Funimation is getting ready to move out from it’s Roommate (Navarre)

<-If you click on it, you can see where it says Navarre corporation. Expect that part of the Funi logo to go away

Well, after a recent newscast on ANN it appears that Funimation’s parent company Navarre is looking to sell the company. However, business reports bore me, so I’m going to explain in metaphors….

Now then you see, when Funimation was a smaller company, they had some trouble making it out in the world after being told to move out from his parents (being sold by the original founders.) Hence, they moved in with Navarre, a software company. Navarre and Funimation were good roommates, and while they got along, they mostly minded their own business. Funimation had to hit up Navarre for beer money and gas a lot of the time, but when rent came around, Funimation still had to pay up.

However, Funimation is now making a lot of money off the internet, and wants to get a roommate that helps out more with it’s goals. Unfortunately, Navarre is too busy with his own job to help Funi work on his career goals. Hence, Funi and Navarre decided that it would be best if Funi found a roommate that cared more about his internet business than Navarre does, so that Funi can get bigger.

But why doesn’t Funi go out and just rent his own apartment? Well, you see the problem here is that while Funi has been doing much better for itself and could probably move out on his own, he doesn’t have much money saved up in case something goes wrong. Not to mention, it would still need to pay the security deposit he paid Navarre to move into the place. So for the time being, Funi is looking for a new roommate in order to help him a bit while he gets back on his feet. Fortunately though, I think Funi will be able to pay most of the rent while the new roommate mooches off of Funi’s beer money, rather than the other way around. Hopefully the new roommate will not hold Funi back too much, or worse, Funi gets a psychotic roommate. If Funi winds up with a psychotic roommate, they may get in the way of Funi’s business. If the roommate doesn’t pay their rent on time (provide enough resources or growth potential), Funi may not wind up being able to expand his online business. That wouldn’t be as bad as if Funi moved in with an Obsessive-Compulsive roommate, because Funi could easily replace a slacker roommate. Now then, Funi also has a chance of moving with an obsessive compulsive guy who will get in Funi’s way, and nitpick every aspect of Funi’s online business. This is bad, because Funi is a great webmaster, and obsessive compulsive roommates don’t really understand how Funimation’s online business works, and would really screw things up. However, both Funi and his current roommate Navarre are both feeling optimistic about the new roommate that Funimation gets

Let’s all wish Funimation good luck on finding a new roommate company, preferable one that will want to help Funi’s online business grow.

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 <- People complaining about piracy make this kitty sad

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There, I said it. A good deal of anime companies that are going out of business are whiners that like to complain towards deaf ears that only pretend to care. Oh yeah, sine this was regarded at a hot button issue at my last anime club meeting, I suppose I should run my twist on it.

Bang! Zoom’s big argument is that nobody is buying their DVD’s. They attempt to guilt trip fans into purchasing, but the pirates that they are trying to stomp have a much better deal: The same show, but free!

While it is true that what the pirates are doing is illegal, the risk factor is so negligible that nobody really cares. Not to mention, when a pirate gets caught, all that happens is that they get a cease and desist, they stop, and go about their merry lives. What does this do to stop piracy? NOTHING! Why would anybody choose to buy overpriced DVD’s over the negligible risk of stealing the anime in the first place? People will whine about how piracy is wrong, then go right back to their torrent hub and pirate some more.

Moaning and complaining isn’t going to stop piracy people! What will stop piracy is outsmarting the pirates, or more interestingly, hiring them. As I previously mentioned, it is entirely possible for anime companies to distribute anime for decent prices (or for free even) and still turn a profit. They do it just like with TV and with blockbuster, they just put commercials on internet streams, and release them for free, knowing commercials will pay for the cost that the anime took to produce. Studios like Funimation and Viz Media are already on this, and those studios aren’t in danger of going underwater. So what’s Bang! Zoom’s problem? They don’t get with the times!

That’s why I say the big solution to anime piracy is not to pout and moan about how the industry is dying, but to actually go to legal sites that give you anime for free and watch it there! Give them their deserved pageviews! Show them that we anime fans are willing to use legal channels to watch our favorite shows, and that we’re just too broke to buy overpriced DVDs. The industry cannot stay in its current position, the time for evolution is now!

Hence, the ONLY way to stop piracy is to put out a product that competes with what the pirates put out, which fortunately, is what Funimation and Viz do. For if pirates do the job of spreading entertainment BETTER than the people whose very jobs are on the line, why are they being paid? This is the very reason that Bang! Zoom is going under. The pirates are consistently outdoing them, while all they do is complain about stealing and tell people to buy overpriced DVD’s

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