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Mehgazone
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The English dubbed episode of Interspecies Reviewers is on archive.org.
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Pokenatic
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Man, Sony’s buyout of RightStuf will always be a sore spot for me. RightStuf had almost all the Gundam releases plus a ton of niche and cult hit titles in their catalog, including the aforementioned Revolutionary Girl Utena and Interpecies Reviewers. Sony, however, doesn’t care for any of those. None of those are have been reprinted under Crunchyroll so far, and I honestly am not holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon under them when they are barely even reprinting any releases. It also doesn’t help that RightStuf’s dubs for ARIA, Emma, and presumably Dirty Pair (I forget if they dubbed anything else) aren’t available for streaming. Speaking of Dirty Pair, I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a general release for the Blu Rays in general, considering how Sony only bothered to get it to the finish line because of (deservedly) angry Kickstarter backers.
(Also, Sony buying out RightStuf means that we’ll most likely never get to see the two ARIA movies get licensed and dubbed any time soon) |
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Greed1914
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A lot of examples of why it's important to pick up a copy if you can and certainly to not rely entirely on streaming.
Aniplex is still one that baffles me. The company declined to renew licenses for so many shows, and then proceeded to do little or nothing with them. I picked up some series either for the first time or double dipped on blu rays because I knew that even if they released them, it would now be at AoA prices. About the only series I can think of from that time that Aniplex didn't let entirely fade away was FMA Brotherhood. They were relatively quick about sub-licensing that for streaming, but then that was basically it. Not sub-licensing something that they would otherwise shelve seems like turning down free money. And the article is right. For some reason, Aniplex seemingly wanted to hide away FMA '03, despite how big of a deal it was. I've seen plenty of people say that remakes/reboots don't take away the original, but they kind of do when the companies behind them will only let you access the newer one. Even though GOG put in the work of getting the original Resident Evil games onto modern PCs as they were, they had to sway Capcom, who had decided that surely there was no interest in those old games when their modern remakes exist. Stuff like this is why I keep an eye out for what companies like Discotek release. There are various shows that I couldn't buy as a high school or college kid at the time, so those affordable releases they do seem like a chance to make up for that. |
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Joe Mello
 Posts: 2559 Location: Online Terminal |
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I may be old, but I'm hip enough to know that Birdy The Mighty is relevant to modern egg discourse.
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pi8you
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Glad to see strong support for Birdy (DECODE discs going for how much?!), and I can't believe SamFlam slipped my mind when the question came up on BlueSky.
I've seen Baccano! sets pop up at one of the local Half-Price Books stores a couple of times with prices that make me glad that I bought it back when it first came out (on DVD and not blu-ray, alas), along with most of the others on this list (including VOTOMS and Tylor for very reasonable prices recently), but I never grabbed Slayers or SamFlam, and those sting. Hope springs eternal though, we did eventually get A Place Further Than The Universe on disc. |
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Kicksville
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Would anyone like to share the details on this? Spain got a blu-ray complete collection of the TV series last year, so I'm assuming this is just affecting NA for some reason? |
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Dr. Wily
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I remember my days working in retail walking past anime DVDs/Blurays thinking "I should grab some of these one of these days". Looks like I was right not just for the art, but because I could have been hoarding them like treasure. Streaming really is the monkey's paw of media, where it's easy to watch shows/movies anytime but also if/when a company decides, it just disappears.
Also damn, remember special features? I miss those. I was never that big on stuff like director/actor commentary tracks but it was a nice thing to have, you know? Now your only shot at seeing any sort of bonus material on a show or movie is just crossing your fingers and praying that maybe some official Youtube channel (or rogue crew member) uploads something.
What's really crazy about FMA '03 being hidden away as borderline lost media these days is that the movie Conqueror of Shamballa, which is its direct sequel, is still just sitting on Crunchyroll. I mean look, I know a lot of people just write it off because it's "not canon" or whatever but that anime was formative for me and I'd like to give it a rewatch sometime without having to pony up for some inflated prices on eBay or "sail the high seas" (which is still hard these days because you can hardly search for it without Brotherhood popping up first!). Ditto for that Lucas' comments on that original English dub of Evangelion. At least it's still easy to find the joke rant post-original series. 
