Forum - View topicBandai's Home Video Release of Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Won't Include English Subs
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
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There was no licensee involved in the US release. Voyager Entertainment was solely responsible for that release. |
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Blanchimont
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Uh, Voyager IS the licensee. They're not part of Bandai (as far as I know)... |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
Posts: 432 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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Voyager is the rights holder to Yamato. They didn't license the 2199 series to an American company, they released it themselves. |
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Zalis116
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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They'd have no way of knowing I don't think. Stores don't report to them how many sales were to overseas customers, as far as I know. What I think is more likely is that the overall bluray sales were below expectations anyway (including domestically), and they made most of their money off the movie screenings anyway, so why waste money on the bluray release? |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
Posts: 432 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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Blu-Ray and DVD sales were pretty strong - every volume was in the top three in sales for the Blu-Ray, and the top five in DVD, and for the mpst part stayed in the top ten for at least 2-3 weeks. Production IG, which did most of the production management for 2199, said 500,000+ units of plamo and home video discs sold realising a profit of 10 billion yen following the TV broadcast in 2013, while strong sales of the discs during the cinematic releases helped recover their production costs. Make no mistake, home video sales for 2199 were strong in Japan. The most likely reason for the lack of subtitles is, as postulated earlier in the thread, is to prevent undermining foreign releases' sales. |
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Cptn_Taylor
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It's possible. Italy got a localised Yamato 2199 subbed and dubbed in dvd and blu-ray versions. It's also getting a localised version of 2202. Maybe the American licensor simply doesn't want US customers to buy a foreign release when a domestic one is available and since both the US and Japan share the same blu-ray region code that explains the absence of english subs on the Japanese release for 2202. In fact it was never revealed why the American licensor didn't complete the release of Yamato 2199. Maybe the sales were too low because the people were importing directly from Japan and dismissing the local edition ? |
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durask
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Maybe the sales were too low because, um, you have to promote the show and people should probably know that it, um, exists. There are tons of non-anime fans in the US who grew up watching Star Blazers and would love to watch a remake. Ridiculous - this is an anime with nostalgic mass market appeal - if anything would sell it is the Star Blazers remake. Why oh why can't Netflix or Amazon or, well, anyone get the rights to it as opposed to two clowns in their mother's garage. |
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Reuben Painter
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4 months down the road and still no news :,(
The second part id due to come out in a few weeks as well, maybe theyre waiting untill it's all been released:? EDIT: Also WTF do my posts I make keep disapearing??? I've made the same post here TWICE and yet a few minutes latter it disapears -_- Anyway, subbed versions of Yamato episdoes 1 and two are here: http://kissanime.ru/Anime/Uchuu-Senkan-Yamato-2202-Ai-no-Senshi-tachi/Episode-002?id=136020&s=default |
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