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NEWS: Australian Firm Still Plans Gosick, Nichijō Releases Without Bandai Ent.

Kimiko_0 wrote:

Australian imports ho! I've imported some anime from Madman before, so I know the way. Wait, what's this? Siren Visual? I'd never heard of them before; I thought Madman was the only Australian anime company. And they have Dennou Coil you say?! Dagnabbit, ANN, stop dividing news into NAmerican/UK/Australian categories. I want all the world's anime news in one feed. How can you not tell me something as important as Dennou Coil being released in English? Anyway, off I go to buy me some new anime

Siren used to be a little... "Shady" back in the day. Allegedly they would sell bootlegs, and their quality was kinda crap. On their release of X, for the first few volumes, they used white subtitles, which blended in with basically everything that wasn't black. Then they went silent...

I think they had a change of ownership, and they suddenly came back with a vengeance, licensing all kinds of titles before Madman could get to them. What was interesting was that they did a lot of sub-only releases, fine with me (and most of Madman's customers too, based on the fact they show anime subtitled at conventions) since I rarely watch the dub. They've recently started quickly licensing and doing sub-only releases of new titles and releasing a dub version later, an interesting way to combat fansubbing.

SquadmemberRitsu wrote:

You know those cool animations in the menu? Not in most Madman releases. Those cool extras? Mostly nonexistent. The Prices? About twice as high.

Actually the animated menus and "cool extras" are mostly gone from the majority of North American releases. Most are pretty basic now outside of the occasional art box. Our prices have been slowly creeping back up too, though they are still cheaper.

Our titles will not be affected by this announcement from Bandai. Pretty much all of their releases that we also have were licensed via Japan directly with only a few exceptions. They also stated that they will continue to manage rights going forward so there will be no problems with existing contracts.

As for titles in the future like GOSICK and NICHIJOU, we will wait and see if another company will be releasing them. If we get word back that there most likely won't be a dub, we will go ahead and release subtitled DVDs as soon as possible.

Gundam Unicorn remains unaffected as we licensed this from Sunrise direct.

TL;DR - nothing to see here folks everything is normal. Move along.

If Funimation doesn't license-rescue it (which I really hope they do) I may have to import Gosick from Australia. I reeeally want it.