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NEWS: Sunrise, Right Stuf Offers Gundam ZZ in N. America for 1st Time


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JonLa



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:35 pm Reply with quote
god, you Canadians are lucky! I wish RightStuf would pre-collect the import taxes for the UK! There's nothing worse than waiting an extra 3 weeks for your parcel and then to receive a tax demand with a Post Office "Handling Charge" which is usually double the amount of tax on the bill.

Only Amazon US do this for the UK at present, using their expedited shipping option, and its fantastic.

Like a lot of you, I wish they could dub them, but, um, do any of you consider the economics of it? The numbers have been bandied about above, but so far you want long seasons dubbed and put on blu ray. I always see these statements and wonder "just how big do you think the anime market for Gundam is?" Particularly shows with only moderate crossover interest such as ZZ or Turn-A. It's a lovely dream and I share it, but the realist in me is happy to watch ZZ with a good sub translation. Which I assume will be based on the recent digital distribution of ZZ.

What I remember from the fansubs is that for long periods the "worst Gundam" reputation of ZZ is undeserved, then suddenly there'll be a string of really stupid episodes before it gets back on track again.
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:42 pm Reply with quote
Double Zeta has its charm, mostly in the more Zeta-like episodes (the Dublin arc, for instance), at least to me. But I can't imagine anybody would put an effort into dubbing it an English for this release, since I don't even think its predecessor did that well here. And if they did give it a dub, it would probably end up much like it's predecessor's, a farmed out cheapo Blue Water dub, awkward and stiff. To be fair, the material is also kind of clunky.

I would be on board purchasing it at a minimum cost, but if they're charging the same for that as a regular, modern TV series, count me out. I want to support more classic Gundam coming here, but ZZ is a very low priority.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:53 pm Reply with quote
traveling wrote:
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but Right Stuf is only the distributor, so maybe Sunrise will pay for dubs like they did for Unicorn.
Bandai started releasing Unicorn before they had the plug pulled, so I wouldn't let it get your hopes up too much.
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