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Viz Media confirms they have Phantom Blood. In addition they have also teased for some more announcements later on.
Anime News Network said:
Viz Media confirmed with ANN on Tuesday that it will release JoJo's Bizarre Adventures: Part 1--Phantom Blood volume one in North America in February. The company also teased that it will have more announcements regarding JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at its Anime Expo panel on July 3.
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Good news, the upcoming Moribito release from Viz will be better than the Media Blasters release.
RightStuf Representative said:
Just heard from Viz on this, and a couple of clarifications. One, the blu-ray is not a limited edition set; there was an error in the distributor's solicitation and we have now fixed this on our site. Our apologies for the confusion. Two, the video has been newly remastered and the blu-ray will be true 1080p. Hope that helps.
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Also the Fate/Kaleid release states 11 episodes, which is the main 10 episodes plus the additional OVA episode.
 
Yen Press Licenses:

Light Novels:
Absolute Solitude by Reki Kawahara (2015)
Kagerou Daze by Jin (2015)
Sword Art Online: Progressive by Reki Kawahara (2015)

Manga Licenses and Continuations:
Amange ga Kill by Takahiro and illustrated by Tetsuya Tashiro (early 2015)
Kagerou Daze by Jin and Mahiro Satou (early 2015)
Kingdom Hearts II (Second omnibus in winter 2014)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Late 2014)
Secret by Yoshiki Tonogai (Early 2015)
Sword Art Online: Progressive by Reki Kawahara and Kiseki Himura (2015)
 
Kagerou Daze? Just looked it up and didn't realise it was part of the Kagerou Project (which includes the recent anime Mekakucity Actors). Sweet, can't wait.
 
SnowWolf said:
New Hanabee Licenses announced.
Beyond the Boundary
Black Bullet
Captain Earth
Chaika the Coffin Princess
The irregular at magic high school
No Game, No Life
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Hmmm, MVM could seriously out maneuver the other companies here. No Game, No Life seems to be the majorities title of the season (from what I've gathered from general fanfare) so picking that up for UK release would be a good idea.

Do Hanabee produce dubs? or will all these be sub-only?
 
Folks who want to own the NISA Toradora Premium release and still haven't pre-ordered should know that their first pressing sold out however they have done a second batch which will arrive at the end of July. I'm sure UP1 may have a few copies available on the July 1st release date (for instance Haganai NEXT sold out on day 1 and there's some available). Of course if you can't import or don't have a multi-regional player you could just wait for the MVM Complete set at the end of September.

RACS said:
A few people have written in to ask us about a note that NISA recently posted to their store site (yes, they have a store too - ay ya!) which says that "all pre-orders for the upcoming Toradora Dubbed Premium Edition placed on or after April 30th will experience a delay in shipment. These orders will not be shipped until late July". What's going on is that the entire allocation of the first pressing (the July 1st release pressing) is sold out at wholesale, and the second batch of the sets won't be arriving until late July. NISA has already locked in guaranteed retailer quantities out of the first batch (and we pre-ordered quite a few), so we know exactly how many we are going to get and so far we're 100% covered for ALL RACS pre-orders, so if you pre-order it from us your copy WILL ship out of the July 1st batch. And on a side note, we're going to keep offering them at the special $89.98 pre-order price until our allocation of the first batch is 100% sold out. Someone told me once that they order from the NISA store to support what NIS does, but look at it this way - if you order their titles from us, you are supporting BOTH NISA and RACS - it's like double mint gum!
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Dannielle said:
SnowWolf said:
New Hanabee Licenses announced.
Beyond the Boundary
Black Bullet
Captain Earth
Chaika the Coffin Princess
The irregular at magic high school
No Game, No Life
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Hmmm, MVM could seriously out maneuver the other companies here. No Game, No Life seems to be the majorities title of the season (from what I've gathered from general fanfare) so picking that up for UK release would be a good idea.

Do Hanabee produce dubs? or will all these be sub-only?
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Hanabee don't but these titles are licensed and (will most likely be) dubbed by other companies. E.g. Kyoukai no Kanata and Black Bullet are Sentai Licenses, Mahouka is Aniplex etc.
 
Slightly off-topic but the Japanese remake of the western film Unforgiven, Yurusarezaru Mono is coming out on July 28th on DVD and Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook.

Meanwhile over at Media Blasters:
UPDATE:

a) Just wanted you to know that we brought the authoring back in-house and have corrected the issues with Koe and SRW. To play it safe we are destroying old inventory we have on the factory and getting new batches. Some of you have already sent in your discs and they will get replaced.

b) LvB, the adapted script will be done in coming week and we head into dubbing directly after.

We at MB and FD wanted to thank everyone for their support as we got some great reports from Walmart on how well both Godzilla and Shinobi Girl did. We are starting to get in masters for new Kitty and just got a contract for new Yaoi manga we will announce soon. This has been a rebuilding year for both MB and my body to get back into the groove.

Thank you all....
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That reminds me, are all of the dozens of anime from Media Blasters years back (or Anime Works) now unlicensed? For instance Genshiken, Berserk, Paranoia Agent, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny etc.
 
NormanicGrav said:
That reminds me, are all of the dozens of anime from Media Blasters years back (or Anime Works) now unlicensed? For instance Genshiken, Berserk, Paranoia Agent, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny etc.
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Good question, I'd expect Funimation to snag Dragon Destiny if it's available.

And what of Squid Girl Season 2, someone really needs to grab and release that ASAP
 
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