Funimation sucks

Seems like Funimation has found a new way to annoy me. They are now sending C&D (cease and desist) notices to fansubbers of Soul Eater making finding fansubs really hard. If you have watched Slayer Revolution, they tried this strategy and anonymous fansubs started relasing them and streaming it. Soul eater being more popular will probably follow suit and i'll probably still be able to watch it, but this peeves me off none the less.

I dont know if these studios are being, stupid, determined, or righteous, or some mix of those. They may feel guilty if they dont take action, which is their right to try and protect their property, But if they think this acutally works, they're nuts. What this does is lower the quality of fansubs as fans cannot give feedback to the subbers on how to make a more enjoyable show.

Other known titles affected are:
D.Gray-man (All - FUNi is the licensor).
Eva Rebuild 1.0 (for NTV)
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Soul Eater episode 8

We start off with Maka and soul still trying to fight Corona. All seems hopeless when a black scythe comes through the door. The scythe is actually Death Scythe and is being wielded by Stien. Using Death Scythe as a shield, and his direct soul attacks, Stein manages to gain the upper hand on Corona, until the black blood shows its true power. The drops of black blood each become an individual weapon and starts to confine Stien. But Stien is still too much and finishes the fight with a double soul purge, Kamehameha style. With Corona defeated, the witch behind all of this reveals herself and unleashes a vector arrow attack. Stein escapes using soul resonance with DS and witch hunter while the witch gets away. Back at shibusen, Soul is put in intensive care while Black Star and Tsubaki come to visit. Stien reveals to Death Scythe that Soul is infected with the black blood, while he doesn't know how that will affect him. After Maka gives Black Star a Maka chop, a teacher comes in... and its the witch named madeusa!

AfterThoughts

Well, i already read the manga so none of this really comes at a surprise so i will write reactions as i felt them in the manga. It is interesting to see how DS and Stein can still work so well together. Stien impresses once again with skill and speed while DS again shows off his lecherous side. The black blood infecting soul will be quite interesting. The one thing I don't understand why Medusa released her soul protect, and RANDOM FANSERVICE! The anime is being pretty loyal to the manga, so its on a good track.

Next episode will be the introduction of the legendary sword.
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