Anime that YOU want licensed! (Let's not badger companies about it, though)

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by Dragon Ranger

Not sure if any of these are licensed already but these are some of the titles I had on VHS in the early to mid 90's. If any of these have been released already could someone please post links? Thank you :-)

If those are Crying Freeman and New Dominion Tank Police than Discotek has Crying Freeman on DVD and New Dominion Tank Police has a DVD release from Maiden Japan. Just no Blu-ray.

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by themp3000

Just a few small notes. SCryEd is still licensed by Sentai Filmworks. Coming whenever Sunrise gets their act together. ROD TV is still licensed by Aniplex USA though the release is OOP and probably never coming back. Kyo Kara Maoh is licensed by Discotek for 2020 release. Tylor is still licensed by Nozomi with BD coming in 2020.

Oh nice, i didn't know that Irresponsible Captain Tylor is getting a BD release. Where did you get information though? I looked that up and the only thing I could find was it getting a BD in 2018... (clearly, that didn't happen)

[HunterKIller]

Macross Series
Kenshin
Paranoia Agent
Evangelion
MOSPEADA
Angel Egg
Planetes
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Maison Ikkoku
Urusei Yatsura
Touch
Yawara
Gunbuster (series)
Kanon (BD)
Air (BD)
Nana
Monster
Mushishi
KareKano
Schwarzesmarken
Carnival Phantasm
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card
Exel Saga
Katanagatari
Kara no Shoujo
Memories
RahXephon
The Cockpit
They Were Eleven
Orguss (BD and season 2 :P)

[JTwoH]

I've always been a fan of 'Girls Bravo' and to my recollection there hasn't been much (if any) released on home media

[Naiera]

Wat? All of it was released by Geneon.

[vallimar]

Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san
Witch Craft Works
Nyanpire

[JTwoH]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Wat? All of it was released by Geneon.

Well shit, I did not know that.

Also, what is it and where can I buy them?

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by HunterKIller

RahXephon

How could I forget to mention this one? I'd upgrade this gem to Blu-Ray day one!

[Naiera]

The Japanese release of RahXephon has English subtitles.

[zenpai]

Originally Posted by Naiera

The Japanese release of RahXephon has English subtitles.

As well as the English dub, if that’s more your style. Both is always the best option, when available!

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Naiera

The Japanese release of RahXephon has English subtitles.

Originally Posted by zenpai

As well as the English dub, if that’s more your style. Both is always the best option, when available!

Oh nice. Once I have the money to spare, I'll probably import it.

[trentero]

Evangelion
Texhnolyze
Paranoia Agent
Haibane Renmei
Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade
Now and Then, Here and There

[zenpai]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Oh nice. Once I have the money to spare, I'll probably import it.

Fair warning that it is a pretty expensive set to import. I haven’t seen the price for it on Amazon JP ever drop below ¥28000 (~$260 USD) but it’s usually in the 32k-35k range from what I’ve noticed, plus you have to tack on whatever shipping charges are. Look for it on Mandarake instead; I imported my copy about 2 months ago from there for a total of ¥23290 (that includes shipping) which came out to barely under $220 USD. Plus it was new in its original polybag.

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by JTwoH

Well shit, I did not know that.

Also, what is it and where can I buy them?

https://www.rightstufanime.com/Girls...-A-V-E-Edition

There you go friend.

[BigOnAnime]

Note that the quality of every Girls Brave DVD release in NA is pretty bad. Girls Bravo is one of the shows where Kadokawa intentionally sabotaged the R1 release to prevent reverse-importation by providing only composite masters, and for some reason, FUNimation also got composite masters when they rescued it unlike say FMP! Fumoffu? (ADV=Composite FUNi=Not composite).

[redxrebellion]

Urotsukidoji. A box set of all of them would be killer

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Note that the quality of every Girls Brave DVD release in NA is pretty bad. Girls Bravo is one of the shows where Kadokawa intentionally sabotaged the R1 release to prevent reverse-importation by providing only composite masters, and for some reason, FUNimation also got composite masters when they rescued it unlike say FMP! Fumoffu? (ADV=Composite FUNi=Not composite).

So is the Blu-ray quality on Funimations FMP releases bad then? I have the main series in my collection, but I don't open my purchases. Just curious.

[Dragon Ranger]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

If those are Crying Freeman and New Dominion Tank Police than Discotek has Crying Freeman on DVD and New Dominion Tank Police has a DVD release from Maiden Japan. Just no Blu-ray.

Thanks, it's the original 4 act Tank Police I would like on Blu. Acts I & II were the first VHS I bought back in the early 90's. I have them on DVD but would love an upgrade.



Acts I & II were given away free with a PlayStation 2 magazine here in the UK many years ago. I eventually tracked down Acts III & IV on disc years later. Seems to be very rare in England.

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by The Collector FX

So is the Blu-ray quality on Funimations FMP releases bad then? I have the main series in my collection, but I don't open my purchases. Just curious.

I was speaking about the DVDs. When ADV Films first licensed Fumoffu, Kadokawa on purpose sent them composite masters, so it had lots of dot crawl and everything. It was just one of dozens of series Kadokawa was sending out composite masters on purpose to make the cheaper R1 release way less appealing for Japanese consumers to import (despite them being in DVD Region 2). Later when FUNimation got the series, they got very clean masters, the masters ADV should have got, but Kadokawa never sent out of reverse-importation fears. FUNi's FMP! BDs are fine IIRC, though TSR has like dropped frames in the OP I think.

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Note that the quality of every Girls Brave DVD release in NA is pretty bad.

They actually fixed it at some point during the original release run. Might only be the last two discs they got proper masters for though.