[ SECRET POST #2095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2095 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #299.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/6mQ1H.png

[(Anonymous)]

He played Graham in Baccano, right? I thought his part was one of the most enjoyable of the series (though the voice cast in general for Baccano was very impressive)

What's up with all the drama? :(

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, he's Graham. (And I loved him as Graham, totally. As they said in the audio commentary track, it's a "very Chris Patton sort of role.")

I don't completely understand what's going on with the drama (I suck at business stuff), but to try to sum it up--ADV and Funimation used to be the two biggest anime licensers in North America. ADV signed a deal with a Japanese company (Sojitz, I want to say?) to distribute anime they licensed. ADV had money troubles and, to avoid bankrupcy, dissolved the company and turned it into several new companies that still had some of the old ADV employees--Sentai Films is the company people think of now that sort of rose out of the ashes of ADV. (Section23 is another one of the companies that came out of this--funnily enough, named after the law in Texas that allowed them to do this, or so I heard.)

Anyway, Funimation got a deal with the Japanese company ADV used to be partnered with to redistribute the shows that ADV used to have the distributing rights for through the deal. (That's why they're now putting out DVD sets of shows like Nerima Daikon Brothers, Welcome to the NHK, The Wallflower, etc.) APPARENTLY it means they also inherinted the right to the debt that ADV owed the Japanese company for the money they made on the anime when they used to have it.

So, long story short, Funimation is suing ADV (and Sentai and Section23 and...everything involved in that) for the money they say they're owed. ADV is countersuing because...something...I don't know. Here's the link to the original news story: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-01-13/funimation-sues-a.d-vision-sentai-others-for-us$8-million

Chris has worked for both Funimation and ADV in the past with their dubs, and still works on Sentai dubbed shows every now and then--but ADV was the company he started doing anime voice dubbing with, and they're a local company to him, so...I'm guessing he knows people better within ADV/Sentai/whatever, which is why he's mad with Funimation over this to the point of saying he doesn't want to work with them again. Or...said so in January. I dunno how he feels about it now. He mostly does book on tapes these days instead of anime, but he said before that he would come back if shows he was in got revived, but...I'm not sure if he'd want to if, like I said, Funi had the rights to the new season/remake/etc.

tl;dr: Funimation is suing ADV, Chris is (or was?) mad about it.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Considering I know people who work production for both Funi and ADV.....let's just say the Funi people are far less shady than ADV/Sentai and considering what I know of the original legal mess with ADV it's unsurprising Funi is suing and I don't blame them. They shouldn't be picking up the debt ADV owes.
As far as Chris Patton, interesting that he made a public comment. Most VAs, even if they feel that way privately, don't take it public because it's a FANTASTIC way to get blacklisted in the industry. Same reason why you'll never quite know who actually likes who and who hates who in the Industry. Well ok, some are obvious about it without stating it.
But yea!

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I was surprised, too, but...as much as I like him--well, the guy used to have a panel he would do at every con called "Chris Patton says too much" or something like that so uh, I think that might just be his personality.

...plus thanks to that panel I know a bit too much about his, uh, history with Funimation so. I guess I wasn't totally surprised when I saw him grumbling about them.

[vethica]

Man, this makes me really sad. I didn't know that was why he left. :(

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he announced he was semi-retiring from anime back in 2010, if I remember right. He actually left because he got into books on tape (or..MP3...you know, audiobooks) and that pays better and he just found it...easier. And he lives where ADV/Sentai records and I think Funi is a 5 hour commute for him or something, so it makes since that if he's just taking anime jobs for extra cash or for fun that he wouldn't see much of a point in working for Funi in general. I'm guessing this was the final nail in the coffin for him ever working for them again though. Unless he changed his mind or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I would like a summary or link to the drama please.

Sometimes I wonder about how much stuff I miss because I don't follow anyone on Twitter....

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I have no idea what happened but now I really want to.

op

[(Anonymous)]

Summarized it here: http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/681008.html?thread=587014192#cmt587014192

I'm probably summarizing it kind of poorly, although when I listened to a podcast about it on Anime News Network even those guys were just shrugging their shoulders and went "who knows what's going on with the lawsuit" so I think a lot of it's still going on behind closed doors.

[seeingpenguins]

Is it sad that my response to this secret was "OMG Chris Patton is on twitter!?"... I'd wondered if he had one but hadn't found it, and now there it is. Thank you OP!

I hadn't heard of all this drama, or that he'd been kind of bowing out of anime for a while anyway, but that makes me sad - understand his reasoning, though. I didn't know he was doing audiobooks though, I'll have to look them out, been a fan of his voice for... wow, probably about ten years now? Crazy. He's one of the few voice actors where I'll watch things subbed but flip to the dub track for his character lines. For him being Milphey in the Sorcerer Hunters OAVs I really wish there was some kind of mix-and-match dub/sub option, hah. Ugh he was so perfect as Milphey.

I haven't watched FMP yet but I'm genuinely torn as to if I should watch it dubbed or subbed, since the dub has Chris Patton and the sub has Seki Tomokazu AGH decisions. Clearly what I should do is watch it twice over? Anyway. This comment isn't really going anywhere, is it. NEVER TOO OLD TO OBSESS OVER VOICE ACTORS, NEVARRRRRRRRRRR

OP

[(Anonymous)]

nah, not sad. I think that was my reaction when I found out he has a Twitter, too.

I definitely support watching it twice-over--that's what I usually do with anime! that, or I alternate--like, odd-numbered episodes in Japanese, even-numbered in English. Both versions of Sousuke are fantastic, you won't go wrong with either version!

...now I'm wondering what things I would pick with a mix-and-match dub option for a lot of my favorite series, hmmmm.

[(Anonymous)]

My only real reaction to this was, after looking the guy up, going 'Huh...Guess he's a local boy.' Sorry, OP.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

no reason to apologize! I don't expect everyone to take interest in the same voice actors that I do.