http://deadline.com/2017/07/sony-pi ctures-tv-networks-acqui

Based sony, can't wait to boy the Emoji movie/Dragon Ball Z bundle

>>160561416
You're aware that Sony is already the largest funder of anime, right? And has been for a long time? And that Aniplex is literally a division of Sony Music? This is just a separate branch of Sony, that's the only difference.

>>160561548
Sony Music is decent, Sony Pictures is garbage.

What's going to happen with the Funi/crunchy thing since Sony has their own streaming service?

Sony pictures seems to only put out trash and failure after failure, so I am not really hyped for it.

>>160561570
Why are there Aniplex shows on Crunchy? Same thing.

>>160561416
It's a Sony!

>>160561548
Aniplex is owned by Sony Music but Pictures has nothng to do with themm they are only putting out garbage.

I can't wait for Sony to put out a Hollywood adaptation of SnK. It'll be just as good as the diverse latest Spider-Man movie.

>>160561416
I was shitposting on /a/

Does this mean that Funimation will get actual voice actors?

>Sony Pictures
Oh boy I can't wait for the trainwrecks

I'd bet Fukunaga's pretty happy to sell. I don't think he ever really wanted to spend his life in the anime business.

Isn't this an effective monopoly now? I know Sony Pictures and Sony Music are separated entities, but they both report to Sony Entertainment. Phone calls are easy to make.

>>160561416
nice, can't wait for sony to stick their dirty shitty movie ridden paws into anime

>>160562074
Japs don't care about monopolies

this is just for USA distribution, Sony (aka Anilpex) is already one of the bigger player in this field

>>160562074
Do you even know what a monopoly is?
CR and Funi teaming up was far more of a monopoly before Amazon happened

So who will buy Crunchyroll to complete the circle?

>>160562164
CR and Funi teamed up post-Amazon, because they seriously drove up the bidding war for licenses

>>160562164
any canadian can tell you that having two exclusive companies does not necessarily mean they won't collude in order to create a duopoly.

>>160561995
>Implying they're any worse than Funi
This is a pretty big step up, I'd say.

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Post yfw anime buble is going to burst

Normalfags dominate anime.

>>160562340
How will it burst when Sony is one of the largest anime producers in the first place?

emoji anime?

>>160561633
But that's a different division though. Plus they could get aniplex titles too if they decide to enter the anime streaming service.

>>160562340
>i enjoy commenting on topics i'm completely ignorant on

>>160562340
>nothing change

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

>Sony Pictures

Wew lawd, its dead.

>>160562074
Not when Sentai still exists.

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>>160562395
can't fucking wait

Seems like a provider of beloved content through out the years just got opened up for remakes, live actions, and sequels. Just depends on if you like those things whether this is going to be bad or not.

>>160562572
You have literally no idea what this takeover actually entails, do you?

>>160562251
Crunchy is already owned by a bigger company.

>>160562609
Not him, but no, I don't. What does it entail?

>>160561929
Enjoy everyone voiced by Adam Sandler. Fuck Sony pictures.

>>160562609
Instead of being a passive aggressive little bitch let's have a conversation about it. What do you think it entails?

>>160562682
I have no interest in starting a conversation from zero

FGO showing on Sony reports give all kind of wrong messages to suits.

I don't expect that much from this, but shit is going be fucked up very soon.

>>160561570
chances are they'll probably let Funi keep going about their business, because not working with CR would hurt them in the long run

>>160562727
It's pretty simple. I said what I think is going on. You said I'm wrong but like a faggot. Then you bowed out of the conversation in as flamboyantly as a Carnival showgirl kind of way as you could.

>/tv/ shitters see the words Sony Pictures and immediately start spamming their epic memes
Pretty much every western anime distributor is worse by a fucking mile. Sony's mishandling of movie franchises isn't even close to relevant and this isn't them licensing any properties for live action movies or whatever.

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>imagine being Gen Fukunaga and holding 5% of a company that Sony wants to rival Amazon's media department

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>>160561416

Wouldn't mind if that didn't have Pictures in it

They're gonna shit out westernized version of at least Cowboy Bebop that will miss the key points of the series and turn it into a brainless movie with little in common with the original series setting aside. CB is the one title in that list that could genuinely make a good movie but since it's >pictures no one should have any faith in that happening.

Worst part is that it's going to create western bandwagoner ''fans'' who have only seen the live action movie and who act like they've been big about it ever since they were children.

>>160562824
Feel free to keep crying about it, or go read up on what kind of licenses Funi holds and come back with more than the kind of fanciful theories a 13 year old would spout.

>>160562847
>Amazon
Why do people take them seriously right now? Anime Strike is a complete rip-off with its double-paywalled content and weaker catalog yet its supposed to take on Crunchyroll?

Anime really is the next cape shit.

>>160562870
They haven't licensed anything for live action though. They've bought the company that has the rights to distribute the anime.

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>>160562870
>this is the level of intellect you share a board with

>>160562847
Being an anime streaming service provider wasn't a mistake after all. It's a multimillion dollar business. 143 million dollars? Now that is some nice amount of cash.

>>160562922
it was the first cape shit

>>160562893
Do you want me to beg? Please discuss the topic. Please. Stop being a little bitch and discuss the topic.

