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NEWS: Dirty Pair Kickstarter Ends Successfully With All Stretch Goals Met

Hopefully the Space Adventure Cobra tv anime could get the same treatment in the future, though it might be more difficult with the current licensor.

anime-prime wrote:

Hopefully the Space Adventure Cobra tv anime could get the same treatment in the future, though it might be more difficult with the current licensor.

Discotek actually did try dubbing Cobra TV, and the two episodes that were done are included as an extra on the BD boxset, but it was via an "experimental fashion" (that's the most they've really said about it), in an effort to maybe save on costs, and felt that it didn't work out. If Discotek felt that Cobra was worth the costs to dub it traditionally, then it would have been dubbed like that.

Dubbing older anime like this is tough, and not all of them would necessarily see the success of what happened with Dirty Pair. Also, Right Stuf has experience doing Kickstarter campaigns, while Discotek does not (& they're busy enough as it is to really start trying one), which is another thing to consider. As for stuff like Future Boy Conan & Lupin Part I, those dubs are paid for & produced by the Japanese licensors themselves, which explains why those happened. It's not Shout! Factory or Discotek who are paying for those new dubs.

I'm glad to see that Dirty Pair TV succeed to such an extent, even surpassing the Aria Kickstarter campaign, which is honestly rather mind-blowing, but this kind of success obviously can't apply to just any older anime series that people would love to see dubbed.

I know that RightStuf is under no obligation to explain how much, but I wonder how much profit they will get from this campaign. For a $275k campaign budget, they got over $450k more. Obviously there are royalties and other expenses to be had.