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NEWS: Crunchyroll Adds City Hunter Anime to Catalog

Awesome! I thought it would got to Retro Crush however.

Just checked Crunchyroll, and it appears only the first series is currently posted. Hopefully the other 3 television series and maybe some of the movies & OVAs will also be made available.

ZelosZoidberg wrote:

Awesome! I thought it would got to Retro Crush however.

So did I, but I'll take it.

BTW, isn't Retro Crush owned by Discotek?

DeTroyes wrote:

Just checked Crunchyroll, and it appears only the first series is currently posted. Hopefully the other 3 television series and maybe some of the movies & OVAs will also be made available. ZelosZoidberg wrote: Awesome! I thought it would got to Retro Crush however. So did I, but I'll take it. BTW, isn't Retro Crush owned by Discotek?

I'm not sure if Discotek owns it but they do have a lot of their stuff like Samurai Pizza Cats and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer. I have Crunchyroll too so this does not bother me too much but it's nice to have another free option for anime.

Just checked Crunchyroll, and it appears only the first series is currently posted. Hopefully the other 3 television series and maybe some of the movies & OVAs will also be made available.

I'm just guessing here, but I think they will be, in time - Discotek did license all of it, as announced a year ago, and so far they've completed the BDs of season 1 (set 1 came out February 2020, set 2 is scheduled for June) and the recent Shinjuku Private Eyes film (scheduled for May). I expect the other City Hunter titles to go on Crunchyroll as the BDs come out.

It should be noted that there's a 1-year hold back period on when Discotek can release the BDs because of the reverse importation factor since these are coming out after Japan's releases which by the way, Japan is up to City Hunter 2 (released back in December with Discotek's releases set for 2021) with no dates for 3, 91 and the old movies & specials yet so we'll probably be waiting a while unless Crunchyroll gets everything sooner than we think which I imagine is possible for City Hunter 2 in HD but not sure about the rest.

NJ_ wrote:

It should be noted that there's a 1-year hold back period on when Discotek can release the BDs because of the reverse importation factor since these are coming out after Japan's releases which by the way, Japan is up to City Hunter 2 (released back in December with Discotek's releases set for 2021) with no dates for 3, 91 and the old movies & specials yet so we'll probably be waiting a while unless Crunchyroll gets everything sooner than we think which I imagine is possible for City Hunter 2 in HD but not sure about the rest.

Of course. Gotta make sure that the Japanese fandom pay their premium share so the American fandom can have their discount share.

That's NOT how it works.
Unlike Hollywood, Japan wants to pay all production costs AND make some money in the home market first. That means at least breaking even in the home market (which may include parts of other Asian countries) FIRST.
That's why the Japanese production companies aren't insane enough to fund $250million movies. They don't risk their companies like sick gamblers like the Hollywood studios do. They don't make as much money as the Western high-rollers do but they also aren't in such sick amounts of debt, either. There are Western media conglomerates that are in debt right to the tunes of billions of dollars. How they're going to pay this back anytime soon is anyone's guess. It will take many years to pay down these debts; it's not something that will be paid back in 3-5 years. They're going to be mortgaged to banks for decades!
Disney is, in fact, in VERY bad financial shape right now for gambling the company on expensive acquisitions like the buyout of 20th Century Fox Studios (and its film library) and for continuing to fund films that routinely cost more than $250million to produce!