Summer 2015 Legal Anime Streaming Thread

NEW ADDITION? (CATALOG):

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 the Movie #2: Midsummer Knights Dream
Japanese w/English subtitles
Netflix

Cheers to Shiroi for discovering this.

Now what about the first film then? Heh.

UPDATE: According to some folks on Reddit, the first film (Spring of Death) isn't up on Netflix over on North America's end so chances are that Aniplex will probably add the first film and possibly allow it to be available on the UK side.
 
AWAITING REGION SPECS (CATALOG):

Symphogear (Senki Zesshou Symphogear: Meteoroid-Falling, Burning, and Disappear, Then...)
Japanese w/English subtitles
Crunchyroll

Symphogear G (Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music...)
Japanese w/English subtitles
Crunchyroll

Confirmed at Otakuthon 2015 that these two will be coming to Crunchyroll, regions were not announced but it's possible that the result will be the same as GX. Note that Funimation have streaming rights for Season 1.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
It's not barred, it just isn't available here like many, many other FUNimation-licensed titles.
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That was my other thought. If it ever does get picked up for the UK I could imagine the BBFC having a field day with it, can't see it not being cut even at 18.
 
robot monkey said:
Shiroi Hane said:
It's not barred, it just isn't available here like many, many other FUNimation-licensed titles.
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That was my other thought. If it ever does get picked up for the UK I could imagine the BBFC having a field day with it, can't see it not being cut even at 18.
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So far I don't see any issues with the first five episodes, sure it's ecchi as mad but I doubt it would get cut. It'll definitely get an 18 though.
 
robot monkey said:
Was Prison School barred from the UK partly on content grounds, from what I've read it doesn't seem this is an impossible reason?
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I believe AL said they wouldn't acquire it, because they didn't want to get dumped with a release that had to be heavily cut and consequently nobody would buy. Obviously, when they said they didn't know what the actual contents of the episodes would be, so it's possible they might go back and get it at a later date.

NormanicGrav said:
So far I don't see any issues with the first five episodes, sure it's ecchi as mad but I doubt it would get cut. It'll definitely get an 18 though.
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How old do the characters appear to be? Because if there's anything even vaguely ambiguous involving a character below the age of 16, it'll be cut.
 
Buzz201 said:
NormanicGrav said:
So far I don't see any issues with the first five episodes, sure it's ecchi as mad but I doubt it would get cut. It'll definitely get an 18 though.
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How old do the characters appear to be? Because if there's anything even vaguely ambiguous involving a character below the age of 16, it'll be cut.
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*checks ages* The only age I found was the main character (voiced by Ararararagi's VA) which is 15 (I always assumed first years start off as 16 and graduate at 18). So that's one thing that they could take account on. I don't think they mention their ages so far so the BBFC could always be misled and assume they're slightly older (the council girls do look slightly older in all fairness).
 
NormanicGrav said:
*checks ages* The only age I found was the main character (voiced by Ararararagi's VA) which is 15 (I always assumed first years start off as 16 and graduate at 18). So that's one thing that they could take account on. I don't think they mention their ages so far so the BBFC could always be misled and assume they're slightly older (the council girls do look slightly older in all fairness).
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Given the current political situation, I think the BBFC would assume down and cut anyway.

I thought Akame ga Kill might get a bit of trouble, because that explicitly suggests that some of it's characters are underage, but I don't think that show ever depicts sexual activity overtly enough to get cut.

IncendiaryLemon said:
Ah, so that's why OreImo never saw a UK release...
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I've not seen it, but that's apparently why Lelouch got cut. Apparently there was a fairly ambiguous image of something that wasn't really clear, may or may not have been sexual activity, but the BBFC cut it anyway just to be sure.
 
Oreimo is hardly that raunchy though, even if the themes are icky - I mean, Sword Art Online did pretty much the same thing?

Rape seems to be an issue they're really touchy about, or any kind of sexual violence - you can count on it going straight to 18.
 
There isn't anything that explicit in OreImo but I think if the BBFC saw the incestuous kiss between a 14 year old girl and her 17 year old brother their heads would probably explode.
 
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Lutga said:
Oreimo is hardly that raunchy though, even if the themes are icky - I mean, Sword Art Online did pretty much the same thing?

Rape seems to be an issue they're really touchy about, or any kind of sexual violence - you can count on it going straight to 18.
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That would be because their guidelines state that any clear depiction of sexual violence (or discreet depictions that aren't contextually justified) have to go to 18.

IncendiaryLemon said:
There isn't anything that explicit in OreImo but I think if the BBFC saw the incestuous kiss between a 14 year old girl and her 17 year old brother their heads would probably explode.
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As a Bates Motel and Game of Thrones fan, I think they'd be fine with it. (If you haven't seen it, Bates Motel features an incredibly creepy relationship between a boy and his mother, and his mother was raped by her brother, and gave birth to a child from him. Game of Thrones is just the standard brother and sister having incestuous relations and then chucking a 10 year old kid out the window when he catches them at it.)
 
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You have a point. Their age probably would worsen things a bit (I can't comment on Bates Motel but Jaime and Cersei are in their 20s or 30s) and I imagine it would definitely rocket up the rating despite the show being pretty tame otherwise.
 
Why do people always assume to worst? The only cuts for sexual content in anime recently have been like one single frame from Code Geass and a few seconds from Battle Girls: Time Paradogs.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
Why do people always assume to worst? The only cuts for sexual content in anime recently have been like one single frame from Code Geass and a few seconds from Battle Girls: Time Paradogs.
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Have you seen Prison School? Based on the first episode alone (the only one I've seen), the TV version would probably get the past the BBFC fine, but any less censorship to certain scenes and you're probably looking at cuts. It could maybe scrape through if the BBFC decides the characters look over 16 (note that at least some of the characters aren't yet 16), but given the school setting they'd probably cut anyway. Whilst most of the nudity isn't sexual in nature, I think you'd probably argue that the plot and context in which it is presented attempts to sexualise it.

Either way, you can see why AL didn't want to risk it. Looks like FUNi have the rights anyway, so the US blu-ray may be AB if anybody's interested.
 
Buzz201 said:
I've not seen it, but that's apparently why Lelouch got cut. Apparently there was a fairly ambiguous image of something that wasn't really clear, may or may not have been sexual activity, but the BBFC cut it anyway just to be sure.
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It was this shot right here

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(yeah, try censoring the internet, not even spoilering it because it's so friggin' tame) for the character in the background, which according to the BBFC was (and I quote) "likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity (in this case a young girl in the background of a shot suggesting sexual activity)" so NOT for the groping, but for the girl in the background. Which I suppose you can take either to mean they think seeing a flat chested girl in a state of undress actually turns people into paedophiles or suddenly activates puberty in adolescents which, given that Geass already got a 15 rating, is more than a little odd. That or they're truly off their rockers and are concerned for the purity of the cartoon character who they believe to be underage witnessing sexual activity.

I'd say the more likely effect from cutting it is to infantilize women with small breasts, given that there's no indication she's any younger than the other characters in the frame, other than that BBFC Censor #491 just presumed that because she has a flat chest she's a child. Lina Inverse would smack their sh*t up.

Shiroi Hane said:
Why do people always assume to worst?
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Because this cut in particular was pretty bullsh*t.
And the BBFC are the worst.
 
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