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Funimation has Tsubasa.
« on: December 08 2005, 12:20 pm »
From http://animenewsnetwork.com/

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Funimation Enforces Intelectual Property Rights (2005-12-07 17:42:17)
Funimation recently informed fansub group Shinsen-Subs, "We own or control various exclusive copyrights and trademarks related to the animated motion pictures, including but not limited to, the series known as “Speed Grapher,” “Trinity Blood,” “FullMetal Alchemist,” “Dragon Ball,” “Solty Rei” a.k.a. “Origin,” “Detective Conan” a.k.a. “Case Closed,” and “Tsubasa”." This was after Funimation had contacted the registrar for Shinsen-subs domain name, resulting in the registrar, Joker.com, freezing the domain name. Solty Rei and Tsubasa have not yet been announced for release by Funimation.

This is good news. Funi is a better dubbing company than it used to be. A lot better than 4kids, who BUTCHERED One Piece.

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #1 on: December 08 2005, 12:37 pm »
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #2 on: December 08 2005, 12:39 pm »
Well there goes any more subs. Stuck-up companies
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #3 on: December 08 2005, 12:47 pm »
I'm afraid, very afraid.... Funi butchered my beloved Conan... okay, maybe not butchered, but the voice acting was just.... ugh, terrible.

I just hope that doesn't happen to Tsubasa.... Funi did good job with Fullmetal Alchemist, so let's just hope if they are doing Tsubasa, it will turn out like FMA, and not like Conan...

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #4 on: December 08 2005, 12:59 pm »
Whatever happens, we are likey to get offical subbed dvd's anyway.

Strange that live-evil is still up when shinsen is down.
Hope somebody keeps the subbing alive (wishful thinking I know)
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #5 on: December 08 2005, 01:01 pm »
Strange that live-evil is still up when shinsen is down.
Hope somebody keeps the subbing alive (wishful thinking I know)

I'd prefer if someone subbed the new episodes, and took them down when the DVDs of those eps were out.

That way, people can get the newer ones without having to wait forever.

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #6 on: December 08 2005, 01:09 pm »
Thank you for that piece of information KatanaJon! Cookie! ^^

But ... does this means that it's subbed or dubbed? Or both ... ? Or would anyone like to go with choice C.) Not enough information to answer the question. ^.^;;;

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #7 on: December 08 2005, 01:28 pm »
Well, if Funimation dubs it, they WILL do a good job. They dubbed most of my favorites.

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #8 on: December 08 2005, 01:38 pm »
Here's a little more info on Funimation...

Quote from Animesuki:

New Funimation "licenses"
It has come to the attention of the AnimeSuki staff that Funimation has send a Cease & Desist letter to Shinsen-Subs and a certain large anime fansub torrent site requesting them to remove Solty Rei, Tsubasa Chronicle and Black Cat. While we consider it an odd move to announce a license in this way, this news is compelling enough to mark these series as licensed in our database as a precaution.
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #9 on: December 08 2005, 02:16 pm »
I guess on the bright side, it would mean I can see the episodes in full screen XD On the bad side, it will be harder to get new Tsubsa episodes since they'll be licenced... (I think? Or do they liscence season by season?)

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« Reply #10 on: December 08 2005, 02:24 pm »
While we consider it an odd move to announce a license in this way,

I agree with that. That's not exactly fair to the fansubber to shut them down for a series that hasn't even been announced to be licensed yet. Most fansubbers are good about stopping subs on licensed series, so they probably would have taken them down anyway. Stuck up companies, indeed. <__<

Otherwise... no surprise. I knew the series would be licensed soon or later. -_-;

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #11 on: December 08 2005, 03:07 pm »
Shinsen have dumped TRC now.

Here is hope a under-the-rader (in otherwords, non-US based group) continue the subbing
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #12 on: December 08 2005, 04:53 pm »
A haaa! I told the gaians this, and no one believed me!! Now I have a direct quote on my side!! Thanks! ^^
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #13 on: December 08 2005, 07:54 pm »
Pretty bad news for me, because I rely on fansubs  :tongue: But it was a pretty unusual, for FUNimation to sned out C & D letters before the official announcement. :( I mean......without fansubs, maybe the popularity for some anime won't be as high as it is now.
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #14 on: December 09 2005, 02:47 am »
I have pretty mixed feelings about this.  On one hand, I'm glad that Tsubasa has been licensed by a company like Funi.  That almost guarantees our chance of getting a subbed DVD release now.  This will also mean that a lot more people will have more access to Tsubasa than before, which means more popularity for the series, which may hopefully mean that more people will be attracted to fansites like Capturedwings.net or more Tsubasa fansites may start to popup.  On the other hand, I'm both surprised and kind of disappointed that Funi licensed it of all people and that they licensed it so soon.  Funi has become as strict as ADV is about downloading their licensed anime, which means we most likely won't get anymore Tsubasa fansubs or rips of the official DVDs when they're released.  While I realize that it's unethical as an anime fan for me to download a licensed anime, that's really the only way I can watch anime most of the year.  The only time I'm allowed to buy anime DVDs is either Christmas or my birthday, so the rest of the year the only way I can watch anime is either by watching the limited number of dubs aired on TV or download anime.  I use Christmas and my birthday as an opportunity to catch up on collecting my anime DVDs, which means it'll take me a long time for me to catch up with Tsubasa if I can't download it.  I guess I could start reading the manga again.  I wasn't going to because I was watching the anime too, and so far the anime and manga have been pretty much the same, but since it looks like the only way I'll get to catch up with Tsubasa is through the manga, I guess I'll start reading it again.

