Forum - View topicSad news for GaoGaiGar fans (dvd hiatus)
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bahamut623
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Animeondvd says Media Blasters is going on hiatus with the releases because Voltron is taking up their time.
That last part worries me..as if they might stop the dub altogether. I've really been enjoying the show and the dub..so hopefully the wait won't be too long 
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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You gotta be kidding me.
I keep waiting for the "it gets good later on" part to show up because the GaoGaiTards won't shut up about it whenever someone criticizes the early part of the series. Now it's like being punished for giving something a fair chance. 
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digitalkikka
 Posts: 462 Location: Chicago, Illinois |
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 I don't mind a "hiatus" as long as they finish. I feel really bad for the people who are watching the show for the first time through the DVDs though. It's a damn good show so I'm going to remain hopeful that hotblood and courage will prevail and we will see more GGG later. Hopefully the awesome dub will be continuing too.
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Emerje
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I'm a fan, but I won't be calling it high art any time soon. It's a fun series, but the reality is that it was only made to sell toys to Japanese kids (and adults like me), not exactly compelling story telling. Still haven't seen volumes three and four at retail. Wasn't five due today? I guess that was pushed back? Emerje |
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v1cious
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hipsters win again. geez, who cares about Voltron?
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Emerje
Posts: 7434 Location: Maine |
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*waves hands frantically* I do, I do! Just like with Transformers I realize it isn't the greatest thing to ever be painted on celluloid, but also like Transformers It's something I want to own all of the box sets for. Volume three is only two weeks away! Emerje |
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LeoKnight25
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I'm a little saddened by this actually. Voltron is over a hundred episodes and at the current rate they're going with it, they won't have it finished for quite a while. I guess it'll be a minute before we see anymore GGG huh? In all honesty, I'd actually like to see the focus shift from Voltron to Dairugger and Golion but, those are probably an afterthought anyway, kinda like how Mospeada and Southern Cross ended up. I know they're going for the nostalgia factor with Voltron kinda like ADV with Robotech so, the originals probably won't see release for a while I'm guessing.
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Chrno2
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Well, I have faith that they will finish. After all there was news that said they would. I don't think they would just drop it after killing themselves bringing it over. While some people have never been crazy about 'MB' for how they do things I for one have a good amount of respect for them. Especially, on the fact that they've been known to put out many lesser known titles. Some of which weren't high-sellers. So I'm sure a company would be prepared for something like this.
Now the question is once they finish, will they be willing to release 'FINAL'? |
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Porcupine
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Me being the rebel that I am, I consider this great news. Yay, the crappy GGG series (at least the first part,which I've seen, and it's trash to me) is getting what it deserves.
Although in general, I dislike seeing any anime studio shirk their responsibility and "abandon" a series partway through. But sometimes, a disastrous abandoning is better than a stupid decision to plow forward when mistakes have obviously been made (in the case of GGG, by charging too much for an inferior quality anime...it should have been released as an ultra cheap boxset at the very most...not individual DVDs). It would be great if similar abandonments would occur with such releases as the newly remastered DBZ widescreen (cropped) season sets, for example. I'm also very happy because the decision to, at least temporarily, abandon GGG proves to me that it's not selling well. So the typical American buyer of anime (which isn't the same thing as the typical "hardcore anime fan" that rates GGG with a terrific rating on this website) sees what I do, and agrees that this series is crap. |
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HellKorn
Posts: 1669 Location: Columbus, OH |
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d00d, is randomly bashing anime in various threads (like you've done with, say, Gunbuster 2) a form of m*******tion for you? |
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Steventheeunuch
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No, he's just kind of a dick. Seriously, Porcupine, you're a good kid, and I totally understand that you dislike GGG. I personally love it to bits, as do others, but Im not coming from a GGG fans perspective when I said "dont be a dick". It's like me coming into whichever thread about a show you like having something done to it that you don't agree to, and just rubbing it in like a spoilt brat. No one needs that, considering there's nothing done to justify it. |
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Randall Miyashiro
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It's fine to not like another show. I for one didn't understand the appeal of GGG, so politely asked in another thread why people love this show. The many GaoGaiGar fans gave me very good reasons why this series is so popular. I might never be a GGG fan, but from the explanations of the second half of the series I might eventually get the rest of the series if it ever is released. Saying a series is so bad that it shouldn't be released for others to see is just mean. The only times when I feel that this should be the case is if a series has a dub only/edited version out which is contributing towards the unedited version not being released.
