UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

I’m going to have to give Bastard!! a chance. Hopefully we do get the second season. It’s good the Gundam movie is getting a nice edition.

We do need to figure out the branding for these live action movies. You can’t have Labyrinth labelled an all the anime because we can see Bowie on the cover. And he’s that’s not an anime character unless you count Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Maybe that’s the solution. Spine art of all the different series where Bowie and Bowie-looking characters can form a neat display together
 
SnowWolf said:
Exciting to see Gundam Seed Freedom get a blu ray included in collector's edition packaging. The US only got a 4K release in a standard case.
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"HC thinks our Gundam releases are crappy, does he? We'll show him!"

I'd like to believe my constant criticism benefited us all like that... largely because the alternative is pronounced existential dread...
 
HellCat said:
"HC thinks our Gundam releases are crappy, does he? We'll show him!"

I'd like to believe my constant criticism benefited us all like that... largely because the alternative is pronounced existential dread...
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Now I wonder if this release is subject to the same licensor restriction that subs are locked to the Japanese track.
Or if it will use the same menus where you can't see which option your highlighting.
 
HellCat said:
To be honest, as much respect as I have for Henson, Bowie and both movies, I'm confused why an anime company is releasing them. Yes, I know anime in Japan isn't as insular as 21st century westeners have made it but it feels like a real reach to be applicable.
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Yeah, this is bizarre. There's plenty of unavailable anime-adjacent live action films that would be great to see Anime Limited release - Shunji Iwai's Hana and Alice, the live action films of Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii, Jacques Demy's Lady Oscar, Obayashi's Drifting Classroom, Summer Vacation 1999 etc. - that I don't quite get why they're releasing two films that already have really good 4K UHD releases
 
Yami said:
Yeah, this is bizarre. There's plenty of unavailable anime-adjacent live action films that would be great to see Anime Limited release - Shunji Iwai's Hana and Alice, the live action films of Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii, Jacques Demy's Lady Oscar, Obayashi's Drifting Classroom, Summer Vacation 1999 etc. - that I don't quite get why they're releasing two films that already have really good 4K UHD releases
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Yes, it's a very weird tangent for them to take. If AL want to diversify out of anime then there are surely other areas that have more of a viewer demographic overlap than Laika or Jim Henson. I would love to see the live-action Hana and Alice, or a better release of Shin Ultraman than the shoddy effort Cleopatra did for the US. Plus we're now several months on from the acquisition by Toho, but AL have given no indication that they're interested in Toho's extensive live-action back catalogue. Around a dozen Godzilla movies have never had a UK release on DVD or blu-ray. Classics like Matango, Rodan, and Atragon have never been released here. And, perhaps most bizarrely, the bulk of Takashi Yamazaki's filmography remains unavailable in the UK two years after he won an Oscar for Godzilla Minus One.

I can only assume that the Jim Henson licences were either a passion project for someone at AL or there were some circumstances that resulted in the licence pretty much falling across their table. Maybe AL have an existing good relationship with the lawyers who represent the Henson estate.

Or maybe David Bowie was a thoughtform brought to life by the wet dreams of josei manga readers, and that's the connection. 🤷‍♂️
 
Dai said:
Yes, it's a very weird tangent for them to take. If AL want to diversify out of anime then there are surely other areas that have more of a viewer demographic overlap than Laika or Jim Henson. I would love to see the live-action Hana and Alice, or a better release of Shin Ultraman than the shoddy effort Cleopatra did for the US. Plus we're now several months on from the acquisition by Toho, but AL have given no indication that they're interested in Toho's extensive live-action back catalogue. Around a dozen Godzilla movies have never had a UK release on DVD or blu-ray. Classics like Matango, Rodan, and Atragon have never been released here. And, perhaps most bizarrely, the bulk of Takashi Yamazaki's filmography remains unavailable in the UK two years after he won an Oscar for Godzilla Minus One.

I can only assume that the Jim Henson licences were either a passion project for someone at AL or there were some circumstances that resulted in the licence pretty much falling across their table. Maybe AL have an existing good relationship with the lawyers who represent the Henson estate.

Or maybe David Bowie was a thoughtform brought to life by the wet dreams of josei manga readers, and that's the connection. 🤷‍♂️
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Plaion got a Europe wide licence for Labyrinth and Dark Crystal and as Plaions former UK label, despite being focused on Anime, they were pushed onto them prior to the sale to Toho.
 
Vincentdante said:
Someone beat them to it I guess. Kamen Rider's latest season's been licensed and is currently airing on Youtube with english subs.
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I mean that's a general Toei deal with Shout and fair play to them they pushed back on initial stipulations that made the streaming model Toei wanted pretty bad. Theoretically AL could still negotiate something for physical releases.
 
I dunno if KR would sell in the UK, but I would buy them if they fixed the issues of the Shout releases.

iirc the worst was Ryuuki because Shout weave deinterlaced the 1080i60 master to 1080p30 which is something that should never be done to native 60i content.

Kuuga is the only release that is of acceptable quality (no extras though).
 
Scavenger said:
I dunno if KR would sell in the UK, but I would buy them if they fixed the issues of the Shout releases.

iirc the worst was Ryuuki because Shout weave deinterlaced the 1080i60 master to 1080p30 which is something that should never be done to native 60i content.

Kuuga is the only release that is of acceptable quality (no extras though).
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I mean based on what I'd overhear in the Gundam Base London lines, Rider is pretty popular with Gen Z here.
 
I've watched kamen rider since decade, but I personally wouldn't buy it because I'm a completionist and there's just to many, maybe the stand alone films, I've got kamen rider the first on region 1 dvd but wouldn't mind a region 2 release of the first and the next.
 
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