UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Lutga said:
Will be happy if it ends up on Viewster - although I still think the ideal would be Crunchyroll, seeing as I already have a subscription there.

I really appreciate what Viewster are doing, but they still have quite a few teething issues - ie. player not as good, visual quality not as good, no way to get rid of the adverts.
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I discovered that their iOS app is a billion times more enjoyable to use than the site, especially as it seems to play half as many ads. They're very responsive to feedback so I recommend pinging them a contact form if you have time to request those features (especially the ad removal, I'd happily pay for that alone) as it will support my feedback if more people do it :D

Crunchyroll would still be the ideal for all-round convenience, I agree. Shame they don't seem to want to talk to Anime Limited.

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Glad to hear you guys have got Serapth! Love that series and didn't want to see it locked to the US or Animax.

Would definitely like to see this head to Crunchyroll just to keep everything in one place, and having just renewed my sub for the year they need a few titles to make it worth it, but I'll happily use Viewster to watch the show as well as I'm liking their service. ^^
 
shokoti said:
Hopefully it will have new episodes on time whatever platform it's on... Tokyo Ghoul is still stuck at ep 7 on Animax. :cry:
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If it's any help don't forget that Tokyo Ghoul is also available to watch through Netflix UK as well.
 
Jeremy_Graves said:
shokoti said:
Hopefully it will have new episodes on time whatever platform it's on... Tokyo Ghoul is still stuck at ep 7 on Animax. :cry:
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If it's any help don't forget that Tokyo Ghoul is also available to watch through Netflix UK as well.
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I think they're referring to the second season. Season 1 (as well as Zankyou no Terror) are no longer available on Animax by the way.
 
Yeah it is a bit spotty. I could only find it on Animax myself and the insane scheduling there made me drop it early on. I don't use Netflix but it would be nice if it could go up on Viewster as an alternative to the terribleness of Animax if you get a chance.

R
 
NormanicGrav said:
Jeremy_Graves said:
shokoti said:
Hopefully it will have new episodes on time whatever platform it's on... Tokyo Ghoul is still stuck at ep 7 on Animax. :cry:
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If it's any help don't forget that Tokyo Ghoul is also available to watch through Netflix UK as well.
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I think they're referring to the second season. Season 1 (as well as Zankyou no Terror) are no longer available on Animax by the way.
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*facepalm* My bad. *Goes to back to QC'ing Durarara!!*
 
My kill la kill set just arrived (bless you amazon Sunday deliveries) and it looks fantastic.

Can't wait for set three so I can finally watch this!
 
Mine says out for delivery but with an estimated delivery date of tomorrow! :D

Seeing as it's Royal Mail for mine, I'll assume it'll be tomorrow.

Can't wait though, looks great!
 
I have a question which is more out of curiosity than anything. I noticed this on part 1 and 2 of Kill la Kill. Your copyright message and Madmans logo, they seem to be upscales rather than native HD. How come? Madman clearly have HD versions of their logo as event by their Attack on Titan Blu-rays I have.
 
Yami said:
Having just listened to the second podcast, just thought I'd say how much I'd love to see Andrew's hypothetical release of Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors. I'm not sure about what state the elements are in (it was lost and then rediscovered in the 80s, wasn't it?) but Shochiku are generally quite good at restoring their films - the live action ones anyway (Ozu, Oshima etc.) - so hopefully they'll get around to it. A Walt Disney Treasures-esque release of early anime (maybe a pre-war/WWII volume and a post-war/Toei Doga volume), with contextualisation, would be fantastic.
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On that topic, from the Anime Encyclopedia AMA:
Jonathan Clements said:
I am a big fan of Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors (1945), which was probably the first ever feature-length Japanese cartoon, and features a bunch of cute animals invading Singapore. There’s no English subbed edition (yet, but I hold out hope for 2016), so that’s pretty obscure.
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qaiz said:
That's the thing, I don't like little knickknacks and random plastic tat either, and it's funny you insinuate that its 'Japanese style' since Japanese Blu-ray anime releases are the most bare-bones and expensive releases out there. Box, amaray, maybe a little booklet and that's it, and yet those releases blow me away, as hyperbolic as that sounds.
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While it wasn't every release (and the only BDs I have were pretty barebones, but I stopped importing around the time I got something to actually play them on...), I have some wonderful knick-knack stuffed releases from Japan; I think the most prolific in terms of random tat was Kiddy Grade and Clannad (and then there's Uta Kata - not much room or variation there since there were only two volumes for the LE but, well, bedsheet!).
The presentation for stuff like Kara no Kyoukai (DVD singles) was impeccable, but started to get a little boring after a few volumes whereas with Clannad you never knew what you were going to get next.
 