>>160562902
They can outbid CR on big titles though, doesn't matter if their model is trash.

>>160562946
I am. I give serious replies to good posts. Maybe you should make some.

>>160561416
Funi should be worth less than 143 million.

>>160562938
>streaming provider
Funimation was around before all that. If I recall they were the second biggest distributor in terms of products released behind Section23/Sentai

>>160562994
150.5, technically, since they only bought 95%

>>160562817
Not really since CR is dying as Netflix grows bigger.

>>160562982
He asked what it entails. You can now write what it entails. Or you can bow out. You're anonymous after all.

>>160561416
>funimation bought out
well fuck.

>>160562938
How many streaming outfits for anime are there now?
>Crunchyroll
>Funimation Now
>Anime Network
>HIDIVE
>Daisuki
>Anime Strike
Anime Network might have gone bust in the past few years, too lazy to google it but the rest don't make as much as Crunchyroll

>>160561416
>Sony
>saving anything
I expect translations to become even worse.

>>160563052
>>160562982
I hope you ladies are sageing

>>160563052
I have been. Just not in a reply chain made up of idiots.

>>160561416
Sony Pictures is the worst run branch of Sony judging by the drama and leaks that happened around it.

It's clear Sony Pictures doesn't respect Japanese HQ.

>>160562902
Amazon got literally all good shows this season besides the Netflix stuff.

>>160563079
Funi outsources most of their translations to freelancers anyway, with a fair amount of leeway for directors in the booth to adjust for mouthflaps.

>>160563041
>Netflix goes bigger
There's an article making its rounds on the internet today about how much debt Netflix takes on in order to produce their content. Eventually they'll peak or their content quality will take a dive, and when that happens there will be a decline.

That aside, in terms of anime there isn't a lot to worry about from them. Aside from a show or two every season they don't seem to license a whole lot (LWA was the recent big one) unless you count Americanized versions of Precure

>>160563114
>sony ((pictures)) listening to some stuck up wanna be samurai man in jp hq,Sony pictures are ((movie)) men of hollywood

>>160563076
Isn't Hidive just rebranded Network?

>>160563079
Hopefully it puts some more oversight on the dub teams to not just cast their friends and whoever will suck their dick.

>>160563076
Daisuki can be considered an utter failure. The Anime Consortium became nothing more but Bandai/Namco.

>>160563176
Why would I even need to worry? Netflix licensing stuff mean the return of fansubbing.

>>160563076
Anime Network is shutting down next month, it has been replaced with HIDIVE which are both run by Sentai.

>>160563140
Yeah, and I bet it will become even worse. Like Amazon/Sentai and memecartel members in CR wasn't bad enough...

Good. That means the mainstream bubble will probably blow earlier than expected.
CR is fucked by this cause Sony is gonna break the CR/Funi partnership so Funi gets exclusive on Crackle, so all that sweet dub and Dragon Ball money is gone and Netflix will finish the job, and that fucks Funi too because they're going back to garbage subs and, ultimately, they're gonna get liquidated eventually cause Sony Pictures can't do anything right.

>>160563199
A wide range of actors is not Funimation's problem. Compare the variety they use to any other individual studio, and they're better than average.

>>160563076
>>160563182
All signs point to HIDIVE just being a rebranded version of Anime Network's streaming on demand service given how its entire catalog seems to be from Sentai

>>160561416
Sony owns Funi AND Aniplex now? Sweet Jesus.

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>>160563114
>Aniplex do well because FGO.
>Playstation division is fine but Xbox X and Switch are making them doing shitty things like PSPRO.

I feel that Sony is entirely run by retards they get some lucky moments, but still stupid as fuck.

>Funimation market cap is a mere $150M

kek

>>160563041
>CR is dying
Last I checked they just recently announced that they have a million paid subscribers now.

>>160563379
>mere $150M
Did anybody think they were worth that much to begin with? I would have guessed far less

>>160563287
I would rather foresee a Netflix/Sony-owned Funimation alliance.
They're probably all already in a big bed having a big orgy in preparation for some big partnerships.

>>160563379
I'm pretty sure they've never done any capital raising before this, though, so that 143 all went to Gen.

>>160563389
And that was before Amazon started licensing

>>160563076
Anime Network is closing next month.

>>160562922
Not with GITS being an utter failure

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This is leaving me fucking terrified

>>160563451
Thats not what gonna make them stop.

>>160563451
DC didn't stop

>>160563451
That doesn't actually seem to be slowing down the live action adaptation train, given the recent announcements for a One Piece show

>>160563469
The future of anime is normalfags mainstream tier so you can stop worrying and just give up like me.

>>160563443
Anime Strike is a total ripoff. They force you to subscribe to it on top of subscribing to Amazon Prime when it should be included with Prime.

>>160563511
>just give up
Im good.

>>160563541
don't worry, you'll soon lose that extra hope you didn't knew you still had

Now Bandai should buy Crunchy so sjw pandering can be over.

>Crunchyroll and Twitch teamed up for free anime this past weekend
>Sony buys Funi
what in the world

>>160563607
Everything has to pick sides once the industry gets big enough

>>160563541
You will suffer.

