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Can anyone clarify whether AL's release of Penguindrum will receive a new, more literal subtitle track, or if it's going to use the same one as on the Sentai disks? I think I recall someone mentioning there would be a new script, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the item description.

Waiting on the UK announcement. Whenever you're ready, MVM

I figured it was only a matter of time before this happened but it's still pretty disheartening. It's not like Manga is a company worth much stock these days, and having more corporate oversight might actually improve the quality & release schedule of their titles (wishful thinking) but I'm...

Having seen this series 5-6 times now, I didn’t rewatch it for this simulwatch, but it has been a lot of fun reading the thread and seeing the reaction from first-time viewers. Land of the Lustrous ended up being my favourite show of the decade, soundly surpassing the likes of From the New...

It's absolutely the disk, not the player. There was even a thread somewhere on this site about the problems people were having with disk 2 loading on various players. Sometimes they wouldn't load, while other times they would take a long time and make a lot of noise as the players tried to...

Hey, thanks for saying so. :) I will clarify that, despite how obtuse I made the show sound, it's often incredibly light and whimsical, particularly in the early going, with plenty of silly antics and strange plot-twists involving what are essentially children living a static, almost Eden-like...

Yeah, it definitely sounds like we’re on very different sides when it comes to perceiving & examining the world, although that actually also serves as a beneficial litmus test for whether they’d be interested in the show. For example, if someone were to ask me whether there was a god or not, I’d...

I mean the series is ongoing so it was pretty much impossible to have any sort of conclusive end. Given how much the manga ramps up the chaos in subsequent volumes, it was honestly the best stopping point they could find. As for the best of your comment, I’m honestly not sure you quite got the...

Should you pick up Land of the Lustrous from MVM's deal of the week? No. You should have picked it up full-priced, the day it was released, frothing at the mouth, like I did, but if for some crazy reason you didn't, it is your shame-filled chance to atone. Land of the Lustrous was easily my...

Yeah, I'll probably follow you there. Normally I find the visual differences from visual comparisons to be fairly negligible to my eyes, but those are some rough-looking screencaps. I'll see what addition examinations reveal when the UK disks are shipped and whether there's confirmed to be a...

It looks like my suspicions that Millennium Actress would be the final 12 Days item is turning out to be correct. Makes sense I suppose; it's probably going to be the title that brings in the most attention, so it might be better leave it until the end to potentially encourage customers to snag...

Look, I get that delays are part and parcel of licensing but this has long since gone past the point of absurdity. Throughout the entirety of this year virtually every Anime UK News, ANN, etc. headline about Manga is to announce a delay. Every 3-4 weeks. Like clockwork. There's not a single...

There's been a lot of good deals but I'm already at the point where I've already bought most of the titles I was interested in, although I did make an exception for Penguin Highway and Pigtails as a result of the BOGOF deal (it's been years since I last watched Wasurenagumo). Pretty much...

Personally I'm of the opinion that any collector's edition of Penguindrum should come with a copy of Haruki Murakami's Underground/The Place That Was Promised. Ok, that will never actually happen, but holy crap, was that book incredibly helpful for examining the themes and empathy on display in...

I still haven't actually watched the disks myself so I'm only going by the comments at the time, but from what I can remember the quality of the episodes themselves were serviceable, but I do recall Justin Sevakis mentioning on an old ANNcast episode that the extras (on disk two?) had some of...

I already own Black Lagoon and Sentai's release of Penguindrum, but I'd happily shell out on the latter again if it receives a new sub track that isn't heavily based on Steven Foster's 2007-era meme-filled script. I'm not sure if Kaze used the same 'dubtitles' on their dvds, but an official...

Good to know. I think my biggest worry was just how much the cost of including the 4K disk would be, although admittedly I haven't really kept up with how much the replication costs have gone down since the discussion around the Your Name deluxe edition some years back

I'm a shoe-in for Planetes & Re-Zero, with Children of the Sea and Cyber City Oedo being likely pre-orders. I'll have to see about the Millennium Actress collector's edition, given that I have no plans to upgrade my tv/bd player to 4K models until both actually die. It's a nice set, but if we're...

Thanks for the candid reply. At least knowing there's still definite interest in the franchise puts my mind at ease quite a bit. I guess it's just playing the waiting game at this point. I would really hope this isn't the result of something daft like Aniplex deliberately keeping it incomplete...

Oh yeah I've seen it, and although I'm aware that this might be a minority opinion, I view it more as a meditation of the themes of the series, rather than a key piece of narrative. It's great to have as a victory lap for the franchise, but it definitely feels more like supplementary material...