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Transcription: bayoab Note: ( ) is usually commenting on the panel and was not said. 15:27:28 <bay|AX|Funi> we have a PPT on screen 15:27:44 <bay|AX|Funi> and it looks like it will be a new one 15:28:08 <bay|AX|Funi> and we have Adam up on stage.. as well as... 15:28:30 <bay|AX|Funi> Gen in the audience.... 15:30:14 <bay|AX|Funi> Hello there... 15:30:21 <bay|AX|Funi> There we go... 15:30:24 <bay|AX|Funi> how is everyone doing 15:30:35 <bay|AX|Funi> happy post independence day 15:30:49 <bay|AX|Funi> there is nothing more patriotic than spending your weekend at an anime con 15:30:57 <bay|AX|Funi> thanks for coming 15:31:01 <bay|AX|Funi> im adam sheehan.. 15:31:06 <bay|AX|Funi> we're going to talk about all the wonderful fun things 15:31:13 <bay|AX|Funi> some of the new products and other stuff as well as q&A 15:31:15 <bay|AX|Funi> without much ado 15:31:28 <bay|AX|Funi> the state of the industry: DON'T PANIC (this time bold and blue) 15:31:49 <bay|AX|Funi> Change creates opportunity - Gen Fukunaga 15:31:56 <bay|AX|Funi> what you are seeing now is the ebb and flow... this is just a change in the market 15:32:11 <bay|AX|Funi> what you are just seeing is a change and a shift from one format 15:32:16 <bay|AX|Funi> about that... 15:32:21 <bay|AX|Funi> the state of the anime industry... 15:32:27 <bay|AX|Funi> looking at the bigger picture - non-anime market 15:32:33 <bay|AX|Funi> new technology - blu-ray digital downloads 15:32:38 <bay|AX|Funi> packaging trends - changing with them.. 15:32:48 <bay|AX|Funi> (retailers and fans were asking for boxsets with more eps) 15:33:35 <bay|AX|Funi> putting stuff out in the way the fans are purchasing and you guys are purchasing.. 15:33:37 <bay|AX|Funi> giving you guys what you want 15:33:42 <bay|AX|Funi> you like more episodes right? (cheer) 15:33:57 <bay|AX|Funi> convention attendance increasing nationally... internet viewership increase.. hollywood taking on anime properties.. 15:34:04 <bay|AX|Funi> (still state of the industry) 15:34:13 <bay|AX|Funi> fans want to interact... 15:34:23 <bay|AX|Funi> we're happy fans are coming out more and more 15:34:31 <bay|AX|Funi> and conventions are important because we touch the fans.. not in the wrong way but talking to them 15:34:39 <bay|AX|Funi> the reason we love this is you guys are brutally honest 15:35:02 <bay|AX|Funi> we love seeing the passion 15:35:18 <bay|AX|Funi> streaming... youtube... the new youtube initiative we have... 15:35:19 <bay|AX|Funi> itunes... 15:35:37 <bay|AX|Funi> hollywood is working on stuff like Speed racer.. and that Dragon ball z thing 15:35:48 <bay|AX|Funi> hollywood is looking at whats next and they are looking at anime 15:35:51 <bay|AX|Funi> moving on.. 15:35:53 <bay|AX|Funi> digital download 15:36:03 <bay|AX|Funi> aquarion complete series late july to itunes since they are doing so well 15:36:14 <bay|AX|Funi> dubbed not subbed 15:36:34 <bay|AX|Funi> funimation mobile... 15:36:37 <bay|AX|Funi> funimation channel is on the go 15:36:43 <bay|AX|Funi> unlimited access to selected anime titles 15:36:47 <bay|AX|Funi> with att/sprint 15:36:52 <bay|AX|Funi> 5 min chapters to watch on your phone 15:36:57 <bay|AX|Funi> two season packages (gsg/moonphase) 15:37:04 <bay|AX|Funi> season 1 of galaxy railways free with either package 15:37:13 <bay|AX|Funi> text "go funimation" to 22646 15:37:25 <bay|AX|Funi> for more info 15:37:38 <bay|AX|Funi> (missed the url) 15:37:41 <bay|AX|Funi> podcast... 15:38:04 <bay|AX|Funi> montly update as well as the weekly quickie 15:38:11 <bay|AX|Funi> we announced heroic age on friday 15:38:19 <bay|AX|Funi> you can watch it through our website on funimation.com or subscribe on itunes 15:38:21 <bay|AX|Funi> blu-ray 15:38:25 <bay|AX|Funi> adding more things 15:38:28 <bay|AX|Funi> afro samurai 15:38:34 <bay|AX|Funi> dbz double feature (tree of might/lord slug) 15:38:41 <bay|AX|Funi> dbz double feature (cooler's revenge/return of cooler) 15:38:49 <bay|AX|Funi> robotech: shadow chronicles 15:38:53 <bay|AX|Funi> shinobi: heart under blade 15:38:54 <bay|AX|Funi> vexille 15:39:14 <bay|AX|Funi> look for a lot of new stuff from us coming blu-ray from us 15:39:17 <bay|AX|Funi> part of the future of animation 15:39:19 <bay|AX|Funi> case closed 15:39:22 <bay|AX|Funi> season 1 15:39:28 <bay|AX|Funi> msrp 49.98, 1-26 15:39:31 <bay|AX|Funi> putting out season box sets 15:40:04 <bay|AX|Funi> available july 22th(?)