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

[Emulsion]

YESSS!! Funimation has High School DxD New for home release, though we'll have to wait til early 2015.

In case you're wondering, HDxD is one of my favourite guilty pleasure shows. I know one of you hates the main character. :twisted:

Cool. I hope it's A/B like the first season.

 

[Joshawott]

Kill la Kill's dub will premiere at Anime Expo in July

Fast turnaround.

 

[NormanicGrav]

Let's see now. Just comparing KLK with SAO as examples:

SAO finished: December 23 2012, KLK finished: March 28 2014
SAO English dub at Con: March 30 2013 (announced on February 22), KLK English dub at Con: July 4 2014 (announced May 12)
SAO Release dates for Box Sets revealed: May 22 2013, KLK: TBA
SAO Box Set 1: August 13 2013, KLK: TBA
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SAO JP Vol.1: October 24 2012, KLK JP Vol.1: January 08 2014
SAO Final Vol: June 26 2013, KLK Final Vol: September 03 2014

Since All the Anime are allowed to do 3 Parts (atm), looks like KlK should have a 3 part release (8 episodes each, with last set including OVA) from AoA. I'll say (just speculating) the first Box Set may arrive late October in the US and December for UK.

 

[Cel]

Quite a lot of stuff from Manga I want, Naruto, Psycho Pass, Robotics Notes, Attack on Titan etc...

Does the AoL store take money on order or upon dispatch? Might just wait till they pop up on amazon, as they usually first get posted about £5 cheaper for a couple weeks then go up in price.

 

[Peachy]

Quite a lot of stuff from Manga I want, Naruto, Psycho Pass, Robotics Notes, Attack on Titan etc...

Does the AoL store take money on order or upon dispatch? Might just wait till they pop up on amazon, as they usually first get posted about £5 cheaper for a couple weeks then go up in price.

Takes money upon order.

 

[Cel]

Quite a lot of stuff from Manga I want, Naruto, Psycho Pass, Robotics Notes, Attack on Titan etc...

Does the AoL store take money on order or upon dispatch? Might just wait till they pop up on amazon, as they usually first get posted about £5 cheaper for a couple weeks then go up in price.

Takes money upon order.

Will wait to get it on Amazon then. One of the great things about them is taking payment upon dispatch, and the pre-order price guarantee.

 

[KingJimmeh]

So Gargantia is listed for September? I don't honestly see Manga getting it out then.
Viz haven't even announced it yet, and there always seems to be massive gaps between Viz and everyone else releasing the same title. At least it gives me an idea as to when I should be able to import their release.

If Gargantia is that price on Amazon for the Blu-ray, I'll definitely be pre-ordering. One of my faves of that season.

 

[Cold Cobra]

Well, as a Bleach fan I see how they've gotten around the Japanese Season 14 being so long, they split it into UK Series 13 and 14 (previously Japanese Season 11, which is only 7 episodes long, was absorbed into UK Series 10, keeping up? )

It makes sense, otherwise a complete series set would've been 12 discs in size.

 

[Lutga]

Excited to hear what the Gargantia dub is like. One of my favourite shows from last year.

Will also definitely be picking up Psycho Pass, Robotics;Notes and Jormungand.

 

[LelouchNarukami]

Excited to hear what the Gargantia dub is like. One of my favourite shows from last year.

Will also definitely be picking up Psycho Pass, Robotics;Notes and Jormungand.

Yes! I will definetely be picking this up to support Gargantia, hopefully we'll get a second season, even after those OVAs in Fall.

 

[GolGotha]

Will definitely be picking up: Gargantia, Psycho Pass and Attack on Titan.

Maybes: Jormungand, Robotics;Notes, Karneval....Hentai Kamen.

 

[Professor Irony]

First trailer for Appleseed Alpha, newest in the series of 3D CGI adaptations of Shirow's work.

 

[Lutga]

I've never been that big of a fan of Appleseed, but this one looks much, much better than the last CG effort.

 

[st_owly (witch)]

I'll pick up Gargantia, Psycho Pass and Attack on Titan.

 

[Professor Irony]

I've never been that big of a fan of Appleseed, but this one looks much, much better than the last CG effort.

Much as I do have a soft spot for the old oav, the 3D movies never really appealed to me either. This one does look significantly nicer though.

 

[SnowWolf]

Australian Release list for May 2014
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/news ... t-may-2014

Items I found interesting:
1. Interesting that they're doing a Bleach Bankai (1-133) set on Blu ray and DVD. Can't find the Blu ray on their website though.
2. They're getting Toradora dubbed in a complete collection so maybe we are too.
3. Finally, an Inuyasha: Final Act complete collection on DVD.
4. Digimon season 1 and 2 complete set on DVD.

 

[Mangaranga]

For anyone who strictly likes sticking to Region B discs, Berserk Movie 3 is being released by Madman in July.
Unlike the first two movies where they cloned Kaze's discs, this release looks to be a clone of Viz's release with all the extras intact from this film, as well as the extras from the first two films being included.
From Madman's site:

Production Art Gallery
Japanese Trailer
Japanese TV Spots
Japanese Teaser
Ending Theme “Breakthrough”
(Blu-Ray Exclusive, includes extras from movie 1 and 2!)
Interview with Eiko Tanaka
Outtakes
The Battle for Doldrey US Premiere Highlight Reel
The Battle for Doldrey US Premiere Highlight Reel
Interview with Aki Toyosaki and Minako Kotobuki,
Movie 1 and 2 Production Galleries
Susumu Hirasawa "Aria" Live Concert
MOVIE 2 PREVIEW
Clean International Trailer
French Russian & US TRAILER
SPECIAL DIGEST FOR MOVIE 2

 

[NormanicGrav]

Probably nothing shocking but I noticed a review of Dragon Ball (UK Season 1) and the same person who keeps referring to the Madman version ripped a load on one particular review and apparently the screenshots that were given by Manga's PR are not related to the UK DVDs and since it's using the Madman version have referred the English audio as 2.0 when it's Mono (1.0). In other words, double false advertising by the looks of things.

Not that I'm complaining, just wanted to know other people's thoughts on this.

 

[Joshawott]

Attack On Titan's US debut pulled in almost 1.5 million viewers

Now, if only MangaUK could get the show on Netflix here to try and hit an audience who might not go on Crunchyroll.

 

[ConanThe3rd]

Attack On Titan's US debut pulled in almost 1.5 million viewers

Now, if only MangaUK could get the show on Netflix here to try and hit an audience who might not go on Crunchyroll.

Not that going onto Crunchyroll would work cuz it's been taken down to accomodate the Toonami Airing.

Manga will do naout about this. They'll talk the big game (DOWN WITH TV (which doesn't want us anyway) INTERNET IS THE FUTURE) but in so many regards they are always writing checks their bodies can't (or worse, won't) cash.

Then everyone will pirate / import AoT, AoT will not do the numbers Manga want and Jerome will be here in about Six or so months starting the whole process off again once again writting the checks he can't/won't cash.