>>160563607
I completely forgot Amazon owns Twitch

>>160563600
CR belongs to AT&T.
It's like AD&D, but with telephones and telegraphes instead of dungeons and dragons.

>>160563576
>>160563652
You're part of the reason why /a/ is as shitty as it is.

>>160563607
To be fair, Twitch only showed FOTM shows like Maid Dragon and Yuri on Ice along with forgettable trash like Akashic Records and they stop airing it anime tomorrow night

>>160563607
>Crunchyroll and Twitch teamed up
That's even weirder when you consider that Amazon owns twitch. Why would Amazon help advertise one of the biggest competitors of their new anime platform?

>>160563691
I haven't done anything wrong.

>>160563491
DC actually made money with Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad tho, Gits didn't even break even
>>160563506
I honestly doubt that anything will ever come from that OP live action annoucement, it will be like the Monster live action all over again

>>160563701
Amazon buys CR later this year. Id imagine
>>160563727
You gave up. That's enough

>>160563701
cause it helps grow twitch and familiarizes twitch users to anime and opens the possibility of integrating their own anime distribution system into twitch itself

I guess to survive, CR will really have to move into the normalfag zone that they have been at it for a while now with that WWE business

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>>160561416
>Sony Pictures
>saved
>anime
>SAVED

Do you live in an alternative universe?

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>anime strike
Did normalfags actually fell for that scam?

Can't wait to see Leek Spin in the Meme Movie! Thanks Sony!

I wonder if this'll disrupt anime piracy at all? Sony obviously has a lot more legal muscle than Funi does, but so does Amazon and they haven't tried anything yet.

>>160563798
They'll have no choice when Netflix doesn't release anything until it's finished airing and Crunchy doesn't have any good shows.

>>160563784
They just have the distribution rights, they ain't gonna remake Cowboy Bebop with Melissa Mccarthy playing Faye

>>160563752
oh boy, can't wait to catch my favorite shit anime of the month on twitch

>>160563701
To poach users from CR for the inevitable airing of their stuff in twitch.

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>>160563747
I gave up because there is nothing you can do to stop it. How can you stop anime going normalfags mainstream? You just can't.

>>160563798
Anime Strike is only really worth it if you pay the $99 dollars a year for Prime but still shitty to pay monthly for it.

>>160563840
Pantsu publishes database regularly, so it's pretty fucking hard to stop anime piracy at this point

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>>160563701
But then people wouldn't need to buy their shitty AnimeStrike service.

You want to watch Made In Abyss and Ballroom e Youkoso don't you. Don't worry if the episode is a little, late we already have your money

Seriously fuck Amazon

>>160563798
>>160563899
Normalfags only watch Nomalfag shit like Marvel movies, if they stumble upon something like AoT it's on accident

>>160563891
>implying im talking about normalfags and anime going mainstream
You make them fuck off from the fucking board when they're just like "SAUCE?" and "THICC" It's stupidly easy to spot newfaggots but nobody does shit outside of spoonfeed them. Make them feel fucking retarded and to avoid posting.

>>160563990
not really, normal fag what ever their media overlord says, if a youtuber says he really like SAO guess what happens, oh this twitch streamer is hooked on AoT? guess what happens

>>160564015
Yeah because telling them to fuck off work wonders right? Im sure they feel threatened.

>>160563899
You actually only need Amazon video + Strike.

But if you are paying for anime than you're retarded in the first place

>>160563899
It's not worth it at all since their translations is dog shit. Probably even Hadena wasn't such failure, but in any case Amazon close to their level, be it above or below.

>>160564052
This.

Their favorite internet celebrity love SoL cute girls anime? wtf I love cute girls anime too now!

>>160564127
The translation are still leagues above some of the shit CR puts out

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I didn't want anime to become mainstream.

>>160564080
>he doesnt know how retared normalfags are
They blindly fucking follow shit for no apparant reason. Make them feel fucking stupid and they'll fuck off. If you're too dumb to comprehend that not my fault. The way you type you're fucking new anyway

>>160564148
I doubt it, cute girls doing cute things still feels to "icky" for normalfags, in the worst case they just pretend to like it "ironically".

>>160564052
Exactly. They don't know dick outside of streamers and memes like the retards they are.

Mention Kakegurui to them and they'll probably give you a blank stare call you a weeb then continue to jerk off whatever clever Jojo joke they thought of

>>160564212
Have fun fighting a losing battle, anon.

>>160563701
>Amazon help advertise one of the biggest competitors of their new anime platform?
That's what CR thought when they teamed up.
In reality, it's more like CR allowed Amazon to walk into their headquarters to let their own secluded ignorant supporters know that there are other anime platforms around.

>>160563899
You HAVE TO PAY the $99 for Prime, then the cost of the channel itself. There's no option for one or the other.

>>160564229
So how did Dragon Maid became extremely popular with them?

>>160564187
Are you retarded? Cancer like GD meme translator and 1 or 2 more aside, they do better job than Amazon ever did on anything. It's basically a rewrite made by hobo based on pictures and using some software from 90s to make subs.

