The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences....

[Otaku-san]

Chrono Crusade has that weird bathroom effect for some reason. Sounds like somebody just screwed up the audio transfer somehow.

I got the same effect with with nurse witch komugi, and i think even cosplay complex. though thankfully only short shows, i just make sure to listen to it through my speakers

 

[Otaku-san]

I thought it was aimed at 35-year-old otakus, seeing as Sasami is so MOEEEEE~~~~ and all.

Hmmmm

i think i have to be paid to watch a show like that

 

[Ryo Chan]

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences

you could atleast expect the company who owns the rights to Tenchi now to pronounce her name right, never mind make it seem like the show is designed for little kids.

To be fair Sasami is designed for little kids. Short of having a few of the characters from Tenchi it has pretty much nothing to do with it. The characters may share certain characteristics of their Tenchi counterparts but are placed in an entirely different situation and environment. The show itself is a magical girl show aimed at girls of about 11 years old despite Tenchi Muyo's shounen leanings. I find the whole thing very strange even if it is quite a lot of fun.

strange that, cause it came across to me as it was alot like petite princess yucie, a show which i'm actually yet to find anyone under the age of 16 who's watched it.

 

[Gawyn]

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences

you could atleast expect the company who owns the rights to Tenchi now to pronounce her name right, never mind make it seem like the show is designed for little kids.

To be fair Sasami is designed for little kids. Short of having a few of the characters from Tenchi it has pretty much nothing to do with it. The characters may share certain characteristics of their Tenchi counterparts but are placed in an entirely different situation and environment. The show itself is a magical girl show aimed at girls of about 11 years old despite Tenchi Muyo's shounen leanings. I find the whole thing very strange even if it is quite a lot of fun.

strange that, cause it came across to me as it was alot like petite princess yucie, a show which i'm actually yet to find anyone under the age of 16 who's watched it.

How many under 16 anime fans do you actually know? I don't know Petite Princess myself but Sasami for sure is a kids' show. There is that one skit where Mihoshi forgets her skirt (as Conan pointed out) but that is the only time you see a glimpse of panties in the whole show and could only be seen as showing off Mihoshi's ditziness. Other than that it is very much little girls with magical abilities with the familiar problems you see in the likes of Shugo Chara, Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura. Unlike those it is more story driven, following them in their day-to-day lives, rather than monster-of-the-week fair.

 

[Ryo Chan]

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences

you could atleast expect the company who owns the rights to Tenchi now to pronounce her name right, never mind make it seem like the show is designed for little kids.

To be fair Sasami is designed for little kids. Short of having a few of the characters from Tenchi it has pretty much nothing to do with it. The characters may share certain characteristics of their Tenchi counterparts but are placed in an entirely different situation and environment. The show itself is a magical girl show aimed at girls of about 11 years old despite Tenchi Muyo's shounen leanings. I find the whole thing very strange even if it is quite a lot of fun.

strange that, cause it came across to me as it was alot like petite princess yucie, a show which i'm actually yet to find anyone under the age of 16 who's watched it.

How many under 16 anime fans do you actually know? I don't know Petite Princess myself but Sasami for sure is a kids' show. There is that one skit where Mihoshi forgets her skirt (as Conan pointed out) but that is the only time you see a glimpse of panties in the whole show and could only be seen as showing off Mihoshi's ditziness. Other than that it is very much little girls with magical abilities with the familiar problems you see in the likes of Shugo Chara, Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura. Unlike those it is more story driven, following them in their day-to-day lives, rather than monster-of-the-week fair.

which is exactly how petite princess is too, surely though if an anime is aimed at kids, it shouldn't have a majority adult fanbase then should it?

 

[Gawyn]

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences

you could atleast expect the company who owns the rights to Tenchi now to pronounce her name right, never mind make it seem like the show is designed for little kids.

To be fair Sasami is designed for little kids. Short of having a few of the characters from Tenchi it has pretty much nothing to do with it. The characters may share certain characteristics of their Tenchi counterparts but are placed in an entirely different situation and environment. The show itself is a magical girl show aimed at girls of about 11 years old despite Tenchi Muyo's shounen leanings. I find the whole thing very strange even if it is quite a lot of fun.

strange that, cause it came across to me as it was alot like petite princess yucie, a show which i'm actually yet to find anyone under the age of 16 who's watched it.

How many under 16 anime fans do you actually know? I don't know Petite Princess myself but Sasami for sure is a kids' show. There is that one skit where Mihoshi forgets her skirt (as Conan pointed out) but that is the only time you see a glimpse of panties in the whole show and could only be seen as showing off Mihoshi's ditziness. Other than that it is very much little girls with magical abilities with the familiar problems you see in the likes of Shugo Chara, Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura. Unlike those it is more story driven, following them in their day-to-day lives, rather than monster-of-the-week fair.

which is exactly how petite princess is too, surely though if an anime is aimed at kids, it shouldn't have a majority adult fanbase then should it?

