Why aren t all Naruto Shippuden episodes dubbed

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Hulu being one of the most used video on demand subscription service providers offers a lot of content to its subscribers.

While the video on demand service has its own flaws, there is one particular issue which has been troubling users for quite some time.

Hulu subscribers have been asking for the complete English dubbed version of the popular anime, Naruto Shippuden, since at least a couple of years.

However, Hulu has not responded to the many user requests that have been made across numerous platforms including the Hulu community and Reddit.

A two year old thread on the Hulu community regarding this problem has over 4000 votes but it seems the service provider is not listening.

Does Hulu not have Naruto shippudden English dubbed the whole series
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It must be noted that the English dub version of Naruto Shippuden is available on Hulu, however, not all episodes/seasons are dubbed.

This is inconveniencing those who have been watching the dubbed version as it automatically switches to the subbed version midway.

It is unclear why Hulu is not adding the complete English dub version of the series as no official comments have been made on the matter.

An affected user did point out seven months ago that Hulu has no plans to add the remaining English dub episodes/seasons of Naruto Shippuden.

However, nothing is clear until the video on demand service provider sheds some light on the matter.

Hopefully, Hulu gives in to users’ requests and provides them with the complete English dub version of the popular anime series.

That said, we will report back with more details as and when new information becomes available so stay tuned.

In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on our dedicated Hulu bugs and issues tracker to get the latest updates on the topic.

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Brett Finch started this petition to Hulu

We want all the naruto shippuden dubbed episodes on Hulu and not just 140, if this happened Hulu would earn a lot more money because they would be the only ones with naruto shippuden dubbed episodes all the way to episode 500, so everyone who wanted the dubbed episodes would get Hulu and we’d be happy watching it

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There doesn't seem to be much information online regarding why dubbed Naruto: Shippuden specifically is only partly available on Hulu. However, there is some, as well as some more generic information that can be pieced together.

In a question to Hulu about this very topic on FB from 2015, Hulu responded:

It's our goal to provide as much content as possible and to keep it all on our service as long as we can. However, what content we post and how long we're able to keep it on Hulu depends on contractual agreements or streaming clearances granted by our content partners.

An announcement from 2016 of an earlier set of Shippuden episodes being posted on Hulu mentions that Viz media had been putting episodes up sporadically.

This fits with what Anime News Network said about this question more generically. ANN gives a good answer, but to summarize it, there was an original reluctance to posting more than a limited number of dubbed episodes online because the idea was that dubbed episodes have a larger base and so can be sold on DVDs and such. Providing them online would thus cut into the profits from DVD sales because people wouldn't need to buy the DVDs and so only a few at most would be put online to get people interested. Now that streaming has become more profitable, that's changed somewhat, but because Hulu and Netflix make content providers jump through hoops, it's often not worth it to go back and reconfigure old dubbed episodes to post.

This goes along also with a 2011 NYT article, where they mention that it can take at least a year for official dubs; if places like Hulu make it so hard for them to post episodes, they make not see it as worth it to post dubs and go through that work again when the subs have been up for 12+ months already.

Tl;dr: They want people to buy DVDs, and it's a pain to post stuff on streaming.