Funimation Audio Leaks - Sacred Ointment memes for degenerate teens

[tehpope]

Weeb wars goes too fast for me to pay attention. At least in the beginning. But some of those recordings were funny.

MFW Funi is about to get butt fucked over a barrel for this shit:

 

[Dank Wankula]

That would be awful. The only one that actually sounds good is Takahata101, the rest are just High School theater actors who tell some funny jokes sometimes.

I dunno, maybe it's because i've watched them for years, but when it comes to pure voice acting i think they do a pretty good job and voice their respective characters well.

 

[MirrorNoir]

What's really gonna bake their noodle later on, is it all would have probably worked out for them if they hadn't made it a PUBLIC lynching and instead just shut him down, truly behind the scenes. And I find the "doing it for the children" claims disingenuous. If that was a thing, then they should've let his "fame" die out as he got no more work and instead of boycotting cons he was at, they should have made sure to be there so they could do what Brett Weaver claimed he did. Because as I've said from the beginning, if the core problem is supposedly that Vic is a predator, the guy wouldn't need to be a public "guest", he could attend a local Texas con on his own and scam chicks his own way. The only difference being the con would not be actively paying him to be there. At least if he's a guest, you know he's there and can actively try to keep an eye on him.

To think this all could have been avoided if they had just quietly let vic go without virtue signaling and telling their employees to shut up from the beginning. Basic shit.

Story goes, that Funimation's clique were pissy as pissy could be that Toei forced them to rehire Vic to play Broly (as he voiced the character in the original DBZ movies and Toei arbitrarily decided that since Vic's alive and well, that they should invite him back to the role. And with the DBS Broly Movie a huge fucking hit, Funimation was fucked because Toei (again) would make them use Vic for the next incarnation of Dragon Ball, given how the Broly Movie set him up as a regular. Meaning Chris or Sean couldn't take the role for themselves.

So they schemed the big scheme they did and let it spiral further and further into a clusterfuck, because they needed an excuse to fire Vic that could be sold to Toei and make a big deal about it in order to justify defying Toei by claiming Vic was "too toxic" to bring back/keep around.

 

[BrandedEagle]

Now here's some food for thought. While Funi's fate is essentially sealed (either they are wholly under control of Toei or they lose their contracts for one piece, db, and any other Toei license), TFS's isn't.... want to know why? because TFS can frame this rumor however they like. Including in ways that absolve them and completely fuck over Funi.

let me throw this example.... what if they claimed they thought Funi was acting as a middleman between them and Toei and are just finding out that funi wasn't? sure it'd seem incredulous until you look at everything Funi has done. Not so impossible is it? That single reason is why TFS has been given both a blessing and a curse with this controversy. Let's see if they make the most of both.

 

[ItalianMobStripper]

I doubt that Toei pays that much attention to the casting decisions of foreign market.

Wasn't Toei the ones whom brought Oda (creator of One Piece) to cherry pick the voice cast of the Strawhat Crew?

 

[GenericReviewerDraco]

That would be awful. The only one that actually sounds good is Takahata101, the rest are just High School theater actors who tell some funny jokes sometimes.

I think Lani/Nick is legit for being able to imitate Justin Cook and for being the Major in Hellsing Abridged. Rest is debatable.

 

[LobotomizedFerret]

I dunno, maybe it's because i've watched them for years, but when it comes to pure voice acting i think they do a pretty good job and voice their respective characters well.

I've watched them for years as well and enjoyed some of their stuff, but I still think most of them are pretty bad, even when compared to Funimation's talent. That's just what I think anyway.

 

[Soygon of Applebee's]

I doubt that Toei pays that much attention to the casting decisions of foreign market.

Oh they do. If they give shit to teamfourstar, a fan group, for their audio dub, imagine how they feel about the company that's licensed to handle the official product that actually represents the franchise. I can't imagine anyone there is going to take these leaks in strides.

 

[Jaimas]

I think Lani/Nick is legit for being able to imitate Justin Cook and for being the Major in Hellsing Abridged. Rest is debatable.

They're decent, like any reasoned VA they have their strengths and weaknesses and each only really shines when in their power range. I could get into it but this really isn't the thread for it.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Reddit is absolute fucking cancer.

