Hellwarden
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Media Blasters is still a thing?
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Winter Anime 2016 |OT| Celebrating the New Year and PSO2's release in the west!
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ShinRPGamer
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Active website says yes
While we're on Media Blasters, have there been any more licenses from them that they lost as of late (after 2013)?
I don't think we've gotten confirmation on anything else they've lost since then, unless I'm remembering wrong.
Dedication Through Light
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I wish sentai released Phi Brain season 3! I miss it, and also they better release Tribe Cool Crew on BD! Id do anything to see it in quality above SD resolution
Anyway picked up more naruto shippuden which now exceeds my naruto shippuden shelf
, Im still just three or four volumes behind then Ill be current. 
It's amazing that they actually had the balls to release Gintama here. Also dubbing the Benizakura movie
ShinRPGamer
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Also Narag, I got around to making my anime New Years resolution list. You can add it on when you are able.
In no particular order...
Finish watching Soul Eater
Finish watching Kekkai Sensen
Finish watching El-Hazard: The Wanderers
Knights of Sidonia S2
Summer Wars
Spice and Wolf S2
Baccano
My Neighbour Totoro
Howl's Moving Castle
Grave of the Fireflies
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Shuten Douji.
Watching all of the Dragon Ball Flims and specials (The Z ones at least)
In no particular order...
Finish watching Soul Eater
Finish watching Kekkai Sensen
Finish watching El-Hazard: The Wanderers
Knights of Sidonia S2
Summer Wars
Spice and Wolf S2
Baccano
My Neighbour Totoro
Howl's Moving Castle
Grave of the Fireflies
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Shuten Douji.
Watching all of the Dragon Ball Flims and specials (The Z ones at least)
Not the balls to finish releasing it here though, since they only put out 49 episodes on DVD+ the Benizakura movie on Blu-Ray.
Yes they are! They've been releasing some of their titles on Blu-Ray recently through Kickstarter. They did Bubblegum Crisis as their first BD, and will be releasing Otaku no Video on BD soon. In addition, they have plans for Kickstarting BDs of Riding Bean and AD Police Files.
I was very happy with their release of Bubblegum Crisis, so I'm very excited to get a copy of their Otaku no Video BD!
ShinRPGamer
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AnimeEgo is indeed still a thing but they've long since stopped licensing anime. I think they do live-action films nowadays.
John Blade
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AnimEIgo is still alive. They do crowfounding right now for Otaku no Video Otaking Edition for Blu-ray. They release Bubblegum Crisis in Blu-ray and from what I heard, it's worth the money.
What else is there to talk about right now?
AquaWateria
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Any guesses on which Anime this Winter Season you think will have the best first episode?
Ah neat.
I wonder if they still have the UY license. I'd love to get that set on DVD now. Back in they day they charged $40 for a VHS with only 2 episodes, or $80 for a laserdisc with 4 episodes.
They no longer have the license to UY unfortunately, and the founder isn't sure if they'd be able to do the TV series right now. However, during a Q&A at a con, when asked he did say that the UY movies could be possible.
Dedication Through Light
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Divine Gate
Dimension W I guess.
ShinRPGamer
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How Media Blasters has turned to shit? Louzy Sentai releases? Mourning the loss of Geneon, ADV and Bandai? Quite a few options to be had.
veloxStrix
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Dagashi Kashi. Easy.
Dedication Through Light
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Nothing in the pv was exciting enough to make DW seem like its 1st episode will be that good
names2hard4you
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Either Erased or Dimension W.
But Sentai are ADV. Always have been.
Except, I suppose, where ADV would shovel out vast numbers of licenses with relatively decent production values, now they do things relatively bare-bones instead.
ShinRPGamer
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Yeah. that's what I mean when I include ADV. Stuff at a decent budget.
John Blade
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Sigh...kinda sad that certain show won't be re release now because of the lost license. Suck right now. I guess I am a bit lucky as I try to get them on the use market when it's cheap.
There's almost always a chance for a lost license to be picked up by another company. See Higurashi for example; the individual DVD volumes released by Geneon did terrible. The complete DVD collection distributed by Funimation did terrible. Yet here Sentai is, releasing a complete BD collection for whatever reason.
It's a weird industry.
John Blade
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Yea...it's weird. I kinda wish You're Under Arrest and Maison Ikkoku get pick up and release in Blu-ray. But that is still a dream and difficult. For me, I only got myself a custom Blu-ray Maison Ikkoku release which is in Blu-ray but modify quite well with the eng sub plus the original Viz dub in it. I guess that is the only way I will get it for now.
Crash Station
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It's all trash. Wonder which trash I'll end up watching on the flight to Cancun.
hosannainexcelsis
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Hanayamata 11-12
Well, that was pointless. I'm not a fan of BIG DRAMA - "Oops, never mind" endings. Yet another example of something that wouldn't have needed to happen if people had actually talked to each other.
