UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread

Manga/Funi have always done this though, delays is just there dumb way, the main reason I don't moan as much at them as I do at Al, Manga don't tend to do it to part 2s, so you'd buy part 1 and have to wait 6+ months to be able to watch any of it, for what is essentially a planning problem.
This seems to be over promising on LE merch, that they are possibly having difficulty sourcing. So essentially a planning problem, I don't know why UK anime distro has this issue still in the 21st century but alas it does.
 
ActionFaust said:
Tbf in some cases like Golden Kamuy it's delayed due to something involving the Japanese license holder iirc. I wouldn't place all the blame on Funimation as I can imagine it's frustrating for them to keep having to delay things for reasons out of their control.
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Understandable.
Universal shows like Kamuy, Hellsing, Shana and Raildex were pretty difficult to get.
 
NormanicGrav said:
What happened with Zeta was that Anime Limited managed to become a partner with Sunrise for France so it was delayed just to have discs that were used for both regions, rather than use Nozomi's discs for the UK.
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Ah I see, yep if I was around back in those days I would most certainly have called BS as well.
 
NormanicGrav said:
What happened with Zeta was that Anime Limited managed to become a partner with Sunrise for France so it was delayed just to have discs that were used for both regions, rather than use Nozomi's discs for the UK.
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Indeed. The issue there was that Zeta had not been previously released in France so needed to be translated and the company doing the work were taking the absolute p*ss and repeatedly missing delivery dates.
 
sniper_samurai said:
Indeed. The issue there was that Zeta had not been previously released in France so needed to be translated and the company doing the work were taking the absolute p*ss and repeatedly missing delivery dates.
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Was that the same lovely team who make those poor blu-ray transfers by any chance?
 
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sniper_samurai said:
Indeed. The issue there was that Zeta had not been previously released in France so needed to be translated and the company doing the work were taking the absolute p*ss and repeatedly missing delivery dates.
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Too much assumption here. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes and I very much doubt they were missing the dates on purpose.
 
Can't see the UK being that far behind (can always fire up the VPN 😉)
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Now if only AL would strike while the hype train is hot (pun intended) and get that standard edition of season 1 out the door for all that casual cash!!
They are literally leaving money on the table and have been for months!! The fact they didn't get it out at least 2 months ago is crazy to me from a business stand point 🤷‍♂️
 
Jon O Fun said:
Now if only AL would strike while the hype train is hot (pun intended) and get that standard edition of season 1 out the door for all that casual cash!!
They are literally leaving money on the table and have been for months!! The fact they didn't get it out at least 2 months ago is crazy to me from a business stand point 🤷‍♂️
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I think it's probably another case of Aniplex being Aniplex. A lot of their shows take a while for a standard release to show up.
 
ActionFaust said:
I think it's probably another case of Aniplex being Aniplex. A lot of their shows take a while for a standard release to show up.
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Could be yeah because they went through Aniplex direct which stopped Funimation getting it here.
But at the same time Madman did a standard edition 3 months before AL did their collector's so there's no way they couldn't have argued them like they did the box for both volumes....
 
Jon O Fun said:
Could be yeah because they went through Aniplex direct which stopped Funimation getting it here.
But at the same time Madman did a standard edition 3 months before AL did their collector's so there's no way they couldn't have argued them like they did the box for both volumes....
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Huh didn't know about the Madman release. Aniplex works in mysterious ways indeed
 
ActionFaust said:
Huh didn't know about the Madman release. Aniplex works in mysterious ways indeed
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I'm willing to bet them getting it before the funi deal went through annoyed a lot of people haha.
In the long run AL have probably lost out as if they had done a standard edition they'd be raking it in.
Both of the collector's editions are still readily available on I assume a 1,000 print run when I'd bet a standard would've sold bucket loads thanks to the normies when it was getting pumped by all the big streamers.
 
Jon O Fun said:
I'm willing to bet them getting it before the funi deal went through annoyed a lot of people haha.
In the long run AL have probably lost out as if they had done a standard edition they'd be raking it in.
Both of the collector's editions are still readily available on I assume a 1,000 print run when I'd bet a standard would've sold bucket loads thanks to the normies when it was getting pumped by all the big streamers.
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I assume the high SRP is probably why those CEs had yet to sell out, because outside of the Early Bird those won't go for cheap.
 
NormanicGrav said:
I assume the high SRP is probably why those CEs had yet to sell out, because outside of the Early Bird those won't go for cheap.
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I'd put it down to the length of time between parts why they haven't sold as many, normal people don't like to wait nearly 7 months for a complete release, for a box to contain your boxes.
I class myself as an Anime fan, I can't put up with it.
 
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