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NEWS: NISA Adds Chronicles of the Going Home Club Anime

While I am one of the people who liked the Girls und Panzer dub (At the very least it's worlds better than 95% of Sentai dubs) that's a dumb statement.

And that applies to the rest of US anime industry as well - obviously they are making more money out of the dubs (as evidenced by Sentai going back and dubbing their early sub-only releases) and how they're doing now with releases, as they can afford more and more licenses than others.

Nope. It meets every single criteria for being classified as a good dub regardless of what anyone could think of it personally.

1. I don't consider the act of Funimation STARTING to offer premium releases to be "radical change" (nor would anyone else who is sane). Like I have already stated, the majority of the releases that they put out are the same barebones-type releases that they have been putting out for years.

Also, Funimation has broken their dub-everything policy and released a sub-only title, OniAi, which interestingly has sold out on rightstuf.

You don't consider Funimation releasing a sub-only bluray and real LEs, something that they haven't done ever, to be radical change? Regardless, it is change. The other companies in North America are making changes to jockey for more market share and NISA is standing pat.

I'll stand by my offer to buy a dubbed NISA release, if they ever decide to stop yanking our (dub fans) chain and actually release one. I don't think that the apparent success of OniAi for Funimation bodes well for NISA (as a dub fan, I also see the writing on the wall here). The more successful Funimation's sub-only release of a niche show is, the more Funimation will pursue those niche shows, I believe that is a given (same goes for Sentai). Himeko90, you seem pretty stalwart (and strident) in your belief that NISA's niche is unassailable, that the other anime companies can't touch it and that NISA's situation will chug along unchanged. Maybe it can, but I very much doubt it. To do the quote thing, "Change alone is unchanging" <-Heraclitus

2. Considering the fact that NIS has the exclusive rights to distribute the titles that they have and have a loyal base that is willing to put up the money for their releases CONSISTENTLY (which can't be said for the dub-watching half of the community), your quote does not apply to this situation. The Anime industry is not like the car industry, within which, multiple companies are offering essentially the same types of products that have the same functions and features (last time I checked, you can't get a specific series from just anyone in the Anime industry).

Not commenting on the quality of the show since I haven't seen it, but I wonder how much it will take before Blood- withdraws his pledge to buy every NISA premium edition. I like almost everything they have put out so far, and still need to buy a few of them, but there has to be a breaking point. Could this be it?

configspace wrote:

Also, Funimation has broken their dub-everything policy and released a sub-only title, OniAi, which interestingly has sold out on rightstuf.

when was this? I just now checked rightstuf and I didn't see anything that said sold out on the product page

@ Echo_City - I don't think your contention that Funi and Sentai are cutting into NISA's niche really holds up. If you dug The Eccentric Family, then NISA is going to be the only place you'll be able to buy it. The fact that Sentai (and now occasionally, Funi, I guess) releases other titles sub-only on BD doesn't really mean shit for NISA. It's really about whether or not the titles they acquire are appealing enough to sustain its niche in what is already a niche market.

MarthKoopa wrote:

Nope. It meets every single criteria for being classified as a good dub regardless of what anyone could think of it personally.

Not really, but feel free keep living in your own little fantasy world with regards to that dub.