I would suspect that in Japan (where it is made for) that the fanbase is very much not adult. Given that the majority of the fanbase in the west could be considered late-teen to adult, then that skews the figures somewhat. This comes back to the question: "How many under 16 anime fans do you know?" This is not an implication that they do not exist but rather that you (probably) are not likely to know many of them personally. In that way you are basing your opinions upon your own (naturally) limited experience. My own opinion is based upon the show's actual content, which could not be considered adult or even geared towards adults. If adults enjoy it (I personally found it to be good fun), that is fine but it is not aimed at that audience. In that regard, FUNimation are quite right to target the show at children since that is clearly the demographic the show is aimed at. It is about the same level as Disney's W.I.T.C.H. cartoon (to pull a western simile) and aimed at a very similar group of people.

 

[Ryo Chan]

well either will bring me to a seperate point

given that what you say is true, that it is aimed at kids

why put the trailer on a negima dvd, which is clearly aimed at teenagers?

isn't that like advertising Borat on a jungle book dvd?

 

[Truered]

I wish they would stop issuing C&D orders on fansubbers without actually announcing a license of said show. Still waiting to get past episode 6 of slayers revolution (whenever you feel like releasing some DVDs guys). Honestly if they said stop, we're licensing I wouldn't mind and would start saving. But saying stop that, and by the way you won't be seeing it from us pisses me off.

Also on the subject of Slayers. For under £20 I was able to import the entire first series (legitimate, funimation release) from the US. The first 6 episodes of season 1 are currently for preorder at £10.99 on play for a UK release.

While in rant mode, why the heck are all the other slayers films licensed, but the first one has never shown its head in the UK outside of an import or persons hard drive?

 

[ConanThe3rd]

Hold on, I thought those Slayers Sets were a bit better than Six a disc...
This show is readily avaiable on the YouTubes legaly, try to rip us off less.

Yes, Funimation's habbit of playing attack dog on behalf of the japanese companies is very anoying when it's not followed up by an anoucement and one of these good days, someone's going to turn around and say "No, not untill you prove you've got disks on the way" and then we'll see where it lays.

Funimation are a curious bunch, on one hand, they do a lot more to not piss me off than most companies and on the other hand, they do things that are (legaly) correct but serve to piss me off no end and be karmeicly suicidal.

I meen, sure, they tasted the floor when they they did Saban Dragonball, but they've gone a long way since then, you'd think they'd figgure out that dirt isn't a fun thing to taste...

 

[ayase]

Also on the subject of Slayers. For under £20 I was able to import the entire first series (legitimate, funimation release) from the US. The first 6 episodes of season 1 are currently for preorder at £10.99 on play for a UK release.

*Facepalm*

And we're takling palm trees. At least back when Beez were first releasing their singles of Bebop, Planetes and others, the dirt cheap Bandai USA sets of those titles weren't out yet.

Who is going to buy these when they can have the whole R1 series for the RRP of one R2 volume? Seriously, who? If the prices don't get better (and I'm thinking something like £6.99 is probably fair - that would be £28 for all four volumes of series one... Actually even that still sounds pricey.) then they'll end up in the 99p bin at anime-on-line with the Urusei Yatsura films and Mini-Goddess. It might seem a bit harsh to shout down a new UK license, but I never cease to be amazed by how little thought seems to go into some release plans.

 

[ConanThe3rd]

Maybe they're hoping that because Sony is making the blu rays that region coding will be hard wired?

 

[Gawyn]

Also on the subject of Slayers. For under £20 I was able to import the entire first series (legitimate, funimation release) from the US. The first 6 episodes of season 1 are currently for preorder at £10.99 on play for a UK release.

*Facepalm*

And we're takling palm trees. At least back when Beez were first releasing their singles of Bebop, Planetes and others, the dirt cheap Bandai USA sets of those titles weren't out yet.

Who is going to buy these when they can have the whole R1 series for the RRP of one R2 volume? Seriously, who? If the prices don't get better (and I'm thinking something like £6.99 is probably fair - that would be £28 for all four volumes of series one... Actually even that still sounds pricey.) then they'll end up in the 99p bin at anime-on-line with the Urusei Yatsura films and Mini-Goddess. It might seem a bit harsh to shout down a new UK license, but I never cease to be amazed by how little thought seems to go into some release plans.

