Sentai licenses High School of the Dead, there will be a DUB

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SENTAI FILMWORKS ANNOUNCES HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD LICENSE

LOS ANGELES (Anime Expo), July 2, 2010—Sentai Filmworks today announced its acquisition of the new hit anime series HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD. Based on the ultra-violent manga by Daisuke Sato, directed by Tetsuro Araki (Deathnote, Black Lagoon) and produced by the internationally famed studio Madhouse (Deathnote, Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D-Bloodlust, Wicked City) HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD combines hordes of flesh-eating zombies with state of the art animation for one of the most action packed anime series ever!

Sentai Filmworks will be releasing HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD in both English dubbed and subtitled versions throughout North America.

A deadly new disease is ravaging the world, turning the populace into mindless zombies, and the number of infected is skyrocketing by the second. As their fellow classmates and teachers succumb to the infection around them, a small group of students at Fujimi High School are fighting for their lives after surviving the initial outbreak. Now it’s up to Takashi Komuro to unite a small group of blood-soaked survivors in a desperate bid to escape! School’s not just out for the summer, it may be out forever as a handful of students face the ultimate test, survival, in HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD!

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CloudedMinds said:
Bit unusual for a series to be licensed when it hasnt started airing in Japan yet...
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That would have been true 2 years ago.
Things like Code Geass R2 was licensed before it aired.
Simulcast releases (like this) would be licenced by now, or should be far into negotiations.
 
With a dub, I see.

This calls for a dub plate.

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It basicaly has made for western audiece stamped on it.
It's blantantly going to have all the tropes we expect, they're common to both markets for once.
Very sound licence.
 
Reaper gI said:
CloudedMinds said:
Bit unusual for a series to be licensed when it hasnt started airing in Japan yet...
Click to expand...
That would have been true 2 years ago.
Things like Code Geass R2 was licensed before it aired.
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It used to happen even more often back in the bidding wars during the bubble years and when R1 companies were into getting onto the production comittee by funding the creation of anime like with ADV and Kaleidostar. Heck, Manga started it with the first GiTS movie.

[edited for spelling. Ccan you develop dyslexia in your 30s as I seem to be getting worse..]
 
Hmm, I'm on-the-fence with this one. I like my horrors and action, plus it seems like a well animated/drawn series... But it also sounds a little like Resident Evil/House of the Dead. It's a pretty over-used setting for me, but I'll hold any real crit until I find out it's response by the audience.
 
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