Forum - View topicPrince of Tennis Licensed?
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Case
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From a Networksolutions.com WHOIS query:
"The next big thing?" 
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Dark Nero
 Posts: 220 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia |
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who knows, I hope its not haha.
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Emerje
 Posts: 7431 Location: Maine |
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Yeah, I saw that on Anime on DVD a few days ago. I don't really see what the problem is with having FUNimation do it. It's popular right? May as well have it go to a company that knows how to push it's titles out into the main stream. FUNi is one of the better companies right now, I don't have a problem with this at all. It's big in japan, why shouldn't it be the next big thing in the US too?
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v1cious
 Posts: 6236 Location: Houston, TX |
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you've gotta be kidding me. this cartoon will get raped like a cheap whore on prom night. come on, we all know how they love to make things kid friendly. surely this won't make it by unscathed. |
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Steventheeunuch
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Funny, but here's the thing. The only shows they've given kid treatment to have been...well, by all accounts, Kids shows like Dragonball/z/gt ARE Kids shows and are shown in that respect. Blue gender isn't kiddy, and they released it uncut and bilingual. You've got to make cuts for TV. So stop bashing Funimation, they're only doing their job (and, for now, a good one too  )
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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as seen with animenation, a domain name is NOT indicative of a license..
which is one reason why we didn't post it when we first discovered it (almost a week before AoDVD). Tempest was the one who talked with FUNimation about it. He can probably better convey their response.. but basically it amounted to what Animenation said -- a domain registration is not indicative of any future plans with the license, but merely instead to make sure that fans don't take domain names for their own personal use. After all, it's no crime to buy "theprinceoftennis.com" or any other potential anime title's website. anyone can do it, whether they're from funimation or not. the problem only arises when someone actually licenses prince of tennis and wants to use "theprinceoftennis.com" as the official website.. if funimation doesn't turn it over to them, they might be sued for it via an ICANN arbitration. (...after all, poor bandai got stuck with "gundamofficial.com"...) |
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Delthayre
 Posts: 414 Location: One of the good United States |
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Ohhh, so thats what happened.
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Prince of Tennis isn't very good anyway. Most sports anime are fairly repetitive, but Prince of Tennis takes the cake. I really don't think it would do very well here in the states.
-Z |
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Emerje
Posts: 7431 Location: Maine |
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Do you even listen to yourself? All of this FUNi bashing with you is getting really old. If you're only experience with FUNimation is Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho on Cartoon Network then you really haven't got a clue what FUNi is capable of. Maybe you should try watching something other than their televised kids stuff before you go on with another one of these totally uneducated moronic rants. Emerje |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4556 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Nice to see that the administrative contact for FUNi lives within the 999 area code, the kick-assingest area code of all, though I'm surprised to see that the phone number is 999-9999 instead of 555-1234. But when I worked at Radio Shack and he came in to buy batteries and I asked him for his phone number then, he said it was 382-5968. Maybe that's his home number?
Go to Phone Spell if you don't get the joke... |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10470 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Same conclusiong as AnimeNation, different reason. AnimeNation licenses domain names for use with their e-mail program, so that people can get e-mail addys like "[email protected]." That's easy to see, and should have been obvious to all when JungleGuu.com was registered, but it wasn't. Most people, ourselves included, didn't really put 2 + 2 together. As for FUNimation, they explained it like this "At one point, we were interested in theprinceoftennis, there's no point denying that (but pretty much every noth american licensor is interested in every title to some degree) so we registered the domain name just in case. That way, should we license it, we'll own the domain name, and not have to resort to a second choice domain name, or changing the movies title to match domain names ("thekingoftennis.com")." (that's all paraphrased, not an exact quote, but the exact meaning). They told me that should someone else license Prince of Tennis, they'd gladly fork over the domain. So, in the end, domain names aren't indicative of anything more than a passing interest (and even less in the case of AN). Who knows, perhaps FUNi is seriously interested in Prince of Tennis, or perhaps they even already have it, but the domain name does nto give us any reason to suspect that. -t
Perfect example. |
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