Forum - View topicNEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses The Life of Budori Gusko Anime Film
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GeorgeC
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Wow...
Sentai has been getting some good licenses lately. It's too bad that you rarely see these in-store (unless you go to FYE which is about the chain store that regularly carries Sentai titles) and that their discs tend to be higher-priced and almost never discounted as well as Viz or Funimation releases. Still, they got some good TV shows this year and even The Dragon Dentist mini-movies which I did pick up on-sale. I've been impressed more by the newer Sentai catalog titles than Funimation lately. They also have some good classics. I might get ALL of the Gatchaman titles I don't have yet on Blu ray (Insight Crowds and the box sets with the original series and 1994 OVAs). I did get the original Casshan TV series on Blu ray and it was a nice little show. Probably won't be getting the Funimation "Speed Racer head" Blu ray release because I just think it's very overpriced for a 50-year-old series. I'd probably just stick to the dub release because there's not THAT much difference between the US and Japanese versions of the series and frankly what little I've seen of the 1997 revamp of Speed Racer just doesn't impress me... I seriously could have done without the "action figure collector case head" of Speed and the '97 TV series. There probably was some rider in Funi's license with Tatsunoko that they had to release the '97 Speed Racer series on DVD with the original, remastered 1960s series. There's a lot of crap the property owners have forced on anime licensing companies in recent years. |
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Chrno2
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Wow, never knew anything about this title.
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Zin5ki
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That is perhaps for good reason. Amongst regulars of Scotland's annual anime film festival, this title gained a certain degree of notoriety to the point of being an inside joke. I have not seen it myself, but a friend reports that it is the only film to début there that failed to receive any applause whatsoever. |
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MarshalBanana
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Interesting title, I wonder what promoted them to license it.
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horseradish
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Whoa, really? I was hoping that the 1994 film by Ryutaro Nakamura was licensed since there is only the Japanese VHS, not the 2012 film by Gisaburō Sugii. I respect both directors and want to see more of their output, but I read that the 2012 film is confusingly less faithful to the original Miyazawa story. At first glance, the poster also evokes Sugii's prior work Night on the Galactic Railroad in character design. I will still look forward to the release, but with some reservations. |
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Chrno2
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Wow, that's too bad. Well, the one good thing is that we are now at a point where something bad can still be a desired gem. I wonder what the inside joke was? |
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Zin5ki
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It was alleged that the film and its protagonist were simply awkward, bleak and dull for the most part, in stark contrast to the festival's usual high calibre. Amidst the silence during the credits, someone in the audience shouted "What?" in bemused dumbfoundment. |
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Greboruri
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What, compared to other gems they've screened such as King of Thorn and Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack? |
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