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Extremely interested in where this will go.

Wonder if we will see some kind of partnership as it relates to all the episodes of the Dragon Ball franchise being available through Sony services.



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vivster said:
FunFan said:

No, I simply said "After that smiley movie, I'll write this under bad news". And it refers to animations as is the common aspect between a company  such as Funnimation and the Smiley movie. Now I obviously ruffle some of your feathers. Well, I accept that it was a bit of an unfair assessment and that Sony's animated history is not all bad, there is some good and thats obvious given that persons with good taste like you like some of their stuff. Though, you did mentioned SA:O and that's conscerning. Regardless Smiley is still the newest and most relevant proyect and a black mark that will stay forever.

SAO is a good and high quality show that has a massive fanbase. What you or I think about it or parts of it is irrelevant. It is objectively a good anime. "Good" btw is in my defintion between 6-8. Before the second part of the first season and when it was suddenly the cool thing to hate it, it was considered a great anime. And nowadays it's just cool to hate it by people who have no idea about anime.

Connecting Sony's Animation business with Sony's Anime business is clearly a mistake since they have nothing to do with each other. You might as well connect Sony's Playstation and camera business.

Which obviously would read as Playstation was in a bad position because sensors had some harsh issues.



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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
FunFan said:

The distinction between Anime and animations is an American fabrication and doesn't exist in Japan, so yes I'll group them together. I have no shame.

So now you are going to use a fallacy ? 

 

Yes - in Japan the emoji movie and SAO are both "anime" but thats not where im coming from at all. The form of release is different, the budget is different, the demographic is different, the studios are completely different, the form of animation is different. 

In America, Frozen and Ed Edd n Eddy are both referred to as cartoons, if they were both published by Disney theyd still have few connections. 

Literally the only similarity is Sony which you want to play up for the lolz. 

 

DonFerrari said:
vivster said:

SAO is a good and high quality show that has a massive fanbase. What you or I think about it or parts of it is irrelevant. It is objectively a good anime. "Good" btw is in my defintion between 6-8. Before the second part of the first season and when it was suddenly the cool thing to hate it, it was considered a great anime. And nowadays it's just cool to hate it by people who have no idea about anime.

Connecting Sony's Animation business with Sony's Anime business is clearly a mistake since they have nothing to do with each other. You might as well connect Sony's Playstation and camera business.

Which obviously would read as Playstation was in a bad position because sensors had some harsh issues.

 

vivster said:
FunFan said:

No, I simply said "After that smiley movie, I'll write this under bad news". And it refers to animations as is the common aspect between a company  such as Funnimation and the Smiley movie. Now I obviously ruffle some of your feathers. Well, I accept that it was a bit of an unfair assessment and that Sony's animated history is not all bad, there is some good and thats obvious given that persons with good taste like you like some of their stuff. Though, you did mentioned SA:O and that's conscerning. Regardless Smiley is still the newest and most relevant proyect and a black mark that will stay forever.

SAO is a good and high quality show that has a massive fanbase. What you or I think about it or parts of it is irrelevant. It is objectively a good anime. "Good" btw is in my defintion between 6-8. Before the second part of the first season and when it was suddenly the cool thing to hate it, it was considered a great anime. And nowadays it's just cool to hate it by people who have no idea about anime.

Connecting Sony's Animation business with Sony's Anime business is clearly a mistake since they have nothing to do with each other. You might as well connect Sony's Playstation and camera business.

Nope you are all wrong because the Sony division that is going to adquire Funnimation is Sony Pictures TV which is part of Sony Pictures just like Sony Pictures Animation. These are the american/hollywood companies. The people who are bringing something unrelated is you as the Japanese animation companies are not involved in this.

Please read: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/sony-pictures-tv-funimation-acquisition-1202511492/



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I imagine anime is populat on Playstation. Perhaps that has something to do with this purchase.



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Mr Puggsly said:
I imagine anime is populat on Playstation. Perhaps that has something to do with this purchase.

Possible... besides Sony already being into anime and animation seems like there is a funimation app on PS4.



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onionberry said:
rip funimation

Well, it's not like Funimation ever made money either.



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FunFan said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

So now you are going to use a fallacy ? 

 

Yes - in Japan the emoji movie and SAO are both "anime" but thats not where im coming from at all. The form of release is different, the budget is different, the demographic is different, the studios are completely different, the form of animation is different. 

In America, Frozen and Ed Edd n Eddy are both referred to as cartoons, if they were both published by Disney theyd still have few connections. 

Literally the only similarity is Sony which you want to play up for the lolz. 

 

DonFerrari said:

Which obviously would read as Playstation was in a bad position because sensors had some harsh issues.

 

vivster said:

SAO is a good and high quality show that has a massive fanbase. What you or I think about it or parts of it is irrelevant. It is objectively a good anime. "Good" btw is in my defintion between 6-8. Before the second part of the first season and when it was suddenly the cool thing to hate it, it was considered a great anime. And nowadays it's just cool to hate it by people who have no idea about anime.

Connecting Sony's Animation business with Sony's Anime business is clearly a mistake since they have nothing to do with each other. You might as well connect Sony's Playstation and camera business.

Nope you are all wrong because the Sony division that is going to adquire Funnimation is Sony Pictures TV which is part of Sony Pictures just like Sony Pictures Animation. These are the american/hollywood companies. The people who are bringing something unrelated is you as the Japanese animation companies are not involved in this.

Please read: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/sony-pictures-tv-funimation-acquisition-1202511492/

Actually we arent wrong because no one denied that, you are still comparing two different studios and on top of that Pictures TV is still way different from Sony animations. No one was denying they will be part of Sony Pictures ... thats literally what weve been discussing this entire time? Like what do yoy think we've been talking about, Sony's camera selection? Most of their movies and tv shows from what I can tell lead back to Sony Pictures so like yeah... and your point is? 

 

Also by your own argument you are wrong, since you are directly comparing A1 to Sony movies(something we are telling you not to do) and A1 is a subsidiary of Sony MUSIC Entertainments animation. So if we applied your logic you not only made a non argument but even ruined your own



interesting indeed, I like anime so I'm going to keep my eye on this.

there goes anime games for Xbox and nintendo.



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FunFan said:
vivster said:

A-1 is an active anime studio with a good amount of popular recent productions. Aniplex licensed even more and more popular shows.

Is 2017 old times now?

Yup. Anything older than the Smiley movie doesn't  count. Also, personally, I have never really gotten into any anime Sony has been involved with since Kenshin. And they destroyed the second half of that anime by ignoring the manga.

Uh.  Yeah, that's just nonsense. 

I'm guessing this is agenda driven so there is really no need for further discussion.



Didn't really expect debates to spring up in this thread.