License and Dub more anime

[Spaceshotx7]

Its nice that you sell some anime, but you license very little titles. Sentai Filmworks has been licensing a majority of the titles. Second, none of the anime is dubbed.

I think you should License and Dub more anime. I want NIS Ameica to be one of the biggest licensors of anime. The anime should also have an english dub by bang Zoom Entertainment. All Character lines woulkd be dubbed, even the parts when the characters sing would be dubbed (anime characters sing in English in the dubbed version).

A start would be to license Sailor moon, and release it with new Digital Restoration and a New Dub. That should make a lot of money. In addition, anime from all different genres would be licensed.

A lot of the money made from videogame and anime Sales can go towards licensing and dubbing more anime. Please consider this suggestion as it would localize more anime, and provide English dubs. When possible, I would like to recieve feedback.

[vampko]

I'm fine with them localizing more games than licensing anime. Sentai's doing pretty good at bringing over all the good ones, and NISA still hasn't got the budget to dub anime. And they already have a small enough budget to even dub games, so I'd rather them expand more on their game budget before they start tackling anime to that extent.

[kanade2]

Its nice that you sell some anime, but you license very little titles. Sentai Filmworks has been licensing a majority of the titles. Second, none of the anime is dubbed.

I think you should License and Dub more anime. I want NIS Ameica to be one of the biggest licensors of anime. The anime should also have an english dub by bang Zoom Entertainment. All Character lines woulkd be dubbed, even the parts when the characters sing would be dubbed (anime characters sing in English in the dubbed version).

A start would be to license Sailor moon, and release it with new Digital Restoration and a New Dub. That should make a lot of money. In addition, anime from all different genres would be licensed.

A lot of the money made from videogame and anime Sales can go towards licensing and dubbing more anime. Please consider this suggestion as it would localize more anime, and provide English dubs. When possible, I would like to recieve feedback.

The same amount of money can be made by NISA just subbing anime so really see no point in them switching over to full dub anime .

As Vampko pointed out NISA doesn't have the money which means your ideas can't be made into reality .

[LAMV]

- NISA doesn't have the money

And yet somehow they managed to license 50 anime in a single month

[Sheleigha]

A start would be to license Sailor moon, and release it with new Digital Restoration and a New Dub. That should make a lot of money. In addition, anime from all different genres would be licensed.

Along with what the others said about dubbing, I don't think you have ANY idea what the cost would be for Sailor Moon, let alone dubbing, AND touching it up 0_0. NO ONE owns it yet, not just because of the Toei issue, but the price would be astonomical, and only Funi would be the ONLY company coming even CLOSE to licensing it! Plus, it would be for 200 eps, when a 24/26 ep series is VERY expensive already...
Seriously, you have NO IDEA... Nisa is a tiny company.

[Spaceshotx7]

I also don't understand how come sentai filmworks can affird to license so much anime, yet they are selective about what anime gets dubbed? and how come when funimation license anime, it doesn't get dubbed and released for another year or perhapes 2 years?

[kanade2]

I also don't understand how come sentai filmworks can affird to license so much anime, yet they are selective about what anime gets dubbed? and how come when funimation license anime, it doesn't get dubbed and released for another year or perhapes 2 years?

Just because a company can afford a bundle of licenses it doesn't mean they have money left over to dub every ep of those anime .

Sentai Filmworks probably would go bankrupt if they tried to dub every anime they got licensed . If you notice they only dub anime that they think will sell well .

Just speculating ,but maybe Funimation feels that there is no need to rush a dubbed version when they can just work on it slowly while a subbed version brings in profit.

Right now I'd argue that subbed anime on disc and/or a streaming channel is the gold mine for any business which is probably why we're seeing less dubs in general.

[shymel94]

A start would be to license Sailor moon, and release it with new Digital Restoration and a New Dub. That should make a lot of money. In addition, anime from all different genres would be licensed.

Along with what the others said about dubbing, I don't think you have ANY idea what the cost would be for Sailor Moon, let alone dubbing, AND touching it up 0_0. NO ONE owns it yet, not just because of the Toei issue, but the price would be astonomical, and only Funi would be the ONLY company coming even CLOSE to licensing it! Plus, it would be for 200 eps, when a 24/26 ep series is VERY expensive already...
Seriously, you have NO IDEA... Nisa is a tiny company.

To add on to this a Sailor Moon fan club did an interview with the company releasing the DVDs in Mexico. The company said that Naoko not Toei actually gives a yes or no on Sailor Moon being released (again) in other countries. Companies have to follow her rules. Along with the amounts of episodes, there are also several movies/specials.

[Sheleigha]

Oh really, its through Naoko's power? For the longest time I heard it was Toei. Usually you never head that the mangka has a say in it.

[LAMV]

I'd love it if there were a Sailor Moon Kai of some sort.

[Spaceshotx7]

I find it unusual. Before 2008, I noticed that 95% of anime licensed were dubbed. ADV Films, Funimation, and Geneon USA dubbed all anime titles that were aquired, and all of a sudden come 2009 and beyond, and only 25-30% of anime these days are dubbed.

One thing to notice about foreign films in general is that in all the Italian, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian countries in Europe, all foreign films are dubbed in those languages.

Now getting back to anime, I know adv films did have a 24/7 channel called Anime Network.

In general, if there was a 24/7 anime channel, all anime aired on the linear 24/7 channel would have to be dubbed in English.

I'm noticing that Adult Swim doesn't seem to be airing as much anime then they used to be. In general I only understand english, and its strange for me to hear any other language, and have to read the text. Also, what if someone blind just watches the anime for the audio, then it would have to be in English. Anyone want to follow up with these comments?

[shymel94]

I really think more than 30% of anime is dubbed or at least the "bigger" titles are. The 24/7 Anime Network is on still Time Warner Cable under Entertainment on Demand. Not all the anime on there is dubbed and I actually think most of it isn't. Adult Swim doesn't play that much anime anymore because it's more cheaper, therefore profitable, for them to make their own shows.

[kanade2]

I find it unusual. Before 2008, I noticed that 95% of anime licensed were dubbed. ADV Films, Funimation, and Geneon USA dubbed all anime titles that were aquired, and all of a sudden come 2009 and beyond, and only 25-30% of anime these days are dubbed.

In general I only understand english, and its strange for me to hear any other language, and have to read the text. Also, what if someone blind just watches the anime for the audio, then it would have to be in English. Anyone want to follow up with these comments?

It's simple the companies that were bringing over anime ,and dubbing it realized that it costing them more then they were making off from it . Fewer people are buying anime because of fansubbing,and pricing .

It's more profitable for a company to sub a anime then put it on stream,and disc . Reason being is subbing a anime costs next to nothing ,and it's a whole lot faster then dubbing something .

Well a blind person will just have to stick to the dubbed anime that has been released as I doubt the companies will accommodate for such handicaps.

[myskaros]

Anyone want to follow up with these comments?

In addition to what kanade2 said, it's also just a fact that more anime is getting localized these days than in the past. Fansubs and subbed simulcasts show that there is high demand for translated but not dubbed anime. Knowing this, it's up to the companies localizing to calculate whether it's worth spending the extra time and money to dub and how many more sales that will generate versus a sub-only release.

[Mc-Taz]

I really appreciate this thread, just for the sheer entertainment value it provided. Thank you for that, OP.

Unfortunately you were probably serious when posting this, (when reading the first post I thought it might be a joke) but I can understand that you may not know a whole lot about the industry, and you do seem genuinely interested in finding out more about it. I'd answer some of your questions, but the majority of replies here have covered most of what I would tell you.