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Ah! I want it! Lucky jerks. I'll give you my congrats and just continue importing the BDs from Japan cause I seriuously doubt it's ever getting a stateside release....... Although (enters fantasyland) maybe the reason MangaUK hasn't announced the format is because they are waiting on Funimation to make their licensing announcement with a dub!

Like Hell. That's as big pipedream as Sekaiichi Hatsukoi getting picked up by Nozomi/Rightstuf and Free! and Kuroko's Basketball getting picked up by at least Sentai. Sigh. At least the pretty Japanese BDs come with English subtitles.

Manga UK very rarely license anything unless someone else is providing the materials.
So it will either be a sub-only DVD release, or FUNi have licensed it and will provide a dub.

Don't get my hopes up! I have to keep my expectations low or otherwise I'll just get disappointed when it never happens (on the flipside I get super ecstatic when it does - although that's rarely the case). I figure it will be a sub-only release on MangaUK's part. Funi hasn't licensed anything with a large male cast that's not a shonen in a while and I highly doubt that Sentai would pick it up since Funi's the one streaming it.

sakuragtin wrote:

Don't get my hopes up! I have to keep my expectations low or otherwise I'll just get disappointed when it never happens (on the flipside I get super ecstatic when it does - although that's rarely the case). I figure it will be a sub-only release on MangaUK's part. Funi hasn't licensed anything with a large male cast that's not a shonen in a while and

I doubt it. They have only done two recent sub-only shows - Black Rock Shooter, which clearly has no dub coming; and Blue Exorcist which, at the time, had no indication that it would be dubbed (and is now being re-released with the dub on BD).
OTOH they have previously announced a license for shows before FUNimation has (e.g. Summer Wars and Rebuild of Evangelion - in both cases they outright said that FUNimation was dubbing them and had to hastily backpedal).

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I highly doubt that Sentai would pick it up since Funi's the one streaming it.

They did it for Campanella and FUNi not only streamed it, they announced they had physical distro too.