Temporary Processor Issues - RACS Store Site

Just a quick FYI to everyone, we're experiencing some payment gateway issues on the store currently. These issues are not on our end, but on our merchant processors end where orders are being allowed to authorize but then a false negative was being returned to the store which may not allow some orders to pass through to our secure server. Our processing bank is aware of the issue and is working on it.

This means there will be some folks who placed orders between around 7pm EST last night and this morning may not have gone through. 

If you placed an order last night or this morning and are not sure if it went through or not, please shoot us a message to customercare@animecorner.com and we'll let you know. Until the issue is fully resolved, we have disabled auth checks so that all new orders will be allowed to pass through the secure server without checking payment validity, which we will do manually once your order is placed.

I apologize for any trouble this causes anyone, and wanted to let everyone know that you can now continue to place orders as normal on the store without worry.

Thanks everyone!

-Bob (aka Robert)

RACS Store Site Server Maintenance / Upgrades Notice

Just and FYI folks.

We'll be performing server maintenance and upgrades over the next day or so.

Most of what we are doing will be transparent to you and and will not effect the live store site, but if you run into any anomalies on the store site (especially late this evening or overnight tonight), this is probably why.

We'll try to keep all the weird animal noises to a minimum while we're working... -_^

E-Mail Down - Fixed!

Happy 2011 Everyone!

We came in this morning to a downed e-mail server.

Working on the problem now.

Update: Fixed!

Store Outage - Resolved!

Just a quick FYI to everyone who had trouble getting on the store Saturday afternoon. And no, it was not network overload - I wish!

We use Yahoo's servers in Houston (with a backup in San Diego) to host the primary store site, and they experienced a pretty nasty DoS (denial of service) attack across their whole infrastructure today. Our store is one of the big ones and sits across a distributed network so I'm not exactly sure how long it was down for any one DNS, but it looks like the attack caused the RACS store to be at least intermittently down for about 3 hours between around 12:50 pm and 4:02 pm PST (that was around 3 to 6 PM here).

Anyway, their engineers at the NOC center in Houston did a great job and have now resolved the issue and we are back up and running.

Apologies to anyone who could not get on the store, or was trying to place on order during that short window on Saturday.

PS: And yes, it's 1:58am and yes I am just finishing up my day. Thanks for asking. :-)

UPDATE: Looks like the DoS attack that took down Yahoo's e-comm servers was related to Operation Payback. I wonder if these people actually know who they are hurting when they do this stuff.

Funimation BLURAY Region Coding

I had always hoped that the BLURAY format would mostly eliminate the old region coding scheme, but it hasn't worked that way in all cases. There is Region Coding for BDs, but (unlike with DVD format) the use of region coding for BD disks is optional for content providers. I've read that something around 70% of available BD Discs from the major studios are Region Code FREE and can therefore be played anywhere.

Region coding for Anime BD's is even stranger, because North America shares the same region as Japan, so coding will not prevent re-imports which is always a major concern to the Japanese. Most current North American Anime BD releases are Region Free - except those from Funimation, and since we've recently gotten a few requests we have gone ahead and added BD Region Code info to the item pages for all of Funi's current BD releases.

So every one understands, BD Disk region coding divides the world into 3 regions:

A) Region A (that's us) includes most North, Central and South American and Southeast Asian countries plus Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong

B) Region B includes most European, African and southwest Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand.

C) Region C contains the remaining central and south Asian countries, as well as China and Russia.



For your reference, here is a complete list of all Funi's current BD releases along with region coding information:

Title	Item	Region
Afro Samurai - Director's Cut - BluRay	FN-07987	A
Afro Samurai - Resurrection, The Movie - BluRay	FN-07991	A
Afro Samurai - Seasons 1 & 2 - BR	FN-07995	A
Basilisk - The Complete Series - BluRay	FN-08525	A
Black Blood Brothers - Box Set - Bluray	FN-05909	A,B
Burst Angel - Box Set & OVA - BluRay	FN-07737	A
Casshern - Part 1 - Blu-ray	FN-07922	A
Casshern - Part 2 - Blu-ray	FN-07923	A
Claymore - Complete Series Box Set - BluRay	FN-07448	A,B
D. Gray-man - Season 1 Part 1 - BR	FN-06922	A
Devil May Cry - The Complete Series - BluRay	AR-09954	A
Dragon Ball Z Kai - Season One Part One - Blu-ray	FN-08781	A,B
Dragon Ball Z Kai - Season One Part Two - Blu-ray	FN-08783	A,B
DBZ - Bardok/Trunks Double Feature- BluRay	FN-03857	A
DBZ - Broly Double Feature - Blu-Ray	FN-03861	A
DBZ - Movie 1 & 2 Blu-Ray	FN-05034	A
DBZ - Movie 3 & 4 Blu-Ray	FN-03862	A
DBZ - Movie 5 & 6 Blu-Ray	FN-03865	A
DBZ - Movie 7 & 9 Blu-Ray	FN-03866	A
DBZ - Movies 12 & 13 Blu-Ray	FN-03868	A
DBZ - Movies 8, 10 & 11 Blu-Ray	FN-03867	A
Eden of the East - Complete Series - Blu-ray	FN-08841	A,B
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are [Not] Alone - Movie - BluRay	FN-09880	A,B
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Part 1 - Blu-ray	FN-08380	A,B
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Part 2 - Blu-ray	FN-08381	A,B
Full Metal Panic! - The Complete Series - Blu-ray RMSD	FN-08543	A,B
Full Metal Panic! - The Second Raid - Series - Bluray	FN-08541	A
Full Metal Panic! - Fumoffu - Blu-ray RMSD	FN-08545	A,B
Fullmetal Alchemist - The Movie- BluRay	FN-08151	A,B
Gunslinger Girl - Season 1 - BluRay	FN-08197	A,B
Gunslinger Girl - Season 2 - Il Teatrino - BluRay	FN-08198	A,B
Guyver - Complete Box Set - Blu-ray	AR-09753	A
Heroic Age - The Complete Series - Bluray	FN-08682	A
One Piece Movie #8 - BluRay	FN-09579	A
Origin - Special Edition - BluRay	FN-02374	A
Ouran High School Host Club - The Complete Series - Bluray	FN-09533	A,B
Rin-Daughter of Mnemosyne - Complete Series - BR	FN-09641	A
Robotech -The Shadow Chronicles BluRay	FN-07100	A
Samurai 7 - Box Set - BluRay	FN-05831	A
Samurai Champloo - Complete Series Box Set - BluRay	GN-08655	A
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Complete - Blu-ray	FN-08851	A
Shigurui: Death Frenzy - Complete Box Set - BluRay	FN-08298	A
Shinobi - Special Edition - BluRay	FN-09564	A
Slayers Evolution-R - Season 5 - Bluray	FN-05977	A
Slayers Revolution - Season 4 - Bluray	FN-05978	A
Trinity Blood - Complete Series - BluRay	FN-08470	A,B
Tsubasa - (Seasons 1, 2 & Movie) - BluRay	FN-02301	A,B
Tsubasa - Season 1 - BluRay	FN-02289	A
Tsubasa - Season 2 - BluRay	FN-02302	A,B
CLAMP Double Feature BluRay	FN-03891	A,B
Vexille - Movie - Special Edition / BluRay	FN-09592	A,B
Witchblade - Series - BluRay	FN-08730	A