JUST PRE-ORDERED. Oh man, and I'll get it just in time for my birthday!

We need to think up some good questions for Ikuhara! ...Even though he'll most likely not answer them.

Frau Eva wrote:

We need to think up some good questions for Ikuhara! ...Even though he'll most likely not answer them.

Q: What inspired you to use an observatory as Akio's center of operations?

Ikuhara: Did you know that my car can travel 600km on a single tank of gas?

Last edited by Imaginary Bad Bug (03-14-2011 08:17:08 PM)

Charuru wrote:

To be honest, I'd much rather buy from the Japanese companies. I don't want to support a company that did such a terrible job on the dubbing.

That's CPM, not rightstuff/nozomi.  CPM did and messed up the job -the company releasing it right now is Nozomi, and they had nothing to do with the dub, and they have been doing their best (making an account here to ask for our preferences and desires directly, spending months just working on securing the rights to the extras )to give us an amazingly beautiful, extra-packed and affordable release after the original license holders went under.  Unfortunately, a re-release for an older niche anime will not pull in enough money for them to have been able to afford investing in a new english dub, so they do have to use the CPM dub, but you still get the beautiful remastered art with lovingly translated subtitles.

Squee!  Now I can actually have some DVDs to watch whenever I want! I wish I could think of a question that didn't involve Nanami, though.

Riri-kins wrote:

Squee!  Now I can actually have some DVDs to watch whenever I want! I wish I could think of a question that didn't involve Nanami, though.

That's okay, one of mine was "Where did Nanami get a dissolving dress?"

Charuru wrote:

To be honest, I'd much rather buy from the Japanese companies. I don't want to support a company that did such a terrible job on the dubbing.

The casting wasn't badly done. It was the ADR direction that was bad. :[

In short; Crispin Freeman was the only man who could ever be Touga's English voice.
(The only actual voice I had major problems with was Ruka's. D: Cheese.)


Not to mention, the entire US anime industry deserves your business. ;_; The only way most of them stay around as long as they do amidst a fanbase that only buys 1/20th of their anime intake is to practically GIVE stuff away.

EDIT: Also; Ikuhara, do you think Anthy and Utena had that tea date ten years later?

lololol something he will never, ever answer. I also asked if he wanted to do anything else with Be-Papas in the future and if he still considered Utena his master work. (lame, yes. Can't think of anything else though. :<)

Last edited by Azure (03-15-2011 06:44:15 PM)

Oh, man, questions?  Now that I have the opportunity my mind is a total blank. :-(

But this is so exciting!!!

Looking damn good! Even the price is good value. Preordering now.

Now to find a way to get rid of the old edition...

I just pre-ordered it! I'm really excited about getting it; I'll probably be counting down the days to when I get Utena, instead of days until school ends. I love that we're getting box sets with the badass new art from the recent Japanese remastered release. I like that they give you a nice discount when you pre-order it too. Of course, if I had to pay the $49.99 price I would. However, $29.99 is so much nicer for the poor college student. The shipping isn't too bad either.

By the way, it says that the first box set has episodes 1-12. I wonder why they split it up like that instead of putting 13 episodes on each set.  Any thoughts?

I like that you can submit questions to Ikuhara, even if he probably won't answer them in a coherent manner. I kind of want to ask if the Shadow Girls are really aliens and if they know the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball.

Maybe I'll not include the Kamehameha part. I also want to ask if Akio will be getting stabbed with those swords of hatred now that Anthy left.

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Azure wrote:

EDIT: Also; Ikuhara, do you think Anthy and Utena had that tea date ten years later?

lololol something he will never, ever answer. I also asked if he wanted to do anything else with Be-Papas in the future and if he still considered Utena his master work. (lame, yes. Can't think of anything else though. :<)

Even if he doesn't answer, I think an Utena/Anthy resolution question MUST be asked. That's my vote!

Pre-ordered as soon as I saw the news!  I'll finally be able to replace the battered remnants of my student council boxset (the unfortunate results of lending it to everyone I know at one time or another) I do wonder what the special gift will be; I'd pre-order all the boxed sets anyway, but...all of the suggestions were pretty awesome, so I'd be happy no matter what

Dani wrote:

CausalityStar wrote:

By the way, it says that the first box set has episodes 1-12. I wonder why they split it up like that instead of putting 13 episodes on each set.  Any thoughts?

I like that you can submit questions to Ikuhara, even if he probably won't answer them in a coherent manner. I kind of want to ask if the Shadow Girls are really aliens and if they know the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball.

Maybe I'll not include the Kamehameha part. I also want to ask if Akio will be getting stabbed with those swords of hatred now that Anthy left.

The 13th episode is a recap ep of the first 12 so it makes sense to me that it be the first ep of the second set as a "refresher". I would love to ask a Shadow Girls question too, beyond the role of a Shakespeare herald, what are they supposed to be? What does he think they lend to the story? And a swords of hate question, yes awesome.

I guess that recap idea makes since. Plus, I was looking at the episode lists earlier and I noticed that the Apocalypse Arc starts with episode 25. So I think they could also be shifting the episodes around so that all of the Apocalypse Arc ends up on the last box set. If box set one is episodes 1-13 and box set 2 is episodes 14-26, then two of the Apocalypse Arc episodes would end up on one box set and the rest on another. So, excluding recaps, I think they want all of the different arcs on different box sets.