So I’m a big supporter of the American anime industry. I buy crap, I watch streams on Hulu, Youtube, CR, FUNiVid, whatever. I tell people to watch them, and I’m all heads over heels for whatever the companies can put out. So with simulcasts, I’ve generally been let down seeing so many random moe and harem shows being put out.

Thank god for FUNimation.

First, they picked up the noitaminA block. Before this past season, noitaminA had only been a one show block thing airing shows like Nodame Cantabile, Moyasimon, Honey and Clover, Trapeze–some really classic stuff. I guess from its success they decided to bump the block into two shows for this past summer season. Anyway, they decided to show the Tatami Galaxy (which is directed by the mind of Kaiba and Mind Game–true gems) and then the House of Five Leaves (from the mangaka of Ristorante Paradiso). I can say I really wasn’t planning on watching Five Leaves, but I was dead set on doing Tatami, even wanted to work on some fansubs for it since I thought it surely was an obscure title that would never be simulcasted. By golly though, FUNi surprised everyone and grabbed both the shows and there goes that idea of me working on something. <3 for FUNi.

So Tatami was out for me to work on… I still had RAINBOW, a crazy tale that I had read a few chapters of the manga previously. I worked on about two episodes of that, got pissed at the other people working on it, and quit. Lo and behold, FUNi comes around a few weeks later and picks up RAINBOW to simulcast. Seriously, they picked up the only shows that I even felt like working on this season. They’re crazy. I should just rant off every decent title and see if they pick it up. I think they might be stalking me or something. Months back on another site, I said on a news post: “FUNi, PLEASE LICENSE JUUSHIN ENBU.” Lo and behold, they license it within a few months. It really is crazy.

One Piece simulcast is going strong. I watch that every Saturday night without problems, truly lovely. Glad that everything has been sorted out with that after the terrible crap that happened last year around this time.

Anyway, just wanted to ramble about how awesome FUNi is… and give some thanks to their awesome selection in titles lately.