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Unedited 16:56:52 <bay|AB> clearing the room now 17:02:51 <bay|AB> people are still streaming in 17:04:19 <bay|AB> how are you doing 17:04:32 <bay|AB> this is the funimation industry panel 17:04:35 <bay|AB> my name is adam sheehan 17:04:42 <bay|AB> the senior events manager 17:04:51 <bay|AB> got a lot to talk about so lets dive in 17:04:55 <bay|AB> we should have time for q&a 17:04:58 <bay|AB> new ppt 17:05:08 <bay|AB> we talk alot about this at different conventions 17:05:08 <bay|AB> anime and the economy 17:05:16 <bay|AB> whether anime fan or otherwise, you are affected by the economy 17:05:37 <bay|AB> we're here to say we're fine, we aren't playing the recession game 17:05:43 <bay|AB> we are doing great 17:05:48 <bay|AB> thanks to you guys 17:05:58 <bay|AB> thank you so much for supporting us on our online, vod, ,cons, merchandise, dvds, etc 17:06:18 <bay|AB> anime fans are great because they are brutally honest 17:06:45 <bay|AB> its so great that you guys are honest with us 17:06:48 <bay|AB> and we can take the feedback with us to the ofice 17:07:00 <bay|AB> bars and graphs 17:07:07 <bay|AB> totla release schedule 08 vs 09 17:07:18 <bay|AB> there is about a 3 dvd difference between the 2 years 17:07:20 <bay|AB> its so close between the two 17:07:27 <bay|AB> the big blue spike in september is geneon 17:07:35 <bay|AB> thats everying 17:07:39 <bay|AB> it includes box sets, blurays 17:07:50 <bay|AB> new releases, this is only stff that its the first time coming out 17:08:16 <bay|AB> (geekonomics) 17:08:18 <bay|AB> 17% growth of new product planned for this year 17:08:38 <bay|AB> some peopel have asked if we are worried about what other companies have done previously with market floods and retailers... 17:08:42 <bay|AB> we are very very aware of this 17:08:47 <bay|AB> we try to pick up shows that we know will be strong sellers 17:09:03 <bay|AB> and other niche shows that will sell 17:09:10 <bay|AB> we're very careful not to flood the market 17:09:12 <bay|AB> thats one thing we don't want to do 17:09:26 <bay|AB> watch anime online 17:09:26 <bay|AB> streaming 17:09:41 <bay|AB> hulu, veoh, gaiaonline, joost, youtube, ANN... more 17:09:59 <bay|AB> (going to wherre they are at) 17:10:02 <bay|AB> if you want to own, we have download to own 17:10:09 <bay|AB> amazon.com, d2d, itunes, psn, xbl 17:10:32 <bay|AB> which leads me to our own video player 17:10:38 <bay|AB> over 500 free episodes 17:11:21 <bay|AB> you can't get a streaming video signed by a voice actor so we provide the link to buy it next to it 17:11:27 <bay|AB> funimation channel on comcast 17:11:33 <bay|AB> we are on VOD on digital cable 17:11:36 <bay|AB> free anime under "FUNImation anime" 17:11:49 <bay|AB> you can get free or pay ones... 17:11:49 <bay|AB> we're also on verizon... 17:11:57 <bay|AB> we're trying as fast as we can to ge the channel nationwide 17:12:12 <bay|AB> we just got a big unexpected project check for the channel 17:12:24 <bay|AB> with the new digital switchover, there will be more availability to add our channel 17:12:29 <bay|AB> blog.funimation.com and twitter @funimation 17:12:36 <bay|AB> we give away dvds 17:13:13 <bay|AB> they let me do editorial 17:13:22 <bay|AB> sometimes we've done giveaways 17:13:44 <bay|AB> funimation booth exclusives... 