It's one of things that's so terrible about NetFux bastardizing smaller fan-loved properties, the overall subscriptions are what determines success, not the quality of shows. They can dump out DeathNote 2017 and Cowboy Bebop as if they were tax write-offs, alienate a large subgroup of fans, yet feel no dent in their bottom line from the backlash. Soyny being based in Commiefornia is another disability, which is why their tax write-off tripe still has a rainbow flag.
It's sad to see, but serves them right for throwing Vic under the bus.
Discotek regularly hires faggots from ANN to write liner notes and dub commentary tracks for various products, and it has not gone unnoticed by fans. One of their more recent fuck ups (which does tie back to funimation) is their release of the Lupin tv special "Secret of Harimao's Treasure" had an unskippable disclaimer telling the audience how transphobic the dvd they just bought is and they should be ashamed of themselves. It went over as well as you'd think with the Lupin crowd, and as far as I'm aware their revenue have been on a slow but steady decline since.
It's beyond that, their discs are authored by a woke ANN faggot who wanted Vic to hang. It's ANN faggotry across the board there. I'd honestly buy a Funimation disc again before I ever thought about buying something from Discotek. It's unfortunate that happened to Discotek, I don't know if they started out that way before they started releasing Blu-rays, but it's what they became. So just go back to downloading torrents. They will look as good as anything these stupid asses put out.
What scene got them so upset? Does it really say "you should feel ashamed" or is it just a disclaimer saying the views expressed within are not those of Discotek?
It's Justin Sevakis you're talking about.
I always knew he was a deeply cynical person, so it shouldn't be too big of a surprise he went Woke, scratch a Wokster and you'll find a bone deep cynic underneath who secretly hates people no matter how much they virtue signal about "being kind to others"
Not really, Funimation was never my favorite but they used to be a perfectly fine publisher, their dvd covers were almost always attractively designed and it really can't be understated how impressive their dub of Fullmetal Alchemist was.
Really? It's never aired on US television since the early 2000s? I find that a bit surprising.
What do you think? They would butcher it or just never bother to re-release it at all.
Forget the perversion, they'd have to pull a Viz and digitally remove the donut lips on the nigger henchman from one of the early arcs, then do it again for Mr. Popo. Imagine that being your daily grind for a month. Hell, loli Chi-Chi's battle bikini outfit alone would be an insane undertaking to censor.
Yeah; for some reason Funimation won't re-release it. Hell, even Dragon Ball GT briefly returned to TV when DBZ Kai first came out, on Nicktoons of all places. And in stores, GT is still in print and can be seen in big department store chains with DBZ, the DBZ Kai edit, Super, and various movie box sets but Dragon Ball remains OOP and lost media.
Discotek are interesting in their own right. They started out releasing extreme Asian films such as Splatter: Naked Blood, Ebola Syndroma, Star of David: Hunting for Beautiful Girls and Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy alongside their anime releases. They may not release much live action stuff nowadays, but they do release fanservice series such as Miss Machiko, Kiss x Sis, Angel's 3 Piece and Strike the Blood. They only do these warnings depending if the series has a character that is Nazi, gay or trans. For the Lupin special, they even mention the "punch a nazi" meme twice on the back of the box.
At least the disclaimer there is on-par with the Warner Bros. disclaimers in that they still decided to preserve it despite racist depictions. That the Blu-Ray gave the option of censored or uncensored subtitles is interesting, but Angel Cop is an interesting case to begin with in terms of anime preservation since its dub censored itself back in the day anyway. Giving proper subtitles for the first time ever in a Western release honestly was a big deal.
To bring it back around, I wonder how many personnel from those days are still around?
It's definitely worth looking into. Carly Hunter probably has tons of stories. She was one of the first people hired at Funimation during the early days and was one of the two main producers at the company alongside Justin Cook after Barry Watson and Daniel Cocanougher stepped down as producers. She would later be married to Chris Sabat for a few years until they divorced. Carly was basically how Sabat first got involved with Funimation when they went in-house for the dubbing.
