Are we done with announcing? Maybe, but then again...maybe we aren't...
Even with that it is worrisome that they didn't immediately add another "?" box, considering their are two series that fall into the "Why
aren't they here? category:
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai-Ni-Maku (because it is a sequel to a prior CR simulcast)
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (Daily Lives of High School Boys) (because it is on TV Tokyo)
As I mentioned elsewhere,
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes could be held up over contract negotiations regarding the terms, given that the series reportedly did not perform well on CR, but was clearly successful enough in Japan to warrant a second series. If this is the case, however, CR apparently isn't confident the negotiations will ultimately succeed. If they fail to get this, it will be a blow to their record, and cast a shadow of doubt over the future across the future of any future sequel series that were less than successful on CR.
The only explanations I could see for
Daily Lives of High School Boys not being here is if someone other than TV Tokyo actually holds the international distribution rights (seems unlikely), or if a company in the U.S. has already optioned the home video rights.
SG_BATTLE wrote:
Awesome, germany gets two three-min-Anime and a Drama. Just awesome. -.-
Hasn't Germany been shut out quite a bit over the past many seasons?
It make me wonder if there is a home video distributor there playing (or that had played) the "If you stream, we won't license" game with the licensors in Japan.
Unfortunately, the longer few titles are licensed for Germany, the less likely the problem is to improve. Unless CR can "fold in" Germany into a license (like the "worldwide except Japan") license for the two short-form series, they would probably take a loss on the MG for Germany, and of course, few people from Germany are going to subscribe, due to the dearth of available series.
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