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- 25 de Dic, 2017
I'd like to just say I've maintained for a long time, pre Vic losing his case, that his donations would have been better collected and spent on funding a competing dubbing studio, history has born my position out to be correct. Vic's reputation is not repaired, almost nobody who wasn't on his side came to his side, he has blown $250k on lining TY's pockets, anime matsuri had to foot the bill to make my original suggestion a reality. The punishment funimation got by being consolidated into crunchy roll ended up just being a corporate downsizing maneuver after Sony bought a monopoly in the western anime distribution.
The best fuck you would have been to open up a competing dubbing studio. It just got delayed by 2-3 years while we entertained this wishful thinking.
As someone who knows someone who owns a dubbing studio that has done anime, it’s not that simple. Unless you have a massive amount of money and Hollywood clout, you’re not going to be getting the anime that people actually want to watch a dub of. Remember, dubbing is about people who don’t want to watch subs. The toonami audience, the kids audience, funimation gets high profile dubs and spends close to nothing on them because they know the majority of sales goes to people watching subs.
Usually the dubbing studio does not have the rights to the show itself. For isntance, Bang Zoom Entertainment does the casting and recording for a lot of funimation projects. Funimation pays for the production and distributes. A Vic owned studio would have to work with crunchy roll or Netflix to get anywhere in the industry, and that’s not gonna happen.
Alternatives exist, but what you’re effectively asking for is for a new soda company to attempt to make a cola that challenges coke and Pepsi