Forum - View topicNEWS: AnimEigo to Release Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope, Alien Nine Anime
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zawa113
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Looking forward to Hotori! I remember watching it a long while ago, and enjoyed it
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FireChick
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So happy they got Hotori!! I remember Justin's Buried Treasure article on it here on ANN years ago, and that convinced me to track down a fansub for it! Definitely buying it day one!
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zawa113
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I forgot that was in the Buried Treasure article! Makes me want to dig back through that column and cross-check what isn't already licensed with what needs a release. Bonus points if it's fansub only. Might predict future Animeigo titles that way... Just a causal check: Cosmo police justy legend of the angel (angel densetsu) Phoenix (various movies) call me tonight the door into summer (not to be confused with the more recent tunnel to summer) glassy ocean assemble insert domain of murder grey digital target raven tengu kabuto various Rumiko Takahashi stuff/Rumic World/Theater stuff (laughing target, one pound gospel compiler dog soldier winter days baby & me dog of flanders (would fit perfectly in "ruined childhood" label) they were 11 urban square cooking master boy the cockpit heroic legend of arslan (the old OVA, not the more recent TV series) spring and chaos twilight q neo-tokyo black magic m66 touch ultimate teacher here is greenwood star of cottonland bobby's in deep video girl ai coo from the distant sea to-y please save my earth At the time, Justin lamented how OOP or never released some of these were, and he's already covered series that he went on to get, he also covered Nobody's Boy Remi, for example. Perhaps this is partly a wishlist of if, y'know, he ever got to run his own anime company in the future? And yeah, Discotek has gotten a bunch of the list since, but by no means all of them Last edited by zawa113 on Sat Aug 09, 2025 3:49 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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FireChick
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It was definitely only fansubbed. I checked. The panel listed that this is the first time it's getting a home video release ANYWHERE. |
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zawa113
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I more meant if it was previously fansub only.
Anyway, I went back through and edited my post of potentials (some are buried garbage, but hey, maybe!) |
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dm
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Alien Nine is ideal for Made in Abyss fans impatient for the next installment
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malvarez1
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Wow, I recently watched Alien Nine on Tubi. It’s really good, but also has that problem that many old OVAs have: there isn’t an ending.
I need to read the manga one day. |
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Kicksville
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Central Park Media had a good solution for that on their original release: there was a box set with both the OVA on DVD and the three volumes of the manga.
Obviously we're not gonna be so spoiled again, but it's nice the anime will be on BD. |
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Hellsoldier
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Alien Nine. A little gem waiting to be rediscovered. Good choice for a Blu-ray release.
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Covnam
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Already have CPM's Alien 9 release, so I won't be re-buying it, but nice to see it being available again for those who missed it or discovered it since it went out of print.
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malvarez1
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Wait, that’s so cool. It’s hard to picture any distributor going that kind of extra mile now. |
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MarshalBanana
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Also, if the negative still esists, I would also love a release of Bakuen Campus Guardress. |
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pachy_boy
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Yes and yes. The primary takeaway is that if you're going to watch the anime--you absolutely HAVE to read the manga. The OVA is beautifully animated, and did a good job interpreting/translating the manga's surreal bizarreness into a cohesive animation medium that made it work. But the problem isn't just that it had no ending--it flat-out stopped at the most awkward point in the story that will more than likely leave viewers frustrated at best and absolutely upset at worst like it did with me. That's why reading the manga afterwards felt so comparably therapeutic since it revealed how the story continued and how everything paid off at the proper conclusion. If Animeigo is rereleasing this OVA and people are going to see it for the first time, then someone absolutely needs to license-rescue the manga, which is only three volumes in length. The full story really is a gem, and makes it all the more frustrating for more reason than one as to why the OVA stopped when it did. |
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MFrontier
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"Ruined childhood imprint" - Heh.
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