ANNCast - FUNimation (Adam & Lance)

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ANNCast this week: It's a Funimation show with returning pals Adam Sheehan and Lance Heiskell! Send in your questions!!

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Fun fact from tomorrow's Funi podcast: Princess Jellyfish met projected sales, was not a Big Windup-style bomb

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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2012-05-18

Some key points that I jotted down:
- A "5 year" [old] license to announced; noted as "pretty sweet"
- Black Butler & Heaven's Lost Property "hitting our projection"
- Black Lagoon / Shana dub: "been in contact with Ocean" (stay tuned)
- D.Gray-man (second half): Lance noted as still working on it...a little difficult
- Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z orange sets still performs
- Dragon Boxes (more of them): Lance is working on it; issues of getting to retail; want them to be out
- DBZ BDs: Not right time; shelf now, do it later; it's still a project they still want to complete; kept going back on how the orange bricks still sells
- Fairy Tail: surprised them; noted as "keeps performing"
- Fate/stay night, Karin, Nanoha re-releases: "Not From Us"
- Funico: they should be the ones talking about the project; still have a good working relationship; can't comment on other's business model
- Index/Railgun: dubbed process; one season dubbed; working on second one; working on cool extras (almost said Blu-ray extras); no release date
- Geneon (Black Lagoon, Hellsing, Tenchi): soon
- Kadokawa BD situation: we eventually want to release on BD; same region issue; it's a matter of timing and approval; extras issues; working on price; ultimately they wanted more decision on
- Kaze no Stigma: a top 20 performer
- Last Exile BD - "stay tuned," "come from Gonzo," they want to release it
- LASTEXILE -Fam, The Silver Wing-: FUNi dub; in process to dub, will try go getter previous actors in
- Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine dub - Lance noted "duh." Would like to dub it
- Mushi-Shi BD - "probably no"
- One Piece S4 on BD - rights issue, not in Japan
- One Piece movies - working on it
- Other good performers include Cat Planet Cuties, Evangelion movies, FLCL, Hetalia, Rosario + Vampire, Samurai Champloo, Sekirei, Spice & Wolf, Summer Wars
- Tatami Galaxy BD LE - a laughing reponse which pretty much equates to a no
- The Future Diary (DVD / BD): stay tuned for more details...yes (?)
- Toriko - would like to have home video rights
- Yu Yu Hakusho DVD ('09) - top 25 performer
- Yu Yu Hakusho movie (2nd one): would like to license it, no news

[Damius]

Originally Posted by WTK

- Funico: they should be the ones talking about the project; still have a good working relationship; can't comment on other's business model

I would be curious to know about that... The fact that they now have the HD "simulcast" availiable starting this season if you pay 7.95$ a month, I really wonder if it is only a coincidence...

[WTK]

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ANNCast this week: Funimation returns! Lance Heiskell and Adam Sheehan come back for another round of grilling. Getcha Qs in, son!

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It's now up: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2012-11-30

EDIT: some of my notes...

- Mass Effect: Paragon Lost delay reason is Wal-mart.

- Current streaming season: none of them tanked (doing pretty well).
- Big winners: Kamisama Kiss (an educated guess and it did very well), Psycho-Pass (tied with Code:Breaker).

- Roku: fall '12 survey (22000 completed survey; 4.5% from Roku FUNimation app).
- 1) FUNimation.com (80% of traffic), 4) Roku, 6) Tablet.
- Looking into console apps next (looking into cost & logistics).
- Kindle Fire app to be released in the next couple weeks.
- Samsung TV and Blu-ray apps soon.

- 63% online, 75% from Netflix watch the majority of the series before buying anime.
- After watching streaming anime: 37.7% buy more anime, 10.5% buy less anime, 51.8% buy the same amount.
- Survey: 51% 18 to 24, 31% 13 to 17 -> younger generation buying earlier.

- Serial Experiments Lain -> Didn't shed new info with the video banding issue; Lance tell people to check Blu-ray.com review (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Serial.../53160/#Review).
- Hellsing Ultimate and Serial Experiement Lain sales will factor into these higher end releases in 2013. Why a Hellsing Ultimate artbox -> "contracts." Want to get (and probably will get) OVA 9 & 10; don't have it yet.

