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Dannielle said:
NormanicGrav said:
It was hinted at during the end credits of its first series, but it's now been confirmed that production will commence on a second season of Kyoto Animation's popular original series Free! Iwatobi Swim Club.
Although an exact broadcast date for this second series is yet to be confirmed, the first season closed with the message "See You Next Summer", which suggests that we can expect more tales of this group of swimming-obsessed friends to premiere in July 2014.
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That's what she said.
 
Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

I wasn't stating that only positive comments were allowed on a public forum, but all Conan ever does is moan, nothing is ever good enough for him, and to be quite frank it is becoming rather irritating.

I'd actually be quite interested to know if he even watched it.
 
Sentai's May releases: finally a release date for Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (A sub-only release is interesting though). Also, they'll be re-releasing Persona 4 in a complete set. Also, Motto To Love Ru is landing on blu-ray too.

Title: PERSONA 4: THE ANIMATION COMPLETE COLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 670 min.
Street Date: 5/6/2014
Format: DVD
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $79.98
SYNOPSIS: When Yu Narukami moves to the country town of Inaba to stay with his uncle and cousin, he’s expecting a lot more peace and quiet than he’s been used to in the big city. What he isn’t expecting is for his uncle’s job as a police detective to spill over into his own life. Or for the murders that are occurring across town to be somehow linked to Yu’s own strange experiences: odd local weather patterns, and a mysterious TV show world that seems to be attempting to get Yu to enter it! Now, together with a new group of friends, Yu must plunge into a bizarre alternate reality where he gains unique abilities that will either help him solve the riddle of the mystery killer, or lead him to his doom. Journey into the Velvet Room and beyond as the hit PlayStation 2® game becomes a spectacular anime in PERSONA 4: The Complete Collection!

Title: BOOK OF BANTORRA COMPLETE COLLECTION ON DVD/BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 675 min.
Street Date: 5/13/2014
Format: DVD/BLU-RAY
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $79.98/$99.98
SYNOPSIS: In another time and place, on a world of pain and sorrow, when someone dies, their soul doesn’t go to Heaven or Hell - it becomes a book. A book that reveals the deceased’s innermost secrets and that can be read by anyone. Protecting these priceless treasures is the elite organization known as the Armed Librarians. It’s their job to keep the books and the knowledge within them safe from those who would misuse or destroy them. It’s a tough, dangerous job, so Chief Librarian Hamyuts Maseta recruits only the best and the brightest psychics to join her team of expert fighters. Even so, will they be able to stop the fanatics of the Shindeki Church from wreaking vengeance on the entire world? Only time will tell, but that book hasn’t been written yet. Don’t miss the non-stop action of The Book of Bantorra Complete Collection.


Title: HAKKENDEN: EIGHT DOGS OF THE EAST SEASON 1 ON DVD/BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 5/20/2014
Format: DVD/BLU-RAY
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98/$69.98
SYNOPSIS: When their village was wiped out five years ago, there were only three young survivors: Shino Inuzuka, Sosuke Inukawa, and the girl Hamaji. Through a quirk of fate, both boys share the same peony-shaped birthmark. Genpachi Inukai and Kobungo Inuta were raised hundreds of miles away as foster brothers, but they too share the same birthmark. When they went north as part of the army three years ago, they went to confront demons and came back forever transformed. Now the Imperial Church has come for Shino and Sosuke and they must find eight mystical gems and their owners or face a fate worse than death at the hands of the Church. One of Japan’s greatest works of literature is born again in HAKKENDEN: EIGHT DOGS OF THE EAST!

Title: LOVE, CHUNIBYO & OTHER DELUSIONS COMPLETE COLLECTION ON DVD/BLU-RAY
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 325 min.
Street Date: 5/27/2014
Format: DVD/BLU-RAY
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $49.98/$59.98
SYNOPSIS: Yuta Togashi has a problem. He used to be a “chunibyo”, one of the thousands of Japanese students so desperate to stand out that they’ve literally convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers. But now that he’s starting high school, he’s determined to put aside his delusions and face life head on. The trouble is Rikka Takanashi, his upstairs neighbor, is JUST a little bit delusional herself. And she knows all about his past indiscretions. Yuta thought his delusions were all behind him. Now he’s not so sure. “Crazy in love” gets a whole new meaning as fantasy worlds collide in LOVE, CHUNIBYO & OTHER DELUSIONS!

