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There is some likelihood that they have a deal with the sites they are working with (YouTube, Cruncyroll and Bost) to share some of the revenue whenever people watch their videos. GDH will also be charging for the high-quality version and will be sharing the revenue from that with whomever will...

From what I can gather they will also provide access to a downloadable, higher quality version for those who prefer (probably with some kind of time-limited DRM or similar). Still, I guess we will see how it pans out in a couple of weeks or so when this all begins... As far as dubs and DVD...

The problem is, when you are trying to entice "tech-savvy" people currently using file-sharing into paying for their downloaded content, DRM is not a very attractive proposition. The restrictions placed upon the content that you buy make it a very hard pill to swallow when these people are aware...

Cosplay doesn't originate from Japan (but the word does in a roundabout way). People have engaged in fancy dress for years. Also worth noting that this is for game characters, not anime characters. Sure there are a lot of anime and cult film/TV cosplayers at London Expo and the like with a...

The fact is that there is and always has been very little "adult" anime ever made. Most anime, regardless of what people in the west like to believe, most anime is made for children up to their mid-to-late teens. Of what is made very little of it is picked up since it is not (seen as) quite the...

In BECK it was a single song towards the end of the anime. In the original Japanese version Koyuki gets up on stage alone and begins to render a version of the Beatles song, "I've Got a Feeling". FUNimation were unable to licence the song for the US release (for the English dub only, I think...

The reason that the broadcast order episodes were not releaed with a dub was, to my knowledge at least, that the previews were never dubbed in English. They, of course, provided some insight into the mixed-up order of how things were shown on TV and are fairly necessary to the continuity of the...

If you consider that film releases have a higher (or equivalent) pricepoint than £11.99 for standard editions when they have a far bigger audience than anime has then that logic simply does not hold up. Mainstream movies, by and large, have already recouped all of the losses incurred before...

It will be getting released. The issues with UK distribution have now been resolved and it should be (almost) business as usual from now on in the short-to-medium term at the very least.

Gantz wasn't so much ADV letting MVM have the licence rather than MVM winning the licence from Gonzo. Gonzo have proved time-and-again that they sell their licences on a case-by-case, territory-by-territory basis and whoever licences it in one territory is by no means indicative of who will get...

Re: Manga Enterainment Discussion No, what is being referred to is the time in fairly recent history where Manga started creating the subtitles for the Japanese language track based upon the English dub, which other than being wholly inaccurate in most cases also provides lots of cases where...

To all those asking for 5cm or Gurren Lagann, you have to bear in mind these are just rescheduled solicitations for previously hiatused/delayed titles. Neither of those two were ever solicited (ie were given provisional release dates for retailers) by ADV UK.

There were already rumours going around while series two of School Rumble was still airing that a third was in consideration but to get confirmation of it is excellent :D.

As I recall, Kodomo no Jikan became infamous for being a mainstream anime that was based upon a borderline (I am not 100% sure which side of the border it actually falls) lolicon manga. This was brought to the attention of western fans when the manga publisher (I can't remember who that was but...

Wasn't too thrilled with Gilgamesh. Really never got to like any of the characters but Mai HiME was fantastic fun.

Actors, just like any other worker, do their job for a living. Despite your particular outburst there many of the actors on anime dubs are fans of the genre. I remember the Q&A session with Yuri Lowenthal a couple of years back at the London Expo where he enthused about many anime and cartoons...

The reason they didn't do that with Naruto is that they tried to master their discs while Viz were still mastering theirs (to cut the lag between US and UK release) and hence had no access to the Viz translation. For the first series this resulted in a translation localised to the UK and in the...

They are identical to the Viz releases so far as I have been able to tell. I can't be bothered to do a direct comparison but they are definitely very similar to one-another.

Well, at least you will be able to get Black Lagoon, Second Barage from the UK since that isn't out in the US for a good while, at least (if at all) ;)

The UK isn't so big on comics in the first instance so there are not many UK adaptations of comics or graphic novels. Add to that the lack of much in the way of a UK movie industry, especially with respect to blockbuster movies and you notice that the UK doesn't provide that much in the way of...