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Media Blasters [2008-06-23]




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abstract-alchemist



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:27 pm Reply with quote
I'm glad someone is picking up the slack that Geneon left behind. Seirei no Moribito was supposed to be an excellent series and was upset by the fact that it might not possibly make an appearance in north america. Does anyone know the possibility of anyone pickup/finishing Story of Sainkouku and Higurashi?
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WhtHawk



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:59 pm Reply with quote
abstract-alchemist wrote:
I'm glad someone is picking up the slack that Geneon left behind. ...


I don't know that I would have put it quite so harshly, but this is the first title of which I am aware which has been relicensed from Geneon. I'm excited to see what comes next from other companies.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:27 pm Reply with quote
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however, plans for Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny, the sequel to the high school fighting series that was also released by Geneon have been put on hold, although Media Blasters does retain the license to it.

Considering that this was announced 11 months ago, I would say it has been on nothing but on hold.

I am glad to hear the news about Seirei no Moribito though, and that plans for that look like they will be going through.

abstract-alchemist wrote:
Does anyone know the possibility of anyone pickup/finishing Story of Sainkouku and Higurashi?
Not very good unfortunately, at least not from Media Blasters. John Sirabella said quite some time ago that he would not be interested in titles that already had DVDs that had been released. So both of those would be no go's. And overall I would say the chances of other companies picking them up are not very good either. Sad
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:55 am Reply with quote
Eiken .. whooo freaken sweet!!!
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Goodpenguin



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:14 am Reply with quote
For anyone's that watched it, does Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny 'lighten up' tone-wise from the first series? I dug the fan-servicey female fighter set-up, but (like Tenjho Tenge) was put off that the shows tone was a lot less black humor/campy and much more 'Angry, anti-social male fantasy' histrionics.
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billyarnie



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:41 pm Reply with quote
As for Guardian of the Spirit AKA Moribito, [adult swim] hasn't scheduled it... yet. John Sirabella has said it will air "in late August after Code Geass." Maybe [as] plans to make it "official" at San Diego Comic-Con in July... check the current [adult swim] schedule... http://www.adultswim.com/schedule/index.html
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Ambrogino



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:51 am Reply with quote
Goodpenguin wrote:
For anyone's that watched it, does Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny 'lighten up' tone-wise from the first series? I dug the fan-servicey female fighter set-up, but (like Tenjho Tenge) was put off that the shows tone was a lot less black humor/campy and much more 'Angry, anti-social male fantasy' histrionics.


I'd actually say it's quite a lot darker and more serious than the first series. It's still packed with fan-service and slapstick, but there's a lot more death and depression than the original. Personally I thought that made for a better show, but it might go in the opposite direction you'd want it to.
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Goodpenguin



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:58 pm Reply with quote
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I'd actually say it's quite a lot darker and more serious than the first series. It's still packed with fan-service and slapstick, but there's a lot more death and depression than the original. Personally I thought that made for a better show, but it might go in the opposite direction you'd want it to.


Thanks for the reply, Ambrogino. Wow, it's hard for me to imagine the original leaving any more room to up the angst. I've always had a hard time with the Japanese taste of merging very heavy angst/melodrama material with a campy fan-service premise (see: 'Godannar'), so fairly I carry a viewing bias here. Just from my own subjective taste it carries a bit of incongruity; on one hand you have a traditionally masculine fantasy premise, and on the other it's mixed in with an emotional tone that's usually (at least in Western entertainment) used with female-aimed material.

Heavy melodrama is a common gender-neutral vehicle in Asian culture, so no surprises there all told. Just never picked up a taste for it. I'm actually more bothered by the way shows like 'Ikkitousen' and 'Tenjho Tenge' seem to pander at times to the worse sort of emotional responses/masculine insecurities in young teens, but therein lies an inane point for another day.
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