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SpacemanHardy
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Way ahead of you. I've had my region free player for a good while now. I still prefer buying R1 releases, though. But I guess that's just the direction that the anime world is headed in. 
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walw6pK4Alo
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They'll become aware of everyone buying the Brit releases and just stop licensing to them, America is a bigger target.
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Pokenatic
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Well it does say that they intend to release anime themselves over here. Then again, the company that splintered from NISA said that they were going to release video games over here themselves, but all I recall from them was helping Studio Trigger distribute the Little Witch Academia OVA. If Pony Crayon really does start to release stuff over here, the field of anime distributors is going to get awfully crowded again. |
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ChihiroFujisaki
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As a note to some who may be confused, Pony Canyon doesn't own the international rights to a lot of shows currently. The stuff that they're listing on their website (like Air, Kanon, Free) all have their international rights owned by other companies (like Kadokawa and Asashi Broadcasting).
Mind you, this is something that likely will be changing in the future, starting with those two titles they've announced.
As an aside, actill actually has been involved in localizing video games for other companies. Recently they were behind the localization for Atelier Escha and Logy for Tecmo-Koei. Last edited by ChihiroFujisaki on Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:46 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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SpacemanHardy
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Hasn't happened with Aniplex yet. |
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GATSU
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Zeether: I think you mean Bandai Visual USA 2.0.
Anyway, other than Sakura Trick, Cinderella Boy, and Musashi, they don't seem to have much I'd be interested in. [And I guess if I wanna go there, The Abashiri Family.] So good luck with that venture, guys. Especially since no one's gonna buy Reborn. Though I guess the Shugo Chara fans will be happy someone might finally be bringing over the show for home vid release. |
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5824 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Guess we will have to wait until they actually release something over here to see what route they are going to follow.
But if they follow Aniplex's route, or some middle ground, it is not going to look pretty for us. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Because people buying Brit releases on a large enough scale hasn't happened yet. |
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Engineering Nerd
 Posts: 898 Location: Southern California |
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Thank goodness Funimation grabbed the license of Attack on Titan （the best selling Pony Canyon show last year) wayyyyy before this happens. Otherwise, things don't look too pretty.
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EmperorBrandon
Encyclopedia Editor
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As said above, not every title they do distribution for in Japan are handled by them overseas. Attack on Titan is from Kodansha, and Kodansha's logo appears on FUNi's home video release. |
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kevinx59
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I have very mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I like Pony Canyon and many of the series they are involved in (the fact that they produced and distributed K-On!, one of my favorite series of all time, already makes them ok in my book). At the same time, I really hope they don't go the Aniplex route and have only expensive releases. If its NIS prices I can afford, but most Aniplex stuff is out of my range. Looks like we'll just have to wait and see.
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Cptn_Taylor
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Why would they do that ? Europe is a big chunk of money. And furthermore Europe is blu-ray region B while US and Japan are region A. What Pony Canyon might do (if they're stupid/crazy enough) is to open up an office in the EU and start distributing their animes at japanese prices. Europeans are not Americans, they would give the finger to Pony Canyon for their high priced releases and download the full blu-ray from the internet in a couple of hours. |
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Kougeru
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I had to stop getting Aniplex titles when AoA came around because it was either I buy ONE AoA show a year AND nothing else, or buy a bunch of other shows for a more sustained form of entertainment. If PC decides to go with AoA's pricing plans, then I'll have to stop buying from them too. It's not not realistic.
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Cptn_Taylor
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Yeah yeah America is the navel of the world. Except it's not. Especially when it comes to anime and manga. Good old Europe is a vastly more important market. |
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animefanworried
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I just hope that they A) Dub their releases and B) Release them at fair prices. Failure to meet B can be compensated by cheap UK/Australian releases. Otherwise, they can keep their crappy releases, much like Aniplex.
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