Sony acquires Funimation
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I mean, they could easily just IP merge Aniplex and Funimation under Aniplex, and then scrap Funimation. Good bye anime, and good bye competition. Then when Aniplex's popularity dries up due to price, the industry basically dies in the West. That's worst case scenario.Wakey87 said:
I don't see the point of owning two competing anime companies. They could also let Funimation continue, and be in charge, since it's arguably more successful.
They should make them release the Dragon Box for the original Dragon Ball series with English subtitles. Also Dr. Slump with English subtitles too.
I'm aware that you don't care, but you are probably wrong about those assertions. A Sub-VS-Dub fight is as long and vicious and pointless as a console war, a console-versus-PC war, and so on, since there is no difference in terms of the pros and cons, only that some of them are shifted around. Any preference that sells enough to keep selling it, year in and year out, remains a contender regardless of what the people who bought it think. There is no winner here.Ezekiel said:
Still, since good localization is hard to come by, this is a problem, assuming they do anything wrong.
I should point out the that Funimation has been acquired by Sony Pictures (Part of Sony Corporation of America) and not Sony Music Entertainment of Japan. Aniplex is owned by the latter. While the two are part of the Sony corporation conglomerate this does not mean they operate the same way.Fox12 said:
Also, Sony Pictures is an american based subsidiary unlike Sony Music Entertainment of Japan. Aniplex's high prices are probably due to the fact that its parent company is Japanese based.
Anime has the highest "burn rate" of probably anything IMO, meaning that I've been burned (wasted my time basically) by anime far more than anything else. I just watched 009 RE:Cyborg the other day since Kenji Kamiyama (from GitS) directed and wrote it, and that was complete garbage. I guess I should've actually listened to the bad reviews and not bothered. Stuff like Psycho Pass and Last Exile were just OK. The newest GitS I only got thru 2 of the 4 episodes. The worst part about anime is that there's lots of anime overwhelmingly rated as literal "masterpieces" that are trainwreck bad like Elfen Lied, I literally couldn't stop watching that because I couldn't believe how much worse it got as I kept watching. I do come back and give something a try here and there because I know I can get something as good as GitS Stand Alone Complex (which I put in the top 10 best TV shows of all time) but chances are extremely low that I will actually get something that good vs say checking out a show like Legion and having a much higher chance of getting something amazing.Zontar said:
Lastly, how is Sony acquiring Funimation going to alter the quality of anime? They only distribute the anime.
Sony's subsidiaries include one of the major anime production studios (though they've distributed under Sony's Aniplex subsidiary), so this could be a sign of them trying to do to anime what they've done with their television and movies and lower the quality to appeal to normies and the vast progressive market that they're under the illusion exists out there despite all attempts to cater to it loosing them money.Phoenixmgs said:
And that's before getting to the fact that even if they don't change anything, prices are likely to go up given how Aniplex, their distributor until now, is infamous for its ludicrous prices. Saying that they are to Sentai what Sentai is to Funimation would be understating things, because at least with Sentai you at least get the whole season when you down 90-200 dollars on it.
Hell as it stands up here retailers and Amazon, for whatever reason, have Funimations own titles cheaper then Funimation does (and that's before taking shipping into consideration) so that might go out the window as well.
The problem with anime now is that's it's made to appeal only to basically the hardcore anime fanbase and nobody else.Zontar said:
Ehhh, it's still too early to really panic over anything, and Sony is mercurial enough that it's hard to say whether they'll fuck things up for everyone forever or if they'll just jack up the prices by 5-10 bucks a season because shits and giggles (and given non-imported anime tends to be fuck heug expensive anyway...). And who knows, maybe they'll broaden/bolster their streaming services with all the Funimation stuff now and hook it all up to their various consoles and devices. Lord knows I wouldn't object to them putting more Anime on the PS4's streaming service, their library is a little anemic looking these days.
Funimation have made some really stupid decisions whilst trying to brake into the UK market, so I personally hope Sony can do better.
Seeing all you Americans complaining about Funimation being the cheaper anime distributor makes me laugh because over here its Funimation that randomly decided to release all its stuff in a blu-ray/DVD combo box for more than twice the price. When I tell one of my customers that an anime they've wanted to watch has just been licensed for the UK, if I tell them it was by Funimation there will be a groan from the customer.
This is major news, but only time will tell if it is good news or bad news for my business and anime as a whole.
Even most normies under about 30 seem to have watched Dragonball Z or YuGiOh, so from there you take them to something close but less mainstream like Bleach or Tokyo Ghoul or Attack On Titan, then after they've watched a series or two of that you push them towards maybe some slice of life stuff or some harem stuff depending on their taste. After a few months they've metamorphosed from a pathetic normie into a majestic Otaku who is constantly trying to get hold of new dakimakuras, have filled their room with plushies and posters and spend all their time not watching anime yelling online about which is best girl[footnote]Turns out its Tohsaka Rin[/footnote].
Seeing all you Americans complaining about Funimation being the cheaper anime distributor makes me laugh because over here its Funimation that randomly decided to release all its stuff in a blu-ray/DVD combo box for more than twice the price. When I tell one of my customers that an anime they've wanted to watch has just been licensed for the UK, if I tell them it was by Funimation there will be a groan from the customer.
This is major news, but only time will tell if it is good news or bad news for my business and anime as a whole.
I do agree with this. I like anime for the crazy. From a business point of view I do want more normies to buy anime, but I try to start them off easy and work their way up.Zontar said:
Even most normies under about 30 seem to have watched Dragonball Z or YuGiOh, so from there you take them to something close but less mainstream like Bleach or Tokyo Ghoul or Attack On Titan, then after they've watched a series or two of that you push them towards maybe some slice of life stuff or some harem stuff depending on their taste. After a few months they've metamorphosed from a pathetic normie into a majestic Otaku who is constantly trying to get hold of new dakimakuras, have filled their room with plushies and posters and spend all their time not watching anime yelling online about which is best girl[footnote]Turns out its Tohsaka Rin[/footnote].
Just as well, that really really terrible Kai dub of DBZ and the lackluster quality of Dragonball Super has made it more than clear Funimation stopped giving a damn a long time ago so at worst all that this will do is kill Funimation a little faster.
Miyazaki's an old disconnected man who pretends things where better "back in my day" and forgets that his own work, like all, pandered to specific groups too. He just doesn't like who anime panders to now.Phoenixmgs said:
Better anime be wierd as it is now then if it where to pander to normie scum, or worst, the progressives who never even support the things that pander to them.
Oh goody, does this mean I can watch My Hero Academia on my Playstation 4?
That's a good show. I reckon Tom Holland would make a good live-action Midoriya.
Other than that, doesn't look like much will be changing. I like Funimation, I like their dubs, they claim it won't affect how they run their business, so I have no reason to worry for now.
That's a good show. I reckon Tom Holland would make a good live-action Midoriya.
Other than that, doesn't look like much will be changing. I like Funimation, I like their dubs, they claim it won't affect how they run their business, so I have no reason to worry for now.
His complaints had nothing to do with the core audience and "who" anime is made for. Anime isn't a genre, it's just an art style, it shouldn't be so same-y across the board, which is my main criticism BTW (not Miyazaki's).Zontar said: