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Greed1914
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I think you've hit it. I was a bit surprised that these were picked up so fast, but not surprised at all that it was ADV. They really need to get money flowing and this should help a bit. |
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Ligene
 Posts: 137 Location: Mary-land! |
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Glad that ADV is still around and kicking (somewhat). Will finally have the chance to add NT, HT to my collection. ♥
Although someone should really pick up Utena so I can have a crack at that. |
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firedragon54738
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y cant ADV get Ah! My Goddess fighting wing all ready
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bci110
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Anime Works files under Media Blasters. I guess Derek assumes that AnimeEigo is going to pass on the old CPM licenses anyway so that's probably why he skipped them and went staight to Bandai  .
While we're at it, it most likely won't happen but I hope that either ADV or someone else picks up DNA Squared - both the TV series and the OVA. I think it's a pretty neat title with a decent story and characters, and it has some of the best vomiting scenes in anime. |
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MH Knights
Posts: 71 Location: Madison, WI |
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The important question is if ADV will keep the classic CGI US Manga Corps MD Geist intro.
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Zalis116
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Words of warning: Any future comments/complaints in this thread about ADV dubbing or not dubbing anime will be summarily deleted. They're pointless, annoying, repetitive, and most importantly, irrelevant to the topic at hand. You know who you are.
GotF, Narue, and NTHT are all good choices, nice to see them getting a new lease on (shelf) life. But MD Geist? Why can't it just die already? Oh right, the undead thing. What's next on the rescue list, Garzey's Wing, Garaga, The Humanoid, and Arcade Gamer Fubuki? And while we're in Magical Golden Unicorn Wishlist Mode (tm), Shadow Star Narutaru and Animation Runner Kuromi would be a few other titles worth salvaging. |
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Seen both the dub version of NTHT and GOTF and both were truly great. Not spoiling the ending of Fireflies except that is is sad.
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Grico
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Perhaps companies think Utena is too long? Have we seen any recent license rescues of series longer than one season? I think it is certainly worth the risk, Utena is a good series that would have decent appeal in new shiny thinpacks I would think.
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The_Libertarian_Otaku
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Why do you hate MD Geist so much? What did that OVA ever do to you? While we're talking about license resuces, why stop with CPM? There's plenty of Geneon, Synch-Point, Tokyopop, and Super Techno Arts titles that are also wallowing in limbo. (Does anyone know if Viz still has Flame of Recca, Boys Over Flowers, and Ceres: Celestial Legend, or have their rights to those shows expired as well?) |
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Mr. Anobe
 Posts: 47 Location: Canada |
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...well, at least there is still competition among others instead of slowing moving towards "monopolization." But then again, I must be a little off sometimes...it's good that ADV was quick to the rescue.
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the Rancorous
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Woot ADV! I have faith you guys can get out of your rut!
I already ruined NTHT by catching only the last episode when it was on SciFi, but that was one heck of a last episode, so I just might have to get the whole thing now. MD Geist... **shudders** I'll never forgive it for letting me chose it for a rental. Its not my fault dammit!! 
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Girls Bravo is still up for grabs, isn't it? 
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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This is great news. NTHT is one of the best anime series that has come out, period.
And if they re-author it like Justin suggests I will probably double dip. Grave of the Fireflies is also good, and I am glad it is not disappearing. I enjoyed Narue as well, though it really doesn't stand up to the first two giants. And Geist, it's ironic that they will be taking the title character from CPM's logo. Hopefully they won't suffer the same fate. |
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Umai_Mouri
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Having NTHT on my shelf doesn't seem like a dream anymore.
Thank you, ADV. 
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GATSU
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I'm not really surprised Di$ney didn't swipe Grave of the Fireflies, since I imagine that's actually a tougher Takahata sell for them than even Only Yesterday, since they'd be accused of being "unpatriotic", if they showed the Japanese side in the war.
jsevakis: I hope they let you work for them, myself. And yeah, those features were awesome. I don't like admitting it, but I just ordered the steel case version of Appleseed from the Rightstuf sale, because the ADV one doesn't have any of the good stuff. I did buy the company's recent Nuku Nuku and Japanese Robotech boxsets, though. I'm surprised they wanted M.D. Geist, though. Maybe they'll go for one of those reverse psychology ads and use your Buried Garbage comments for it.
penguin: I knew they were still around, but everyone else left the company for dead so they could jerk off to bad moe shows. Libertarian: Tell me about it. Amazon was still charging the full MSRP for the Patlabor boxsets a couple years back. Jedi: I'd like to see ADV finally put the Rumik World stuff on DVD, but Justin said even CPM couldn't do that. Elly:
Because CPM had to go through a lot of legal wrangling just to the last 24 episodes? And that was when they were in good shape, I might add. I don't think anyone else wants to deal with that kind of bs, too.
Licensing titles fans actually want versus titles which they have to stream online in order to justify a dvd release-because most people who do buy anime do it sparingly and tend to be freeloaders the rest of the time-sounds like a good plan to me. Lucky: FUNimation won't touch most of CPM's stuff, because it ain't new and shiny. [Gimme some more Lupin, already Gen!] And if they do pick it up, in spite of its age, FUNi will probably take forever to put it out on DVD. bj:
Hopefully, ADV will be smart enough to rescue KOR. Zalis: I think they'd be smart to get that Baki OAV myself. Grico: More like too expensive. |
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varmintx
 Posts: 1200 Location: Covington, KY |
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Wow, two of the few "Masterpieces" I've given being picked up; count me in as well for NTHT if it's re-authored. Ummm...is it too soon after such good news to start whining for a completely remastered and re-dubbed blu-ray of Grave of the Fireflies?
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