- Fullmetal Alchemist on Blu-ray (with 10th anniversay coming up): would love it, but up to Aniplex Japan.

- Big sellers so far this year (outside of Hellsing Ultiamte and Serial Experiments Lain): Sekirei, Milos, Dragon Age movie, Hetalia World Series, Trigun movie, Evangelion movies, Summer Wars, Rosario + Vampire.
- Didn't do quite as well (hit the numbers, but didn't break out): Fractale, Shiki, Shangri-La.
- Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ did fine.
- Fairy Tail is doing well.
- One Piece (bigger) collections drawing in more fans.
- No big bombs this year.

- Eng Dub preference on home video: 27.8% always, 27.6% majority, 22.5% half, 15.9% rarely, 6.2% never.
- JP Dub with EngSub preference on home video: 17.3% always, 19.3% majority, 29.2% half, 26.2% rarely, 8% never.

- Steins:Gate is doing fantastic. Would like to get movie.
- Stay tuned on Evangelion 3.0; don't have it.
- Release date delays? Putting it out fast or do it right?
- FUNimation.com player/site update?...major one, stay tuned.
- Oh! Edo Rocket (calculated risk; thought it would have been a pleasant surprise); didn't perform sales last year.
- B Gata H Kei did well.
- Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine: no date yet; like mid year.
- Subtitled only anime release in the future? It's going to be a while before it happens. Considering it. Dub prominent company.
- Deadman Wonderland is doing quite well.
- Hitman Reborn (Lance: no interest); the longer the series, the harder is to get people to buy it.
- Strong World release window: no release date; no One Piece news for a while now.
- Tatami Galaxy home video release: not right now.
- Mihoshi Specials: stay tuned.
- Limited Edition for movies/OVAs: hard to do for retailers; not out of possibility; cost factors.
- Cased Closed: the jury is still out (5% chance).
- Paranoia Agent: it doesn't sound like it will be coming from them.

[WTK]

It may or may not be Adam and/or Lance.

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ANNCast this week is a Funimation episode! I'll announce guests and start taking questions on Wednesday.

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ANNCast this week: our pals from Funimation @neumaverick and @lheiskell return! Send in your questions!

[Invisible Crane]

As a UK anime fan I'm interested about their working relationship with Manga UK and MVM. Just in general and all

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It's now up: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2013-06-07

Some of my notes:
- Trigun is still doing well
- Moving out the door: Mass Effect movie, BLOOD-C, One Piece, Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar (surprised by this; iffy streaming numbers; GXP did 'okay')
- #1 for yr = Black Lagoon S1+2; #2 for yr = Dragon Ball GT
- Evergreen titles: Trigun movie, Summer Wars, Evangelion movies, FMA, FMA: B, Dragon Ball, Basilisk, Samurai Champloo, Air TV (SAVE)

- Toriko: hitting where they thought it would be; long project; only have what's released (4 sets); up to acquisition to get more
- Baka and Test OVA: did okay; worried about it since it was released separately from the season collections
- Shows that tanked: none so far (there are usually a couple every year)
- Fairy Tail: series that didn't do great at beginning, but built up sales (hoping Toriko can follow this trend)

- 80% of new FUNimation.com planned to be up this summer
- Attack on Titan and The Devil is a Part-Timer! doing well streaming wise
- Attack on Titan confirmed BD (~24:06)
- Catalog streaming titles that stay in the top 20s (up or down): FMA, Fruits Basket, Ouran, Rosario+Vampire, Sekirei

- Co-production: we have plans but can not be announced at this time; likely based on established IP
- Mass Effect movie (85% - 90% of expectation)

- LASTEXILE -Fam, The Silver Wing- delay: issue with materials; didn't pass QC
- Index/Railgun on Blu-ray: don't know the answer
- Future Diary on Blu-ray: can only talk about DVD
- Hellsing Ultimate OVA 9-10 & dubbing Hellsing: The Dawn -> stay tuned
- Blessing of the Campanella long delay: can't state reason (basically no answer)
- More Lain style LE releases after Guilty Crown (careful with selection)
- Sengoku Basara releases did 'fine'
- Maybe Aquarion EVOL update at around AX