Bandai Entertainment (US) has the rights to R2??

[cardslash02.livejournal.com]

Hey all,

I was hearing some disturbing rumors from Anime Boston today that season 2 has BEEN LICENSED. Now I don't know if this is official or not, but according to some dialogue at the industry panel today:
[20:31:06] do you have R2?

[20:31:11] yes, we will be handling R2 as well

Source: http://envirosphere.com/
I talked to a guy who was at the panel who heard this information directly.

Well folks, I hope this does not seriously impact us getting timely fansubs.
Discuss!

Comments

[konekodarkness.livejournal.com]

I agree. I started out with fansubs for most of the series I watch. There is no advertisements in the UK, no adverts, we only just got animecentral a couple of months ago. That's it. It's terrible marketing, and they are not keeping up with the times, it's their own fault they're losing money.

Don't worry I scream at these companies telling them they need to adapt their marketing skills and SPEED!

The problem is is that there are a large community of fans who only want fansubs and will not support what they watch, thinking they can get it for free. Fansubs used to be for series which would never make it to dvd in another country and that's what I love about fansubs, but now that it's going to America, those subbing in english should stop.

I can see this is an issue which will not go away in a long time and I hope the industry finds a way so that we're not reliant on fansubs before the industry does start to show crippling damage. There's already a lot of damage behind the scenes on both the American and Japanese sides.

No need to apologise, a heated debate warms the heart every now and then.

[lisa-patrikevna.livejournal.com]

I think that a large community of fans who only want fansubs will not buy DVDs even if fansubs cease to exist. They'll most probably just drop anime. Because their point of view based either on lack of money, either on indifference to anime itself.

I too hope that industry will adapt. ))