Forum - View topicNEWS: Maiden Japan Licenses Vampire Princess Miyu TV Anime
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ANN_Lynzee
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This, along with Violinist of Hameln, were the first anime I ever bought on VHS fansubs. This might be a nostalgia pick-up for me.
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Vampire Princess TV is nowhere as good as the OVA. I first saw the OVA on VHS which I think I still have somewhere.. it was great, atmospheric, sentimental and melancholic. Much later in the current era I downloaded the TV rips and was disappointed. It has the same aesthetic and tries to aim for the same thing, but it gets extremely repetitive and boring. I didn't even finish it.
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walw6pK4Alo
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Most of the TV series versions of late 80s/early 90s OVAs are bad, or at least nowhere near as good as the originals. Lodoss, BGC2040, Silent Mobius, Burn Up!, and I've never heard too much great about this series in particular either. When people talk about Miyu, it seems to be concentrated only on the OVA.
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dragonrider_cody
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Maiden Japan is the animation label for Switchblade, which appears to be owned and run by Matt Greenfield. He is the executive producer on all their releases, both live action and anime. Sentai is actually a legally separate company, though they both happen to use Section 23 as a distributor. I've been wanting to pick this up for a while. I'm glad to see a license rescue that I'm actually excited about. Also, this will be Maiden Japan's first bilingual anime release (though the dub already existed.) |
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TsukasaElkKite
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Instant buy!
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PurpleWarrior13
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I was thinking about tracking down the OOP DVDs, but it's great to know that I don't have to now!
AnimEigo still has the original OVA, which is still very much in print. It can be purchased for only $7.99 a volume off of their website: http://www.animeigo.com/products/anime/vampire-princess-miyu |
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Sam Murai
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I guess "Maiden" is the key word, then… Very glad to see VPM TV rescued. It's a really good, atmospheric series that doesn't deserved to be relegated to the abyss of lost licenses. Hopefully, MJ/Sentai will give it a good amount of attention publicity- and digital distro-wise. |
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Prede
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They are not a product line. They claim to be an independent company. They have contracts with Section 23 to do distribution. Section 23 also does distribution for Sentai Filmworks. They've been around since when Section 23 was formed. Also I always LOVED the 90's TV series. It was much better then the 80's ova. The 80's OVA is good and all, but damn that 90's tv show blows it away in my opinion. Also the dub is MUCH better on the tv show. Shame the amazing Kimberly Brown didn't stick around to dub the entire thing. She is the one true Miyu IMO. I can't even listen to the dub on the OVA, god what a train wreck. This show is an insta buy, despite owning most of Tokyopop's DVDs. |
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lulz0
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I never liked the TV series as much as the OVA's.
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Mohawk52
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 I've got both the OVA on VHS and the TV series on DVD. I'd get the manga if it were translated and sold outside of Japan. It was one of my gateway anime way back when, and a cherished collection on my shelf.
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PurpleWarrior13
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I think Maiden Japan is the "anime" subsidiary of Switchblade Pictures, which is an independent company distributing live-action foreign material, also with distribution by Section23. Matt Greenfield is to "Maiden Japan" what John Ledford is to "Sentai Filmworks", although I think both are involved with both in some way. I just realized that "Maiden Japan" is pronounced the same way as "Made in Japan". While I didn't really mind the OVA's dub (I hear the MangaUK one is better), I agree that the TV series is underrated. Kimberly was an awesome Miyu, but I guess this is what you get when you try to cast a semi-celebrity in an anime dub (Emmanuelle Chirqui was also in the cast). Dorothy Fahn wasn't bad though.
The manga was actually licensed in the US by Studio Ironcat (AKA I.C. Entertainment), but the company shut down after releasing, I believe, 7 volumes. |
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Alan45
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The publishing history is a bit complicated, but Iron Cat did manage to put out 5 volumes of "Vampire Princess Miyu", and an additional 5 volumes of "New Vampire Princess Miyu". They also issued one volume of "Vampire Yui" and one of "Vampire Dahlia". They also did parts of other Kakinouchi titles.
Most of this came out in comic book format including a lot of "Vampire Yui" not in the single volume they published. In the comic format they used both "Vampire Miyu" and "Vampire Princess Miyu" for titles. Unfortunately, the guy who was running Iron Cat died and his sons were not able to keep it going. |
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Shiroi Hane
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I should hope it will be rather better than the Tokyopop DVDs you could literally see them feeling their way through with changes made from volume-to-volume; they clearly didn't have a clean ED so at the start they freeze-framed it whenever a Japanese name was about to come up but on later episodes left it intact and did an English scrol after. IIRC the first volume even cut out the OP/EDs from all but the first and last episodes.
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Sam Murai
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It showed up that way on VOD, too. I hope Maiden Japan just uses a separate endroll at the end with the translated credits and keep the OPs/EDs unadulterated all the way through. |
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I just use the "neo-ADV" moniker for all of these companies, Maiden, Sentai, S23, TAN, etc
Even if they are legally separate, they are still tightly connected, share resources and/or history, much of the same people, and not to mention they're all still in Texas. After the "demise" of ADV, the people and resources just moved down the block or are still in the same neighborhood if I recall. |
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