AX 2010 - Crunchyroll Panel News and Info

[lockmastah]

Panel Time: Thursday, 7/1 @ 11 AM (PST)

Please post all Crunchyroll related AX news in this thread.

Looks like a last minute addition to the programming schedule. (source (http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-644105/cr-at-anime-expo/))

[something]

A CR panel huh?

Hrm, I have a feeling they won't actually announce simulcasts here, mostly because I'd be surprised if they were on the ball enough to have something announced before or right at airing. it'll probably just be to emphasize that they have Bleach now.

Still interested in seeing what they have to say, though.

[The Great Bear]

Wait, if that time is right, this panel already happened?

Anyone know if they said anything of interest?

EDIT: As per bayoab, the panel is at 11am PST, so it starts now.

[dragonpiece]

here it is live: http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=0&refresh=1&scroll=3#new

[dragonpiece]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

[lockmastah]

here it is live: http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=0&refresh=1&scroll=3#new

Are you going post the link in every thread now? :rolleyes:

[The Great Bear]

About the only thing people will be interested in:

they will be announcing summer season shows next week.

[lockmastah]

I didn't know CR had an iPhone / iPad app. Just tried it on my 3GS w/ iOS 4 and the app keeps crashing every time I try to stream a video, lol.

[Damius]

About the only thing people will be interested in:

they will be announcing summer season shows next week.

No surprise here.

[dragonpiece]

here it is live: http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=0&refresh=1&scroll=3#new

Are you going post the link in every thread now? :rolleyes:

Sorry, I don't remember posting that link in other locations. And if you have some issues with me, please pm me about them and not just go off topic.


They just said new summer titles are next week.

They are talking about scanlating manga!!!!

[TheGreenMan]

Android app! Hells yes.

Can't they make a iPad specific app (or make the existing app universal)? Upscaled from the iPhone app looks sucky.

[lockmastah]

About the only thing people will be interested in:

they will be announcing summer season shows next week.

No surprise here.

Look like only an announcement of future announcements, haha. Well done CR, well done. :laugh:

[Herron]

You know I was hoping the might announce some stuff from spring that they didn't announce initially... like Maid-sama.

[dragonpiece]

So all in all, here is what we learned at the panel
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They are still doing good in terms of money.
New summer titles are going to be announced next week, with a press release about it tomorrow.
They are going to start putting manga and maybe simulcasting them on the site!
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So, our first panel of the day is done! I look forward to more! :D

[TheGreenMan]

Console announcement soon? Nice.

[Damius]

They have quite a goal...is this realistic?

11:19:10 <bay|AX|CR> our goal is to get 100% of all anime

[Zeether]

Hardly sounds realistic. Funi gets anime for simulcast as well.

[dragonpiece]

Console announcement soon? Nice. I am the first to say it is probably 360. Don't they already have one for Ps3?

They have quite a goal...is this realistic?

11:19:10 <bay|AX|CR> our goal is to get 100% of all anime

He,he first they'll have to be friends with Funi. ;)

[lockmastah]

They have quite a goal...is this realistic?

11:19:10 <bay|AX|CR> our goal is to get 100% of all anime

Well, it's always a good idea to set your goal high. ;)
But to answer the question, hell no.

[lockmastah]

The irony of this question is too much...
<bay|AX|CR> q: serious crackdown on fansubs and pirates in the coming months?

Well at least the panel was short. ;)

[The Great Bear]

The irony of this question is too much...
<bay|AX|CR> q: serious crackdown on fansubs and pirates in the coming months?

True, but at least there has been some progress compared to the bad old days.

Not a huge amount, but some.

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Well, panel over. Nothing much to see here. Move along :)

[Quarkboy]

Android app! Hells yes.

Can't they make a iPad specific app (or make the existing app universal)? Upscaled from the iPhone app looks sucky.

They have one, I've seen it. Not sure if it's public but believe me they are doing that.

[Draneor]

Maybe it's just me, but I've never gotten CR to work properly on the PS3. The panel said it now works. Did they fix it?

[TheGreenMan]

Android app! Hells yes.

Can't they make a iPad specific app (or make the existing app universal)? Upscaled from the iPhone app looks sucky.

They have one, I've seen it. Not sure if it's public but believe me they are doing that.

Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

[The Great Bear]

Maybe it's just me, but I've never gotten CR to work properly on the PS3. The panel said it now works. Did they fix it?

I've gotten it to work on my PS3 before, but there's often a long delay before it actually starts playing the episode.

I have no idea what the problem is, but then I haven't used my PS3 to watch a CR video for a few months now. I hope they have done something to improve it.

[Quarkboy]

Maybe it's just me, but I've never gotten CR to work properly on the PS3. The panel said it now works. Did they fix it?

I've gotten it to work on my PS3 before, but there's often a long delay before it actually starts playing the episode.

I have no idea what the problem is, but then I haven't used my PS3 to watch a CR video for a few months now. I hope they have done something to improve it.

They've rewritten the player recently and it loads about 10 times faster on the PS3 and computer now.

