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Answerman - What Does Darker Than Black's License Withdrawal Mean?

Dark time are upon us anime fans lol. I'm glad I got that LE of DTB past spring. Now I need to look into what else Aniplex owns that I need to get my hands on asap.

Ambimunch wrote:

Dark time are upon us anime fans lol. I'm glad I got that LE of DTB past spring. Now I need to look into what else Aniplex owns that I need to get my hands on asap.

-Big Windup
-Bleach
-Blood-C
-D. Gray-man
-Gintama
-Naruto
-Soul Eater
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Felis wrote:

As for Darker Than Black, I believe AoA has said they have no interest in catalog releases so I would assume there won't be a re-release from them and just get the Funimation release now while you can.

That they did, so if there's an old Aniplex title you want them to put out, sorry, it's not happening.
http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?43312-ANNCast-Aniplex-of-America&p=305320&viewfull=1#post305320

Do not count on AoA rescuing it and just pick up the FUNimation release while you still can.

XChampion wrote:

My real question is it just the first season or is it also the 2nd season and OVAs as well that has expired?

Both, S2 is going OOP.

I can't remember which company as Blood-C or D. Gray Man but neither of those were Aniplex.

Not sure where you both got the idea Soul Eater (Including Soul Eater Not!) is an Aniplex property. FUNimation got both series from Media Factory, which is now part of Kadokawa.

-Rurouni Kenshin

The closing paragraph is why physical media will never die, there are always people who won't trust rights and will want to be able to call on a series and know it will be there.

Streaming can save you money, and at this point, the shows seem to be generally available first that way, but having everything shift to streaming as the focus definitely seems like a bad trend to me. I will continue to buy everything on Blu-ray and hope that things don't ever shift to streaming completely.

And no Aniplex shows are not so expensive you will never be able to afford them. If you save up you can buy anyone of their titles, but if your stubborn and will only pay up to a certain amount for 1 show and that's why you won't buy the show in question well that's on you.

It's not even about not being able to save up for a show at a particular price point, so much as the fact that doing said saving precludes making multiple other purchases. I'd imagine that most of us who buy anime don't just get 2 or 3 shows per year, and anime isn't the only thing we spend our discretionary budgets on. (*glances nervously at Steam backlog*) Spending $200 on a single 26-episode release may be within many people's budgets, but when it's a question of either doing that or purchasing 5 other series at an average of $40 each, one of them makes much more financial sense. I think what many Aniplex defenders miss is that buying anime isn't a zero-sum game. It's not buy one Aniplex series vs. buying no anime at all, it's buy one Aniplex series vs. buying several other series and/or games and/or whatever. Couple that with the fact that Aniplex titles essentially never go on sale, at least not remotely to the extent that every other US distributors' titles do, and it becomes an easy choice for the budget-conscious anime fan.

Hopefully FUNi won't loose the Fullmetal Alchemist license. That show is pretty synonymous with them, almost as much as Dragon Ball Z (in fact, it's probably their second biggest show).

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But yeah, I know the trend that usually someone will re-release classic titles eventually, like how Sentai got with Azu-Dai and Ichi-Maro, and how Discotek got Cro-High, at least fans can get it again without having to resort to OOP prices. Though yeah, at the cost of no extras the ADV singles releases had back then (Azu-Dai and Cro-High), or the OVA's included (Azu-Dai and Ichi-Maro).

Baccano! is expiring and will be removed 2/8/2016

Our streaming rights to Baccano! are expiring. The show site and all videos, including the OVA, will be removed from Funimation.com and all Funimation streaming apps two weeks from today on February 8, 2016. We might be asked to remove the episodes sooner, so please watch this awesome show as soon as possible.

Watch it here --> www.funimation.com/shows/baccano/watch

Thank you!

Well the good news is there's still the UK release, as well as the Japanese Blu-ray Box which used the exact same discs that were in AoA's BD. Though the JPBD's lack certain extras in FUNi's DVD's.

STOP. BUYING. FROM. ANIPLEX!

Geneon never had the Strawberry Marshmallow OVAs to begin with, so Sentai's re-release of that show isn't comparable to Azumanga Daioh -- the R1 availability status of those OVAs hasn't changed.

Percival King wrote:

STOP. BUYING. FROM. ANIPLEX!

I actually do the contrary, I don't buy it if its one of the underpriced products that usually run in the western industry, or if I buy one of those out of need, I will also try to get the correctly priced Japanese version.

The truth is a simple one, the anime industry can't, and won't be sustained by selling whole seasons for 20$.