In just a matter of a few weeks FUNimation has aquired rights to something in the neighborhood of 50 new titles for distrabution.
How'd they obtain so many titles?
Well, they've obtained the titles from other companies. Or in the case of one, a shell of a former company.
First Geneon signed with them for distrabution of about 20 of their titles. List of said titles can be found on the FUNi site in their news announcement.
Next came ARM Corporation and their deal to allow distrabution of around 30 titles. Again, a list can be found in here.
As wonderful of an announcement as that may seem are they be setting themselves up for a downfall?
FUNi has been leading the industry not only in quality but in market sales and profits, making them one of the number one (if not the number one) U.S. anime distributers. Still, as we've seen with Geneon, if a company gets to excited and ahead of themselves not only can they let thier fans down but they're also set to destroy themself. The questions begging for an answer in my mind is weather or not they've considered this and have they taken steps to prevent this 'self-implotion'?
None the less, FUNi does great work and really knows how to hype their products and keep their fans in suspence, a rarity in many markets. I know I'll be patiently waitting to see what else FUNimation has for us this summer.
*cough*DTB*cough* Which they did mention in their June 23 Quickie podcasts saying "auditions for Darker than BLACK are all wrapped up and recording is well underway." *squee* ^.^ They need to tell us the cast sometime soon. I must know. MUST KNOW!
I quite enjoy that they've introduced a weekly podcast that gives us the little details that would be silly to type into a news announcement. So if your as curious to know as I am stay tuned to funimation.com/podcast to learn all there is to know.
Edit: And another strange bit of information, BONES the Japanese company responsible for giving us Fullmetal Alchemist and Darker than BLACK had a fake leak. The falsely proposed projects, entitled Fullmetal 2 and Darker 2 which are to be sequels to the two aforementioned shows, were listed. However neither of these are official so don't go fangasam on all your friends. For the full story check out ANNs report.
Behind the Cloud
- CloudEnvy
- Alright, well I guess I'll start with the basics: I'm an Alchemic God and a Narutard. What this means is I watch to much TV and like names that make me feel like my useless knowledge is good for something. At this point in my life I have to much free time and I'm just trying to find ways that will fill it (and hell if making money is involved in those fillers then I'm all for it.)
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So BONES is pulling the Dattebayo troll? Dattebayo is known for pulling guerilla tactics like faking announcements of staff deaths after faking being shot at by police, and it's part of their style. This works for a cult favorite like Dattebayo; however, it's a horrible idea for a mainstream anime company like BONES. Finding out that announcements are fake is like telling little Jimmy that the Tooth Fairy is really Mommy--it upsets us fanfolk and tends to make us shoot a fishy eye at future announcements, weakening BONES' future promotion attempts.
In short? They're stupid fuckers who need better promo ideas.
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