PS3 still can't decode the 720p stuff in real time though, since the flash implementation isn't properly optimized for the special PS3 architecture yet...

[BigPants]

They have quite a goal...is this realistic?

11:19:10 <bay|AX|CR> our goal is to get 100% of all anime

Yeah! Nurse Angel Ririka SOS for me and Kokoro Library for Nail Bat!

Thanks CrunchyRoll!

[BigPants]

Maybe it's just me, but I've never gotten CR to work properly on the PS3. The panel said it now works. Did they fix it?

I've gotten it to work on my PS3 before, but there's often a long delay before it actually starts playing the episode.

I have no idea what the problem is, but then I haven't used my PS3 to watch a CR video for a few months now. I hope they have done something to improve it.

They've rewritten the player recently and it loads about 10 times faster on the PS3 and computer now.


Oooh, maybe I can give it another shot then tonight.

[something]

They have quite a goal...is this realistic?11:19:10 <bay|AX|CR> our goal is to get 100% of all anime
Oh jeeze, come on CR people. Even if it's just a pie-in-the-sky "goal", don't say things like that.

I love CR but they need to stop aiming for the moon on some things. No, they will never get 100%. They will never even get the 50% they claimed before. They do have the most of the current legit streaming services, which is nice, but I think they should set a goal of getting closer to double digits of new simulcasts in a season before they worry about 100%...

Nice to hear we'll get some announcements next week. Hopefully that means something better than "1-2 items next week with everything else 3, 4, 8 weeks later".

[malazar]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

CR has been in the gaming business for quite some time actually. They have around 10 facebook games of varying degrees of popularity. I play or have played a number of them.

[Suwako Moriya]

they will be announcing summer season shows next week.

At least we have an idea when to expect the first batch of titles. Here's hoping for titles of interest.

[LOUiE]

I didn't know CR had an iPhone / iPad app. Just tried it on my 3GS w/ iOS 4 and the app keeps crashing every time I try to stream a video, lol.
Yeah, it doesn't work with iOS 4. I've been waiting some time now for them to fix it. Maybe when they finish their iPad version it'll be universal with iOS 4 on the iphone.

[dragonpiece]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

CR has been in the gaming business for quite some time actually. They have around 10 facebook games of varying degrees of popularity. I play or have played a number of them.

Yeah when I first saw what they said, I took it the wrong way. It would be cool though if they bought video games of anime they steamed to the usa!

[LOUiE]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

CR has been in the gaming business for quite some time actually. They have around 10 facebook games of varying degrees of popularity. I play or have played a number of them.

Yeah when I first saw what they said, I took it the wrong way. It would be cool though if they bought video games of anime they steamed to the usa!
Like through OnLive or something or am I reading your statement wrong?

[dragonpiece]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

CR has been in the gaming business for quite some time actually. They have around 10 facebook games of varying degrees of popularity. I play or have played a number of them.

Yeah when I first saw what they said, I took it the wrong way. It would be cool though if they bought video games of anime they steamed to the usa!
Like through OnLive or something or am I reading your statement wrong?I don't know what Onlive is sorry. I was thinking of Ps3/360/Wii games.

[Buckeye]

I didn't know CR had an iPhone / iPad app. Just tried it on my 3GS w/ iOS 4 and the app keeps crashing every time I try to stream a video, lol.
This has been a huge headache for me playing stuff using the CR app. The downloading is slow and at times, the video will continue with the subs going forward as usual, but without the video stalling.

[Martinman]

This online manga thing is intriguing. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll somehow be able to pick up series that got canceled by US publishers (come on, Eden). Although I guess that doesn't make much sense from a business standpoint....

[magicalgirlj]

Pretty please CR Kuroshitsuji 2, thank you for 11eyes

[LOUiE]

They just said they are getting into gaming O_o

CR has been in the gaming business for quite some time actually. They have around 10 facebook games of varying degrees of popularity. I play or have played a number of them.

Yeah when I first saw what they said, I took it the wrong way. It would be cool though if they bought video games of anime they steamed to the usa!
Like through OnLive or something or am I reading your statement wrong?I don't know what Onlive is sorry. I was thinking of Ps3/360/Wii games.
It's a streaming video game service. Google it. It's very intriguing. It's in the beta testing phase right now.

[something]

I just realized I'm a bit disappointed nobody asked about the DVD/BD-only bonus eps of Sora no Woto and Durarara!! they said they would stream. Sora no Woto's came out a week ago. Which isn't yet a long time, but we haven't heard a peep out of them as to whether that's still going to happen.

[Mitsuki]

That's right, I'd forgotten about that. Maybe the contract stipulates that it has to be a little bit after the home video release? But it's not like CR will work in Japan anyway.

It's good to see they'll be improving their mobile apps.

[einhorn303]

I just realized I'm a bit disappointed nobody asked about the DVD/BD-only bonus eps of Sora no Woto and Durarara!! they said they would stream. Sora no Woto's came out a week ago. Which isn't yet a long time, but we haven't heard a peep out of them as to whether that's still going to happen.

