#FunimationNow

[shironezuninja]

I always liked how Real World Gracia walked away from Officer Hughes, while he was still uncertain about his own morality in 2005/06 FMA film, Conqueror of Shamballa.

[animesavior]

“There's nothing guaranteeing tomorrow. We could die today or we could die 60 years from now. Either way there's never enough time to do everything we want. With that in mind...I'm gonna...” -          Akira Tendou, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (Ep. 01)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for March 30-31, 2024.

With a zombie apocalypse striking Tokyo, Akira is freed from the toxic environment of his former job to complete his bucket list of things he wants to do, as Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead makes its premiere on Toonami.

On Twitter, #Toonami trended in the United States alongside Ninja Kamui, Zom 100, and Lycoris Recoil. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

This past Monday marked the 12th anniversary of “The Night no 90’s Kid Slept.” When on April Fools Day 2012, what was originally thought was another rerun of The Room turned out to be a sudden revival of Toonami after being cancelled for over four years. Thanks to incredible fan support, the block would be resurrected for real nearly two months later, which has now surpassed the lifespan of its original 1997-2008 run. Here’s to many more years of Toonami to come.

Last week, Toho Animation released a new trailer for the upcoming 7th season of My Hero Academia, which will begin airing on May 4th. You can see an English translated version of the trailer below. In addition, four special recap episodes titled My Hero Academia: Memories, will be airing weekly beginning on April 6 and through the weeks up to the season premiere. As with previous seasons, Crunchyroll will simulcast the new season and will be producing dubs for season 7.

Toho has also announced this morning that a new My Hero Academia film is also in the works. Titled “You’re Next”, the film will be premiering in Japanese theaters on August 2, 2024. Plans for a release stateside have yet to be revealed as of this writing.

On Tuesday, the anime world bid adieu to Funimation, as Sony has shut down the FunimationNow service (with funimation.com now redirecting to crunchyroll.com), completing its merger with Crunchyroll. Funimation is one of Toonami's long time media partners, going back as far as when DBZ first aired on the block in 1999.

And on that note, if you missed it, I posted an Op-Ed this week titled "The 2020’s Anime and Streaming Service Bubble Burst," as I look into the controversies regarding the Warner Bros Discovery merger, the Funimation-Crunchyroll merger, their respective effects on Toonami, and how what's going on with both could lead to another anime bubble burst, and one for streaming services overall.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#Zom100]

#NinjaKamui [Trended with #Toonami and #Zom100]

#Zom100 [#6]

#LycorisRecoil [Trended with #Toonami and #Zom100]

Tweet Counts:

#Zom100 [2,927 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#2]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Get Ready to Run for Your Life. Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

[weatherman667]

It's amazing how much effort Sony Funimation RightStuf CrunchyRoll spends into not selling me anime.

I mean, their whole business model is selling me anime. And thanks to 40k always shitting the bed, the main place my disposable income goes is anime.

And Sony literally has a lock on the market. Like 2/3 of anime in North America is owned by Sony. Sony buys up the localization rights to most anime in North America.

All they have to do is fucking release it.

I literally had subscriptions to CrunchyRoll AND FunimationNow, and was buying my DVD's/Blu-rays from RightStuf.

The stuff that wasn't there was either from Sentai or Aniplex, and Sony literally owns Aniplex.

The only reason I don't spend more money on Sentai is I own pretty much everything I want to from them, until the next Girls und Panzer: Das Finale gets release.

So, Sony buys up all of the rights to anime I want to watch, and then... doesn't release them.

me:

Sony: nah

What do they do, instead? Release super-mega-ultra-penultimate-ultimate editions.

I could get three full series for that price, Sony.

My entertainment budget is finite.

It's a great movie, but it's literally 30 years old.

[fabioperes]

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Opening Theme Subscribe to Funimation: https://ift.tt/hzlxcMu Start streaming anime subs and dubs: https://ift.tt/G5t6SKC Subscribe to Funimation's Channel: https://ift.tt/hzlxcMu Uchuu Senkan Yamato by Isao Sasaki Watch Star Blazers dubbed on FunimationNow: funimation.com/shows/star-blazers/ _______________________________ The power-hungry Gamilas have taken over Earth, and only a distant planet has the key to save humans from extinction. Granted the schematics of a high-powered engine, the Space Battleship Yamato is built to traverse the galaxy and retrieve hope for their survival. Battling extraterrestrial forces along the way, the crew of the Yamato will stop at nothing to save their home. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/FUNimation?sub_confirmation=1 Watch More Videos Like This: https://www.youtube.com/user/FUNimation/playlists Learn More: Website: http://funi.to/1VCO32b Twitter: https://twitter.com/funimation Facebook: https://ift.tt/4fkNsWg Instagram: https://ift.tt/wernVXo Google+: https://ift.tt/eUkJMr9 Tumblr: https://ift.tt/jVcECQw via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6LFkMniuTk

