[Overseas] Anime News & Announcements
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Rosencrantz
Dragon Knight
NormanicGrav said:
That's definitely a relief, not sure when my copy will ship from UP1 though.
This does raise the question of why the hell is it so cheap? I mean it's super cheap, and they did a dub, even if it's not a quality dub that still cost money, how can they press a real BD and sell it so cheap. (Unless they expect it to sell truck loads given the fanservice angle?)
HdE
Comic Book Guy
Yami said:
The great thing about Discotek, though, is that you know they'll try to source the very best material they can for the release.
Honestly, I think the serious investment they're demonstrating in bringing Lupin III to the West is really amazing. I just wish I had the first clue where to start with the show and all its spin-off movies.
HdE said:
I started with Castle of Cagliostro as it's the most well known Lupin film. I soon followed with Mystery of Mamo, which to my surprise actually changed my impression of the show - I originally saw the Lupin franchise as family friendly when it's actually quite the opposite. But on another note the other films were similar in tone and are still fun to watch (Farewell to Nostradamus is my favourite non-Cagliostro Lupin film so far).
As for the show, start with Lupin the Third Part 1 it's 23 episodes long and its the start of the TV series. If you like VPNs, Crunchyroll has the entire catalogue of Lupin's TV episodes (Part 1-3) on there for US only (I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to get Part 4 added at some point).
Discotek's Iria Zeiram the Animation uses the Japanese master which according to Ashura who works at the company has better quality video than the previous releases.
Here's the screenshots he's provided for the master.
Here's the screenshots he's provided for the master.
Discotek's upcoming release of Magic Knight Rayearth is going smoothly.
One of the special extras is an English dubbed pilot episode done by an alternate cast, they also did the opening in English.
The complete series (Seasons 1 & 2), known as the Memorial Collection, will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in one complete set for 2016. The series was licensed from TMS Entertainment. The Rayearth OVAs are a separate license which they don't have.
One of the special extras is an English dubbed pilot episode done by an alternate cast, they also did the opening in English.
Source via Twitter 2 3
The complete series (Seasons 1 & 2), known as the Memorial Collection, will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in one complete set for 2016. The series was licensed from TMS Entertainment. The Rayearth OVAs are a separate license which they don't have.
Sentai Filmworks have begun their licensing spree for the Winter 2016 season.
Their first title is Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut).
Oddly enough, only ANN has confirmed it.
Their first title is Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut).
Oddly enough, only ANN has confirmed it.
Sentai Filmworks have begun their licensing spree for the Winter 2016 season.
Their second title is Norn9: Norn+Nonet.
Oddly enough, only Fandom Post has confirmed it.
Sentai's Winter 2016 Licenses:
#01 | Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut)
#02 | Norn9: Norn+Nonet
Their second title is Norn9: Norn+Nonet.
Oddly enough, only Fandom Post has confirmed it.
Sentai's Winter 2016 Licenses:
#01 | Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut)
#02 | Norn9: Norn+Nonet
Sentai Filmworks have begun their licensing spree for the Winter 2016 season.
Their third title is Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation.
Source: ANN.
Sentai's Winter 2016 Licenses:
#01 | Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut)
#02 | Norn9: Norn+Nonet
#03 | Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation
Their third title is Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation.
Source: ANN.
Sentai's Winter 2016 Licenses:
#01 | Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut)
#02 | Norn9: Norn+Nonet
#03 | Phantasy Star Online 2 The Animation
Well this is ironic.
Media Blasters, the most broken anime distributor for the past few years, have apparently used 2 BD-50 discs for Ladies vs Butlers.
Let me repeat that:
2 BD-50 discs, 6 episodes per disc. Both apparently don't ever go below 30 Mbps.
And the show is only $22 (~£15.18) on Rightstuf. Flippin hell.
Media Blasters, the most broken anime distributor for the past few years, have apparently used 2 BD-50 discs for Ladies vs Butlers.
Let me repeat that:
2 BD-50 discs, 6 episodes per disc. Both apparently don't ever go below 30 Mbps.
And the show is only $22 (~£15.18) on Rightstuf. Flippin hell.
Mangaranga
Za Warudo
Holy ****. Media Blasters single handedly saving the quality of R1 releases ~Sarcasm~Buzz201 said:
In all seriousness though, outside of Aniplex I releases I barely own any titles which use 2xBD50s (and even then actually use the space to it's fullest). There's a few Sentai titles like Beyond the Boundary's CE and NGNL which use 2 BD50s but aren't encoded any differently and barely go over 25gb for disc 2. Actually, Viz's release of Accel World may well be the only title I own which fully meets that criteria (avg 6 eps per disc, 30mpbs, dual 24bit PCM audio streams), and even then it was compressed to 1 BD50 and 1 BD25 for Hanabee/MVM's release. Maybe Sevakis did LvB too - then again he did say on Twitter he wouldn't do work for them.
I'm interested to see how those discs stack up quality wise though since the numbers only tell half the story.
AbZeroNow
Completely Average High School Student
ERASED will be having a dub premiere at Anime Expo (in Los Angeles, California) on July 1
https://twitter.com/aniplexUSA/status/740693675353735168
https://twitter.com/aniplexUSA/status/740693675353735168
IncendiaryLemon
Captain Karen
Re: Overseas Anime News & Announcements
Indeed it was! I guess the show being a runaway success helped a lot.
Indeed it was! I guess the show being a runaway success helped a lot.
Mangaranga
Za Warudo
Re: Overseas Anime News & Announcements
I'm not the person to start the thread for region free discs, but Funimation's release of The Boy and the Beast is region A & B.
I'm not the person to start the thread for region free discs, but Funimation's release of The Boy and the Beast is region A & B.
AbZeroNow
Completely Average High School Student
Re: Overseas Anime News & Announcements
I'll wait for someone to start the FUNimation Now thread, but it's now available in the UK on iOS
https://twitter.com/FunimationUK/status/740988620849467392
Mangaranga said:
I'll wait for someone to start the FUNimation Now thread, but it's now available in the UK on iOS
https://twitter.com/FunimationUK/status/740988620849467392
