Forum - View topicNEWS: Discotek Adds 1976 Gaiking, Wicked City Anime
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DuelGundam2099
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Pinch me I must be dreaming, Gaiking in its entirety? IN ENGLISH SUBS? WITH AN OFFICIAL US RELEASE!? This calls for epic music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4P63p7C674 THANK YOU BASED DISCOTEK! |
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NJ_
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Surprising they were able to get Gaiking considering that Shout Factory has the rights to the William Winckler dub (which is available on DVD). I guess this means the licenses for Starzinger & Danguard Ace are also available so it'll be interesting if they go after those in the future. Either way I'll be looking forward to buying this since I enjoyed what I saw of it on my Winckler dub DVDs (even if the dub itself was pretty weak).
As for Wicked City, heard decent things about it and with them having both English dubs, I might consider buying. Last edited by NJ_ on Sun Jul 26, 2015 1:45 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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TurnerJ
Posts: 481 Location: Highland Park, NJ |
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I personally found Wicked City to be a reprehensibly distasteful, ultra violent, disgusting, misogynistic work that I just can't stand. I was so sick to my stomach by the time I finished watching it for the first time that I just can't go back to it at all.
I will say that dub-wise, the Streamline version, surprisingly, is the superior of the two. Not something I expected to say of this movie. The UK Manga dub is really laughable and badly acted. Lots of ill-fitting voices and stacatto-delivered dialogue that borders on so bad its funny. I'm not fond of the film either way. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13554 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Since this company specialize in licensing older/classic titles, Discotek would have had more sense to release Speed Racer here than Fuimation.
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Shar Aznabull
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Hopefully this means Legend of Daiku-Maryu with cleaned up subs isn't too far behind.
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EricJ2
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Wicked City pretty much belongs to the Streamline days, back when the only anime we could get imported were the splatter and borderline-hentai OVA's that the licensors were happy to get rid of, and Macek wanted to follow his Fist of the North Star act by showing us how "different" early R-rated anime was. Nowadays, it's a little too common, and we can look back and recognize it for "The stuff we used to get back then", when neither we nor the Japan-fear press knew any better and thought this was what all real anime looked like. On the upside, I'm rooting for Discotek, as they seem to be giving all the ancient Streamlines a good home, whether they deserve one or not. |
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NJ_
Posts: 3009 Location: Wallington, NJ |
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Agreed and hopefully it's by Discotek & not New Video/Cinedigm. I remember those subs Toei put out on Crunchyroll & elsewhere and got annoyed each time there were lines that weren't subbed at all. Sad because that show was actually very fun to watch. |
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MarshalBanana
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I started watching the 00s Gaiking recently, it is a pretty good show.
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thekingsdinner
 Posts: 1069 Location: Geertruidenberg, Netherlands |
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Oh, a 70's mecha show, eh? I will consider getting that.
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Animegomaniac
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.. and I love it for almost those reasons -and pretty much that kind of reaction- because if horror/action works don't offend certain people then they're not trying hard enough to entertain me. Still, I'm not happy about the release for one simple reason: It's a film, why is it DVD only? Boo! Magic Knight Rayearth on BD? Ok, ok, if and that's if it's both season 1 and 2 because I couldn't afford the remastered season 2 so I had to get the bad one. And from the case on down, man is it ever... |
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belvadeer
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Discotek, you guys are on fire with these releases! :D
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Dessa
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The article didn't say, but yes, at the panel, they said it was all 49 episodes. |
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Wrial Huden
 Posts: 149 Location: McKinney, TX |
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Discotek continues to please! I thought I would never see the original Cutey Honey series on video, but it now sits on one of my shelves!
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VampireNaomi
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I've never watched any of these old mecha shows. Is their appeal primarily the mechas and monsters, or do they have interesting human characters as well? I don't care about mechas, but if any of these series offer any plotlines or character development about the pilots and their friends, I'd be interested. The first impression all these shows give me is that it's just fighting a different enemy in every episode with nothing else happening.
I'd love to support some of these releases, but I fear I'll end up buying something that has zero appeal to me. |
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Cptn_Taylor
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I miss the ultraviolent, sexist, mysogynistic great anime OVAs and films of the eighties and nineties. Nowadays everything is just so damn bland. Tasteless. Give me back Urutsukidoji. 
Kawajiri films are great. People just don't understand them. |
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