>>160564350
the ironic "I'm a pedophile xD" meme

>>160564343
But that's wrong.
You can just get Amazon video + Strike.
>paying for anime

>>160564350
I may be wrong but I feel like Maid Dragon was popular among the Tumblr crowd but not normalfags who only watch SnK and Boku no Hero.

>>160564395
I really doubt thats the only reason. Normalfags would never accept any kind of ''pedophilia'' stuff this easy.

>>160564350
By spamming stupid ass memes

How much you wanna bet they haven't even watched the show, read the manga, or even know there is a manga?

>>160564350
Same reason why Yrui in Ass become - too many faggots amongst them.

>>160563701
Illusion of choice. Everyone is working together to overcharge and ring this mostly untapped market for all they can.

>>160564425
Amazon Video is only accessible via Prime you dolt.

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>>160564443
Fucking memes man how did they get so powerful? When I see that stupid dancing hot dog,boneless pizza and fidget spinner shit I can't help but feel extremely confuse

>>160563700
Akashic Records had cute uniforms but yeah pretty meh

>>160564439
Eromanga Sensei was a hit among normalfags.

>>160564507
No. There's a separate subscription for it

>>160564508
meme culture created this sense of community, that's why it's all these strange little shits that will confuse normal people since it's like a little in-joke among friends

>>160564555
In all fairness, the Prime Video sub (without Prime) is the same price annually as Prime anyway and that's before the cost of Anime Strike

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>>160564551
I don't understand how normalfags work.

I bet if I were to post something like pic related they would all call me pedophile yet would still enjoy stuff like eromanga sensei because ''haha meme lol''

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>>160564565
>The little in-jokes meant to confuse normal people are now being used by them

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>>160564565
Wait so im the normal now?

>>160564695
in a sense I guess we are "normal" now

>>160564555
Except it's the same price so you might as well sign up for Amazon Prime anyway so you can at least get the free shipping perk to make it worth it.

Anyway, this shit is retarded. Literally no other streaming company has made it so that users have to go through another paywall just to watch certain types of programming.

>>160564730
I just think im too old to care about these type of memes. I remember when I was a kid and all over Rickroll, over 9000, pedobear, etc...

>>160564753
It's like they took tv cable packages and put it on the internet. Literally who thought this was a good idea?

>>160563747
Amazon buying crunchyroll would be a very interesting move for sure. Not out of the ball park for Amazon since they really want to push their streaming service business on all fronts.

>>160564825
Memes used to be fun, now they're just a cancer

Am I just older now?

>>160564197
This has been a long time coming anon. That being said it'll probably crash and burn in the next few years and anime will go back to being a niche underground thing again.

>No more ecchi licenses

It hurts bros.

>>160564888
The old memes that we liked were probably just as cancer too.

>>160564849
If Amazon bought Crunchy I might as well just pirate everything.

>>160564753
well there's also the angle of some country not supported bu amazon prime, so providing it as a separate service allows other countries to gain access to it without involving prime

>>160564695
It's a sad world right now when Anonymous become more normal than normalfags. What's with all those gays, crazy feminazi, even more crazy tranies, pedo lobby on the rise and SJW/police hunting for "right wing extremists" who says mean thing online or send pictures, but ignoring real terrorists because it would be politically incorrect.

Is amazon strikes quality good? When my laptop died I tried streaming funi on my ps4 but it induces vomitting, so I'm super wary before getting tricked again

>>160564911
What make you think it will crash? If its anything like video games it won't crash at all it will only get bigger and worse.

>>160564830
Idiots coming in from the cable industry that don't understand the reason people stopped paying for cable packages is because of shit like this designed to drain all of their money.

>>160562074
Monopoly of what? the west is a shit market for anything other than shounenshit while the streaming isn't nowhere as big compared to chink streaming.

>>160564927
>Amazon takes down HS
>it takes years for fansubs to get back to their former glory, if it ever happens at all

This isn't the future I wanted.

>>160564946
Nobody knows because nobody uses it because its DOUBLE PAY-WALLED

>>160561929
No, where are they going to find someone to voice the characters of DBZ, and put up with the screaming? Frieza's VA from Kai is already out of commission due to health issues.

>>160563304
>>160563199
This. Funi's not like 4Kids or mid-00's era Bang Zoom where they cast the same 5 people in everything.

>>160564946
Video quality-wise they, subtitle quality-wise they're awful.

>>160564944
I think its just thar people feel like they are fighting some kind of war on the internet.

>>160564888
>Memes used to be fun, now they're just a cancer
That's just nostalgia
Rickroll, over 9000, pedobear are just as cancerous

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>>160565014
>My AOTS is hidden behind Amazon's paywall bullshit
>This past weekend proved how incompetent they are
I never wanted this

>>160562681
Now we can finally get Gilbert Gottfried to do dubs!

>>160565185
Why are you mad about this?

>>160564944
>pedo lobby
Not this meme again.

>>160562870
Keanu reeves as Spike and the rock
as Jet, or I'm not watching it.

>>160565415
You have to be blind to not see it. They doing literally the same thing they already did with gays and tranies.

>>160564944
>>160565415
>>160565621
People who want to legalize CP are considered normalfags now?

>>160565676
Wait, aren't normalfags the ones who want to ban loli? Why would they be fine with 3D, but bitch about drawings?

