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

[NormanicGrav]

Don't recall seeing it posted, but Blood-C: The Last Dark deluxe edition is a HMV exclusive.

At least it's using the rumoured design from a few months back, which at least convinces me to get the UK Version (I like Manga UK's LE packages for some reason, they look nice together). Though, I still need to get the main series first.

 

[Emulsion]

The posters they give with these collectors edition are OK apart from one thing, they fold them up. No one wants a poster with crease lines. Should come rolled up in a cardboard tube.

 

[NormanicGrav]

Oh baring the fact that Senran Kagura Burst just came out, these TV spots are quite funny:

Meanwhile, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle will arrive in Europe sometime in April.


And here's a possible final cover of the Funimation Attack on Titan cover:

 

[Joshawott]

Durarara: Man, that's going to be a pain to watch dubbed unless you can read Japanese. Goddamnit Aniplex. Sorry, Andrew, but that's going to be the first AL release I pass on.

As other people have mentioned it's honestly not all that bad. Celty's phone messages are voiced, the chatroom messages are voiced. The only place it becomes an issue from memory are the scenes where Simon/Izaya speak Russian - and the OP/EDs.

Much like that whole kerfuffle from Inazuma Eleven's UK Lock out on the 3ds Store from last (or was it two) week(s) back, it's more the principal of the matter more than the practicalities. Sure we can deal with it now, but what stupid demands will they foist on us next time?

I actually have some privvy information about the Inazuma Eleven situation - basically, the reason the games keep on being released is because they sell well in countries like France and Spain. In England, they sell terribly. That is one suggestion I've heard as to why the UK didn't get it rereleased on the eShop - because it just isn't worth it.

 

[Rosencrantz]

Durarara: Man, that's going to be a pain to watch dubbed unless you can read Japanese. Goddamnit Aniplex.

That's what I don't get. Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand from reading the above posts, the text is translated when you are watching with Japanese audio and English subs. So if the text has been translated and the fact Aniplex charge a premium price, is it really that hard to create a second sub track using just those text translation to accompany the English audio.

It comes down to how the Japanese want to restrict ways to watch the show in Japanese sans subs I guess. I'm not sure the final discussions as we didn't manage these discs but it happens sometimes and we're sorry they're not there but we can't do much on it.

What we have done is that you can turn the English subtitles on at anytime during the dub. These means you can see the translated text on screen at anytime. It's not ideal because if you want the spoken subs out the way for the rest then you need to turn them off, but it was designed to give you some flexibility at least.

Hope this helps a wee bit at least .

Andrew

Well that's at least a little helpful that they have allowed the subs to be on/off at will during the English Dub. I can fully understand they want them locked on for the JP dub but it's always annoyed me that you can't toggle for the English dub. Sometimes characters mumble and no amount of volume will help with what was said so you need subs.

To be honest if they allowed a toggle on subs for the English audio there's zero reason to not allow a sub only track for the English dub, we already know Japanese fans are not interested in the English dub so they should let us go to town on subs on that side.

 

[anime_andrew]

Sentai has Short Peace. About time someone picked it up.

Andrew, I think this one would be a suitable title for your catalogue. One of them (Possessions) has a nomination for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards this year (and who knows, maybe even win the award).

Couldn't possibly comment just now - but yes, I do very much want to give the whole release the Anime Ltd treatment. It's an exceptional short on it's own and I loved Otomo's work on Memories too.

Watch this space .

Andrew

 

[anime_andrew]

Durarara: Man, that's going to be a pain to watch dubbed unless you can read Japanese. Goddamnit Aniplex. Sorry, Andrew, but that's going to be the first AL release I pass on.

As other people have mentioned it's honestly not all that bad. Celty's phone messages are voiced, the chatroom messages are voiced. The only place it becomes an issue from memory are the scenes where Simon/Izaya speak Russian - and the OP/EDs.

Much like that whole kerfuffle from Inazuma Eleven's UK Lock out on the 3ds Store from last (or was it two) week(s) back, it's more the principal of the matter more than the practicalities. Sure we can deal with it now, but what stupid demands will they foist on us next time?

