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Tenchi
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(Fixed a typo for you.) Not gonna happen, the Dragonball Z release is cropped, as Justin said in the most recent "Answerman" column, because it's being aimed at a mainstream audience that reacts badly to pillarboxing (black bars at the side of the screen). The Nadia re-release is aimed only at hardcore anime fans that already know shows animated for standard definition will not fill a modern widescreen television. |
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Banken
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Recently I rented the entire series at Tsutaya.
The first 13 episodes or so are an epic masterpiece. The episodes up to the Island/Africa arc are good. The Island/Africa arc is shit. The last three episodes or so are great. And the epilogue is truly in American/Hollywood fashion (except for spoiler[Marie being preggers at 15 ].) If you based the series off just the first season, it would be one of the all time bests. |
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zrdb
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Holy [expletive] shit Batman! I'll have to think about this since it took me forever and a day to watch the whole series on dvd.
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chrisc1978
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Their is still hope for other animes I want rescued
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Hitokiri Kenshin
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Adding to that, outside the first 2 sets of those, you had a chance to get DBZ not in widescreen. If you didn't get around to it back then, it's on you. |
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jonathan c
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Was all of this released on tape by Streamline? I would really love to find some good quality caps of the Streamline dubs, whether or not they released the full set. I can't stand the ADV dub, mostly due to the insanely terrible phony French accents of Jean (and his uncle). It grates on me so badly, it's like nails and chalkboards and all that. Being one of the two MCs, that is a deal breaker for watching it like that, pretty much stuck to subbed-only every run. If anyone has the Streamline tapes that can cap them... want to hook a guy up with some audio caps? 
As for the movie, I also own the ADV Complete set (came in a big tin with thinpack cases), and never missed the movie not being in there  already the show suffered horribly at times, it would have been better at ~26 eps with a bunch of gunk culled from the series, and pare the movie while we're at it.
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CrownKlown
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Why?
You can go on amazon and get this for around 60-70 bucks and even less on ebay. I've seen this go for under 40 bucks. Dont get me wrong its a great show, I have the metal tin edition, but this show is there for taking for roughly what you will pay for a new set. And there are good shows never released. Release those first. At least put on blu ray. |
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dragonrider_cody
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It is being released on bluray for the first time. Also, the DVDs have been out of print for a while, and it's online availability is hit or miss as a result. The pricing can also vary widley. Several of the places I've seen it are still trying to sell those sets at MSRP. Sentai's bluray will likely be about the same price. Also, and this has been explained to you time after time, after time. It's not like every anime show is immediately interchangeable with another. There is no grand master anime holding company that they can go to in Japan and trade them whenever they want. There are also a ton of shows in Japan that are either not available or the licenses are just too expensive. True, there are shows that have been overlooked for one reason or another, but acquring Nadia doesn't mean that Sentai can't later license one of them.
I've seen both dubs and personally I'm not a fan of either one. I think Nadia is actually one of ADV's weaker Monster Island dubs. However, the accents in the Streamline dub are also pretty bad. So unless you are a HUGE fan of Angelica Pickles, I can't recommend it. Also, as has been pointed out a couple times in this thread, only about 8 episodes were dubbed by Streamline. |
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chronoclast
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Not only that, the new Sentai DVDs are going to have much better video quality over the old ADV DVDs since they'll be sourced from the new HD masters. The ADV DVDs used composite masters. |
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fuuma_monou
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Wow, Nadia license-rescued on Blu-ray. Wonder if there's any chance of getting GunBuster as well. Already have the R1 DVDs for both.
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Ambimunch
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There IS a God! But yeah, its great to see this show get a license rescue. Seeing something like this gives me hope that more Bandai shows will get rescued
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Echo_City
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Reading this thread makes me hope that this gets redubbed.
As soon as I read "Monster Island" I shuddered. That place always struck me as ADV's minor league (only it seemed that all of the "phenoms" in it never got to "play in the majors"). I enjoyed the dub of Dai-Guard and I don't remember the dub of Zone of the Enders being too terrible (the show though...) but anything done by the studio that dubbed Lost Universe is best redone IMO. I scarcely recognize a single name on the dub cast @ ANN's encyclopedia. |
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dragonrider_cody
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The chances of this getting redubbed are almost zero. Since ADV originally had the license and comissioned the dub, Sentai should have access to the source tapes. So there shouldn't be any issues with the dub needed redone for bluray lossless audio, unlike Grave of the Fireflies.
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E-Master
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I enjoyed that series and will consider buying it again after reading it will get a Blu-ray treatment.
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Mohawk52
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There is a fact that very few know or recognise about Nadia's influance and insiration that was iconic to Evangelion, and it's not because Anno did Nadia before he did EVA, thought there is a causational relationship with that as well. I know it as it's plain as daylight. Anybody else see it?
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