>>160565185
What did they do this weekend?

>>160565722
so it'll look like they are doing something while they continue to watch their CP

>>160565621
>you just don't SEE IT
Yep, it's this meme again. Would you mind going back to /pol/, please.

>>160561570

Sony Pictures is kind of dumb but I have to believe they recognize Funimation's existing distribution ecosystem (including the Funiroll alliance and VRV) for the considerable asset that it is. Crackle's a joke.

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>>160565722
I don't know but these people exist. SJWs are weird.

>>160565738
Competently fucked their airing schedule of Princess Principal, this isn't an isolated incident either because that apparently also happened with Ballroom e Youkoso a few weeks ago

>>160565951
Being in denial does one no good.

>>160565722
That's false narrative. On the one hand they pushing for victimizing pedos, lolicons and anyone else, pretending that drawings, 3D models and silicon dolls should have the sane treatment as real humans. On the other publish things like "pedophilia isn't a crime/doesn't exist", "love is love", and making up tearjerker stories about poor peos being shunned by society at large and mean and false articles in particular.

Anything that furthers western invasion and subsequent destruction of anime is bad.
Fuck Sony and these retarded shitheads who pay for anime in west.

>>160563199
Love how easy it is to spot people who haven't watched a Funi dub in the last 10 years.

>>160566131
It's almost like "they" aren't a monolithic entity.

>>160566057
That's normal for them, happens all the time.

>>160565951
I'm not very smart. Can you explain what's up with that image?

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>>160566165

>>160561416
>>160561548

oh is this why anime is so shit, look at Sony Pictures, fucking awful, AWFUL.

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>>160566206
The dude Amirox is the guy on the right who got arrested for CP.

>>160566172
If it's "normal" they shouldn't even have a streaming service

>>160566154
Brittney Karbowski is in fucking everything and her voice makes my ears bleed.

>>160566238
>what is clickbait

>>160561416
>a deal to pay $143 million for 95% of Japanese anime distributor Funimation Productions. Its catalog includes such popular titles as Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop, One Piece, My Hero Academia and Attack on Titan.

Pretty smart, now they'll have the licensing rights to shit that's not even made by their subsidiary Aniplex.
It's also a way to squeeze extra dosh from anime that flops in Japan but does a little bit better in the west.

Win-Win.

I doubt they're going to create any original anime or anything like that. This is just to capitalize on a growing market.

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>>160566258
Oh, I get it now.
What an idiot.

Stop trying to westernized anime please.

>>160561416
Thank you for the Emoji movie Sony.

>>160566238
How is that a response to what I said? Do you think you're a master detective for working out that some clickbait trashrag is a clickbait trashrag? Have you ever met anyone that reads fucking Salon.com?

>>160566057
So they can't even get shit out on time?

>>160561416
>Cowboy Bebop
For what purpose?

>>160566345
>A japanese company buying an american anime distribution company is somehow westernising anime
what?

>>160566348
>Have you ever met anyone that reads fucking Salon.com?
I sure hope you don't. You're above that.

>>160566410
$?

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>>160566414
I don't know anon im just scared.

>>160566415
Thanks?

>>160563341
Aniplex also has SAO and Madoka which are making them fuckloads of money. They're ALSO distributing the Kizu movies which are doing well.

>>160566410
What do you mean? Do you expect them to pick up Funi and it's catalog (of distribution rights, not licenses to make live action versions of things) except for one of the biggest shows it has?

>>160566165
It's almost like "they" creating victims and want society to start sympathize them because, 'hey, obviously those poor lolicons means no harms and just want to jerk off to 2D porn, 3D games, and fuck silicon dolls!" Then will come "scientist" and declare that pedophilia either normal or doesn't exist. Then lawmakers make the real pedophilia legal by popular demand and "hey, it's current year, you pedophobic biggot!". You really should read some history how it was done in the past.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pedophobic

>>160564197
>>160564911
Anime has been mainstream since at least the late 90s, though.

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>>160566414
>>160566454
You and me both guy

>>160564052
Thankfully all the big anime YouTubers shit on SAO consistently.

why are any of you guys worried? If you don't pirate then you need to leave

>>160566515
Now that's totally not paranoid at all.

There seriously needs to be a big /pol/ purge one of these days.

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>>160566543
I don't thing anyone is actually worried, they just like to panic.

>>160566275
She's in exactly two of this season's 15+ simuldubs, and only one of those roles is a major character.

>>160562286
this

>the current state of Canadian telecom

>>160566598
can't read that shit

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>>160565722
It's always the same situation with the west vs. Japan.

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>>160566561
That day can't come soon enough

>>160566556
>it happened at least 2-3 times already with gay, trans, zoo
>literally the same modus operandi
>"you just being paranoid!"

>>160566755
>zoo
So you're a retard on top of being a paranoid nutcase.

>>160562074
You do not know what kadokawa is do you

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>>160566848
I never get tired of that gif.

>>160563041
On the bright side, Netflix is 4 billion in debt and a few successes won't keep it alive forever.

>>160566807
USA already have like 3-6 states where it's totaly legal though.

>>160567045
Out of 50.

>>160566848
DUDE WHAT THE FUCK

>>160566848
I'm not even going to post the pasta. This thread doesn't deserve it.