Title: MOTTO TO LOVE RU SEASON 2 BLU-RAYCOLLECTION
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Run Time: 300 min.
Street Date: 5/27/2014
Format: BLU-RAY
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
SRP: $59.98
SYNOPSIS: The insanity that began when a very naked (and very female) alien teleported into Rito Yuki’s bathtub (while he was in it) continues. And even though Princess Lala has finally started to admit her true feelings for the young man she’s inexplicably engaged to marry (as a result of what happened in said bathtub and Develuke customs,) her sometimes erratic technology and the snags and snarls of intergalactic politics and intrigue are still causing major problems. That transporter? Yeah, it still has the nasty habit of leaving the clothes behind. Alien bounty hunters? Yep, even more of them and they’re even more devious. Add body switches, alien skunks, a bathroom that changes size and shape, the inevitable sleepover that you just know it’s going to go horribly, horribly wrong, and worst of all, Valentine’s Day, and even in space you’ll be able to hear Rito scream! Love takes a quantum shift into the wrong gear and the star brakes are broken in the extra-special, extra-crazy extraterrestrial romance to end them all, MOTTO TO LOVE RU - The Complete Collection! Now in high definition!
 
Just Passing Through said:
Blu-ray for Bantorra interests me, DVD only for Persona 4, which had dual audio anyway...

EDIT Aw crap about Chunibyo. Sub only means Region A locked which leaves me out.
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Just saw that Persona 4 is DVD only. Wow, everywhere is getting screwed with that one.

Considering the huge wait for Chunibyo (11 months after the Japanese release of BD #7), I'm surprised to see that it's sub-only. It being sub-only also most likely kills the chance of a blu-ray were to make it over here, so I'll pick up Sentai's version I guess.
 
Joshawott said:
Just Passing Through said:
Blu-ray for Bantorra interests me, DVD only for Persona 4, which had dual audio anyway...

EDIT Aw crap about Chunibyo. Sub only means Region A locked which leaves me out.
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Just saw that Persona 4 is DVD only. Wow, everywhere is getting screwed with that one.

Considering the huge wait for Chunibyo (11 months after the Japanese release of BD #7), I'm surprised to see that it's sub-only. It being sub-only also most likely kills the chance of a blu-ray were to make it over here, so I'll pick up Sentai's version I guess.
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Either they cannot release a Persona 4 complete collection on blu-ray yet or perhaps the individual blu-rays sold poorly due to being dub only.
 
Well seeing Persona 4 having a complete set DVD only depresses me, same goes for L,C&OD Season 1 being sub-only. But considering Sentai does bad dubs I'll probably won't be fussed by it.
 
To be honest, the only things that really caught my eye on their slate were the Godzilla movie Blu-rays. We'll be able to see this glorious moment from Godzilla vs the Smog Monster in HD at last.

 
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And then I decided to pull 3 guns, push him against the wall and demanded him to unleash all Q2 MangaUK titles, this is the result.

In Q2 Manga UK will be bringing us the following titles dvd-only:
- "07 April 2014 - Naruto Shippuden - Box 17" (SRP: £24.99)
- "14 April 2014 - KenIchi - The Complete Collection" (SRP: £49.99)
- "19 May 2014 - One Piece - Collection Six" (SRP: £34.99)
- "02 June 2014 - K-On!! - Season 2" (SRP £39.99)

These will be getting the blu-ray treatment from MangaUK:
- "21 April 2014 - Fairy Tail The Movie" (SRP: £24.99 for combopack & SRP £19.99 for DVD)
- "28 April 2014 - Guilty Crown - Part 2" (SRP: £34.99 for BD & £24.99 for DVD)
- "28 April 2014 - Fairy Tail - Part 7" (SRP £29.99 for BD and £24.99 for DVD)
- "12 May 2014 - Jormungand - Season 1" (SRP £34.99 for BD and £24.99 for DVD)
- "26 May 2014 - Blue Exorcist The Movie" (SRP combopack: £29.99 & SRP DVD: £19.99)
- "26 May 2014 - High School DxD - Complete Series" (SRP BD: £34.99 & SRP DVD: £24.99)
- "02 June 2014 - Fairy Tail - Collection Two" (SRP £39.99)
- "16 June 2014 - Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero - Complete Series" (SRP BD: £34.99 & SRP DVD: £24.99)
- "30 June 2014 - Steins;Gate - Complete Collection" (SRP £44.99 for BD & £39.99 for DVD)

And from the undead KHAZI on BD & DVD:
- "14 April 2014 - K" (SRP Combopack: £39.99)
- "12 May 2014 - Magi - Part 2" (SRP: £34.99 for BD & £29.99 for DVD)
- "16 June 2014 - Mardock Scramble - The Third Exhaust" (SRP £24.99 for BD and £19.99 for DVD)