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whiskeyii
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I forgot Utena is technically out of print, which just feels wild for such a foundational piece of anime. But I do kick myself for not picking up a copy of FMA’03; as much as I do enjoy Brotherhood, I prefer the slower introductory pace of the first adaptation, faithfulness be damned. That said, I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Baccano! at my local anime club about twenty years ago, and I’m devastated to know it’s not readily available—that was a ride and a half and I would gobble that series up in a heartbeat. I’m sad to say it took me waaay too long to see the downsides of streaming coming and scoffed and all the (much wiser) fans who warned me physical media was the way to go, alas.
EDIT: I did want to add, when I attended Otakon two years ago, many of the anime vendors had out of print anime, including some that were mentioned on Bluesky, like Tsuritama and Glass Mask! |
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Lord Geo
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While I will say that the majority of the titles mentioned in the piece are maybe a little "safe", i.e. the titles most hardcore anime fans will likely instantly think of (except for Gilgamesh, which was definitely an unexpected super deep cut), I can totally see why titles like Baccano!, FMA '03, Evangelion, Slayers, Utena, etc. were chosen, because they absolutely are titles that (in most anime fans' minds) should never be unavailable officially, in some way.
Still, for those curious, here are the titles that were recommended to Lucas when he put out the call, but weren't mentioned in the article itself (it's a biiiiiiiig list): Fantastic Children Yugo the Negotiator Don’t Leave Me Alone, Daisy Tenamonya Voyagers Spirit of Wonder Brain Powerd KO Beast Devil Hunter Yohko Tenchi Muyo AKB0048 Animation Runner Kuromi Paradise Kiss The Story of Saiunkoku Shiki Maze R.O.D The TV Fight! Iczer-One Tsuritama Darker Than Black No-Rin Hell Girl Prefectural Earth Defense Force Valkyria Chronicles Den-noh Coil (this is streaming on Netflix still, but without the dub) Yurikuma Arashi Penguindrum TV Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma Master of Mosquiton After War Gundam X (though it is still streaming on Tubi) Legend of the Galactic Heroes Claymore Crystal Triangle Guin Saga Gatchaman Crowds Ghost Hunt Glass Mask Loveless Weiß Kreuz GetBackers (though, to be fair, this one is still streaming on Hidive) Scrapped Princess Petite Princess Yucie Mushishi Xenosaga The Animation Stellvia Those Who Hunt Elves Silver Spoon 07-Ghost Kare Kano/His and Her Circumstances Princess Princess Rizelmine (though this was never licensed, in the first place) Di Gi Charat Gasaraki Android Kikaider the Animation Shion no Ou (also never licensed) Phi Brain Mokke (also never licensed) Telepathy Girl Ran (also never licensed) Whispered Words Shonen Onmyoji Himitsu: Top Secret I'll/CKBC Zettai Shounen Escaflowne Key The Metal Idol Master Keaton Toward the Terra TV Now and Then, Here and There Area 88 OVA The Cockpit Infinite Ryvius Sakura Wars TV Hunter x Hunter '99 Cross Game SDF Macross Madlax Kyouran Kazoku Nikki (also never licensed) FLAG Scrapped Princess Brigadoon Betterman Argento Soma Galaxy Angel Rumiko Takahashi Anthology Viewtiful Joe TV Yeah, it was a lot. |
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penguintruth
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I'd love to get FMA 2003 on Blu-Ray, if it's really any better than the DVDs, which I own.
