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britguy said:
Also, Anime Limited will be announcing some titles/releases "This week or next week"
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They must be revealing the Q3 line up (c'mon Royal Space Force!*).

*In case people are confused, I'm hoping the title is one of the 17 they have licensed for 2014.
 
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NIS America will be releasing a standard version of Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge. Like the previous re-releases, a mini booklet with episode info and all of the discs from the Premium set. Whether these discs are re-authored to block UK PS3's entirely is TBC.

The set is coming out on April 29th 2014.

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Sentai Filmworks have licensed 'Love Lab', a 13 episode four-panel anime adaptation of the manga with the same name. The show was previously aired during the Summer 2013 season from July to September.

Since the title is about 9 months old, I'll expect this title to be among the August/September line up.
 
Funimation's July line-up finally updated with info (Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash & The Devil is a Part-Timer info have yet to be revealed):

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A Certain Scientific Railgun S: Part 1 - Standard
Format: DVD
Date: July 1st
Episodes: 1-12
Region: 1
Discs: 2 DVDs
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: Episode 5 & 7 Commentary, Textless Opening Song, Textless Closing Song, Trailers

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Ben-To: Complete Series - Standard & Limited Edition
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Date: July 8th
Episodes: 1-12
Region: A,B/1,2,4
Discs: 2 Blu-rays/2 DVDs
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: Epsode 3 & 7 Commentary, Ben-To Brawl" Live Action Paraody, Textless Opening Song "LIVE for LIFE ~Ookamitachi no Yoru~", Textless Opening Song "Treasure!", Textless Closing Song "Formula of Smiles", U.S. Trailer

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Deadman Wonderland: Complete Series - Anime Classic
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Date: July 15th
Episodes: 1-12, OVA
Region: A/1
Discs: 2 Blu-rays/2 DVDs
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: Actor Commentaries, Video Commentary, Promo Videos, Original Commercials, Textless Songs, U.S. Trailer, Trailers

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Fairy Tail: Part 11 - Standard
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Date: July 15th
Episodes: 121-131
Region: A,B/1,2,4
Discs: 2 Blu-rays/2 DVDs
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: Actor Commentaries, Todd Haberkorn at Otakon, Textless Songs, U.S. Trailer, Trailers

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Hetalia: Complete Season 5 - Standard & Limited Edition
Format: DVD
Date: July 22nd
Episodes: 1-25
Region: 1,2,4
Discs: 1 DVD
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: (Limited Edition Season Five only: Bandana, Hetalia Sticker Set), Episode 3, 7, 10, 11, 17 & 18 Commentary, Episodes 12-16 Video Commentary, The Hidden History Hidden Within Hetalia, Outtakes, U.S. Trailer, Trailers

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Shakugan no Shana: Complete Season 2 - S.A.V.E.
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Date: July 1st
Episodes: 25-48
Region: A/1
Discs: 4 Blu-rays/4 DVDs
Closed Captioning: No
Extras: (same content as original release)


I should point out that having 11 episodes per set from Part 11 onwards with Fairy Tail would work: Part 12: 132-142, Part 13: 143-153, Part 14: 154-164, and Part 15: 165-175. The question is whether they would be able to pickup the OVAs.
 
Something just Occurred to me based on a post by Madman on Twitter.
They state that the AUS release of K is out in Australia now, but isn't that Khazi's disc?
Maybe Khazi prioritized ruining the release for the Australians over ruining it for people in the UK, thus causing it to be delayed.
 
Surprising pick up there for MVM, but considering it's a Sentai Filmworks title it fits with their catalogue.

In other news:
- Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash & The Devil is a Part Timer are going to be delayed in US so don't expect them to be released in July. Some suggest they might get Premium treatment.
- Sentai Filmworks licensed Kamigami no Asobi.
- KINMOZA! continuation is confirmed to be a 2nd TV Season.
- Princess Jellyfish is getting a live-action adaptation.
 
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL is also being shown on KIX, if anyone is interested.

Edit:

From a comment about KLK on Facebook
Anime Limited: We have to release over 3 parts in the UK based on situations out of our control so we're debating how to do packaging now - watch this space but we love the French version!
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britguy said:
Also, Anime Limited will be announcing some titles/releases "This week or next week"
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Follow up:
It's a neat day in the office today - everyone is now on holiday barring me and I've just got word of our first acquisition from the Summer 2014 slate. More details to come on how we'll be announcing it next week...
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Source
 
Joshawott said:
"Situations out of our control" = Aniplex of America.

I'm guessing.
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Or just plain Aniplex; Manga couldn't go straight to a complete collection for the FMA:B BDs even though they'd already done a complete BD set and that was released by FUNi in the US.
 
Considering how Japan's release is in 9 sets, I'm not sure what the difference between 2 and 3 will make for reverse importation. Unless it's because Aniplex of America want to price gouge KLK by releasing it over 3.
 
