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Contacting CLAMP probably isn't exactly easy, but yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't have been too hard to get an okay to use their characters for promotion.

I am a bit annoyed a Funimation, since they ******** up a lot of good things anyway. Either promote it or don't, since they hold the copyright to the characters in the US, UK, etc. they could hold that this site is based in the US, and thus under right to promote it on the site despite international users. It's a grey area, but I doubt they would have much trouble with it since I doubt the Japanese distributors would look into it, and I don't think CLAMP would care (since it is a promotional product and not just some copyright infringement).

If Gaia wanted to go that far with it, and actually stop users from accessing it, they would block all but those country's IPs from accessing the information pages and quest pages. They didn't, obviously they don't care. They do care enough to say it's a possible banning offense going there since it it a glitch exploit, but they won't go out of their way to actually fix the problem.

I say, too ******** bad. Either care or don't, but I doubt this is one of those issues that any copyright holder will look into. They shouldn't pretend to care when they don't.

Yeah, CLAMP won't sue since Japan has a healthy doujin business and sueing over copyright steps on that. They wouldn't, it would be bad for business all around. The Japanese distributors wouldn't, hell they probably wouldn't notice or care and since CLAMP has character copyrights I think they would have more of the say in this than the distributor.

It would cost more money for Funimation to try and start a lawsuit over a case that probably wouldn't hold water in court than it would to just promote it more openly.

Distributors in the US don't know what to do with US anime fans though, other than "Supply product, make profit." since most of the "real" fans import or read fan translations. Funimation tends to handle things badly, which is why I suspect it to be a little more on their end. But Gaia really needed to tell them to shut the ******** up.

Now it's bad business for everyone, but Gaia more so than Funimation. Sadly.

I don't think Funimation did anything with Sailormoon. Cloverway is the company that took over after DiC. Cloverway, funnily enough is the north american branch of Toei. D:

According to Wiki (and actually, their website directly since I know some people cringe at Wiki), plenty of things including Full Metal Alchemist, that weird ******** show Shin-Chan, DBZ, and probably other things that people would recognize that I don't -- I don't watch much TV, especially anime.

They're a really hit or miss company, the best things they do are when they almost totally rewrite a show (Like Lupin III or Shin-Chan). The adaptation works sometimes, but can feel really awkward or out of place in a lot of shows. They've been getting better in recent years, but they used to be terrible.

They also seem to get a lot of really bad voice actors for a number of their shows. Some of the changes are also really bizarre, like "Detective Conan" to "Case Closed"

The problem is that they've been around so long, so they get a lot of big anime and don't quite know what to do with it. When they're good they're good, but when they're bad they're ******** unwatchable.

Yeah, Shin-chan and Lupin's voices actually fit. FMA was surprisingly good, I recall the voices in Detective Conan being pretty good. But most of their shows (somehow) end up with really mediocre or painfully bad voice actors. It's just confusing since they should have a decent list of talent on hand. It seems like the moment someone is supposed to have an accent it goes downhill.

Look, we've established this already. I get cookies, then they get fed.