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NEWS: HIDIVE to Stream New Urusei Yatsura Anime

Like I said in a previous thread, the new UY is just that: newer, shinier, flashier. Maybe it'll lack the nostalgia appeal, but it doesn't matter to casual fans who are supporting Yashahime. Plus, unlike the original UY, the new one will likely be dubbed, thus further cannibalizing sales of the old one. It's kind of like when they rebooted Hoshin Engi and Dororo: the original anime got lost in the wayside.

Like I said in a previous thread, the new UY is just that: newer, shinier, flashier. Maybe it'll lack the nostalgia appeal, but it doesn't matter to casual fans who are supporting Yashahime. Plus, unlike the original UY, the new one will likely be dubbed, thus further cannibalizing sales of the old one.

I'm glad to see HiDive getting more bigger mainstream shows lately and that not everything is going through the Crunchyroll monopoly.

Takato: Oshii is arthouse with a following. And at the end of the day, DT still needs to make money. If they lose sales, it can still hurt, especially when they put a lot of time and money into those discs.

Quite the turn of events to see HiDive/Sentai getting the license for Urusei Yatsura over Crunchyroll and especially Netflix.

A little disappointed Netflix didn't get the streaming rights cause I was looking forward for Netflix to get another 4 cour series along with the fact they have Komi Can't Communicate and the upcoming Romantic Killer both of which are romantic comedy anime series. But it seems that Netflix is drifting away from licensing new anime titles and are more interested in creating and commissioning their own original anime (e.g. Bastard!, Romantic Killer, exception, Kotaro Live Alone, the upcoming Juni Ito's Maniac, etc.) and Anime-Style animated series (e.g. Castlevania, The Witcher, Trese, Master of the Universe: Revelation, Kong: Skull Island, etc.) for their streaming service lately rather than picking up/licensing specific new anime series than in previous years (2018-2021) which would explain why FUNimation/Crunchyroll and Sentai have licensed the bulk of the anime series for the Winter, Spring, Summer and now Fall 2022 Season.

Their most recent and so-far ONLY Anime license in 2022 is Uncle from Another World from the Summer 2022 season, of course, you also have Detective Conan: Zero Tea Time and Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa respectively which also aired on Japanese television and surprisingly licensed by Netflix so by default, Netflix only has licensed 3 anime series in 2022.

I guess the likely reasons why Netflix didn't even bother licensing URUSEI Yatsura and several other anime titles (e.g. Chainsaw Man, Blue Lock, Tokyo Mew, Mew, etc.) lately is either:

1. The anime production committee for URUSEI and many others had a much higher pricing bid leading to Netflix dropping out and Sentai and/or Crunchyroll swooping in.

2. Netflix not being interested in licensing those anime titles despite the huge appeal and would rather just focus on creating their own anime originals, resulting in Crunchyroll or Sentai licensing them instead.

3. Sentai and/or Crunchyroll had license the particular anime series months ahead of time.

Interestingly, this is the 2nd Rumiko Takahashi anime series adaptation to be licensed by Sentai after Rin-ne (even if that series wasn't dubbed).

Now all is left is who would get Bibliophile Princess.

we don't even know yet if the UY reboot is going to be good or wind up like Shaman King and 90% of most other anime reboots.

Well, I guess this is good news for English-speaking fans, but sadly here In Latin America many people are disappointed since HiDive is no longer available in the region since the end of May, now it only operates in a few select countries like Mexico, and even then not all of their titles have Spanish subs and the ones that are subtitled have a lot of grammar mistakes. This also means that a Neutral Spanish dub is very unlikely to happen, and even if it does when Sentai tried to dub some anime for HiDive the results weren't very good, the Neutral Spanish dubs they made for Food Wars and Parasyte: The Maxim, among others, were widely criticized, particularly because they hired actors from Córdoba, Argentina, despite those actors having very little dubbing experience in general, I'm Argentinean myself and I didn't know they made dubs there, Argentinean dubs are mainly done in the main province of Buenos Aires.
I was hoping the Urusei Yatsura reboot would've ended being dubbed in Mexico, since that's where Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha were dubbed, many fans wanted UY to be dubbed into Neutral Spanish because the original anime never got dubbed into Neutral Spanish. Our only hope is that perhaps HiDive may try to re-enter the LatAm market, or maybe license it to Anime Onegai.

It’s not about Bidding war. People need to understand that when Netflix License something they want it to be Exclusive worldwide. So if the production committee in JP want to release their anime on many platform (20+ or more) in jp
They probably not gonna care about exclusive deal.

But again, this makes the Discotek version obsolete.