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Wyvern
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I don't think there's much hope of offering their services for free. But it'd be nice if a deal could be worked out so at the very least, the series that were left unfinished (Black Lagoon, Rozen Maiden) could be completed. So since Voltron is over now, does that mean we finally get the rest of Gaogaigar soon? |
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ConanSan
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Don't they still have Car Volton or so some such CRAP to deal with?
And as for this expansion? Wow, they can afford to do such a manouver, you know, inspite of them being the seceond most tight-arsed company with anime? (the first being Bandai visual) Guess Genshiken is goin' sans dub to fund this nonsence. |
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Vicserr
 Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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Vehicle Voltron or Voltron I if you mean the Voltron adaptation of Armored Fleet Dairugger XV and that crap as you call it is MB's best selling title ever. and yes I like Voltron. 
And those actions by MB is what's keeping them running well in this gloom and doom R1 market. |
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Turkishproverb
Posts: 43 Location: Pergatorio. |
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Wow. THis is good. Maybe they'll be smart and at least pick up a few of Geneon's old titles that coupld be profitable somehow cheap.
Yea. We can only hope. Niko? That you? |
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Nobuyuki
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They're expensive, and lead to series not always being profitable (this is bad ).
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bleuster
 Posts: 455 Location: Orange County |
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I love a few of their releases. The most recent one being Ramen.
Hopefully, they'll get more excellent series like that. |
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F8TE
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At last, some good news from the front. It just about makes my day.
Ramen Fighter Miki was a great title, given the right cast I think it would have made a great dub. I'd like to see the second season of Genshiken dubbed but i'm just happy knowing Media Blasters is doing well. |
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Celes
 Posts: 223 Location: Madison, WI |
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True, true, very true, but alas, I only buy anime so that I can watch it in English, otherwise if I really want to see something I could always just import it (but that hasn't happened yet in my 10 years of anime fandom). I'm sure that is motivation for quite a few anime purchasers out there! |
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Keonyn
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Sorry, but your numbers are a bit off. The cost of a dub is minimal, and the money that dubs bring in due to it increasing sales by providing the option generally makes up for the cost since it promises higher sales with all but niche titles. The costs you're paying for are nearly all the cost of licensing the series from the studio overseas. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
Forums Superstar  Posts: 16935 |
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Especially one that has never been a very big company per se. I mean that as in compared to the amount of titles licensed and released from other companies. But yes it is nice to see some growth instead of decay. |
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ConanSan
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Vicserr
Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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I do love my GaoGaiGar box 1(filled with dvds), and I'm hoping MB releases The King of Braves out of Hiatus, because The Best is Yet to Come!!!! and if you're going to drop it because lack of a dub... Tough Cookies I'm in it till the End! |
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CCSYueh
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I don't think Wyvern meant for free. Geneon was trying to put a deal together with ADV which fell thru. I"ve been thinking MediaBlasters is our only hope for stuff like Shonen Onmyoji or Saiunkoku since they have shown a certain loyalty to the chick (yaoi) audience. Or maybe it's the smut audience (hentai). Funi expressed interest in Hellsing & Black Lagoon, but we haven't seen any results announced. unless Geneon is killing the deal by insisting on the whole catalogue as they seemed to be with ADV. Yeah, dubs are easier, but there are a lot of titles I'd take sub only (Angelique, Meine Liebe) just to see them brought over. And when they go with the wrong studio, we get unlistenable crap, anyway. Keonyn, I seem to recall ADV putting out numbers of something like $40,000 per 30 minutes of title to dub. The $10 seems pretty standard a price dif on a sub-only vs a dub. On stuff like yaoi, most of the fans are interested in the Japanese VA's anyway. I would even gamble it'd be hard to beat the original cast of Haruka (someday. probably after I start watching the dvds, I'll actually remember the whole title). I can imagine the wrong dub group going overboard on Super Robot Wars. (Ooo. Bad Image. ADV could go so over the top on it. Like those horrid next ep previews on Tactics. I wanted to shoot the va-Luci Christian? I forget. I have loved her in other stuff. Blame the director for having her do it in such a bad game show prize manner) But the cost of the dub probably wouldn't increase sales on many MB sub-only releases, would it? The guys who want yuri may whine, but if they want it bad enough, the'll buy it. I see gals wish for dubs, but buy what little yaoi anime there is to be had. I've seen lots of others say they'd take sub-only on a lot of titles. My Eat-Man Bandai release only has a couple eps dubbed with the series finished sub. I bet a lot would settle for that (Kodocha fans?) |
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ConanSan
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Let's be frank, first they put the thing on Haitus, make it crystal clear it's because of Voltron and then expect me, who by this point is rather miffed about the whole deal, to cough up for fansubs on a dvd? Yes, that will be the day, ether they do it right or they don't do it at all. |
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