The only good subreddits are the ones with evenly enforced NO POLITICS rules. Even then, Reddit is a shit discussion platform because it favors throughput over duration, so by the 48 hour mark a thread is pretty much dead. Reddit can’t even do porn right, because titles are inevitably shitty and undescriptive and tags nonexistent.
There are a few gems out th

ere that really take advantage of Reddit’s mechanics. I found the guys at /r/buildapc super patient and helpful explaining different components and suggesting alternate parts, and that sub basically relies on Reddit’s focus on throughput to address, resolve, and discard threads as they roll in. I’m also hard-pressed to imagine political debate arising organically from dry talk about computer parts.

However this format is pretty detrimental to like, literally anything else. I went to the main Jojo sub after the latest chapter release looking for the chapter discussion thread, and it was buried behind 3 pages of shitty fan art. Instead of it being pinned at the top of the sub, you had a long-dead thread discussing the finale of the Golden Wind anime.

Honestly it almost makes me want to take a crack at a better design for forums, because the typical layout also has major drawbacks - the most visible on the Farms being prohibitively long threads that are impossible to read. Perhaps a typical forum with the sole addition of nested replies would be an improvement...

 

[Bullshit Fucked]

Wasn't Toei the ones whom brought Oda (creator of One Piece) to cherry pick the voice cast of the Strawhat Crew?

In a sense. The proper explanation would be that OP had auditions like any regular anime and "the best" is given approval from Oda. This also had happened with the 4Kids dub iirc.

 

[KF_jafo]

Sure would be interesting to have Ty asking Funi in front of a jury "So can you explain every single 'contractor' you have going silent simultainously?" And then bring a statistician to inform the jury of the odds/possibility of that occuring without contact from Funimation/fear of retaliation.

Yet another reason why it's probably in their best interest to settle ASAP. I've worked in enough organizations to know that when the inmates run the asylum as appears the case here, the more you dig, the more damning things you WILL find. This latest revelation probably allowed a litigation hold so tight the janitorial staff can't leave without a body cavity search.

It is isn't implausible that all parties go radio silent. While they obviously didn't realize how stupid what they did was, they've learned it now. Their DM's were filled with WTF messages without Funimation saying a word. Obviously I don't know one way or another, but I think you have stronger evidence of this than cowards running when caught.

 

[N1bbaN3rd]

to be fair, so long as her mouth is shut, id hit that too

Just don't go in raw. She has herpes.

 

[KF_jafo]

I doubt that Toei pays that much attention to the casting decisions of foreign market.

This Intellectual Property has generated $24 BILLION in revenue (according to Wikipedia, so take it with whatever grain of salt you wish).

I submit that anything generates that kind of revenue gets extremely close scrutiny. They'd be fools not to.

 

[Allanon]

Vic has confirmed before he is the voice of Broly mostly because he's always been the voice of Broly. He took the role not knowing what he was signing up for, immediately regret it and lost his voice, thought he was done since it was a one off villain who died...and then found out to his horror for the next decade that every time someone needed a Broly voice they'd call him saying 'hey, you're Broly, we need you'. And this eventually extended to Toei going 'he's Broly, right? Okay, use him.'

Incredible that this ~16-year-old weak-ass shit gained so much traction. Rekieta hyped these up so much that I thought we'd get a bombshell of an audio recording.
Oh well, serves them right. Shouldn't have put on this holier-than-thou attitude. Now everyone knows this zero-tolerance regarding their rules of conduct is absolute hogwash.
Can't wait for the next round of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

Nick hyped it up like this because he knew it was going to play out exactly the way it's playing out. He isn't offended by this type of thing, but he's also not an ignoramus. He knows what the 'normal person' is going to think, and what the media vultures are going to do, and most importantly what the business lawyers are going to do. Disney fired their huge moneymaker James Gunn instantly when news broke of him saying less offensive stuff than this. He managed to come back from it, but that was a comparatively smaller PR blunder.

