Crunchyroll Fall '11 Lineup

[WTK]

http://www.crunchyroll.com/lineup

Continuing Simulcast Titles (from summer to fall)

• Beelzebub
• Bleach
• Cardfight!! Vanguard
• Fairy Tail
• Gintama
• Kaasan - Mom's Life
• Morita-san wa Mukuchi
• Naruto Shippuden
• SKET Dance
• THE iDOLM@STER

New Simulcast Titles

• 09/25 - Squid Girl: Season 2 (Shinryaku!? Ika Musume)
• 09/30 - Hunter x Hunter (2011)
• 10/03 - You and Me (Kimi to Boku.)
• 10/04 - Chihayafuru
• 10/05 - Fate/Zero
• 10/05 - Wagnaria!!: Season 2 (Working'!!: Season 2)
• 10/06 - Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - World's Greatest First Love (Season 2)
• 10/07 - Majikoi Oh! Samurai Girls (Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!!)
• 10/13 - Un-Go
• 10/14 - Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (Kyōkai Senjō no Horizon)
• 10/21 - Mashiroiro Symphony ~ The Color of Lovers (Mashiro-Iro Symphony - The color of lovers)
• 11/02 - Digimon Xros Wars - The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time
• 11/23 - gdgd Fairies

[FUNiOP]

I didn't finish either of the first seasons (okay, I didn't give the yaoi one a chance), so nothing for me yet, but obviously there will be many more added for me to follow and enjoy.

[Orochimaru]

Originally Posted by WTK

• Squid Girl (Season 2) - Monday 9/26 at 12:30 am PST

Nice. I'll definitely watch this.

I'm really hoping the new hunter x hunter series is on crunchyroll, although I have a feeling it won't be...

[Alphanega]

Originally Posted by Orochimaru

Nice. I'll definitely watch this.

I'm really hoping the new hunter x hunter series is on crunchyroll, although I have a feeling it won't be...

Doubtful. Viz said on their facebook they were gunning for the new HxH, and that the japanese licensors got other offers for it as well. Crunchy was probably one of them, but I;d say the series is going to either Viz or Funimation(I assume they went after it) as they can get full rights and that would sound a bit more appealing to the japanese licensors...especially if it's Viz since, Shueisha is funding the series...

[Buckeye]

I'll eventually get to Squid Girl 2 at some point. Right now, I have other things that takes priority on my backlog.

[Orochimaru]

Originally Posted by Alphanega

Doubtful. Viz said on their facebook they were gunning for the new HxH, and that the japanese licensors got other offers for it as well. Crunchy was probably one of them, but I;d say the series is going to either Viz or Funimation(I assume they went after it) as they can get full rights and that would sound a bit more appealing to the japanese licensors...especially if it's Viz since, Shueisha is funding the series...

Well Naruto and Bleach are both on crunchyroll, and they're pretty much viz's most valuable properties. Also Fairy Tale for Funimation, although that was licensed by them after it had already been on cr for a while...

[Alphanega]

Originally Posted by Orochimaru

Well Naruto and Bleach are both on crunchyroll, and they're pretty much viz's most valuable properties. Also Fairy Tale for Funimation, although that was licensed by them after it had already been on cr for a while...

The difference for the titles that you mentioned is that they were being simulcasted by Crunchyroll first before anywhere else. Nowadays, if it;s not on Crunchy first, R1 licensors aren;t going share streaming rights with them.

[Orochimaru]

Originally Posted by Alphanega

The difference for the titles that you mentioned is that they were being simulcasted by Crunchyroll first before anywhere else. Nowadays, if it;s not on Crunchy first, R1 licensors aren;t going share streaming rights with them.

Oh, ok. Hopefully it's legally streaming somewhere at least. I kind of want to actually watch it week by week as it airs, but illegal methods are such a pain...

[Damius]

I will check Shinryaku!? Ika Musume for sure!

[agila61]

Originally Posted by Alphanega

The difference for the titles that you mentioned is that they were being simulcasted by Crunchyroll first before anywhere else. Nowadays, if it;s not on Crunchy first, R1 licensors aren;t going share streaming rights with them.

And Naruto and Bleach were big pushes by Crunchyroll to get those titles ~ both broadcast on Crunchyroll's part-owner TV Tokyo ~ and both involve special deals where Viz does the subtitling, presumably with Crunchyroll paying Viz to subtitle the series. and after the one week subscriber access, Viz and Crunchyroll both do ad-based streaming.

Those deals would be expected to cover their contracting costs, given the popularity of the series and the multiple seasons of simulcasts covered by the deal ~ a one or two season simulcast of uncertain market appeal might not be able to earn back the contracting costs of a special deal like that.

Recently, there have been a few regular seasonal simlucasts where Crunchyroll has sublicensed from a North American streaming licensee who is going the route of multiple streaming partners ~ which for Crunchyroll is likely to be fewer moving parts than the Naruto or Bleach deals, since there's only the one main licensee for them to contract with ~ but AFAIR, neither Viz, FUNimation nor Neo-ADV (Sentai/Section23/TAN) have gone that route.

Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results: adoption of a new streaming strategy by any one of those three could well lead to a new pattern of behavior.