Thats pretty dumb. Would think a simulcast of a new Dragon Ball series would be worth more then every other show that season combined in the West
I've had this discussion over in the super thread but anyways
You have to keep in mind of how backwards thinking a number of companies can be.
You could have a tv company that wants to air it offering significantly less money to air it if they want to do a simulcast which would make it better for toei if they didn't simulcast it.
You could have toei worried that a simulcast would effect future dvd sales in NA and thus don't want funimation to stream it (which dbz kai is one of the only series funimation has that they don't stream at all)
While a simulcast of db super would easily be the most valuable one from this season and likely get a lot of new subscribers to funimation, if the numbers or fears show that it would be better to not do it because db is popular enough than that is what you will do.
Keep in mind it's happened plenty of times where the NA blu ray releases are dub only because of fears of reverse importing on series that are years old. Company beliefs vs reality don't always match up.
It'd probably cost more than every other show that season combined in the West.
that as well. we are talking big money with db super. Given the rumored 100 episodes (that are currently greenlit with more possible) and ADV licensing costs that were released, we are likely looking at a 5-10 million contract just for licensing rights for funimation to release anything... which is 20-40% of their estimated net worth. A Tv deal could easily bump the cost up quite a bit more and thus why such strict guidelines could be put in place.
a different site such as crunchyroll could maybe get rights for outside of Na, but the cost of super alone would likely be double what they spent for every other show they are doing this season if not more. It's just that valuable of a property.
