windicetea
Completely Average High School Student
No Konosuba movie is a shame but soon hopefully
Overseas The Discotek Media Thread (plus AnimEigo)
- Thread starter NormanicGrav
- Start date
As revealed last night, Discotek's August 2021 line-up is now available to pre-order on Rightstuf.
| Anime | SRP | Audio/Subs | Content | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Robot Daltanious | $59.95 | Japanese with English Subs | 47 episodes | SD Blu-ray |
| Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics Season 2 | $49.95 | English & Japanese with English Subs | 23 episodes | SD Blu-ray |
| Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Season 1 | $59.95 | English & Japanese with English Subs | 25 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Lupin the Third Part III | $79.95 | Japanese with English Subs | 50 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Mitchiri Neko | $19.95 | Japanese with English Subs | 13 episodes | Blu-ray |
Takei Daloui
Magical Girl
Shaman King!
Honestly, never thought the dub would see the light of day again. It never got a proper home video release apparently even when it did air, so I'll definitely be getting this.
It's also one of those series where I'm fine with the dub since that was what I heard growing up watching it. It'll be fun hearing those old voices again.
Honestly, never thought the dub would see the light of day again. It never got a proper home video release apparently even when it did air, so I'll definitely be getting this.
It's also one of those series where I'm fine with the dub since that was what I heard growing up watching it. It'll be fun hearing those old voices again.
It rubs me up the wrong way for a different reason: I like interesting commentary tracks. Matt McMuscles' gaming content doesn't tend to be particularly insightful and I don't believe he has an encyclopedic knowledge of anime either. His "What Happened" series, for example, is a good idea but all too often it feels like he's just cribbed from Wikipedia or the top Google results rather than being the result of independent research. I'm not expecting much more here.
A lot of content from Youtubers has this problem, or even outright errors (and some creators get bent out of shape when you correct them), but that's not a rant for this thread.
Professor Who
School Idol
Dai
Death Scythe
I'll be buying them as soon as they're available. I ended up keeping my VHS copies of some of the movies due to some weird sound problems (possibly inverted audio) on the DVDs, so I've been waiting over a quarter of a century for a definitive upgrade. I can keep on waiting.
A bit late than the usual reveal window, Discotek's September 2021 line-up is now available to pre-order on Rightstuf.
| Anime | SRP | Audio/Subs | Content | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case Closed: The Darkest Nightmare | $29.95 | English & Japanese with English Subs | Film | Blu-ray |
| City Hunter Season 2 Set 2 | $49.95 | Japanese with English Subs | 25 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Fatal Fury OVA Collection | $29.95 | English & Japanese with English Subs | 2 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Galaxy Cyclone Braiger | $49.95 | Japanese with English Subs | 39 episodes | SD Blu-ray |
| Super Dimension Century Orguss | $69.95 | English (1-17) & Japanese with English Subs | 35 episodes | Blu-ray |
windicetea
Completely Average High School Student
No Konosuba movie, pain. Anime Ltd use their discs right?
When possible yeah. Discotek will need to announce it first, and I believe their schedule for October is likely to be Hajime no Ippo Part 3, Kenichi Season 2, Lupin Part V Collection 1, Sgt Frog Season 1, Shaman King 4Kids, and Urusei Yatsura: Only You. Could be stealthily announced before the year is over but for now it's just a matter of wait and see.
Discotek has managed to find more English dub footage for the missing episodes of Ninja Robots.
The bad news is that 2 minutes of footage is needed for Episode 34 now.
The bad news is that 2 minutes of footage is needed for Episode 34 now.
DISCOTEK PANEL: AUGUST OTAKON 2021 EDITION:
The panel will not be live-streamed but instead one of their members will be live-tweeting the panel. I'll recap the announcements with this post as it goes along.
Announcement #1 | Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie (Ashita no Joe 2)
Film Coming to Blu-ray (HD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- Other on-disc special features are TBD.
- Currently scheduled for late 2021.
TV Series & OVAs Coming to Blu-ray (HD) [Previously released by Discotek on DVD]
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus Ronin Warriors English dub.
- Includes Clean Opening & Endings, Vintage US release materials and Next Episode Previews translated for the first time.
- Currently scheduled for late 2021.
- Disc & Packaging artwork also revealed.
- "Ronin Warriors was one of the stranger & more complicated projects to bring to HD. Due to the way the dub was produced, syncing it took quite a bit of work. But it's all here. It's been nearly 20 years since the last time the dub got new discs."
Film Coming to Blu-ray (HD) [Previously released by Discotek on DVD]
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus all-new English dub.
- 2.0 & 5.1 for each audio language.
- Includes Clean Opening included for the first time, Trailers, Liner Notes.
- Translation has been improved to bring it in line with the quality of the recent Lupin & Conan releases.
- Currently scheduled for potentially December 2021.
