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[JP/HK/TW/KR] DVD/Blu-ray Release List with [EngSub] and/or [EngDub]

1. Time of Cherry Blossoms(蔡旭晟)
2. the Animation Tag Attack(Christen Bach)
3. The Story of Animation(David Tart)
4. 夕化粧 (胡)
5. ナーニとナッタ(青木友香)
6. Lion Dance(段、佳)
7. くつした(加藤郁夫)
8. かくれん坊(白石慶子)
9. 婆ちゃの金魚(岩瀬 夏緒里)
10. In-Between(Alice BISSONNET、Aloyse DESOUBRIES BINET、Sandrine HAN JIN KUANG、Juliette LAURENT、Sophie MARKATATOS)
11. STEWPOT PHAPSODY(Soizic Mouton、Charlotte Cambon、Stphanie Mercier、Marion Roussel)
12. かぞくすいっち(秦義人)

1,8,10,12 has English-sub.
2,4,5,6,7,11 are Silent movie.
3 is English Dialogue.
Only 9 ,Dialogue is Japanese but NO English-Sub.

Due to the many requests, Little Witch Academia will be available on Blu-Ray this summer!

Due to the many request, TRIGGER have decided to release a Blu-Ray fro Little Witch Academia!

We plan to throw in some bonus goods to the Blu-Ray as well.

To confirm, yes the Blu-Ray will have subtitles. And, sadly no plans for the Inferno Cop pillow case.

No calls on which region it would be. I'd personally would want it to be region free though.

Blu-ray box release from popular comedy anime series "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt" with English subtitles all housed in a gatefold with transparent trays. Also comes with 30mn special CD such "Fly Away" remix and "Mini DJ Mix" by Taku Takahashi and much more.

Special Features: documentary, short video collection, and more

I know I hate speculation, but just to be clear, because I just found this forum topic. I'm looking at the Valvrave releases on both Amazon.co.jp and PlayAsia and I'm not seeing any subtitles. Since it's an Aniplex title, it's probably a forgone conclusion that Aniplex USA is going to BD release it, right? Someone abate my fears.
Can't we pretty much boil the whole forum topic down to studios being EngSub friendly? I'm not seeing any Showgate titles being EngSub friendly, is that pretty much a consensus? I really want to curse them for a BD release of Waiting In The Summer without subs.

Thanks.

TypicalUsername wrote:

I know I hate speculation, but just to be clear, because I just found this forum topic. I'm looking at the Valvrave releases on both Amazon.co.jp and PlayAsia and I'm not seeing any subtitles. Since it's an Aniplex title, it's probably a forgone conclusion that Aniplex USA is going to BD release it, right? Someone abate my fears. Can't we pretty much boil the whole forum topic down to studios being EngSub friendly? I'm not seeing any Showgate titles being EngSub friendly, is that pretty much a consensus? I really want to curse them for a BD release of Waiting In The Summer without subs. Thanks.

If you are referring to the conclusion that Aniplex of America will release an import BD release for Valvrave, it's highly unlikely. AoA's imports have all been blu-ray box style releases. Their other titles with singles have all been domestic releases (Nisemonogatari, Blue Exorcist, Sword Art Online, Madoka Magica (TV series only)). Valvrave will likely be like the latter since NA customers are still unaccustomed to JP singles pricing as well as the logistical issues of importing 12 BD singles and providing a translated booklet/other packaging goodie for each volume.

Showgate is not a studio; they are a company who often licenses titles internationally. Their role in the domestic market for anime is assistance with distribution, but not the actual production of video discs. For example, they're involved with the Ano Natsu TV series you mentioned, but the company who designed the video release in Japan was Geneon, who rarely if ever puts English subtitles on their releases (you may see Eng dubs on BD-Boxes), so they're the ones you should blame if anyone. The lack of a BD release in the NA market comes down to Sentai's fault for directly specifying DVD-only release upon licensing.

You are correct that it boils down to JP distributors and their opinions on English subtitles. Warner Home Video is very good at including English subtitles on their singles as of late and so is Bandai Visual. Kadokawa has added Eng Subs/Eng Dub to a few releases, so they're mixed. Pony Canyon doesn't have a good history of subtitles; the only releases I'm aware of that have EngSubs are Kanon and the two Clannad sets. Aniplex varies as it depends sometimes on what AoA wants to import. VAP won't put Eng. Subs on a release (yet to do so iirc). I think that covers the main distributors in Japan.

DVD Subtitles : Chinese, English
Audio : Dolby Digital
Region/Format : Code 3, NTSC, Widescreen
Language : Japanese
Rating/Genres : Animation
Distributed by : Kam & Ronson
Directed By : Hiroyuki Okiura
Release Date : 25-06-2013
Pre-Order Price : HK$102/US$13.08

[JP] Kara no Kyoukai BD-Box [standard edition] | July 10th | 36750yen

More and more retailers are listing the standard edition with EngSub now.
- http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/12268109/
- http://www.happinetonline.com/NASApp/mnas/MxMProduct?Action=prd_detail&KIND=0&SHOP_ID=1&PRODUCT_ID=4534530066985
- http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/5388462
- http://tower.jp/item/3238805

Special Features: short anime, Surface X Ghost in the Shell ARISE ANOTHER MISSION (full-length ver. / commercial video ver. (15 sec.) / commercial video ver. (30 sec.)), promotional footage, trailer, TV spot