The End of Funimation - Cucked to Death by Crunchyroll

[REGENDarySumanai]

Sometimes with Japanese companies, you don't know you pissed them off until much further down the line. It's sort of part of save face culture. Seeing as Sonic is referenced in your avatar, a good example is how Sega ended up pulling the plug on Sonic appearing in Archie Comics most likely because of the Penders lawsuit. As far as I know, Sega didn't make a peep when the lawsuit happened. However, when it was time to renew contracts on Sonic, Archie Comics was up shit's creek.

It was the Penders lawsuit that sent Archie up shit creek. Not only did it cause the continuity of the Archie comics to be rebooted (and then canceled), but it put a kibosh on the Megaman comics as well. Though to be fair to the Sonic comic, the writers didn't change as the writers already did stuff with IDW (the current holders of the Sonic comic), so just starting from scratch was easy.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Even if he wins, I don't think he'd sensibly want to go back to the den of cannibalistic rats that is Funimation.

Irony is, Vic has less lines than the OG Broly in the movie. 90% of Nu-Broly's lines are just growling.

Late to the party but that movie I think had 2 releases - one without the Vic Mignona voice lines.
Rate me with puzzle pieces for that trivia.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Late to the party but that movie I think had 2 releases - one without the Vic Mignona voice lines.
Rate me with puzzle pieces for that trivia.

I have never heard nor seen a second release that had JYB redub Broly in DBS: Broly.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Late to the party but that movie I think had 2 releases - one without the Vic Mignona voice lines.
Rate me with puzzle pieces for that trivia.

Thankfully, there isn't a redub of the movie yet. Tho there is something close to a Broly redub in the 2 DB mobile games where there was a patch which replaced all of Vic Broly with JYB, including OG Broly.

In fact, that led to pretty much some saying that JYB is kinda shit as OG Broly. I don't like either of his Broly at all, & I consider him best anime English VA of all time.

 

[Lone MacReady]

All that said, I fucit's one of the reasons Cooler is my favorite movie character after OG Broly.

Sooooooooul brotha.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

I actually meant crunchyroll. Sony has a history of failing at everything that isn’t video games.

Get a load of this dumb nigger who doesnt realize Sony is THE wealthiest music publisher in the world with their own record label, movie studios, DSLR cameras, televisions, etc. They don't care about your little video games.

please tell me sony is going to fire all of the funimation staff members including the staff that hires the english voice actors.

One of the reasons I dont watch the funimation english dubs is that they reuse the same voice actors for every anime.

I don't play a lot of videogames or watch a lot of anime, but I have noticed this even from my small experience. Every you go, it's Greg Chun, Tara Strong, Alexis Tipton, Brianna Knickerbocker, Matthew Mercer, DC Douglas, Chris Smith. They got the voice director from Cup of Tea productions doing voice work and the nigga sounds the same EVERYWHERE. He sounds like an older Johnny Bravo.

I don't know how weebs can handle it because it's disorienting as fuck. You don't hear a character, you hear the voice actor.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

They don't care about your little video games.

Oh I don’t play their video games. I’m into quality shit.

 

[General Gunther]

Our greatest loss was when we lost wacky shit like The Adventures of the American SOS Brigade and other oddities.

Watching this reminds me of how much I miss people like Crispin Freeman, Dave Wittenberg etc. when they were more active in that era of the anime industry. It wasn't perfect by any means but it was a more innocent fun time and it reflects in videos like that.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I kind of agree that the shift from the earlier 2000's to now with these people mirrored the changes in pop culture as we went from South Park to Steven Universe. Then again, thinking back, despite the massive hypocrisy, you could tell a few of these people like Monica and some of the other usual suspects that went after Vic kind of were waiting for their inner-SJW or libtard or whatever to burst out. The wacky, edgy stuff may have just been done for money.

