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ANNCast - Big Funi Hustlas

Funimation has a rather strict no honorifics policy in their dubs. This is one reason why I prefer Sentai or Bang Zoom dubs since those would use onee-sama.

"Sis or Big Sis" or her just calling Mikoto by name would have been better IMHO.

Funimation has a rather strict no honorifics policy in their dubs.

"Sis or Big Sis" or her just calling Mikoto by name would have been better IMHO.

AbZeroNow wrote:

Funimation has a rather strict no honorifics policy in their dubs.

Basilisk, Samurai 7, and Ookami-san would disagree with that.

But if they'd just gone with the name, there would've been outcry about how they whitewashed and obscured an essential character relationship. Though if I had to make that call, I'd go with "Dear Sister" to keep the formality and get a closer lip flap match.

At least they got Cowboy Bebop out in a timely matter, was a little irked that they didn't tell people that the limited edition were only so many copies each so order ASAP by the time I found out they were gone.

FUNi was pretty clear that their store edition was 2500 units and the Amazon edition was 10,000 units.

So it was not their fault you were not paying attention.

Dfens wrote:

At least they got Cowboy Bebop out in a timely matter, was a little irked that they didn't tell people that the limited edition were only so many copies each so order ASAP by the time I found out they were gone.

FUNi was pretty clear that their store edition was 2500 units and the Amazon edition was 10,000 units.

So it was not their fault you were not paying attention.

Dfens wrote:

Hey Funimation want to know what happened to the Index Franchise you dragged your feet for so long on Index and Railgun what over 3 years after the show came out that people got tired of waiting and or just moved on.

You can blame the long wait on the Geneon Universal merger process that cause problems for FUNi in getting materials.

jlaking wrote:

FUNi was pretty clear that their store edition was 2500 units and the Amazon edition was 10,000 units. So it was not their fault you were not paying attention.

I wonder how come the Amazon edition had 4x the amount.

The Roku channel has long been neglected, and while it's un-hampered by spammy banners and distractions, it's harder to base your viewing around it because it doesn't have a favorites system like the iOS app. In fact, it doesn't even have search. You can only scroll through featured and most recent episodes, or browse by category. And, like most curated collections, the browse categories are frequently nonsensical

The MKV format might have been around for awhile but it wasn't a fansub standard until late 08 early 09 at the earliest. I remember because that's when pretty much every group switched over to it and I had to get a new media player to be able to keep watching.

I still have Index season 1 on fansub on one of my external drives even though I own the show on DVD and it's only AVI unless another group did it because at the time when I did upgrade to MKV their wasn't a MKV copy to be had that I could find and I did look. Now when season 2 of Index came out of course that one was MKV as well as all of Railgun.

The Roku channel for Crunchyroll is far superior. It has search, a queue (an absolute must), and the browsing categories actually make sense. There's even a "current simulcast" browsing category, iirc. Also, Space Dandy, which was one of their "simul-dubs," doesn't have any dub episodes available on the Funimation Roku app.

I've noticed that it's not terribly uncommon for anime Blu-rays to not give you the option for both English audio and English subs at the same time. Usually you can do some kind of workaround, but with at least a few of Funi's titles, it's flat out impossible. I imagine it's because the main reason people would want English subs is to watch the show in Japanese.

Surprised you didn't mention Ouran.

I've noticed that it's not terribly uncommon for anime Blu-rays to not give you the option for both English audio and English subs at the same time. Usually you can do some kind of workaround, but with at least a few of Funi's titles, it's flat out impossible. I imagine it's because the main reason people would want English subs is to watch the show in Japanese.