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ConanThe3rd
Railgun
Because we all know all UK TVs are set to explode if one line above the PAL Standard is aired (Good f'ing lord...)NormanicGrav said:
Mangaranga
Za Warudo
Yet Funimation puts out a load of R2 NTSC Discs, Andrew said all of Anime Limited's DVD will be NTSC and even MVM put out some NTSC discs...Joshawott said:
kuuderes_shadow
Thousand Master
animefreak17 said:
SnK is Kodansha, not Shueisha.
I've never heard even rumours of any manga publishers other than Shueisha forcing a mangaka to continue with a series beyond its pre-planned conclusion.
Animefreak17
Godhand
kuuderes_shadow said:
It's a rumour I heard from someone I heard the company told the author of death note to carry on the series because of how popular it was
The manga came out
Then
The live movies came out
Then
The anime
It's probably a rumour but it's kinda believable in some ways
Mangaranga said:
It seems daft. The people still buying DVD in Japan are relatively casual (or just buying for bonus items in some cases) compared to the BD market. They don't want to wait a year extra to import a dodgy UK edition DVD with most of the bonus content stripped out. Heck, they could import the foreign BD and a player instead and still be saving money.
Fear of reverse importing R2 DVDs hasn't been a relevant worry since the 90s. And even then most Japanese reverse import DVDs were R1, because people are apparently smarter than companies think ^_^;
(Besides, anyone in Japan can play a PAL R2 disc on a computer anyway, so it's even more stupid.)
R
Ath
Pokémon Master
I can only think of two explanations.
1) MangaUK reckon there's a sizeable percentage of their target audience who don't have the capability of playing NTSC DVDs yet. Therefore they release everything in PAL so that they don't shut them out. I reckon this is the most likely one.
2) They're still contractually forbidden from doing NTSC DVDs by Japan. Maybe they are indeed still fearful of reverse importation despite the likelihood being minimal and it going against all common sense. Who knows? It could even be something as silly as their legal teams using standard contracts from the 00s and they just haven't revised the particular clause prohibiting R2 NTSC DVDs for the modern era(hence the "roadblock" Jerome mentioned a while back). That last one is just wild and utterly unfounded speculation on my part I must stress
1) MangaUK reckon there's a sizeable percentage of their target audience who don't have the capability of playing NTSC DVDs yet. Therefore they release everything in PAL so that they don't shut them out. I reckon this is the most likely one.
2) They're still contractually forbidden from doing NTSC DVDs by Japan. Maybe they are indeed still fearful of reverse importation despite the likelihood being minimal and it going against all common sense. Who knows? It could even be something as silly as their legal teams using standard contracts from the 00s and they just haven't revised the particular clause prohibiting R2 NTSC DVDs for the modern era(hence the "roadblock" Jerome mentioned a while back). That last one is just wild and utterly unfounded speculation on my part I must stress
ConanThe3rd
Railgun
So basically
1) We (Manga) did bad research and somehow missed the memo about Digital TV which requires at least SCART if not buying a new TV outright which in turn should limit the number of incomparable TVs of which the Customer of Anime Niche that we love to exploit as a reason to not be arsed to do much of nothin' would probably be a downright minuscule if not non-resistant contingent.
2) We made up some crap to foist our stupidity on Japan with our on going narrative on how they're the bad-guy in absolutely every situation (as opposed to the 90% of the time they can be atributed to stupid crap). The existence of other companies NSTC disks (wasn't aware AL was using NSTC but that's cool to know) drowns this theory in the cleansing fire of logic. I can not for one second believe that Bandai Visual wouldn't have broken AL's legs about Bebop.
1) We (Manga) did bad research and somehow missed the memo about Digital TV which requires at least SCART if not buying a new TV outright which in turn should limit the number of incomparable TVs of which the Customer of Anime Niche that we love to exploit as a reason to not be arsed to do much of nothin' would probably be a downright minuscule if not non-resistant contingent.
2) We made up some crap to foist our stupidity on Japan with our on going narrative on how they're the bad-guy in absolutely every situation (as opposed to the 90% of the time they can be atributed to stupid crap). The existence of other companies NSTC disks (wasn't aware AL was using NSTC but that's cool to know) drowns this theory in the cleansing fire of logic. I can not for one second believe that Bandai Visual wouldn't have broken AL's legs about Bebop.
ConanThe3rd
Railgun
Ath
Pokémon Master
Woah, big news. NISA are rereleasing Toradora on BD. With their first English dub for an anime!
Press release is here in PDF format.
It'll include the OVA as well. They're releasing their usual Premium edition with all the episodes and a hardback artbook for $129.99, or in two-part standard editions for $59.99 each.
Needless to say, I want this. Add in the usual retailer discounts and it's not too bad at all, comparable to the price of Funi's Psycho Pass release. The transfer is an upscale, but it looks decent from the screencaps at Fandom Post.
Press release is here in PDF format.
It'll include the OVA as well. They're releasing their usual Premium edition with all the episodes and a hardback artbook for $129.99, or in two-part standard editions for $59.99 each.
Needless to say, I want this. Add in the usual retailer discounts and it's not too bad at all, comparable to the price of Funi's Psycho Pass release. The transfer is an upscale, but it looks decent from the screencaps at Fandom Post.
st_owly (witch)
Time-Traveller
I'll definitely pick that one up.
Ath
Pokémon Master
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EDIT: Beaten like Spurs at the weekend. Wonder how it's going to compare to the NISA release? Good to see a swift announcement.
EDIT: Beaten like Spurs at the weekend. Wonder how it's going to compare to the NISA release? Good to see a swift announcement.
st_owly (witch)
Time-Traveller
Hmmmm... Not sure whether to import the NIS release or support the local one. MVM seem to be getting some great stuff lately.
VoxPhantom
Stand User
Hoping that Working!/Wagnaria s1 will be the next to see a BD re-release.
kuuderes_shadow
Thousand Master
animefreak17 said:
Death note, on the other hand, was published by Shueisha.