A question about Naruto and licensing

[Samurai Maddy]

well guys, Funimation might be coming close to Naruto.

here's an interview with a guy from Funimation. it's mostly about FMA but they give some comments towards Naruto and if it might, in the future, be picked up by Funi.

Funimation talks about FMA, Case Closed and Brings up Naruto

man that sucks.
I was hoping ADV if it was licensed at all.

[KameronFrye]

In all honesty, ADV should be the next to last company you want to license Naruto, the last being 4Kids.
If ADV has the title, there will be no easy method to getting fansubs, what with their witchhunt department. FMA is still relatively easy/painless to get, and it's taken by Funi. Funi are mainstream enough to where they can afford little losses on the few people that outcry against buying licensed anime because they have an excellent marketing department. Dragon Ball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho are two testaments, and soon you'll see it in FMA. The drawback to Funi is that they may limit it down on the number of episodes per DVD, but they're using the $19.99/DVD formula on FMA, which I'm a little more eased about. Also, Funi are very punctual about timely releases. DBZ ran once a month, only skipping an odd month here and there, and that was 2 volumes at a time. So, if you collect anime from them, you can expect on time releases every 4-6 weeks. They're also pushing a lot of their anime for the Adult Swim block, which means less of the anime will be harshly edited come DVD time. Blue Gender suffered minimal edits for broadcast, and was nicely done on DVD. The subbing/dubbing was even decent for BG; however, in all fairness, they did not have to tackle Japanese-oriented attacks like "Chidori" and "Kage Bushin No Jutsu" for BG, so that leaves a little uneasiness in my stomach. But they will leave the Japtrack on their current licenses, which is good enough for me. I can easily ignore subtitles like that and focus on what I know their attacks to be, as long as it isn't dubbed (or dubbed bad).