I know some people get agitated by the concept of PR and image in this situation, but Nick is very aware of it, and he plays it to his advantage. The PR image isn't of that much consequence to the lawsuit, but Nick has said from day 1 that it's a two-pronged battle, both legal and PR. Regardless of how other people feel, Nick is going to play it that way. Thus, while this is pretty minor on the lawsuit front - Funimation can work it to try to excuse themselves and come up with legal reasons why they weren't breaking the rules ('our policies have changed over the years, the VAs would never do this now' 'we had no knowledge of these clips, they were saved by employees no longer with us') but they can't escape the PR nightmare of it. The people they wanted to please won't forgive them for it, and the casuals who clicked on the trend, recoiled in horror, and then moved on will never hear the excuses or resolution. They'll just remember forever that Funimation VAs did something gross.

I think that's where some of the disconnect and disappointment might come from. Nick hyped it, people inferred this would be a huge blow on the law side of things (Sabat screaming at Kamehacon, or pressuring women into sex or something that would wreck them legally), but instead it's an unmitigated PR disaster instead. And with that success, if the mole isn't found, I bet we'll get even more spicy leaks later.

Shane's shit takes. He's begging to get sued.

A defamation suit requires damage to have been done. Shane's not important enough to do damage to anyone but himself.

Didn’t a bunch of girls and women all tell similar stories about him making them uncomfortable by getting physical? Didn’t he cop to and apologize for at least some of it? I don’t remember exactly because I don’t really give a shit but it seems like he at least did something.

He’s right though.

You're incorrect. You should do some research. Some women who got together on a secret discord to 'coordinate' came out with similar sounding stories to each other. Vic unilaterally denied all of their salacious claims. A whole ton of fujoshi came forward with second, third, and fifth-hand nonsense accounts that meant nothing and couldn't be substantiated. Every claim from any kind of credible source has been rather thoroughly debunked, and keeps mutating with new conflicting details each time it gets told (or debunked), and zero actual evidence has surfaced of Vic doing literally anything even remotely scandalous. Except cheating on his fiancee with adult women, I guess. But that has nothing to do with any of his accusations nor what got him fired and cancelled from all of life forever more.

Vic apologized for making people potentially uncomfortable, and was really hurt over the idea that maybe he might have hugged someone who didn't want it and thus caused them harm. That's all. All people who have since come out claiming they didn't want the hug they received (and have a photo of happening) say 'oh, I wanted it THEN, but now years later I realize he's a creep, so ew!) - He also once said that he touched a co-worker's hair after being invited to do so, and people now twist that to claim he yanked said coworker's hair and head back violently and whispered sexual stuff in her ear.

So there you go. What you've heard are rumors spun to make Vic specifically sound bad by the people intent on destroying him. If you're wondering 'but why would people even bother?' it's for two reasons: his castmates HATE that he makes so much more money than them at cons, and crazy yaoi fangirls literally want him to die because he doesn't sign yaoi stuff. This is verified.

 

[Zaragoza]

And this all started because a guy who loved giving hugs hugged the wrong person...

 

[Failure_Personified]

Audio deepfakes are in their infancy and this seems like it would be a massive waste of time if it was just used to make the Funi VAs look like hypocrites, especially considering the volume of the leaks. The NotJordanPeterson audio deepfake was pretty good while it was up, but still had its issues when pronouncing certain words. Audio deepfakes haven't quite been perfected yet.

Also do you know how hard it is to do basic inflection INTENTIONALLY?! Just listen to the clips and hear literally years of experience coming out of those VAs maws.

The fact someone calls this into question might just mean they’re really fucking dumb. I’ve worked with NNs they aren’t magic people.

 

[TheClappening]

And this all started because a guy who loved giving hugs hugged the wrong person...

Nah, it started because Vic wouldn't sign yaoi.

 

[KF_jafo]

I know some people get agitated by the concept of PR and image in this situation, but Nick is very aware of it, and he plays it to his advantage. The PR image isn't of that much consequence to the lawsuit, but Nick has said from day 1 that it's a two-pronged battle, both legal and PR. Regardless of how other people feel, Nick is going to play it that way.

Exactly. Both sides engage in exactly the same thing. Recall at Vic's deposition where their attorney asked Vic about his title in his fan club and kept trying to draw Nazi inferences. Literally ZERO probative value in that line of questioning. But it's has PR value, and this case is being tried in the court of public opinion as well.

 

[Allanon]

Nah, it started because Vic wouldn't sign yaoi.

It started because Vic said "You're allowed to love yaoi and by God I'm allowed not to love it!"