And dvd-only from Kaze:
- "07 april 2014 - Bleach - Season 13 Part 1" (SRP: £29.99)
- "09 June 2014 - Bleach - Season 13 Part 2" (SRP: £29.99)

He might have been holding back some titles, but I have done what was needed. *puts on sunglasses*

Disclaimer: I didn't harm anybody in the making of this post. (And this post is just for fun, don't take it seriously... Except the releases, they are real!)
 
mangaman74 said:
Joshawott said:
Just Passing Through said:
Blu-ray for Bantorra interests me, DVD only for Persona 4, which had dual audio anyway...

EDIT Aw crap about Chunibyo. Sub only means Region A locked which leaves me out.
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Just saw that Persona 4 is DVD only. Wow, everywhere is getting screwed with that one.

Considering the huge wait for Chunibyo (11 months after the Japanese release of BD #7), I'm surprised to see that it's sub-only. It being sub-only also most likely kills the chance of a blu-ray were to make it over here, so I'll pick up Sentai's version I guess.
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Either they cannot release a Persona 4 complete collection on blu-ray yet or perhaps the individual blu-rays sold poorly due to being dub only.
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It might also be that they wanted to release a blu-ray complete collection with English and Japanese audio options (along with any of the extras that were not included on the blu-ray version), but are still being stopped from doing so because of the original reason the Japanese audio was requested to be removed by aniplex (it may have been well over a year since the release of the first part, but you never know if aniplex would still be flexing their muscles in regards to that matter in the light of an also as cheap complete collection).

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Just Passing Through said:
EDIT Aw crap about Chunibyo. Sub only means Region A locked which leaves me out.
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Wait, really? Aw geez, I so want Chuunibyou so bad :cry:
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I'll let you into a little secret.

They're not really region locked if you know what you're doing (and it's unlikely to ever be fixed).
 
Agent-347 said:
And then I decided to pull 3 guns, push him against the wall and demanded him to unleash all Q2 MangaUK titles, this is the result.
- "12 May 2014 - Jormungand - Season 1" (SRP £34.99 for BD and £24.99 for DVD)
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There it is. My favourite series of 2012 released on my birthday and confirmed for Blu-ray. Just need a date for Perfect Order and then everything will be perfect.
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- "26 May 2014 - Blue Exorcist The Movie" (SRP combopack: £29.99 & SRP DVD: £19.99)
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Gonna get this too.

I'm also interested to see how Kaze's K release will compare with Viz's release. Not favourably I imagine!
 
demonix said:
Y2Johnny said:
Just Passing Through said:
EDIT Aw crap about Chunibyo. Sub only means Region A locked which leaves me out.
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Wait, really? Aw geez, I so want Chuunibyou so bad :cry:
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I'll let you into a little secret.

They're not really region locked if you know what you're doing (and it's unlikely to ever be fixed).
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I knew about the Sentai region lock thingy, but from reading the post I quoted before, I thought it meant that the thingy didn't work when it was sub only. Now your post gives me hope and for that you have my everlasting gratitude :D

But still, though, it's not like it's guaranteed it'll work all the time, right? Oh well, I still have hope.
 
Nothing for me from Manga's Q2. I have the R1 release of everything I'm interested in there.
I might get Khazi's Mardock Scramble 3 for the sake of completing the set although I may end up replacing the previous two with Sentai's releases. Not giving them a chance with K Project - I'll be buying Viz's release. I very much want Magi, but I'm not getting their release of unless I see/hear about signs of improvement.

Y2Johnny said:
I knew about the Sentai region lock thingy, but from reading the post I quoted before, I thought it meant that the thingy didn't work when it was sub only. Now your post gives me hope and for that you have my everlasting gratitude :D
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If it helps to keep your hope up Sakurasou Collection 1 worked fine. I see no reason why Sentai would change their authoring method between now and Chuu2's release. That said, Viz fixed their workaround so you can't be 100% sure.

On the subject of Sentai, I'm not sure what to make of a BD release of To Love Ru. If I remember, the first two seasons of that show are pretty crappy upscales (probably explains the disc count), so was it Really worth them going back to do a BD when there are other good shows released DVD only which actually have HD masters, e.g. Ano Natsu de Matteru.
 
K-ON! Season 2 for my brother, will probably get Steins;Gate and get rid of my singles.

May also get Blue Exorcist & K at a later date, no idea what they're about but they keep popping up.
 
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