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Gundam0084
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This needs to happen. Bubblegum Crisis is a true classic. It's too bad AnimEigo didn't go to Kickstarter to help fund the second half of Yawara last year.
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Lord Geo
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This is Robert Woodhead's exact words about Yawara, from back in 2010:
Obviously they want to do more Yawara, but aren't able to secure the license for more. Considering that Kitty Film, the company that originally had the rights to Yawara (& Urusei Yatsura), went out of business shortly before 2010 it's likely the new company that owns the rights are playing hardball, making it difficult for AE to get more of Yawara. A Kickstarter wouldn't have been able to do anything to help that. |
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Echo_City
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No AD Police is saddening. The whole franchise needs the blu-ray treatment. I'd like to see some "stretch" goals that are really stretches, like cleaning up some of the cheap animation in the 2033 or actually finishing the show's plotline (though they'd arguably have to create one first lol). Hell, I'd like to see a bluray of 2040 or even the legendary 2041 (even though those are Funi/ADV areas).
I'd support this endeavor, so long as it actually gets noticeable news coverage when it goes live on Kickstarter. Only by a quickly-suppressed Fandom Post article and this blurb here on ANN have I heard of this endeavor. Gotta know when I can contribute in order to contribute. |
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mrdarkrai
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Wasn't there a live action adaptation?
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PurpleWarrior13
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AD Police is still a possibility. It just depends on how much money they raise.
Also, I sincerely hope they're able to redub this. At first I thought it was a cool thought, but I've since grown to seriously hope it happens and more excited at the possibility. |
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penguintruth
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I would definitely buy the finished product, especially if it was redubbed, but I don't have a the money right now to make a high tier donation.
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Mohawk52
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Alan45
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@Mohawk52
I'd agree with you about a new company doing better elsewhere if the shows in question actually showed up with a larger company. In the current anime market where most of the marketing and most of the sales are internet related, small companies are not at as much of a disadvantage in distribution as they used to be. The disadvantage of a small distributor is in up front funds to license a show. The big guys just have more money. I suspect that Animeigo is not holding on to some shows out of nostalgia but that the license just has not run out yet. |
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Mohawk52
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10029 Location: Virginia |
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@Mohawk52
Animeigo is still selling Bubblegum Crisis, AD Police, Bubblegum Crash and several other anime titles on DVD. They are not just "sitting" on the license. These are mostly titles from the late 1980s, no one is going to put them on TV. The only thing that could be done is an enhanced version, which is what the kickstarter thing is about. Titles like Urusei Yatsura and Yawara were available from them right up until the license ran out. |
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Mohawk52
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Otaku No Video Riding Bean Vampire Princess Miyu OVA, and You're Under Arrest! ? Hardly the volume that "several" implies.
I believe that AnimEigo only keeps these licenses just so they won't have to go through the expense of changing the name of the company and therefore replace the logo and all that stationary. 
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10029 Location: Virginia |
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@ Mohawk52
Well, if you don't like them that is fine. I have no argument with the company. They provided a great deal of entertainment to me when I first got into anime. I think it is a shame that they apparently got priced out of the market in the 2000's. At least they found a niche that allows them to keep going. I suspect that if they were profitable they would have kept licensing older shows. |
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Mohawk52
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10029 Location: Virginia |
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Mohawk52 wrote:
You don't ask much from a small company. One hundred and ninety-five episodes, eleven OAVs and five movies for a show done between 1981 and 1991. I don't think any company would have tried to dub that. Given that they had all of Rumiko Takahashi's other stuff, I have to assume that Viz had first refusal on the show and didn't take it. There is no chance that Animeigo could have recouped the cost of dubbing all of that. As it is, I wonder how much they made on the show. Shouldn't you have been buying from an English company in any case? |
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