Forum - View topicNEWS: Discotek Licenses Space Adventure Cobra Anime Film
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johnmora
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Discotek's quickly becoming the anime company that's captured all of my attention.
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Great Rumbler
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It's great to see a lot of older anime shows getting licensed. Hopefully the Cobra series from 80's gets picked up sometime, as well.
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walw6pK4Alo
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I believe this movie also has a BluRay release in Japan, and the original TV series as well, since I see the 1080p fansubs popping up here and there.
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GATSU
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When they say English, I hope they mean the UK one with the Yello music.
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nightjuan
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Not the best part of the Space Adventure Cobra property, at least in my experience, but it's an interesting piece of history all the same.
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NJ_
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They said on their Facebook that it's the Streamline dub but that they will try to get the UK dub as well. |
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lem
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In this era of streaming and hi def optical discs, I still look for the older stuff on VHS. Since Hayao Miyazaki has key animation credit in this, I'll be picking it up just to see a bit of anime history.
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PurpleWarrior13
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This is pretty awesome! Discotek has just become 10% more awesome! This movie looks pretty cool!
I didn't know there was a Streamline dub. The only one I had heard of was the MangaUK one that was reused for Urban Vision's US release. |
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Frazmataz
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I already have the UK release of this, but I'm glad to see another western licensor take interest in the property. If Discotek get the TV series, I would be over the moon - I'd buy that in a heartbeat!
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enurtsol
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Guess it's time to bring out Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" again.
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Majin Tenshi
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Discotek i love you for making me remember why i became an anime fan in the first place. Something most of the recent anime did not accomplish for me.
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Area88
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The story in the movie is epic, I prefer it over the tv series, much more serious in tone, very little comedy and has lots of sad moments.
Now all we need is Lensman. |
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Bamble
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Good to see Discotek finally getting to the well of former licenses from the distinctly moribund Urban Vision. Hopefully, there will be more to come since UV allowed quite a few of their licenses to expire before releasing them on DVD. If they don't announce a new edition of Wicked City this year I'll be very surprised!
The Cobra movie isn't my favorite part of the animated franchise, as I much prefer the more science-fiction grounded TV series rather than the more fantasy-orientated movie, but this is nevertheless a very welcome and long-overdue license rescue.
There are indeed two dubs. As far as I know, Urban Vision never released the Manga UK dub in the US, but confusingly, Manga UK released both in the UK; their original dub on VHS, and the Urban Vision/Macek dub on the more recent DVD. Clearly, the rights situation with the Yello songs on the UK dub makes it difficult to re-release, although that dub did make it to the French DVD release of the movie a while ago. |
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GATSU
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Area88: Lensman probably depends on whether or not the copyright on the original story still holds. There were plans announced for a Hollywood movie a few years ago.
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