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GATSU
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| Quote: | | In particular, Geneon will be working to put Lupin the Third on these services, since this series has not been profitable enough on DVD. |
But assuming enough people pay for those legal downloads, will they continue the series on dvd? Or will they at least advertise what's currently available, so that potential new fans can get what's available and thus insure a market for future dvd releases? I hope they're not just trying to cash in their chips and wait until the license expires in 2009. Although if ImaginAsian decided to get it, at their prices, I'd be one happy camper. |
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LydiaDianne
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| Quote: | | Shakugan no Shana OVA. Scheduled for December, this will be available as a stand-alone disc and with a box that would hold both that DVD and the entire first season of the Shana TV series. |
Sounds like we need another Geneon 10/$50 sale! |
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FireChick
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:18 pm |
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| Awww! No new licenses? Man! I want Pita Ten and Harukanaru Toki no Naka de licensed! |
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HitokiriShadow
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:56 pm |
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I was hoping they would confirm/announce MariMite, but it seems we'll have to wait longer.  |
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haplessweasel
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:45 pm |
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| GATSU wrote: |
But assuming enough people pay for those legal downloads, will they continue the series on dvd? |
I asked that same question after the panel. And they said yes. It seems like they do really want to get Lupin on its feet again - I hope it works out. |
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LightYagami
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:31 pm |
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| Why hasn't the panel video been posted yet? It says on the main page that there is supposed to be on the Geneon page. |
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Zalis116
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:09 pm |
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| FireChick wrote: | | Awww! No new licenses? Man! I want Pita Ten and Harukanaru Toki no Naka de licensed! |
I happened to be reading some old posts on animenation's forum one day, and John O. said that AN entered negotiations for the Pita Ten license, but the minimum price set by the licensor was at least twice the amount that AN considered to be a feasible price. Maybe it's come down, and I know Geneon is a bigger company than AN, but I don't anticipate Pita Ten getting licensed any time soon or ever. It's too much of a fluffy-pink cutesy kids' series along the same lines as A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, but it lacks Sugar's above-average production values. And I kind of doubt that the P10 manga or the Sugar anime/manga made that much of a sales splash, so the potential audience is pretty small. Not to mention that most of that audience has likely made use of the fansubs by now, and the series itself hails from 2002 and is thus not a "hot" new property to release any more.
It's kind of a shame, I would've liked to have seen AN release it, but that's the fate of series that have too high an asking price relative to their marketability over here. |
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ParadoxCafe
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:39 am |
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| Quote: | | Scheduled for December, this will be available as a stand-alone disc and with a box that would hold both that DVD and the entire first season of the Shana TV series. |
THANK GOD. I was wondering why Geneon never released a box with the first DVD, but at least I can finally get a box to put all my DVDs in. |
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Psycho 101
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:30 pm |
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| LydiaDianne wrote: | | Quote: | | Shakugan no Shana OVA. Scheduled for December, this will be available as a stand-alone disc and with a box that would hold both that DVD and the entire first season of the Shana TV series. |
Sounds like we need another Geneon 10/$50 sale! |
It's nice of them to do it as a stand alone as well in case there are others who simply don't want the box. I know, why would you not?!  However some people would want to save the extra money so I'm glad to hear we'll have a choice of getting it with/without the box for the tv series. I'll be buying it with the box of course because I'm an artbox junkie and it makes keeping track of stuff 10 times easier. Otherwise I'll find vol4 under my bed in 2 years randomly heh. |
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