... bonus features include... 15:40:21 <bay|AX|Funi> YYH s1, 34.98, ep 1-26, july 8th 15:41:05 <bay|AX|Funi> one piece 15:41:10 <bay|AX|Funi> season one, second voyage 15:41:30 <bay|AX|Funi> msrp 49.98, 14-26, exclusive cover art, sep 23rd, extras: trailers, textless songs, select episode commentaries 15:42:19 <bay|AX|Funi> toei are drawing new artwork for every release 15:42:42 <bay|AX|Funi> dbz season 6, complete cell games sagas, 29 action packed episodes on 6 discs.. 15:42:50 <bay|AX|Funi> newly revised english dialogue with japanese audio, marathon play 15:42:51 <bay|AX|Funi> sep 16th 15:43:29 <bay|AX|Funi> (pimping marathon play) 15:44:21 <bay|AX|Funi> first look at the box right now.... 15:44:33 <bay|AX|Funi> xmas time.. maybe a little before 15:44:37 <bay|AX|Funi> ouran host club s1 part 1 15:44:38 <bay|AX|Funi> part 1 oct 28th 15:44:45 <bay|AX|Funi> part 2 jan 6 2009 15:44:48 <bay|AX|Funi> 59.98 15:44:51 <bay|AX|Funi> ep 14-26 15:45:03 <bay|AX|Funi> extra features: actors commentary, manga pages, outtakes 15:45:34 <bay|AX|Funi> darker than black 15:45:36 <bay|AX|Funi> vol 1 nov 25th 15:46:05 <bay|AX|Funi> new acquisitions 15:46:09 <bay|AX|Funi> special announcement 15:46:21 <bay|AX|Funi> (you might know these if you have an internet connection) 15:46:55 <bay|AX|Funi> (this is all a recap of may/june) 15:47:28 <bay|AX|Funi> adding full length episodes 15:47:41 <bay|AX|Funi> blue gender/slayers/peach girl/mushishi/kiddy grade.. .more to come.. 15:47:52 <bay|AX|Funi> program excerpts and extended preview also available 15:48:06 <bay|AX|Funi> "its all free to enjoy legally" 15:48:10 <bay|AX|Funi> geneon new acquisitions 15:48:22 <bay|AX|Funi> black lagoon, elemental gelade, ergo proxy, fate stay night, hellsing ultimate, kamichu, karin 15:48:40 <bay|AX|Funi> (LOTS OF CHEERING) 15:49:16 <bay|AX|Funi> KKM s2, nanoha/a's, ninja vixens, paradise kiss, rozen maiden/traumend 15:49:30 <bay|AX|Funi> shounen onmyoui, tales of phantasia, familiar of zero, saiunkokku, when they cry 15:49:35 <bay|AX|Funi> all the voice actors will be the same 15:49:40 <bay|AX|Funi> it will fit in your original starter box 15:49:52 <bay|AX|Funi> sojitz new acquisitions... 15:50:06 <bay|AX|Funi> 009, amg, air gear, air movie, air tv, blade of the phantom master, CP revolution, coyote, devil may cry, guyver 15:50:33 <bay|AX|Funi> jing, jinki extend, kanon, kyoushiro, le chevalier, magikano, moeyo ken, moonlight mile.. misised one 15:50:46 <bay|AX|Funi> (etc.. etc) 15:50:50 <bay|AX|Funi> (i can't type that fast) 15:51:02 <bay|AX|Funi> we don't have answers yet on these 15:51:12 <bay|AX|Funi> we don't have answer yet.. 15:51:15 <bay|AX|Funi> hopefully by otakon 15:51:29 <bay|AX|Funi> he recaps all the licenses.. 15:51:35 <bay|AX|Funi> followed by a "it's over 9000!!!!" 15:51:44 <bay|AX|Funi> in a scroll... 15:52:01 <bay|AX|Funi> nuff said.... 15:52:06 <bay|AX|Funi> going to q&A 15:52:29 <bay|AX|Funi> our ceo* 15:52:35 <bay|AX|Funi> with all the geneon and other stuff 15:52:39 <bay|AX|Funi> so.. what have you guys got for me... 15:53:01 <bay|AX|Funi> q: on the ova... to negima.. and 2nd negima.. any info? 15:53:08 <bay|AX|Funi> q: you guys announced last year.. love hina.. any status? 