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Cow-Boy_Be-Bop



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:16 pm Reply with quote
About to weeks ago and it hasn't shown up yet. I was wondering approx. how long does it take?
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undeadben



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:10 pm Reply with quote
Two weeks? That's all? If the title you submitted does get approved it might take a few months.

First of all you are posting and asking in the wrong forum, you should have checked the Encyclopedia forum.

Take a look at this thread so you can see why your title might take a while (these guys have a lot of work):

Encyclopedia Recently Added List


ETA: Tempest updated that list in September, you can check it out on the second page of that thread.
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dormcat
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Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:15 am Reply with quote
For the past two months I've been working on approving new titles, trying to catch up and eliminate all those accumulated workload. The newest list can be found here and can be extended with a ?n=X parameter attached to the end of URL.

As you can see, I myself approved or added ~200 titles a month (which is >90% of recent new titles). Each new title has to be verified with existing database to make sure there's no duplication (a single typo by the submitter can cost us hours to find out) and if the format is correct -- many users, and even many websites with similar databases (e.g. Animenfo), confuse some movies with single episode OVA and vice versa, as well as mistaking long OVA as TV series.

In your specific case, in fact, Kirby: Fright to the Finish had been submitted by another user ages ago, but I was forced to remove it back then because THERE'S NO EVIDENCE IN JAPANESE SAYING THIS "MOVIE" EXISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's not on JMDb, not on Wikipedia Japan, not on Kirby's official site, nadda, NOTHING.

However, it's good to see that you provided a crucial description from Absolute Anime:

Absolute Anime wrote:
In this exciting all-new full-length adventure, which is actually three original Japanese episodes dubbed and then fused together, it's a union of new friends and enemies as well as old allies and foes.

And Ms. Ivyna J. Spyder @ Amazon.com:

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A warning to anyone who wants to purchase this!, June 2, 2005
Reviewer: Ivyna J. Spyder (Somewhere in MD, USA) - See all my reviews
This is NOT an actual movie!

This is actually the final three episodes of the series put together on one DVD. (Originally the episodes are titled 'Takeoff! Battleship Halberd', 'Attack! Nightmare's Giant Fortress' and 'Fly! Kirby of the Stars')

I've seen the final episode in Japanese and it was great- but this is an edited dub, and the company that does the dubbing tends to cut out a lot and do a terrible job with the scripts, so I doubt it will be as good.

So it's basically a Kirby version of Robotech. What a time waster for me. Rolling Eyes Since it's not a real movie, or even a real title, it's up to Dan if it is okay to have it added in Robotech manner.
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Cow-Boy_Be-Bop



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:06 pm Reply with quote
Ohes I didn't know it took that long, and sorry for posting it in the wrong forum Embarassed
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