>>160567097
It's still more than zero and a real thing.

>>160567105
Welcome to /a/, please mind the shitposters.

>>160567105
That isn't even that bad, fucking neo-/a/.

>>160562048
having spoken to the guy at a convention once during a meet-and-greet, I can say with certainty that this is exactly what he wanted to do with his life. take that how you will.

>>160567141
>>160567201
>>160567358
JESUS TITTYFUCKING CRACK SMOKING CHRIST ON A MOPED WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THIS SAVED?!

SERIOSULY WHAT KIND OF PERSON SEEKS OUT, DOWNLOADS, SAVES AND REPOSTS AN IMAGE, AN ANIMATED IMAGE, OF A DEER FUCKING A CRYING SCHOOLGIRL?!

LIKE I KNOW THERE ARE BIZZARE FETISHES AND WEIRD SHIT THAT TURNS PEOPLE ON, AND YOU KNOW I'M TOTALLY COOL WITH THAT, I JUST DON'T LOOK AT IT. BUT THIS.
FUCKING THIS.

THE FACT THAT SOMEBODY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS TO SAVE THIS...THING, AND THEN THAT EVERYONE ELSE WANTED TO SEE IT JSUT BOGGLES MY MOTHERFUCKING MIND. WHAT TYPE OF A PERSONA RE YOU? SERIOUSLY. DO YOU KEEP THIS SHIT TO YOURSELF OR DO YOU ACT LIKE A CREEPY FUCK IN PUBLIC TOO?! DO YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS AT ALL? I SURE AS FUCK HOPE NOT.

AND THE WORST PART OF ALL OF THIS IS THAT IN ABOUT 30 POSTS THIS WILL MORPH INTO A LUCKY STAR PORN THREAD WITH ALMOST A HUNDRED IMAGES OF SIMILAR SITUATIONS DEPICTING CHILDREN BEING HORRIBLY MOLESTED THAT NEARLY A HUNDRED PEOPLE ALL HAVE SAVED TO THEIR HARD DRIVES TO JACK OFF OVER AS THE HELPLESS LITTLE GIRL SQUIRMS IN PANIC ON THEIR SCREEN FOR THEIR OWN ENJOYMENT.

JUST WHAT THE FUCK. I KNOW THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WORKS BUT
WHAT
THE
FUCK

TOO MUCH. WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

(inb4 capslock is cruise control for cool, fuck off pedophiles I can press any damn key I please, go rot in jail)

>>160563607
>Twitch adds anime section
>but no one is actually allowed to stream anime because no one has a license to
I don't get what they were intending

>>160567407
He's still involved in the anime business. He's just now a few million dollars richer.

>>160567201
>calling Tsukasa an animal
>deer having human rights
Average day on /a/, everything all right with the world.

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>>160567432
>Not making your own anime

>>160567432
They only added it for they cancerous marathon.

>>160562340
shut the fuck up retard

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>>160567504
Deers are honorary homos.

>>160567660
Wasn't Bambi the name of that dude that raped Guts?

>>160567710
Gambino was his adoptive father, the actual raperman was call Donovan

>>160561416
Do you think this will entail more shit getting licensed and dubbed faster/sooner?

>>160567710
No, that's his papi's name.

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>>160562340
mfw

>>160567827
probably a lot more gamergate reference too

>>160561416
So FUNi will stop sending retarded DMCA complaints to my shitty blog now? can I finally rest?

>>160568020

>So FUNi will stop sending retarded DMCA complaints to my shitty blog now?
Yeah, Sony will be sending them instead.

>>160567957
Gamergate isn't relevant anymore.

>>160568135
not according to the prison school dub

>>160568102
I never received one by sony though and I'm sure I posted some anime content owned by them at least a dozen times on the blog.

>>160568178
They redid the line for the BDs and DVDs.

>>160568219

Yes, but now they've just spent $140m buying Funimation's content, so you can expect them to give more of a shit about it.

With that said, I've never heard of DMCAs going to blogs before. Were you sharing full episodes?

>>160567957
I just read that sony is making a movie.. fuck them, I won't buy a single sony console nor a game for their consoles anymore.

>>160568362
No, mostly screenshots, once I received a complaint targeted to an icon because it had the title of a FUNi licensed anime in the file name.

>>160568436

Well if they've targeting still images that really is a surprise to me, so I don't know.

>>160562164
>Funimation and CR is a monopoly
Yet no one talks about Sentai or even Viz Media. There is even HIDIVE that is in beta to compete with Crunchyroll right now. The thing is nobody talks about them enough or tries to buy from other places.

That is kind of the sad thing about competition everyone wants to talk about one thing and say "everything sucks except for X" and yet X gets bought out and everyone is worrying what will happen next. Remember to not stay loyal to one company your entire life.

>>160564197
Anime already is mainstream. I recently stopped being a NEET and started going to a trade school, and all these kids talk about is video games and anime.

>>160568957
What kind of anime and video games?

>>160563076
Actually Anime Network does not air over here in the US, we do have Daisuki, Funimation now, HIDIVE and Crunchyroll.

