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Wasn't Reborn unsuccessful because of the bad translation (hearsay, I haven't actually read it).

Rolando_jose wrote:

David the Gnome was a Spanish animation, not an anime.

I assumed it was French but it makes more sense that it was Spanish, since the person claimed to be from a Spanish-language quiz show. My guess is he added it in as a joke or nod to the intended audience.

I hate that some companies don't rerelease some shows on bluray, especially when some of the shows have actual HD versions.

And Haruhi is still in dvd form with the only way to watch in your own viewing order between seasons being to switch disks after each episode. I would buy the blurays in a heartbeat if Bandai released them.

ss-hikaru wrote:

Wasn't Reborn unsuccessful because of the bad translation (hearsay, I haven't actually read it).

It is true. I go to the reborn community all the time and 90% of the fans refuse to buy it because of the horrible translations and would rather import the Japanese versions and read scanlations.

/B003UTS85C]Amazon's[/url] got the Blu-ray set at 40% off right at the moment. That's at least 10% better than when I bought it (if not 13-14%), although the difference in exchange rates between then and now has probably wiped out the benefit of the greater discount.

Ingraman wrote:

/B003UTS85C]Amazon's[/url] got the Blu-ray set at 40% off right at the moment. That's at least 10% better than when I bought it (if not 13-14%), although the difference in exchange rates between then and now has probably wiped out the benefit of the greater discount.

I'm still annoyed that much of it just doesn't get brought to America. I wouldn't mind importing too much despite the costs, but I wonder if it has English subs; I doubt many do. My Japanese is not too great yet. Thank you for telling me about that though.

EnigmaticSky wrote:

Ingraman wrote: /B003UTS85C]Amazon's[/url] got the Blu-ray set at 40% off right at the moment. That's at least 10% better than when I bought it (if not 13-14%), although the difference in exchange rates between then and now has probably wiped out the benefit of the greater discount. I'm still annoyed that much of it just doesn't get brought to America. I wouldn't mind importing too much despite the costs, but I wonder if it has English subs; I doubt many do. My Japanese is not too great yet. Thank you for telling me about that though.

The Japanese BD release of Haruhi come with English subtitles if I'm not mistaken, so no need to polish your Japanese.

Kazemon15 wrote:

ss-hikaru wrote: Wasn't Reborn unsuccessful because of the bad translation (hearsay, I haven't actually read it). It is true. I go to the reborn community all the time and 90% of the fans refuse to buy it because of the horrible translations and would rather import the Japanese versions and read scanlations.

Another reason why it will never get licensed.

tuxedocat wrote:

Kazemon15 wrote: ss-hikaru wrote: Wasn't Reborn unsuccessful because of the bad translation (hearsay, I haven't actually read it). It is true. I go to the reborn community all the time and 90% of the fans refuse to buy it because of the horrible translations and would rather import the Japanese versions and read scanlations. Another reason why it will never get licensed.

No, the fans are more than willing to buy the official English release....if Viz wasn't so half-ass about it. By printing such horrible translations, the fans take it as, "This is good enough for you, so buy it and deal with it" which they will not. If one wants to compete against scanlations, do a better job than those scanlations. They do a worst job, so therefore, why should fans pay for something that is inferior to something that they can get for free or for less? Japanese Manga cost 5 dollars less than American Manga and it's supporting Japan directly. If I were a fan, that would be the better deal there. I'm actually importing the Japanese books because Viz won't release anymore english volumes.

Viz is just a terrible company and needs to get off their high horse and listen to the fans if they want their support.

Or maybe he didn't knew....

And to all those who replied to my prior post saying "there is no sense in releasing SD on BD", there is no HD source for Reborn (as far as I know). So why not release a BD with 20 or so episodes in SD quality? It will probably be cheaper than releasing it on 5 DVDs with 5 boxes.