Funimation ("You Should Be Watching")

the lawsuit between Funi and ADV is finally over

Any more information on that?

Wow, I was getting worried about this potential license!

No really, I was. Apparently Fox had the distribution rights or something.

Why would Fox have the license?

Ok, so admittedly I'm not exactly a well versed "anime fan" (like I've literally only seen Haruhi, Madoka, and Nichijou [if that even counts]) but why exactly did ADV decide to pump so much into the live-action Evangelion movie.

I mean, to me, pumping like a shitload of money into a project you don't even know the rights too just for pitching seems like a terrible idea to me. Basically, that's why ADV died right? They spent most of their money on pitching the live-action Evangelion movie (which was, at best, a pipe dream) and focused mostly on acquiring proprieties with niche appeal.

Also, I'm surprised nobodies mentioned that Funimation has some weird conservative branch thing going on with Rick Santorum, right (it's called Echo Light Studios or something)?

edited 30th May '14 6:22:04 PM by RoboZombie

I think Fox had the licence to the film because their Japanese wing apparently distributes all the Dragonball stuff in Japan. It's why they distributed that godawful live action movie I should not speak of.

And here's the new article about Funi vs ADV being over: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-29/funimation-v-adv-lawsuit-settled-dismissed/.74853

I guess ADV had too much hope that a live action EVA movie could work.

It's because the founder of Funimation is an evangelical Christian. I don't think he's that involved with the day to day runnings of Fuimation anymore.

...which is ironic considering I heard that the Christian imagery was put into the original series, and thus in the adaptations after that, solely because "it looked cool and nothing else". :D

Still, people by now shouldn't trust anything that's "in-development", and shouldn't make the assumption that it's actually going to be made! by this logic, the live-action Cowboy Bebop movie and Ghostbusters 3 are going to happen despite both of them rising and fading into the news time and again for YEARS.

Eh, a live action Eva? I'll pass. If Hollywood gets it's hand on it, it's gonna suck. At least That Guy With The Glasses or Riff Trax would get some mileage out of it.

Live action Shinji directed by Michael Bay? No thanks.

Funi didn't do Evangelion in the US, ADV did.

Micheal Bay was never attached to the project brah. All I know is, WETA did some concept work and Gore Verbinski may or may not have been attached to the project at one point (I mean, I think I read this somewhere but I dunno I could be pulling this out of my ass.)

For what its worth it's dead in the water now and it ain't happening. Gainax was ambivalent to the whole thing until ADV tried to sue (now they ain't gonna do it ever,) ADV's a zombie at this point (and neo-ADV has, like, what 10 years before it implodes on itself) and they have no money to go around pitching projects. Hollywood probably isn't going to be touching anime with a 10 foot pole (unless, I dunno Edge of Tomorrow (based on the light novel All You Need Is Kill) makes, like, Avengers level cash and even then I doubt they'd go for Evangelion first).

edited 31st May '14 8:17:05 PM by RoboZombie

Unless Michael Bay really does take a sudden interest in Eva and pitches it to Hollywood. If nothing else, Bay is good at getting what he wants.

Yeah but he's never mentioned anything like that, and I'm, I dunno like 99% sure he ain't pursuing that at all so seriously I dunno.

I got a question though about this whole corporate hierarchy thing though, who the hell owns Aniplex US. So Aniplex proper (Aniplex Japan) is a division of Sony Music Japan right? Now, who owns Aniplex US? Is it "officially" (like when it comes to da money and shit) a division of Aniplex (thus making it a Sony Music Japan division proper,) or is it somewhere else in the hierarchy. My friend keeps trying to say Aniplex US is a division of Ultra Records (thus making it a division of Sony Music US) but I can't really find any evidence to actually support this so I dunno.

Unless Michael Bay really does take a sudden interest in Eva and pitches it to Hollywood.

Apparently he actually has. I pray it's just a rumor.

See, now I'm imagining Shinji as Sam Witwickey.

So now I'm imagining being forced to admit to preferring Shinji to someone.

Ben-To dub preview episodes are free to watch!

Full rights to Free: Eternal Summer! No word on season 1 yet, but still a fantastic surprise nonetheless.

Yay!

A bit odd that they didn't do this for the first season.

*insert Tim Allen grunt here*

Can't say I expected this.

EFIT: Wait, there's a second season? Already?

edited 27th Jun '14 1:45:29 PM by PhysicalStamina

Season 1 was last summer so... A full year between seasons isn't that odd. There a bunch of shows that had one season in the spring and another in the fall, so a year doesn't stand out that much.

I didn't even know it was a full year. Didn't Free, like, just come out or something? When did it have time for a second season?

It was definitely last year, because I remember the awful, misogynistic anti-Fujoshi shitstorm that erupted when male otaku accused Kyoto Animation of "betraying" them when the series was announced.

Wow, that sounds self-entitled as all hell.

You know it's sad when that is the only thing that makes you remember the show came out last year.