UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread

Magical Senshi said:
Season 2 had an English friendly release by Ponycan USA, but that's out of print, and Season 3 doesn't have an English friendly release at all, as of this post.
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I had been really hopeful of a renewed interest (if there ever was any to begin with) for someone (AL), actually ANYONE, to release all of sound euphonium after season 3 dropped but that is far becoming another fantasy. Arrrr tis nothing but encouragement to take to the high seas for those distrustful of streaming media's capriciousness with their catalogues.
 
Who knows if Crunchyroll operates with this much logic in deciding what to release, but my assumption is that unfortunately their sales for Sound! Euphonium season 1 weren't up to whatever they felt was sufficient for them to release the following two seasons. If they never planned for the rest I don't know why they would even release season 1, given how unusual it has been for them to go back to anything that long after its initial airing.

I have their S1 and fortunately got the two Ponycan US volumes for S2 when Rightstuf had their final sale before going out of business, since I knew that was likely my last chance to get that and they were available at a discount. But I guess I will never get to see or own S3. :confused: :( I'd be willing to buy the Japanese discs but without English subtitles they are of no use to me. No judgment against anyone who does, but I will never do the piracy thing.

Edit: Oh, hey, I'm a Student Council President now. :p
 
I don't know exactly what's going on with Sound! Euphonium, but it might not be intedended?
S1 was announced for German Blu-ray release - including new dub - but no ETA on this. Licensing issues maybe?
 
Shadow Cat said:
Was there ever an update with UK Sailor Moon release?
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No official update. However, funnily enough, Scott from AnimeBlurayUK mentioned in the discord yesterday that he managed to contact Crunchyroll about it.

Essentially, it's still planned for a UK release. It sounds like they came up to a bump in the road and is therefore taking a bit longer than they thought it would take - he did say that they told him that further details are to come.

So at least they haven't forgotten about it!
 
I made some educated guesses regarding Sailor Moon in September:

Relaxo said:
I don't have any actual insights regarding the UK release of Sailor Moon, but given the data from the UK & France, a delay is kinda likely, especially if one assumes that they may share at least parts of the packaging.

  • German release (Steelbook) was scheduled for Nov 21, 2025, currently "unavailable" with no new date announced
  • "old" French release still pending Season 5 & movie set, they may want to finish that old release before starting a new one
  • a lot of releases in Germany & France are facing delays of several months compared to older provisional schedules
  • some releases announced by Crunchyroll Germany in August 2024 are still "date TBA"

Also a short reminder that Toei Europe is a bit "difficult" to deal with Answerman - How Hard Was it to Get the UK Rights for Dragon Ball Z? and Sailor Moon is "difficult" as well (Remember the delays in Australia?)
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Not much has changed since: Sailor Moon S5 shipped in France this week, the remaining movie box is not yet scheduled, so will be released not before April.
If my predictions are right, Sailor Moon Steelbooks won't be released before Summer
 
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