Jaysgba
Combat Butler
That is the point of streaming monopolies, no?
UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread
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Vincentdante
Time-Traveller
Yup and I don't like it.
lilitu93
Completely Average High School Student
I think it may still be licensed to Sentai in the US (though who knows how long), as it still seems to be up on HIDIVE if you search for it, but you can’t watch it in the UK. For licensing in the UK, I think it depends on if the US licensor has UK rights and is just sub-licensing to a UK distributor or if they don’t have UK rights and the UK distributor has to go directly to the Japanese owner (TBS in this case if you’re correct).
If it disappears from HIDIVE for the US soon, then we’ll know that the license has expired for them as well, so those of us who want to get it will just have to hope that it’s rescued by someone in the US or UK.
That’s assuming that is an actual license issue and isn’t just Crunchyroll UK having no idea what they’re actually doing and making up an excuse to cancel the release.
William278
Completely Average High School Student
Crunchyroll sponsoring this sidemen charity match but not being able to release k-on in blu ray sums it up really 
AHA-Lambda
School Idol
oh wow that is grim.
I'm amazed they're still holding on the UK home video market as is then tbh. I'd rather they didn't go 100% streaming but I'm shocked they haven't.
Lucky_Deity
Stand User
A few Crunchyrollnl UK titles have been listed on Amazon UK, Chainsaw Man, DBS: Super Hero 4K (Standard, Steelbook) and Overlord S4.
No LE's listed atm going from this post but I'd be very surprised if Chainsaw Man doesn't at least get one in the U.S.
No LE's listed atm going from this post but I'd be very surprised if Chainsaw Man doesn't at least get one in the U.S.
SkwigglesWorth
Magical Girl
Yeah Overlord CE would be nice but season 3 CE I think was only US, so not sure they will release season 4 as a CE over here. Would still like them too, would save me importing it.
But we'll have to wait and see.
RaeDra
Adventurer
I'm curious to see, in a couple days, what the US slate will look like. Sure, Chainsaw Man is here, but it could be that it is standard only and whatever the US has will confirm this (or, at least, the US gets one). The Australian distributor that showed their slate also didn't mention a LE either. I also wonder (maybe related) as to whether its a multi language release as well...
Anime Limited has officially listed the Crunchyroll December titles (feat. 1 November title).
Note: No limited editions featured in this batch, so if you want to own the My Dress Up Darling and OVERLORD IV LEs, you'll need to import them but they'll be AB region discs anyway.
20th November:
OVERLORD IV (£34.99)
4th December:
Beast Tamer (£49.99)
Classroom of the Elite Season 2 (£49.99)
More than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers (£49.99)
My Dress Up Darling (£34.99)
18th December:
CHAINSAW MAN (£39.99)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero 4K Ultra HD with Lenticular Cover (£29.99)
BLUELOCK has been rated but is likely to not show until January.
Note: No limited editions featured in this batch, so if you want to own the My Dress Up Darling and OVERLORD IV LEs, you'll need to import them but they'll be AB region discs anyway.
20th November:
OVERLORD IV (£34.99)
4th December:
Beast Tamer (£49.99)
Classroom of the Elite Season 2 (£49.99)
More than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers (£49.99)
My Dress Up Darling (£34.99)
18th December:
CHAINSAW MAN (£39.99)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero 4K Ultra HD with Lenticular Cover (£29.99)
BLUELOCK has been rated but is likely to not show until January.
Somehow I missed the one show people wanted the most, so at least I edited it in.
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Lucky_Deity
Stand User
Guess I'll have to import My Dress-Up Darling LE then, I guess we at least got the title in general but a real shame we didn't get the LE, it's a popular title so I think it would sell.
TakamakiJoker
Hunter
It must be potential stock issues as well the sad fact that Crunchyroll LEs aren't the best sellers here.
The Shield Hero S2 LE is going to tank in sales doesn't help much.
I can recall that the only recent LEs that sold well here are AOT S4 Part 2, Mushoku Tensei and Slime S2 Part 2.
The Shield Hero S2 LE is going to tank in sales doesn't help much.
I can recall that the only recent LEs that sold well here are AOT S4 Part 2, Mushoku Tensei and Slime S2 Part 2.
sniper_samurai
Mad Scientist
Was looking to order the DBS 4K on Amazon and unfortunately they've started their BS restrictions on selling anime titles to EU countries again. This is also affecting Anime Limited preorders.
Out of the new CR titles the ones affected are DBS 4K, Chainsaw Man, My Dress Up Darling and Overlord IV.
Out of the new CR titles the ones affected are DBS 4K, Chainsaw Man, My Dress Up Darling and Overlord IV.
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TakamakiJoker
Hunter
On the bright side of things at least their muiti language line is slowly getting better.
I can see future titles like Tomo Chan (May get a LE), Nagatoro, Akebi Sailor Uniform, To Your Eternity and Jahy Sama become muiti language titles.
I can see future titles like Tomo Chan (May get a LE), Nagatoro, Akebi Sailor Uniform, To Your Eternity and Jahy Sama become muiti language titles.
Mattrivers95
Kiznaiver
Just pre ordered my dress up darling LE from Amazon and it comes to £85 after tax and shipping. Wowhd has it too and it comes to £75 after tax.
Baggie_Saiyan
Thousand Master
I went to my local comic book store on free comic book day and their entire shelf of My Dress Up Darling was basically sold out!
I am just so happy how popular the series is, the anime and manga both had exhibitions this year in Japan too, so cool.
A shame no LE here but probably wouldn't have been that much cheaper I don't think.
ussjtrunks
Adventurer
Weirdly it was effecting a game I wanted to preorder earlier ff7 rebirth but now EU peeps can order that, it’s so random these days
RonJB
Magical Girl
I've started getting emails from the Cruchyroll store today. I assume they are using the RightStuf email list. Sadly, I went to the CR store and it will ship anything but home video outside US/Canada, so if RightStuf does merge fully with CR, I assume there goes another US retailer (unless I set up another US shipping address).
- so far no title that got an LE also got a multi language release (as one would expect to translate the booklet?)
- To Your Eternity already got a German language release, so I don't expect a multi language release for this