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Bagginski

Bagginski

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BudmanTX said:
Worlds Finest Assassin is good, finally caught up with the episodes waiting on new ones to drop

I'm also waiting for Demos Slayer Season 2 to come out.

Lately i've been watching "Is it wrong to pick up girls in a Dungeon" and it's not bad

currently i've been wondering which is better Crunchyroll or Funimation?
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Hey, Budman! It’s late in the season, so I think we’re down to the end of this tranch of WFA episodes…looking for one more, maybe - on Wednesday.

Demon Slayer S2 is underway. It opens with the ‘director’s cut’ of Mugen Train, and is now 3 episodes into the next arc (the Entertainment District). It’s almost too good….

I enjoyed the Dungeon Girls shows. The OVAs OTOH left me high and dry. I may never rewatch them, but they’re charming and well-done.

Plain fact is, no one can predict what Sony will do now that it owns both Funimation and Crunchyroll. And Sony *does* apparently own each company, lock, stock, and barrel. This so far involves three sites (Funi, Crunchy, & VRV), plus the owned / controlled catalog each holds, plus production agreements, creative agreements, projects, contracts…. Of the three sites, only one is designed to merge collections from different sources - VRV. In recent weeks, VRV has broken with several subchannels and semi-partners, including Rooster Teeth and HiDive; their content is no longer available (and, mostly, good riddance), and some interesting stuff has been brought up from the deep catalog to fill things out, and so far, that’s a win. This could be a “clearing of the decks” before bringing the entire Funi collection onboard, or they could do something stupid and more expensive.

Either way, there *is* some overlap between the two, but not much. The Crunchyroll site and the VRV site were clearly designed by the same people, though they’re not identical. Neither is perfect but both are generally well-behaved & I consider my $8/mo well spent. I would totally spend another $2 for a merged site: there’s A LOT on Funi I’d be watching if I had it, but it’s hard for me to say yes to a second subscription at the moment. There’s a lot in both collections that I simply don’t care much about, but.

Obviously, my vote is for VRV…but if there were things important enough on Funi, I’d have picked it without much trouble.

UPDATE (of course): I’ve been looking at trailers for new/renewed shows coming on Crunchyroll in January, and many of them say they’ll be on Crunchyroll *and* Funimation…yet there don’t seem to BE any Funi trailers for upcoming shows, and a lot of their things say “ONLY ON Funimation”…so maybe they *will* do something stupid

Demon Slayer drops Sundays, WFA on Wednesday
 
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BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Bagginski said:
Hey, Budman! It’s late in the season, so I think we’re down to the end of this tranch of WFA episodes…looking for one more, maybe - on Wednesday.

Demon Slayer S2 is underway. It opens with the ‘director’s cut’ of Mugen Train, and is now 3 episodes into the next arc (the Entertainment District). It’s almost too good….

I enjoyed the Dungeon Girls shows. The OVAs OTOH left me high and dry. I may never rewatch them, but they’re charming and well-done.

Plain fact is, no one can predict what Sony will do now that it owns both Funimation and Crunchyroll. And Sony *does* apparently own each company, lock, stock, and barrel. This so far involves three sites (Funi, Crunchy, & VRV), plus the owned / controlled catalog each holds, plus production agreements, creative agreements, projects, contracts…. Of the three sites, only one is designed to merge collections from different sources - VRV. In recent weeks, VRV has broken with several subchannels and semi-partners, including Rooster Teeth and HiDive; their content is no longer available (and, mostly, good riddance), and some interesting stuff has been brought up from the deep catalog to fill things out, and so far, that’s a win. This could be a “clearing of the decks” before bringing the entire Funi collection onboard, or they could do something stupid and more expensive.

Either way, there *is* some overlap between the two, but not much. The Crunchyroll site and the VRV site were clearly designed by the same people, though they’re not identical. Neither is perfect but both are generally well-behaved & I consider my $8/mo well spent. I would totally spend another $2 for a merged site: there’s A LOT on Funi I’d be watching if I had it, but it’s hard for me to say yes to a second subscription at the moment. There’s a lot in both collections that I simply don’t care much about, but.

Obviously, my vote is for VRV…but if there were things important enough on Funi, I’d have picked it without much trouble.

UPDATE (of course): I’ve been looking at trailers for new/renewed shows coming on Crunchyroll in January, and many of them say they’ll be on Crunchyroll *and* Funimation…yet there don’t seem to BE any Funi trailers for upcoming shows, and a lot of their things say “ONLY ON Funimation”…so maybe they *will* do something stupid

Demon Slayer drops Sundays, WFA on Wednesday
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thanks bag.....appreciate it....

so i did a little research did ya know funimation is merging with crunchy, basically they bought them for 1.2billion and that was in August.....wierd that about the time i started having problems with Crunchy.......
 
Bagginski

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Interesting article…kinda downplays Sony’s roll in all this, not sure why, but mostly sensible.

“FuniRoll”, though…really? I like “CrunchyFun” *much* more….

It will be interesting to see what happens with HiDive in all this
 
Bagginski

Bagginski

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More on the anime site business: an unadvertised feature of my VRV account is I get premium access on the Crunchyroll (official) site. Has nothing to do with Funimation except…new releases.

