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

Interestingly, on the point of Toonami, I spoke to Steve Blum at an event in 2013, and he mentioned that the feedback was that people had indeed been staying up to watch anime.

Of course, the kicker there is that this was info from almost 18 months ago. Who knows how quickly these things change.
 
Is there a reason to have toonami anymore....cause look at us....

Were a bunch of nerds who watches anime oonline or buy them on dvd.....altho New blood would be nice if someone did have a interest in anime.

I remember toonami when I was young

Dragonball z
Cowboy bepop
Gundam wing
Tenchi muyo....oh that opening

So many others

There was that paralletv channel that did a bunch of anime and mtv did a few sci fi,toonami.

Good times
 
News and rumours, time for some RailDex, Chuunibyou and Outlaw Star(s)!

Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai | Love, Chuunibyou and Other Delusions
Sentai Filmworks says Rikka's voice in the teaser for the Chu2Koi dub is the more badass Rikka.
Her cutesy voice in the rest of the dub is ... cutesy.

RailDex might still come to the UK
Hidden among some FaceBook posts is a reply from Jerome Mazandarani on FaceBook about RailDex, actually hinting he's working on acquiring the show (source):
Animatsu said:
There's a lot of anime out there that's just to hard to acquire
its not that the distributors have simple overlooked the existence of popular series like railgun and oreimo and many other fan favourite shows
its just that the rights may be tied up with several company's or maybe too expensive, ever possible that realistically the show might not be worth releasing as the money won't add up
that being said I would like too see railgun myself
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Railgun and CMI are with Geneon, which is now owned by Universal. So! What we now have is a situation where in order for Geneon to be able to license anything outside of the Universal group the potential licensee has to complete and pass a number of rather intrusive due diligence processes. And that's why nothing has happened yet on these Geneon owned shows. I'm on it. >JM
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Now one of the many questions that's on my mind is: Has Andrew Partridge of Anime Limited given up on licensing RailDex? (he said he was on it as well last year)
Or are there two companies (Anime Ltd and Animatsu) still in the race for this highly demanded franchise?

At least one company has made known still being interested in acquiring it, so that's good news.

(On a sidenote, MVM said it's on their backburner sometime last year, so I highly doubt they'll get it.)

Anime Limited is trying to get an Outlaw Star Blu-ray release out
Even though Andrew has hinted at this before I wanted to share this for future reference and whoever didn't know (source):

Anime Limited said:
So I've just found out that Outlaw Star has just had the BD treatment in Japan! This as an Ultimate Edition release would be earth shatteringly amazing! Any plans Team?
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We're still looking into this one - it's a bit of an odd one as the international licensor had no idea of it coming out so basically nobody with rights was informed. We're going to check it out and then work out how to proceed. We are of course interested though so watch this space
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I have not picked up the DVD and was not planning to after the news of the Japanese Blu-ray release so to hear this is good.

Other comments from me
Joshawott said:
Chunibyo dub cast. Sadly, including Greg Ayres.

From that small preview, I hate the voice for Rikka. Absolutely horrible.
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I actually like what I heard, but of course these teasers are short and "show" nothing much.
Given what Sentai Filmworks said about the Rikka teaser I do believe it was slightly foolish of them to only put out one Rikka teaser.
 
I'd definitely like to hear Rikka's more cutesy voice but even for her deeper "badass" voice, I don't like it. Rikka didn't sound like an old lady in the Japanese one, so I don't see why she should here :p.

Also, if you're reading this Jerome - if you nab Raildex, I will throw money at you.

Emo185 said:
Joshawott said:
MangaUK need to stop doing that too. Whenever I load up my High School DxD disc, I see a trailer for Haganai...
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That's because MangaUK opted to use the disc masters created by FUNimation. The American, Australian and UK releases are 'exactly' the same; its just the artwork (disc and packaging) that have been altered (slightly) for each region.

The UK Blu-ray releases for Fairy Tail (Collection 1 and 2 & Parts 5 to 8) are exactly the same; same disc masters as created by FUNimation, and the same discs used in Australia.

Its easy to understand why MangaUK would do this; as their is no re-authoring costs involved simply re-package and distribute - although it can lead to confusion when you see trailers for stuff that may never be released legally in this country xD
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I get why they're doing it, but I don't like it. I agree with comments made earlier that maybe they could ask FUNimation to code the discs to show different trailers when being played on Region B systems, to show titles that MangaUK are planning to release too?
 
animefreak17 said:
Is there a reason to have toonami anymore....cause look at us....

Were a bunch of nerds who watches anime oonline or buy them on dvd.....altho New blood would be nice if someone did have a interest in anime.
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I'm not a nerd! I'm a specialist! :p

Nah, seriously - I think there is a definite place for Toonami. During that chat I had with Mr. Blum (who, by the way is an almost IMPOSSIBLY nice and very honest human being) he mentioned a lot of positive stuff. Basically the discussion went along lines of anime being a niche thing that had taken a huge hit, what with the (at least then still comparatively recent) demise of Bandai stateside, among other things. But he mentioned that there had seemed to be a resurgence in popularity over there. There was apparently a pretty healthy number of viewers tuning in each week.

