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animefreak17 said:
Rosencrantz said:
Lutga said:
I went to France this summer and was blown away by the amount of manga they sell in supermarkets there. And this was in a smallish town that didn't even have a railway station. It'd be like walking into a mid-sized Sainsburys over here and seeing wall to wall Soul Eater and Bleach.
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Hmm, I'd guess that's linked to them having more Anime in general on TV. They have to dub what ever foreign show they pick up so they aren't limited like us to whatever the US churns out. Germany had Sailormoon and Dragon Ball uncut years before either of them surfaced in the UK, I'd suspect it'd be similar in France/Italy too.

All that contributes to it being a bigger thing than in the UK.
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What's stopping us from that then?
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Can you imagine if all the dubs of your favourite shows were British? Like Naruto with a cockney or brummie accent.
 
Just Passing Through said:
animefreak17 said:
What's stopping us from that then?
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You are!

There's a significant shortage of Animefreaks in this country. We need at least 100,000 more to get an audience that will warrant such proliferation of manga and anime in the UK. It's incumbent on you to start breeding loads of little animefreaks to fill out that audience. Find a mate and start reproducing, get the little sprogs inculcated on anime at an early age. Play them jpop while in the womb. In fact, more than that, you need a harem, avoid a School Days scenario, but start popping out the l'il animefreaks on a production line!

Go forth and multiply!
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I've looked at AF's profile on MAL, not a single volume of Manga recorded as being read, that's probably why it's animefreak over anything else
 
Rosencrantz said:
Just Passing Through said:
animefreak17 said:
What's stopping us from that then?
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You are!

There's a significant shortage of Animefreaks in this country. We need at least 100,000 more to get an audience that will warrant such proliferation of manga and anime in the UK. It's incumbent on you to start breeding loads of little animefreaks to fill out that audience. Find a mate and start reproducing, get the little sprogs inculcated on anime at an early age. Play them jpop while in the womb. In fact, more than that, you need a harem, avoid a School Days scenario, but start popping out the l'il animefreaks on a production line!

Go forth and multiply!
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I've looked at AF's profile on MAL, not a single volume of Manga recorded as being read, that's probably why it's animefreak over anything else
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I read manga....I just use mal to keep track what I do have....It's handy
 
Lutga said:
Did Andrew say there were only going to be 1000 copies of the UE? So probably one worth getting the pre-order in early for.
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Yep, 1,000 only so definitely get them while you can on that frontier :).

Andrew
 
Except for maybe My Little Monster, I couldn't see anyone other than MVM licensing the other two, especially being Sentai Licenses. They don't seem like the sort of thing that would sell.
Maybe Sentai added them like they do with certain titles on itunes? I mean, they've got yellow subtitles and all.
 
Mangaranga said:
Except for maybe My Little Monster, I couldn't see anyone other than MVM licensing the other two, especially being Sentai Licenses. They don't seem like the sort of thing that would sell.
Maybe Sentai added them like they do with certain titles on itunes? I mean, they've got yellow subtitles and all.
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Anime Ltd maybe? I could see them picking up Arpeggio.

I would say Manga, but I get the feeling they'd put some of their other existing licenses up first, as opposed to these.

Unless this is a similar situation to Knights of Sydonia, that is.
 
Ath said:
Zavvi appear to have shipped my standard edition of Gurren Lagann.

Hope their early dispatch is OK with you Andrew!
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Lucky bugger :p

Let's get those AlltheAnime shop orders shipped out now :) Can't wait to get my grubby mitts on my ultimate edition and force, I mean coerce, I mean persuade my fiancee to finally watch an anime.
 
Elaniel said:
Lucky bugger :p

Let's get those AlltheAnime shop orders shipped out now :) Can't wait to get my grubby mitts on my ultimate edition and force, I mean coerce, I mean persuade my fiancee to finally watch an anime.
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I managed this with my wife just recently with Shingeki no Kyojin, don't think there's much chance of her watching Gurren Lagann though!

Likewise hope Zavvi send them soon, I'm far too excited!
 
NormanicGrav said:
After 3 decades (not including films, spinoffs [like The Woman Called Fujiko Mine] and OVAs), Lupin III returns with a brand new series set in Italy and San Marino airing in Spring 2015. It will also have its premiere in Italy.
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Fujiko Mine notwithstanding, a decade or so of anemic tv specials has blunted my expectations, but this is potentially huge. The staff behind it sound extremely promising and (while a similar promo shot for Fujiko Mine turned out to be a red herring) the fact that Lupin is holding a blue jacket looks to be a serious statement of intent for them marking the start of a new era.
 
