Recent content by Gawyn

The deal between Manga and FUNimation is a licensing one rather than distribution. At the time the deal was to licence a number of shows whilst Revelation would continue to plod on with their schedule. If Manga were to continue distribution of these titles they would either start from the...

Rather than the manga I would read the novel, which is where the whole thing started. A translation was released earlier this year by Yen Press and the translation of the second novel is due later on this year (September or something like that).

Nope. Four. Slayers, Next, Try and the new one, Revolution. There seems to be a fifth one that started earlier this year too (Evolution-R) but that hadn't surfaced when this news originally came about.

DVD distribution rights and online streaming rights are very often unrelated to one-another. This is a good case-in-point since BEEZ are distributing Gurren Lagann in the UK on DVD but Manga have secured the online streaming rights (or reached a deal with Bandai/BEEZ to that effect).

As Arbalest noted, series 3 of School Rumble came down to a 2 episode OVA that apparently shipped with the final two volumes of the manga.

As I understand it BEEZ do have plans to bring out the .hack//GU OVA over here sometime later this year. It will be the only way we will e able to (legitimately) see the conclusion of the series, since the games are never going to surface over here.

Bear in mind that the series we had was the first of two series, which are wrapped up in Divergence Eve: Misaki Chronicles. The second series really screws with your mind while the first was relatively straight-forward. I have always maintained that this series would have been excellent if they...

It is usually the case that hardback novels precede the paperbacks by a short while although a month, as seems to be how this is proceeding is quite a short time since it is quite often three or four months in my experience. It is like a special edition for avid book collectors with a...

As I said the "remastered" original is the equivalent of upscaling, hence no real advantage to getting a Blu-ray version or getting the DVD and running it through a Blu-ray/standard DVD player with upscaling. You will get approximately the same effect as the DVD version there. The only possible...

My understanding is it is the first film but with remastered and additional footage much like happened with the original Star Wars films. I am sure plenty of people will hate the idea whilst others will be interested or not either way. Innocence will be practically a straight transfer since the...

The book is released under the Yen Press label. The actual translation work (if that is what you are asking) is credited to Chris Pai of MX Media LLC.

What do you mean by the original? 2.0 is essentially a "director's cut" of the original with spruced up animation/graphics using modern techniques by all accounts so there will probably not be an original version, which this is designed to replace. Certainly there would be no advantage to...

.hack is a very special case that was developed along four different mediums from the first concept. It was conceived as being told starting with the anime TV series, continued with an OVA series running alongside a game and finishing with a manga series, all of which was set within and around a...

An H-game that is all but unknown to the more general populace over here where there is no homegrown distributor catering to it. You cannot really compare an H-game that was only released in Japan as opposed to a game with a more general appeal that has seen a domestic release. Besides that MVM...

An anime based upon a reasonably popular game franchise will sell to a wider audience than a pure original anime title or an anime title based upon a manga. There are far more gamers in the UK than there are anime fans and manga fans combined (most of the manga fans intersect with the anime fans...