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

Dannielle said:
Jon O Fun said:
Am I the only one who missed the announcement that AL have Fate/Kaleid? When was that announced?

Also is the blu ray only release Samurai Flamenco or do you mean another on top of that? :)
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It was confirmed in an interview posted today, here's the announcement: http://www.uk-anime.net/newsitem/Anime_ ... Illya.html

I think the blu ray only release will be an older title due to some bits Andrew said in this interview: http://www.uk-anime.net/articles/Andrew ... ee%29.html

Some news on Animax and new titles:

In short, the streaming site's previous exclusivity deal with Viz Media Europe is no more, allowing the service to pursue other simulcasts, particularly those previously locked to North America from FUNimation Entertainment. Thus, the following series will soon be arriving on Animax UK:

- Daimidaler: Prince Vs. Penguin Empire
- Riddle Story of Devil
- Selector Infected WIXOSS
- Dragonar Academy
- Fairy Tail

If this isn't enough, both new and existing subscribers will see Animax UK's monthly cost drop from its previous price of £5.99 to just £4.99.
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Credit: http://www.uk-anime.net/newsitem/Animax ... _cost.html
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I read the article, I thought that was implied in my knowedge that they'd licensed it :p afterwards UKA put up another article saying the previous article WAS the announcement :)
 
anime_andrew said:
Bingo - already got a chunk of assets too - fyi our current configuration (awaiting costs) is:

- 96 page softback book of production sketches and artworks
- Hardback box to hold both Season 1 & 2 of the release
- Cowboy-Bebop style packaging for Season 1
- 2 BD50s to hold the series.

Looking at similar with DVD but of course 3 DVDs. That's why the BD and DVD are more expensive than regular shows though :).

Best,

AP
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Bit of an out of the blue question here, but is two BD 50s your standard for 12/13 episode shows? I frequently moan about how naff Sentai and Funi's recent releases have been looking, but using 2 BD50s seems to work for Viz Media.
Tiger & Bunny looked great, and Accel World looked flawless.

Is there also any chance the video files for Kill La Kill will be the same as Aniplex's release. (So most likely two BD50s or a BD50 + BD25 per set)
I love Aniplex using the Japanese BD masters and it's not something I'm generally willing to compromise on if it's available. I am however getting a bit Space Conscious at the moment, so I'm not sure whether I really want to buy five sets for Kill La Kill.

Jon O Fun said:
Also is the blu ray only release Samurai Flamenco or do you mean another on top of that? :)
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I'd be surprised if Samurai Flamenco is even allowed a BD release consider how poorly the show is selling in Japan. Pretty sure it's only a couple of hundred units per volume, but hey, maybe the merch is making up for some sales.
I can't say I'm really all that surprised that it sold poorly considering it just got worse and worse as it went on IMO.
 
@Mangaranga. Not sure if you have read this article, but on page 3 Andrew does mention in regards to double play at least "TV series though I think fans would be happier if we did two BD-50s for Kill la Kill for example, instead of one BD-50 and two DVDs per set."

Not an answer to any thing you asked but might have been something you may have been interested in.

This I would prefer. I never watch the DVD that comes with the Blu-ray anyway.
 
Mangaranga said:
anime_andrew said:
Bingo - already got a chunk of assets too - fyi our current configuration (awaiting costs) is:

- 96 page softback book of production sketches and artworks
- Hardback box to hold both Season 1 & 2 of the release
- Cowboy-Bebop style packaging for Season 1
- 2 BD50s to hold the series.

Looking at similar with DVD but of course 3 DVDs. That's why the BD and DVD are more expensive than regular shows though :).

Best,

AP
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Bit of an out of the blue question here, but is two BD 50s your standard for 12/13 episode shows? I frequently moan about how naff Sentai and Funi's recent releases have been looking, but using 2 BD50s seems to work for Viz Media.
Tiger & Bunny looked great, and Accel World looked flawless.

Is there also any chance the video files for Kill La Kill will be the same as Aniplex's release. (So most likely two BD50s or a BD50 + BD25 per set)
I love Aniplex using the Japanese BD masters and it's not something I'm generally willing to compromise on if it's available. I am however getting a bit Space Conscious at the moment, so I'm not sure whether I really want to buy five sets for Kill La Kill.

Jon O Fun said:
Also is the blu ray only release Samurai Flamenco or do you mean another on top of that? :)
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I'd be surprised if Samurai Flamenco is even allowed a BD release consider how poorly the show is selling in Japan. Pretty sure it's only a couple of hundred units per volume, but hey, maybe the merch is making up for some sales.
I can't say I'm really all that surprised that it sold poorly considering it just got worse and worse as it went on IMO.
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For KLK - likely 1 BD50 and 1 BD25 a set depending on extras. 2 x BD25s if it's just 4-5 eps a disc is probably fine though, I need to check.

For Space Dandy et al usually - 2 BD50s is usually more than enough if you have someone good on the video editing side of things to check bitrates. Depends on the show - minimum I see as (usually) viable is 4 BD50s for a 26-27 episode show though. I'm playing around to see what the perfect configuration is - certainly not intending to dabble with 1 disc anytime soon though for 13 eps!