Rui said:
Why are FUNimation's streams darker when the actual BDs are lighter than the JP versions (which was cited as a possible factor in the Lain banding situation)? I know there are standards differences between Japan and the US but it doesn't make sense to me when the same hardware is able to display both!
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From http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/bbs/p ... 18#2470318
Black levels are also nowhere near as set in stone as fans seem to think they are -- Japanese NTSC spec puts it at 10 IRE higher than North American equipment, but in HD some masters follow that spec and some don't. Sometimes American gear is used by Japanese companies, adding effects that hit American black levels while the rest of the show has Japanese black levels. I can't tell you how much pain and headache that causes US distros.
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Dannielle said:
Netflix UK have added My Little Monster, Kotoura-san & Arpeggio of Blue Steel - http://www.netflix.com/WiGenre?agid=7424

Who's the brains behind this? Such mystery.
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On Crunchyroll the publishers are all different
Kotoura-san: CBC (who?)
My Little Monster: ADK
Blue Steel: Showgate

None of them are licensed in the US.
 
Funimation January 2015 line-up:

A Certain Scientific Railgun - Complete Season 1 (Blu-ray/DVD) - 20th January
Chaos;Head - Complete Series: S.A.V.E. (Blu-ray/DVD) - 13th January
Fairy Tail - Collection 3 [Parts 5 & 6 put together] (Blu-ray/DVD) - 6th January
One Piece - Box Collection 1 [Collections 1-4 put together] (DVD) - 6th January (Amazon Exclusive)
One Piece - Collection 11 [S4 V5 & S5 V1 put together] (DVD) - 13th January

Quiet month as predicted, I think it's time that I start buying the One Piece Collection sets given they're now doing them. Fairy Tail C3 wasn't surprising given Manga UK is bringing theirs out and it's about the right time for Funimation to do this sort of thing.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
Rui said:
Why are FUNimation's streams darker when the actual BDs are lighter than the JP versions (which was cited as a possible factor in the Lain banding situation)? I know there are standards differences between Japan and the US but it doesn't make sense to me when the same hardware is able to display both!
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From http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/bbs/p ... 18#2470318
Black levels are also nowhere near as set in stone as fans seem to think they are -- Japanese NTSC spec puts it at 10 IRE higher than North American equipment, but in HD some masters follow that spec and some don't. Sometimes American gear is used by Japanese companies, adding effects that hit American black levels while the rest of the show has Japanese black levels. I can't tell you how much pain and headache that causes US distros.
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Dannielle said:
Netflix UK have added My Little Monster, Kotoura-san & Arpeggio of Blue Steel - http://www.netflix.com/WiGenre?agid=7424

Who's the brains behind this? Such mystery.
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On Crunchyroll the publishers are all different
Kotoura-san: CBC (who?)
My Little Monster: ADK
Blue Steel: Showgate

None of them are licensed in the US.
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My guess would be Sentai :).

AP
 
anime_andrew said:
Lutga said:
Did Andrew say there were only going to be 1000 copies of the UE? So probably one worth getting the pre-order in early for.
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Yep, 1,000 only so definitely get them while you can on that frontier :).

Andrew
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I was wondering what the print run is for collectors Space Dandy & Kill la Kill? I'm probably gonna have to cancel one of my pre orders as there's a hundred things out in November! I was thinking Space Dandy might have a smaller run as the standard editions out so soon (and from the pics it looks like the artboxes for the DVD & Blu will be the exact same just with different discs :p)
 
Jon O Fun said:
anime_andrew said:
Lutga said:
Did Andrew say there were only going to be 1000 copies of the UE? So probably one worth getting the pre-order in early for.
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Yep, 1,000 only so definitely get them while you can on that frontier :).

Andrew
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I was wondering what the print run is for collectors Space Dandy & Kill la Kill? I'm probably gonna have to cancel one of my pre orders as there's a hundred things out in November! I was thinking Space Dandy might have a smaller run as the standard editions out so soon (and from the pics it looks like the artboxes for the DVD & Blu will be the exact same just with different discs :p)
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And different sizes
 
Anti-Piracy Manga-Anime Guardians have a new thing going on. Every time a whole dozen of people join their support, a new character is shown with a bunch of popular ones together in one picture (up to 20 will be included overall). Like this:
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To have all 20 chosen characters together in one picture, 1 million people just join their support. So far 26,519 people have joined and thus Naruto, Kirito, Eren, Conan & Luffy are together watching Attack on Titan.
 
Railgun SAVE on the day before my birthday? 'Ello, 'ello, 'ello....

Also, considering the Netflix licenses, considering that a bunch of Sentai shows are also available on iTunes (Henneko etc), it wouldn't surprise me if it was them either.
 
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