A lot of them were probably in the age range of the kind of liberal that would have been butthurt over W. Bush (not defending him, I don't like him either), so as they saw this faux-lefty-moral shit gain traction it was an easy transition for them to make so they could start lecturing to all the uncleaned masses of US otaku they secretly hated before but couldn't actually directly criticize during the earlier climate.

These people were definitely secretly seething about things that they simply felt they couldn't talk about.

It casts a bit of a pall over the past to know that while us white guys were yucking it up and having a good time, some women and minorities were secretly giving us the stink eye and as soon as they felt like it was safe to bring out the knives they did.

I agree. Back then though it was also cool to make fun of political correctness or directly contradict it so it confused fans and made them think they were politically neutral or something. All these people made gay jokes and black jokes and crap like that at some point on disc extras or weird dubs. They wouldn't dare do now, and they would even cancel people for the same thing. It's completely insane. It's still funny how KV Twitter played off the "my son is a faggot" gate like it was nothing and it should be excused becuase it was normal for the era.

The bell curve with political correctness is nuts, we go from things being pretty PC in the 90s to 2000s culture flagrantly rejecting it only for it to come roaring back with a vengeance like never before.

Watching this reminds me of how much I miss people like Crispin Freeman, Dave Wittenberg etc. when they were more active in that era of the anime industry. It wasn't perfect by any means but it was a more innocent fun time and it reflects in videos like that.

Whatever happened to Crispin Freeman? What's he been up to in recent years?

 

[HarblMcDavid]

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Funny. Now that you mention it, in the old days of IRC, fansubs did almost the same thing, if not longer than ADV, explaining jokes, terminology or whatever for anyone who didn't understand what was going on. Unlike ADV, they stopped after a few episodes of whatever they subbed and included them in footnotes on some sites sprawled across the interbutts of live journal or blogspot whatever. As obnoxious as some fansub sites were that sperged hard, they did far better when it came to not filling a whole damn screen with walls of text. They beat ADV there in that department. ADV tried at the very least. There was a joke back in the day spergy fansub sites grouped together and told ADV to release their pop up style subs as a way to not tread on their turf when it came to quality subbing. Pretty funny when anyone thinks about it.

Why do I get the impression we're talking about GG without naming them.

I remember their PPD release started having accompanying multi-page PDFs (and I think I still have them) because the pop-ups to explain the 7 references on screen at the same time were getting impossible to deal with in the last few episodes.

 

[Mr.PiggyOinkOinkOinkOink]

Whatever happened to Crispin Freeman? What's he been up to in recent years?

He’s still around, he’s like half a dozen characters on young justice, and he’s the biggest badass in demon slayers dub

A lot of voice actors have been talking about how they hope this new crunchyroll is more willing to hire union actors, which I guess he’s a part of.

 

[Uranus Pink]

I know about Sentai, which is why I clarified "brand", ADV as a brand was retired, their headquarters changed, imo it's more like the founders of ADV simply started a new company than ADV just changed names.

Bandai still exists but they longer publish anime, Bandai USA was the name of that brand it went defunct.

I think Viz is the only one left.

Of the 90ies era AnimEigo still exists but most of their anime library is gone. Media Blasters is doing better but they're Media Blasters. Rightstuf is probably doing the best of the lot outside of Viz. But everyone forgets they also an anime publisher in addition to being an online store.

Sentai Filmworks and HiDive had been bought by AMC Network a few months ago.

 

[NoonmanR]

It was the Penders lawsuit that sent Archie up shit creek. Not only did it cause the continuity of the Archie comics to be rebooted (and then canceled), but it put a kibosh on the Megaman comics as well. Though to be fair to the Sonic comic, the writers didn't change as the writers already did stuff with IDW (the current holders of the Sonic comic), so just starting from scratch was easy.

Ultimately it's the sheer blunder of Archie that killed the comic, the cancellation happened not long after another asshurt ex-archie employee Scott Fulop filed his own lawsuit because he thought he could own his OCs too.

I know about Sentai, which is why I clarified "brand", ADV as a brand was retired, their headquarters changed, imo it's more like the founders of ADV simply started a new company than ADV just changed names.