Crunchyroll has just released some of the titles they’ll be adding for Winter ‘22. Fall ‘21 had several good shows, but there were a lot of titles I couldn’t find anywhere. A fair number of interesting new shows, and a few that had been MIA last season, are on that list.

I guess I mention it particularly because VRV makes NO effort to advise users of what is coming online and what is dropping out…so I have no guarantee that any of these new shows will be available via VRV - but I can, it seems, stream them on CR. Parallel to this, I have seen trailers for new shows that explicitly say the shows will be on CR and Funi, but “only on Funimation” remains a thing.

On closer inspection, there’s really a great deal of overlap between the two companies’ catalogs. Probably the best thing is to do a trial period with each site, and see what’s unique to each. CR has been involved in a lot of new productions, and I’ve really liked most/many of their originals and partnered projects. Your takes will be your own - but I think that’s exactly the sort of thing that needs to be considered most closely when you’re talking ab signing up for a subscription.

Anyhow, hope everybody is happy, healthy, feeling good and feeling right tonight. Keep smilin’!
 
Bagginski

Bagginski

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Happy New Year, y’all!

Fall season is over…weird to think I’ve been watching these shows in 23-minute chunks for three months. It’s a little disorienting; as a member of the first TV generation, episodic weekly programming was The Way Things Were Done (tm), and one of the things that blew *my* mind about the video revolution was discovering I could watch serial stories in movie-sized chunks. Catching up on the first two seasons of Lost just before season 3 kicked off hooked me on binging video stories. I am just now nearing the end of two years of health-related captivity…during which time I’ve watched more anime in the average WEEK than I’d seen in my life prior to that. ALL OF THAT was binged; maybe not in a single sitting, but for multiple-episode strings, where I’d get pulled in for an hour or three. Trying to follow multiple serialized stories in staggered weekly installments has been a drag-back to the old days of three channels & rabbit-ear antennae.

Therefore, I’ll be binging Faraway Paladin, 86, Platinum End, Demon Slayer, and a few others, once there another release of eps for each.

New shows this month (01/22) include Spy x Family, Love of Kill, Orient, World of Leadale, Tokyo 24th Ward, World’s End Harem, The Strongest Sage With The Weakest Crest(!), She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man(?)…and a bunch of other shows with awkward titles I can’t call to mind right now. Crunchyroll and Funimation seem to be sharing each others properties, so most all of these should be on both sites. Attack on Titan returns with Final Season Part 2, and more episodes for Case Study of Vanitas and Ranking of Kings. AOT is joined by Orient & Tokyo 24th Ward in the Shonen corner; Spy x Family looks to be both fun and funny. The middle-schoolers are hyperventilating over the ‘hentai’ World’s End Harem, but for some reason I find myself expecting more story than ecchi (some haven’t grasped yet that “mature subjects” isn’t code for “tits”).

A weird thing is that a bunch of folks have been complaining (it seems) about how isekai series are boring *and* about how several new shows aren’t *REAL* isekai (but are stillh doomed to suck, apparently)….

Okay…a week in: Ranking of Kings is like a children‘s story for grownups, but pretty good; new episodes of Vanitas are dropping; Orient, Rusted Armors, Kabuki Biscuit, Tokyo 24th are def teen-boy shows; Land of Leadale, Miss Kuroichi From The Monster Development Department are a lot of fun; Love of Kill, not so much; World’s End Harem is provocative *subject matter*, but the show is quite subdued, given all the heavy breathing from the audience. Strongest Sage starts off kind of in the middle. Several are still in waiting (spy family, She Professed Herself…). The missing lump in the throat is “Days With My Step-Sister” which looks like it could be a real cringe-fest

Odd nut in the Box is Two Old Guys Reincarnate, but One Is a Babe (title approximate), about these two lifelong buddies who have been cursed by the Goddess of Love…. This one is going to give a bunch of people a jock rash, but it has too much Benny-Hill potential; I don’t think this will work as a 12-episode joke, so hoping they do something at least mildly creative with it.

Glad y’all doin’ okay
 
BudmanTX

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well i finally made the change from Crunchy to Fun..and i have to admit Funimation is a heck of a lot better.......so i'm catching up

now if your on Netflicks, i've got a few picks

1....Yasuke....very good overall....

2....Shaman king.....just started it last weekend, so far story line is good, and the action is too....some of the characters are just funny at least for me...

3....Dota: Dragons Blood...real good story overall and if your an D&D lover you'll really like it, and this get me to this.....and it just dropped on Netflick

4: Dota 2 here is the trailer
 
Jeffislovinlife

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BudmanTX said:
well i finally made the change from Crunchy to Fun..and i have to admit Funimation is a heck of a lot better.......so i'm catching up

now if your on Netflicks, i've got a few picks

1....Yasuke....very good overall....

2....Shaman king.....just started it last weekend, so far story line is good, and the action is too....some of the characters are just funny at least for me...

3....Dota: Dragons Blood...real good story overall and if your an D&D lover you'll really like it, and this get me to this.....and it just dropped on Netflick

4: Dota 2 here is the trailer
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That's awesome have you looked into hi-dive yet
 
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