Anime Winter 2015 Season FUNimation Broadcast Dubs
In November last year FUNimation trialled their “Broadcast Dubs” with the Fall 2014 Season anime Psycho-Pass 2 and Laughing Under the Clouds. It must have been a success as FUNimation have now announced further Broadcast Dubs for Winter to accompany their current subtitled streams of the shows as they air in Japan. These will be available for subscribers of FUNimation’s service.
And this time there’s going to be a whole lot more than just two anime. FUNimation are really committing to the project. The new broadcast dubs will air initially in a two-hour long “primetime” slot starting on February 18th at 8pm EST showing, in order…
Primetime FUNimation Broadcast Dubs
• Assassination Classroom
• Death Parade
• Tokyo Ghoul √A
• DubbleTalk (a half-hour web show hosted by Justin Rojas, Lauren Moore, and Chad James)
From there they’ll be rolling out more Broadcast Dubs over two phases (also in EST):
Phase I FUNimation Broadcast Dubs
• The Rolling Girls – Saturdays at 12:58 p.m. ET starting February 21, 2015
• World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman – Sundays at 11:05 a.m. ET starting February 22, 2015 –
• Kamisama Kiss Season 2 – Mondays at 1:35 p.m. ET starting February 23, 2015
Phase II FUNimation Broadcast Dubs
• Absolute Duo – Mondays at 1 p.m. ET starting March 16, 2015
• Yurikuma Arashi – Mondays at 1:30 p.m. ET starting March 16, 2015
• Yona of the Dawn Season 2 – Tuesdays at 10 a.m. ET starting March 17, 2015
• Maria the Virgin Witch – Sundays at 9:30 a.m. ET starting March 22, 2015
It’s pretty smart to reduce the amount of waiting anime fans have to do for dubs, but even going this close to original broadcast, will you go for dubs over subs?