Forum - View topicIf you could bring back 1 defunct distrubution company who would you choose & why?
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RupanSansei
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Personally i would bring back U.S. Renditions as their dubbing & subtitling was some of the best during the VHS era.
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Blood-
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This is an easy one for me: NIS America. I don't know how many gamers realize that for a number years, NIS America was also an anime distributor. They distinguished themselves from other distribs by putting out premium editions that came in a non-standard sized artbox. They were tall and thin and drove some people crazy. To be honest, I would have preferred standard sized artboxes myself, but it did make them unique and I have several. I could sell them for a pretty penny if I wanted to, but I never will. In addition to the artboxes, I really liked NIS America's taste in anime.
You can check out their catalogue here: company#8667 NIS America is not a defunct company but it no longer releases anime (maybe re-releases of old titles? Not sure) and boy do I miss them. I have to assume it wasn't a profitable venture for them and that's why they stopped. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10071 Location: Virginia |
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@RupanSansei
I had to look up U.S. Renditions as they came and went in the early 1990s Which was before I ever heard of anime. The problem with referencing any company, especially a small company like that is the excellence is not in the company name but in the people who were doing the work. I would hate to think that the people who were doing their subtitles or dubbing some thirty years ago were still stuck in the same work, just for a different company. @Blood- You can put me down as one of the people who hate those humongous boxes. I have more than 25 of the blasted things and consider them mostly a waste of shelf space. I should point out that they gave up on those monstrosities before they got out of anime. They went to the standard size chipboard boxes the other companies used for their deluxe editions. I've got another 6 or 7 of those. About the time that NIS quit anime localization there was one of the periodic bidding wars going on between Funimation, Crunchyroll and Sentai for current anime. I'm pretty sure NIS just got priced out of the market for the new stuff which is apparently where the money is. |
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Blood-
Bargain Hunter Posts: 24454 |
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For sure that could have been a factor. Absolute pure speculation on my part, but sometimes key personnel play a role in these things, too. For example, if a big cheese decided that NIS America should get into anime distribution and then subsequently left the company, that can have an impact. As I say, I have absolutely zero information that that was the case, just adding a random theory.
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RupanSansei
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the funny thing isUS Renditions is before my time of knowing what anime was as well but the local rental shop had, Orguss ,Gunbuster, Raven Tengu Kabuto, & Guyver (both the 12 episode series & Out Of Control) Worth noting Animaze got founded initially to produce US Renditions dub of Outlanders (which is way better than the CPM dub) & even received credit in the introduction of the tape. |
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Beltane70
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The very first title that I saw from US Renditions was Dangaioh, which unfortunately had a pretty glaring translation error when they translated Dangaioh’s “Psychic Wave” attack as “Sidekick Wave” in its first print run. Not a very auspicious start, I must say! My copy has that error, though subsequent runs had the correct line.
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10071 Location: Virginia |
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@RupanSansei
I don't think I ever saw any of US Renditions output. The first I saw Outlanders was when it came out on DVD. I had quit watching any dubs by that time. I considered the Outlanders OVA to be a failure. It lacked much of what I enjoyed in the manga version. When I first read Outlanders, Dark Horse had not published the last one or two trades. As a result I went after the series in the back issue bins and found the whole thing. I had to visit comic shops in four or five states to do that though. |
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Top Gun
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Bandai Entertainment released a significant percentage of my favorite series of all time, so I have to go with them by default. When your catalog includes Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Escaflowne, Big O, Eureka 7, Planetes, Haruhi, Gurren, and most of Gundam, you're doing something right. I think they technically handled distribution of GITS:SAC for Manga, so throw that in the pile too. My second pick has to go to Geneon with the likes of Trigun, Champloo, Lain, Haibane, and Paranoia Agent. In retrospect they had most of my favorite mindscrew titles.
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RupanSansei
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Didn't Geneon do the official gag dub of Lupin Part 2 or was that Streamline?
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Top Gun
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Yes, Geneon dubbed and released the first half of Part 2. (Actually I think it was a company called Phuuz that handled the dubbing, but Geneon distributed it.) I wouldn't call it a "gag dub" per se, but more of a punched-up dub that inserted some contemporary references. Geneon also released the first Lupin movie, The Mystery/Secret of Mamo.
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RupanSansei
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Strange Psychokinetic Energy is the first movie while Mamo is the first one to be animated
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