MEGA shot in the dark here:

I had a little free time last week to do some digging into older anime, and looked a few things up online. Something I stumbled upon, which I'd forgotten about, was an old movie called Angel's Egg.

I vaguely recall seeing at least part of this way, way back, and it was honestly a bit of a shock to see it again. But, y'know, the GOOD kind of shock. Not the type they gave me in the special hospital after making me bite down on that chunk of rubber. Ahem!

I bring this up here because it strikes me that this might actually be a pretty good fit for Anime Limited. It's certainly an unusual movie, and has that high-art feel to it that distinguishes it from a lot of anime that was around at the time, or even some of the retro stuff that's being brought to the west in the current market climate.

SO, just curious as to whether this is the sort of thing that Andrew and co. might consider as a potential release. Would it be a feasible, marketable title, I wonder?
 
On the face of it, it's one of the most marketable things you could come up with (From the director of Ghost in the Shell! And the art guy from Final Fantasy!), but holy moly is the actual film divisive.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
While it wasn't every release (and the only BDs I have were pretty barebones, but I stopped importing around the time I got something to actually play them on...), I have some wonderful knick-knack stuffed releases from Japan; I think the most prolific in terms of random tat was Kiddy Grade and Clannad (and then there's Uta Kata - not much room or variation there since there were only two volumes for the LE but, well, bedsheet!).
The presentation for stuff like Kara no Kyoukai (DVD singles) was impeccable, but started to get a little boring after a few volumes whereas with Clannad you never knew what you were going to get next.
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Thanks for the reply. I guess a lot of the releases did come with a bunch of physical goods, but it's a lot rarer now since the allure of HD anime is good enough to get people to pay I guess. Depends on what shows you're into as well I guess. I'm not into shows like Clannad which seem to be heavily surrounded by physical goods and such as the userbase for those shows seem to be a lot more receptive to that kind of stuff, which is fine by me mind you. Nowadays, you just get a nice box, a little booklet or some kind of film reel/storyboard book, a Soundtrack CD in the box and an amaray/digipak at most. Same goes for the Clnnad Blu-ray in fact .
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But no doubt some shows come with physical goods even in Japan right now, no doubt about it. I guess I just happen to go for the shows that happen to not delve into that side of the business, from your Gunbuster to Patlabor and Ghibli and I'm glad. The allure of Giant Robo on Blu-ray is enough to get me to drop £100 for the import, same goes for many of the other shows and movies I like. My mind is actually a little fuzzy as to what I was arguing about...but it was something to do with packaging and my disdain for physical goods and just plain high-quality packaging and not just materials, but things such as the fit and finish of it all.

As for Angel's Egg, I ended up importing the Japanese Blu-ray. I love that film :)
 
ilmaestro said:
On the face of it, it's one of the most marketable things you could come up with (From the director of Ghost in the Shell! And the art guy from Final Fantasy!), but holy moly is the actual film divisive.
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I recall that it was a movie that, of the handful of people I personally knew at the time had seen it, half of them loved it and the other half hated it with a passion. I never actually saw it all the way through, but what I did see captivated me.

It perhaps says something that I had to be reminded of it before I snapped my fingers and went 'O YEH! I WANNA SEE THAT AGAIN!' but it'd be an insta-buy for me if an english language version appeared.

Aren't there, like, only a dozen lines of dialogue in the whole movie?
 
It is pretty sparse, yeah. I've only seen it fully once, at the Leeds Film Festival a few years ago - was certainly an experience.
 
ilmaestro said:
It is pretty sparse, yeah. I've only seen it fully once, at the Leeds Film Festival a few years ago - was certainly an experience.
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We didn't even see it fully then as I recall since we turned up a little late, but I'm not sure it would have made much of a difference... I think I would watch it again, just to try and make some sense of it. Not sure I would buy it as an Anime Ltd. Edition (have you used that yet? You can have it for nothing, Andrew) Blu-ray.
 
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