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Fruits Basket - Anime

Hello, dearies! 🐱🍙 Let’s talk Fruits Basket! If you haven’t heard of this anime or manga before, I recommend it. Also known as フルーツバスケット, Furūtsu Basuketto. You can watch it on Crunchyroll and FunimationNow. Before starting on this one, I’d like to clarify that this is about the anime of 2019 (essentially a reboot). I haven’t watched the original anime (I didn’t know there was one) from 2001,…

[matt0044]

The Anime Community has a FUNimation Problem. Full Stop.

In Prison School’s seventh episode, Anzu Yokoyama’s dialogue with Shingo Wakamoto has her calling out his attempt at talking to a woman and kicking starting a fairly obligatory romantic subplot. The English Dub, up to that point, had all the hallmarks of FUNimation’s script writers playing off the already existing comedic aspect of the title. Some disapproved while other embraced it.

However, the dub would go a step further by having Anzu’s emasculation of Shingo involve a reference to the then ongoing Gamergate controversy. If anybody knew of the movemen then, you’d know this wasn’t a good idea. Every geek and their mother took offense to it right out the gate, claiming that it was FUNimation “shoving politics” where they don’t belong and insulting their fans.

To play devil’s advocate, Prison School as a whole is all about young men being integrated into a formerly all-girl school with all the sleazy shenanigans that the title’s become infamous for. It’s already pretty provocative in terms of visuals and how it pushes the envelope on its fan-service element. Something the dub team were keen to embrace with all of the dialogue reflecting this tone.

Yet Tyson Rinehart was raked over the coals for what was suppose to be an edgy joke for the sake of it, not unlike a lot of Prison School’s humor. Bare in mind that it within was one scene in the seventh episode out of a twelve episode Anime. We don’t get any other references to Gamergate like Anita Sarkeesian or the like in any other scene of any other episode. It’s just... this.

Yet even now when the line was redubbed to remove the reference for the home release, you’d think that this one line is all the dub is. That it’s akin to Shin Chan or Ghost Stories where the dub team wrote their own story and made jokes out of every kind of current event controversy because that’s what gets the lulz. Yet, again, it was just one scene in one episodes out of the twelve.

Of course, the cycle seemed to begin again with Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid which had a more... small scale kerfuffle in regards to the titlular human character claiming that, “I’m not into women or dragons.” Ironically, Jamie Marchi claimed she wrote that line since something like, “But I’m a woman,” came across as homophobic to her. However, I wrote my piece on all that.

What really got the wider community all up in arms was in regards to the character of Quetzalcoatl AKA Lucoa, specifically a single scene where she and Tohru exchange dialogue for less than ten seconds at most over her more conservative attire. Lucoa is pretty much THE fanservice character with breasts big enough to nearly suffocate a little boy in his sleep. Yes, that did happened.

Lucoa explains her more conservative attire as feeling uncomfortable with everybody looking at her in her other revealing outfits with the official subtitles by both Crunchyroll and FUNimation at the time. The dub would take it a step further so to speak by having her claim that she changed clothes because of “pesky patriarchal standards” getting on her nerves, something a tad different.

Well, I say, “different,” in the sense of what she’s referring to in regards to why she changed her clothes. The sub has it come out to “everybody” in a general sense like men, women and children alike while “patriarchal” is more specific in referring a societal phenomenon. However, that’s not what fans got in a tizzy over. The word, “patriarchal,” is the real focal point for this scene’s controversy.

It’s not secret that this word is thrown around most Feminist circles to the ire of geeks who “just wanna have fun” and hearing this word alone set off all the alarms. Like with Prison School, FUNimation was accused of trying to push a political agenda using Anime as Lucoa’s line was spread across the community.

