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NEWS: ADV Adds Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then, Here and There

The_Libertarian_Otaku wrote:

While we're talking about license resuces, why stop with CPM? There's plenty of Geneon, Synch-Point, Tokyopop, and Super Techno Arts titles that are also wallowing in limbo. (Does anyone know if Viz still has Flame of Recca, Boys Over Flowers, and Ceres: Celestial Legend, or have their rights to those shows expired as well?)

Agreed! Geneon (Trigun, Haibane Renmei, Lain, Niea_7, Texholnyze, Paranoia Agent) and Synch-Point (FLCL) have stuff that shouldn't disappear/ go for too much on Ebay. Funi/Bandai/ADV/Media Blasters should get on those above-mentioned titles.


I'm not quite sure about Tokyopop's anime choices - didn't Funi get GTO and Initial D already?

And until you mentioned it, I had never even heard of Super Techno Arts - I can't judge the quality of what they released, either.

As for CPM's licenses, I hope animego gets the second Urusei Yatsura movie, and that somebody will pick up A-Ko.

I'm glad for World of Narue (Anime Selects ran that on On Demand about six months ago and I felt it was one of the better "free girlfriend" series.)

Now this is an interesting turn of events. How many people expected ADV - instead of Funimation - to be the one to step up and do this? At least two of them are solid and well-proven titles which highly deserve to be kept in circulation, too.

Probably shouldn't be a big surprise, though, considering that this is what Funimation has been doing for the past year and a half: rescuing titles whose production work (and, notably, dubbing) has already been done, so the actual release costs are minimal. Still, it's great to see signs of life from ADV.

Here we have the original CPM dvd screencap to the left, and the newly remastered Japanese dvd to the right.

There were so many things wrong with the original CPM Utena dvds. Poor master source aside, the hard-subs with the music lyrics take the cake.

Here we have the original CPM dvd screencap to the left, and the newly remastered Japanese dvd to the right.

I'd pay a lot of money for even a barebones release of that remastered edition.

Excellent, excellent news on CPM license rescues, especially NTHT. Glad to see Narue and GotF (though I'm not as high on the film as many others have), though M.D. Geist is both unexpected...and expected (sort of up ADV's alley, perhaps part of a package deal?).

Now, if someone would just rescue the Lodoss War series, Venus Wars, VOTOMS, Geobreeders, Legend of Himiko, and Cat Soup, as well as keeping ones like A Wind Named Amnesia, Time Stranger, and Alien Nine in print. Heck, someone just rescue their whole catalog (unlikely but would be nice; some of the "less good" titles could be left out, though).

As for Utena, that's just a license waiting for a rerelease date. It's a matter of "when" than "if".

littlegreenwolf wrote:

Here we have the original CPM dvd screencap to the left, and the newly remastered Japanese dvd to the right.

I'd pay a lot of money for even a barebones release of that remastered edition.

I don't think anyone's going to release it here - at least, I remain cautiously skeptical that that would ever happen - but if it did, that'd be goddamn christmas.

Perhaps companies think Utena is too long? Have we seen any recent license rescues of series longer than one season? I think it is certainly worth the risk, Utena is a good series that would have decent appeal in new shiny thinpacks I would think.