Bandai still exists but they longer publish anime, Bandai USA was the name of that brand it went defunct.

I think Viz is the only one left.

Well, 4kids is too busy trying to make Konami IPs relevant again for god knows whatever reason, they're so lazy about yu-gi-oh now that they're years behind, and it only gets worse. The only other company i can think of is Discotek, they do their own dubbing for the Lupin series. That's really about it though sadly.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Of the 90ies era AnimEigo still exists but most of their anime library is gone. Media Blasters is doing better but they're Media Blasters. Rightstuf is probably doing the best of the lot outside of Viz. But everyone forgets they also an anime publisher in addition to being an online store.

Sentai Filmworks and HiDive had been bought by AMC Network a few months ago.

Right, I feel dumb for forgetting stuff like Media Blasters, but to be fair, you can say there's no MAJOR brands left from circa 2005.

There were definitely tiers when it came to these company, the A tier was ADV, Funimation, Geneon and Bandai, the B was stuff like Media Blasters and Central Park Media and then you had the really obscure C tier ones like Synch Point that only released like 2 or 3 things (one of which was FLCL, ironic for such a well known series to come from such an publisher)

But the real heavy hitters like ADV, Funimation, Geneon and Bandai, those are all either gone completely or rebranded.

Well, 4kids is too busy trying to make Konami IPs relevant again for god knows whatever reason, they're so lazy about yu-gi-oh now that they're years behind, and it only gets worse. The only other company i can think of is Discotek, they do their own dubbing for the Lupin series. That's really about it though sadly.

I'm amazed 4kids is still around.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I'm amazed 4kids is still around.

They're really not. When 4Licensing folded, Konami sold them as 4K Media, then renamed them Konami Cross Media NY a few years ago, and they're strictly Yu-Gi-Oh!.

 

[I Love Beef]

Get a load of this dumb nigger who doesnt realize Sony is THE wealthiest music publisher in the world with their own record label, movie studios, DSLR cameras, televisions, etc. They don't care about your little video games.

lol where were you during the late 90s, they practically won the autist slapfights known as the console wars at that time. Sony Entertainment Japan literally was what brought about their second windfall since the late 80s, and if their in house studio wasn't doing video game multi projects with such unprecedented success that Square Enix's shitty Final Fantasy Fabula Novus Crystalis wished it could queef out, they were the foundation which a lot of studios stand upon, and if it wasn't for Final Fantasy VII, 3D animation would not be the standard.

Sony used to care. Then Ken Katsuragi declared "the PS3 is a computer" and everything went to shit. As for Sony's attempts at anime localization in the States, just check out Samurai X....

 

[and 15 others]

Vic won

 

[Maurice Caine]

Why do I get the impression we're talking about GG without naming them.

I remember their PPD release started having accompanying multi-page PDFs (and I think I still have them) because the pop-ups to explain the 7 references on screen at the same time were getting impossible to deal with in the last few episodes.

Makes you wonder who the fuck those eggheads at shaft made this show for.

 

[PorkeyDuck]

 

[Mothra1988]

This YouTube guy needs to get redpilled on anime. lol "If nobody financially supports the industry, it will just evaporate." Anime is made for Japan. It would exist there whether or not weird gaijin from America bought it or not.

Personally, I don't want anime made for weird America gaijin, because part of the appeal of anime was that it had content not made for stereotypical American audiences and their idiotic biases and preferences.

Also, you can financially support these Japanese companies by importing products directly from Japan. That way, the majority of your money doesn't get siphoned off by Americans that actually hate you that live in San Francisco or the liberal enclaves of Texas and then used to fund lavish offices with generic Asian themes designed by white people and literal CalArts Cartoon Network styled cartoons.

The problem of, "What if this anime isn't available on this platform anymore?" is only an unsolvable quagmire if your understanding of the internet and how to use it is on the level of a 70 year old grandmother that still has a VCR connected to her TV and doesn't know what an mp3 is.