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I'm sure Sentai have their own worries over reverse importation (if so, why not just pull the same card used on them from Japan and require MVM & co. to geolock discs to block US players?), but it sure would be nice to be able to buy a reasonably priced release of Oshi no Ko now and not in 2026.
If you're getting more than one at a time you can find it pretty reasonable on eBay.
Found Oshi No Ko for about £28 delivered using the all_your_music buy 2 get 25% off code.
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Did they specify new subtitles? Not just cloning the US discs (which afaik had a better translation than Manga UK)?
From my understanding, they are creating their own discs and transfer for Naruto, but are using the VIZ transfers for Bleach.

Naruto got delayed because they were supposedly unhappy with the initial set of subtitles they were provided - but who knows what the result will be.
 
It's actually quite hilarious that their advertisement links to MVM's release.

I know the people working the social media pages aren't the same as those actually working on authoring discs and whatnot, but the culture and values of a company comes from the top down and permeates the rest of the company.

If the guys on the social media pages can't even double check a link, no wonder the people authoring discs and writing booklets for releases often overlook things.
It looks like ALs release is up on the store with both MVM vesrions now delisted, they're not even showing up as sold out.
 
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Today's early bird is Chaika: The Coffin Princess Season 1 (Collector's Edition Blu-ray) - SRP £69.99, EB £39.99, AU £35.99
and Chaika: The Coffin Princess Season 2 (Collector's Edition Blu-ray) - SRP £69.99, EB £39.99, AU £35.99

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Anime Limited are releasing Macross Zero on bluray in North America in February. Expect an announcement for here soon.

US release is apparently a Crunchyroll Store exclusive.
Deculture!

I'm watching Macross Frontier at the moment. There's an episode where one of the characters appears in an in-universe movie of the events of Macross Zero. That threw me a bit since I haven't had a chance to watch Zero yet, despite both shows being over 15 years old!
 
yea, the whole thing with the faux import edition of Godzilla Minus One in the US is really poor, if you're going to include those extras, you should subtitle them. It's somewhat embarrasing for Toho. That message being added for the US release is hilarious, but for all the wrong reasons.

Hard to say whether it will happen over here, depends on whether Toho allows Plaion those extra materials for their edition, or whether it will follow the mainstream release in the US and be more barebones, missing those extras.

Also, I didn't realise that the US mainstream release had stuff that wasn't on this edition, weird.
 
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Toho are notoriously draconian when it comes to overseas Godzilla releases. I'll be very surprised if the UK release has anything that isn't in the US release, with the possible exception of some of AL's infamous art cards.
 
Someone on the boutique Blu-ray subreddit translated the Godzilla Minus One extras themselves and made the subtitles into .srt files. They're freely available to download.

Although, with this you'd have to watch the disc on a computer (which would require a Blu-ray drive in your PC) and add the subtitle files to a video player software like VLC.
 
yea, the whole thing with the faux import edition of Godzilla Minus One in the US is really poor, if you're going to include those extras, you should subtitle them. It's somewhat embarrasing for Toho. That message being added for the US release is hilarious, but for all the wrong reasons.

Hard to say whether it will happen over here, depends on whether Toho allows Plaion those extra materials for their edition, or whether it will follow the mainstream release in the US and be more barebones, missing those extras.

Also, I didn't realise that the US mainstream release had stuff that wasn't on this edition, weird.
Buy the Godzilla Minus One Super Duper Ultimate Edition 4K!

Extras still aren't subbed but for that "authentic Japanese experience" now comes with a 12-month subscription to Rosetta Stone!
 
Does anyone here have any idea whether we can hope for a rerelease of limited collector's editions of Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann, for example? Has something like that ever happened?

Unfortunately they are hard to come by these days. Especially if, like me, you have to import them to Germany.




I know AL France are releasing their box sets soon, but none of them will include the English Dub, and that's what I'm most interested in.
 
Does anyone here have any idea whether we can hope for a rerelease of limited collector's editions of Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann, for example? Has something like that ever happened?

Unfortunately they are hard to come by these days. Especially if, like me, you have to import them to Germany.




I know AL France are releasing their box sets soon, but none of them will include the English Dub, and that's what I'm most interested in.
The titles you ask about did have second CE releases:
Gurren Lagann had a Zavvi version that I believe is slightly more compact (I only have the original, and there’s a lot of space in the digipak!)
Kill La Kill had the slip box ‘LE’ that you picture, which seemed to become the ATA way of doing exactly what you‘re asking about; releasing a second LE. But the thick booklets are certainly lacking.

I don’t particularly consider the practice of putting a couple of Amaray cases into a slipbox much of a LE. But we’ve had a few occasions of this (Charlotte and Silent Voice spring to mind).
But I‘d probably guess that Gurren Lagann is ripe for this kind of treatment depending if/when there’s a Western release of the 4K movie.
And as noted earlier; KLK is already done.
 
the other difficulty is AoA seems fairly uninterested in allowing others their properties, but I suppose its not absolutely impossible, just somewhat unlikely (partially because these have been licensed before).

Would be nice to have an option for the 4K movies that didn't cost $136 (plus taxes and shipping), or just to see the new dubs where theres no other way of watching it legally, no cinema showing even outside of North America.
 
the other difficulty is AoA seems fairly uninterested in allowing others their properties, but I suppose its not absolutely impossible, just somewhat unlikely (partially because these have been licensed before).

Would be nice to have an option for the 4K movies that didn't cost $136 (plus taxes and shipping), or just to see the new dubs where theres no other way of watching it legally, no cinema showing even outside of North America.
Yeah, pretty much since Funimation took over Manga UK AoA titles have become unavailable to licence here.

Iirc no AoA titles, excluding re-releases have come out here since the Demon Slayer Mugen Train movie. Though things seem to be starting to move again with Demon Slayer Mugen Train tv and the Entertainment District arcs coming soon. Iinm Anime Limited also recently licenced Blend-S.
 
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I recall several years back MVM mentioning that Aniplex had become increasingly difficult to work with, at least in terms of replying to acquisition requests, signing off on things etc. Who knows how that might have changed, but some huge sea-level changes have occurred since then, namely Sony acquiring Funi & making the Crunchyroll brand their dominant arm for blu ray releases. So if Sony have Aniplex for premium, niche releases, & Crunchyroll for everything else, I don't see them being all that interested in playing ball & letting the likes of Anime Limited re-license some of their high-interest titles. They don't need to anymore. We saw something similar happen in the US some years back when Aniplex effectually took back control of the FMA franchise because they considered it too profitable to stay in Funimaation's hands forever, so I suspect the next time we see a Gurren Lagann or Kill la Kill re-release over here it'll be under the CR banner.

It makes me wonder what's going to happen with the Monogatari franchise? Will Sony/Aniplex continue to allow MVM to release the new arcs, or will it go to CR's label? Or not at all if they consider it too niche a title to bother with a physical release?
 
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