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PR: VIZ Media Presents Exciting Properties at 2007 MIPTV

>>Honey & Clover

Hah, well, I guess this press release had some merit after-all; the bloody show finally got a license.

San Francisco, April 17, 2007 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, arrives at MIPTV this year, Booth # A012, with a variety of exciting properties for both North American and International markets. Held in Cannes, France, April 16 though April 20, MIPTV is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms.

Hah, well, I guess this press release had some merit after-all; the bloody show finally got a license.

Now, if only someone would finally license Ouran ....

As much as it pains me to agree with you (), it really is about time someone licensed this. It does seem to be quite popular, even though I personally couldn't get through one episode because I found it rather dull (I'm not really big on the slice-of-life genre).

Now, if only someone would finally license Ouran and NANA (both of which still shock me by being unlicensed, especially Ouran since it's been done it's run in Japan for awhile), then I would be happy

I think Viz liscensed only the first season for now...they might' want to see how well it does before getting the second...

I feel the same way, really. "high-brow" anime/manga seems to be so rare that people are prepared to shower the scace few with praise,

but I think despite the hype Honey & Clover,

Nodame Cantabile,

and 20th Century Boys are really mediocre titles,

not terrible but totally undeserving of their acclaimed status.

Shh, we wouldn't want to anger a certain eunuch.

I just want a freakin' box, the opening and closing themes translated, and good audio and visual work done and I'll be satisfied beyond the bare minimum. I've only checked out two DVDs from Viz over the years (Key the Metal Idol and Saikano), and I wasn't exactly chipper with both.

I'll take what I can get, but I'd rather Geneon have picked this one up.

Wait, so what does that make [myself and the others who value those "high-brow" anime/manga titles that you speak of snobs?] I can't tell if you say such things because of the general state of the medium (which is pretty much true), or if you just have an agenda to bash certain shows. It's not like Death Note or Fullmetal Alchemist where you have fans claiming them to be the a pair of the most deep anime out there which is far, far from the case.

Yep, agenda confirmation. We've been through this before, methinks, what with people just simply really liking it and not hoisting it up as some trophy of shoujo-josei mixture in manga and anime.

Volume fifteen (Or is it sixteen?) on isn't great, yeah, but are you honestly going to sit there in your comfy chair and type out that 20th Century Boys, up until that point, isn't one of the most finely crafted thriller in recents years in the comic medium?

Brandish thou's whip against the truly uber-popular titles which have practically no literary merit that get post after post in forums and thousands leeching each episode off bittorrent, not niche ones that are outside the norm and popular on the Internet for English-language speakers.

You two still haven't settled that little war? Oh lawd.

Now, if only someone would finally license Ouran and NANA (both of which still shock me by being unlicensed, especially Ouran since it's been done it's run in Japan for awhile), then I would be happy

marie-antoinette wrote:

Now, if only someone would finally license Ouran and NANA (both of which still shock me by being unlicensed, especially Ouran since it's been done it's run in Japan for awhile), then I would be happy

Well my understanding is that Ouran has been licensed. There were several reports from NY Comicon where couple of companies were asked to license Ouran - to which their reply was that they had tried to, but someone had already beaten them to it. Why this licensor would sit on the announcement is beyond me, but oh well, wait and see what happens.