I wasn't expecting this announcement 3/4 of the way into the winter season, but new licenses from FUNimation are never a bad thing unless the anime are really bad, and these are the only 2 anime not simulcast on Crunchyroll this season that I've actually heard good things about. Still, it would be nice if next season, all the new anime series got simulcasts, even though (or especially since) it's the spring season and has so many new series. As for the simulcasting itself, I would rather Crunchyroll get them all, since I can't watch the FUNimation video player. It would be fine if FUNimation uploaded them to their YouTube at the same time, but since there's no mention of that on there, I'm guessing they're not going to be on there at all. Still, at least with FUNimation licensing them, we already have a guaranteed future bilingual DVD release. In the case of Durarara!!, it will definitely get licensed by FUNimation. The only reason they're grabbing these up now is so they can simulcast at least part of each series. Durarara!! is already being simulcast on Crunchyroll, so they can wait to acquire/announce that. Honestly, I'm still a little surprised that FUNimation didn't license Durarara!! before it premiered to simulcast that, but I guess they just weren't looking at doing that early enough, which would explain why they're just now announcing these, and why Crunchyroll got to simulcast Durarara!!, a series which absolutely had to get a simulcast. So in summary, I'm a little surprised at the timing of these announcements and I'm disappointed that I won't be able to watch these series as the episodes go up, but it doesn't really change my current situation, and it's good to see FUNimation license more anime that I've heard are good.
