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  1. cjcastan
    Funimation mentioned this on their Twitter. Speculation is they have inside track to stream. I never thought I would live to see this.
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    They should Yamato 2199 it but call it megaroad, and change the VF1 designs and call it a day.
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    I thought in the arbitration, tatsunoko owns the trademarks now in USA. Big west owns in UK. So maybe there’s a hope for the sequels but SDFM hope is lost. I think no one evens knows who owns DYRL rights anymore
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    Dyrl and the SDF are done for. Tats holds the trademark in 3/2021 for the name Macross and the kite. We may see sequels stateside or maybe Sony does something to work it out so the live action movie moves forward. Not gonna lie this is a gut punch
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    I watched 2199 on Crunchyroll and am almost caught up to 2202 on there. Right now CR only has up to episode 13. Does anyone know what the English release schedule looks like for the rest of the series? Or is Funimation further along?Thanks in advance
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    Me too! I thought frontier was incredible. I am an oldtaku who was introduced to the franchise by the robotech. Delta personally wasn’t my favorite. Not because of walkure (which took some getting acclimated to) but because the story completely slammed on the brakes after the 1st cour. I mean we had a whole talking head exposition episode. hope springs eternal, so I do look forward to the next installment, happy it isn’t 8+ years between iterations like it has been in the past.
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    This is a non story. Tats is majority owned (54%) by Nippon television In fiscal year 2017 Nippon had media revenues of roughly 3.3 billion dollars. Tats won’t need to take a crappy HG deal unless BW doesn’t give them a deal they feel is fair, and Tats has no other way to monetize the property. It has been stated all the people with bad blood in management from the Tats side towards BW are gone (probably from the Nippon acquisition in 2014). The HG trademarks (kite / macross name) based on the US arbitration become Tats property when the current agreement expires. IMO 2021 will all boil down to if BW and Tats agree to an equitable split of revenues from Sony/Funi, Crunchyroll, or Netflix.
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    Considering speculation HG uses robotech as a loss leader tax shelter to write off real estate profits, I can’t imagine HG would pony up the money needed to block the consortium of big west / Bandai / and the possible content providers (Netflix / crunchy / Sony). The big questions probably are- will Tats and BW agree on an amount each will get in the distribution of the macross catalog and future projects be tolerable. Or will one or both not agree to work together because the split isn’t workable.
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    I believe after arbitration. In 2021 Tats has the control to re-up. its in the white highlighted text a few posts up on this page 2. Relief Granted in favor of Respondent a. Claimant’s right to use the Programs for production and/or exploitation of new works expires on March 14, 2021 along with any extant sublicenses as all rights to the Programs revert back to Respondent at that time. b. Upon expiration of the term of the Operative Agreements, the Claimant no longer has any right to use or exploit derivative works produced during the term, which contain portions of the Programs, as rights to the Programs revert back to Respondent at that time. c. Claimant has no permanent, exclusive, and irrevocable copyright and trademark rights in the Programs as same shall belong to Respondent on expiration of the term in 2021; d. Upon expiration of the term, Respondent shall have the right and option to disaffirm/cancel any existing licenses, assignments and/or other agreements extending beyond the term as may have been entered into by Claimant with others granting any rights in and to the Programs
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    This is good right? won’t speed anything up but can’t hurt the 2021 cause
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    For messer when it says decals for hayate, does that mean it will be the Kai version per delta ep 25. Or do they modify delta 2 in the delta movie? Any ideas?
  12. cjcastan
    Sorry for sounding dumb, but this is “The Next” project then, right?
  13. cjcastan
    You are correct, HG felt Tats owed them for legal fees and Tats wanted their rights more clearly defined hence the arbitration. I meant in terms of, has Tats paid yet on the recent arbitration decision that was handed down in August. Sorry for being unclear.
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    I don't know how Tats the subsidiary division of Nippon, takara, IG, and horipro is doing. in other social media (Reddit, twitter, Facebook, other boards) there has been some supposition that Tats will have to re-up with HG because the $800+k would be too much for them to bear. in doing the research though of all Tats situation, the 800k doesn't look like the biggest stumbling block. 2021 can't get here soon enough.
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    One thing is I don't think anyone actually knows if Tats paid yet or not. I was just responding to someone who is supposing that. In other places, I have seen it said Tats needs to go back to HG because of their financial situation, this is probably internet supposition not based in fact. the majority owner of Tats is Nippon TV. According to their most recent shareholder information - this is a major conglomerate whose media and content revenue is 374 billion yen or roughly 3.3 billion. I can't imagine if they and Takara (who together own about 70 percent of Tats) wanted this 800k to go away tomorrow they could. The more I delve into it, the more hopeful I am that 2021 will see a US release in some fashion of parts of the franchise we haven't seen here yet.
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