15:53:19 <bay|AX|Funi> a: negima... ova and s2 will be released shortly.. late summer/fall 15:53:21 <bay|AX|Funi> don't know the order 15:53:22 <bay|AX|Funi> watch the site 15:53:25 <bay|AX|Funi> as far as love hina.. 15:53:26 <bay|AX|Funi> no info on the date 15:53:30 <bay|AX|Funi> looking at late this year 15:53:58 <bay|AX|Funi> q: xxxholic kei or tsubasa ova yet? 15:54:05 <bay|AX|Funi> a: we haven't acquired them yet... 15:54:10 <bay|AX|Funi> look for good news in the future 15:54:38 <bay|AX|Funi> q: why does navarre's stock keep going down? 15:54:57 <bay|AX|Funi> a: thats a tough question.. the market is finicky... its hard to understand considering our earnings keep going up... 15:55:06 <bay|AX|Funi> (i didn't get the rest... because i didn't understand that...) 15:55:13 <bay|AX|Funi> something about market caps... 15:55:29 <bay|AX|Funi> q; why did you get those adv titles and why did ouran take so long? 15:56:00 <bay|AX|Funi> a: with ouran... the materials sometimes take a while to get otgether.... and we finally got them.. and then in june.. we decided to wait and do the huge party.. 15:56:08 <bay|AX|Funi> there was also a delay in the deal beause we needed the digital rights 15:56:30 <bay|AX|Funi> adv...well yea... ARM.. one of the signatories in the group.. they approached us earlier this year and asked if we were willing to take on the titles.. 15:56:31 <bay|AX|Funi> we said sure.. 15:56:58 <bay|AX|Funi> q: for the geneon titles you just got.. will there be complete season packs? 15:57:12 <bay|AX|Funi> a: we're in a partnership with geneon.. they will finish all the dubbing and dvd authoring... 15:57:18 <bay|AX|Funi> we are doing the marketing, distribute and sell the home video 15:57:25 <bay|AX|Funi> that way it will be consistantt.. 15:57:29 <bay|AX|Funi> geneon wants us to do one volume at a time 15:57:33 <bay|AX|Funi> after that, we will box up the series 15:57:55 <bay|AX|Funi> q: will one piece have marathon play? 15:57:58 <bay|AX|Funi> a: yes 15:58:02 <bay|AX|Funi> q: what kind of time frame with these titles? 15:58:11 <bay|AX|Funi> a: the geneon tiles will start launching toward the end of next month.. 15:58:15 <bay|AX|Funi> with the adv titles.. we are hoping this fall 15:58:52 <bay|AX|Funi> q: along those lines... going to pick up the older geneon titles like trigun/tenchi.. 15:59:02 <bay|AX|Funi> a: the answer to that is a lot of the old titles reverted back to the original licensors... 15:59:08 <bay|AX|Funi> we will try and get those stronger titles.. 15:59:32 <bay|AX|Funi> q: picking up battle athletes again? 15:59:46 <bay|AX|Funi> a: until we have pen to paper.. we can't say anything... 16:00:08 <bay|AX|Funi> q: i saw you had RM/RM traumend.. any chance of the preview to RM? 16:00:17 <bay|AX|Funi> a: right now, we are not in discussions, we need to sell how to get the other RM out first 16:00:25 <bay|AX|Funi> hopefully, we will start discussion with the licensors after 16:01:01 <bay|AX|Funi> q: when you mentioned geneon is still going to do production.. does that also include... the special editions with hellsing and saiunkoku...? 16:01:21 <bay|AX|Funi> a: we are working in concert to talk about packaging... they completed a lot of the packaging already.. so those will go out as is 16:01:48 <bay|AX|Funi> there are some left over special editions that they will sell what is left 16:02:13 <bay|AX|Funi> q: for the sojitz titles, do you have the translations and dub work? 16:02:29 <bay|AX|Funi> a: on the sojitz titles, we've been talking to ADV to hire them to wrap them... 16:02:35 <bay|AX|Funi> and if adv will agree to do that, we'd be happy to let them 16:02:55 <bay|AX|Funi> yea, it would be a turnkey production.. 16:03:08 <bay|AX|Funi> q: any chance of the funimation on directtv or dish.... 16:03:16 <bay|AX|Funi> q: will the price on the geneon titles come down? 16:03:21 <bay|AX|Funi> *to funi price range 16:03:54 <bay|AX|Funi> a: the price is pretty consistant at $30 for singles... 16:04:01 <bay|AX|Funi> we drop the price when it comes to season sets... 16:04:15 <bay|AX|Funi> and.. funimation channel is agressively persuing a vod strategy 16:04:28 <bay|AX|Funi> and we hope to get it on as many places as possible 16:04:33 <bay|AX|Funi> dish looks like something that could happen as VOD 16:04:49 <bay|AX|Funi> we want to be everywhere... 