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cfx said:
I hope, but Crunchyroll is terrible about that. They skipped Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment, which as I understand it, is an integral part of the overall story and goes between two of the show's seasons. I can understand skipping compilation movies but they seem to just hate any movie that is related to a series rather than standalone.

They did release That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond though, so there's at least some bit of hope.
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Same with Sound! Euphonium, Sound! Euphonium: The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day and Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest are essential between S2 and S3 but not available in most territories.
 
sirijo said:
Same with Sound! Euphonium, Sound! Euphonium: The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day and Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest are essential between S2 and S3 but not available in most territories.
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I thought the first one was a compilation film but I could be wrong. The second did get a US blu-ray release, and the third is missing. But in this case S3 isn't released either, and S2 is only available via the OOP Ponycan sets. So it's more a matter of Crunchyroll not bothering with the show at all past S1 so far, than skipping important parts of the story contained in movies while continuing to release the series.
 
cfx said:
I thought the first one was a compilation film but I could be wrong. The second did get a US blu-ray release, and the third is missing. But in this case S3 isn't released either, and S2 is only available via the OOP Ponycan sets. So it's more a matter of Crunchyroll not bothering with the show at all past S1 so far, than skipping important parts of the story contained in movies while continuing to release the series.
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The S1 compilation movie is the similarly titled Sound! Euphonium The Movie: Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band, which was followed by a S2 compilation film titled Sound! Euphonium The Movie — May the melody reach you! —

Given that S3 is also getting the compilation treatment I did find it weird Crunchy took back home video rights but didn’t wait until S3 completed to make a really good “complete” set. Instead they limply released S1 and have done nothing else. KyoAni deserve better.
 
sirijo said:
Given that S3 is also getting the compilation treatment I did find it weird Crunchy took back home video rights but didn’t wait until S3 completed to make a really good “complete” set. Instead they limply released S1 and have done nothing else. KyoAni deserve better.
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Eupho is in my top ten TV anime, but I have to admit it's a tough one to pitch to people. It's one of those shows that proves a good story is 10% concept, 90% execution, and as such the things that make it great don't come across in a couple of sentences of marketing copy.

Shows like Eupho fall victim to Crunchyroll's laissez faire attitude, where all but a couple of shows per season are tossed out the door and left to fend for themselves. Despite its pure focus on anime, CR increasingly feels like a generic content provider rather than an anime specialist. You see it in the way they axed first the forums and then the ability to add comments or reviews, killing any discussion or sense of community. You see it in the recommendations algorithm that's packed with things you've already watched. You see it in the dwindling home video release slate. It's a troubling state to see the biggest anime platform in, and I don't see it getting any better now that they've gobbled up most of the competition.
 
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