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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Tsuritama Anime

So this FuniNico thing? What a load of bull that seems to be. Ever since the announcement all we've had is Sentai and Crunchyroll lol

Loving ya Sentai. Easily the best company around right now. Altho' NIS are my personal Fave.

Altho saying that Funimation are still the guys with my most anticipated release this year with more One Piece.

I've heard that there is bad blood between Funimation and CR, but Funi should just suck it up and have their shows simulcast there, too. I want everything under one roof.

Where is Sentai getting the money to license and release all these shows? Can the market even support so many?

I hope they know what they're doing.......there's nothing wrong with grabbing the licenses fast (especially in light of Funimation's overall strength), but profitability is important.

As for Tsuritama - couldn't finish the first eppie because I hated that alien guy too much.

I'm really wondering at this point if Sentai is over extending themselves and digging a early grave like they did as ADV when they would just license everything they could and not care how well it sold or if there was even a market for it. I mean I'm excited for the majority of what they have picked up over the last few months but it's been a massive glut of shows and one has to wonder if they are better the farm on trying to get more content then Funi.

It's odd because after the whole Funico thing I expected Funi to be releasing more stuff because they would have a better idea of what would sell but it seems as though that plan has failed as very few shows are streaming through niconico. It would be interesting to have a interview on ANNcast with someone at Sentai to see how they are doing and what the plan with so many releases is and perhaps another interview with someone from Funi to find out what the hell happened to Funico because it was touted by many to maybe be a bad thing for CR and Sentai but it certainly hasen't seemed to be.