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Violet Evergarden Listed for April 5 in U.S.

angelmcazares wrote:

I am glad it is coming in the first week of April for those who decided to wait for the legal stream.

Count me among them. Patience pays off as they say. Plus it's not like we've not had plenty of other good shows to keep busy with in the mean time as well. This will be a very nice spring treat though.

The fact that it had an Eng. simuldub not legally available to the U.S. yet is stupid to say the least. If there was ever to be a solid case of anime piracy being morally/ethically justified, I think this is it.

So it comes out in the US the day episode 13 comes out for the rest of the world, nice.

But isn't supposed to be 14 episodes? or maybe the final episode is double so that's why was counted as 14?

I've been watching the 1080p Asenshi subs weekly, and I think I'm just gonna bypass Netflix altogether and buy the US blurays instead. I pay for Netflix and they really screwed us over.
For those in other countries that didn't get the simulcast (Mexico, Spain, Austria, Australia, etc), is Netflix showing a listing for the same date? I'm really curious as to what caused the seemingly random "international" release for Evergarden.

I'm happy for all my American friends who were waiting to see this legitimately. Uh, not sure how many of you fell into this category, but...

Its kinda ironic. We European anime fans can never watch Funimation weekly dubs (im from Holland) and you Americans think that is fair and normal and now its the other way around. So ironic.

TheMorry wrote:

Its kinda ironic. We European anime fans can never watch Funimation weekly dubs (im from Holland) and you Americans think that is fair and normal and now its the other way around. So ironic.

I think that’s a different case, as it’s not always financially feasible for an American company to license English dubs in countries where English isn’t even the primary language (I do admit that Wikipedia states that 90% of people in Holland can speak English to some degree, so you do have a point). But the fact of the matter is that the English dub for Evergarden is being produced in America, and everyone in the world (except a couple other countries) can watch it except us.

In 2 years ill be moving to Australia then I can finally legally watch anime on FunimationNow.

TheMorry wrote:

In 2 years ill be moving to Australia then I can finally legally watch anime on FunimationNow.

Maybe it'll change in the future, but FunimationNow's website says it's not currently available in Australia…

It was good when Funimation were working with AnimeLab and offering a number of their shows on that service including simuldubs, but that seemed to mostly stop once the Crunchyroll × Funimation deal was announced.

Parrad11 wrote:

TheMorry wrote: In 2 years ill be moving to Australia then I can finally legally watch anime on FunimationNow. Maybe it'll change in the future, but FunimationNow's website says it's not currently available in Australia… It was good when Funimation were working with AnimeLab and offering a number of their shows on that service including simuldubs, but that seemed to mostly stop once the Crunchyroll × Funimation deal was announced.

According to google it is available in Australia and New Zealand.

Maybe there is some way around it, but if you try to visit funimationnow.com it redirects you to http://www.funimationnow.com/rest-of-the-world/ they certainly aren't pushing it here in Australia as far as I've seen.

Parrad11 wrote:

Maybe there is some way around it, but if you try to visit funimationnow.com it redirects you to http://www.funimationnow.com/rest-of-the-world/ they certainly aren't pushing it here in Australia as far as I've seen.

have you tried leaving out the 'now' part?

getchman wrote:

have you tried leaving out the 'now' part?

That's interesting, so they opened up funimation.com, and called it FunimationNow. I was able to navigate around, and found Fruits Basket, I tried to play episode one, but the player was just blank. I then created an account and tried again, the player still didn't play, but it's layout was broken. Refreshing the page resulted in "Sorry, but this content isn’t available in your country.". I navigated back and tried a different show, the show page didn't load properly so I refreshed that page and was shown "Sorry, but this content isn’t available in your country." again. From there the Funimation website said "Sorry, but this content isn’t available in your country." on /shows and even on the homepage.

I cleared the cookies and logged in again. I was able to start playing Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Ep 1, but trying some random shows in the all shows list would either just not work, show the not available message after a refresh, not load the show page correctly or just lock you out completely. It seems like it is quite hit and miss at the moment.