The final yosakoi performance was kind of lame too. I was hoping for at least one really good depiction of yosakoi in the series, but the camera spent the majority of the performance focused on the audience and random other stuff while the parts of the performance they did show were largely recycled from the OP. When I've seen performances like those in Shounen Hollywood's final episode, or Sound Euphonium's final episode, or even the Stride race in Prince of Stride Alternative's first episode, which all concentrate on depicting the actual performance in a visually attractive and engaging manner, this just comes off as cheap. Can't expect me to connect with the characters' love of yosakoi if you don't really show what makes yosakoi attractive.
Ah well. The traditional Japanese costumes were great.
Well, that was pointless. I'm not a fan of BIG DRAMA - "Oops, never mind" endings. Yet another example of something that wouldn't have needed to happen if people had actually talked to each other.
The final yosakoi performance was kind of lame too. I was hoping for at least one really good depiction of yosakoi in the series, but the camera spent the majority of the performance focused on the audience and random other stuff while the parts of the performance they did show were largely recycled from the OP. When I've seen performances like those in Shounen Hollywood's final episode, or Sound Euphonium's final episode, or even the Stride race in Prince of Stride Alternative's first episode, which all concentrate on depicting the actual performance in a visually attractive and engaging manner, this just comes off as cheap. Can't expect me to connect with the characters' love of yosakoi if you don't really show what makes yosakoi attractive.
Ah well. The traditional Japanese costumes were great.
veloxStrix
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Seems like Active Raid is right up your alley. Or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.
My copy came in December. Haven't watched it yet though
hosannainexcelsis
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Prince of Stride Alternative came out strong off the gate, but Erased has a shot at beating it. Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu too, although that's more of a slow burn type of series.
ShinRPGamer
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I think the BD's, the far more healthy climate in NA and the growing popularity of Higurashi through the manga and VN allowed for the anime series to get a second lease on life here in NA.
On the subject of, Higurashi might be the best example of how badly Geneon was doing by 2007. DVD menu screen's were just the cover of that particular volume with a shitty filter, the selection arrows weren't lined up with the menu choices sometimes. The english credits were a separate menu section rather then in the actual credits or at the end of a DVD. The english dub was crap, coming nowhere close to the original Japanese that in the case of Mela Lee and Grant George, is their worst performance. And this might just only be on my end but the DVD's fall out of the slots if moved too swiftly (IE moderate speed).
I'm still glad that I got it for the price I did but still, rarity does not excuse shoddy work like that.
That might explain in part why Sentai's picked up Higuarshi. They might have gotten a good price on it, too.
It's a pity we had to lose Geneon, since they had a pretty great catalog of titles. I wish they were still around if only so that Paradise Kiss would still be in print.
ShinRPGamer
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Honestly the bigger lose IMO is Bandai. They had the best catalogue out of everyone and then the Japanese side pulled the plug on them. And we are still waiting for Funimation and Sentai to get the materials to re-release everything.
John Blade
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Yea...it's kinda suck when Geneon went under. They got quite a few good anime license and they release are really good if you manage to get them. Hell, any of my Geneon title I own, they quality is pretty good.
Yeah, definitely a pity what happened to Bandai Entertainment as well. They at least managed to put out some good BDs before they went under. I'm still kicking myself for not picking up their GitS2 BD, but by the time I even knew about it it was out of stock everywhere. At least the Japanese BD has subs for that one! Wish I got their Girl Who Leapt Through Time BD too, but I'm sure that someone will pick that one up again (likely Funimation).
Yep, I miss them too. Their packaging was usually solid quality and the dubbing was normally pretty good as opposed to ADV.
But really, the biggest loss was Bandai. So many licenses lost and they got the best quality.
Bandai messed up their K-ON release though. lossy audio
Yeah, that was disappointing. Video quality was good, though. I bet if they were around long enough to do a complete BD collection, they would have fixed the lossy audio issue.
Both Geneon and Bandai would often outsource their dubs to the same companies. That usually meant Animaze or Bang Zoom and a good dub, but sometimes they'd outsource to Odex and we'd get something unfortunate.
Sentai fixed K-On's audio in their release, thankfully.Bandai messed up their K-ON release though. lossy audio
John Blade
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Now that we discuss of lost anime company, I am wondering of list of anime which will never re release to the market because of the lost of license. Right now, the few I know are
Gunsmith Cat's
You're Under Arrest OVA and season 1
Maison Ikkoku
I guess, they're quite a few which i never heard yet. I guess download or streaming is the best choice now but still, suck.
Gunsmith Cat's
You're Under Arrest OVA and season 1
Maison Ikkoku
I guess, they're quite a few which i never heard yet. I guess download or streaming is the best choice now but still, suck.
ShinRPGamer
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They only outsourced to Odex when the company was starting to be in serious trouble financially around 2006.
And Bang Zoom getting a show to dub doesn't automatically mean the show will be good. Higurashi's dub was done by Bang Zoom and that wasn't good in the slightest. Heck, Higurashi isn't even the worst dub Bang Zoom has done.
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