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There are no region free Blu-ray players at the moment. The market for BR discs is fairly niche at the moment so there really is no impetus added to the fact the great majority of discs are all region at the moment anyway. As for the difference between Honneamise and Bandai Entertainment...

I understood it perfectly well the first time and I was drunk at the time! Possibly that helped... The book will probably fill in some of the gaps and go a little bit deeper than the film possibly could.

Madman do not translate the DVDs in most cases. In the vast majority of cases they get the subtitles and translations from the US. MVM have and (and maybe still do although this is a little uncertain since Madman was taken over year or so ago) contributed to the production costs with Madman to...

Everything released by Tanoshimi in the UK was and still is being released by Del Rey in the US.

My understanding is that Lace/ADV UK are negotiating to continue releasing (some) of what they were releasing before things went tits-up. Revelation is a relatively unlikely direction for any of those titles appearing (Navarre are not particularly enamoured of the UK market for anime it seems)...

Not MVM per se but originally distributed by MVM on behalf of FUNimation, Fruits Basket was released on 4 volumes also. I didn't say that the distributors didn't want to grow the market but that there is not (in my opinion) a great deal of potential growth in the market to begin with. The...

Reducing prices or spending more money on releases will not somehow grow this niche market much bigger than it is already and certainly not enough to offset the reduction in revenue/costs involved and you are incredibly naive to believe otherwise. You cannot simply grow additional market share...

This is a strange and seemingly pointless resurrection of a year-old thread back when ADV were showing problems, which ultimately spiralled...

A sub-only release would have sold less regardless of your own personal opinions and the ADV releases of uncut Sailor Moon suffered from very poor quality audio, especially on the later episodes of the second series. The best chance it had was for the dub version, which had previously shown on...

As was pointed out it is actually less than that... I stopped watching a couple of months back and thought there were more episodes than there actually were at the moment.

It is currently ongoing and has about 60 episodes to date.

Are you aware that Crunchyroll have the legal rights to stream episodes of Soul Eater come January? With that, at least, you should be able to continue to watch before the DVDs are released...

Plus they are all guesses since no actual announcements have yet been made.

If they released it any cheaper they would make absolutely no profit on it at all. That is simply not acceptable for a small company. So far as who buys UK anime DVDs, it is people who do not import anime at all; those buying in B&M stores; people who do not have a region-free player. Don't...

This is very old news, given that ADV (US) lost their licences to that show along with many others, which ultimately meant they could not be distributed in the UK by ADV at least until they clarify the situation or another distributor for the UK is chosen.

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences I would suspect that in Japan (where it is made for) that the fanbase is very much not adult. Given that the majority of the fanbase in the west could be considered late-teen to adult, then that skews the figures somewhat. This comes...

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences How many under 16 anime fans do you actually know? I don't know Petite Princess myself but Sasami for sure is a kids' show. There is that one skit where Mihoshi forgets her skirt (as Conan pointed out) but that is the only time you...

Re: The Funimation thread, sponsered by great dubs, licences To be fair Sasami is designed for little kids. Short of having a few of the characters from Tenchi it has pretty much nothing to do with it. The characters may share certain characteristics of their Tenchi counterparts but are placed...

Okay, who kidnapped Conan!? That has to be one of the only positive comments I have ever heard from you :P Still, i agree while Buso Renkin is not particularly original or spectacular it is at least entertaining in a generic, no-brainer kind of way.

A few points here: Tony at MVM started out as a store long before he started distributing anime. This gave him the basic infrastructure upon which to build anime-on-line when internet distribution became viable. The UK staff for BEEZ is incredibly small and are I suspect none of them are in a...