SoldierOfTheSun said:
Has Funi licensed any classic anime in recent years other than DBZ and now Cowboy Bebop? There was a lot of awful when it came to ADV but at least they did their best to market a range.
If by classic you mean old then they don't license old anime anymore, not older than 5 years anyway. The last old anime they picked up was Initial D (which they had redubbed stages 1 & 2 and dubbed stages 3 & 4 with the new cast) and though it was their own fault (out of order releases & no explanation for letterboxed stages 3 & 4), it failed for them and they never picked up the rest of it.
Rescues from other companies like Cowboy Bebop, Eureka Seven, Haruhi Suzumiya, Akira & 90s Tenchi should not count because all the work had already been done by whoever had it previously so they just reuse whatever is there and if we're lucky, include some of the previous company's extras (which is rare because of lot of their re-releases don't).
Eric said:
Yu Yu Hakusho (it is as old as Sailor Moon).
Not a recent license, they have had Yu Yu Hakusho since 2001, you can say the first movie & OVAs are (they got those in 2011) but those were picked up along with the show's Blu-ray's masters (which had each of those released on a bonus DVD with the JP Blu-ray boxes).
And meanwhile we're STILL waiting for them to get the second film. >
They also released some of my favorite anime pieces (X, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles OVAS, xxxHolic, Blood-C), though those aren't considered classic titles.
With the exception of X TV (since it's also a rescue), those were picked up when they were recent and with the way they dropped xxxHolic, you're lucky that they even picked up those Tsubasa OVAs.