Victor Mignogna v. Funimation Productions, LLC, et al. (2019) - Vic's lawsuit against Funimation, VAs, and others, for over a million dollars.

Whelp, gonna have to reinstall minecraft again. And off myself... In minecraft.

Funi getting a chokehold monopoly on Anime is not good.
 
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Allanon said:
Viz is owned by Aniplex, which is owned by Sony. Sony has a total chokehold on anime in America right now. Only Netflix is still free, and Netflix is actually quite lazy and often turns to places like Crunchyroll.
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Sentai/HiDive are still independent, but they're tiny compared to the others and it shows. They barely put out anything anymore.
 
OneHandClapping said:
Sentai/HiDive are still independent, but they're tiny compared to the others and it shows. They barely put out anything anymore.
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As some people have mentioned either here or in the main Vic thread, the problem is that no one can even try to compete, because Funimation buys every single new show every single season at bulk prices no one can compete with, and then decide if they want to dub or sub it after buying it. Even when they don't actually do it, they then jealously guard the rights to anyone trying to do it, because Funimation knows what they're doing and is intentionally choking out all competition. (If Funimation owns all the anime, their 4 voice actors get all the jobs and actually have a chance to make a decent amount of money even when everyone despises the actors and won't line up for them in conventions - and of course they have supreme control over conventions and the anime industry, as anyone fired by Funimation cannot get voices in any anime and any convention that supports a blackballed employee gets to have zero guests. They're like a negaguild.)
 
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I am now very optimistic. The reason this shit show has gone on so long is because the second court did their pro forma lol fuck you lower court decision upheld, go away peasant. And then moved on to "more important" issues.

But them "cancel culture" became hot fucking shit in American politics and suddenly the second court got "woke" to the fact that this silly case is actually a nuclear bomb that they had casually shoved into the basement. Which meant all their prior pro forma justifications for upholding Chupp had to be sent down the memory hole and a new ruling drafted.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
I am now very optimistic. The reason this shit show has gone on so long is because the second court did their pro forma lol fuck you lower court decision upheld, go away peasant. And then moved on to "more important" issues.

But them "cancel culture" became hot fucking shit in American politics and suddenly the second court got "woke" to the fact that this silly case is actually a nuclear bomb that they had casually shoved into the basement. Which meant all their prior pro forma justifications for upholding Chupp had to be sent down the memory hole and a new ruling drafted.
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Wait, what? I thought everyone was still waiting. (I looked up "pro forma" and that is where the confusion is coming from.)
 
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Wait, what? I thought everyone was still waiting. (I looked up "pro forma" and that is where the confusion is coming from.)
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Basically it means they did the minimum required to throw the case out. They were going to fuck Vic, but they would do it politely. But then 2020 happened. And suddenly cancel culture became a big fucking deal politically. Which meant these judges, who are elected mind you, had to take a second look. And their staffers had to do some background research that almost certainly lead to a certain website.

And that meant they had to throw out their prior unissued ruling and do a new one from scratch. Its taking twice as long as usual because they already made a ruling and have overruled themselves before issuing it.
 
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5t3n0g0ph3r said:
Then there's Discotek, but ANN's Justin Sevakis and Mike Toole are employed there.
Things are pretty fucked right now.
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I like Discotek because they're saving lots of old gems from being lost to time and localizing the classics but fuck everyone who works for them and fuck them for being a part of the anime cabal.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Basically it means they did the minimum required to throw the case out. They were going to fuck Vic, but they would do it politely.
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So you seriously think the Chief Justice of an appeals court was about to let some trial court judge they've overruled multiple times (including last week), and had to issue mandamus writs on, completely wreck a decision that she had written, which has been cited 38 times since?

That's not how appeals court judges think. They do not like being directly defied.
 
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Dumb Bitch Smoothie said:
I like Discotek because they're saving lots of old gems from being lost to time and localizing the classics but fuck everyone who works for them and fuck them for being a part of the anime cabal.
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There's also Nozomi/Right Stuf, don't think they got bought out. Haven't paid attention for a while, but it used to be you could count on anything they licensed to be a gem, even if it was something that fell through the cracks for a while like Shingu.
 
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