Random Topic: Funimation Now UK Rant

This has been a post that I've been meaning to make for quite some time now. And today I am literally pissed off to the point where I really want to try and get the word out because this is ridiculous. This is more of a rant but I'll try and get my points across.

It's time to talk about Funimation's BETA UK streaming service, once again.

Random Topic: Round-Up of Spring 2016's Legal Anime UK Streaming List

This is probably the first season where the UK & Ireland nearly got every single anime simulcast without any silly region restrictions. Granted we did lose out on two major shows but overall this was a strong season plus we are even introduced to Funimation's new UK service which is a bonus.

Here's a list of all of the titles made available for UK & Ireland legal streaming from March to June 2016.

Random Topic: Funimation Now UK Launched! My First Impressions

After many months of waiting, the new beta version of Funimation's re-designed website is now live for the United Kingdom and Ireland. I've been messing around with it since the moment it went up so here's my first impressions.

So a quick round-up over the recent events. The re-designed site was announced back in early January and it wasn't until recently where the UK & Ireland finally got confirmation on the launch date. You can check out the previous posts I made here and here.

Random Topic: Funimation Now UK - The News So Far

Back in January I blogged about how Funimation was finally coming to the UK with their new redesigned streaming service. At the time they had a release date set for February, everything was going to be good. Except it ended up getting constantly delayed.

The launch is 'near' so for this post I wanted to go through what exactly has happened (from an anime fan perspective) over the past few months since this point.

Random Topic: Round-Up of Winter 2016's Legal Anime UK Streaming List

The Spring 2016 season is literally around the corner and announcements for that season are going up slowly (so far all confirmed titles are UK compatible which is excellent). The Winter 2016 season has been handled much better than usual so here's the list of titles that were made accessible for the UK (and also Ireland).

Random Topic: 'Non-Aniplex of America' Distributors Losing Rights to Aniplex Titles

This past January has been rather chaotic for a lot of anime fans. While I've seen more titles being acquired by Anime Limited and new line-ups revealed for major US distributors, something else also cropped up that is making everyone get frustrated. For this post I figured I'll write about the reports that Funimation is losing rights to Aniplex titles, as well as other potential titles that could go.

UPDATE: I've tweaked the details a bit as of 14th May 2018.

Random Topic: Funimation's Redesigned Streaming Service is coming to the UK

Rather than making this an industry news topic, I figured I'll go into detail a bit on my thoughts about the fact that this is perhaps the biggest news that the UK anime community has received for a long time now.

For this random topic, I'll be talking about Funimation entering the UK market via streaming. For now, we have no idea if they have any plans for physical media. Honestly I'm pretty excited for this.

Random Topic: Round-Up of Autumn 2015's Legal Anime UK Streaming List

Considering I made a post dedicated to this a couple months back, I decided to do the same for the Autumn 2015 season. I will only cover what was available for the UK & Ireland.

Despite the first season of Utawarerumono was rescued by Funimation, Sentai picked up The False Faces and added to Crunchyroll!

Random Topic: My Overall Thoughts/Reactions on PlayStation Experience 2015

Sony just unveiled their 2015 PlayStation Experience conference and there was a lot of good stuff going on in that show. Not only did we get new trailers for big titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Nioh, but we also received tons of Vita support (via Crossbuy & alongside PS4) as well as new titles!

For this random topic I'm only going to cover certain parts that I was quite hyped about.

Random Topic: Unboxing the Viewster OMAKASE Beta Box

A wild box from Viewster has appeared.

I used the Funimation postcard to censor the delivery details. Note: The Funi post card is not included with the package.

Random Topic: Round-Up of Summer 2015's Legal Anime UK Streaming List

The Summer season is now over and the Fall/Autumn season is just about to start fairly soon, so for this random topic I wanted to talk about the results of the legal streaming services and what titles they all picked up during the season. I know a lot about the UK so it's an easy discussion but I'm not going to cover North America or Australia because it's pretty tough trying to find out what's new on their side when I can't even access them.

Charlotte was one of the most popular titles of the Summer 2015 season, but it ended up with the same problems that plagued Angel Beats! Nevertheless it's available to watch legally on Crunchyroll for UK fans.

For some reason I can imagine Yuu representing Funimation while the girl represents the UK. Mainly because we get screwed over in the legal anime streaming business.

Random Topic: My Overall Thoughts/Reactions to Tokyo Games Show 2015 (Part 3)

One of the biggest gaming conventions this year has just ended and it's been one heck of a ride for many video game players. For this post I decided to continue discussing my overview thoughts and reactions to the games revealed and/or detailed at Tokyo Games Show 2015. In Parts 1 & 2 I focused on the games announced at Sony's CEJA conference, and for this final part I wanted to focus on the other games that were also shown off at the expo.

Random Topic: My Overall Thoughts/Reactions to Tokyo Games Show 2015 (Part 2)

One of the biggest gaming conventions this year has just ended and it's been one heck of a ride for many video game players. For this post I decided to continue discussing my overview thoughts and reactions to the games revealed and/or detailed at Tokyo Games Show 2015. In the first post I covered nearly half of the games announced at Sony's CEJA conference, and in this part I'll be covering more of them.

Random Topic: My Overall Thoughts/Reactions to Tokyo Games Show 2015 (Part 1)

One of the biggest gaming conventions this year has just ended and it's been one heck of a ride for many video game players. For this post I decided to discuss my overview thoughts and reactions to the games revealed and/or detailed at Tokyo Games Show 2015. If it helps I also watched Sony's Press Conference for Japan/Asia at 8 in the morning (this is UK time, for US fans that would be around 1-3 in the morning). Let's just say I found this conference to be as big as Sony's E3 2015 conference in terms of surprises and announcements.

Random Topic: Is Animax UK Worth It?

So with the site still continuing, I figured for this month I'll talk about another streaming service that's been a mixed bag in the UK anime community. Many fans in the Asian territories are happy to have a service like this, but does it have the same effect over here?