Funimation/Trivia


 * Cancellation:
 * Crayon Shin-chan was given a Gag Dub for Adult Swim's Anime Lineup. Only 78 episodes of the dub were produced for Adult Swim.
 * Detective Conan was dubbed as part of Adult Swim's Anime Lineup. Only around 50 episodes were aired by Adult Swim before they cancelled the series due to low ratings. Funimation dubbed 130 episodes in total before ceasing production.
 * Sgt. Frog was originally going to be dubbed and shopped to Children Networks by ADV Films before they went out of business. Funimation dubbed the first 78 episodes, but ceased production due to being unable to secure a TV broadcasting license on a major children’s network.
 * Toriko only received dubs for the first 50 episodes and was then cancelled for unknown reasons.
 * Completely Different Title: Does this for quite a few shows. For example, The Inland Sea Bride became My Bride Is a Mermaid.
 * Doing It for the Art:
 * One of the major reasons why some LA and New York based voice actors are willing to work with Funimation, being that it's located a right-to-work state, thus cheaper prices and generally a more open environment compared to Los Angeles and New York (one of the advantages is that you can actually directly call up the company doing the casting auditions and have your name put on a list. Then, on audition day you go there and take your shot in person). Heck, they even got a Canadian guy to work on a small role in Fullmetal Alchemist and in Samurai 7, and recently One Piece Film: Strong World.
 * For older licenses that get picked up and later have new sequels, Funimation is typically really good about bringing back the original voice actors to reprise their roles despite living outside of Texas. Bayonetta: Bloody Fate, BlazBlue: Alter Memory, Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Eureka Seven AO, Neptunia, Rebuild of Evangelion and Trigun: Badlands Rumbles all saw most, if not all, the cast reprising their roles.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Given the company's highly centralized talent roster, anyone who watches more than a couple of their dubs will start to recognize their regulars, and is probably the one complaint fans have with them. They do occasionally spring for new talent, however.
 * Money, Dear Boy: The reason why their best actors only appear to stick around at Funimation for a handful of years. The most popular actors in the dub of Fullmetal Alchemist are all now in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, dubbing anime pays very little compared to other acting jobs, and most like to reach for union jobs instead of Funimation's non-union ones.
 * No Export for You: Arguably the worst offender of this in Latin America. Unlike UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand which Funimation gives rights to local companies to distribute their titles, Latin America receives the worst treatment by Funimation, specially when simulcast rights are announced. Until the Crunchyroll and Funimation alliance, it was rumored that Funimation have rights for Latin America, however, its not the case for certain titles. However, there're other titles that are owned by Funimation for Latin America that people in that region can't watch for many years and, as of this day, can't figure which are.
 * However, this was averted with the second season of Attack on Titan. It was revealed that Funimation owns the rights for that season for Latin America and English speaking regions and now it's available on Crunchyroll.
 * Old Shame: There are several anime series Funimation licensed over the years they are not proud of. Mamotte! Lollipop is one of them. Anime fans who've seen it tend to agree with them.
 * One of Us: Many of the staff and voice actors who worked with Funimation are anime, video games and comic book geeks themselves. Some of them are deviantARTists themselves like Micah Solusod and (formerly) Alexis Tipton. The reason many of them can scream for hours on end in shonen shows is because guys like Chris Sabat and Justin Cook, two of the original employees, were in rock bands for years prior.
 * Production Posse
 * Promoted Fanboy: Many of the company's voice acting regulars are anime fans themselves, and translation and subtitling staff are frequently former fansubbers.
 * Un-Canceled: The English dub of D.Gray-Man falls under this. Originally, Funimation only dubbed the first 51 episodes from 2009 to 2010, before axing the dub to licensing issues from Dentsu. The project was revived in 2016, when they licensed the 2nd half of the 2006 series (episodes 52-103), along with Hallow.
 * What Could Have Been: They almost released the non-anime Pelswick on DVD in 2004, but didn't due to the low fanbase of the show.