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''Discotek Media'' (also known as Eastern Star) is an entertainment corporation in the business of licensing, translating, and releasing Japanese anime and live-action movies, adult anime, independent movies, and television series to home-video in the North American market. Despite being formed in 2005, they didn't become active in the anime business until around 2008 (their early output consisted mostly of samurai films with a couple of old Toei anime movies thrown into the mix). The crash of the North American anime industry in the late 2000's[[note]] (it started in 2007 with the sudden shutdown of Creator/{{Geneon}}, accelerated in 2008 with the collapse of Creator/ADVFilms, continued through the 2009 liquidation bankruptcy of Creator/CentralParkMedia [which hadn't released anything since 2006], and finally ended with Creator/BandaiEntertainment's closure in 2012)[[/note]] probably aided the rise of Discotek – with other major distributors going out of business, drastically cutting back, or at least not renewing obscure vintage titles, this left the small startup Discotek free to carve out its own niche.

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''Discotek Media'' Discotek Media (also known as Eastern Star) is an American entertainment corporation in the business of known for licensing, translating, and releasing Japanese anime and live-action movies, adult anime, independent movies, and television series to home-video home video, based in the North American market.Altamonte Springs, Florida. Despite being formed in 2005, they didn't become active in the anime business until around 2008 (their early output consisted mostly of samurai films with a couple of old Toei anime movies thrown into the mix). The crash of the North American anime industry in the late 2000's[[note]] (it started in 2007 with the sudden shutdown of Creator/{{Geneon}}, accelerated in 2008 with the collapse of Creator/ADVFilms, continued through the 2009 liquidation bankruptcy of Creator/CentralParkMedia [which hadn't released anything since 2006], and finally ended with Creator/BandaiEntertainment's closure in 2012)[[/note]] probably aided the rise of Discotek – with other major distributors going out of business, drastically cutting back, or at least not renewing obscure vintage titles, this left the small startup Discotek free to carve out its own niche.
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They also announced a partnership with streaming site Website/{{Crunchyroll}} to release a few select titles from Crunchyroll's catalogue for home video. In return, some titles from Discotek's catalogue became available on Crunchyroll for streaming. They also have deals with Retro Crush, a streaming service dedicated to older anime.

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They also announced a partnership with streaming site Website/{{Crunchyroll}} to release a few select titles from Crunchyroll's catalogue for home video. In return, some titles from Discotek's catalogue became available on Crunchyroll for streaming. They also have deals with Retro Crush, Platform/RetroCrush, a streaming service dedicated to older anime.
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* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' (so far the two several movies and the ''Episode One'' specials that TMS dubbed with Creator/BangZoomEntertainment)[[note]] Despite the series finally being freed from Funimation's name changes, their releases still uses the ''Case Closed'' moniker (as is the case with English releases of ''Conan'' in certain territories), but only on the slip cover, the inside case still uses the ''Detective Conan'' name to get around the legal issues [[/note]]

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They also announced a partnership with streaming site Website/{{Crunchyroll}} to release a few select titles from Crunchyroll's catalogue for home video. In return, some titles from Discotek's catalogue became available on Crunchyroll for streaming.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Done with the ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' released. They announced they were canceling their planned upscale of the original. Because they had found the long-thought-lost 35mm masters.
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* BetterExportForYou: A lot of their releases that either had subpar upscales in Japan or were never released on blu-ray in Japan either get released in native HD or a better upscale by this company. Examples include ''Street Fighter II'', where the US got an HD blu-ray release, while Japan was stuck with an out of print {{DVD}} release from many years ago in terms of physical media. Another example is ''Digimon'', where Discotek upscaled the SD masters, which, while showing ''slightly'' less picture than Japan's own HD master, has its details MUCH less washed out and more pronounced.

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* BetterExportForYou: A lot of their releases that either had subpar upscales in Japan or were never released on blu-ray in Japan either get released in native HD or a better upscale by this company. Examples include ''Street Fighter II'', where the US got an HD blu-ray release, while Japan was Japan's stuck with an out of print {{DVD}} release from many years ago in terms of physical media. Another example is ''Digimon'', where Discotek upscaled the SD masters, which, while showing ''slightly'' less picture than Japan's own HD master, has its details MUCH less washed out and more pronounced.
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* BetterExportForYou: A lot of their releases that either had subpar upscales in Japan or were never released on blu-ray in Japan either get released in native HD or a better upscale by this company. Examples include ''Street Fighter II'', where the US got an HD blu-ray release, while Japan was stuck with an out of print {{DVD}} release from many years ago in terms of physical media. Another example is ''Digimon'', where Discotek upscaled the SD masters, which, while showing ''slightly'' less picture than Japan's own HD master, has its details MUCH less washed out and more pronounced.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: The entire ''Franchise/LupinIII'' franchise is pretty much this for them, especially considering that they do a lot of license rescues for titles that have otherwise never been officially released in the US.


