Forum - View topicBleach licensing question
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nightmarelord
 Posts: 10 Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell. |
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I know that Vis owns the rights to the manga, but I have one question. Will Vis release the anime or will some other company like Funi or Geneon release it?
I feel that Bleach can do well stateside. I also see Bleach as a potential Adult Swim title. Your thoughts? |
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Nionel
 Posts: 357 Location: Nebraska |
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You're right, Bleach is a potential cash cow and could easily become as big, if not bigger, than Naruto (which blew up once the anime hit stateside) the problem is that I doubt Viz would give up such a promising licence to another company, given that they have first dibs on licencing the anime, and as much as I hate to say this, the anime probably wouldn't be on Adult Swim, since that would only limit the audience that it could potentially draw in
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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I don't believe having the manga given Viz automatic first refusal on the anime so until there's an announcement it could be anyone. When first saw Bleach I automatically though FUNimation, although they are going into unusual territory these days with series like Kodocha and Tsubasa so who knows.
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nightmarelord
Posts: 10 Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell. |
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But, isn't Funi a sister company to Vis?
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one3rd
 Posts: 1818 Location: アメリカ |
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Viz and Funimation are not at all related. If I'm not mistaken, it's Viz's Japanese parent company that owns the rights to shows like Naruto and Bleach, so it's more profitable to keep it within the company rather than to license it outside to someone else.
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S_C_L-1
 Posts: 46 Location: Deep in the bowels of Quebec |
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Unfortunately, unless it plays later during the day (mostly during weekends), they would have to give it a major "facelift"... very few animes (like ghost in the shell) can make it to the states/canada without beeing horribly butchered by censures and dubs... Wouldnt it be great if there was an american (continent, not country) channel that played anime in japanese with eng. subs? they could release the episodes within a very short delay (or even at the same time) and save money! (dubbing costs ALOT!) Not to mention how happy all the western Otakus would be 
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Asuka
 Posts: 118 Location: Burlington, NJ |
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The cost of dubbing something is a very small amount compared to the fees to license the material. And if you want Japanese audio with subtitles, buy the DVDs.
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