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According to Studio Canal's Twitter, The Wind Rises is coming out in UK cinemas on 9th May. Trying to dig up more, but that's all I can find atm.
 
Dannielle said:
From mvm's fb in regards to getting Girls Und Panzer on BD.

"We haven't forgotten and are still looking into it. At the moment its 60/40 in favour of getting it on BD. We can say however that Accel World will most likely come on BD as well. Not the best of answers but its better than silence."

- https://www.facebook.com/MVMEntertainme ... 7485053926
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The likelyhood of GuP coming out over here on BD would be unlikely since MVM would have to pay the full cost of replicating the minimal quantity of at least three BD50s themselves (the TV series set is on two BD50s, but I can't confirm if the OVA is on a single BD50 until I get it) since Hanabee is sharing stock with Sentai (and we all know that can't happen here unless the discs have the BBFC rating plastered on them).
 
Dannielle said:
From mvm's fb in regards to getting Girls Und Panzer on BD.

"We haven't forgotten and are still looking into it. At the moment its 60/40 in favour of getting it on BD. We can say however that Accel World will most likely come on BD as well. Not the best of answers but its better than silence."

- https://www.facebook.com/MVMEntertainme ... 7485053926
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If they release Girls und Panzer on blu-ray, and confirm to release it all on blu-ray I will most likely get the UK release, saves me some money.

And that's neat news about Accel World, hope they can confirm that soon! I know somebody who'll be pleased to hear that for sure.
I myself would get it also, but if I were to go for the parts I'd love it to come with an artbox to hold both parts.

demonix said:
The likelyhood of GuP coming out over here on BD would be unlikely since MVM would have to pay the full cost of replicating the minimal quantity of at least three BD50s themselves (the TV series set is on two BD50s, but I can't confirm if the OVA is on a single BD50 until I get it) since Hanabee is sharing stock with Sentai (and we all know that can't happen here unless the discs have the BBFC rating plastered on them).
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Unlikely, not impossible.. I considered Bakemonogatari & Nisemonogatari on UK BD also unlikely and it happened too...

But, yeah... It'd be nice to hear some more good news from MVM, especially on the blu-ray frontier!
I hope they learn from past mistakes, and get involved with the AU/US distributor quicker as I think they usually are late to the party...

ConanThe3rd said:
"Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions - Autism has only been this fun once before"
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Only once? I hope that's your way to referring to season 1, and not talking in general as that's pretty harsh to say otherwise.

NormanicGrav said:
Manga UK instagram'd that their latest podcast is in development.
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Awesome, I always look forward to that. I find it interesting to hear Jerome's stances/rants.
I hope they'll give us an estimated release date of Princess Jellyfist one day... =P
 
Agent-347 said:
Unlikely, not impossible.. I considered Bakemonogatari & Nisemonogatari on UK BD also unlikely and it happened too...
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That only happened because MVM was sharing BD stock (and only paying half the cost of replicating the discs) with hanabee.

Here they'd have to go it alone because hanabee is sharing BD stock with sentai, so there'll be noone to share replication costs with (remember what happened when the BD stock sharing deal with hanabee for another went south after hanabee decided to stock share with sentai).
 
I really think the UK anime industry would benefit from drumming up some support for getting the BBFC to come out of the dinosaur era and allow UK companies to produce things (like anime sets) without being crippled by arbitrary restrictions. I can see why a big US distributor wouldn't want to waste money sitting on a license while a much smaller foreign market is getting discs certified; it shouldn't be required for them to have to produce special UK discs with a logo nobody cares about printed on them. It penalises smaller companies while the big global ones do whatever they like.

They can keep the requirement to have it on the sleeves, since producing those for the UK isn't a problem and they want to add their own logos anyway. It's just so dumb that we're still years behind the US in BD adoption.

(This would also mean more region A/B discs over here, more freedom for buyers and less lameness in general, so I think it's a Thing Which Should Happen.)

R
 
robot monkey said:
Joshawott said:
According to Studio Canal's Twitter, The Wind Rises is coming out in UK cinemas on 9th May. Trying to dig up more, but that's all I can find atm.
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More here.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/ ... -southbank
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Thanks!

Rui said:
I really think the UK anime industry would benefit from drumming up some support for getting the BBFC to come out of the dinosaur era and allow UK companies to produce things (like anime sets) without being crippled by arbitrary restrictions. I can see why a big US distributor wouldn't want to waste money sitting on a license while a much smaller foreign market is getting discs certified; it shouldn't be required for them to have to produce special UK discs with a logo nobody cares about printed on them. It penalises smaller companies while the big global ones do whatever they like.