I am hoping HIDIVE makes it though we need a legitimate competitor to Crunchyroll. I will be supporting them honestly. Everything else is either advertisement while watching anime (Daisuki which sucks) or just works together (Funimation + Crunchyroll), and complete double paywall garbage(anime strike and Amazon.)

It would be nice to have 3 legitimate competitors to keep costs down and to have quality go up.

>>160569025
OPM and GTA

>>160569099
As I thought.

This isn't what I mean by mainstream you know.

>>160563114
Maybe I should be ready to take my purchases of all the Funimation stuff I want now before that turn for the worst in less than a year.

>>160569143
What did you mean? Kids will watch whatever is popular.

>>160563341
Actually Sony Pictures is a different branch than Sony Music. Also remember Kara No Kyoukai and Persona 3 movie Trilogy, even Bakemonogatari series and Fate/Zero are making them a shit ton of money.

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>all future anime will be mostly homogenized mainstream Sonyshit to appeal to the normalfags who are not into anime
At least years from now I'll be able to brag about how I lived during the golden age of moe before it all went to shit

>>160567957
Which ones were making references?

>>160563469
Buy all the Funimation stuff now before its too late. Tenchi Muyou, Dragon Ball Z and Cowboy Bebop etc because if it gets worse and there are no more reprints we are so screwed waiting for the classics to ever come back to us.

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>>160563798
I think they did. It is rather funny because they pay two paywalls instead of one. Just imagine paying for Hidive and CR right now they would be saving much more than the Anime Strike customer.

>>160563840
Just because a corporation has a lot of money does not stop piracy. Leaving pirates alone does. It's like the Streisand effect all over again.

>>160561548
Sony Music, Pictures, and Playstation act so different from each other that they might as well be totally different companies

>>160561416
in b4 ps4 exclusive anime comes from this.

>>160569780
>New Exclusive anime
>now with added QTE for maximum cinematic experience

So is Funimation kill?

>>160569855
we'll see

>>160567827
It's hard to get faster than what Funi is currently doing, unless the production companies start sending over storyboards that they can record lines to.

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>>160569368

Moe was never good.

>>160569855
I hope it does not end badly but I am preparing for the worst.

>>160569713

They essentially are

it's funny that epic /tv/ memers are spamming shit about Columbia Pictures releases while mentioning nothing about funi's actual new parent, Sony Pictures Television. Aside from co-funding mediocre to good US shows, their main business seems to be, you guessed it, licensing stuff to show outside its country of origin.
But talking about that would require acknowledging that funi and crunchy have no say in what kind of anime gets made at all, instead of making the same jokes about the emoji movie over and over

>>160569406
I think they are talking about Kobayashi, in English they talk about Gamergate in the dub and the sub is different and more true obviously.

>>160569938
why does jokes about the emoji movie trigger you so much?

>>160569855
I think they are paying them for the rights to use 95% their content I doubt they actually bought 95% of the company

>>160569878
How fast are they getting shit done?

>>160570013
Usually a week or two behind the subs if the show is popular

>>160569990
To be fair, if you read the whole thread it does get quite repetitive.

>>160561416
Any chance in this changing funi's shit practices?

>>160569368
Moe was only liked ironically back in the day.

>>160570088
There will be a change I believe that.

>>160569995
They literally bought a 95% stake in the company. This isn't reddit, stop posting without reading the OP's link when there is one.

>>160570120
>Liking anything ironically
>Ever
What a tool.

>>160570013
Two to four weeks behind the Japanese broadcast. They've also been experimenting with same-day dubs for as long as the production schedule can keep up. My Hero Academia S2 was a same-day simuldub for the first 14 episodes (after they promised 6).

>>160570178
WTF Why so much?

If cr gets bought by amazon ill have to pay for the amazon vod service on top of prime to watch shieldbro arent i.

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>>160570355
Why do you think?

>>160570427
Like what do they hope to gain?

>>160569972
>>160569406
Prison School is the one that had a gamergate reference. Kobayashi just had the patriarchy line.

Coincidentally, I believe both dubs were directed by the same person.

>>160570518
Money of course

>>160570534
More like they will lose money

>>160564963
Same thing that made the last two booms crash: oversaturation.

Wonder what this means for Sentai. Will they be bought out by Amazon or get smothered by the competition?

>>160570518
money, power, and the secret to everlasting life

>>160570596
but buying 95% stake in funimation will lead to none of that...

>>160570519
If I remember right the guy had a Jewish last name like a Steinberg lol.

>>160570355
Amazon and Netflix already won for distributing most western content, only very much in demand content like HBO stuff can get away with not being on those.
The thinking is probably that they want to have a space in digital distribution, even a niche one, where they aren't just acting as a middleman for tech companies. Funimation is in a position to do it given enough resources, and since Sony Pictures owns some anime networks in Asia, they can potentially work off of those licenses to get ahead of Amazon/Netflix.

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Didn't know there was so many dubs lovers shitters on /a/.

SONY ALWAYS WINS, BABY

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>>160565111
>I still randomly rickroll people across the web

>>160570825
>got BTFO by Wonder Woman

>>160570862
for some reason if I rickroll people now they get extremely mad

>>160569084
>It would be nice to have 3 legitimate competitors to keep costs down and to have quality go up.
>quality go up, ever.
As much as I'd like to believe, that's a big stretch.