17:13:54 <bay|AB> *bands 17:14:11 <bay|AB> every single show, we're trying to get more and more exclusive items 17:14:26 <bay|AB> we have a lot of promo items we want to do which we can make and sell 17:14:34 <bay|AB> but can't mass produce and give away for free 17:14:49 <bay|AB> season 1 part 1, available now 17:14:50 <bay|AB> episodes 1-13 17:15:00 <bay|AB> this show is exceeding our expectations 10 fold 17:15:02 <bay|AB> msrp $49.98 17:15:05 <bay|AB> season one part 2 17:15:09 <bay|AB> avail june 16th 17:15:51 <bay|AB> and...a trailer... 17:17:42 <bay|AB> going on to something different 17:17:44 <bay|AB> shigurui... complete series 17:17:45 <bay|AB> available now 17:18:03 <bay|AB> 12 episodes, $60 msrp, dvd includes 24 page booklet w/ interviews, hsitorical notes and in-depth story outline 17:18:23 <bay|AB> marathon play, actor and director episode commentaries, production artwork galleries, textless songs 17:18:43 <bay|AB> (talking about trying to find the least bloody scene in the show... which is still absurdly bloody) 17:18:48 <bay|AB> this makes basilisk look like hello kitty 17:18:50 <bay|AB> ultraviolence 17:19:04 <bay|AB> if you need blood coming at you in full screen, also available in bluray for $80 17:19:05 <bay|AB> msrp 17:19:06 <bay|AB> d grayman 17:19:08 <bay|AB> season one part 1 17:19:13 <bay|AB> ep 1-13, dvd msrp $60 17:19:28 <bay|AB> dvd includes episode 2 commentary, textless songs 17:19:30 <bay|AB> season one part 2 avail june 23rd 17:20:11 <bay|AB> (he is clarifying something he said at Animecentral) 17:20:33 <bay|AB> (basically that the show is awesome, but they screwed up with some info before release) 17:20:48 <bay|AB> 26 eps, $50 msrp 17:21:00 <bay|AB> CG trailer 17:22:04 <bay|AB> (or maybe not so cg) 17:22:46 <bay|AB> heroic age 17:22:46 <bay|AB> complete series part 1 17:22:51 <bay|AB> a space opera in the truest sense 17:22:53 <bay|AB> available now 17:23:02 <bay|AB> 13 eps, $60 msrp, textless song extras 17:23:41 <bay|AB> and.. a trailer... 17:24:58 <bay|AB> moving on 17:25:04 <bay|AB> murder princess complete series, 6 episodes, $40... 17:25:06 <bay|AB> available now 17:25:12 <bay|AB> about princess and murder 17:25:26 <bay|AB> dvd extras: ep 6 commentary (dub), textless songs 17:25:36 <bay|AB> trailer 17:26:58 <bay|AB> available now 17:26:59 <bay|AB> 13 eps.. $40... 17:27:02 <bay|AB> just going to show the trailer 17:28:40 <bay|AB> available june 23rd 17:28:50 <bay|AB> first 12 eps, $60 msrp 17:28:56 <bay|AB> extras: making of romeo x juliet... textless songs 17:29:29 <bay|AB> talison jaffe managed to worked in accurate, actual shakeperean english into the dub that matches the lip flaps... 17:29:46 <bay|AB> and the next episode previews are in iambic pentameter 17:30:06 <bay|AB> romeo box is the first one, juliet box second... 17:30:46 <bay|AB> trailer 17:31:59 <bay|AB> june 30th 17:32:10 <bay|AB> first 12 eps, compelte series part 1, $60... 17:32:18 <bay|AB> dvd extras: ayano's house call... 17:32:22 <bay|AB> (missed the rest) 17:32:24 <bay|AB> trailer 17:33:31 <bay|AB> samurai champloo 17:33:34 <bay|AB> available june 30th 17:33:42 <bay|AB> 26 eps, $70 msrp, dvd extras: (tons) 17:33:56 <bay|AB> actor commentary, ep28 , storyboards.... 17:34:06 <bay|AB> one piece.. season 2 part 1, available june 30th 17:34:08 <bay|AB> eps54-66 17:34:15 <bay|AB> msrp $49.98 17:34:34 <bay|AB> they are going the seasons by the story arcs.... 17:34:35 <bay|AB> so it wlil be more voyages 17:34:45 <bay|AB> one piece, streaming online episodes... 