I won't divulge too much of what was said, because it was actually in the context of an interview I'd arranged for AUKN. Steve is so busy, we just weren't able to secure approval to publish, unfortunately. But I do recall at one point mentioning to him that 'there needs to be some anime on TV, right?' and he nodded and said 'absolutely', or something to that effect.

What I take from that is that, at the industry insider level, there's an acknowledgement that we do need things like Toonami to help keep the anime market afloat. It's not the be-all and end-all, but it can be a superb gateway for new fans.

I don't know if I've mentioned this on the boards here, but I actually have some pals who weren't especially interested in anime, but used to stay up till all hours of a weekend watching TV. They caught some Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex one night, and it piqued their interest.

They didnt rush out and buy all the anime they could get their hands on, or anything as wildly enthusiastic as that. But, months later, when they saw the GITS: SAC box set on my shelf, they asked me a barrage of questions about it, and it led to us making it a weekend thing of me taking DVDs over to theirs for a few hours of binge watching, with beer and snacks.

(This is a FUN way to watch anime, I have to tell ya!)

Now, did it turn them into fans? It's tough to answer. I mean, they didn't spend any money on the shows, that's a dead cert. But they're invested enough in that one show to have an opinion on the upcoming Dreamworks movie. And they're into it enough to feel badly that Origa passed away recently.

And last week, I saw they had a shrink-wrapped Cowboy Bebop blu-ray collection on their table.

So, sometimes it's a slow sell to people. My friends may not be about to spend all their disposable income on anime, but they're not averse to making a purchase here and there. They certainly ask me a lot of questions about shows, and they work with people who watch anime. It's a cool thing to them. And all it took to win them over was seeing an episode of a good show on TV.

So, yeah - if it reaches enough people, I think anime on TV is a really good thing.
 
To be honest it was tv that got me in to anime and the more that's on tv the more likely people will turn in to fans.

Cause if you remember before any of us knew what anime was and saw cartoons and other stuff that wasn't violent on tv.......just another day watching watching something on your sky late at night and then you stumble across a channel that has a bunch of animated people being killed with a gun with blood coming out of them or you have these giant robots fighting another giant so no and it was awesome......And after seeing something that awesome, you just wanted to see more battles and fights and rape scenes and so on

Iv matured a bit and know I'm more in to the stories then action and such but some action is AWESOME.

So getting people in to something they haven't seen before might just get them interested but the main problem is what they might like, cause if you was to give them something too moe or too over the top silly or childish then they'd think you was mad.

But there is a wide selection that people would defiantly make people want more

Death note
Attack on titan
Wolf children
Karas
Depending really

If tv got great shows like these then I'm sure we can get more fans to join us.....

So showing some old stuff along with new stuff wouldn't be a bad idea for toonami and other great shows we have seen.
 
Whilst I already knew what anime was before the Toonami 'craze', I admit it was nice to be able to have discussions on such things at school. Although, like HdE mentioned, I'm not sure how many of those classmates actually went on to purchase the VHS/DVDs at a later date.

And whilst I do occasionally watch the late night anime slot on Sony Movie Channel, I think the best thing would to have more shows on KIX TV! As surely getting younger people into the medium would be easier that getting people our age to stumble on it randomly....especially as there's far too many TV Channels to 'casually flick through and stumble on it'.
 
I agree It was luck that I stumbled across FMA on tv and every chance I got I would flick thought the channels to see if I could find a anime.....sometimes I would most of the time I wouldn't.

I think we fans need to introduce more anime to people to get more fans in to anime
 
Heh. MVM tweeted less than two weeks ago that Onimonogatari was still on course for its February release date. Let's hope the Blu-ray isn't subjected to a further delay, as we've seen with some of their other titles (like Otorimonogatari).
 
MVM have started putting up pre orders on their site.

Familiar of Zero seasons 2 & 3 on BD & DVD
Log Horizon Part 2 on BD & DVD
Super Sonico on BD & DVD
& one I didn't expect, Devil Survivor 2: The Animation on Blu Ray

- http://www.anime-on-line.com/xcart/home.php?cat=59

Edit: They've just put up Ambition of Oda Nobuna too, wasn't aware it was licensed.

Edit 2: It's just been taken down ..did I see something I shouldn't have? .. oops..
 
Pre-ordered Baccano in the hopes of it going down in price before August. Will see what happens, but at £50 I may cancel and wait for a standard BR release.
 
King Jimmeh said:
Pre-ordered Baccano in the hopes of it going down in price before August. Will see what happens, but at £50 I may cancel and wait for a standard BR release.
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Is there going to be a standard version? I thought that as it's been out on DVD for long, we'd probably on get a collectors edition.
 
It is a lot of money, I could pick up the US set for around that much, and I've often seen the Japanese set for not much more. Of course I've still pre-ordered it. Better to get in their early since you don't have to commit and I'll wait and see if the price goes down as you get the pre-order price guarantee automatically. If I see it cheaper elsewhere (probably Base or Zavvi) I'd just cancel and go there.
 
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