Anime Expo 2015 + SDCC News Thread

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Aniplex of America News:
- GOD EATER is the first non-Aniplex of America title for the distributor. July 12th is the premiere on Daisuki.
- Special Announcements
- Your lie in April will receive an English dub! Directed by Patrick Seitz
- Aniplex of America now has a mobile app 'Aniplex Calender'. Free. Release dates, streaming times, special events.
- Blu-ray announcement for Tsukimonogatari - September 15th
- Blu-ray & DVD, English & Japanese audio for Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works. Byrce Papenbrook is Shirou, Mela Lee is Rin, Cristina Vee is Sakura, Step Sheh is Illya, Tony Oliver is Lancer, Kaiji Lang is Archer. August 25th Blu-ray Box Set 1 Limited Edition. Features uncut episodes 00-12, OST, trailers, commercials, collectible card. Box set spread across 4 Blu-ray discs.
- Durarara!! X 2 Shou with English & Japanese audio on Blu-ray and DVD - Volume 1: September 29th [Eps. 01-06] and Volume 2: Nov 24th [Eps. 07-12]. Various extras like commercials, pre-air talk shows, booklet, postcards.
 
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And that's it for day one. Tomorrow we'll have these lot:

05:45pm | Daisuki Industry Panel
06:00pm | Official Sailor Moon Panel
07:00pm | Ponycan USA Industry Panel
09:00pm | Aksys Games Panel
10:30pm | Right Stuff & Nozomi Entertainment Industry Panel
11:15pm | Funimation Industry Panel
 
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NormanicGrav said:
- Your lie in April will receive an English dub! Directed by Patrick Seitz
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HOLY **** YES!!!!!!! I'm so happy that such a great series which I was convinced would be relegated to DVD only is being dubbed (and thus should also be on BD too). Pre-ordering as soon as they announce a physical release.

NormanicGrav said:
- Blu-ray & DVD, English & Japanese audio for Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works. Byrce Papenbrook is Shirou, Mela Lee is Rin, Cristina Vee is Sakura, Step Sheh is Illya, Tony Oliver is Lancer, Kaiji Lang is Archer. August 25th Blu-ray Box Set 1 Limited Edition. Features uncut episodes 00-12, OST, trailers, commercials, collectible card. Box set spread across 4 Blu-ray discs.
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Holy crap that was a fast turnaround - far quicker than I had expected. Bryce Papenbrook is the last person I though would voice Shirou and I just cannot imagine his voice fitting him. Kind of expected Sam Riegal to be honest.

NormanicGrav said:
- Durarara!! X 2 Shou with English & Japanese audio on Blu-ray and DVD - Volume 1: September 29th [Eps. 01-06] and Volume 2: Nov 24th [Eps. 07-12]. Various extras like commercials, pre-air talk shows, booklet, postcards.
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Was wondering when this was actually going to be announced. Another quick turnaround. I'll probably buy it.
 
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Daisuki appear to be ramping up spending this year, with God Eater as a worldwide exclusive, co-licensing One-Punch Man for much of the world, and some kind of deal for Concrete Revolution (the new show from the staff of Fullmetal Alchemist and Bones). I'm wondering if they'll surprise us all with some acquisitions tomorrow, for this season or later in the year...

I wonder if they're finally starting to try and actually compete, instead of just taking the rights to shows their owners can't sell...
 
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HOLY CRABSTICKS!!!

LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES!!!

Whoever wold have thought? What an absolute blinder! This has to be the biggest news from the expo for me so far - as in, nobody bother with any other announcements, because they can't possiby be as good, right?

Very, VERY happy about this one. Here's hoping it makes its way to the UK!
 
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NormanicGrav said:
And that's it for day one. Tomorrow we'll have these lot:

05:45pm | Daisuki Industry Panel
06:00pm | Official Sailor Moon Panel
07:00pm | Ponycan USA Industry Panel
09:00pm | Aksys Games Panel
10:30pm | Right Stuff & Nozomi Entertainment Industry Panel
11:15pm | Funimation Industry Panel
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The PonyCan Pannel is going to be a bloodbath. I'm calling "Anime Fan Wants : The Revenge" to happen there.

I wonder how the SM pannel is gong to go given things kinda went from Euphoria about the return of SM and SMC to into the disaster we've seen that franchise become between Toei's criminal handling of Crystal and Viz's horrendous handling of the home video release.

Funimation I expect the big thing being that they can't confirm DB Super.
 
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Glad that they've brought back Mela Lee to play Rin in the UBW dub - Papenbrook as Shirou will probably just be Kirito MK 2 I imagine...
 