17:34:54 <bay|AB> available now episodes 1-2, sub and dub, ep 391, sub.. 17:35:07 <bay|AB> starting may 30th, the episodes from japan will be on our site to watch subtitled 1 hour later 17:35:37 <bay|AB> thanks to toei who helped us... also there is a backlog... we're going to try fill that gap 17:35:42 <bay|AB> we're going to put up all the episodes of one piece to watch 17:35:59 <bay|AB> so if you have nothing to do for... summer... you can watch all of one piece 17:36:00 <bay|AB> box sets, april - june 17:36:16 <bay|AB> (april is already available so im skipping) 17:36:28 <bay|AB> db s9 5/19, $50 17:36:31 <bay|AB> karin, 5/5 $70 17:36:49 <bay|AB> (can't keep up) 17:36:55 <bay|AB> fullmetal alchemist brotherhood 17:37:05 <bay|AB> high quality video 17:37:10 <bay|AB> original japanese dialogue with english subtitles 17:37:15 <bay|AB> avialble 4 days after japanese simulcast 17:37:25 <bay|AB> available on funimation.com/video 17:37:42 <bay|AB> only problem we're having right now is the server load... 17:37:59 <bay|AB> the buffering issue... only thing i can recommend is to pause it and get launch while it loads 17:38:07 <bay|AB> because 10000s of people per day are coming to watch it 17:38:09 <bay|AB> we are fixing the buffering 17:38:23 <bay|AB> since you people are obviously fans, we have a little fun trailer 17:38:43 <bay|AB> FMA ova collection trailer 17:38:46 <bay|AB> available summer 17:38:57 <bay|AB> the original english voice cast is reunited... (for the ovas) 17:39:49 <bay|AB> hopefully for sale by comic con... but july or august... 17:39:54 <bay|AB> and now... 17:39:59 <bay|AB> special announcement 17:40:01 <bay|AB> (lilke a punch in the face, the dbz image) 17:40:19 <bay|AB> AVAIL SEPT 22nd 17:40:22 <bay|AB> Season 1 part 1 17:40:32 <bay|AB> and the cast 17:41:03 <bay|AB> keroro haberkorn narrator elliott, natsumi, leigh, giroro, sabata, tamaman, palencia, moka, rial, kururu, huber, fuyuki, clark,, dororo, tatum 17:41:08 <bay|AB> we're leaving the gundam and macross references alone 17:41:16 <bay|AB> the names are reverted back to the original japanese 17:41:19 <bay|AB> thank you to all the fans for their feedback 17:42:07 <bay|AB> and a new show 17:42:10 <bay|AB> Spice and Wolf 17:42:24 <bay|AB> as you may have heard this morning from animevice 17:42:31 <bay|AB> *jmicheal @ above 17:43:49 <bay|AB> Sgt Frog Season 1 < got eaten by buffer error 17:43:57 <bay|AB> complete series 17:44:20 <bay|AB> (why do titles keep getting eaten by that) 17:44:25 <bay|AB> and now info on ..eva 1.0 you are not alone 17:44:36 <bay|AB> informamtion on this... 17:44:41 <bay|AB> english dub premiere at anime expo 17:45:10 <bay|AB> about the cast.. the person in charge.. the adr director is mike mcfarland 17:45:25 <bay|AB> and there are a lot of cast questions... which i could answer.. but for this panel, we brought out mike mcfarland to answer cast questions 17:45:41 <bay|AB> how you guys doing 17:45:49 <bay|AB> can't tell you how excited i am to work on this 17:46:22 <bay|AB> now.. the original dub for this was done... in the 90s.. and a lot of time and effort went into that one 17:46:29 <bay|AB> and a lot of time and effort went into our decisions too.. 17:46:45 <bay|AB> keep in mind that we have a production schedule, we have a different location ... we have a lot of things that went into the decision making process 17:46:54 <bay|AB> everyone from