allegoriest wrote:

[edit:] Really? I hated the fanstuff they put in with the movie DVD. I thought it was really stupid. :\

This is Nozomi. I don't think there should be cause for alarm. They get it.

Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

allegoriest wrote:

[edit:] Really? I hated the fanstuff they put in with the movie DVD. I thought it was really stupid. :\

This is Nozomi. I don't think there should be cause for alarm. They get it.

No, I hated the entire section. I don't know why they need that.
Unless the fans are the production staff and they each drew us a picture. That would be nice.
Or other famous anime/manga people.

I love THAT preview. And only that preview.

But not the TV and OST previews. I hate them bad.


And holy crap I can't spell 'gallery.'

allegoriest wrote:

Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

allegoriest wrote:

[edit:] Really? I hated the fanstuff they put in with the movie DVD. I thought it was really stupid. :\

This is Nozomi. I don't think there should be cause for alarm. They get it.

No, I hated the entire section. I don't know why they need that.
Unless the fans are the production staff and they each drew us a picture. That would be nice.
Or other famous anime/manga people.

From what little info has trickled out so far, it look like some of the fan related stuff may be fan-submitted questions for the show's creators (Ikuni maybe?), or maybe they'll do names in credits for early preorders, which has precendent from Nozomi. (Didn't they do that for Emma, Mylene?) Again, I'm not concerned that Nozomi's fan content for the release will be "tacky" or anything.

Nozomi made sure to get the remastered edition. Their packaging will blow CPM's out of the water. They know it's fans like us which are going to be the primary buyers. They know expectations are extremely high for this release. Nozomi will not disappoint us! This is the company that put two subtitle tracks on Mari-mite. One with honorifics and one without, because they are that integral to that particular series and they knew that many fans wouldn't settle for less. And they got all of the omake specials for that series too.

Nozomi's Utena release will be the shining jewel in my anime collection, and many others including most of us here, I imagine.

Last edited by Imaginary Bad Bug (07-03-2010 09:03:28 AM)

I'm psyched to hear all the love for Nozomi. I've been out of the anime loop long enough not to know who they are, but if you guys trust 'em, I trust 'em.

Wohoo!

Great news! But I'm glad for once that it's still a year away; I'm almost broke, and I'd hate to see the series out when I can't get it.
This'll be the first time I'll buy a series that I already own, but the current DVDs have such atrocious quality that I consider it money well spent.

More News!

They've got the movie too! (Source)

Seconded!

My head exploded from reading this. I can finally have the complete series! I'm honestly just happy someone picked up the series. Any extras on the DVD is fine. Although, I wouldn't mind having mini art book of sorts. (Hint Hint)

Mylene wrote:

More News!

They've got the movie too! (Source)

CPM's DVD is pretty good, but you can be certain I'll be double dipping on the movie, too!

Giovanna wrote:

Heh, I already emailed the contact for PR/Marketing off their site to congratulate them and let them know there was a huge happy fanbase waiting for their efforts.

I didn't link them to EM, since I didn't want to seem like site spamming...also I'm not sure how kosher some of my behavior is to legal copyright owners. I don't want to be told to take down my gallery.

More than that, there's that whole thread with the torrent of the Japanese DVDs.  IMO that torrent should be killed now.

Last edited by Imaginary Bad Bug (07-03-2010 11:01:21 PM)

I'm not sure about the CDs, although they did bring over the Boogiepop Phantom OSTs (Kajiura Yuki was the composer.)  Most of the other series they have don't have that memorable of soundtracks, but perhaps if they view SKU like Boogiepop, we might get lucky.

I hope they do like they have with some of their other series and come out with limited edition lithographs and other small bits of merchandise.  They don't do many of them, but they're very high quality.

Last edited by Mylene (07-04-2010 07:41:26 AM)

Calamity wrote:

If they do view SKU like Boogiepop I'd be pretty damn pleased since both series mean so much to me, and both have soundtracks I listen to regularly. They *might* bring them over since their retailer side does sell some of the original master soundtracks (that's where I got my copies of OST 2 and 4). I'll keep my fingers crossed.

That's not really an indicator though, because they sell anything anime-related, and those OSTs were brought over by Geneon, not Right Stuf/Nozomi.  Back in the day, Geneon had a habit of licensing OSTs for just about everything, including series that other licensors had released.  Right Stuf carries all Geneon releases, including OSTs that happen to be SKU.  And I don't think they were particularly hot sellers (especially given how long they've been OOP and yet, they still have them in stock).  Still, they might do it, but only based on the Boogiepop precedence.

That said, the Japanese imports really aren't all that expensive, especially compared to normal Japanese CD prices.  When you split out the price by the number of CDs, you're paying ~$13 per CD--and you get a booklet and neat artbox with it.  I'm not sure how much cheaper Right Stuf would be able to make it, plus they would have to negotiate yet another license agreement, since the music is copyrighted by JA Seazer, etc.

Calamity wrote:

Awr, this is a good point. If worse comes to worse I might import the cd boxset if it doesn't come here. I'm really only torn because I don't know just how much it differs from the cds I already own, even if the actual boxset is lovely.

The 4 you have are likely duplicated in the boxset, although I believe they remastered the audio and put them on HQCDs (sorry, just got in from a bike ride and am too hot and tired to go double-check.)  Basically the box is all of the original OSTs, a wonky Ikuni remix, the musical OST, and a set of tracks from JA Seazer that seem to have no relevance to SKU at all.  So you'll definitely be getting 6 new CDs out of the mix.

Last edited by Mylene (07-04-2010 10:33:41 AM)