Fair point - although I'd argue it's not a /stupid/ demand to want the same consistency. I have no idea why it wasn't included but it's exclusion from even the JP / US BD implies a few things I'd not fancy commenting on publicly at least until verified.

To be clear - when we author a release, if there is a signs track (and if I am not sure, I will ask people) then I will push to include it as it's hardly a super kerfuffle (love that word btw) on my end .

Occasionally when we share our authoring projects with someone else and they take the work on, we can't check into this sadly though. But it's a rarity vs the rule.

Andrew

 

[bakum4tsu]

Sentai has Short Peace. About time someone picked it up.

Andrew, I think this one would be a suitable title for your catalogue. One of them (Possessions) has a nomination for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards this year (and who knows, maybe even win the award).

Couldn't possibly comment just now - but yes, I do very much want to give the whole release the Anime Ltd treatment. It's an exceptional short on it's own and I loved Otomo's work on Memories too.

Watch this space .

Andrew

You can't comment? I take that as a gret sign!! I am really looking forwad to see Short Peace.

By the way Andrew, can you please check my private message? thanks

 

[NormanicGrav]

Even though we're blocked off, Crunchyroll will finally add the One Piece episodes to their catalog at an average of 20-30 episodes a week.

They also got the licenses for 2 new motion manga titles; Hadigirl and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru.

Folks who want Baka & Test Season 2 on Blu-ray better be quick as it's now in the closeout section on Rightstuf with about 30 copies left (Limited Edition set only), Season 1 and the OVA are still available as Standard versions.

Madman confirms 18th June release date with same collector's edition extras as Funi's LE release for their CE set, in Australia. This probably suggests that Manga UK's release may be early July.

 

[LtDiscotek]

Sentai has Short Peace. About time someone picked it up.

Andrew, I think this one would be a suitable title for your catalogue. One of them (Possessions) has a nomination for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards this year (and who knows, maybe even win the award).

Couldn't possibly comment just now - but yes, I do very much want to give the whole release the Anime Ltd treatment. It's an exceptional short on it's own and I loved Otomo's work on Memories too.

Watch this space .

Andrew

Speaking of Memories, thats been out of print for a while now, so I think it’s worthy of the Anime LTD treatment, since there is a very nice blu ray out in Japan. Also, if possible, some of Otomo’s other anthologies, since they never got released over here.

Oh and isn’t Namco releasing Short Peace anyway? Is it getting a physical release?

 

[NormanicGrav]

Couldn't possibly comment just now - but yes, I do very much want to give the whole release the Anime Ltd treatment. It's an exceptional short on it's own and I loved Otomo's work on Memories too.

Watch this space .

Andrew

Speaking of Memories, thats been out of print for a while now, so I think it’s worthy of the Anime LTD treatment, since there is a very nice blu ray out in Japan. Also, if possible, some of Otomo’s other anthologies, since they never got released over here.

Oh and isn’t Namco releasing Short Peace anyway? Is it getting a physical release?

It's true that Namco are releasing Short Peace but that's primarily due to the Suda51 game part of the anthology, judging by the trailers it's a physical release for PS3 in EU (BBFC and PEGI have given the anthology a rating (15 and 16 respectively)) while it's download in USA for import reasons probably. Also, Sentai Filmworks over in USA have licensed the Short Peace for bilingual Blu-ray and DVD which basically means the anthology isn't exclusive to Namco.

 

[NormanicGrav]

Reminder: Academy Awards are on tomorrow night. The following are taking part in the awards:

Short Peace: Possessions - Nomination for Best Animated Short - Biggest Rival: Get a Horse by Disney
The Wind Rises - Nomination for Best Animated Film - Biggest Rival: Frozen by Disney

 

[Joshawott]

Reminder: Academy Awards are on tomorrow night. The following are taking part in the awards:

Short Peace: Possessions - Nomination for Best Animated Short - Biggest Rival: Get a Horse by Disney
The Wind Rises - Nomination for Best Animated Film - Biggest Rival: Frozen by Disney

Ladies, I think I know what we have to do.

