I just checked FUNimation's site and the video player is FINALLY working again! There's just a note at the top saying they're still working on it, but you can at least get videos.(I'm loading FMA:B 9 at the moment and it seems to be working fine so far).

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

@AnimeGeek87 - Yay!!! That is a good news!! At least we can watch through eps 1 ~ 9 there now. ^^ Thank you for letting us know!!!

That's weird because for me the whole thing was down until about an hour ago.

I really wish they'd upload Episode 10, already! I've really been staying patient here so I could watch it legally but they are taking way too long. D:

@Envy II - Ha, that's strange... I'm in the U.S., and I was able to view the vids since this morning.
Anyway, glad it's working now for your area also..

But, yeah, I'm still waiting for the episode 10 also.

I just really hope they're going to get it up before Thursday... If they wait to upload it on Thursday along with 11, well I won't be very happy. D:

I just can't believe it, this episode, which I'm really wanting to see how they handled it, is the one I'm having to wait the longest to see. =/

Come on FUNi, it aired over a week ago! The next episode is already out!

What is going on with Funimation? FMA videos have been down for more than three weeks now.

Ouch. Yeah, I just checked, and the Funimation.com's video portal is down again for "maintenance."
It was up and running normally till this afternoon, although it was showing only up to episode 9, and not ep 10, and some of us have been waiting for ep 10 to come on. Now the portal is completely down again. (as far as "what's going on," I'm assuming that's the continuation of what has been going on... you can check some of the back posts on this threads for the details. ^^)

@Envy II - I know!! I'm in a same situation. I hear you.

I still need to watch episode 8. Well, need to finish it. I stopped halfway through and then my computer crashed, of course, and then when I logged back on, I just didn't feel like watching it. That was more than three weeks ago. UGH.

@Forgiven - Yeah, I just double checked, and Funimation.com's video portal is still down.
For epiosde 8, if you would like, you can watch it on Hulu. They carry the same Funmation.com's English sub version, but 2 weeks behind Funimation's (normal) schedule.

What I'm finding strange is that Funi's youtube channel is only up to episode 7, while their hulu channel is up to episode 8...

oo so other people have had problems with funimation? I thought it might just be me because I don't live in the states, I hope it gets sorted soon

@Kale Mustang - Yeah, it's kind of strange, but yeah that's true.

@Forsaken Love - Nah, Canada is within the designated legal viewing area for Funimation.com's video portal for FMA:B episodes, and shouldn't be any problem. ^^ Except, Funmaion.com site is having the problem, and we've been still waiting to view episode 10, and by tomorrow episode 11 as well.

And now I'm beginning to doubt they'll have the Video Portal up by tomorrow. Which (also taking into account the fact the video portal was up a few days ago and episode 10 still wasn't up.) leads me to wonder exactly how long we're going to be waiting before we get to see any of the episodes beyond 9. =/

Such a shame too that Funi's own video portal is still down...but I'd hope that they would continue to use both their Hulu and youtube portals, as it's nice having multiple avenues to watch the official subs.

Since they've already got a good chunk of episodes translated, part of me would love for them to do what Bandai did for the Gurren Lagann release: sub only dvds first then English/Japanese dub dvds later... I'd double-dip for that.

The "Official FUNi Rep" on the FUNimation forums gave us this today (if you want a link to it, here.):

"Sorry for the delay and lack of communication.
We're still working out a few things.

Hopefully it'll be up soon."

So yeah, I'd say given that it's going to be a long time before we see the portal back up and the new FMA episodes. >_<

Ugh, terrible news...

Guess I'll have the fansubs to rely on for the time being...shame, but Funi'd better at least start updating hulu & youtube faster.

Ohh. Thank you, Envy II for the info!!

@Kale Mustang - I agree. It's quite unfortunate...

Call me cynical, but at this point, Funimation should just sell the license to somebody who can actually handle it. It's getting pretty ridiculous.

Yeah I agree. Cause I ain't waiting 2 weeks for just one episode of FMA from Hulu. But I've never watched the youtube version before.

Do you think Bundai would be good? I thought they did pretty good with Dragon Ball. Then again, I never really saw the original version of Dragon Ball. Maybe Toei Animation.

