Kairi wrote:Er... not sure if this is official, but Wikipedia says Mermaid Melody has been licensed by ADV again, and the series will be released sometime in 2009.
Could anyone confirm this? All I've found is a trailer that someone posted, and I have no idea if it's authentic or not. The voices sound pretty convincing (up until 2:36 -- ugh). But I don't want to get too excited because this hasn't been announced on ANN or ADV's website yet.
Maybe since the manga has been licensed here, they're giving the anime another shot...? *shrugs* I can only hope!
VIZ Media.Sheenar (post: 1260854) wrote:I heard that Monster has been licensed. Who has it?
MasterDias wrote:But how many people actually get Imaginasian TV again? That's kind of a strange choice to me. They should have gone for the Sci-Fi Channel instead.
Roy Mustang (post: 1277275) wrote:Also, a new company has appeared on the scene out of St. Louis, and has licensed the series, Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh series.
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Roy Mustang (post: 1277275) wrote:Also, a new company has appeared on the scene out of St. Louis, and has licensed the series, Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh series.
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Roy Mustang (post: 1278493) wrote:Forgot to list the name, when I posted that.
And Funimation has pick up Gungrave from Geneon. I don't know why they wanted that series for, they could have pick a lot better titles then this from Geneon.
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ilikegir33 wrote:Trigun or Samurai Champloo for instance. So I'm guessing the last license will be
Roy Mustang (post: 1278716) wrote:Well, I didn't care for both of them, but if they should have got Samurai Champloo and Trigun. There is a fan base for it and there is not that big of a fan base for that Gungrave, since not a lot of people like it.
MasterDias wrote:I imagine Funimation has access to plenty of sales data about Geneon's different series and that's probably driving which licenses they are rescuing first. I haven't seen Gungrave but it looks like the type of show that would do really well for the "casual American anime fan" audience and it probably did well for Geneon originally. Gad Guard is surprising me more. But I would still have expected Trigun, Samurai Champloo, ROD the TV, or even Gatekeepers(the Gonzo factor) before Gungrave...
Roy Mustang (post: 1278758) wrote:That's the thing, the casual anime fan that have seen Gungrave have called it crap. Most anime review sites gave Gungrave a bad rating for the most part.
MasterDias wrote:What review sites are you looking at? A cursory look through various review sites has netted me largely positive reviews for Gungrave.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is probably the least accessible Anime of all time. All the character's names are Japanese puns, a large dose of the humor is in split second kanji in chalk, etc. Any company that heavily localizes its licenses (and Funimation is) isn't going to touch it. Even companies experimenting with subbed-only distribution will have problems with the sheer ammount of translation shoehorned onto the screen at any given time.ilikegir33 (post: 1279078) wrote:I was also disappointed because FUNimation didn't license Zetsubou-Sensei
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