UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

[elaniel]

I agree with Excel Saga. I was scrolling through Funimation's TRSI sale yesterday and noticed it there and thought it would be a great Anime Limited release!

Also, Wolf's Rain.

Also, LODOSS. I am adamant AL are tormenting me as I saw it on a Facebook picture a few months ago in their office!

 

[Lutga]

Dare I mention it too - but if anyone dares going near Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura, I'd love them forever.

 

[qaiz]

A bit of a random question, but with Anime Limited licensing Short Peace and showing interest in other shorts, I have to ask if you know of any plans, or have an interest in releasing Memories or Robot Carnival and the likes? Memories is truly phenomenal and deserves to be seen by as many people as possible, preferably on Blu-ray since it's a visual tour de force, unfortunately the Blu-ray has no subtitles, and I ask about Robot Carnival due to it being licensed recently by Discotek.

I've been getting into anime shorts as of late, and I feel like my eyes have been opened up to a whole new world of story telling, and there's a lot of meat there with things like Neo-Tokyo and such. I wonder if these types of releases are viable. Neo-Tokyo was released in the US on DVD back in 2004 by ADV, with Animax (?) releasing Memories.

I remember you mentioning the fact that you have plans for releasing another short, hinting at stuff like the Animator Expo stuff. I wonder if a Blu-ray release of something like Memories is possible, but I know things under the Otomo umbrella are hard to release, since he holds them close to his chest. Thanks in advance, and know that anime shorts are awesome, and everyone here should check them out!

 

[Shiroi Hane]

Man, if anime limited released elfen lied on bd, fixed the audio issues with the us release, and gave it a collectors treatment, that'd be the dream

Anime 101 already have the UK rights for that and released it on dvd a few years ago.

Technically ADV have the UK rights. 101 has connections to Lace, who were ADVs original distributors (and took over operations for a while when the ADV UK office shut down).

Seamless branching is common on Blu-rays, with extended and theatrical versions of several titles on one disc. Of course it's a pain to encode. My old Blu-ray player used to crash when I watched the extended version of the X-Files movies and tried navigating in the films.

One of the first DVDs I bought was Terminator in a nice case, and I took it back because the extras disc crashed my player (a cheap second-hand LG) but the replacement did the same yet played fine on my cousin's PS2. It had some sort of really complicated branching setup on it as I recall.

Are there BBFC costs per disc as well as per minute they have to watch?

BBFC fees are an initial base fee, then a fee per minute I believe. Number of discs doesn't matter with them.

According to some notes I scribbled down from somewhere (might have been a Mangacast?):

￡6/min
￡10/min subtitles
￡75/disc

Patlabor films were with Beez last I saw them but guess they lapsed backwards now. Hard to tell if it's actually viable as they already kinda got the Ultimate treatment via Beez before BD came by! It'd be really hard to top that quality too...

Weren't they technically just distributing for Bandai Visual Japan's Honneamise label at that time?

 

[Mangaranga]

Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun.

I would love a nice Anime Limited LE BD of this so much. Best show of 2014.

Amagi Brilliant Park would be nice too ..but I do feel that's gonna go the way of Hyouka

Ditto on Amagi Brilliant Park too. I know you briefly mentioned Hyouka at one of the MCM panels before Andrew, but do you have any idea what's going on with the rights there? Is there a block on the international licensing rights or something? (Same for ABP?)

 

[Lutga]

Also, know MVM released the movie back in the day, but a rescue re-release of Utena would be amazing too.

 

[BanzaiJedi]

I finally bought a copy of Patema Inverted UE (a bit late, I know) and it arrived today from Amazon. I immediately noticed before even taking the shrinkwrap off that the back of the o-card is badly torn. I took the shrinkwrap off anyway because the damage is on the back where it won't be seen much, and I couldn't be bothered sending it back . I'm mentioning it in this thread because I'm wondering if this was a common problem for everyone else or did I just get unlucky? On a £15 amaray I wouldn't be too bothered about damage like this and would shrug it off, but I felt it should be mentioned for a £60 product that is intended for collectors. Everything else is in perfect condition and I'll be watching the film today regardless.

 

[Gemsy-chan]

How unlucky. I got mine through the kickstarter and was in perfect condition.

 

[anime_andrew]

I finally bought a copy of Patema Inverted UE (a bit late, I know) and it arrived today from Amazon. I immediately noticed before even taking the shrinkwrap off that the back of the o-card is badly torn. I took the shrinkwrap off anyway because the damage is on the back where it won't be seen much, and I couldn't be bothered sending it back . I'm mentioning it in this thread because I'm wondering if this was a common problem for everyone else or did I just get unlucky? On a £15 amaray I wouldn't be too bothered about damage like this and would shrug it off, but I felt it should be mentioned for a £60 product that is intended for collectors. Everything else is in perfect condition and I'll be watching the film today regardless.

Man - that is annoying - sorry to hear it !

AP

 

[anime_andrew]

Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun.

I would love a nice Anime Limited LE BD of this so much. Best show of 2014.