Also Envy, thank you so much for the update. ^^

ooo cool, ok thanks (I live in England though, American video sites tend not to like me at all XD)

*sob* I hope funimation gets itself sorted soon, it's probably my favourite place to watch it T_T

@Forsaken Love - Oh, sorry, ^^ In that case, official on-line streaming of English subbed FMA:B episodes will starts sometime in July in UK, with the schedule to catch up to speed with the regular airing of the episodes in Japan, in July, I think. The details are still TBA. It was initially reported here. Please keep your eyes open for future announcements.



Second that. T.T It's now Friday, and the video viewing portal at Funimation.com is still down for "maintenance" and we still haven't watched official English subs for episode 10 and episode 11!!
We can still watch older official English subbed FMA:B episodes on HULU, but currently they carry only up to episode 9 there. I've been advocating to watch official English subs, and this situation is not helping at all.

lol FUNimation's Twitter is acting like we're all supposed to be really excited about episode 9 being uploaded on their YouTube and Hulu.

>_> Episode 12 is going to air soon. The least they could do is upload 10 and 11 on their YouTube or something.

And Hulu really needs to change what they say, because it's false.

" Hulu is able to offer this series on a two-week delay from Japan. "

If we were really getting this on a two week delay from Japan we would have got 9 last Saturday. but it was like uploading this morning or something.

At least I'll finally be able to grab episode 9 for my ipod touch...

Come on Funi! We're practically on episode 12 and you couldn't at least update your hulu and youtube channels to give us episode 10?!

Hopefully they'll have some answers when I go to their booth at AX...as it'll probably be the first things I ask them about...

If Bandai were handling the license...we'd probably have a release like Gurren Lagann (subs first, dubs later) but they'd probably go barebones for the sub release and then give all the extras for the dub release.

hee thanks so much for the site+info!! ooo gonna get DVDs for my next birthday, yaaaay dates

*sob* hope the site gets sorted soon T_T I'll have to survive with fandubs for the moment, HULU if I remember right doesn't work in the UK

If Bandai has gotten the series we might not have gotten the streams at all. Considering the new episodes of Haruhi Suzumiya are out now and no such similar deal has been arranged. A horrible missed opportunity.

Still I don't really understand why Funi can only put the latest episode on their site. Why can't all the episodes go up on Funi, Hulu, and Youtube at the same time? That way if something goes wrong with one site you have other options. I am guessing there is some clause in the contract that prevents them from doing this but still its a real shame.





Actually Funimation released Dragonball.

Yeah, don't put all of the blame on FUNimation. The problem was the idiot who stole the One Piece episode. If it hadn't been for them, our Fullmetal Alchemist "Simulcast" (if you really can call it that being almost a week a late.) would have gone on like normal.

FUNimation can handle it fine.

I just do wish they'd upload the FMA episodes elsewhere while their Video Portal is down. It's been down for a ridiculously long amount of time, now.

Nah, I don't blame Funi at all for being this cautious and up until this whole debacle went down, I was extremely happy with them.

I'm still happy with them - I just wish they'd release the episodes on hulu and youtube faster. We're currently at episode 9 for both hulu and youtube...at least give us episode 10 already as it's been roughly two weeks since it's release.

Why didn't they just shut down the OP video portal and not the FMA one? What does FMA have to do with this anyways? Might of missed something there along the ways, but oh well.

I think, when the OP leak incident happened, the weakness in their system was exposed? Also, if I'm correct, episode 9 of FMA:Brotherhood might have been leaked as well? It was loaded sooner than scheduled, if I recall it correctly.
Whatever the reason, I hope they can get it corrected and open up the portal for FMA fans soon. I'm getting tired of waiting, and ep 10 is/was/has been one of my most anticipated episodes, and I'm still waiting!!

Huh? The whole Video Portal is down, not just One Piece and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

It's down because they're improving the security so the One Piece and Phantom leaks don't happen again.

FMA Brotherhood doesn't have it's own video portal anyways. One Piece is the only one that I know does. (I haven't seen very many of the other sites.)

I just checked FUNimation's video and it looks like it's up again.(At least for the moment.) It looks the same as it did that last time it came back up after maintenance,(the last new episode is FMA:B 9).

I noticed FUNimation hasn't posted anything about it being back on their Twitter page so may be it's only temporary(though I hope not.)

Hopefully this means they'll start uploading new episodes soon.

@AnimeGeek87 - Ohh, thank you for the report!!

Yap, indeed!! Funimation.com's video portal is back on! Yay!!
As reported by AnimeGeek87 above, it's still up to only episode 9, but at least this is some development in the right direction..

*updates the first page* ^^

What? Seriously?

