The News Thread (for news that does not need a thread)

Mangaranga said:
Didn't really know where to post this, but someone on mania posted a link to a review of Kaze's first volume of Magi released in Germany.
Interestingly enough it seems that Kaze got their **** together for this release - In Germany at least. 7 Episodes on a BD 50, good video quality at a higher bitrate and DTS-HD MA audio. Unless Google translate is failing me, the reviewer was also able to enable German Subtitles with the German Dub too.
It'll be interesting to see if any of these positive points transfer over to the UK release, although I have a feeling that we could end up being screwed over because the release is split over two sets here rather than four.
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According to Amazon we have two Blu-ray discs so I assume we have Episodes 1-7 on Disc 1 and 8-13 on Disc 2. Then Episodes 14-19 on Disc 3 and 20-25 on Disc 4 for the second release.

Not to mention it's £34.99 which I think was the Retail Suggested Price for the other Kaze sets.
 
NormanicGrav said:
According to Amazon we have two Blu-ray discs so I assume we have Episodes 1-7 on Disc 1 and 8-13 on Disc 2. Then Episodes 14-19 on Disc 3 and 20-25 on Disc 4 for the second release.

Not to mention it's £34.99 which I think was the Retail Suggested Price for the other Kaze sets.
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What I was really getting at was that Kaze are going to be creating their own masters with the English audio.
Whilst I imagine the German release will be over 4 BD50s, they may do ours on a BD50 and a BD25, or two BD25s as they've done before.
Just because the German release has better Video does not mean that we will get the same encode.

Their previous track record with their approach to UK releases does not fill me with confidence, although I would love to see a massive improvement from them. Viz in the US do a pretty good job (Hell, they're finally going to start adding Song/Sign tracks next year!) and honestly, it's ridiculous that the quality of releases from the same company in two English speaking countries are so radically different.
 
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Looks like fans on Amazon DE aren't happy with Sailor Moon's pricing and one of them mentioned bad image quality. If Kaze UK announced Sailor Moon then prepare for the worst.

United Publications has Eureka Seven AO Part 1 and Last Exile: Fam Part 1 on Special offer (£22-25 each). AO is region AB/1 and Fam is region A/1.
 
Titan said:
Anime Limited's second announcement... 12 Days of Christmas!
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Yeah I saw that, not something that particularly interests me, nut according to some of his posts on blu-ray.com we should have Durarara BD set clarification during the next week or so

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Will we be able to see the packaging for Gurren Luggen sooner or later? Trailer was absolutely superb. I think this is the best show I've ever seen and I hope you guys put a cracking package together.

Should be sooner - we're submitting for approval in the near future so hopefully soon! DRR should come first in the next week or so !

Very best,

Andrew
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NormanicGrav said:
Looks like fans on Amazon DE aren't happy with Sailor Moon's pricing and one of them mentioned bad image quality. If Kaze UK announced Sailor Moon then prepare for the worst.
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I'm not sure if the Takeuchi Yakuza (and Toei) would ether cockblock such a release because it would piss us off or if they would release this because it would piss us off.

Etherway, piss is being off, I guess.
 
Well I suppose this counts as news. Another positive review for a new Kaze Germany release.
It appears that Magi wasn't just a one off for them. I'm even more interested to see whether this will translate to future UK releases, or whether it's just because the German releases are split over more parts.

I wouldn't mind Kaze so much if their releases here were more like Viz's in the US, at least on disc content wise - where they actually HAVE extras, use two BD 50s and barely touch the Japanese video.
 
Mangaranga said:
Well I suppose this counts as news. Another positive review for a new Kaze Germany release.
It appears that Magi wasn't just a one off for them. I'm even more interested to see whether this will translate to future UK releases, or whether it's just because the German releases are split over more parts.

I wouldn't mind Kaze so much if their releases here were more like Viz's in the US, at least on disc content wise - where they actually HAVE extras, use two BD 50s and barely touch the Japanese video.
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Well it certainly looks good for Kaze they probably started improving their work for 2014. Anywho MVM's release was slightly iffy which put me off (it was that season where every MVM product had a defect as you may remember). I'm still waiting for Sentai to re-release it on Blu-ray subbed or bilingual (alongside Mayo Chiki which probably won't happen for a while).
 
NormanicGrav said:
(it was that season where every MVM product had a defect as you may remember).
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I'd consider their terrible covers for 99% of their releases a defect, as well as the fact that they pretty much still only release stuff on DVD.

NormanicGrav said:
I'm still waiting for Sentai to re-release it on Blu-ray subbed or bilingual (alongside Mayo Chiki which probably won't happen for a while).
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I find it funny that you mentioned those two titles in particular, because that is the exact same reason why I don't own either series yet. I really want to - especially Waiting in the Summer, because I absolutely loved that show, and I was convinced that Sentai would give it a Bilingual BD release (Not that a dub would be any good mind you because Sentai). I'm legitimately surprised that Mayo Chiki didn't get that treatment though considering the nature of the show, and it would also have been an insta-buy since I never did finish the series.
 
I bought Mayo Chiki! on DVD (in fact, Tony from MVM was the guy who I bought it from at Comic Con). I certainly would re-buy a blu-ray of it.
 
In news that probably only I care about, Nozomi have set the release date for their first half-set DVD release of the original Space Adventure Cobra tv series as April 2014.
 
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