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Hazinger Zeta
Posts: 53 Location: New York |
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On the topic of licensed long-runners, there is also the matter of Funimation's Sgt. Frog release, stalled at episode 78 for 2 years now, and counting. The whole show is 358 episodes, and verily, it is clinically insane by any metric to expect them to release it all, especially after their TV bid fell through. But the real blood-tear inducing part of them leaving it on ice, is that a suitable endpoint for them to go out on lies at the end of just one more season (the whole thing encompassing season 2's 2nd half and ending, by the original JP order).
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lem
Posts: 734 Location: Land of trying to figure sht out |
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this week's title, so true. love it.
I was very fortunate that all eight of the Region 1 DVD Maison Ikkoku Box Sets were available at very reasonable prices when I got mine. They're on my shelf alongside Fighting Spirit, Master Keaton, Kimagure Orange Road and Urusei Yatsura. All of which I still find to be as fun and charming as ever on a revisit. Sure I'd like to have subtitled blu sets for all of 'em or at the very least a Discotek type DVD re-release but what are the odds of that? yeah, probably about the same as me taking a stroll on the moon with a certain princess. If you're still looking for them though I feel your pain. I know all too well that utterly frustrated feeling of trying to find that final volume or that last set to complete a series you're a fan of. To this day there are still a few OOP titles in R1 that I wouldn't mind having. And I couldn't care less for which format they're in as long as it's viewable and has an audio track! I'm not about to encourage any reseller price increases by saying which ones though! |
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Paiprince
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I've always pondered upon the lost potential of the Hentai Market. Despite rampant piracy and shrinking figures, sex still sells and hentai has a lot of opportunity for this. What's stopping them from creating a Crunchyroll/Funimation model of streaming new releases and also having a back catalog of classic titles? I'm guessing hentai production and publishing works in different ways compared to its mainstream counterparts.
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ParkerALx
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Fronzel
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Let me be uncouth and brag that I have all those Maison Ikkoku DVD sets.
Funimation never released the second half of Kodocha at all, did they? |
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bravetailor
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The curious thing is that anime piracy isn't even big on hentai. You'd have to look hard to find fansubbers out there dedicated to hentai. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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I can simpathise with long running series fading in populatity. Especially those shounen ones. I bailed on both Naruto and Bleach after two arcs as both became the same template over and over again in looping repetition. I called it "crisis fatigue".
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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*raises hand* Hey folks, don't judge me, it was a surprisingly good series; quite watchable in fact. It had a great sense of humour and excellent comedic timing, and the characters all fed off one another really well. Not every episode was a hit - some fell flat - but most were funny. Plus the dramatic episodes were genuinely moving. |
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loplop
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Fan-subbing never hurt the Region 1 market that much. What really has hurt the market is the lack of titles being available to licensing. The reverse importation of titles, which are uncensored, did more to hurt the U.S. ero-anime market than anything else. Many titles were still licensed overseas, but not to U.S. or English speaking companies. There is still a dedicated market in the U.S. that will buy ero titles, but there is nothing new available for anyone to pick-up. On the odd case of something that does show up, it's fairly old. For example, Kitty Media a few weeks back said on Facebook that it was working on dubbing a new title for release called Paid & Laid (aka Shakkin Shimai). The problem is that it was released by Milky in 2007-2008, so I doubt there will be people waiting on it. There was a time that it wasn't that unusual to see a ero title make it's way here in 4 to 6 months from the Japanese release. Hitozuma Kasumi-san aka The Hills Have Size happen to arrive in about 4.5 months in 2006. I wouldn't say the market is dead, but's defiantly on life support. At least Critical Mass Video has tried to keep the market segment alive. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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I can tolerate long-running shows, but if the episodes get too repetitive and there seems to be no ending in sight, that's when I find it hard to stay committed to them.
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GATSU
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Parker:
Perhaps, but we got the manga during the 2000 bubble, and it's not a popular series, like, say, Yu Yu Hakusho.
Again, unless there's a significant bump in manga sales for HxH, there's no incentive to bring over the new one. Maybe someone will at least test the waters by picking up the movies. brave:
Hentai's definitely big with scantalators, though. Or so I'm told. Anyway, the current market seems to be in doujin based off crappy harem and LN novels. So there's not much money to be made in 'original' hentai in Japan, either. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Another 100 episode plus, series being shown on a weekly programming block? That barely anyone watches? |
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Paiprince
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Yes, there's a lot of hentai manga being released and translated more so than animated ones. However, doujins are fan made works with nonoe of the input nor profits going to the original creators so it's hardly relevant to the hentai industry. Most of it are adaptations of Visual Novels. LN's never tread into hentai waters no matter how close it's crossing the border. |
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Hoppy800
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Has anyone else ever noticed an increase of hentai adapted from LNs lately? I'm looked up quite a few hentai anime titles coming out because of boredom and quite a few have LN sources.
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David.Seth
Posts: 453 Location: near SF |
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That was also the main reason I asked the question (thanks for answering Justin). I have come across the later volumes for sale, but they are a LOT of money, and before I deplete my bank account, I wanted to ask someone who had a better idea of the possibility of a re-release. |
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