 

[awadama]

I just wonder how funimation are going to pull that trick off with the is this a zombie season 1 BD as it's all 13 episodes on a single disc with English and Japanese audio (I'm no expert, but I'm going to guess that quality is going to suffer a lot more on that then any sentai sub only release where they try to shoehorn a few more episodes onto a disc).

If you look carefully on the spine it says 12 eps + 1 OVA on 2 DVDs whilst it's just the 12 episodes on TWO BDs.

It doesn't say anything of the sort (and I zoomed in on that image), and the information from the upcoming overseas anime DVD artwork thread clearly stated that the set only has one blu-ray disc which came from information on the funimation website.

The Amazon image that Mangaranga posted does say it's on two BDs. It clearly says "Twelve episodes on 2 Blu-ray discs".

 

[NormanicGrav]

The Amazon image that Mangaranga posted does say it's on two BDs. It clearly says "Twelve episodes on 2 Blu-ray discs".

You are correct, it is in two Blu-ray discs. Shop Funimation tends to have some misinformation on some of the items (like Eureka Seven given 1 for a Blu-ray region and Jormungand Season 1 placed as a Limited Edition when it's standard only). Is This A Zombie is out in a few weeks so we'll all find out if it has 1 or 2 discs anyway.

 

[demonix]

The Amazon image that Mangaranga posted does say it's on two BDs. It clearly says "Twelve episodes on 2 Blu-ray discs".

You are correct, it is in two Blu-ray discs. Shop Funimation tends to have some misinformation on some of the items (like Eureka Seven given 1 for a Blu-ray region and Jormungand Season 1 placed as a Limited Edition when it's standard only). Is This A Zombie is out in a few weeks so we'll all find out if it has 1 or 2 discs anyway.

If you knew that information from the funimation shop is occasionally incorrect, then why did you quote that information in the overseas cover art thread.

Also there is a possibility the cover on amazon is not the final cover design since it is missing it's product number and the information for the blu-ray side only states that it has the 12 episodes (someone over on TFP noticed that and it was concluded that the cover might not be final) so the number of discs might be incorrect as well.

 

[robot monkey]

Or, given how the story evaportaed into nothing, just end.

Seriously, Between Naruto, Bleach and Nisekoi, the rest of the line up in WSJ does double time to make even the £2 a month worth it.

You forgot One Piece. Sure the recent arc is better but at this point it is beginning to feel a little tired. Say nothing of the cast size, which means very little focus is placed on individual characters that aren't Luffy.

I had heard this happened with One Piece & it's a crying shame as it means it has gone the same way as Naruto, with it being all about the main character & everyone else gets the crumbs of the story.

 

[Professor Irony]

The polls on how the kickstarter budget for the BGC Blu-Rays would be used have now closed, with the result being that the basic set will include Adam Warren's Grand Mal comic, while premium backers will also get the discs in a chipboard case.

Still time to add more stuff, if anyone else wants to purchase the set - figures needed for each item listed on the kickstarter page.

 

[Rosencrantz]

Or, given how the story evaportaed into nothing, just end.

Seriously, Between Naruto, Bleach and Nisekoi, the rest of the line up in WSJ does double time to make even the £2 a month worth it.

You forgot One Piece. Sure the recent arc is better but at this point it is beginning to feel a little tired. Say nothing of the cast size, which means very little focus is placed on individual characters that aren't Luffy.

I had heard this happened with One Piece & it's a crying shame as it means it has gone the same way as Naruto, with it being all about the main character & everyone else gets the crumbs of the story.

If it's any consolation I'm wondering why Bleach spreads itself so thinly, Soul Society may of been the best arc but it's probably also the seeds of downfall, switching dozens of 'badguys' to team good guy and leaving Ichigo's friends woefully under used.

 

[Ath]

The polls on how the kickstarter budget for the BGC Blu-Rays would be used have now closed, with the result being that the basic set will include Adam Warren's Grand Mal comic, while premium backers will also get the discs in a chipboard case.

Still time to add more stuff, if anyone else wants to purchase the set - figures needed for each item listed on the kickstarter page.

Man, I'm really not a fan of that Crowd Production model at all. Just far too much uncertainty with what the end result is going to be. It's an interesting experiment I guess, but I hope it doesn't become more widespread.