Film Coming to Blu-ray (HD) [Previously released by Discotek on DVD]
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus all 4 English dubs:
- Original Frontier Productions in 1978
- Streamline in 1994
- Manga Entertainment UK in 1995
- Geneon/Phuuz in 2005
- Other on-disc special features and release date details are TBD.
TV Series Coming to Blu-ray (SD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus Geneon English dub.
- Other on-disc special features are TBD.
- Currently scheduled for late 2021 to early 2022 release window.
Live-Action Tokusatsu Series Coming to Blu-ray (HD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- Includes Extensive Behind-the-scenes features.
- Currently scheduled for late 2021 to early 2022 release window.
TV Series Coming to Blu-ray (HD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- Includes Clean Opening & Endings, Japanese Promos.
- Currently scheduled for late 2021.
Film Coming to 4K Ultra HD [Previously released by Discotek on Blu-ray & DVD]
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus English dub.
- Includes both the 16:9 and 4:3 versions of the film, and will include HDR.
- The UHD disc doesn't support many features that are on Blu-ray so hold on to your Blu-ray copy if you wish to have access to specific bonus features. Examples include seamless branching, interactive art galleries and SD interlaced video.
TV Series Coming to Blu-ray (SD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- Includes OVAs "Leina Stol in Wolf Sword Legend" & "Lightning Trap: Leina & Laika"
- Includes TV Commercials, CPM Promos, Clean Opening & Endings, Pilot Film.
- Currently scheduled for early 2022.
OVA Series Coming to Blu-ray (HD)
- In Japanese with English subtitles plus all-new English dub from Sound Cadence Studio.
- Lots of special features.
- Early announcement, so it's due for 2022.
Project Update #1 | Project A-Ko
- Upcoming release will include both the 16:9 and 4:3 versions of the film.
- The film has been scanned from the entire negative.
- English dub has also been newly restored.
- Dozens of on-disc special features:
- Storyboards of the entire film
- Newly-translated Japanese audio commentary with Miki Ito (A-ko), Emi Shinohara (B-ko), and Michie Tomizawa (C-ko)
- Full-length documentary about the music of A-Ko featuring new interviews with composers and producers Joey Carbone and Richie Zito, as well as singers Samantha Newark and Annie Livingstone.
- Mini-documentary about a rare, unreleased video game tie-in.
- Exclusive liner notes.
- Gallery of never-before-seen animation easter eggs.
- "Ginormous" art gallery.
- Disc & Packaging artwork also revealed.
- Disc & Packaging artwork shown off for Lupin the Third Part III.
- Lupin the Third Part V will now be released as one complete collection set. Includes Clean Opening & Endings, Extensive Art Gallery.
- They're still searching for the remaining two minutes of English dub footage for Episode 34 "The Female Ninja".
Discotek's October 2021 line-up was revealed during the panel.
| Anime | SRP | Audio/Subs | Content | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Hunter: The Complete 1st Series | ??? | Japanese with English Subs | 51 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Hajime no Ippo: Collection 3 | ??? | English & Japanese with English Subs | 28 episodes & OVA + Special | Blu-ray |
| Lupin the Third Part V | ??? | English & Japanese with English Subs | 24 episodes | Blu-ray |
| Sgt. Frog Season 1 | ??? | English & Japanese with English Subs | 51 episodes | SD Blu-ray |
| Shaman King 4Kids Version | ??? | English with English HOH Subs | 64 episodes | SD Blu-ray |
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Part of me wishes I’d have waited on picking up City Hunter as it’s now getting complete series sets but otherwise some great announcements!
I haven’t picked up Robot Carnival yet so am very interested in the UHD release, and project A-Ko also looks like a very comprehensive and impressive release so keen to pick that up too.
I haven’t picked up Robot Carnival yet so am very interested in the UHD release, and project A-Ko also looks like a very comprehensive and impressive release so keen to pick that up too.
Also, @NormanicGrav much appreciate the summary/write-up of the panel, will be a useful reference point for the upcoming releases!
mikezilla2
Adventurer
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
Well I'm in for just Girly Air Force, lol. Out of curiosity, right after the announcement list was posted up I started watching GAF on Crunchyroll, and I've already finished 6 episodes. Reminds me somewhat of The Magnificent Kotobuki, and I enjoyed that one so much I bought both the series and the movie Blu-rays.
RadFemHedonist
Mad Scientist
Gunbuster!!! That's the highlight of this panel for me (I'm also gonna buy Robot Carnival but just on regular BD rather than UHD) 
ayase
State Alchemist
Yeah, I would really, very much appreciate if anyone who might have obtained Gunbuster for the UK could announce it ASAP, because that's an easy import.
If licence agreements mean you're not allowed to, please point whoever you've licensed it from to this post to show them how not being able to announce it could potentially cost you sales.
Anime1977
Thousand Master
Wow this screams of entitlement and al and others don't owe you or anyone anything and i don't want company reps being put off coming on these forums because of posts like yours and mods it would be a good idea about making rule about making demands for licenses from uk anime companies.
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