the previous cast was contacted or what not 17:47:02 <bay|AB> with that in mind... 17:47:03 <bay|AB> i have some of the people that are in eva 17:47:19 <bay|AB> playing the role toshi.... justin cooke 17:47:23 <bay|AB> *touji 17:47:29 <bay|AB> aeoba? - phil parsons 17:47:37 <bay|AB> (prince hair) 17:47:51 <bay|AB> ibuki - kaitlin glass 17:48:05 <bay|AB> hyuuga... i myself 17:48:21 <bay|AB> playing kinsuke..... greg ayres 17:48:33 <bay|AB> *kenskei 17:49:05 <bay|AB> we also have... 17:49:07 <bay|AB> for kaoru, jerry jewl 17:49:14 <bay|AB> jewel? 17:49:38 <bay|AB> class rep ? by leah clark 17:50:11 <bay|AB> ritsuko akagi... coleen clinkenbeard 17:50:15 <bay|AB> (Aoba earlier) 17:50:29 <bay|AB> reprising misato..... 17:50:46 <bay|AB> kent.... doing... fyutsuki? 17:50:55 <bay|AB> *same voice actor reprising misato 17:51:03 <bay|AB> from the directors cut 17:51:08 <bay|AB> reprising role 17:51:09 <bay|AB> gendo by john swasey 17:51:33 <bay|AB> rei - brina palencia 17:51:52 <bay|AB> shinji.... reprising... spike spencer 17:52:03 <bay|AB> another swith...pen pen is monica rial 17:52:16 <bay|AB> fyutsuki kent williams 17:52:20 <bay|AB> ibuki caitlin glass 17:52:26 <bay|AB> ritsuko colleen clinkenbeard 17:52:28 <bay|AB> rei brina palencia 17:52:35 <bay|AB> gendo john swasey 17:52:46 <bay|AB> kensuke greg ayres 17:52:46 <bay|AB> kowaru jerry jewel 17:52:50 <bay|AB> toji justin cook 17:52:57 <bay|AB> (they finally put it on screen) 17:53:18 <bay|AB> shinji spike spencer 17:53:39 <bay|AB> which of the 3 eva releases are you using.... 17:53:45 <bay|AB> the one for film festivals is 1.0 17:53:54 <bay|AB> wait for more information 17:54:28 <bay|AB> blu-ray? no word yet... 17:54:31 <bay|AB> some stuff we are working on 17:54:52 <bay|AB> do you have all 4 movies? no, we only have the first because each of the 4 is a different committee 17:55:36 <bay|AB> misato allison keith-shipp* 17:56:00 <bay|AB> did you consult with matt greenfield? he offered to help, also talked to talison jaffe 17:56:30 <bay|AB> extras? no idea what we have access to yet.... we have some in our contract... 17:56:32 <bay|AB> we'll try to get as much as possible 17:57:13 <bay|AB> trailer? not with us.... 17:58:04 <bay|AB> approach of being the actor or being the character? 17:58:30 <bay|AB> (missed) 17:58:52 <bay|AB> going to end eva stuff now 17:58:53 <bay|AB> thank you mike... 17:58:58 <bay|AB> ive got 2 min.... 17:59:05 <bay|AB> as many as q&A general questions... 17:59:54 <bay|AB> up to broadcast... 17:59:58 <bay|AB> if they want to, we'll give it to them 18:00:36 <bay|AB> slayers revolution voice cast? 18:00:48 <bay|AB> considering the old voice cast... looking into it.. we don't know how mch we can get.. 18:00:50 <bay|AB> we haven't started recording yet 18:00:53 <bay|AB> we don't have an answer yet on the cast 18:00:58 <bay|AB> but our goal is to get as much of the cast as possible 18:01:28 <bay|AB> phantom to dvd or dub? possible, we only have digital rights now... 18:01:41 <bay|AB> rumors about sailor moon rights....? 18:01:42 <bay|AB> i knew this would come up 18:02:10 <bay|AB> someone decided to be smart about it and decided to put "would you put a sailor moon redub on there", we got 5000 comments.. 18:02:22 <bay|AB> we don't have sailor moon 18:02:24 <bay|AB> we'd love it 18:02:25 <bay|AB> and we know you'd love it 18:02:45 <bay|AB> end...
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