Kickstarter Thread - Anime & Manga Projects

Well, for starters it will most likely be the same over-DNR'ed video from the Japanese Blu-rays. That won't really bother me much, but it's something a lot of people will whine about. I'm just happy it's finally shipping; I just want it in my hands already.
 
Girls with Guns said:
Well, for starters it will most likely be the same over-DNR'ed video from the Japanese Blu-rays. That won't really bother me much, but it's something a lot of people will whine about. I'm just happy it's finally shipping; I just want it in my hands already.
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That whining will never end from certain people about that. Here is a promo Sunrise put on youtube years ago for the Japanese box; I think it looks great.


I just hope these get a non-KS release later but I have no confidence in that given this isn't something Crunchyroll would have ever released had they not inherited it from buying Rightstuf as they don't release classic anime at all normally. Don't care about the chipboard box which I assume would remain KS-only but would like the sets for the tv series, OVAs, and features. Never buying Dirty Pair Flash which I will continue to pretend does not exist. 😄
 
cfx said:
I just hope these get a non-KS release later but I have no confidence in that given this isn't something Crunchyroll would have ever released had they not inherited it from buying Rightstuf as they don't release classic anime at all normally. Don't care about the chipboard box which I assume would remain KS-only but would like the sets for the tv series, OVAs, and features. Never buying Dirty Pair Flash which I will continue to pretend does not exist. 😄
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Hey now Dirty Pair Flash is good. I agree with everything else you said lol.
 
cfx said:
I just hope these get a non-KS release later but I have no confidence in that given this isn't something Crunchyroll would have ever released had they not inherited it from buying Rightstuf as they don't release classic anime at all normally.
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The other issue is how long is left on Nozomi's licence. Considering how long it took to complete the Kickstarter set, I wouldn't be surprised if the rights expire before they could put out a general release version, even if there was any will within Crunchyroll to produce one.

Despite having just spent an annoying amount on some of the OOP DVDs, I would get the blu-rays. I'll be surprised if it happens though. I doubt we'll ever hear the full story of what happened with this project after the Right Stuf buyout, but the way there was lengthy radio silence until Justin Sevakis very publicly called them out for the lack of progress makes me think Crunchyroll hadn't allocated any resources to completing it before then. My guess is that either it was only completed to prevent further reputational damage or there were just a very small number of people chipping away at it without formal backing from Crunchyroll's management team.
 
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cfx said:
That whining will never end from certain people about that. Here is a promo Sunrise put on youtube years ago for the Japanese box; I think it looks great.


I just hope these get a non-KS release later but I have no confidence in that given this isn't something Crunchyroll would have ever released had they not inherited it from buying Rightstuf as they don't release classic anime at all normally. Don't care about the chipboard box which I assume would remain KS-only but would like the sets for the tv series, OVAs, and features. Never buying Dirty Pair Flash which I will continue to pretend does not exist. 😄
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I hope they still do a non ks release i really don't want to have to sail the high seas to get this English dub set and it will likely get uploaded to the net at some point.
 
Dai said:
The other issue is how long is left on Nozomi's licence. Considering how long it took to complete the Kickstarter set, I wouldn't be surprised if the rights expire before they could put out a general release version, even if there was any will within Crunchyroll to produce one.

Despite having just spent an annoying amount on some of the OOP DVDs, I would get the blu-rays. I'll be surprised if it happens though. I doubt we'll ever hear the full story of what happened with this project after the Right Stuf buyout, but the way there was lengthy radio silence until Justin Sevakis very publicly called them out for the lack of progress makes me think Crunchyroll hadn't allocated any resources to completing it before then. My guess is that either it was only completed to prevent further reputational damage or there were just a very small number of people chipping away at it without formal backing from Crunchyroll's management team.
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I hadn't thought about the license length.

While surely whoever was in charge of buying Rightstuf wasn't so incompetent to do this, from the outside it sort of looks like they had no idea they were getting this kickstarter, or Nozomi in general.

I wonder if they had to do any kind of contract renegotiation in order to brand this release as Crunchyroll instead of Nozomi? I am assuming they only used the Crunchyroll name since I would imagine they want to pretend Nozomi never existed just as they've done with Funimation.

It's been so long I do not remember--when did the kickstarter start? That might give a hint about how long until the license is up. Of course license lengths vary too but I think I've heard that 5 years was a common length.

I have the DVDs as well; I guess I lucked out in that I bought them when I first started seriously buying discs, maybe 5-6 years ago now I guess it's been, whenever it was they were still available from Rightstuf at the time.

Even if we are able to buy these blu-rays we should keep the DVDs, as I know at least on the original tv series some of the sight gags that were for real commercial products were changed or removed. This is the case on the Japanese blu-rays so I'm sure this is the same.

Speculation: This would certainly depend on how much time is left on the license, but if there's enough time to sell anything at retail, the best chance of it happening would seem to me to be if they made that decision before making the discs so they made however many extras they think they can sell at the same time they made the kickstarter versions, rather than having to do another production run later. That would have certainly been cheaper to do, and they would just have to hold onto them until time to sell. I don't know if they promised any particular timeframe before a normal version in the kickstarter, but even if they did after all the time that has passed and already broken promises, I doubt they would have any qualms about not sticking to that if they do want to sell a retail version. This theory is assuming they would use the same packaging for the discs. As I haven't seen what the kickstarter packaging looks like, I don't know if that is reasonable or not.
 
cfx said:
It's been so long I do not remember--when did the kickstarter start? That might give a hint about how long until the license is up. Of course license lengths vary too but I think I've heard that 5 years was a common length.
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Looks like the Kickstarter campaign was in October 2021, so four years ago. The original planned shipping date was August 2022!

cfx said:
Even if we are able to buy these blu-rays we should keep the DVDs, as I know at least on the original tv series some of the sight gags that were for real commercial products were changed or removed. This is the case on the Japanese blu-rays so I'm sure this is the same.
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Yikes, I hadn't heard about that.
 
Well I got no email, but I checked the order and saw a USPS tracking number which tells me it has left murica for the UK as of today. If anyone else is waiting might be worth logging in and checking as well.
 
Vincentdante said:
Well I got no email, but I checked the order and saw a USPS tracking number which tells me it has left murica for the UK as of today. If anyone else is waiting might be worth logging in and checking as well.
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If you don't want the tv Series I'll happily relieve you of your heavy burden and I will give it a good home.😂 im just messing with you.
 
You guys are lucky, you all are getting your DP sets shipped out to the UK already, and my set hasn't even been processed yet for domestic shipping to Pennsylania. I'm still waiting to see any movement on my order on the legacy Rightstuf site. 😭
 
Girls with Guns said:
You guys are lucky, you all are getting your DP sets shipped out to the UK already, and my set hasn't even been processed yet for domestic shipping to Pennsylania. I'm still waiting to see any movement on my order on the legacy Rightstuf site. 😭
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I wouldn't be surprised at this point if we learn it's just one bloke boxing and labeling the packages in a warehouse. I'm sure we will all breath a sigh of relief once it's in our hands lol.
 
RonJB said:
Look what just arrived at my doorstep. Pity about the huge blank space in the box (for the booklet, I assume
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I assume the one blu-ray case is for the TV series. If so, isn't the space for the other discs--OVA series, features (movies), and Dirty Pair Flash? Maybe the artbook fits inside too, but I'm sure it's not that thick.

I don't know what the cover art is like on that one case, but the spine looks like a bootleg, with only the Crunchyroll logo symbol but not the name in text, and no other text other than the Dirty Pair logo, not saying "series" or anything else. The box shows the full log and the Sunrise logo so looks more legit.
 
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