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NEWS: Discotek Adds Ninja Scroll TV Series, Lupin III: Goodbye Partner Special, Astroganger Anime




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BaronViolet



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:47 am Reply with quote
[EDIT: Funimation is not relevant to this thread. No soapboxing.]
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NJ_



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:46 pm Reply with quote
Best of luck with Ninja Scroll, never owned the Urban Vision DVDs but I had always heard that the TV series sucked compared to the movie.
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Zalis116
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 2:56 pm Reply with quote
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These devious and handily-numbered alien invaders conquer, devour, and destroy every civilized world they see--

By joining their powers together, Ganger and Kantaro fuse the incredible power of a fightin', flyin' robot with the uncompromisingly savage, decisive intelligence of a middle schooler: Astroganger! With their powers combined, they'll save the world approximately twenty-six times!

I have to think that only Discotek would dare to roast their own properties like this Laughing
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Angel M Cazares



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:52 pm Reply with quote
Just a clarification, City Hunter season one is 51 episodes long. Discotek actually released the first 26 episodes on February 25.

https://www.rightstufanime.com/City-Hunter-Season-1-Part-1-Blu-ray
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trilaan



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:33 pm Reply with quote
I hope City Hunter looks as good as the boxart makes it look. Maybe I should upgrade my old ADV sets.
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TheHTRO



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:14 am Reply with quote
Fun fact: Astroganger slightly beat out Mazinger Z as the first color giant robot anime in 1972 (Wikipedia says that it beat it by two months; I know, but what are you going to do?...).
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Akcoll99



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:41 am Reply with quote
trilaan wrote:
I hope City Hunter looks as good as the boxart makes it look. Maybe I should upgrade my old ADV sets.


It absolutely does. The picture quality is fantastic. I own the ADV sets and the Japanese remastered box set that came out in the mid-2000's and the DiscoTek blu-ray for Season 1 Part 1 looked better than both of those, IMO.
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OjaruFan2



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:36 pm Reply with quote
Pretty cool that this will be the first English release for Astroganger.
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GATSU



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NJ: Ninja Scroll TV has a decent first half and a weak second half.
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