i love the replys to this 90% of it is stuff that is too japence to sell in the west and the rest no one knows about so wont sell. i wouldlove to hear a dub of lovely complex but it wont happen because the show would only sell to me. a voteing system is really needed so peaple canvote down thesilly choices and vote upthings that they would actually buy. anyway i know itwont get licenced but lovely complex is my suggestion.

I'd love "Lovely Complex", that's one of the few anime I really want to buy. It's really the only shojo series I ever got into, it's so funny and so charming. I know FUNimation looked into it, Adam Sheehan told me when I asked him, I just don't know why it never happened. It's a shame really, not many great shoujo series are getting dubbed these days.

It is true that a lot of shows we'd like to see licensed would be perhaps to niche to garner widespread sales. I would love to see a large company like Funi to have a separate line of properties that are perhaps considered to niche for the mainstream. They could call it their "Boutique Line" or something like that, and sell the series at a premium, maybe 150% of what is typically charged. Don't even dub them at first just offer a title legally that we otherwise would not be able to get. They could always go back and dub high sellers at a later date, even offer to sell people who bought the sub only the dubs at a miniscule amount, say $10-$15 a set as long as they sent back in their sub set (so as not to have them selling them online and profiting of their generosity. ) I know licenses are extremely expensive, but it seems unfathomable that it could not be worked out at a better price when you go to the negotiating table with, "ok the series has been out for 7 years and has still not been licensed, you have made $0. Sell it for half what you are asking, and now you make money." Also offer profit sharing in the deal to sweeten the pot not just a flat license fee, but maybe 5-7% gross off the title. What sound business person wouldn't at least think twice. I know there are quite a few titles I'd pay a premium for, Just to name a few:
-Natsume YujinCho
-Eve no Jikan
-Denno Coil
-Sayonara Zetsubou sensi (sure Media Blasters says they have it, but its what 15 months past the
listed release date? I really don't believe them)
-Minami-Ke- not my usual cup of tea but still worth it.

I think that FUNimation should lisence Ao no EXorcist, or Blue Exorcist. Currently as I'm posting this comment, it has only 16 released episodes and 4 volumes of manga, 2 in english. It's wildly popular with otaku right now. It's truly an amazing anime! If anyone is going to liscence it, it should be FUNimation!!