Re: Funimation 10 Day License-watch . . .

On Jan 2, 2:36 am, Derek Janssen <ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
AstroNerdBoy wrote:
On Jan 1, 12:43 pm, Travers Naran <tna...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With all that in mind, is it any wonder that people who'd been fansub
fans of the title would not be interested in buying the DVDs?  I know
I wouldn't because I'd be so furious, first at FUNimation, but then
shifting to the Japanese once I learned the truth.

Pretty much what happened:
Any anime fan who's been around at least a year (let alone those of us
who've been around since we were waiting for the Japanese to catch up
with DVD) is USED to the idea of the Japanese being more
anal-retentively copyright-greedy than has ever occurred to the West to be.

The Japanese are generally cooler with licensing music to westerners
than the other way around. Look at how Duran Duran's people wouldn't
let "Girls On Film" be used outside of Japan as the OP for Speed
Grapher (and the anime was allegedly held up for two years because of
the issues around being able to use this song). Radiohead let
"Paranoid Android" still be used for the ED of Ergo Proxy here, but
wouldn't let Geneon put it on the domestic soundtrack CD. I don't
know what the situation is with Pioneer/Geneon's licence of the music
for Serial Experiments Lain, but boa's _Twilight_ CD wasn't in print
very long, and I bought the two domestic OST CDs only to find that the
ED song, "Tooi Sakebi," is missing from the main CD and "duvet cyberia
reMIX" and "duvet TV sized" were pulled from _Cyberia Mix_.

Watson.
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