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Taken from Anime Limited FB profile, im assuming it's exclusive AL information

Top News Tip: If you're near a newsagent's today/this weekend, make sure you pick up a copy of Neo Magazine. There may be some exclusive announcements and things in the most recent edition... or so I hear anyway :)
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Anyone picking this up?
 
Oh well that's that. But hey, there's always the possibility that they might actually release this one on time, on BD-50s with no locked subs and grammatically correct subtitles!


britguy said:
Taken from Anime Limited FB profile, im assuming it's exclusive AL information

Top News Tip: If you're near a newsagent's today/this weekend, make sure you pick up a copy of Neo Magazine. There may be some exclusive announcements and things in the most recent edition... or so I hear anyway :)
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Anyone picking this up?
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Never picked up an issue of Neo in my life, but I'm going to the shops in a bit so I'll have a look and report.
 
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Flipping through the digital issue now, will update as I find info..

EDIT 2: Only one license announcement in the mag

I also found that their doing top sellers now, here's the one for October:
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EDIT: Found this one. Might be the only one as its right at the start of the mag so I might be back with more..

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Ah that's nice, thought it might've been something that hadn't been mentioned at all before. AL have some good movies coming next year that's for sure.
 
Several Japanese songs have been added to Nintendo's Wii Karaoke U service, including Go! Go! Maniac and Listen!! by Houkago Tea Time, Always my Railgun by fripside and much, much more!

EDIT: I went through the full list and dug out the ones from anime:

Annani issho dattanoni (We Were So Close Together) - See-Saw (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED)
Anpan-man no MARCH - DREAMING (Soreike! Anpanman)
Aoi shiori - Galileo Galilei (AnoHana)
BEYOND THE TIME〈EXPANDED VERSION〉-TM NETWORK(TMN) (Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack)
Bouken suisei - Enomoto Kurumi (Tales of the Abyss)
BRAND NEW WORLD - D-51 (One Piece)
Butter-Fly - Wada Kouji (Digimon Adventures)
DAN DAN kokoro hikareteku DAN DAN - Field of View (Dragonball GT)
Doraemon no uta Yamano Satoko (Doraemon)
Dragon Soul - Tanimoto Takayoshi (Dragonball Z Kai)
Gatsu Gatsu!! - Kushida Akira (Toriko)
Get Wild - TM NETWORK (City Hunter)
Ginga tetsudou 999 - Sasaki Isao/Suginami jidou (Galaxy Express 999)
Go! Go! Maniac - Houkago TEA TIME (K-ON!!)
HANAJI - Kobayashi Yu (Maria + Holic)
Kasabuta - Chiwata Hirdenori (Zatch Bell!)
Kaze no tani no Naushika - Yasuda Narumi (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
Kero! To MARCH - Kakuda Nobuaki & Ihata Juri (Sgt. Frog)
Ketsui no asani - Aqua Timez (Brave Story)
KISS -kaerimichi no LOVE SONG - Tegomasu (Lovely Complex)
Kokoro no chizu - BOYSTYLE (One Piece)
Listen!! - Houkago TEA TIME (K-ON!!)
Majinga Z - Mizuki Ichirou (Mazinger Z)
Maka fushigi ADVENTURE! - Takahashi Hiroki (Dragonball)
MISSING LINK - NOVELS (Tiger & Bunny)
Moete HERO - Takemoto Takayuki/Ogai Youk (Captain Tsubasa)
Moonlight Densetsu - Dali (Sailor Moon)
Mozaikukakera - SunSet Swish (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion)
O2 ORANGE RANGE - alexis (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2)
Omoide ga ippai - H2O (Miyuki)
One day - The ROOTLESS (One Piece)
only my railgun - fripSide (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
ORION o nazoru - UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (Tiger & Bunny)
Os uchujin - Erio o kamattechan (Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl)
PEGASUS FANTASY - MAKE-UP (Saint Seiya)
San-bun no ichi no junjou na kanjou - SIAM Shade (Samurai X)
Share The World - Touhoushinki (One Piece)
Sobakasu - JUDY AND MARY (Samurai X)
STRAIGHT JET - Kuribayashi Minami (Infinite Stratos)
TERMINATED - Chihara Minori (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere)
WE ARE! - Kitadani Hiroshi (One Piece)
WE GO! - Kitadani Hiroshi (One Piece)
WE GOTTA POWER - Kageyama Hironobu (Dragonball Z)
WORLD END - FLOW (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2)
Yasashisa no riyuu - ChouCho (Hyouka)
Yellow Moon - Akeboshi (Naruto)
Yuukyou seishunka - ALI PROJECT (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion)
Zan-nen kei rinjinbu - Tomodachi tsukuritai (Haganai)
 
You still planning on putting A Letter To Momo in cinemas?