AP
 
anime_andrew said:
- Wings of Honneamise
- Blood Lad
- Mystery Film (not yet announced)
- Mystery series in Collector's Edition (BD only, not yet announced)
- Kill la Kill: Part 1 of 3
- Psychic School Wars is also likely

Will have a full list when I get time to sit down :).

AP
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Buy
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waiting on details (but probably buy ;) )
waiting on details (as above)
Buy
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If you get these things out you'll be rolling in my money :APscroogemcduck.jpg:
 
Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
I think there is a degree of specificity to it - you can't do [a KickStarter] for everything. [...]
You've not seen the last of it - I think you can do maybe three or four Kickstarters in a year quite realistically, [... ...]
It doesn't mean that for Ultimate Editions of films in the future we're going to go straight to retail, because I think that the whole point of that model is that it gives fans a chance to buy in at a very, very competitive level and it means they're guaranteed a price point regardless. Yes, it increases our risk because we have to sell a lot more copies to make back the money, but I think it's worth it and it gives fans things they wouldn't normally get. So, for Ultimate Editions of films yes, there will be more Kickstarters. They're not going to grow on trees, but I think there will be more."
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Ideally I would love to see all KickStarters to be for UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland as it helps things to a certain extent. But I know it realistically isn't possible.

I still wonder why Patema Inverted doesn't have Dutch subtitles though, it's licensed for the Dutch territory... I believe the answer to be "not viable".
But it doesn't make me stop wondering despite not needing Dutch subs myself, but it's much like I wonder why there's no regular CE for TTGL.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
We have at times looked at soundtracks for shows we've loved, but it's just impossible to get hold of them. Kill la Kill is one such case, where we had a deal sitting on our plate and then it turned out that the UK wasn't available as part of it, so it's impossible at that stage to do something.
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I wonder whether this means somebody else has the UK rights and doesn't want to sub-license or that the licensor doesn't want the UK to have it.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
we have Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, which is not a usual title for us but it's an experimental one which came part and parcel with another license, which is Blood Lad.
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I just hope that Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya will get the Durarara-treatment in terms of packaging. With a slot to hold season 2 maybe?
So it at least fits nice next to Fate/Zero for people who actually have their whole collection alphabetically.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
The other one which is kind of a three-part announcement, and this is where the interest is in creating an Ultimate Editions and what we can do with a Kickstarter, which is all of Full Metal Panic, including The Second Raid which was never released in the UK. I'm planning an Ultimate Edition and separate releases for that, which is fun -
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Basically, they are looking into a KickStarter for an Ultimate Edition for Full Metal Panic.
And it confirms that Andrew plans one big set holding all 3 seasons as the Collector's edition, and 3 separate BD-releases at the same time. I just hope that it won't be a KickStarter and Amazon exclusive.

I have to be honest though, that I'm afraid of the price it'll turn out to be. An SRP of £119.99 seems plausible for a Complete/Ultimate Edition. I hope Andrew is targeting a SRP of £99.99 though.
As long as the price is reasonable I don't mind certain extras. It's all a sum of "is it worth it?", I just love rigid packaging à la DRRR and regular Limited Editions by Funimation.
But with TTGL the sub-only recap movies annoy me, and with Space Dandy I believe I won't be able to afford the stuff I don't really want either.
Admittedly, while I would love to watch and own TTGL with rigid packaging (and clearly am frustrated by the publicly known release format), I have never really been excited for Space Dandy.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
I'm querying what to do about DVD as well with this title, as I'm not so convinced that there's a huge future in DVD left now for older titles. Collector's Editions on DVD just doesn't work - on Blu-Ray, yes, but for DVD I think we might just do single standalone regular editions in Amaray packaging straight away.
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Should I just give up on my dreams to own certain anime then?! (NO! Of course not.)
I know Anime Ltd wants to be all about high quality, but I think there's still value for improved/NTSC dvd-releases of titles like Vandread, Moon Phase, School Rumble and Ai Yori Aoshi.

Just saw the news Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's & Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS will be released onto BD in Japan.
I hope that Anime Ltd will consider picking up the rights for US and UK for that franchise, and perhaps KickStart a dub for S3.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
For some titles like Escaflowne you might be able to do it again on DVD, but Full Metal Panic is distinctly "been there, done that", so we could go straight to Blu-Ray for collectors and then do DVDs for each series.
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Hmmmm... :/ Well, if there's a BD elsewhere available it's Blu-Ray or bust for me, at least for widescreen titles.
I think Anime Ltd should consider slipcovers with all barebone/DVD releases. But that's just my opinion I guess.
I'd love to own a rigid DRRR-like complete collection for TsukuYomi Moon Phase, but know chances of that happening are nihil.
I'd be very happy, cheering a lot, if Anime Ltd ever acquires TsukuYomi Moon Phase for improved release. (Dreaming in the summer...)

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
The other question I'm debating is that I don't think combi packs work as well as people think they do aside from film releases [...] but for TV series though I think fans would be happier if we did two BD-50s for Kill la Kill for example, instead of one BD-50 and two DVDs per set.

