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Yogshi
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Clsrification: is this just the main show for LOGH, with hopefully forthcoming OVA and movie releases, or the whole mess all at once? Or has Sentai not said anything in that regard?
Glad i can finally add Higu- Kai to my collection as well. |
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NieR
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I've heard many good things about Legend of the Galactic Heroes within the anime community over the past several years, but has the anime really aged well in time? I'll look into it after it's out, but I'm not familiar with the source material.
I'm hoping Sentai Filmworks adds Chihayafuru, Hyouka, and Shirokuma Cafe sometime. These are among three of my favorite anime series that I would like to own some day. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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How do you mean by aging? I love the series to death but I'll also be the first to admit that the visuals aren't the main attraction here, so yeah, it's 'aged' in that regard, but the story itself, the characters, the morals and themes; those are ageless. One of the openings even directly states that some stories and conflicts are eternal and universal regardless of what period or what genre they're set in (this is literally the central theme of series). That's why an OVA series that had been finished for a decade could suddenly pick up steam and find a completely new audience once some reliable fansubs were released. It's aged like Rose of Versailles has.
Weird, I wasn't so excited when the announcement was made earlier, but recalling back to what I love about the series is bringing it all back. I haven't done a rewatch aside from the two films and Golden Wings OVA, and it's been exactly 7 years since I've seen the OVA, so I'm looking forward to this release, DVD or BD, I don't even care if they're using the LD masters. But for the movies, those do need BD, if they're ever picked up. |
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NorbieH
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Looks like the company sucked out as much money as they could out of the Japanese, now it's the English speaking world
How awesome people!?!? LoGH, Utena, Gundam, Otaku no Video, and Escaflowne on blu-ray within the next 12 months! Awesome 
It's fantastic to see more cell animated anime in HD![/i] |
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farichada
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Elated, shocked, overjoyed, and salty. Salty because I was at AX and didn't think Sentai's panel was going to be epic. Not just logh but higurashi, too. I will get logh but I can't say this was a good business decision. Zac said it was ultra expensive and the likelyhood of this clearing more than 3 k copies is dismal. Plus the owners put a huge price on it despite the fact that a 25+ year show has never sold enough to justify the cost for a franchise of this size.
Please prove zac and I wrong and reward Sentai for this ballsy move. I am afraid it will fail to make money and reinforce a bad precedent. Buy this show and for once anime fans should put their money where there mouth is. |
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NorbieH
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It will be interesting to see how much of this excitement translates into dollars because as history has show us there will always be something people will be unhappy about.
Yellow subs, no purchase. Nine episodes per disc, no purchase. Eco-cases, no purchase. Evidence of bending, no purchase No dub, no purchase. $59.95 a set, no purchase. No Japanese honorifics, no purchase. ......... And so on. |
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Bonham
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Might be naive, but I'd like to think devoted fans and people who have wanted to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes for years (like me) have no problem with that kind of release. It doesn't have the kind of popularity to get a cry of "no dub no buy." No Blu-ray might be more of an issue, but I don't think it would keep most of the people from buying it... Eh, who knows. Either way, I'm gonna get it and hope it sells as well as it can. |
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NorbieH
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..... It has already started:
"However, both the JP DVDs and BDs contain digitally re-animated scenes that look rather out of place with the original cel-animated footage. Especially the 30fps pans. I kinda doubt Sentai will be releasing the original version, so I'll be sticking with my Laserdiscs." |
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leafy sea dragon
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Wow, I didn't know there were so many fans of Legend of the Galactic Heroes here. I just hear about it as something in the background but not really spoken of, though with praise whenever it is, but yikes, so many people are coming out of the woodwork for it. This is nuts.
My best guess is that the license holders for Legend of the Galactic Heroes have become more lenient. Certainly, that's been the case with Nintendo, which has resulted in more Nintendo merchandise; and with Peanuts, hence the explosion of things themed on the comic strip (and not just the movie).
Classical music would be in the public domain, though performances of classical music aren't. I'd imagine that if they got the rights to the show, the music shouldn't be too hard to get by comparison. It's not like the soundtrack is littered with Michael Jackson or The Beatles or anything. (I think.)
I'm a plebe in everything I do and am proud of it. Kill the bourgeoisie! (Well, the only people I feel are worth looking down upon are people who look down upon other people.) |
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walw6pK4Alo
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It didn't grow from sub 800 (circa Jan. 2008) to over 50,000 members on MAL for no reason, and only within 7 years, and with a 9.08 average. Very very few old anime get such resurgences. Some of my other favorites like Area 88, DYRL, and even Gunbuster don't have those numbers. Or things you'd think were always huge but the numbers don't lie, like with Bubblegum Crisis, Patlabor, Project A-ko, and Record of Lodoss War. Even if they do come close to numbers in completions, charting the growth in member additions to their lists for all of those titles would be terribly low in comparison. There's really just nothing like it, not even Rose of Versailles matches that kind of growth, and it's already been licensed and released! |
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leafy sea dragon
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Well, I just thought that much of the love for the series, having never seen any of it myself, was due to nostalgia, something like how people who grew up in the 80's had a fondness for the original Thundercats series and Generation I Transformers. (I have no idea what the western counterpart to Legend of the Galactic Heroes is, as far as fandom goes.)
I'm just surprised because I've never been so wrong in my estimation of the western popularity of an anime series before. I thought Legend of the Galactic Heroes is just something fondly remembered by a generation of people in Japan but is considered old and unappealing to the majority of modern western anime fans, like with Doraemon. I'm guessing localization companies would think the same way, though I always had a hunch that getting the license was always extra difficult. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Nope, there really can't be any nostalgia attached to LoGH (unless it's some kind of general nostalgia for all things old?) because we didn't even really have proper fansubs until about the mid 00s. So unless someone was a super anime nerd and was likely bilingual, all of the fan growth is from the last 10 years alone.
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leafy sea dragon
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When did it start surging in popularity? Based on what you say, it seems to have been after 2008, and I stopped paying much attention to anime between 2008 and 2012 besides what was running on Adult Swim Action and what was going on at Anime Expo.
Is talk just really quiet about this show because most people never expected an official western release? Certainly, no one I know has any real familiarity with the series beyond that it exists, not even anime fans that I know. |
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penguintruth
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Well... it depends on how many episodes are on each set. If it's 13-20 episodes a set, I'll dig it. |
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NorbieH
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Is the dream closer for an English friendly release for those two? |
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