Anime & Manga Thread v.4 FAQ/IRC: See OP. Thread over. Move onto v.5

Master_Chibi · January 14, 2012, 5:14am

No, there’s a difference between pacing and nothing happening for 40 chapters.

New Waves is the latter.

Huggy_Bear · January 14, 2012, 5:20am

I would hardly say nothing has happened. It’s just introduced around 10 new characters, a new opposing gang, Goomoonryong’s (Boss?) And shit about Ki Centers.

Stuffs happened. It’s just not been big stuff. I’m still waiting for the “YOU CAN DO MARTIAL ARTS WITH NO KI CENTER?!” Line.

devastator · January 14, 2012, 6:04am

So Guilty Crown 12

[details=Spoiler] How many episodes till Shu puts on Gai’s coat and turns into a badass?

kenuran · January 14, 2012, 7:29am

I dropped Guilty Crown now. I haven’t watched it since Shu failed at protecting children but I’ve heard about whats happened since then and I cant bother with ever catching up. Its a terribly written show that keeps piling on stupid moments thats just not fun anymore to make fun of. Shu is an godawful protagonist and Inori is boring and barely adds anything to the show and the antagonists are straight up morons. These people dont know what the hell they are doing.

Kill Me Baby is meh. It has a lot of material that it runs through, but its just not that good. Only the parts with the ninja girl is decent but shes a side character. The Yasuna and Sonya parts are pretty boring and they up the whole show. That ED is catchy but the OP is worst of the season.

Now heres some news that no one will give a shit about:
[SIZE=3]Funimation Sues A.D. Vision, Sentai, Others for US$8 Million[/SIZE]

On November 4, 2011, FUNimation Entertainment filed a lawsuit in the district court of Harris County, Texas against John Ledford, as well as companies A.D. Vision, AEsir Holdings, Sxion 23 (A.K.A. Section23 Films), Valkyrie Media Partners, Seraphim Studios, Sentai Filmworks, Sentai Holdings, and Unio Mystica Holdings (A.K.A. Switchblade Pictures) for breach of contract and other claims. Ledford is the CEO and co-founder of A.D. Vision. In the lawsuit, Funimation claims that the defendants owe Funimation “an amount to be proven at trial but currently estimated” to be approximately US$8 million plus interest, costs, and attorneys’ fees.
Funimation’s lawsuit alleges that it became a creditor of A.D. Vision (ADV) in regard to a debt ADV owed ARM Corporation, which was a third party licensing entity jointly owned by Sojitz Corporation and several other companies. The lawsuit notes that ADV had purchased [FONT=inherit][FONT=inherit]anime[/FONT][/FONT] licenses from ARM after May 2006, and in January 2008 ARM “declared ADV to be in default of the parties’ agreements.” ADV lost the rights to more than 30 anime properties, and in July 2008, Funimation and ARM announced that they had reached a distribution agreement for those properties.
In the lawsuit, Funimation claims that ARM also gave Funimation the right to enforce ARM’s agreement with ADV, specifically in regard to the debt that ADV owed ARM — making Funimation a creditor. The suit alleges that ADV never paid this debt, and instead sold its assets for below market price to several companies owned by former ADV executives and shut down.
The suit goes on to claim that ADV’s transfer of assets “was made with the intent to defer, hinder or defraud the creditors of ADV,” including Funimation, and that the new companies “succeeded ADV’s contractual liability” in regard to the outstanding debt.
Funimation is also requesting that the court declare ADV’s transfer of assets “as null, voided and without effect,” restoring those assets to the parent company. Funimation is also requesting a jury trial.
On December 23, Sentai Filmworks, Seraphim Studios, Sentai Holdings, Valkyrie Media Partners, Unio Mysteica Holdings, AEsir Holdings, and Section23 Films filed a counterclaim disputing these charges. The companies claim, among other things, that they do not have a contract with Funimation and are not liable to the company. They claim that the companies did not exist when Funimation acquired the rights from ARM to enforce ADV’s contract with ARM. In addition, the companies claim that Funimation’s lawsuit was filed after the two-year statute of limitations, and that Funimation was not involved with the original contract and cannot claim any direct damages.
The companies are asking that the court declare that Funimation’s contract “is not a valid agreement binding on the Defendants,” that the companies owe “no duties or performance of any obligations” to Funimation, and that Funimation pay for the companies’ attorney’s fees, costs, and expenses.
The first pre-trial meeting is currently scheduled for October 5, 2012.
Section23 Films provided ANN with the following statement:
[INDENT=1]Funimation’s lawsuit is completely without merit or basis and we look forward to proving it when we have our day in court.[/INDENT]
When asked to comment, Funimation told ANN that its official statement is addressed in the lawsuit.

Gasaraki · January 14, 2012, 7:39am

Man, American anime distros are just going to die soon =/

Radiantsilvergun3 · January 14, 2012, 8:11am

Yea that seems to be the case…

Master_Chibi · January 14, 2012, 8:33am

Nah, nothing’s happened.

They’ve been beating around the bush delaying the inevitable KI CENTER RESURRECTION.

Spirit_Juice · January 14, 2012, 8:46am

Welp… there’s always piracy!

AOS · January 14, 2012, 9:19am

I know, right?

Also, SJ, just search Code Geass on said website, on most popular of all time, I think it’s within the first 30 pages.

Spirit_Juice · January 14, 2012, 10:01am

I already found it on Danbooru. Thanks.

ElderGOD · January 14, 2012, 10:59am

You pirate something if something is bad or you want to see if it’s worth buying (or if it’s unavailable), but there’s good anime out there that deserves all the support it can get.

Jazz · January 14, 2012, 12:29pm

for my type moon ppl

Warpticon · January 14, 2012, 12:47pm

Ah, the I Just Got This Shit For The Melty Blood pack.

Ephidel · January 14, 2012, 12:48pm

speaking of HOTD, is the manga like discontinued or something?

Stabby · January 14, 2012, 1:37pm

Team that does it just takes forever to release new chapters.

Artist has his own series, Triage-X, if you want to read it.

Spirit_Juice · January 14, 2012, 6:59pm

Point of my post is that if there are no more US licensing companies, there isn’t really much of an option of watching anime each season outside of piracy. If you wanted to support the anime, you’d have to buy the JP version, but who honestly is going to do that unless you’re orka?

Radiantsilvergun3 · January 14, 2012, 8:13pm

I’ll be upfront. I wont do that.

Iduno · January 14, 2012, 8:54pm

I don’t quite get how Funimation suing another company really means US licensing companies arew screwed though, companies toss around lawsuits in all sorts of conditions, until the headlines talk about Sentai Filmworks going out of business because of said lawsuits, or it comes to attention that Funimation was just throwing it out because they were trying to make up for some money troubles elsewhere, I don’t really think this is a cause for too much worry.

Now seems to be a good time as far as releases are going anyway, we seem to be getting new series released pretty regular on DVD and Blu-ray and at decent prices and less of the old “3 volumes per series at £40ish per volume” bull**** licensors used to try and stick us with.

Onizuka1 · January 14, 2012, 9:49pm

This thread needs more Eikichi Onizuka~

The un-aired episode of ToraDora included in the blu-ray boxset was nice but a bit of a let down…was hoping for a flash forward to the future or something

Gasaraki · January 15, 2012, 1:14am

I was kinda half-joking when I said that, but half not. I mean, seriously American Distros really DO seem to be on the way out, that’s why companies like Aniplex are releasing shit here now in the same way they do in japan, limited, high-priced shit. It’s safer, it works, and they already make the most profit in Japan anyway. Also anime and manga sales are way down compared to a few years ago, shit is just going to be really downsized.