Sony buys Funimation for $143 million

[FunFan]

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/