Anime Limited: We have to release over 3 parts in the UK based on situations out of our control so we're debating how to do packaging now - watch this space but we love the French version!
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WARNING: The following segment is just me speculating things, nothing has been made public except it'll be released over 3 parts!
This does sound rather tricky though, going over 3 parts there are many options to go and do... The most unlikely route is releasing it over 3 BD-50, each holding 8 episodes.
It could be released over 6 BD-50, each holding 4 episodes. It could be that each part has a BD-50 (6 episodes) and a BD-25 (with 2 episodes and extras).
It could also be over 5 BD-50, each holding 5 episodes with the part that only has 1 BD-50 having the OST disc in the remaining slot.

This is of course presuming they'd use DRRR-styled packaging, and try not to make it super-sized and also presuming they'd author themselves.
I am afraid of the price though! Either way (or 'route') I could see the SRP being £34.99 per part. (I hope the SRP is £29.99, but that's rather unlikely.)

Whether I'll get it will heavily depend on whether it's sub-only, the price and what is included in the release.

Nota bene: Andrew, I don't know whether you noticed, but I sent you a pm some time ago. I'd just like to know you read it. ^_^

Shiroi Hane said:
Joshawott said:
"Situations out of our control" = Aniplex of America.

I'm guessing.
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Or just plain Aniplex; Manga couldn't go straight to a complete collection for the FMA:B BDs even though they'd already done a complete BD set and that was released by FUNi in the US.
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Judging this it's more likely to be Aniplex of America than Aniplex JP.
And not sure what you're talking about with FMA:B, but I am sure Funimation hasn't released a complete collection for FMA:B on BD yet.
The largest collections they have put out are the same size as the UK ones. That was the problem I believe, they didn't want an UK Complete Collection on BD before the US/JP.

Joshawott said:
Considering how Japan's release is in 9 sets, I'm not sure what the difference between 2 and 3 will make for reverse importation. Unless it's because Aniplex of America want to price gouge KLK by releasing it over 3.
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It's not a secret that a lot of fears for any human being are nothing more than psychological "nonsense", they are "only" serious for the one person having the fear.
And having watched "Dark Matters: Twisted But True" earlier in the week learning about psychosomatic death (= voodoo death), it can be way too serious.
Am I comparing people dying because they believe they are dying with reverse importation fears? Yes, yes I am. It is basically the same, sadly enough.

Dannielle said:
MVM have licensed Watamote ..complete shock, didn't expect it to be licensed over here : http://www.mvm-films.com/news?ID=2025
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If it gets released on Blu-Ray I'll get it for sure someday, no matter the audio format. (Still would prefer a dub aboard though. =P)

NormanicGrav said:
In other news:
- KINMOZA! continuation is confirmed to be a 2nd TV Season.
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Never doubted it! =D

Lawrence said:
Are you seriously telling me that you'd want a premium treatment for a series that butchers the source material? Railgun and Railgun II deserve nothing more than a bare bones release.
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I can't read Japanese, so I can't really say I care about the source material. I don't usually compare the book with the movie/series. I try to appreciate everything on its own.
All I'd really want from the Anime Limited treatment is the chipboard/sturdy artbox. Things like artbooks & OST are nice extras but it can cause me not to be able to afford a release.
(Or in the worst case scenario get me in limbo like with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and this limbo has made me feel terrible a few times already)

Andrew Partridge via Twitter said:
Agent-347 via Twitter said:
I'm all set for Q3 release announcements, and to some extent what the Patema Inverted Ultimate Edition holds. =D
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I'm going to be talking about that very topic next week too. Very exciting developments on it.
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Have I told you guys' I'm excited for next week?! =D LET IT STORM!

And we might be seeing @MangaUK's Q3 schedule pop-up on Amazon next week as well.

reborn said:
It's a neat day in the office today - everyone is now on holiday barring me and I've just got word of our first acquisition from the Summer 2014 slate. More details to come on how we'll be announcing it next week...
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Judging another tweet (and the reply to my tweet) it seems like it's a simulcast title... Okay.
 
None of the stuff I'm currently looking forward to in Summer seem like the sort of thing AL would pick up, so not really getting my hopes up over that. It might just be something I've missed though, and there's always a really really remote chance that they surprise me.

Won't be getting either of the new announcements from MVM either, though it's interesting that one of them is a shoujo romance series. We don't get many of them coming out over here.
 
kuuderes_shadow said:
None of the stuff I'm currently looking forward to in Summer seem like the sort of thing AL would pick up, so not really getting my hopes up over that. It might just be something I've missed though, and there's always a really really remote chance that they surprise me.

Won't be getting either of the new announcements from MVM either, though it's interesting that one of them is a shoujo romance series. We don't get many of them coming out over here.
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If they could somehow score Sailor Moon Crystal that would be their Killer App.
 
Thought this was quite interesting as I have never seen it used on a rating description before. Wonder if it's part of their new ratings standards.

Taken from the BBFC website on the rating of Girls Und Panzer:

"glamorous images of weapons"
 
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