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NEWS: Discotek Licenses Cyborg 009 The Cyborg Soldier, Tomorrow's Joe, Project ARMS, NieA_7, Lupin I

the terrible Italian TV soundtrack

I was actually at the panel this morning, and they just give such good panels, I love attending them! The way they show trailers at these things (if you've never been to one) is that isn't not immediately obvious what the license is, so watching the excitement build as we all realize what it is is really a ton of fun. Honestly, they easily have the most entertaining industry panels I've ever been too, and they're still fun, year after year. And while other industry panels tend to save all the new licenses until the very end, Discotek always opens their panel with a new announcement! And they sprinkle them liberally throughout the panel as well, so it's not all in one spot. Really, their panel pacing has to be experienced to be believed, it didn't feel like I was in that room for an hour at all!

As for why they're bothering to dub Bananya, my guess is because a) it only needs a single role (the narrator), b) Mike Toole is doing that single role (and keep in mind, he does a lot of commentary and stuff, but this will be his first anime dubbing voice role) and c), Mike Toole kind of works on a lot of Discotek things anyway. They actually played the first episode (it's only 3 minutes long, so the whole show being less than 40 minutes probably making dubbing a lot easier, and Mike has done running commentary for two hours movies before so this hardly compares) at the panel and it honestly sounds so damn perfect.

Woohoo, Discotek! Continuing to be my favorite anime licensor without a doubt!

I was actually at the panel this morning, and they just give such good panels, I love attending them! The way they show trailers at these things (if you've never been to one) is that isn't not immediately obvious what the license is, so watching the excitement build as we all realize what it is is really a ton of fun. Honestly, they easily have the most entertaining industry panels I've ever been too, and they're still fun, year after year. And while other industry panels tend to save all the new licenses until the very end, Discotek always opens their panel with a new announcement! And they sprinkle them liberally throughout the panel as well, so it's not all in one spot. Really, their panel pacing has to be experienced to be believed, it didn't feel like I was in that room for an hour at all!

Only thing I might honestly remember about Project ARMS is Char Aznable's voice actor (Shuichi Ikeda) voicing a demonic (sort of) creature that possesses the main character (voiced by the guy who does Guts from the 1997 Berserk anime).
And that they modified the pitch of his voice to make him scary sounding.

Codeanime93 wrote:

Only thing I might honestly remember about Project ARMS is Char Aznable's voice actor (Shuichi Ikeda) voicing a demonic (sort of) creature that possesses the main character (voiced by the guy who does Guts from the 1997 Berserk anime). And that they modified the pitch of his voice to make him scary sounding.

I thought I read some where that Hajime Isayama credited Project ARMS as an influence on Attack On Titan, but he's been pretty generous citing various predecessors as inspirations.

As for Lupin the 3rd Part IV, a tweet from @Jose_CNN seems to imply Discotek is doing two releases: English dub as seen on TV, or sub with Japanese score. Generally I prefer dubs, but I'm wary of this new score since the original was so good, so I don't know… It's one of the best versions of Lupin ever, so maybe buy both? (gulp)

Bummer about the Lupin Part 4 release, even if the dub used the International score, I would have preferred that the sub and dub would be in the same package, but that was probably dictated by TMS too for those good ol' reverse importation fears. Oh well. Was there any major differences between the International and Japanese versions besides the score?

I guess I could catch up on Niea_7, since it's back in print.