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Teriyaki Terrier
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Considering that the show is fairly old and may not be as popular as newer shows (I personally enjoyed reading the manga several years ago and watching the anime several years ago as well.) but times have changed since then.
First Ah My Goddess (which seems like it was a long time ago) then the Karate show couldn't be completed and now this. Although it has been quite some time (probably years at this point and time) AnimEigo sure did some great dubbing work. To this day, I had wished AnimEigo had licensed Your Under Arrest Season two instead of Sentai. Not that there is anything wrong with Sentai, but they didn't dub the season. Normally, that is alright, but just as the first season was actually going somewhere, since at the time was licensed, it was have well had a series conclusion at season one. Oh well, perhaps some day the second season will be dubbed. But at least AnimEigo is still in business. As I have said elsewhere, I am surprised they are still in business. |
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O-chan
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I'm actually quite surprised that the license is just running out NOW in 2011. This series was one of the first long-running series to be released on video, as despite how much time it took Animeigo, they completely released the entire series around 2006-2007 on DVD. So far under their wing Oh My Goddess, Kimagure Orange Road, and Macross have all left them. At least Animeigo had this series out long enough that it didn't feel like a rug was being pulled from underneath collector's.
But this should remind anime fans: If it came out in the 80's or 90's. BUY IT WHILE YOU CAN! O-chan |
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GATSU
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If I'm lucky, I'll have the dough to salvage the rest of it before September, but now I have to worry about availability.
 I'm still hoping Discotek might bring it back, but I have a feeling only Viz will be allowed to get an option on it, since they claimed that happened to 'em last time.
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Emerje
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So first Orange Road, then Ah! My Goddess, and now Urusei Yatsura, with a few other losses here and there, that's pretty much the last of their still marketable licenses. Though it really does seem like they've only just been sitting on these licenses so maybe it's for the best that they trim the fat (or let the fat trim itself) and take things in a different direction.
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enurtsol
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Back when AnimEigo was licensing Urusei Yatsura all those years ago, the Japanese licensors were more likely to give a lot more years in the deal because foreign licenses were just an afterthought. That's probably what happened.
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Onikuno
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I bought the bulk of the series when rightstuf had their monster discount sale for the individual discs years back. UY was Takahashi at her comedic best. I need to get a vault for all of my OOP DVDs so they'll stay safe.
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Weiss_Yohji
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Someone needs to rescue Urusei Yatsura by then.
And why hasn't anyone picked Kimagure Orange Road back up? The DVDs are too expensive to buy, even on eBay! |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4556 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Don't take this the wrong way, I wish someone would rescue the Kimagure Orange Road license too (and release the manga in English, though I have all of it in French) but I suspect the answer to the question is "the Japanese licensor is asking for too much money for any American distributor to possibly make a profit re-licensing it". |
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HatsumiShinogu
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I am glad I got all the volumes of Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road before they went OOP. Now if only they would license the rest of YAWARA!. It is a great series but maybe too old school for the most? Well, I happen to love old school anime.
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RoverTX
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I have a feeling that rightstuf might pick this up. With everything else they are picking up it seems right down there alley.
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configspace
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Luckily Ah My Goddess S1 was picked up by Media Blasters and S2 by Funimation. Just need the Tatakau Tsubasa OVAs and the next one on Feb 23 released here.
It would be nice if Yawara and KOR (with redone subs) were also picked up by others who thinks they can be profitable. I've got some KOR VHS bootlegs and the final movie but I'd immediately snatch up a box set of the entire collection, plus post-movie ovas. |
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nadir-seen-fire
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Ahhh... I was considering buying this series in the future... but was delaying it... ugh, so much money for a long series... That full collection of Ranma 1/12 was relatively pricey too... *sigh* I might want to move this up on the priority list... but then, I have a pile of other things I'm missing since I haven't stocked up in awhile.
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VORTIA
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Honestly, I think the biggest surprise is that AnimeEigo is still in business. I love the guys, and they've done some stellar work over the years, but their business acumen has been somewhat lacking.
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Apollo-kun
 Posts: 1213 Location: City 7, Macross 7 |
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Quick, somebody alert Robert Bricken!
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Brand
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From what I understand they don't make most of their money off of their Anime it's the live-action samurai movies that have been the money makers for them. So I wouldn't be surprised if they let all their anime licenses expire and focus exclusively on samurai movie and such. |
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