It's not back up for me! This is bothering me! Why in the world is it up for everybody but me? I even live fairly close to FUNimation's place (it's in Texas, right?)

Oh well, if FMA Brotherhood 10 and 11 aren't up it's meaningless to have it up for me anyways.

@Envy II - Could you try clicking on the Funimation.com link on my post above, and see if that works? It may not work, but just checking... ^^
My old link does not work, and that one is the new link I found to be working...

Well actually I just reloaded it and it came up.

I had the same problem the last time it came back. It's just that I never tried reload then and it came up several hours for me after everybody else said it was coming back up.

@Envy II - Aha, I'm glad it's working for you now! And, that is a good tip... some others may have the same problem, and now they know what to do. ^^

Just checked too... site's up and running. Now I just want episodes 10 & 11 to be up soon...

The Official FUNi Rep posted on the FUNimation's forum saying this:

"We should have an answer on the Phantom and FMA: Brotherhood stuff by tomorrow. I repeat "SHOULD." Hehe... yeah..."

Don't know what exactly that means... =/

Doesn't really sound all that encouraging... I'll just expect the worst but hope for the best.

Thank you, Envy II!! ^^

Yea, I just saw that post by the official Funi Rep (bottom of the page, the same content as Envy II has posted above ^^) and I'm not sure what he meant by this neither. I guess we have to wait and see...

BTW, for UK fans, the access should be restored soon, according to Funi Rep's post on Funi forum here (scroll down to the middle of page there.)

Video portal is working, but no episode 10. I haven't watched that episode yet.

Neither have I. T_T

And seriously, they had to word it so badly. I can't tell whether they're saying it's an answer they're going to give us or if it's an answer they're going to receive themselves. I could see it being either way since tomorrow is the day that they usually upload them.

But why would they need an answer themselves? I thought we were in the clear completely with FMA Brotherhood. If they truly have to get an answer themselves than they might not even have 10 and 11 and much less 12 subbed yet. =/

To be honest with you, I would watch the fansubs, (and I do with certain Animes, but if I can get a hold on official subs, then I would rather watch the official subs.) But I would actually like to know what they are REALLY saying. Instead of people just making up there own stuff and putting in with the video. Thus is why I wait forever to watch on Funimation. I just got done watching 8&9 on Hulu though the other day.

Personally, when I know the official and legal subs will be up really soon I do not dare set foot anywhere near fansubs.

I was really impatient when FMA Brotherhood was first coming out and did watch them, but then I realized I could wait the extra few days to watch it legally.

Now it's really pushing my limits, but I'm pretty sure I will not reach that limit unless FUNimation comes out and says that they can't do the FMA Brotherhood Simulcast anymore.

*sob sob sob sob sob sob* i see funimation is back up now-but for some reason they have suddenly blocked my viewing *sob* I used to be able to watch there before T_T

This is probably a silly question, thats been asked somewhere before, but is there anywhere I can watch good quality, official subs living in the UK???? (like within the same week as aired in japan?)

thanks in advance xx

@Forsaken Love - I know, please check out my last post that has a part addressing specifically to UK members, here. My suggestion is to wait and see the announcement (if any, as indicated that it might) from Funi today. (Else, UK's own official streaming venue should start sometime in July.)

ah phew! It's probably only temporary?? horray, I was having a panic attack, thinking that poor brits like myself were been abandoned by the world of awesome anime (as is very frequently the case) thanks so much for the link tombow! I'll keep checking to see if its open again for me

It's a really good thing that Funi is thinking of us in the UK actually, most companys forget we exist ¬_¬ the anime industry is VERY poor over here, theres sooooooo much stuff we don't have a hope in hell of seeing legally, which really does encourage pirates, illegal fansubing and torreting etc etc, very very few series get DVD's and stuff here which is irritating too, so I was a bit, gaaaaaaaah no whats happened! seeing I'd been locked out, hopefully the portal will be up for us again soon though

Tsk whoever was stealing funi's files is annoingly and stupidly lame, runining it for everyone else ¬_¬

They just uploaded 10, 11, and 12.

OMG!!! I'm jumping with joy!!! Thank you for the good news!!!

*happily updates the info on the first page*

Now if they would upload 10, 11, & 12 onto their hulu and youtube channels, that would be even more awesome but I'll be watching on the portal when I have time.

Edit:

They're definitely still working on the player... tried to watch a little bit, and the streams frozen a few times on me and some of the subs weren't loading at times...

Still good though.