Spring 2014 Streaming - Future Card B.F. & World Fool News

Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - Another J-Drama now available

Crunchyroll has added another Manga to their catalog Fuuka.

Not confirmed but the title of that forum thread mentions the Fairy Tail catalog. The return of the original series perhaps? or maybe it's the manga catalog?

Anywho, the title thread was renamed so here's what I witnessed:
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The manga section for Fairy Tail has 35 volumes listed as unavailable, was this there before today?
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - Fairy Tail's catalog?

NormanicGrav said:
Not confirmed but the title of that forum thread mentions the Fairy Tail catalog. The return of the original series perhaps? or maybe it's the manga catalog?

Anywho, the title thread was renamed so here's what I witnessed:
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The manga section for Fairy Tail has 35 volumes listed as unavailable, was this there before today?
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It seems to be referring to the anime, though only for US and Canada anyway.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-8 ... me-catalog
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Because of Fairy Tail season 2, which does stream to us?
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Of course we're cocked out of Season one of Fairy Tail.

Wouldn't be the anime industry if we weren't arsed about.
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

One of the reasons I never watched Fairy Tail to begin with was the 1 week limit on CR.
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

In the last couple of weeks, Nozomi Ent's Youtube channel have put up the first two episodes of Blessings of the Campanella, some random episodes of Space Adventure Cobra are streamable from the UK, the rest aren't, and the first six episodes, dub and sub of Princess Nine are on the channel.
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Just Passing Through said:
Daisuki have put up Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
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Daisuki had ZZ up for a long long time. I also didn't realise they had Silver Spoon Season 2.

ConanThe3rd said:
Of course we're cocked out of Season one of Fairy Tail.

Wouldn't be the anime industry if we weren't arsed about.
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I've been checking the Fairy Tail catalog forum thread and someone said that it's because of the licensor in our region. In other words, blame Manga UK.

Just Passing Through said:
In the last couple of weeks, Nozomi Ent's Youtube channel have put up the first two episodes of Blessings of the Campanella, some random episodes of Space Adventure Cobra are streamable from the UK, the rest aren't, and the first six episodes, dub and sub of Princess Nine are on the channel.
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I've been aware that they've done this, I'll see what I can do to add them via main streaming thread.
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Final Spring 2014 title for Crunchyroll is World Fool News and Future Card Buddyfight (this one hasn't got details but it's most likely not available to us, but you can watch the series legally on YouTube).
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

NormanicGrav said:
I've been checking the Fairy Tail catalog forum thread and someone said that it's because of the licensor in our region. In other words, blame Manga UK.
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FUNimation is the UK licensor, Manga sub-license it from them. Manga haven't stopped FUNimation streaming it on YouTube.
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Shiroi Hane said:
NormanicGrav said:
I've been checking the Fairy Tail catalog forum thread and someone said that it's because of the licensor in our region. In other words, blame Manga UK.
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FUNimation is the UK licensor, Manga sub-license it from them. Manga haven't stopped FUNimation streaming it on YouTube.
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Out of curiosity, do we have any evidence that they haven't? The streaming quote (apologies for borrowing it from you!) appears to imply that Funimation work with their local partners and has no interest in streaming overseas themselves when they have the rights. And even in cases where it's obvious that Manga UK worked with Funi, we remain locked out of any legal streams these days. Australia seems to get some but I acknowledge you probably follow which of the 'Funi' shows are likely direct licenses and which are not better than I do.

I'm personally inclined to believe that Manga UK don't properly understand or care for legal streaming and it's their fault that the current Funimation situation has become as bad as it is. I presume that their experiment with FMA:B was unproductive and that directly led to our drought of streaming titles via Funimation today. A more problematic interpretation could even be that they deliberately block streams where they can to avoid 'competition' with their eventual home video release due to some daft corporate strategy on their part.

I would very much like Manga to disprove my paranoid theories and give me some hope that the existence of the UK industry isn't making being a fan worse than it ought to be in the digital age.

R
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - UK loses out on Fairy Tail Serie

Rui said:
Shiroi Hane said:
FUNimation is the UK licensor, Manga sub-license it from them. Manga haven't stopped FUNimation streaming it on YouTube.
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Out of curiosity, do we have any evidence that they haven't? The streaming quote (apologies for borrowing it from you!) appears to imply that Funimation work with their local partners and has no interest in streaming overseas themselves when they have the rights.
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Have you linked to the right quote there? That post is about Sentai and dubs.
Manga have no problems with FUNi's streams being open to the UK since they have previously linked to their YouTube and Viewster channels. The problem is, FUNi's main venue is Hulu, which is US-only. If they were still using YouTube for new shows they would (hopefully) continue to be unlocked.

And even in cases where it's obvious that Manga UK worked with Funi, we remain locked out of any legal streams these days. Australia seems to get some but I acknowledge you probably follow which of the 'Funi' shows are likely direct licenses and which are not better than I do.
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It's blooming hard to tell these days to be honest - the best way used to be checking the availability on YouTube...

I'm personally inclined to believe that Manga UK don't properly understand or care for legal streaming and it's their fault that the current Funimation situation has become as bad as it is. I presume that their experiment with FMA:B was unproductive and that directly led to our drought of streaming titles via Funimation today. A more problematic interpretation could even be that they deliberately block streams where they can to avoid 'competition' with their eventual home video release due to some daft corporate strategy on their part.
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The only time I'm aware of Manga deliberately blocking a stream was when FUNi's FMA:B streams were briefly open to the UK (possible some confusion since Starz Digital sourced the files for the UK streams from FUNimation).
 
Re: Spring 2014 Streaming - Final Spring title: World Fool N

Turns out Future Card Buddyfight will be available to the UK after all on Crunchyroll. Didn't expect that.

17 episodes are available to watch (16 if you're a free member). :thumb:
 
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