UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Recap of things I caught:

Lonely Castle in the Mirror and Blue Giant coming to UK cinemas

Rent a Girlfriend S1
Granbelm
Science Fell in Love So I Tried to Prove It S1
Somali and the Forest Spirit
God of High School
Venus Wars
Castlevania S3
Great Pretender
Patlabor movie 1+2+3
Godzilla anime trilogy vinyls
Gundam Origin LE
Blue Thermal
Eureka Seven movie #3
Dorohedoro vinyl
A Place Further than the Universe
 
ussjtrunks said:
Convinced Inuyasha Season 2 doesn’t exist, how can we expect AL to release Bleach and Naruto in a timely fashion if they have struggled to release even the second season of Inuyasha
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Well to AL's defence, InuYasha is being re-authored from scratch due to how poor the Viz releases were. And that takes time. Considering its been a while they're probably sorting out Seasons 2+ all at once so that the gap between Season 2 set and Season 3 etc is much shorter.
 
Only really interested in The Great Pretender and Naruto/Bleach from that showcase.

The guy seemed to hype up A Place Further than the Universe a lot, so may look into that too.
 
I wonder how many of these are "coming in 2024" in the same way that Place Further than the Universe was "coming in 2023" 😇

Some really nice stuff there, though. I missed the CE for Gundam Origin part 1 so I'm blimmin' well having that new complete LE. Love Origin.

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Real pleased to see Rent-A-Girlfriend. Granbelm, Science Fell in Love and Somali I've heard the names of before but don't know much about them, I'm intrigued to look into them more though.

God of High School I remember watching the first three episodes way back and it was alright, would like to give a full watch before deciding if I want to buy it though.

Venus Wars is another I've heard of but know not a lot about but I welcome more retro anime so will likely get it.

Will get Eureka Seven to go with the other two and Blue Thermal I quite enjoyed so will pick that up as well sometime.

Castlevania I'm yet to watch any of and Gundam, as nice of a set as it is, when I finally start collecting it I'm going to stick to standards for consistency.

The Patlabor triple drop are clearly my pre-orders for next month now. I do want Great Pretender but I feel it is going to be pricey and with three Patlabor films the same month, it's one or the other for me most likely.

With all those January announcements I was getting concerned that A Place Further Than The Universe would be the same month as well so I'm kind of glad it's a bit off still, as much as I want it.

Overall some really cool announcements, considering AL seem to be picking up all the Crunchyroll licenses which were released by either Viz or Sentai in the U.S. I assume there is a good chance we'll see the first season of My Next Life as a Villainess eventually as that was a Sentai release, right? correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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ussjtrunks said:
Convinced Inuyasha Season 2 doesn’t exist, how can we expect AL to release Bleach and Naruto in a timely fashion if they have struggled to release even the second season of Inuyasha
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Naruto and Bleach would sell like hot cakes. You'd think they'd be motivated to release them smoothly and in its entirety. We've only had the DVDs in the UK and they're OOP, so it's about time.
 
Lucky_Deity said:
Overall some really cool announcements, considering AL seem to be picking up all the Crunchyroll licenses which were released by either Viz or Sentai in the U.S. I assume there is a good chance we'll see the first season of My Next Life as a Villainess eventually as that was a Sentai release, right? correct me if I'm wrong.
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Yeah there's a good chance we'll see I'm Standing on a Million Lives, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Monster Girl Doctor, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Noblesse, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 1. World Trigger will likely be skipped due to its length, while Food Wars Seasons 4 & 5 and Haikyu!! Season 4 are probably too early to say.
 
NormanicGrav said:
Yeah there's a good chance we'll see I'm Standing on a Million Lives, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Monster Girl Doctor, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Noblesse, and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Season 1. World Trigger will likely be skipped due to its length, while Food Wars Seasons 4 & 5 and Haikyu!! Season 4 are probably too early to say.
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Thanks! thought so and can definitely see Eizouken happening, especially seeing as AL have the majority if not all of Yuasa's works?
 
Such a disappointment. I struggle to get excited about AL for home media anymore. They're the reason I started buying blu-rays properly, and it's depressing to see them resort to just phoning it in all the time after 10 years.

Rent-a-Girlfriend - Love this anime, but there's no point buying an AL release. Seasons 2 and 3 weren't Sentai so they may never happen for that reason, and even if AL can get them, they have an awful track record for season 2s, let alone season 3s.

Granbelm, Science Fell in Love, Somali and the Forst Spirit. More titles Sentai released years ago, seeing pointless collector's editions because it's all AL can get.

Castlevania is garbage as far as I'm concerned, but that may be of interest to others. Same for The God of High-School; I'm sure it has its fans. Maybe AL just isn't a distributor that reflects my interests anymore? No, that can't be it, I'm still in love with their theatrical output and Andrew's work on SLA produced an amazing lineup just last month.

Venus Wars I'll probably pick up. Enjoyed it at SLA when it screened,,but never got round to importing Discotek's disc before it went OOP. Nor did I buy Sentai's disc, which I expect this will be based on.

It was nice of them to finally announce The Great Pretender preorders for the UK, bit extravagant a release for me to buy on early bird, but maybe in next year's Xmas sale as I kind of enjoyed the anime.

Three CEs for the Patlabor movies with no outer artbox seems to just be a ploy so they can shaft us with the classic Anime Limited complete collection in an artbox just 12 months later and cheaper.

Godzilla and Dorehedro - more boring black vinyl for the UK, can't wait to see what colours Crunchyroll Store gets.

Gundam The Origin Complete Collection - I'll admit, I'm impressed at how long they held back from releasing this complete collection to supersede the two seperate collections, but I suppose releasing two Gundam titles a year does limit quite how many re-releases you can throw together. At least when 2024's second and final Gundam release is announced, there's a good chance it will be the Gundam Trilogy 4K blu-rays.

Blue Thermal's CE is a little basic, sure, but the movie was great so I'll be picking it up. Might actually come in at just under a year after the US release, pending any delays.

Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution - Can't fault them here, they know theses movies aren't selling, so credit for actually seeing them through. Will have to grab this at some point to finish watching the trilogy as I never got round to watching the fansub.

A Place Further than the Universe - The CE is looking good for this one. It's good to see that when they're actively catering to the US market as well, they pull out all the stops and don't just give us a 16 page booklet and rigid artbox.


That seems like a lot of negativity, even for me, but Anime Limited's announcements no longer bring me any joy or excitement, just the lengthy wait for the dissapointment down the road. I really do miss the Anime Limited of old, and I know they can be better. 😢

Being a UK anime fan sucks nowadays, between streaming and home media.
 
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