16:05:48 <bay|AX|Funi> q: kodocha s2 coming out... 16:05:57 <bay|AX|Funi> a: yea.. that is coming out.... in aug or so (????) 16:06:21 <bay|AX|Funi> q: wat about the video sevice last night on ANN.... 16:06:40 <bay|AX|Funi> a: they are interested in titles... right now, our focus is to get huge major sites that have big mass appeal 16:06:47 <bay|AX|Funi> we need ad support or we can't get the content out there 16:07:03 <bay|AX|Funi> after we finish those... we will look at other sites... 16:07:08 <bay|AX|Funi> these deals take a long time... 16:07:22 <bay|AX|Funi> q: what happened to one piece on cartoon network? 16:07:58 <bay|AX|Funi> a: its difficult because one piece takes a while to catch on.... (and once it catches on..people don't realize how big it is.... ) 16:08:07 <bay|AX|Funi> if it doesn't catch on... the broadcast companies have to go on 16:08:14 <bay|AX|Funi> i think the early setup episodes weren't enough ratings for them 16:08:26 <bay|AX|Funi> and they are also trying to squeeze out anime... 16:08:44 <bay|AX|Funi> q: for the adv titles that were interrupted, will you try to keep consistant with packaging? 16:08:46 <bay|AX|Funi> a: absolutely 16:09:07 <bay|AX|Funi> q: other one piece movies? 16:09:13 <bay|AX|Funi> a: we haven't acquired them yet, but thats the plan 16:09:21 <bay|AX|Funi> we've already bought 3 seasons worth of one peice... 16:09:29 <bay|AX|Funi> thats over 150 eps and we have to get through that first before we can do movies 16:09:38 <bay|AX|Funi> if one piece catches on..and we can clear the digital rights up... 16:09:56 <bay|AX|Funi> and get the wide exposure we are hoping to do... then that would give us justification to launch the movies earlier 16:10:31 <bay|AX|Funi> q: why did you pick up big windup and timeline for release? 16:10:47 <bay|AX|Funi> a: timeline.. early next year... early summer... somewhere next year... late spring... early summer..... when baseball season starts ish 16:10:53 <bay|AX|Funi> we aren't sure... 16:10:56 <bay|AX|Funi> we aren't sure how to market it... 16:11:59 <bay|AX|Funi> we need to investigate options to cross-market and other ways ot market it such as MLB 16:12:44 <bay|AX|Funi> (they also mentioned how they experimented with live action and ways to market that) 16:13:37 <bay|AX|Funi> q: (marketing question) 16:13:44 <bay|AX|Funi> a: we are looking at new and exciting ways to market... 16:14:26 <bay|AX|Funi> q: for the familiar of zero, what about s2? also... the geneon licenses packaging.... will you be repackaging hellsing 1-2 for those who missed 16:14:43 <bay|AX|Funi> a: for ongoing series.. the issue to be honest.. we have to first see how these sell (voting with consumer dollars) 16:14:54 <bay|AX|Funi> also... if the japanese licensor doesn't try and gouge... 16:15:07 <bay|AX|Funi> for kodocha.. they are trying to figure out how in the world they can get the rest of it out 16:15:09 <bay|AX|Funi> we try to not drop series 16:15:54 <bay|AX|Funi> q: there have been a lot of mixed signals among one piece fandom.. how far apart are the one piece relaeses supposed to be? 16:16:11 <bay|AX|Funi> a: they are supposed to be about 3 months 16:16:20 <bay|AX|Funi> if you see something off... one piece is a huge license.. we put it in walmart... 16:16:33 <bay|AX|Funi> they have a thing called modular 16:16:41 <bay|AX|Funi> and funimation adjusts the release shcedule to get it put in modular 16:16:44 <bay|AX|Funi> q: how are the one piece doing 16:16:48 <bay|AX|Funi> a: two thumbs up 16:16:57 <bay|AX|Funi> gen: that and shin-chan are really... (couldn't hear the end) 16:17:42 <bay|AX|Funi> q: do you have any.. time line... on the second semester of school rumble? 16:17:47 <bay|AX|Funi> a: that is coming out soon.. aug or sept.. 16:17:55 <bay|AX|Funi> thank you for the panel... 16:17:59 <bay|AX|Funi> any more questions.. ill be in the booth 16:18:00 <bay|AX|Funi> thanks again 16:18:03 <bay|AX|Funi> end
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