I actually like the new Evangelion TV series dub better than the old one (more nuance in the performances), but it is a shame about FMTTM. I guess only Japan gets to have their sets with the song in tact? I bought the Ultimate Edition set, which has both dubs, but yeah, no FMTTM. This is one of the reasons I still hold onto my Platinum Edition DVD set. Well, that, and it could be worth something, even used. BOTH versions of Legend of the Galactic Heroes are out of print. Sentai put out a $800 set to begin with, which is absurd, but they could have at least sold it piecemeal and I would have bought several sets for a lower price. Crunchyroll doesn't seem to give a shit about Die Neue These, aside from streaming it. No fourth season dub. Hell, even Production IG doesn't care about DNT, because they announced a new season two years ago and not even a trailer for it has appeared. It's embarrassing as a LoGH fan. I would definitely buy a Now and Then, Here and There Blu-Ray release, if it was good enough. I loved that show. I'm sure glad I have my Baccano DVD set. Another favorite. |
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Dr. Wily
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Man out of all those more than anything I'm stunned to hear that Tenchi Muyo is out of print. I mean, it was never my thing, but it's one of those anime that was all over Toonami back in the day so I'd figure there would be a ton of that whole generation that would still be big fans and up in arms about it. I guess harem anime are a dime a dozen now, maybe that whole fanbase moved on... |
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Greed1914
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That list emphasizes why I'm glad I bought several on there. There are ones that I didn't know were gone because having a copy means I didn't need to pay attention to that. It also is why what penguintruth said has gotten so frustrating. There are getting to be more and more shows that Crunchyroll has licensed years ago but still no home video. It's bad enough when they stop dubbing something, but there are shows I've wanted to buy that are 2+ years old now that they have not done home video for when it was normally a year or so after broadcast. It makes me nervous that one day the licenses will expire and they'll just plain be gone without even the chance to own a copy. I'm also someone who is glad to have gotten the Baccanno DVDs from Funimation. AoA's bluray was already out of print by the time I knew it existed. As a collector, it's pretty sad to see the trend that is developing. It used to be that everything that got licensed saw a home video release, and sometimes multiple if it was doing well or those budget-friendly re-releases (Remember Anime Classics and S.A.V.E?) Now, we're headed towards being lucky if something winds up on a disc at all. |
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Lord Geo
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And there's even the question of what licenses Crunchyroll has that they're literally doing absolutely nothing with for who knows how long. When Ashita no Joe got added earlier this year, to help promote Kodansha USA's release of the manga, the MediaOCD crew admitted that Discotek had actually tried to license AnJ TV a couple of years ago, only to be told that it wasn't available due to "another company" having the rights. Considering some of the seemingly random catalog titles Crunchyroll has added in the past few years (Offside TV, Minky Momo, etc.), it's entirely possible that there are countless other anime that simply can't be licensed at all right now because Crunchyroll has had the rights, maybe for literal years, but simply does nothing with them until (seemingly) the licensor finally tells CR to get off of their butts & actually stream them. |
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fathomlessblue
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Damn, Gilgamesh. There's a show that I haven't thought about for a long time. With good reason.
It's an anime in that sort of early 00's Gothic dystopian aesthetic that gave us shows like Technolyze, Witch Hunter Robin & Soul Taker. Unfortunately all I can remember was the animation almost immediately went to shit, & that it had about about 6 episodes worth of plot slooooowly dragged out over a two cour show. And it wasn't like Technolyze, were the glacial pacing served its mood-piece tone. Nah, the show just used every trick in the book to slowly amble nowhere, with enough repeated stock footage and flashbacks to make even the Noir staff want to tell them to calm down. Worth watching the first few episodes if you're just missing a Chiaki J. Konaka-type show, but it's probably not worth seeing to end. Hey you want to know a more recent show from the last ten years that isn't currently available on physical release or streaming in the US? How about Land of the Lustrous. After that 7 year contract expired both Sentai & Amazon seem to have lost it a year or so back, with no word of it coming back. I heard you could still buy it digitally from the Microsoft store, but the search bar gave me no results The conspiratorial side of me is hoping that this could be due to some sort of future rebranding where they complete the story, but as with everything involving that adaptation outside of the show itself, there might just be some nightmarish licensing drama meaning trying to do anything with is like wading through waist-high mud. |
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mdo7
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To be honest, I'm glad there's a wave of retro nostalgia amongst Gen Z and younger demographics, that can translate into I assume maybe a lot of the Gen Z anime fans to crossover to retro anime. If you have a Gen Z demographic falling into retro nostalgia meaning finding new appeal in old as in 90's and early 2000's items and apparel (including 90's and early 2000's technologies), that can crossover to anime too. So I hope it can lead to older and obscure and almost forgotten niche anime title being re-license in the US in the near future.
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