Forum - View topicNEWS: +Ultra, Crunchyroll Partner for New Anime Works by Code Geass, Sidonia Creators
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Changeman
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I hope that when crunchyroll advertises this work on their website or twitter, they will remember to include the other members of the partnership.
I still remember how funimarion announced Heike Story. Anyway, I like the director and the studio (Yes, I like Polygon). |
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Madster
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I assume this deal happened before the Sony acquisition? There's not much to say really, I'm not getting my hopes up but I won't immediately rule it out.
What I do find strange is Crunchyroll's weird way of announcing original productions out of the blue. This, the Idris Alba anime, the WWE anime, the Zoe Saldana anime: You'd think they would save them for CRX or another big anime event. |
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Changeman
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Well, this is a 2/3 anime from Japanese producers, they might have thought it wasn't that important since they aren't the main ones. |
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JoelBurger
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Funny that +Ultra is meant to be more global-minded, considering its first anime is incredibly Japanese and difficult to follow for those not familiar with the Tale of the Heike.
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Changeman
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lol This block anime has been around for some time, it wasn't created because of Heike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2BUltra |
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JoelBurger
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The point still stands based on their comment, but thanks for the pointless and pedantic factoid. |
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Changeman
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My intention was not that, but just show that this block anime had already produced animes like Carole & Tuesday, Beastars and Great Pretender. From your text you seemed unaware of this. |
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Ryuji-Dono
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Mecha show…better be worth it.
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Angel M Cazares
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What I really want to know if this means that Funimation is not killing the Crunchyroll brand.
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Beatdigga
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This is going to be interesting to see as the integration into Sony proper begins.
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Sam Murai
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Wha—and here it was, I always thought +Ultra was a Netflix-exclusive/bankrolled effort!! This is pretty big and significant get for CR, though I guess Fuji TV is continuing their not-so-exclusive-forever deals, where it sounds like noitaminA is going to be affixed to one place or partner, then they are suddenly elsewhere a few years later…
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Rob19ny
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I'm excited for anything Taniguchi related. Nihei teaming up with Poly again feels like a slap in the face when they decided to end SnK with a anime original story. How do you end SnK like that?
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noblesse oblige
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Polygon Pictures = automatic ignore.
I dunno how producers keep getting convinced that Western audiences actually like the output from this studio. Maybe large numbers end up watching because they always get to adapt the coolest material, even if it ends up unenjoyable and looking like digital doggie poo, (not to be confused with the film Doggy Poo which is actually good.) |
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DevilBrew
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This is an aggressively dumb hot take. Just say you don't like the studio and move on. Polygon pictures has their fans. |
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noblesse oblige
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It’s more than personally not liking it though. Polygon Pictures has a reputation for such quality that it’s become a meme like the Hand Shakers anime. It’s interesting and worth examining that they’ve been selected in a Japanese TV block specifically “targeting a Western audience”, when the reputation they have among fandom in the west could at worst be described as a running joke, and at best described as polarizing. I read in an interview a while back that one of the Polygon producers developed a friendly relationship with a Netflix exec at some trade event, (it might have been Tokyo International Anime Fair,) and that’s what started the frequent partnerships between those two companies. So it would be ironic if that happenstance were the impetus now for a JP network to associate the studio with western audiences. That can only be speculated though. |
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