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NEWS: Details on Viz Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Release

Are you some kind of robot designed to attack anyone who questions the business decisions of American anime corporations?

Here's my question:

Why even bother releasing Bobobo in America? This thing is as much a product of its country as something like Mr. Show or Upright Citizens Brigade or Daily Show is here.

Not that it's as funny as any of those, but you get my point.

If you have to go to these extremes - these measures that require you to skip giant portions of the manga... why bother? There's no big push for Hunter X Hunter yet, another giant Viz property, nor is there a big push for Hikaru no Go, both of which are more accessable, internationally, than Bobobo.

From a plain-sense marketing standpoint, Bobobo makes no sense.

Starwind: I'm not even sure the company which has the anime rights-probably Viz, since 4Kids can't sell toys off of it-would want to release it subbed and uncut. It could end up getting a dubbed-and-edited only release like Rave Master.

GATSU wrote:

Starwind: I'm not even sure the company which has the anime rights-probably Viz, since 4Kids can't sell toys off of it-would want to release it subbed and uncut. It could end up getting a dubbed-and-edited only release like Rave Master.

Actually, I don't think Viz has the anime. I think it's some company called Joy Tishijan Marketing Group or something. Viz just has the manga. I may be wrong, though.

in the newest issue of SJ, they are calling it "BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo: The Manga Edition." WTF? I think this is stupid. even if they release 1-8, vol. 9 still won't have a number, unless they numberless ones are 1st edition or something. i LOVE BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo as you can tell, and i'm really disappointed. i was looking forward to it since september, when they printed part of the one-shot story. but i hope CN releases DVDs. i probably wont get the manga if all we get is vol. 9. This is like the I"S nipple thing or the Jojo's Bizarre adventure thing. Besides, Viz's logo has changed yet again, so i think they have new managers or something.

Toei has the anime. "JTMG" is their representative in North America.

Wouldn't that mean that JTMG has licensed it? I think Toei stopped releasing series in America by themselves since they gave us horrible releases. Low episode counts, DVDs return to the menu after every episode, dubtitles, unknown dub actors, etc. I doubt I'd buy the Bobobo DVDs, but still, it'd probably get a better release from the JTMG guys, as long as they know how the anime market here works.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other about Bobobo, having only seen a few episodes and read one or two manga volumes, but it seems so steeped in Japanese pop culture that it's difficult to say that this particular property was a good choice, marketing-wise.

And we're not getting just Vol. 9. That's just where they're starting.

As for that nipple thing in I's, there's been no mention of censorship, so you're wrong on that.

And just because Viz's logo changed doesn't mean they have new managers, maybe they just wanted a new look.

Low episode counts, DVDs that return to the menu after every episode, captioned dubtitles that are barely readable, bad dub actors, etc.

I think they're being cautious on the fact that BoBoBo is something that most americans wouldn't 'get'.

I stopped saying "That will never get liscensed" when freakign BOBOBO got liscensed. The manga...I think that they're just being overly cautious