I was also surprised that Funi were the ones who licensed Tsubasa.  I was really hoping it would be Geneon.   Geneon has had experience with Clamp anime before, including CCS, so they have a better idea of what Clamp fans have come to expect of their releases.  Plus, if it was Geneon, I could still download the DVD rips when the series was released on DVD, and I was hoping they would use the Bang Zoom VAs from the second CCS movie dub again for Tsubasa, if they dubbed it.  But Funi has had no experience with Clamp anime before and Tsubasa is a series that features characters from other Clamp series, so it came across as a real shocker to me that Funi licensed it.  There's no doubt in my mind that Funi will be able to do a good job with the series, but I still would have prefered Geneon.  I wonder since Funi has an upcoming Digital Cable anime network, could they possibly air Tsubasa?  That would be interesting to see Tsubasa being aired on TV if they did.  I wonder if Funi will license XXXholic, too...

My main concern right now is that Funi will hopefully put a decent number of episodes on each disc and sale the DVDs at a decent price.   When Funi was distrubuting the uncut Yugioh DVDs for 4Kids, they only released three episodes per volume, which is a ridicilous number of episodes for a long series like Yugioh.  I just hope that they don't do the same thing with Tsubasa.  I probably will buy the official DVDs when they're released because I love Tsubasa so much and that's probably going to be the only way for me to see it now, but it's not going to be the same anymore to not be able to watch the latest episode of Tsubasa almost a day after it's come out in Japan.  That was the first time I was able to experience anime in that way and I had a lot of fun posting in the episode discussions, too.  One can only hope that somebody will still fansub the remainding episodes and then take them down when the official DVDs are released, like what's happening with the Naruto fansubs.  I guess this means there won't be any fansubs of the Tsubasa movie when it's released which means we'll have to wait even longer to see the movie.  That really makes me sad because I was really looking forward to seeing the Tsubasa movie and now we'll have to wait forever to see it because Funi licensed Tsubasa so soon.  At least I already know what I'm going to put on my Christmas Wish list next year....Tsubasa DVDs. ^^
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #15 on: December 09 2005, 04:27 am »
yeah, i just read this news on live-evil- they seem to have dropped Tsubasa becos of this now!
i dunno what to say! i rely on subs to understand whats going on- whats going to happen to season 2 and 3??
subbed japanese dvd is prob goign to be very expensive!  :sad5:
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #16 on: December 09 2005, 06:52 am »
noooo!!!!! i want live-evil to continue. i was already sad when tsubasa was gone since season one is over. it use to be my sunday ritual watching tsubasa in morning...and now... :cry: nuu i don't want a dub at all!  :( what will happen to the honorifics! GAAAAH...i just hope this doesn't turn out like CardCaptors did with Nelvana... :angry: :angry: i HATE FUNIMATION now  :angry:

...if not i better hope they mix up Tsubasa with the Captain Tsubasa  :hello2:...and if not i hope live-evil can still fansub on account of they called it "tsubasa" when the anime is "tsubasa chronicle" ...oooh! technicality! :hello2:

 :tongue: what i hope is that the information is wrong and it was done by some guy who changed their contact info to funimation to fool people...and that way i can stay optimistic. i won't believe until i see one dvd out  :lol:....and if i do i will buy it (they better have good fansubs! AND DONT CUT OUT ANYTHING!  :angry: :angry:

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #17 on: December 09 2005, 07:08 am »
noooo!!!!! i want live-evil to continue. i was already sad when tsubasa was gone since season one is over. it use to be my sunday ritual watching tsubasa in morning...and now... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: nuu i don't want a dub at all! :( what will happen to the honorifics! GAAAAH...i just hope this doesn't turn out like CardCaptors did with Nelvana... :angry: :angry: i HATE FUNIMATION now :angry: :angry:

Whoa, calm down there.

SOMEONE will sub season two. That's pretty much a given. I mean, look at Naruto. People are subbing the new eps.

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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #18 on: December 09 2005, 09:12 am »
Strange that live-evil is still up when shinsen is down.
Hope somebody keeps the subbing alive (wishful thinking I know)

Shinsen is down, apparently because the anime Funi licenses are mostly subbed by Shinsen. So they know just who to go to to stop people from subbing.

-__-" I just heard the news on a LiveJournal thing. Wow. I'm surprised they're licenses so many things at once. Funi also took Black Cat. -__-"

Subbing won't be a problem. There are a ton of anime that were licensed and were still being subbed.
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Re: Funimation has Tsubasa.
« Reply #19 on: December 09 2005, 03:28 pm »
think positive! its good that fumi got trc, but doesn't mean no one will fansub it anymore.  Let's stay calm and wait til it air next year and see if someone took the risk.  In worst case, we could always d/l raw version or chinese sub at least.