Same here. I'm still massively disappointed about that. Kureha ;_;

Only possible explanation for CR's forward looking statements: They have Kamina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gurren_Lagann_characters#Kamina) doing the number-crunching.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

Yeah! Nurse Angel Ririka SOS for me and Kokoro Library for Nail Bat!

:beatingheart:

[Fencedude]

I just realized I'm a bit disappointed nobody asked about the DVD/BD-only bonus eps of Sora no Woto and Durarara!! they said they would stream. Sora no Woto's came out a week ago. Which isn't yet a long time, but we haven't heard a peep out of them as to whether that's still going to happen.

Same here. I'm still massively disappointed about that. Kureha ;_;

Only possible explanation for CR's forward looking statements: They have Kamina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gurren_Lagann_characters#Kamina) doing the number-crunching.

To be fair, its most likely a matter of when Aniplex (or whoever) decides they want to give them the episode.

[bayoab]

I just realized I'm a bit disappointed nobody asked about the DVD/BD-only bonus eps of Sora no Woto and Durarara!! they said they would stream. Sora no Woto's came out a week ago. Which isn't yet a long time, but we haven't heard a peep out of them as to whether that's still going to happen.
Only the A part. The entire ep isn't out until the DVD is out. (At least, that's what ANN wrote.)

[Draneor]

Only the A part. The entire ep isn't out until the DVD is out. (At least, that's what ANN wrote.)

In this case, ANN is misinformed. The DVD was released within days of the A-part streaming from the website. I watched my copy last week.

[Quarkboy]

Only the A part. The entire ep isn't out until the DVD is out. (At least, that's what ANN wrote.)

In this case, ANN is misinformed. The DVD was released within days of the A-part streaming from the website. I watched my copy last week.

Why don't you tweet Rob (who was the one who said they'd be streaming them originally) and ask what's up? He might respond...

[Draneor]

Why don't you tweet Rob (who was the one who said they'd be streaming them originally) and ask what's up? He might respond...

Well, I have the BD so it doesn't affect me--it's not like I would use the stream, even if they offered it. Also, I let my membership lapse
because the only anime they have I would watch is Fairy Tail. I'm not paying to watch one title.

[BigPants]

Yeah! Nurse Angel Ririka SOS for me and Kokoro Library for Nail Bat!

:beatingheart:

I would spoiler it, but since they're licensing everything, it seemed a little silly to do so.

[Shiroi Hane]

Why don't you tweet Rob (who was the one who said they'd be streaming them originally) and ask what's up? He might respond...
For the record, you can find him at http://twitter.com/rpereyda

[Herron]

You know I was hoping the might announce some stuff from spring that they didn't announce initially... like Maid-sama.

Well now after checking The Anime Network I see that they're streaming Maid-sama, which makes me think Sentai will release it later on, which is great news for me.

I assumed that the reason Crunchyroll didn't get certain series was that someone else picked them up first.

[FUNiOP]

I was hoping for announcements at AX like last year, but considering what was actually announced last year (and this past season, which was MUCH bigger than any summer season), I'm prepared to be disappointed.

I'm still hoping for Digimon, but I'm not expecting anything.

[GenericShounenHero]

I just checked Xbox Live Marketplace and I think Crunchyroll put up Haruhi season 1, Giant Killing, and Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō.

[kadmos1]

Let's see: Funimation has Sengoku Basara 2, Legend of Legendary Heroes, and Sekirei 2. TheAnimeNetwork site had High School of the Dead. Waiting to see if CrunchyRoll will dish out Strike Witches 2, Asobi ni Iku Yo, and Digimon season 6. These 7 titles are the titles I will be watching this season.

[einhorn303]

Hrmmm. I'm only planning on watching Strike Witches 2, so the simulcast options are still batting at 0.000% for me.

I hope beginning announcements "next week" means promptly on Monday and not delay/ambiguity hell like last season.

[kadmos1]

I think each licensor should announce which simulcast they will do for any season at least 36 hours before it airs in Japan. CR, I look at you especially because you have this bad tendency to announce simulcasts days or even a week after the show debuts. Personally, of all the shows they got for the fall season last year including ongoing shows, the two best were Fairy Tail and Erin.

[something]

I think each licensor should announce which simulcast they will do for any season at least 36 hours before it airs in Japan.
You don't think they would if they could?

I agree that both sides of the Pacific need to get their shit in order and lock these deals up earlier, but it's not like anyone is intentionally holding announcements they could have made earlier, and episodes they could have released on time.

[malazar]

I hope beginning announcements "next week" means promptly on Monday and not delay/ambiguity hell like last season.

Monday is the "holiday" since the 4th is a Sunday this year, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

[Fencedude]

I hope beginning announcements "next week" means promptly on Monday and not delay/ambiguity hell like last season.

Monday is the "holiday" since the 4th is a Sunday this year, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

The 4th isn't a holiday in Japan though, and thats what screws things up.

American Holidays are pretty much inconsequential.

Edit: On the other hand, it occurs to me that the 7th is Tanabata