Anime Limited We would like to, yes! We're still working on it - and we hope to get it into as many as possible. But as you know, this can be a bit tricky.

EDIT FROM ANDREW: Keep an eye circa March 29th, 2014 .
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Joshawott said:
Several Japanese songs have been added to Nintendo's Wii Karaoke U service, including Go! Go! Maniac and Listen!! by Houkago Tea Time, Always my Railgun by fripside and much, much more!
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A whole bunch of those we still don't have no iTunes/Amazon/Google Play etc. :evil:
 
Shiroi Hane said:
Joshawott said:
Several Japanese songs have been added to Nintendo's Wii Karaoke U service, including Go! Go! Maniac and Listen!! by Houkago Tea Time, Always my Railgun by fripside and much, much more!
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A whole bunch of those we still don't have no iTunes/Amazon/Google Play etc. :evil:
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It could be because Nintendo's karaoke library is licensed from Xing (a Japanese karaoke service provider). So I imagine Xing has the rights and sublicensed their whole Joysound Karaoke library to Nintendo Japan, before extending it to North America and Europe.
 
Of course, when you say karaoke... are these the actual "off vocal" tracks as on the singles or just instrumental covers? Because iTunes does have those. In spades. Annoyingly.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
Of course, when you say karaoke... are these the actual "off vocal" tracks as on the singles or just instrumental covers? Because iTunes does have those. In spades. Annoyingly.
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I've yet to test it out (you have to buy a day pass to use the app, but they're listed as being by the original artists (as opposed to [X] by [Y], [performed by [Z]".

Also, the Neo Awards have opened and how do they even pick the nominees? Has FMA been relevant at all this year?
 
I present this ugly thing, apparently performed by the likes of Aya Hirano and Nano Mizuki (and until the added Kakumei Dualism it was the only track on Nanao Mizuki's iTunes page).
I tried reporting it to Apple as misleading and they were like "..but you haven't bought it so we can't refund you".
 
Good News! Japan has a BD-Box of K-On! which should mean that if the first season gets re-licensed, a complete version should be possible after a period amount of time (for the BD users though Madman has one already, a Complete DVD version is already available from Manga UK).

The BD-Box does contain English Subtitles, however it doesn't have the English Dub unlike Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star.
Announced today, the first season of K-On! will be released in a BD-Box on 2014/03/05 for 27,300 yen (w/tax)/ 26,000 yen (w/o tax) covering the first season.

Included in this BD-Box are all 14 episodes on four BDs along with textless openings, textless ending, all 7 Ura-On! episodes, a Toyosaki Aki interview from the AniChannel K-On! feature, and commercial collection. Audio features include a bonus newly made Raji-On! special audio CD, old cast/staff commentaries, and new audio commentaries (Naoko's Room on episodes 8-12 with guests Toyosaki Aki, Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki, and Ayana Taketatsu.

The sets includes a booklet (featuring episode summaries, character designs, production designs, cast/staff messages, etc), 9 postcards (2 key visuals and 7 cover arts), and a special calendar. The 5 discs will have new disc art and fit in a newly drawn 5-side digipak inside a newly drawn 3-sided box.

The set includes BOTH Japanese and ENGLISH subtitles for the main story, Ura-On! episodes, and the Toyosaki Aki interview.
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Ramna 1/2 Set 1 (estimated to have the first 18-26 episodes) is arriving March 25th for Region 1 and Region A from Viz.

And Anime Limited have provided a trailer for Gurren Lagann.

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Someone has gotten a copy of Accel World's BD set 1, their thoughts:
I received the Accel World Blu-ray set 1 with the bonus art booklet today. The art booklet is wonderful, very lovely images, and the material it is made from is strong and durable; the pages are nice and thick as well. The Blu-ray video quality is superb (I've only watched episode one thus far); I have not noticed any flaws not inherent to the broadcast version at least. The video is encoded at 1080p with VBR MPEG 4 AVC at around 20 Mbps average. Sadly the English subtitles are locked to the Japanese audio track, as you cannot turn them off during playback or on the main menu. There's three audio options though: English, English with Subtitles, and Japanese with Subtitles; please note the subtitle track linked to the second English track is not a "songs and signs" option, the subs are exactly the same as those on the Japanese track, dialogue and all. Both the English and Japanese audio are encoded lossless with LPCM Stereo 48K audio. Disc one has episodes 1-6, while disc two has episodes 7-12 and the special features. Overall, a really great release in my view, except for the locked subtitles and lack of a "songs and signs" option for the English track.
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