If you weigh up the cost - if you take those two DVDs and replace them with the extra Blu-Ray - it works. You get better bit-rate per episode, and while visually it doesn't matter to a lot of people, the hardcore are then kept happy.
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So one BD-50 costs the same as two DVD(-9)? Interesting.
I think it'd be a good move to see some Blu-Ray only releases in the UK to make people move on from DVD.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
For a lot of people now, the buying habits have changed - if I'm buying DVD now, I'm looking for a complete collection, and if it has a nice cover that's what I'm looking for, but packaging is not as important.
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Yeah, I'd rather have a barebones DVD complete collection release of titles I previously mentioned than no release at all. (unless there is a BD master, because then a DVD release is the same as no release)
Though, I'll mention it again, slipcovers are also appreciated -by me-.

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
For Samurai Flamenco we've agreed we're allowed to do two half-season sets - I don't believe that, unlike Kill la Kill, it's going to be dubbed, I think it's going to be subtitle-only. Dubiously I might say we do Blu-Ray only...
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As said before: Blu-Ray only titles would be a good thing.
And I think the sub-fans were the first to shift their preferences to BD, my guess as previously stated is due to how ugly DVD subtitles are (in my honest opinion).

Andrew Partridge via UK-Anime said:
We've just received our first package of assets for Space Dandy, which is why we've not posted details about why it costs more to pre-order, but what I wanted to do and I still want to do with it (and I'm still waiting for confirmation) is to do a chipboard box to handle seasons one and two. I would like to include at least a 100-page A5 hardback or softback art book inside the first part, and then I'd like for the second part to have a similar package and for both parts inside to come in Digipak+, Cowboy Bebop-style packaging. I'd ideally like a unique illustration for the box, but we have to negotiate that and it's always hit and miss.
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So basically it'll be a Space Dandy Ultimate Edition?! :/

I love what happened to DRRR, and Cowboy Bebop would've been perfect if it could hold both parts in one rigid box.
I don't like having to get the barebones release because I don't want certain major things in the "expensive" ultimate edition.
No offence to Andrew, I like what he does but think that 2 extremes isn't (always) exactly the right way to go.

Either way, I'll let him off if it comes to Space Dandy I think. I might go on about TTGL forever though, my apologies to anyone annoyed by my ramblings.
 
anime_andrew said:
For KLK - likely 1 BD50 and 1 BD25 a set depending on extras. 2 x BD25s if it's just 4-5 eps a disc is probably fine though, I need to check.

For Space Dandy et al usually - 2 BD50s is usually more than enough if you have someone good on the video editing side of things to check bitrates. Depends on the show - minimum I see as (usually) viable is 4 BD50s for a 26-27 episode show though. I'm playing around to see what the perfect configuration is - certainly not intending to dabble with 1 disc anytime soon though for 13 eps!

AP
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Assuming the use of Aniplex's masters it'd have to be 1 BD50 and 1 BD25 Minimum (Episodes are 6-7gb+) to fit 8 episodes. 2 BD25s would require compression, and even then, wouldn't it make more sense to do one BD50?
Good to hear your position on the video front though. I've been getting fed up with that taking a back seat, even with bigger shows. Funimation's Psycho Pass is on 2 BD 50s and it uses 26 or 28gb per disc, and the video quality clearly suffers for it.
 
anime_andrew said:
certainly not intending to dabble with 1 disc anytime soon though for 13 eps!
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Lol. Still don't get Sentai's thinking on that one. 5 hours on one BD50, but then the DVD version is 3 DVD9's if I recall correct.

Warner Brothers didn't even try and stick that much on one BD50. All the LOTR extended editions are split across 2 BD50's.

Mangaranga said:
Funimation's Psycho Pass is on 2 BD 50s and it uses 26 or 28gb per disc
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The one thing I don't get with that, you're paying for a 50GB disc but only use 28GB or so, especially when there's room for improvement and the space to do so.

Take the UK release of Arrietty. Haven't checked it for some time but from what I recall the video encode was pretty good. The audio though is only 16bit, yet there is still 20GB of space left, so why not use 24bit audio and use some of that space up.
 
Emulsion said:
anime_andrew said:
certainly not intending to dabble with 1 disc anytime soon though for 13 eps!
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Lol. Still don't get Sentai's thinking on that one. 5 hours on one BD50, but then the DVD version is 3 DVD9's if I recall correct.

Warner Brothers didn't even try and stick that much on one BD50. All the LOTR extended editions are split across 2 BD50's.
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I still don't understand why Sentai's releases seems have lower bit rate even when they do use a B50 and a BD25 for their 12-13 episode series.

I'm definitely going to hold on for the AL Fate/Kaleid on the basis they are likely to self author a much better disc
 
FYI:
From the New World Parts 1 & 2 Blu-Ray, Accel World Part 2 Blu-Ray all £19.99 on Base.com
Familiar of Zero is £25.99 for now on Blu-Ray

Their prices are fantastic in my opinion. All my recent orders from them have arrived day after shipping. Rarely others have come after 2 days.
 
Just as I read an ANN article which announces the trailer...

Must have been something serious considering UKAN seem to have done a mailbox video for it.
 
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