Sentai Filmworks

Sentai Filmworks is an American anime licensing company founded by the same people as ADV Films in 2008. They are the successor to the sister company ADV Films and are part of Section23 Films.

Why They Rock

 * 1) They have licensed and also rescued well-acclaimed titles like Higurashi, No Game No Life, K-on, and their sister company's titles as well.
 * 2) Just like their sister company, they give huge support to anime fans.
 * 3) Their streaming service, Hidive, is very well-done and has strong customer support.
 * 4) They're starting to dub more anime currently since they're now on a higher budget and have fewer financial problems.
 * 5) Just like their sister company. Their subtitle translations are mostly accurate.
 * 6) Even though most of their dubbing can be mediocre/poor, they have great dubs like Parasyte -the maxim- and Persona 4.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Due to budget and financial problems in their early days, they had to do sub-only releases.
 * 2) They share the same problem as ADV which is mediocre to poor dubbing and odd casting choices (most of the time).
 * 3) They implemented "misogyny" in the dub of To Love-Ru, which caused massive backlash.
 * 4) On most of their Blu-ray releases, they lock subtitles onto place when the audio setting is changed to Japanese. This is intended to prevent Japanese fans from importing their releases (Japan and North America have Region A-coded Blu-rays, and American sets are cheaper than Japanese sets), but is a huge and complete disservice to people who understand Japanese without the need for subtitles. Even Funimation and Viz Media are guilty of the same practice.
 * 5) They fired and replaced Krystal LaPorte for no good reason whatsoever.