If they released it any cheaper they would make absolutely no profit on it at all. That is simply not acceptable for a small company. So far as who buys UK anime DVDs, it is people who do not import anime at all; those buying in B&M stores; people who do not have a region-free player. Don't confuse the average consumer with yourself and others you know since that is not who they are. Just because you do one thing do not assume that everybody else out there does the exact same thing and I should imagine that the average anime fan does not buy all (or any) of their anime from the internet.

 

[Akaten]

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[ConanThe3rd]

Also on the subject of Slayers. For under £20 I was able to import the entire first series (legitimate, funimation release) from the US. The first 6 episodes of season 1 are currently for preorder at £10.99 on play for a UK release.

*Facepalm*

And we're takling palm trees. At least back when Beez were first releasing their singles of Bebop, Planetes and others, the dirt cheap Bandai USA sets of those titles weren't out yet.

Who is going to buy these when they can have the whole R1 series for the RRP of one R2 volume? Seriously, who? If the prices don't get better (and I'm thinking something like £6.99 is probably fair - that would be £28 for all four volumes of series one... Actually even that still sounds pricey.) then they'll end up in the 99p bin at anime-on-line with the Urusei Yatsura films and Mini-Goddess. It might seem a bit harsh to shout down a new UK license, but I never cease to be amazed by how little thought seems to go into some release plans.

If they released it any cheaper they would make absolutely no profit on it at all. That is simply not acceptable for a small company. So far as who buys UK anime DVDs, it is people who do not import anime at all; those buying in B&M stores; people who do not have a region-free player. Don't confuse the average consumer with yourself and others you know since that is not who they are. Just because you do one thing do not assume that everybody else out there does the exact same thing and I should imagine that the average anime fan does not buy all (or any) of their anime from the internet.

Well then, pardon my french, but they're ****** ether way. I can count the number of people who will sit still and accept that sort of price when a £20 R1 boxset is starin' them in the eyes.

And lets not forget the fact that seasons 1 and 2 are on Youtube anyway.

And, honestly, in this day and age, who is an anime fan and doesn't have a way of breaking the region coding? Not rocket science; avoid sony's dvd players and internet for the code.

 

[ayase]

If they released it any cheaper they would make absolutely no profit on it at all. That is simply not acceptable for a small company. So far as who buys UK anime DVDs, it is people who do not import anime at all; those buying in B&M stores; people who do not have a region-free player. Don't confuse the average consumer with yourself and others you know since that is not who they are. Just because you do one thing do not assume that everybody else out there does the exact same thing and I should imagine that the average anime fan does not buy all (or any) of their anime from the internet.

I'd take your point if this were Naruto, Bleach or SAC. It's not, it's Slayers - a series I imagine these "average anime fans" who don't import anything and don't own region-free players have probably never heard of and as such, have no interest in. Probably because they're all 13 and haven't realised you can do these things yet.

If they couldn't make a profit selling series boxes for £25 then they paid too much for the licence, since once all four volumes are released that's what they'll be collected into anyway. And once that happens, MVM always seem to have a lot of single volumes left over in their 99p sales. Perhaps it's time they looked at why that is.

 

[chaos]

I won't even pretend to understand how anime dvd pricing goes. As for myself, all i can say is I will buy slayers and I won't be ripped off. MVM selling it at a decent price, I'll get from them. Or else, I'd just get the R1.

I do hope it's priced decently though, but I'm in no hurry to buy slayers, I've seen it all on TV.

 

[ConanThe3rd]

I do hope it's priced decently though, but I'm in no hurry to buy slayers, I've seen it all on TV.

Come again?

 

[Ryo Chan]

I do hope it's priced decently though, but I'm in no hurry to buy slayers, I've seen it all on TV.

Come again?

Chaos isn't from the UK u know Conan :wink:

 

[chaos]

I do hope it's priced decently though, but I'm in no hurry to buy slayers, I've seen it all on TV.

Come again?

Chaos isn't from the UK u know Conan :wink:

As Ryo says. I'm from the land where anime is abundant in television, when conventions have 50+ people attending and nothing ever gets licensed for a dvd release, after all it's a third world country.

I've heard Brazil was all the rage for japanese immigration before the war and that's where I came from as well. It seems only natural that anime / manga got into Brazil's culture and blended so well, but there we still don't have a strong culture of buying TV shows. It's something that only started a couple years ago and has yet to grow and overcome piracy there.

Slayers, Cowboy bebop and Evangelion were on regular tv, not cable there. Other things I remember are the likes of Dom Dracula, Astro boy, zodiac kights, samurai X, yuyu hakusho, zillion, yamato and robotech, cardcaptor sakura... TV ws ok there, everything not so much, so I guess it was the panis et circenses culture.