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MorwenLaicoriel
Joined: 26 Feb 2006
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:01 am
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Wow! That's great news for Australia.
...I can't help but wonder when we might get an announcement about a release in North America, though. I know, I know, I'm impatient.
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NegativeZero
Joined: 21 Aug 2003
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:14 am
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As nice as it is to see Madman get some competition... I'd really rather that something I actually want to buy not be the first product out of a company who have no experience in producing DVDs at all. Especially when every other company to have started up in Australia in the anime niche have generally been terrible.
But then, I haven't purchased a local release in years anyway - they need to do something about the higher-price-but-lower-quality-than-US-imports issue first.
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CitizenGeek
Joined: 02 Jul 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:24 am
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Wait ... what? This is weird. If a small Australian company can afford to license this, why can't ADV? Is this Australian company going to dub RoE?
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BleuVII
Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:35 am
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It wouldn't surprise me if it was subtitled. Plus, we've already speculated that the NA license has been acquired, but unnanounced as of yet.
Still, this is great news. For those of us who have to import English releases anyway, it doesn't matter whether it's from Australia or America.
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deathwombat
Joined: 16 Dec 2005
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:35 am
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Great, now I'll have to buy Evangelion 1.0 twice, first with this Red Ant release and then again when Madman finally bring it out.
Though I'm surprised about Red Ant going into entertainment dvds, I thought they would be content with selling reboxed versions of old games.
Also a few mistakes I noticed through the article and their press release.
Red Ant is a leading Austrian company
In your page of their press release you've repeated 2 paragraphs twice, and they've said that Evangelion 1.0 is the first film in planned trilogy of films when in fact it's going to be a quadriligy.
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pcnerdjack
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:49 am
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Good for you Australia, you guys deserve it. Still, i can't help but wonder why nothing about an american release has been confirmed, oh well.
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biolizard_alpha
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:35 pm
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CitizenGeek wrote: | Wait ... what? This is weird. If a small Australian company can afford to license this, why can't ADV? Is this Australian company going to dub RoE? |
Because America is a lot bigger than Australia. And ADV doesn't exactly have much money at this specific moment.
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rankothefiremage
Joined: 16 Oct 2003
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:55 pm
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The earlier eva movies didn't come from ADV...... Manga got them......
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Sam Murai
Joined: 01 Dec 2006
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:37 pm
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rankothefiremage wrote: | The earlier eva movies didn't come from ADV...... Manga got them...... |
...And now Manga has let those DVDs slip out-of-print...
I hope that Red Ant does a good enough job with their first DVD distribution. I can only imagine the crapstorm that would kick up if they botch it in any way--even from fans not living in Austrailia.
As for a dub, I don't know if they will go through the trouble of contracting Gaijin (who dubbed the '90s movies) or Amusement Park (aka ADV's dub group) all the way across the Pacific. Unless there is another group on the continent or around Oceania, a sub-only release sounds more likely.
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TsukasaElkKite
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:51 pm
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Sam Murai wrote: | ...And now Manga has let those DVDs slip out-of-print... |
Aww.. *pet pet* Look on the Internet or at Half Price Books; when I was at Half Price Books I found both movies for $15 <3
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Codain
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:01 pm
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deathwombat wrote: | Great, now I'll have to buy Evangelion 1.0 twice, first with this Red Ant release and then again when Madman finally bring it out. |
Usually the way it works is that one company acquires the rights which stops the other company. Don't expect Madman to release this series unless Red Ant goes bust like TNT.
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rekishi
Joined: 08 Mar 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:58 pm
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i see this as both a chance for good, or another example of bad...
GOOD red ant aquire all the evangelion movies, release them all with excellent packaging, well translated subtitles, and awesome english dub...
BAD they release it sub only with the same dodgy packaging and subtitles that came with the hong kong knock-off release...
i very much doubt they'll bother to dub it, no one hardly ever does... madman have only ever dubbed two of their titles (GITS 2 and melinium actress...) and they messed one of them up (it's fixed now apparently)...
i will with hold my judgment til i actually see this release though... they may, for all we know, create an australian dub, using local voice talent (something australian anime fans have been wanting to see happen for a while... for better of for worse...)
but i doubt it...
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Codain
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:25 pm
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Would it be so wrong if they released a sub only version with quality subtitles?
I don't see the harm in that at all.
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Mobius Archer
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:14 pm
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Sam Murai wrote: | As for a dub, I don't know if they will go through the trouble of contracting Gaijin (who dubbed the '90s movies) or Amusement Park (aka ADV's dub group) all the way across the Pacific. Unless there is another group on the continent or around Oceania, a sub-only release sounds more likely. |
There is no reason for them to have to use the same voice actors (it's a remake, not a continuation). I'm actually hoping the North American release has different actors than the original ADV and Manga releases. I don't have any problem with the old actors. i just want to see how todays voice actors handle the characters.
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Moomintroll
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:05 am
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rekishi wrote: | madman have only ever dubbed two of their titles (GITS 2 and melinium actress...) |
Did Madman dub those or did they just buy the Manga UK dubs?
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