They can keep the requirement to have it on the sleeves, since producing those for the UK isn't a problem and they want to add their own logos anyway. It's just so dumb that we're still years behind the US in BD adoption.

(This would also mean more region A/B discs over here, more freedom for buyers and less lameness in general, so I think it's a Thing Which Should Happen.)

R
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As the UK anime scene is rather small, it might be worth getting other niche mediums involved in making a joint effort or something.

EDIT:
Madman are doing the Madoka import thing too.

See, if we didn't have that stupid BBFC restriction, we could do this too.

EDIT 2: Sod it. I've found the required bit of legislation and have submitted a petition to the ePetition website.
 
Joshawott said:
robot monkey said:
Joshawott said:
According to Studio Canal's Twitter, The Wind Rises is coming out in UK cinemas on 9th May. Trying to dig up more, but that's all I can find atm.
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More here.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/ ... -southbank
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Thanks!

Rui said:
I really think the UK anime industry would benefit from drumming up some support for getting the BBFC to come out of the dinosaur era and allow UK companies to produce things (like anime sets) without being crippled by arbitrary restrictions. I can see why a big US distributor wouldn't want to waste money sitting on a license while a much smaller foreign market is getting discs certified; it shouldn't be required for them to have to produce special UK discs with a logo nobody cares about printed on them. It penalises smaller companies while the big global ones do whatever they like.

They can keep the requirement to have it on the sleeves, since producing those for the UK isn't a problem and they want to add their own logos anyway. It's just so dumb that we're still years behind the US in BD adoption.

(This would also mean more region A/B discs over here, more freedom for buyers and less lameness in general, so I think it's a Thing Which Should Happen.)

R
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As the UK anime scene is rather small, it might be worth getting other niche mediums involved in making a joint effort or something.

EDIT:
Madman are doing the Madoka import thing too.

See, if we didn't have that stupid BBFC restriction, we could do this too.

EDIT 2: Sod it. I've found the required bit of legislation and have submitted a petition to the ePetition website.
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Well if you do make one then sign me up
 
The BBFC are going to have to go through a lot of changes whether they like it or not with the increasing irrelevancy of physical distribution. It's unlikely they'll disappear, though, so why not take the opportunity to make the rules better while they're at it? Good on you, Joshawott!

R
 
animefreak17 said:
The BBFC are over reacting over animation I'd understand if it was with real people but animation come on
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Not really the point tbh. If the BBFC removed the guidelines about a certificate being on the disc, it would help everyone - from the big name distributors to the little people. For example, the current standard is that Disney blu-ray discs are region free (as a lot of other big distributors do), but they would still have to do another print run just to have BBFC logos on the discs. If they didn't have to have the logos in the disc, then they would be able to share stock from regions such as the US, meaning that they spend less money.

For niche markets the benefits will be clearer because as we've seen, the inability for local distributors to afford production of their own blu-ray discs has meant that we receive products inferior to those available overseas, which of course means many fans import. If for example, MVM (and to a lesser extent MangaUK) were allowed to use U.S. discs like Australia has started to do, then more of their releases would be on blu-ray, which would mean less of us would import. Which would mean more money for UK companies and thus, the UK. (Okay, the last bit about the UK is just to try and sound nice for the politicians but y'know).
 
Joshawott said:
animefreak17 said:
The BBFC are over reacting over animation I'd understand if it was with real people but animation come on
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Not really the point tbh. If the BBFC removed the guidelines about a certificate being on the disc, it would help everyone - from the big name distributors to the little people. For example, the current standard is that Disney blu-ray discs are region free (as a lot of other big distributors do), but they would still have to do another print run just to have BBFC logos on the discs. If they didn't have to have the logos in the disc, then they would be able to share stock from regions such as the US, meaning that they spend less money.

For niche markets the benefits will be clearer because as we've seen, the inability for local distributors to afford production of their own blu-ray discs has meant that we receive products inferior to those available overseas, which of course means many fans import. If for example, MVM (and to a lesser extent MangaUK) were allowed to use U.S. discs like Australia has started to do, then more of their releases would be on blu-ray, which would mean less of us would import. Which would mean more money for UK companies and thus, the UK. (Okay, the last bit about the UK is just to try and sound nice for the politicians but y'know).
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Makes you wonder why they feel the logo is needed on the disc. Is it perhaps some fear that uncut versions of films will be released because you cannot easily identify if a disc is an uncut import or a UK approved version? Or perhaps they are worried that things will be sold without a case/cover to display the logo?

Seems very much like there's no good reason to have the logo on the disc other than they have the power to make people do it.
 
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