CR Announces its First DVD
Crunchyroll has announced plans to distribute the acclaimed 2007 anime film 5 Centimeters per Second on domestic DVD in late September or early October. Crunchyroll will handle the DVD authoring, promotion, and financing. Bandai Entertainment has been tapped to handle disc replication and distribution.
AD Vision briefly licensed and distributed the film on domestic DVD in 2008. Bang Zoom! Entertainment produced a new English dub for Crunchyroll streaming in 2009. Crunchyroll’s (presumably) bilingual DVD will include the Bang Zoom! dub.
Source: Anime News Network
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And CrunchyRoll takes another step in obsoleting the remaining US companies.
Wow, that’s ironic. The company that helped destroy the domestic DVD market is now making DVDs.
Kind of like dumping your neighbor and heading to the big dance with some other girl… and then seeing her at the prom lookin’ pretty smart after your presumed hot new date ditches you.
“Well, this is awkward.”
Helped do it?
It pretty much did it single-handedly.
As much as the fandom has become thieving little pieces of shit in the last five years, it’s needed a “front and center” presence to aid and abet in that, and CR has fit that bill “nicely”.
I think it is great news, I look forward to picking it up. Now I’m waiting for Ef.
I don’t think CR is responsible for destroying the DVD market, if anything it has been all of the rogue (pirate) sites out there. CR merely took the initiative to do it the right way, by getting the permissions of producers and such. For those of us who want to legitimately watch and support the industry CR has been a great source. Now that they are well established they are in fact helping to strengthen the DVD market. Hopefully this will be the first of many titles they release.
If streaming is so bad for DVD sales then why would FUNimation do it themselves?
If anything, CR’s actually *expanded* the domestic anime DVD market. Look at the recent stuff being released by Discotek, for example. No one could imagine that happening even five years ago *before* the bubble popped. Now, thanks to a larger audience for GE 999 than any of the Matsumoto one-shots from CPM and Media Blasters, we’re finally getting a real release of the movies. If I have to hate on anyone for hurting anime, it’ll be the producers of Dragonball Evolution.
CR started out as a haven for unlicensed fansubs. The worst part was they were streaming shows that had been released for years in America. I e-mailed them once and called them out on this, and they said unless a distributor tells them to stop streaming, they won’t do it. Then they became legit, sort of stealing all of the wares from the legal distribution companies and becoming so powerful the distribution companies had to turn to them to distribute.