Forum - View topicAnswerman - What Ever Happened to Manga Entertainment? (PART TWO: UK Edition)
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Lemonchest
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Answer: Give Watanabe all of the things. |
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cloud8100
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Interesting... Hopefully this means good things for the company in the future.
Also, I need Fairy Tail to be released in the UK again. |
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One-Eye
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Glad to hear that they are trying to make a comeback and seem to have a plan in mind going into the future.
However, I have to ask: Does this mean that the mangled GITS 25th Anniversary BD will be re-released at some future date with corrected subtitles and fixed dub audio? |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Thanks for the followup article, Justin! It's nice to get a better idea of what's going on.
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fathomlessblue
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I wonder if this means it's actually been Jerome or Andrew ghost-writing the promotional facebook posts in recent months, or if that was left to some nameless behind-the-scenes person? The move from personality-based interactions with the fanbase to generic posts was a worrying sign.
Jeremy not joining them at Animatsu also seemed a little surprising as the three of them appeared to have a good rapport. Hopefully him going to Anime Limited was the result of convenience and not personal issues. In any case, it's good to hear the company has been given a new lease of life. More competition with AL & MVM can only be a good thing for the consumers. Still, this change ultimately needs to lead to an improvement in how they actually author the disks for me to start buying their products again. The last year or so has been pretty dismal qc-wise and so far they've lacked the same accountability as AL, who've made clear and obvious steps to rectify issues. Maybe the average shounen fan might not even notice the constant subtitling, timing, chapter issues, etc. that have been cropping up, but the dedicated disk community have been only become more agitated and reluctant to buy for them. Hopefully this change will benefit everyone. |
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Tempest_Wing
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Hmm. Glad to hear they're getting back on their feet, but about the US division. I don't think it would work. There are already a a handful of companies firmly in place here in the US with two new additions (Ponycan and Aniplex) with only so many new anime. if Manga Ent revitalized their US division, they would just end up licensing the stuff nobody else wanted.
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Gasero
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A great follow up story. I would like to see a few more of these follow-ups if the Answerman features bring attention to industry experts.
That's wishful thinking though. I'm happy to see that some employees who desired to modernize are somewhat successful at remaining in the industry as independent. Last edited by Gasero on Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:12 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Mohawk52
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Buzz201
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The fact they let them keep the Manga branding for the UK, but not the Anchor Bay branding, suggests Starz has no intention of using it for anything big in the US any time soon... Now we just have to hope somebody gets the big FUNimation deal Manga apparently no longer has. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I hope you don't mean CowboyBebopGuy, because after Japanese Zero-Consequences Nine Eleven, dude needs to be beaten with a rake. |
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H. Guderian
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Glad to see a follow up with a nice spin on it.
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MarshalBanana
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I'm sorry what? |
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vanfanel
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"Terror in Resonance," his last show that didn't turn out so well. [edit: forgot about "Space Dandy"] I'd downgrade the punishment to a knuckle-noogie, though, since he did give us "Kids on the Slope" as well. I think it'll be hard for Manga to reach beyond an otaku audience when relatively few Japanese productions are even trying to do that themselves these days. Might I recommend they take a look at "The Case of Hana and Alice," and possibly license the original film along with it? Shunji Iwai is a filmmaker who can grab the attention of film buffs outside anime fandom, and the fact he's made an animated prequel to one of his (IMO) better live action films might help get a few cinemaphiles to take their first look at an anime that isn't Akira. Of course, if that's successful, the problem will be, 'What do you give those guys next?' since it was a pretty unique film. Last edited by vanfanel on Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:39 am; edited 3 times in total |
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penguintruth
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Space Dandy redeemed the lackluster Terror in Resonance. |
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enurtsol
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It's recently recovering....... slowly but surely. The Great Recession Years really did a number on anime production: save for kids/toys anime, generally anime went into a shell, became conservative, and heavily relied on the sure thing that would bring them income --even during uncertain times-- which is otaku anime. Yet while it got them surviving The Great Recession, it also steadily separated them from people who don't consider themselves otaku, like a population drift in the West. So it got harder to offer those people some things for them to enjoy. But anime is expanding again, slowly but surely becoming a bigger tent that could accommodate more different populations, and not just concentrating on a few specific ones. So it may get there anew to be part of the Western zeitgeist and not just based on shows of past era such as Pokemon, DBZ, Naruto but newer ones like Attack on Titan. |
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