By now, I’d like to be frank in how this all feels overblown. Using a word that’s common in the Social Justice lexicon can stick out but the idea that it turns the dub into political propaganda never made sense to me. I mean, it’s one thing the entire scene was rewritten to recite some kind of feminist manifesto but it only mentions the “patriarchy” and... that’s about it for this one scene alone. :/

I’d bring up “My First Girlfriend’s A Gal” but I feel like the points I made with Prison School largely apply here. However, I feel like some fans are hypocritical in how they claim that the dub’s dialogue is “inaccurate” when most enjoyed the dub for how it nearly went full Ghost Stories. Many felt that the dub was spicing up an otherwise by-the-numbers Ecch Fest that people would’ve written off. :P

Yet along came Episode 7 and the usage of the words of “SJWs millenials” among others was enough to make the dub “propaganda” in the eyes of many. Despite the fact that the script does convey the spirit of the original with the cafe manager trying to get the female cast into reading smut to nerd without their consent. What does that matter when the dub uses terms like “cuck?” :/

What about the voice acting? Doesn’t matter. Anzy referred “Gamergate.” That’s all that matters about Prison School’s English dub now and forever.

How well does the dialogue hold up on the whole? Doesn’t matter. Lucoa mentioned the “patriarchy.” That’s all that Maid Dragon’s dub amounts to.

Is it enjoyable in any way aside from said foibles? Doesn’t matter. The mention of “SJW millennials” in that one scene has now tainted the dub. Oh, the shame.

Starting to get the picture? I don’t want to be the guy who says dubs should go off doing as they please with not consideration for what the original’s narrative was trying to convey. Even if the occasional liberty can be intriguing, it’s always better for an English dub to keep the story in line with their source material. I, of course, type this for those who actually approach any dub in good faith at all. :/

The problem comes when the examples described above are weaponized by those who never had good faith in dubs and/or had it out for the likes of FUNimation to begin with. It’s not about discussion. It’s about propping up their bias of dubs being trash at best and trying to falsely villainize a company for making mistakes that ultimately amount to a handful of off-sounding dialogue.

By all means, discuss how those like FUNimation could improve on things such as where their streaming services are available region by region. Discuss how dubs like Danganronpa and Phoenix Wright recast the characters from the VAs in the games. Discuss how good or bad their script writing can be when it leans more loosely. All this fearmongering and vitriol does nothing but poison the well.

But weren’t these choices in adaptation politically motivated? Hell no? There’s a different between humor made in fairly poor taste and trying to brainwash your audience into believing, what, that women have problems? It’s not propaganda when you recognize it right away. And while Tyson Rinehart and Jamie Marchi responded rather rudely to the backlash... can you blame them with all of this?

I say this not to “kiss up” to FUNimation. Much as I admire their script adaptation process like the nerdy nerd I am, there can be times where I do feel they might’ve missed the mark. Particularly with their earlier dubs of the Dragon Ball franchise where they were borderline 4kids. However, dubs such as Fairy Tail and My Hero Academia are modern examples of how far they have come.

This mentality of holding grudges over fairly small potatoes that personally offend you gets us nowhere. I mean... isn’t it like the stereotypes SJWs are known for. A piece of media does something offensive, however big or small, and is deemed problematic forever by purity crusaders. Can’t we take a joke? It honestly gets to the point where I kind of have to quote Anzu Yokoyama here:

“Do you have a stick up your ass or are your one of those Gamergate creepshows?”

[kurumi-lover]

I wanted to touch on the Funimation logo girl I drew like 5 years ago and give her a full design. Debated on what to do with those socks, but I think it worked out. Also, since whole pic won’t fit on IG—she’s wearing black Mary Janes. . . . #funimation #funimationentertainment #funimationnow #oc #originalcharacter #pinkhair #kurumilover #artistsoninstagram #anime #myart (at Funimation Entertainment) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK41Zucluj4/?igshid=kov3a9a84qhq

[animeiveseen]

Angels of Death

(aka: Satsuriku no Tenshi)

Episodes:16 episodes

Genre: Psychological horror

Rating: TV/-14/ PG13 fore Gore, Horror, Violence, body horror

Found: Crunchyroll,Funimation(now), VRV

Plot:

Based off a video game with the same name! Out on the nintendo switch and steam!

Rachel Gardner wakes up in a mysterious building, having no memory of getting there. While exploring she finds an elevator that takes her to another level, where she meets Isaac(aka Zack) Foster, a crazy, bandaged from-head-to-toe serial killer. 

Eventually Rachel regains her memories, and enlists Zack’s help to escape the insane building filled with other psychotic, murderous people. She asks that if she helps him he(and ONLY he) can kill her.

With each level they meet new and strange people, all whom want to kill them. Each floor is filled with puzzles, all of which are deadly.

My thoughts:

This is a great anime with such creepy atmosphere! The characters are all insane and fun, and I even like a couple of them!!

I didn’t understand a lot of the biblical stuff at the end, even though I have understandings of biblical stuff....they just...kinda just kept talking and I think I blanked out. 

