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NEWS: UK's MVM Ent. Adds 3 The Familiar of Zero Anime Seasons


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VORTIA
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:05 pm Reply with quote
I'm very happy for our friends across the pond! Now I just hope Sentai hurries up and picks up the rest of the series for local release here in the States!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:32 pm Reply with quote
I'll pass on Princess no Rondo, but I'll pick up the other two eventually.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 5:50 pm Reply with quote
Seeing how this is MVM, it's likely to be DVD only, with the standard barebones treatment Crying or Very sad . If it's on BD and barebones there's a small chance I might get it, but only if there's a chance of MVM getting the 4th & final season.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 7:42 pm Reply with quote
MVM picked up more then Familiar of Zero for UK, Japanator put up the whole info what MVM and Manga UK got for the UK release.

I'll quote according to Japanator:

Japanator wrote:
First up is MVM, who smashed expectations via their Twitter account with a whopping ten new titles:

Btooom!
Campione!
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
The Familiar of Zero
From the New World
Girls und Panzer
Hakuōki (Season 1 to 3, plus the OVAs)
Ikki Tousen (Seasons 3 and 4)
Infinite Stratos
Senkō no Night Raid


That's right, the Anglerfish team heads to the UK via Girls und Panzer, and we've even got the harem/mech show Infinite Stratos, which is currently in its second season.

Manga UK, who regularly reveal their new acquisitions at MCM, didn't disappoint either. While they didn't license nearly as many shows as MVM, they've certainly snapped up some of the big names.

Dragon Ball GT
Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo
Naruto Shippūden: The Lost Tower
Psycho-Pass
Hentai Kamen


Evangelion 3.33 isn't at all surprising considering the previous two releases, but Dragon Ball GT? Man, that is surprising. Ah, what am I saying, I'm sure there are plenty of Dragon Ball fans that'll pick that up regardless of their opinions on that show. Note that Hentai Kamen isn't actually an anime, but it is about a guy who wears underwear on his face, so it gets included.
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VORTIA
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:35 pm Reply with quote
..........Iiiinteresting!

The thing I draw most from your post mdo7 is that with the exception of Ikki Tousen, everything on MVM's license sheet is a Sentai Filmworks title. You've given me hope that this is a joint licensing agreement and eventually I'll be able to purchase a release of Zero no Tsukaima here in the states! Thank you, I'll be off in my happy little delusion now!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:43 pm Reply with quote
VORTIA wrote:
..........Iiiinteresting!

The thing I draw most from your post mdo7 is that with the exception of Ikki Tousen, everything on MVM's license sheet is a Sentai Filmworks title. You've given me hope that this is a joint licensing agreement and eventually I'll be able to purchase a release of Zero no Tsukaima here in the states! Thank you, I'll be off in my happy little delusion now!


Thanks, glad I could help. Now if somebody can add my info to the current article or post another article and credit me for it. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:07 pm Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
VORTIA wrote:
..........Iiiinteresting!

The thing I draw most from your post mdo7 is that with the exception of Ikki Tousen, everything on MVM's license sheet is a Sentai Filmworks title. You've given me hope that this is a joint licensing agreement and eventually I'll be able to purchase a release of Zero no Tsukaima here in the states! Thank you, I'll be off in my happy little delusion now!


Thanks, glad I could help. Now if somebody can add my info to the current article or post another article and credit me for it. Very Happy


We only report news on the U.S. site for foreign country pick ups if they are in English and haven't been released in North America. All the other licenses have gotten state-side releases.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:42 pm Reply with quote
octopodpie wrote:
mdo7 wrote:
VORTIA wrote:
..........Iiiinteresting!

The thing I draw most from your post mdo7 is that with the exception of Ikki Tousen, everything on MVM's license sheet is a Sentai Filmworks title. You've given me hope that this is a joint licensing agreement and eventually I'll be able to purchase a release of Zero no Tsukaima here in the states! Thank you, I'll be off in my happy little delusion now!


Thanks, glad I could help. Now if somebody can add my info to the current article or post another article and credit me for it. Very Happy


We only report news on the U.S. site for foreign country pick ups if they are in English and haven't been released in North America. All the other licenses have gotten state-side releases.


Oh, OK. But still it may be a good idea to include the info from Japanator, I don't know how many people on ANN (even from the UK) go to Japanator and find out about the info.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:53 pm Reply with quote
There is a UK section of the ANN site where that news was posted.

See here and here
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:09 pm Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
There is a UK section of the ANN site where that news was posted.

See here and here


Oh, well never mind, disregard my last comment.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:56 am Reply with quote
Eh the anime deviates to much to hold my interest into season 4, for God's sake the anime doesn't even have Saito's brother, the real familiar for the 4th void mage, and the sacrificial gandalf in it. Personally Zeros familiar is behind only Rosario Vamp for me for shows that really need a flat out reboot.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:11 am Reply with quote
Good luck getting that, with the author passed. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:27 pm Reply with quote
CrownKlown wrote:
Eh the anime deviates to much to hold my interest into season 4, for God's sake the anime doesn't even have Saito's brother, the real familiar for the 4th void mage, and the sacrificial gandalf in it. Personally Zeros familiar is behind only Rosario Vamp for me for shows that really need a flat out reboot.


Season 4 was likely meant to be in case the author died...Remember he WAS heavily involved in the 4th season....What sucks is the LN will never be finished and we lost a pretty damn great author
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:06 am Reply with quote
VORTIA wrote:
Good luck getting that, with the author passed. Crying or Very sad


Actually the author being dead is irrelevant. He did finish although hurriedly the light novels. So they can easily reboot the series, and it honestly, I don't mean this in a negative way, could be easier. All too often even in a decent adaptation of a work you have an original creator complain or butt heads with the studio.

I know he worked on part on season 4, but by that point the show had just deviated way too much to be salvaged even with his involvement. Plus season 4 itself, was only true to the LNs for about the first half of the season, only it split off and went the original route.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:11 am Reply with quote
The last two novels were never released. To the best of my knowledge, Yamaguchi-sensei never wrote the last volume, but the penultimate one should exist in draft form.
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