UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread

[RaeDra]

they definately approached former (and presumably current) employees of the company, but yea it doesn't paint a positive picture. The fact all that stuff wasn't, understandably, covered (plus some interesting other comments made elsewhere) shows the issues have accumulated over the years.

GKids got Dandadan for home video as Toho own it and Science Saru. It was pretty obvious Crunchyroll weren't promoting it as they never did their usual social posts of highlight clips from the series like they would with most of their streaming titles.

I wonder with this, it was before any acquistion was announced but of course, that may have started before. The primary licensor for Dandadan is MBS (Mainichi Broadcasting System, the TV broadcaster) and, like a few others recently, decided to go nonexclusive. This, along with producing the English dub themselves (clearly priortised as all the other languages, to my knowledge, are provided/created by streaming partners, and also wasn't done on the cheap), means you can probably expect it with AL over here, with no real issues. They already had the theatrical run preview thing of course.

 

[bakura]

Come to think of it when manga entertainment got bought out didn't they fire all the long term PR staff and then outsource all there PR to a third party company? Sure I read that here. Why is it when buying small companies do the big partners think hiring people who are actually fans (and know what fans want as a result) is a bad thing?

 

[sniper_samurai]

Come to think of it when manga entertainment got bought out didn't they fire all the long term PR staff and then outsource all there PR to a third party company? Sure I read that here. Why is it when buying small companies do the big partners think hiring people who are actually fans (and know what fans want as a result) is a bad thing?

Funimation ran Manga UK as usual when they bought them out, they closed everything when the Crunchyroll merger went through.

 

[sniper_samurai]

Looks like Crunchyroll may not have the home video rights to the My Hero Academia: You're Next movie as listings in the US have gone up stating it's being released by Toho.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1871381362298777928

 

[Puringa]

Last year Crunchyroll had an End of Year sale going on (just like Rightstuf used to do). They still haven't done that this time (they did some sales in December, but not as eleborate as in previous years). I'm afraid it's not going to happen anymore. It used to be the best sale of the year.

 

[Kite]

They might still do something in the new year under a 'January Sale' banner.

 

[Hunter_Killer]

Chainsaw man Deluxe is OOP on Amazon?

 

[sniper_samurai]

Chainsaw man Deluxe is OOP on Amazon?

Still available to order for me, but with a long dispatch on it as they have none in inventory.

It's still cheaper to buy the UK standard and the French deluxe edition of this though.

 

[Hunter_Killer]

Still available to order for me, but with a long dispatch on it as they have none in inventory.

Strange, it's unavailable for me. Even when I put in a UK address. What does long mean? 2 weeks or a few months?

 

[sniper_samurai]

Strange, it's unavailable for me. Even when I put in a UK address. What does long mean? 2 weeks or a few months?

3-7 months. Coming up unavailable when I put in a UK address as well, but will let me order with an Irish or Northern Ireland address.

If you need it to the UK AoL have it for about £127.50.

https://www.anime-on-line.com/chain...limited-edition-15-blu-ray-5022366021241.html

 

[Hunter_Killer]

3-7 months. Coming up unavailable when I put in a UK address as well, but will let me order with an Irish or Northern Ireland address.

If you need it to the UK AoL have it for about £127.50.

https://www.anime-on-line.com/chainsaw-man/31856-chainsaw-man-season-1-deluxe-limited-edition-15-blu-ray-5022366021241.html

Interesting. I mean, I have an order that they didn't ship/charge my card and it says January 14th as the delivery date. Although knowing Amazon, once they ship everything it'll go back on sale... Maybe.

No, I wouldn't buy from AoL, there shipping to my country is awfully high. Only from Aamzon.co.uk did it make sense.

 

[MVM]

Interesting. I mean, I have an order that they didn't ship/charge my card and it says January 14th as the delivery date. Although knowing Amazon, once they ship everything it'll go back on sale... Maybe.

No, I wouldn't buy from AoL, there shipping to my country is awfully high. Only from Aamzon.co.uk did it make sense.

Just be careful as this is limited stock. There isn't a guarantee Amazon will get any more stock back in if they're showing as unavailable. The reason our postage is expensive is because this is a heavy and expensive item, so we're shipping with DHL for international orders.

 

[sniper_samurai]

Interesting. I mean, I have an order that they didn't ship/charge my card and it says January 14th as the delivery date. Although knowing Amazon, once they ship everything it'll go back on sale... Maybe.

No, I wouldn't buy from AoL, there shipping to my country is awfully high. Only from Aamzon.co.uk did it make sense.

You should get charged soon, it's now in stock on Amazon.

 

[Suzu]

Ave Mujica, my most anticipated anime of 2025, is not available in Europe on Crunchyroll. What a sh*tty way to start the year. I don't understand this decision since Ave Mujica is a sequel to MyGO which is available in Europe on Crunchyroll.

 

[sniper_samurai]

Ave Mujica, my most anticipated anime of 2025, is not available in Europe on Crunchyroll. What a sh*tty way to start the year. I don't understand this decision since Ave Mujica is a sequel to MyGO which is available in Europe on Crunchyroll.

Are you sure? The first episode is available for me in Ireland.

 

[Suzu]

Are you sure? The first episode is available for me in Ireland.

I am sure, it does not show up when I search for Ave Mujica on CR's app via phone or TV (I also tried searching for it in the web browser and it does not show up there either). When I clicked on an official link Bandori Updates shared, it said "404 - Page not found."

Apparently it's only available on UK and Ireland when it comes to Europe. I saw some French people tweeting how Ave Mujica is not available in their region region/country either and I am myself from Finland.

 

[zrdb]

I just watched the uhd version of Ave Mujica and it actually has a lossless pcm audio track! Wow, streaming video with lossless audio-what is the world coming to?