TV special technically so most likely less licensing red tape. Whenever Funimation does license OVAs they historically have a good track record of dubbing them. The only exceptions are if they're cheap (e.g. Nagato Yuki-chan), they're impatient and want a rushed home video release (e.g. Dragon Maid) or there's no Music and Effects tracks so they can't dub it...
It might also help that this title was dubbed exclusively for home video and not part of any simuldub. Wouldn't be surprised if titles that aren't given simuldubs are more likely to have their extras (OVA episode or Shorts/Omakes) dubbed since there's better scheduling and planning of budget.
said at 1:35 AM on Wed May 9 2018
said at 2:06 AM on Wed May 9 2018
TV special technically so most likely less licensing red tape. Whenever Funimation does license OVAs they historically have a good track record of dubbing them. The only exceptions are if they're cheap (e.g. Nagato Yuki-chan), they're impatient and want a rushed home video release (e.g. Dragon Maid) or there's no Music and Effects tracks so they can't dub it...
It might also help that this title was dubbed exclusively for home video and not part of any simuldub. Wouldn't be surprised if titles that aren't given simuldubs are more likely to have their extras (OVA episode or Shorts/Omakes) dubbed since there's better scheduling and planning of budget.