site may be those who prefer dubs anyway.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:52 pm Reply with quote
A new Initial D dub?

Amazing. You truly are so amazing FUNimation.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:54 pm Reply with quote
DavidShallcross wrote:
I wonder what kind of "user surveys" they are talking about.


The data comes from the survey cards found inside all FUNimation DVDs. This data comes from people who purchased anime.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:06 pm Reply with quote
It feels so good that those survey cards are read and taken into account! I still wanna win a dvd, though.

I love dubs, and I love the way Funi does dubs. I also want to applaud Funi's adaptation of every new technology available to them. You guys rock!

Now who is Aaron D gonna voice? My bets on Ling...
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I fill out your cards every time, Lance. Yay, I'm a statistic! Not only that, I'm a stat thats on the side of results I like.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:13 pm Reply with quote
* makes note to fill out survey cards*
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:54 pm Reply with quote
I've been trying to figure out the last few months what to do with my survey cards. I'm getting enough of them you could almost use them as wall paper Wink . That said, I hope you are also talking about the survey's that use to be given out for the Operation Anime disks. While we were told last disk Funimation no longer was collecting those, I did have fun filling them out over the last few years at my local club Smile .
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:56 pm Reply with quote
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The panel opened with some statistics about their viewership; according to user surveys, the majority of fans prefer to watch dubs. In light of this, Funimation will continue to release all of their titles in both subtitled and dubbed formats, and has no plans of following the growing industry trend of releasing subtitled-only products.


It should be noted though that the ratio of dub watchers versus sub watchers is heavily dependant on how mainstream the series in question is. Something with a great deal of TV exposure like Dragonball Z or Yu Yu Hakusho will naturally have a vast majority of dub watchers, whereas a more niche series like Spice and Wolf or Big Windup is likely to have a more evenly balanced audience or even a mostly sub watching audience.

As Funimation is basing these figures on the sumtotal of the survey cards they received, the results will undoubtedly be influenced by their top selling releases like DBZ, FMA and Afro Samurai, which have a great majority of fans that prefer dubs. If I were Funimation, I wouldn't reject the idea of sub-only releases for especially niche stuff just yet. Funimation has the luxury of having a good number of strong selling titles, so they can afford to take a loss on certain less popular titles, but for things that are practically guaranteed to sell poorly (Big Windup) I don't see the point in taking the risk of producing a dub.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:31 pm Reply with quote
*sigh* Yet nothing still about Hellsing...

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Maxey Whitehead as Alphonse Elric

I called it! I knew it was going to happen, since I heard the commentary track for Romeo x Juliet. Awesome!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:46 pm Reply with quote
An entry over at Funimation's blog mentions that FMA: Brotherhood is going to be released this coming Spring. I haven't seen this bit of news anywhere here at ANN, so I thought I'd share it with you. While that's still at least six months away, I'm glad it finally got a DVD release announced, as I vastly prefer DVDs to streams or downloads.
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