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Funimation’s servers were compromised? Right

As some of you may or may not heard before, Funimation and TOEI were teaming up to simulcast stream One Piece and yesterday they uploaded it a day in advance and it was put on the internet. These brilliant Funimation folks also uploaded Phantom hours before the Japanese airing multiple weeks in a row and [...]

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May 30, 2009 by miasmacloud in Anime
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lol funimation

After hearing their “3rd announcement” for their holiday event, I would like to take a break from my MKR marathon to laugh at Funimation.
Funimation is announcing 10 titles this holiday season, one per day, and they’ve left image hints for 8 of the 10 titles that give away the title or words close to the [...]

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December 24, 2008 by miasmacloud in Anime
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A hypothetical day in the life of the Executives of Bandai Entertainment

After hearing about the Kurokami licensing and US distribution, I have a mental image of days in the Bandai office to be like this.
Yoshida Toshifumi: “We’re going to bring this upcoming anime, Kurokami, to the states.”
Random: “All right.”
Yoshida Toshifumi: “We’ll arrange it so a dub airs on US TV around at the same time as [...]

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December 15, 2008 by miasmacloud in Anime
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