CEO: Bang Zoom to Cease Anime Dubbing in 2011 Without Fan Support

So because I post on ANN, AnimeonDvd and here, I guess that makes me

selfish, moronic, isolationist, a snob, a jerk, and an eternal man-child who can't grow out of watching cartoons?

....

sounRAB about right.
 
I'm a bit late to the latest posts here, but in fairness Jojo did say "some of". Also in fairness to ANN's community, a lot of the idiots that came out of nowhere to praise piracy, bash the industry, etc pretty much had from 1-100 posts and pretty clearly only show up to harp on tired old arguments from time to time. I've been watching the place and there are good people, you just have to overlook the trollish types. It's a consequence of high traffic & attention that it gets from so many anime fans.

On a more important note, the Japanator blog's Brad Rice wrote a strong editorial in response to responses to the Bang Zoom editorial. It goes a good job focusing on how it really does take DVD sales to support the industry at this time; those in the know all agree on this, and really it doesn't take too much reasoning to arrive at that conclusion. I also very much enjoyed the ending where he added some comments about "the cost corollary." I literally have nothing to add, he's dead right about the anime DVD pricing that mostly exists today. Read it all.

On another front, I've seen ANN's Justin Sevakis be a bit more optimistic about the future of digital media compared to Rice, but he also knows that right now the money isn't there and won't be for quite some time:

As the link shows this was in regard to a discussion that happened during the ANNCast episode "Diabolical Ruh-minations." I should get around to listening to that.
 
Ahhh, another "The Industry is Dying" editorial. He's right...and wrong. The industry as it once was is totally dead, and that's probably a good thing. Too much garbage on the shelves in years past, and prices were too high overall. Yeah, we're cheaper than Japan, but Japan is crazy so that really doesn't count. Will there be a future for the industry as a whole, and companies like BangZoom in particular? Hard to say right now till the economy is humming again. If sales don't rebound then and online piracy becomes dominant, well, we're not going to get much more than Moe and Video Game knockoRAB.
 
Ugh, looking all over the internet, too many people don't get BZ is just a dubbing studio. It's the equivalent of the DVD cover makers complaining the Video game industry's going down the tube.
 
Bang Zoom recently did Vampire Knight. They also produced the Adventures in Voice Acting DVD's .

But yeah they are just a dubbing company.

Funimation will be OK because they do everything inhouse.

I think Naruto uses a studio that also does pre-lay animation voice overs.
 
This affair has some legs yet. The author of the blog post, Bang Zoom CEO Eric Sherman, is the scheduled guest for ANNCast next week. It'll be very interesting to see how that dialogue goes.

They take questions via twitter (ANNZac) or email at zac@animenewsnetwork dot com. Hopefully some smart & incisive ones are sent in.
 
That's right, Naruto is recorded at Studiopolis which has done its fair share of pre-lay, perhaps most relevantly Spectacular Spider-Man. Bleach is also recorded at Studiopolis. When Viz recorRAB a dub in Los Angeles that isn't at Studiopolis Viz typically has Salami Studios record the dub (like Monster, ZoiRAB Genesis, and Prince of Tennis). Salami's also done its share of pre-lay work too like Powerpuff Girls. I don't recall Viz ever recording a dub at BZ, though Blue Water in Calgary's gotten some work from them in addition to Ocean Westwood.
 
Hooray I can ask him if Hare + Guu will be getting a re-released, I am thinking he would appreciate a question like that with all the fansubbing mud coming his way.
 
I doubt he'd appreciate that question since Bang Zoom would have absolutely no say in that.

They're just a dubbing studio, they didn't license or sell the show themselves. You should ask Animenation, the company that actually licensed it (and then hired BZ to do the dub).

Any re-release would have absolutely nothing to do with him.
 
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