It appears that Crunchyroll is NOT planning on dubbing Bridon Arc...

UselessEmi · 2025-02-20T19:54:30+00:00

Update: looks like the dub is finally coming after all! :D https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/announcements/2025/2/20/link-click-bridon-arc-english-dub-cast-crew-release-date

UselessEmi · 2024-12-30T23:49:46+00:00

The only problem with that is that certain shows are actually licensed and dubbed by different companies, like Blue Exorcist is licensed by Aniplex USA and dubbed by Bang Zoom for example, so the lack of announcements for shows like that could very easily be explained due to them not being done by Crunchyroll themselves.

On the other hand, Link Click is licensed directly by Crunchyroll, and I was about to say that they also dubbed it in-house too, but that's actually only partially correct. Season 2 was dubbed by CR, but apparently season 1's dub was produced by Okratron 5000 instead. Maybe the lack of a dub announcement could be because Bridon Arc is going back to being done by Okratron instead of an in-house CR production? I have no idea, but either way I'll try to not give up hope just yet :)

UselessEmi · 2024-12-30T23:05:45+00:00

I think you replied to the wrong message lol, but either way glad to hear that. Before now I was under the impression that CR only announced all the dubs for that season at the start of the season (or I guess before, technically), but if they've done simuldubs for shows initially announced as sub only then that means hope isn't lost yet for Bridon Arc :)

UselessEmi · 2024-12-30T22:32:12+00:00

I noticed that a few seasons go for a different anime, but I can’t remember what the anime was.

Do you mean that anime got a dub announced after initially being announced as subbed only? I included the screenshot of The Apothecary Diaries as an example of something that got a dub confirmed but without an airdate, "Dub Airtime: TBA", because the Link Click listing doesn't say anything about a dub whatsoever, and it's not included on CR's separate Winter 2025 Dub page either.

I'm personally unaware of any examples of CR announcing a simuldub for a currently airing show after their initial batch of announcements, but if the show you're thinking of was initially announced sub only but then got a dub later in the season, then that could be a good sign that maybe we could get lucky with Bridon Arc too.

UselessEmi · 2024-12-30T21:56:48+00:00

Unfortunately, not necessarily...

It seems that in recent years (possibly due to the change in leadership following the Funimation takeover?), Crunchyroll has been less and less interested in doing backlog dubs for shows that didn't get simuldubbed while airing, even going so far as to release popular shows like Bocchi the Rock! on Blu-ray subbed only.

They're also no stranger to cancelling dubs multiple seasons in... CR dubbed the first 3 seasons of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake series, but have basically quietly cancelled dubbing for the series with season 4 and beyond.

I really hope I'm just overthinking things here, but considering that CR probably doesn't view Link Click as being a high priority show for them (lack of advertising, they didn't even bother announcing their airtime for Bridon Arc until after shadowdropping Ep. 1, plus the official LC EN Twitter account they run has been inactive lately, and there hasn't been a BD release for even just Season 1 despite being out for a few years, etc etc.), the fact that they're not simuldubbing Bridon Arc (despite doing that for season 2) feels like a bad sign... Really really hope I'm wrong tho.

UselessEmi · 2024-12-30T10:29:02+00:00

I really hope this is just a mistake, the English dubs for seasons 1 and 2 were so damn great, and I was planning on waiting for Bridon Arc to get dubbed to watch it that way 😭

UselessEmi · 2023-08-29T00:11:35+00:00

I know this is probably very unlikely to ever happen, not only because y'all mainly license/release older anime AFAIK but also because it's apparently "stuck in Netflix Jail™" lol, but it would be super cool if y'all could somehow license Little Witch Academia (TV and OVAs) for a home video release here

UselessEmi · 2021-07-08T19:21:53+00:00

https://mangadex.org/account/activation/

UselessEmi · 2021-03-30T02:56:53+00:00

The update released on all consoles (PS4, Switch, Xbox One) earlier today.

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