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Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
ElixeIdej said:
And Play have put this up for 12th November
The Castle of Cagliostro BD double play.
Which is still a StudioCanal license, despite the temp Manga artwork.
In Manga News...
Shiki Part 1 scheduled for 8th October
Guess it hasn't been Kenichi'd into non-existence.
BanzaiJedi
Pokémon Master
Just Passing Through said:
I'm going to have no money left for xmas at this rate. Not that I'm complaining :wink:
I was wondering when this would get released here. The french have had it for a while now.
MrLaserSharkKH
Stand User
Crunchyroll PS3 App Launches Today
Well Actually Now...I know this is probably non-news due to being released NA only...but if you have a NA PSN account you can download it from the NA Store and you can login via your EU accounts, it does work, I'm currently watching Space Brothers at the moment.
Well Actually Now...I know this is probably non-news due to being released NA only...but if you have a NA PSN account you can download it from the NA Store and you can login via your EU accounts, it does work, I'm currently watching Space Brothers at the moment.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Strike Witches 2 release date update!
Not ours of course, which is still pencilled in for September 24th at the time of writing. That isn't going to happen by any stretch BTW.
Because Funimation has just issued a release date for the DVD-BD combo...
So there's no way that we'll get it before October. And incidentally Madman only announced their acquisition of the title last month and haven't even set a release date.
The only way I can see Manga getting it out this year is if they author the discs themselves, and I'm sure I'm not alone in begging them to wait for the Madman masters, after having seen what has happened with Panty and Stocking. 2013 for Strike Witches 2 is fine by me.
Not ours of course, which is still pencilled in for September 24th at the time of writing. That isn't going to happen by any stretch BTW.
Because Funimation has just issued a release date for the DVD-BD combo...
So there's no way that we'll get it before October. And incidentally Madman only announced their acquisition of the title last month and haven't even set a release date.
The only way I can see Manga getting it out this year is if they author the discs themselves, and I'm sure I'm not alone in begging them to wait for the Madman masters, after having seen what has happened with Panty and Stocking. 2013 for Strike Witches 2 is fine by me.
mangaman74
Akatsuki
I'll be getting the Funimation release to go with my copy of season 1.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Interesting Tweet from Manga about releasing anime with locked subs...
I think that was a goof about DVD and they actually meant Blu-ray. At least I hope they meant Blu-ray. As mentioned on various Persona 4 threads, the Japanese companies don't care about reverse importing DVDs.
I think that was a goof about DVD and they actually meant Blu-ray. At least I hope they meant Blu-ray. As mentioned on various Persona 4 threads, the Japanese companies don't care about reverse importing DVDs.
Shiroi Hane
Dragon Knight
We're in the same DVD region and a different BD region, but locked subs are more common on BDs to my knowledge. It might be inheritance from the US version mind.
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Shiroi Hane said:
Most of the BDs being released in the UK right now come via Kaze, and they lock everything as a matter of course, regardless of whether a contract stipulates it or not. They'll lock their mothers away if they could
Shiroi Hane
Dragon Knight
Manga has explicitly stated that UPOPs are a licensor stipulation (it is generally just assumed as far as I can tell).
Just Passing Through
The Wildcard
Shiroi Hane said:
Which licensor would demand that a DVD player's timer be disabled during playback? Which licensor would demand that stopping a Blu-ray disc during play would mean reloading the disc from the start, instead of just resuming playback? Kaze DVDs just demand to be watched on VLC on my laptop.
If they wanted to reduce my whinging (slightly), they should add a third audio option on the discs.
English with subtitles. Right now you get English with signs, or you get Japanese with subs. They'll never remove the UPOPs, but if they introduce that third option, locked though it may be, at least hard of hearing fans will have a use for Kaze releases.
ConanThe3rd
Railgun
Sub Lock never made any sense to me. That's just begging for some sort of discrimination case to blow up in their faces. Course then again if it is a Japanese thing (which let's face it, if they could they'd stipulate the amputation of arms and legs to just watch the intro of Madoka) then it doesn't need to.
Oh and look, it's even poping up when I log into my native account, awesome.
Liner TV is looking hella silly right about now.
MrLaserSharkKH said:Crunchyroll PS3 App Launches Today
Well Actually Now...I know this is probably non-news due to being released NA only...but if you have a NA PSN account you can download it from the NA Store and you can login via your EU accounts, it does work, I'm currently watching Space Brothers at the moment.
Oh and look, it's even poping up when I log into my native account, awesome.
Liner TV is looking hella silly right about now.
Rosencrantz
Dragon Knight
ConanThe3rd said:
Locking subs on for the Japanese audio is fine but what is really annoying is not having the freedom to turn subs on/off for the English track.
I reckon their might be a case to be made if someone buys something and expects to be able to have subs along with their english track(like the back of the box suggests). It'd be hard to justify for the deaf but those with partial hearing could argue they wanted the english track but also with subs to back it up.