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PR: Bandai Entertainment Inc. Acquires “Rocket Girls”




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vega427



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:02 pm Reply with quote
Uh-oh. Aren't Bandai the ones who are going to charge $50 per volume for sub-only releases of Sola? Which means I probably won't be able to afford to add this to my collection either. Provided it's any good in the first place. What I've read about it reminds me of Stratos4.......
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Vortextk



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:15 pm Reply with quote
I thought it was bandai VISUAL with the high prices and sub only releases, not entertainment? That said, I don't know the normal release standards for BE.
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Furudanuki



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:03 pm Reply with quote
vega427 wrote:
Uh-oh. Aren't Bandai the ones who are going to charge $50 per volume for sub-only releases of Sola? Which means I probably won't be able to afford to add this to my collection either. Provided it's any good in the first place. What I've read about it reminds me of Stratos4.......

Rocket Girls has very little in common with Stratos4, as icepick314 nicely summarized in an earlier thread. Also, Rocket Girls is essentially set in the present day - sort of a "day after tomorrow" timeframe - and the technology they use is almost entirely stuff that is available right now.
icepick314 wrote:
BigLL wrote:
So what's the difference between Rocket Girls and Stratos 4?


Rocket Girls is about a girl, Yukari, searching for her long lost father on Solomon Island...but got tricked into becoming an astronaut for the space agency which is about to be shut down because of constant failures...the main idea is that since high school girls are small, they can build smaller rockets and have less chance of getting blown up....

Stratos 4 is about group of girl pilots protecting Earth from falling meteors...however they're considered second rate because they're backup defense against first line defense stationed in outer space orbiting the Earth...

i loved both series...have Stratos 4 DVDs...hoping Bandai would license third and fourth OAV series but never got it...

And as Vortextk said in the previous post, Bandai Entertainment is not the same as Bandai Visual USA.
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DClark



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:21 pm Reply with quote
vega427 wrote:
Uh-oh. Aren't Bandai the ones who are going to charge $50 per volume for sub-only releases of Sola? Which means I probably won't be able to afford to add this to my collection either. Provided it's any good in the first place. What I've read about it reminds me of Stratos4.......


Bandai Entertaiment's aquisition of Rocket Girls already has its own thread here, and as mentioned above Bandai Entertainment is different from Bandai Visual USA.

Bandai Entertainment brought you such titles as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Witch Hunter Robin, Scrapped Princess, and Escaflowne (all priced reasonably and with dubs included).
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