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DangerMouse
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Yeah, I have so much nostalgia for both of these. I'd absolutely love it if we could get US versions of those blu-rays from Viz for all the series and especially for both of the first two series (Chaotic Century+Guardian Force and Zero). I watched those countless times on CN/Toonami and have some of the old DVDs.
I too really hope that they dubbed the whole Genesis series so that there'd still be slim hope we might actually get it some day. That series was quite good. Fuzors was only decent but I'd buy this too to since it's been so long I'd definitely re-watch it. I'm really looking forward to that Cyborg 009 release. Good to hear that info, I don't mind the wait when it's time taken toward being thorough toward making the release better. 
Hell yeah, I remember that ad for the final four 
That was pretty weird, but I do have fond memories of how neat it was watching the finale as an event marathon. |
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Nonaka Machine Gun B
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Zoids Genesis is so freaking bad, man. It pains me. I had gotten twelve episodes in before I said "If this is more BS, I'm out." Naturally, at Episode 12, a major forward push in the plot happens and there's a noticeable animation bump; I decide to stick it out for all 50. I made a mistake.
The early mornings of Zoids and .hack// really take me back to a specific time. If the first two series with the Van and Zeke characters ever aired when it was daylight, I do not recall. Fuzors was on at after-school DBZ hours, but I'm less familiar with that one. |
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sk1199
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I can happily say that I own the complete set of Viz's Chaotic Century and I still enjoy watching the show to this day.
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Animechic420
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For some reason, Chaotic Century aired after New Century /Zero, which I don't find all that strange. I mean, Dragon Ball aired on Toonami after Dragon Ball Z, right? |
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Heishi
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Ah, Zoids. That was show I sorta used to watch but never remembered much.
I distinctly remember one episode regarding some mysterious ghost girl and I had no idea what all that was about. |
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LaytonPuzzle27
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I have an interesting story I want to tell about the Zoids series. Does the name Paul Rufe ring a bell to anyone hear. He is an art teacher on anime artwork class Japanimation at HAL Gallery in Huntsville AL. a nice guy and I enjoyed going to those art classes. Anyway on to the subject back before Zoids: Chaotic Century anime sometime around when the Zoids toys came out Paul was fascinated of those toys and thought "this could make good cartoon show out of these toys." So he hired a good lawyer to get the license and manage to get the license and it seems everything is going well but sadly for Paul he had some compilations... If anyone want to know more please feel free to ask.
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Compelled to Reply
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VIZ has done Ranma ½ for some reason, but that also includes subs. I doubt Discotek would be able to afford licensing and releasing the series, kickstarter or not, and dub or sub. Funimation certainly has the resources to use the thirtieth anniversary box set. |
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Primus
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Ranma was one of the most popular anime shows of the pre-DVD era. Its dub was also uncut and Viz regularly kept either the Ranma anime or manga in print. Contrast that to Zoids, which wasn't hugely popular, has shows with edited dubs and hasn't been acknowledged by Viz in a decade.
I don't see Funimation being interested in 150+ episodes of an old children's cartoon. Maybe if they want to lose more money, they'll pick up Zoids Wild. |
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Compelled to Reply
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So was Maison Ikkoku, which I believe was mentioned, but VIZ hasn't renewed it.
Also, Funi released the original Tenchi series some years back, so they could be interested in Zoids if they want to continue the Toonami nostalgia bandwagon. Still, I don't know if that was a failure. FYI, Zoids Chaotic was sixty-seven episodes. New Century Zero was twenty-six. |
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zetsuie
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Primus
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Tenchi Muyo GXP was one of the first things Funimation ever licensed. They had a history with that property and at this point, have almost all of it (spoiler[including Ai Tenchi]). It's also not a kids toy commercial and all the dubs were produced uncut for home video. I really don't think that has much bearing on them going after Zoids. All four pre-existing Zoids shows is 150+ episodes. 
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Compelled to Reply
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Having a history of rights to a series is irrelevant, if anything it would have been discouraging after the shitfest that was OVA 3. Rescuing the series was because Toonami nostalgia after the 2012 Adult Swim April Fools joke airing it, which was part of my point in the first place. Funimation wouldn't have touched a twenty-year-old series if that wasn't the case.
The way you said it sounded like you were implying one show has 150+ episodes. |
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grooven
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I had the Evil Pegasus Techno Zoid as a kid. I wish I kept it. The design was AWESOME. I had wondered later when I got into anime, if it was related. I guess I was right!
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taster of pork
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I would like to see Zoids:Chaotic Century get a subbed and uncut blu-ray. But I'm not getting my hopes up since I'm still waiting for all the Digimon series to get a proper release.
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Hagaren Viper
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New Century is one of my most hoped for license rescues, I'd even spring for a DVD release. I really enjoyed the show when it aired but never not to finish it. Though was the dub changed that much? Obviously I don't have any subs as a frame of reference but I never got the impression that it was that altered compared to other dubs that aired around that time.
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