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DeTroyes
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Hopefully this gets picked up by Funimation and Crunchyroll soon. I'm really enjoying their dub of Yamato 2199.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the fact that Funimation is now backed by Sony the reason why the logjam regarding Yamato 2199 rights was finally broken? Did Sony just throw money at it until the problem went away? |
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klv
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^ That sounds like a fun theory. If someone has information, I am also interested in knowing how that came about.
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Arsenette
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Man the episodes with Treleina/Teresa are still a bit away with this release schedule but I love this friggin' reboot and agreed with the others that the Funimation Dub is friggin' awesome. I pray they have the 2nd season as well. Crossing fingers.
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Wrangler
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I'm psyched. I Still don't want old Star Blazer names in the subs. Oh well.
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DeTroyes
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I have no proof to back up the speculation, except for the curious observation that almost as soon as Sony took over Funimation, a long standing dispute that kept the series away from the US market for years suddenly disappeared. If that is the case and Sony did decide to step up and pay extra to clear the way, then I think that bodes well for their commitment to the brand going forward. Its just a thought. As I said, no proof. But if the suspicion is correct, hopefully that also means the original series will be freed up as well. That we've never had a good DVD/BR release of Final Yamato is a frick'in shame. |
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GeorgeC
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Ah,
So somebody else has noticed the originalYamato HASN'T had a great Western release yet! The original Yamato-era feature films (all 5) were all released including Final Yamato but yeah, the A/V quality wasn't great even in the middle of the anime DVD bubble in the early 1990s. And yet Voyager got the rights to the Yamato2199 and we all know how that worked out! I think they have remastered Classic Yamato but it's never made its way over here... yet. The focus is definitely gonna be on the revamp, like it or not, for the next few years if it DOES make it. We'll see -- I do think how well the revamp does on Crunchyroll could influence the home video release if it happens. It would be nice to get a QUALITY release of the original Yamato on Blu ray but fingers have to be crossed... It remains to be seen what audience there really is for Yamato in the West. They've tried with Gundam -- a nice push in the early 2000s -- but aside from Gundam Wing really, Western fans really didn't bite into the franchise and it's really a cult thing over here. We're also dealing with the ghost of Star Blazers but I don't honestly think that's ever going to be ever redone/remastered like the three shows that made up Robotech were. It's too far in the past and the fanbase for the series was never as big as it was for Battle of the Planets, Voltron or Robotech and I lived through the first-run syndication shows. I kind of want to see uncut Yamato myself, the original show NOT the remake so much. I've seen a little bit of the remake but it becomes a very different series with the focus not so much on Susumu Kodai (yeah, I didn't like some of the changes I saw) and it feels more like a Hollywood revamp of Yamato in ways than even an homage. The live-action film for all its shortcomings was closer to the original TV series than the remake was in senses... It sure matched up more in the "feel" to the classic series (which DID survive the dubbing into Star Blazers) even with some very obvious changes from the beginning (older Kodai, retired from the series, Yuki Mori being a fighter pilot and WSO on the main bridge). |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
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I seriously doubt that had anything to do with it - Sony probably wouldn't have cared one way or the other. It's more likely that they timed the release so that they could start releasing 2202 as soon as 2199's simuldub run ends (which if they don't take any breaks over the holiday period, 2199 would finish its run on May 2, 2018 [US time; a day later in Australia/NZ]) and not beat 2202 onto TV in Japan. If the TV schedule for 2199 is anything to go by, they'll start broadcasting it in Japan in the Spring (2199 premiered on Japanese TV on April 7, 2013 the anniversary of the sinking of the real Yamato). This would theoretically give Funi several weeks to have the simuldub recording started if they hadn't already started recording by then. That said, I seriously hope that TV broadcast doesn't happen like it did with 2199. They had to rush to turn around the last two chapters in four months instead of the six the previous two chapters had been released across and the production quality suffered as a result, to the point where the seventh chapter was that rushed they couldn't have the Blu-Ray on release day like they had the previous six. In any case, don't expect 2202 to be available in the west before it's started on Japanese television.
The didn't "get the rights" to 2199. Voyager are the Japanese company that own the Yamato property (and used to have an American subsidiary up until 2012). That terrible incomplete 2199 release is completely the doing of the Japanese owner of the series.
Why even mention that? The only place Star Blazers nomenclature is used in 2199 is in the title (Star Blazers 2199), apart from one instance in 2202 where a term has been repurposed. |
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