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Tenchi
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My vote would be for Miracle Girls, because I like romantic comedy stories with low-key ESPer power twists à la Kimagure Orange Road and also because it featured the most awesome Phil Spector Wall-Of-Sound-esque opening theme.
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GATSU
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Animego: Discotek is like every other company. They don't like betting on niche shows. And shoujo which bombed the first time isn't going to motivate them much.
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whiskeyii
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While it's definitely out of the running for an anime adaptation, I'm always sad to see my unfinished collection of the Swan manga. :/ Too bad no one ever license-rescued it.
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Crisha
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And yet Discotek has licensed CCS: The Movie, Ceres, Lovely Complex, and Magic Knight Rayearth on BD. Have they actually come out to state that Lovely Complex bombed for them (which is the one never previously released license)?
Additionally, they've licensed some sports anime, a genre that has historically has not done well in America. |
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GATSU
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willag: If Viz finished the manga, then Lovely Complex was probably not a bad seller, at least. As for the show, I imagine Discotek got a good deal from Toei. And the main reason they picked up Yowamushi is because it's likely to be short, by sports anime standards. [Unless they do a third season...]
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Zalis116
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yuna49
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I thought the second season dragged a bit, especially during the joukan arc. I'd still like to know how things end, though. I did a little searching to see which novels have been translated, but it doesn't appear the instalments past the end of season two are available in English.
My favorite anime song in the "wall-of-sound" style is the opening to Kurenai, "Love Jump." |
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fuuma_monou
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There was an English dub that aired on Cartoon Network Philippines. Not sure if the whole series was dubbed, though. |
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EricJ2
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(Well, it's not about the ending, but seriously, for most of the fans, there don't seem to be any other episodes...It's getting kinda creepy.  )
I suspect most current fans didn't remember a series from six years ago, which only had underground good word-of-mouth at the time from digisub fans who pointed out how distinctive it was from an already cliche'-ridden genre. The fact that it had been lying around forgotten for all that time probably made it a better licensing deal, and they weren't expecting a "romance" title to be a DBZ-level seller anyway.
While I don't think Akazukin Chacha SHOULD have been major-licensed (the last thing it needed was the pasted in magical-girl stock footage endings), I'll at least chime in support as the other fan who remembers it from the days of fansub VHS. 
For the same reason, I'd mention Hime-chan no Ribbon from the VHS days, but I'll concede that most of it was pleasantly, harmlessly bland, compared to Card Captor Sakura doing the same thing on turbo a few years later. |
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GATSU
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Zalis: Anime Sols could fund Sugar Sugar Rune, but don't seem to want to...
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Agent355
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I just wish they'd make a complete manga adaptation of Saiunkoku. I loved the manga adaptation that Viz released here even more than the anime, but it's "complete" at about 7 volumes, covering maybe a quarter of the story.
My problem with most of the Asian live action adaptations I've seen is that they're *too* wacky, melodramatic and cartoonish! I've realized that there are a lot of exaggerations I'm willing to watch in cartoon form that just makes me cringe when presented in live action. |
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yuna49
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It's the "mugging" in Japanese live-action shows that turns me off. I've watched all of the Nodame Cantabile productions, the TV series and the movies, and I was pretty tired of Ueno Juri's performance as Nodame by the time I was done. I preferred Tamaki Hiroshi's work as Chiaki, but it Ueno who won the awards. I couldn't get past the first episode of the live-action remake of Moyashimon for the same reasons. The live-action version of Bartender suffered less from these faults, though it played up the potential for romance between Ryuu and Miwa much more than did the anime. (I never understood how a lovely young heiress like Miwa was unattached.) |
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Clyde_Cash
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I didn't finish either of those. I particularly couldn't get into Shugo Chara. It's just too kiddie for me. This was also at a time when I watched far more anime than I do now. These days, I only watch two shows on Toonami--DBZ Kai and Kill la Kill. I own Marmalade Boy and Boys Over Flowers, so their unlicensed and out-of-print status is no issue. The last volume of the latter was a pain in the ass to find cheap. Had to make do with a library copy, and they had the nerve to put stickers right on the box art! Not on the plastic sleeve on the case, but the actual paper itself. Paradise Kiss: Only saw it all the way through once and haven't touched it since. It felt too short, though. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Since I'm guessing you might like Black Lagoon, just a theory, you should definitely check out Jormungand. While not technically assassins they are major ass kickers and name takers. |
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NJ_
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They haven't said anything but it's getting a re-release in two weeks in a "Thin pack".
It wasn't completely forgotten since it was one of those shows that FUNimation was removing fansubbed episodes for years ago to the point where people thought they had the license and were excited over it since this was at the time when they were removing other shows that they licensed but hadn't announced yet. As for why it took so long, in addition to Toei, music rights may have been another factor since each of the show's opening & ending songs were by Johnny's bands and we have seen what happened with other shows brought over here with music by some of their guys (Kodocha, Skull Man, One Piece & I believe Toriko as well). |
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