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Region 2 Banner of the Stars




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Gundam Junkie



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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Location: Great Britain; with an emphisis on Great
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:03 pm Reply with quote
Does anyone know when/if Banner of the Stars will get a UK release?

I've been keeping my eye open on Anime UK News for it but no luck.
If anyone has any info, jot it down.
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zhir



Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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Location: Nampa, ID, USA
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:17 pm Reply with quote
Isn't region 2 Japan?

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Zalis116
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:19 pm Reply with quote
zhir wrote:
Isn't region 2 Japan?
Yes, but it's also Europe/South Africa/Middle East.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
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Randall Miyashiro



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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:30 am Reply with quote
In general it seems that there are a lower percentage of titles in the UK that are released by BE in the US. ADV and Manga have UK versions of their companies releasing titles in the UK with Manga UK also picking up many Viz titles. Revelation seems to pick up a bunch of Funimation titles. MVM is in general in charge of strays including some Funi and Geneon titles.

If anyone I suppose Beez releases the most BE titles and are now releasing Haruhi and Gundam. Almost their entire catalog consists of Bandai Entertainment titles but sadly they only have a small percentage of what exists through Bandai Entertainment especially compared to the selection of Funi and ADV titles in the UK which is a decent percentage of what's available in R1.

In my opinion I think that Crest/Banner along with Zegapain, Flag and other BE titles have a much smaller chance of being released in the UK than titles released by other companies, but this is just speculation based off of past data.

Looking at the encyclopedia entry it does seem that Beez is listed under French companies here, so maybe there is a chance.
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Ramadahl



Joined: 14 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:59 am Reply with quote
Here's the response from the Beez studio representative in the UK:
http://www.forums.animeuknews.net/viewtopic.php?p=157731#157731

Basically, they're waiting to see how well the Crest of the Stars boxset sells.
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