Being a fan who pretty much buys anything vaguely interesting I like the fact that we have so much out there to chose from. Media Blasters is halting GGG in preference for the Voltron project. While Voltron might not be huge here it is doing insanely well with the general population. If you look at the amazon figures the sales for Voltron is blowing away most anime titles. Media Blasters didn't decide to "abandon" this series because of there "responsibility" towards the fans! I would take GGG over Voltron any day although ideally MB would be able to release both. |
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Porcupine
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steventheenuch, I see what you mean. Well, I do have some reasons for posting what I just did, I'll try to explain below.
I did say in my earlier post that there are some bad things about discontinuing a series, too...it's not all good news, even to me. You may have gotten satisfactory explanations in your earlier GGG thread that we talked in, but to me they were far from satisfactory. So that is one big difference between us. Also, when "fans" collude to put out ridiculous reviews of a series (i.e. rating GGG awesome when to me it's among the worst shows ever) it does hurt me personally. Because it contributes a little into tricking me into buying and wasting my money on the series (which I did!). So in the end, what the GGG fans do does hurt me, and therefore I feel bashing the series is only fair, to balance out the foolish (in my opinion, I stress) views of the others. If anything, I feel that I have not done enough to bash GGG. steventheenuch, you'll probably hate me for being that way. I understand, because I do deserve the hatred of many people for my views. It's something I just accept. But one clarification, I didn't mean to say that I think GGG should remain unreleased. I would be happy to see GGG continue to be released if the remaining episodes were released in a cheap boxset for example, because that's what I think the series deserves. (I wouldn't buy it of course, but the GGG fans will). The thing I didn't like about the AnimeWorks treatment of GGG is that they tried to market/sell it as if it were a top-notch anime (based on price, etc) which it is far from (in my opinion). |
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HellKorn
Posts: 1669 Location: Columbus, OH |
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... Huh? No, really, what? Let me get this straight... You justify your actions of bashing a title by stating that fans of the show "tricked you" into wasting your money? You think that it's a good thing that a title like this gets a lesser quality release because, in your view, it's a poor show, and think some ridiculously stupid excuse like that will fly? And that you haven't gone to the full extent of which you think something like GGG should be bashed? I have not seen GaoGaiGar (I would like to at some point) so I don't have an opinion on whether it's "good" or "bad." But in any case where someone is mindlessly bashing a show just because the feel that money was wasted is impossibly immature. I spent money on Blue Seed and can't stand the show, for instance, but I never go to the extent that I spew hatred of it when it is (admittedly infrequently) brought up. I'm not going to cuss out the friend who recommended it to me just because I am responsible for buying something that I didn't like. Another example: I hate Rumbling Hearts. Apparently on the official R1 DVD release FUNimation didn't bother to translate some on-screen text of it. So fans of the series got the real short end of the stick by having a very important part of the story not being given to them. Now then, I have no desire to stroll into some thread about the series and say, "Ha-ha, you suckers got what you deserve with this awful show." That's just being a real ass if I did. I dislike the show a great deal, but I'm not going to rag on others about it, nor am I going to take an opportunity such as that where the product is poorly handled to shit all over its fans. There are very few people on these forums whose opinions I respect, the rest I pretty much disagree with and/or tolerate. But, Porcupine, how you're acting is no better than a spoiled brat. I dunno what you're trying to pull with some kind of "edgy, rebel act" or whatever the heck it is, but honestly speaking you should really cut it out. |
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TranceLimit174
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It's a real shame that we have to wait indefinitley for the rest of this series. Not only that but things are looking even grimmer for a release of FINAL. It is unfortunate that you have to plow through 20 some odd episodes to get to the meat of the show but those early episodes lay down more groundwork than you would initially think. Personally it wasn't until the very end that I realized just how attached I became to everyone.
The thing about GaoGaiGar is it's a mecha show through and through. As much as I don't like it that genre just isn't very popular here in the states. Porcupine I've yet to see you give reasons for why you dislike the series. So far all I see is bashing without backing. Don't get me wrong, the show does have it's issues (particularly the overuse of repeated animation, but at least it's good) but it also has many redeeming qualities as well. If anything I give GGG credit for making the control room just as action packed as the mecha battles. I hope this doesn't detract MB too much. And maybe Porcupine has a point. After all I think MB has done a great job with their release of Tekkaman Blade so if we could get more older series packaged like that I would be happy. Until then I just hope we hear a continuation date soon. |
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