Anyway, it’s a good anime, and the video game it’s based off of is fun too!

Also, for anyone who likes “My Hero Academia” they will love Zack’s Japanese voice actor because it’s the same as Bakugo’s....so all the “die die die” will sound very familiar.

My rating: 10/10

Favorite character: Isaac(Zack) Foster

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Funimation confirms MHA Season Four License

Funimation confirms MHA Season Four License #MyHeroAcademia #Funimation #Anime #SeasonFour

Coming to Funimation, The latest season of My Hero Academia!

Fans have been eagerly waiting for the return of the heroes of UA Academy and the evil villains of the League of Villains but there were questions burning in their minds of when will it be coming back, What service will have it to stream, Crunchyroll or Funimation? Well, wonder no more, because Funimation is here!

The…

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Funimation Sued By Kojicast For Patent Infringement Involving FunimationNow

Funimation Sued By Kojicast For Patent Infringement Involving FunimationNow | #Karma

Kojicast LLC has sued Funimation Productions over their FunimationNow streaming service being a patent infringement on their ‘683 Patent. The lawsuit was filed back on April 24th, 2019, but it hasn’t been wildly spread around the net until some Twitter users caught wind of it. (more…)

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Funimation Reveals Streaming Premiere Dates for Final Fairy Tail Season

Funimation revealed the streaming premiere dates for both the Subbed and English dub versions of final season for Fairy Tail. The subtitled version of the season will be available on October 6 at 5 P.M. CT and the English dub will be available on October 29 at 3 P.M. CT. 

https://twitter.com/FUNimation/status/1046812848498921482

Funimation provided a description for the series.

When four young…

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Here’s my Round 2 submission for NowVoiceThis’ VA Contest! 

[matt0044]

Anime fans, geeks, we all need to talk about FUNimation...

Let me preface by saying that those who are upset full stop over the Anime in question being dropped aren’t wrong to feel upset. That’s a horrible reality to face so I cannot blame your distress. It’s okay to vent, it’s okay to just be plain mad. We all have to let off steam when something like this just blindsides us.

With all of that in mind...

I have HUGE bone to pick with people trying to construe one big "FUNimation is the enemy of all Anime" narrative, especially with the recent “Interspecies Reviewers” kerfuffle that's been going down. This notion that they’re going full “SJW” or censoring Anime when their decision to drop this was to NOT censor anything at all as their statement put it.

Yes, their handling of this issue warrants discussion. I do think that prying into the source material more and questioning the studio in Japan of what they had planned would’ve saved us a lot of trouble. However, it comes across as the studio in question desiring to not let an overseas distributor potentially leak materials prior to their scheduled release.

This was something that FUNimation actually had to content with when it came to the Dragon Ball Super game that covered the Goku Black arc. The Cartoon Cipher actually did a video in regards to it on their channel when covering the dub for that saga: https://youtu.be/HAHsxVkn16M?t=112 This very much feels like a similar case that backfired.

The point is that there is far less constructive critiques of this and far more angry fans who want some sort of lightening rod to conduct their anger. Rather than trying to understand the circumstances behind it, people just want a "good vs. evil" story with FUNimation as the cartoon-y bad guys ever since Prison School pissed off GamerGate.

FUNimation is NOT going all, "Think of the children" with so many fan-service shlock in their catalogue from the last decade or so alone. Fairy Tail is still kinky, Panty & Stocking are still under their belt and lord knows how many smutty Isekai shows they got. Shin Chan was pretty much their response to ADV’s Ghost Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iJkWqCkOV8

So... what makes Interspecies Reviewers the exception? Well, the content was unexpectedly full of sex scenes that were unambiguous like your usual Ecch Fests. It pushed it from an “M” rating and into a borderline “X” rating. Combine that with how FUNimationNOW shows up on multiple devices like SamsungTV and some of them might not feel comfortable about supporting such content...

Really, it was a perfect storm of everything that could possibly go wrong and no one party is in the wrong. Of course, if there’s even the vaguest slight against anything lewd, lord knows that an army of geeks will rally to fight against the “enemy of all Anime” rather than STOP and look into what the hell just happened. So much easier to have a big bad to stomp out, isn’t it?

[kurumi-lover]

If you’ve ever watched a @funimation video and saw the pink-haired anime girl during the animated logo at the beginning, that me! She’s loosely based off my OC Seisei. . . . #funimation #funimationentertainment #funimationnow #anime #pinkhair #logo #animation #kurumilover (at Zion Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7PMEqhAel9/?igshid=yzjfc5ics6uw