Amagi Brilliant Park would be nice too ..but I do feel that's gonna go the way of Hyouka

Ditto on Amagi Brilliant Park too. I know you briefly mentioned Hyouka at one of the MCM panels before Andrew, but do you have any idea what's going on with the rights there? Is there a block on the international licensing rights or something? (Same for ABP?)

Both of the KyoAni's are on my radar, one is more likely sooner than the other.

Best,

AP

 

[NormanicGrav]

Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun.

I would love a nice Anime Limited LE BD of this so much. Best show of 2014.

Amagi Brilliant Park would be nice too ..but I do feel that's gonna go the way of Hyouka

Ditto on Amagi Brilliant Park too. I know you briefly mentioned Hyouka at one of the MCM panels before Andrew, but do you have any idea what's going on with the rights there? Is there a block on the international licensing rights or something? (Same for ABP?)

Both of the KyoAni's are on my radar, one is more likely sooner than the other.

Best,

AP

While you're at it on the KyoAni stuff:

"GET NICHIJOU!"

 

[Just Passing Through]

I would love a nice Anime Limited LE BD of this so much. Best show of 2014.


Ditto on Amagi Brilliant Park too. I know you briefly mentioned Hyouka at one of the MCM panels before Andrew, but do you have any idea what's going on with the rights there? Is there a block on the international licensing rights or something? (Same for ABP?)

Both of the KyoAni's are on my radar, one is more likely sooner than the other.

Best,

AP

While you're at it on the KyoAni stuff:

"GET NICHIJOU!"

"ON BLU-RAY!"

already got the DVDs

 

[Emulsion]

Both Amagi Brilliant Park and Nichijou on Blu-ray would be great.

 

[st_owly (witch)]

Rescuing Haruhi S1 and releasing it on BluRay would be like a license to print money.

 

[Lutga]

Also - legit question; has anyone ever released Genshiken in the UK? Getting the first and 'second generation' series out on Blu-Ray would be amazing.

 

[DesuDayo]

Kyoto Animation productions are great, though i'm not too keen on much of their newer stuff, it just feels like they've lost their spark... Clannad +Clannad ~AS~ is something I would pay good money for if released on Blu-ray with an art box and an artbook [an UE-style release would be out of this world!].

Same goes for Kanon and Air. The so-called "Holy trinity" of Kyoto Animation (＾∇＾).


Genshiken is also something I would pay up for. I'm on the fence about importing the NIS release of the Second Generation because the first generation has not been released on Blu-ray in the west.


Edit: Something I feel is completely lacking in the UK is Slice of Life shows. Titles like Non Non Biyori, Barakamon, Natsume Yuujinchou, Lucky Star and so on. They probably won't move a massive amount of copies, but with the UE/CE format + a cheaper version down the line strategy I think these shows could do well economically. Recent titles like the first two I mentioned above have been very well recieved by English speaking fans and they're both being released in the US. Barakamon's manga is also being released by Yen Press, but if anyone's to take a chance on these I definitely think Anime Limited would be the best choice!

 

[Dan]

I finally bought a copy of Patema Inverted UE (a bit late, I know) and it arrived today from Amazon. I immediately noticed before even taking the shrinkwrap off that the back of the o-card is badly torn. I took the shrinkwrap off anyway because the damage is on the back where it won't be seen much, and I couldn't be bothered sending it back . I'm mentioning it in this thread because I'm wondering if this was a common problem for everyone else or did I just get unlucky? On a £15 amaray I wouldn't be too bothered about damage like this and would shrug it off, but I felt it should be mentioned for a £60 product that is intended for collectors. Everything else is in perfect condition and I'll be watching the film today regardless.

I would have sent that back, that's quite bad. Plus as it's not your fault you would have been able to send it back free by just printing a label off Amazons site.

 

[DesuDayo]

^ My Patema Inverted Ultimate Edition was torn in the exact same spot and I got mine from Anime Limited. I've seen others with the same tear, so this is probably a production error.

 

[Peachy]

Thanks for the answer Andrew :3

DesuDayo - Beez previously released Lucky Star in the UK, I think it went OOP pretty quickly thanks to the riot incident so numbers might not be all telling.
It'd be nice to see more SOL shows in the UK but they must be hard to sell, if what Manga said about K-ON is anything to go by anyways. I'll kiss the feet of whoever gets me Barakamon & Yuru Yuri on BD tho.

Also - legit question; has anyone ever released Genshiken in the UK? Getting the first and 'second generation' series out on Blu-Ray would be amazing.

Wasn't that the title MVM said was a real hard license?

Rescuing Haruhi S1 and releasing it on BluRay would be like a license to print money.

This.

 

[antonusklesk]

Also - legit question; has anyone ever released Genshiken in the UK? Getting the first and 'second generation' series out on Blu-Ray would be amazing.

If Genshiken is possible, I'd be all over it. Even getting an R1 DVD of it is difficult as it's OOP.

I picked up the recent NISA release of Second Generation, and despite being a let down compared to the previous series', I'm still glad to own it.