>>160570794
Most people angry about offensive (to /v/, not normals) lines in dubs don't watch dubs. Only one person has to see it to get the outrage machine rolling.

>>160570953
It might be, but at least if I do not like one service or the other I can just move to a third one.

>>160570667
Rinehart is actually a greek last name, but Tyson sounds more jewish.

>>160570519
Afraid of what he'll be allowed to touch next. Christ, what does it take to be a fucking director?

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How did this thread got so cancerous, I haven't seen a thread this fucking bad in years.
Holy crap.

>>160571193
what, are you also triggered by the simple mention of the emoji movie?

>>160571248
Nice projection.

>>160571302
how the fuck was I supposed to know what your triggers are if you've never told me

>>160571248
I honestly didn't even saw that being mentioned, which is understandable considering the sea of liquid shit this thread is.

>>160571248
More like it's full of retards who have no idea how the industry works. Do they really think that Funimation can kill genres? Or that a new parent company (without even installing a new CEO) will change anything about their approach to dubbing?

>>160570569
Right now they seem to be in a good position where (presumably) Amazon give them a bunch of cash to stream a show exclusively on Anime Strike and they still get home video rights.
The concern would be that Amazon ditches them and tries to do everything themselves. It could happen, but for now it seems Anime Strike is happy with a partner who has experience producing dubs, etc.
Japanese licensors probably also want to keep Sentai in the game because a healthy amount of competition in the NA market is good for them.

>>160571193
>I haven't seen a thread this fucking bad in years.
Probably because you haven't been here for years or even a month.

>>160571186
>believing what /a/ tells you about the dub industry

The directors for Prison School and Dragon Maid are Sonny Strait and Kyle Phillips, respectively. Not only that but the directors aren't the ones who write the scripts,and the two shows have different scriptwriters as well.

>>160571248
oh why oh why did they make a turd about emoticons?

somebody off sony pictures

>>160571417
Try 6 years, not like that matters though.

>>160571591
sure

>>160568857
HIDIVE was necessary given Anime Network's antiquated branding. Sentai is still the biggest NA anime distributor by volume, so having a modern streaming platform is probably something they should have done years ago

>>160571415

I see. Thanks. It will be interesting to see - both options of either Amazon buying Sentai or doing everything themselves would make sense if they were serious about expanding their market. Not much that people can do about it either way.

>>160569084
>Anime Network doesn't air in the US
It used to be a special channel carried by a few providers that just aired anime 24/7, then moved online, then began offering on-demand streaming. It's still around, but they close down in a few weeks and all their shows transfer to HIDIVE

Funimation working with CR only entails Funimation overseeing dubs and home video distribution of series Crunchyroll has (Crunchyroll has been wanting to get into that for years, and Funimation has all the dubbing connections) while Crunchyroll will stream various Funimation series along with their dubs when applicable (Funimation has been trying to get in on the stream game for real)

Funimation Now is still an app, and has most of their catalog where as CR only gets gradual handfuls

>>160569780
Fun fact: Sony actually tried that. Back in 2007-2008 Playstation Network was the sole distribution platform for Xebec's anime series Xam'd: Lost Memories and was for years

>>160566848
O deer

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>>160571908

>Xebec's
>mis-crediting Bones' greatest work
Anon pls.

>>160565061
>Frieza's VA from Kai is already out of commission due to health issues.

Funimation already has a replacement. Daman Mills I think his name was. He did a couple of lines for Frieza during the last two episodes of the F arc dub because I guess that's the time when Chris Ayres's health went down the drain.

Mills sounded pretty similar to Ayres so it's a decent replacement job.

>>160571453
So Jamie Marchi was the writer of the Maid Dragon dub and not the director?

>>160572230

Writer, and voice of Lucoa.

>>160572230
Correct.

>>160572144
I never watched it. Sounded like ass, i just thought it was Xebec

>>160572304

It's never too late to repent.

Then that means more sales right? ultimately a good thing for the industry.
Truly the good people at sony would help progress anime as a better art form, right?

Just like Sony Entertainment. Add in more SJW pandering for the western normalfags

Will this mean that overseas sales start counting for the overall income in Japan?

>>160572401
>Then that means more sales right? ultimately a good thing for the industry.

Yes.

>Truly the good people at sony would help progress anime as a better art form, right?

No.

>>160569878
It's pretty impressive that Funimation can do simuldubs of so many shows. They have over 15 shows they're dubbing for the new anime season.

https://www.funimation.com/simuldubs/

>>160572523

They already do. Japan makes sure they get their money's worth in licensing fees, not to mention CR and Funi have started contributing to production committees.

>>160561416
Does this mean Sony will start aggressively going after anime torrents now? Should I start downloading everything in my backlog?

>>160572687

They'll start aggressively defending stuff like Eotens and MHA, I'm sure.

>>160572523
China will pass japan soon in contributing to anime sales, the west is only good for shounenshit.

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How do we make Normalfag freak out by anime again?

>>160572656
I'm not so sure. Companies like Netflix and CR may be funding some shows, but it's still a minority. Even if they were to make "western" anime, the original industry in Japan would continue as if nothing happened.