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Um.. wow. LotGH!! I shall be buying those as soon as Sentai release them.
I will eat my hat if a UK release ever happened. Although I will have to buy a hat first to then eat.

I wish Vertical announced a few more manga licenses. Not interested in cats. :)

Viz and Funi were good too. Getting Deathnote and original FMA on Blu-Ray will be good. Funi's shop has FMA for less than $50 already, so will pick up the standard edition for that. I feel no need for a premium release.
 
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Wooo! FMA 2003 on BD. Unless one of the UK distributors has a surprise announcement, I'll definitely be importing at least the limited edition.
 
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qaiz said:
Professor Irony said:
Can't say I feel desperately inclined to buy it, but I think it's nice that someone is finally taking a punt on LoGH at last.
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Blasphemy! It's required purchasing material by everybody and failure to do so is punishable by death!
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I found LoGH deeply zzz and quit at around episode 30. I wouldn't watch the rest if someone purchased it for me /o\

What's this about FMA 2003 (aka The Best Version) coming to Blu-ray? I'll have some of that. Not getting rid of my DVD digipacks, though.
 
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fabricatedlunatic said:
What's this about FMA 2003 (aka The Best Version) coming to Blu-ray? I'll have some of that. Not getting rid of my DVD digipacks, though.
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I'll have more details in the Overseas thread, basically a listing for the Blu-ray version has appeared on Funimation's Shop.

Update - Here you go.
 
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Summary of the recent panel news:

JAST USA:
They have licensed the following
- Flowers: Spring Arc, there are four parts (one per season in the title) and JAST plans to release the first this fall
- SoniComi, the 'love communication' game with Super Sonico. JAST plans to release the game this winter
Updates on existing licenses
- Lightning Warrior Raidy III, will be ready for 'golden master' soon, aims to release the eroge visual novel by July
- Seinarukana was briefly mentioned. They aim to release the eroge visual novel by September
- Shiny Days, the final game in the School Days series will also be ready for 'golden master' soon, aims to release the eroge visual novel by August

Vertical:
They have licensed the following
- Attack on Titan: Lost Girls novel ~ 220 pages in Summer 2016 [$14.95]
- FukuFuku: Kitten Tales (Fuku Fuku Nya~n Neko da Nyan) manga ~ First volume to have 180 pages in Spring 2016 [$10.95]
- Nichijou manga ~ First volume to have 200 pages in Spring 2016 [$10.95]
- Sushi Chef Sukiyabashi Jiro (Sukiyabashi Jirō Jun o Nigiru) ~ 240 page Hardback in Spring 2016 [$24.95]
 
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Mangaranga said:
Dub trailer for Fate/Stay Night has been uploaded by AniplexUSA. As I thought, Bryce's voice is not a good fit for Shirou.
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He certainly does feel miscast. It's like Aniplex couldn't be asked to find a more suitable actor and went with him because he's the main lead for their other titles Blue Exorcist, Sword Art Online and one of the leads in Durarara!!. I'm not so sure about Rin's English voice, she feels off to me. As for everyone else, they sound perfectly fine in my opinion.
 
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I've been wanting to watch Legend Of The Galactic Heroes for years. This is incredible news! 100% import from me cause I don't see a UK company putting out 110 episodes of an old cult classic Anime with (more than likely) no dub. I'll be picking up the novels too.

EDIT: I just want to thank NormanicGrav for this topic too! Very informative and easy to read for a simple gal like me :3
 
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NormanicGrav said:
Mangaranga said:
Dub trailer for Fate/Stay Night has been uploaded by AniplexUSA. As I thought, Bryce's voice is not a good fit for Shirou.
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He certainly does feel miscast. It's like Aniplex couldn't be asked to find a more suitable actor and went with him because he's the main lead for their other titles Blue Exorcist, Sword Art Online and one of the leads in Durarara!!. I'm not so sure about Rin's English voice, she feels off to me. As for everyone else, they sound perfectly fine in my opinion.
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I think it's Aniplex thing, they have to hire the most obnoxiously American sounding voice actors possible, and whilst FUNi can just about get the American accents to work, Aniplex really can't.

That Durarara!! dub is genuinely painful, it's like the casting was based entire on character descriptions by somebody who failed to realise the entire show is set very prominently in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and the only direction ever given to the voice actors was "slightly more obnoxious, please"...
 
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Since Concrete Revolutio is coming to Daisuki, what are the odds that it's going to be another Aniplex of America acquisition (thus making it their second non-Aniplex title)? Both this and God Eater are from Bandai Visual and are pretty much exclusive to Daisuki.
 
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