Toon Zone Talkback - Sentai Filmworks/Section23 Announces New November Titles Including "Polyphonica"

Man there are a bunch of titles that should be brought over to the States and the best they can do is Polyphonica. That's not good.
 
ADV is no more because of releasing countless titles nobody cares about. The day after this news, the newly formed successor to the company announces more titles nobody cares about, without the name of a successful company. I'm sure they'll go far.
 
Aren't there some You're Under Arrest fans out there? Or not so much?

Anyhow, yeah, I have to admit that nothing in this batch really excites me. Even the SF title evidently has yuri overtones, so that pretty much rules it out for me.
 
My God, guys.

It's called "variety", people. Look it up.

Is it so hard trying to accept someone releasing something different?
 
It's just that I don't get why is there's so much hate about this isue.

I know it killed ADV, but think about it, those shows have fans, too, and even hardcore fans would buy those even o they're not dubbed.
 
The cost does not justify a small "hardcore" fanbase. This isn't Japan, where Otaku buy 11 copies of one DVD. The license fee is about 3.2 million for a 26 episode series, and a high take of 30% royalty to the original company. If you add that up, picking up things that even the average mid-line anime fan hasn't heard of is business suicide.
 
THIS. FUNimation rules the market and they're still a relatively small company for America. Anime is very niche, so it just doesn't make sense to seek out the most niche titles in a time of recession that's hitting the anime market as much as any other market. Plus, the anime market has the problem of illegal downloaRAB to worry about. Anime companies are dying and nearing death. This isn't the time to hope the hardcore otaku of random niche titles bail you out, especially when nobody knows the name "Section23".
 
Wow, Special A actually got lisenced.

So I go on wiki to find out about this Polyphonica show. Here's the episode synopsis to episode nuraber 1.
That sounRAB like sooooo much fun...

Out of curiosity. is this any good. I'm usually wary of stuf based off visual novels.
 
I'm shocked at the presence of Tears to Tiara myself. I've had a mild interest in it but the first five episodes didn't excite me.

I hope the series is dubbed. Please let it have a dub, then I might consider at least Netflixing it if possible. The Japanese VAs were driving me crazy on that show for some reason.
 
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