Naruto has been licenced. For real, this time.

Luke: "Ben! What wrong?"

Obi Wan: "It was as if millions of Narutard voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

Luke: "Oh, its about f**king time!"

Naruto has been licenced. Currently well over 400 people just in the
Naruto forum on www.animesuki.com discussing (mostly whining, really)
about the licencing. There were probably a lot more yesterday.

Press release:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=851

Its a sad sad story...though I hope they start releasing subbed DVD's
in the US for me to import :wink: I just hope Bleach stays license free for
some time, I need some illegal fan-subbed anime!

erm.. what's naruto? should i be concerned? Is it contagious? ? ?

Naruto is a good anime series.

By being licensed, does that mean it wasn't illegal to download before.

As long as they dont ruin it with plot changes, bad voices and bad translations.

You must have heard about OnePiece, in my opinion, the greatest anime ever, from what ive heard when 4kids licensed it, it was completely ruined, apparently the guns now shoot water, and there is not blood whatsoever, and ive heard rumors about them cutting scenes from the Arlong fight because of zoro's wound. Same goes for dragonball/Z and various others. The only anime's ive seen that were good after licensing and translating were Evangelion, Martion Successor Nadesico, Cowboy Bebop and to some extent, Outlaw star.

Now i cant even watch one piece fansubs after episode 131 :sad:

That and we have virtually no anime here in the UK anyways :sad:

A sad thing. Seems like there's still some hope though:

http://www.narutofan.com/ said:
"As of now we can say that many things in the Naruto community will
remain the same, AonE has said they will not drop Naruto as a series
they subtitle. ANBU however is likely to drop the series completely,
while Dattebayo has not made an official comment on the matter."

Seems like ANBU will stop at 121. Let's hope that Aone and DB continue
to release high quality fansubs of Naruto. Downloaded and watched 122
by DB myself yesterday. Perhaps there will be more Naruto products
avaliable after being licensed, such as an english version of the
cardgame.

I was an Anbu fan personally, but I've never watched either of the
other fansub's work so I can't really complain. I hope this means the
US at least might see some Naruto games, and if so then we might
get lucky and see a UK one.

[/dreaming]

Well, with the way convoluted international copyright law works, it was
never illegal to download it, but it was always illegal to provide any
means of uploading it :smile: Additionally, there are some extentions
to copyright law recognized in Europe (but not the US), that make any
modification of an original work illegal. This makes the
fansubber's adding of subtitles in and of itself an illegal act in
Europe, even if they never distributed any of works they subtitled.

As for DB: They are still subbing it at this point, thank god
:smile: . You can get an address to the obscure link from their channel
#DB on irc.rizon.net.

As for this new media company that's licenced it, I'm with diablobasher
and hope they don't do to it what funimation did to Onepiece and
Inuyasha. Funimation did a little better with FMA (Full metal
alchemist), but I still liked the original Japanese Saiyus better
(probably 'cuz I'm used to them). Cowboy Bebop (distrod by
Bandai) is about the only anime I can think of where I actually liked
some of american VA's better than the Japanese ones. Except for
Faye; I liked the Japanese Faye better.

NOOOOOOO! When I ofund out I almost died... THeyre going to make Naruto sound like a little 5-year old...

ReNo: ANBU and Aone subbed Naruto together, except for a few episodes
when they did it separately. So, seems like Aone are on there own now.
As for DB, I personally think the picture quality is not as good as the
ANBU&Aone releases, but not far away. As I don't know japanese I
can't tell how good the subtitles themselves are, but I have a feeling
ANBU&Aone's subs were a little more accurate.

LAzerMANiac, sadly, I think you're right :'(.

omg, double postage :O

I'm watching Naruto atm :smile:

For anyone whos clueless, look at the two posters above me, they both have Naruto avatars

Im not trying to be offensive, but isnt naruto a little bit childish?? Its for kids

I have a guy in my class who is addicted, and keeps making his moves someone called jeraya, dunno, but he really pisses me off !!

Im not trying to be offensive, but isnt naruto a little bit childish?? Its for kids

I have a guy in my class who is addicted, and keeps making his moves
someone called jeraya, dunno, but he really pisses me off !!

Nothing will beat Chinpokomon!

Take down the evil!

You friends just wierd :smile:

It's actully rather mature, with graphic violence and light sexual content.

(in the current episodes i'm watching theres a character who spends most of his nights at a whorehouse)

Well, it looks mature enough lol, but i still hate it lol, i mean, its cartoon...

If you haven't watched it you shouldn't judge :smile:

Well, it looks mature enough lol, but i still hate it lol, i mean, its cartoon...

I wouldn't call it cartoon. There are animes and mangas (comic books)
out there containing violence and sex aimed for adults, definitely not
suited for kids.

ReNo subbed Naruto? Could I get an autograph?

bah :razz: , it was meant as a reply to ReNo. Changed it to avoid confusion :wink: