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.
08 July, 2008
07 July, 2008
Ouran Host Club
So yeah, it seems to be rather huge in following but I don't think it seems that interesting. But still I'll bite and follow the hype for now. We don't get to see any of it till October anyway.
So here's a clip from FUNi from the Anime Expo OHSHC reveal panel. Enjoy.
So here's a clip from FUNi from the Anime Expo OHSHC reveal panel. Enjoy.
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