"for the record"

[davemerrill]

As someone who's wasted embarrassing amounts of money, time and energy in "anime fandom" over the past 25 years, I feel I can make all the blanket statements I want about the R1 anime industry, what there is of it. The same R1 anime industry that spent ten years filling Best Buy racks with junk. The same R1 anime industry that decided we needed "Melty Lancer" and "Magical Meow Meow Taruto", and has now been whittled down to a shadow of its former self. I figure I'm giving this "industry" pretty much the respect it deserves.

Money talks, BS walks. Right now my anime-manga cash, what there is of it, is going to Discotek and Vertical and The Right Stuf where my Dirty Pair DVD box is on pre-order.

Comments

[childings.livejournal.com]

Maybe some of these older shows are actually not that great, just a thought. I know that I personally did not like Dunbine. (Meanwhile, from what I've seen of it so far, L-Gaim is a really fun show, so if ADV wanted to release a Sunrise title, why didn't they go with that one? Maybe it's because R1 companies have no clue what's going to sell and what's not, and it's not like anyone was fansubbing these series, anyway, so it was impossible to predict fan reception. It could be that they were banking on the popularity of Escaflowne.)

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

Obviously I do not know what goes on at ADV, but much buzz was they got Dunbine because Harmony Gold had been sitting on it since '84. HG sourced (so it is said) all the Streamline titles ADV 'rescued', Robotech, Macross/Southern Cross/Mospeada, Nadia, Megazone 23, City Hunter.

Rumor had it there was a contractual tie to Dunbine, Macek HAD to handle the ADR work.

ADV was supposed to release Giant Gorg and...I want to say Layzner, but the masters turned over to them were supposedly just crap, just horrible. Sounds like that fear of reverse importing hitting again.

[childings.livejournal.com]

I heard the rumors that they were going to do SPT Layzner, and yeah, the story was that the masters had a shitty blue tinge to them or something? I had no idea they were going to release Gorg though. That would've been awesome. It's a relatively short series (and nobody has finished fansubbing it) that looks great for its age. Someone should totally pick it up -- maybe they could try appealing to the Gundam fandom with their advertising since Yas did all the character designs and directed it, and it's also a mecha anime.

Someone should at least finish fansubbing it. I've been watching the raws but I have no idea what's going on