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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: They're often an ''official'' version of this. A good number – probably a majority – of their acquisitions had, at some point in the past, been licensed by another company, but the properties then went into limbo for whatever reason (i.e. the license expired and/or the original company that held the US rights to the property went under). Sadly, however, even Discotek isn't safe from this, as most of their early anime and live-action movie licenses such as ''War in Space'', ''Lupin III: Film/StrangePsychokineticStrategy'', and ''Lupin III: Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' have gone out of print. In some cases, such as the initial four-volume releases of the ''Fist of the North Star'' anime, this is because Discotek put out a more recent rerelease.
** We can add their release of ''Manga/DNAngel'' as well. Like ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' above, it was a series they rescued from this, only for it to go back some time later.
** Some other notable examples include their releases of ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' and ''Anime/AngelCop'', which for the longest time, both titles had botched or low-quality releases[[note]]''Project A-Ko'' due to its original film print having been thought lost by the original producers until recently; while ''Angel Cop'' was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in a cropped, 16:9 aspect for both English and Japanese releases until the 2022 release. This one restoring the original 4:3 ratio the series was animated in since its original VHS release.[[/note]].
* NoDubForYou: Sort of. ''If'' there's no pre-existing English dub for a show or movie they plan on releasing, it almost definitely means they'll be putting it out sub-only. If there ''is'' a dub, odds are good they'll include it [[note]]This includes examples such as ''Fist of the North Star'', ''Super Dimension Century Orguss'', and the Red Jacket ''Lupin the 3rd'' series, where the English dub is partial[[/note]]. If there are DuelingDubs, they might try to get ''all'' of them.
** Apparently, even the existence of a pre-existing dub is still no guarantee they'll include it, as their release of ''Dallos'' demonstrates (though to be fair, the dub for that series wasn't particularly good quality). To a lesser extent, there's their release of the ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' movie, which includes the Streamline dub, but not the Manga dub due to copyright issues with the licensed music soundtrack.
** Averted with their release of ''Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen'', which included a brand new English dub. Discotek would later follow this up with additional English dubs of other 2010's-era ''Anime/LupinIII'' productions, including ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure''. Discotek have since commissioned other dubs, including ''Manga/HellsAngels'' and ''Anime/KemonoFriends''. Many of those dubs were made courtesy of Sound Cadence Studios and Creator/TeamFourStar.
** They were open for a possible dubbed home video re-release of the first season of ''Anime/{{Free}}'' after the initial sub-only release. Crunchyroll, who licensed and dubbed the second season, would produce a dub of the first season with the Funimation cast from and include it on a rerelease of the first season.
** Possibly an inverted example is their DVD and SD Blu-Ray release of ''Sonic X'', which only has the edited [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] English dub — and unlike with ''Samurai Pizza Cats'' and ''Monster Rancher'', there are currently no plans for a separate release of the uncut version with subtitles. That's because 4Kids, when streaming the show subtitled on Hulu, did not provide TMS with the timed subtitle scripts. This means that a subtitled release (or even re-dubbed) would require a complete recreation of the subtitles from scratch, a feat that Discotek isn't sure is worth the time, effort, and cost.[[note]] It doesn't help that ''Sonic X'', at 78 episodes, is a rather lengthy series.[[/note]] The uncut subtitled version was eventually released in April 2023.
** Similarly to the ''Sonic X'' example, their re-release of ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'' only has the English dub with no Japanese track included. However, unlike ''Sonic X'', the English dub was actually recorded first due to the movie [[ShortRunInPeru being released in America and Australia over a year before Japan got it]], making this a straight example.
** Their dedication to the Dub cause is evident with Ninja Robots, scouring archives for the dub, asking fans if they had copies and after exhausting all avenues and coming up with everything but a couple of minutes of audio, completed the dub themselves. Considering the "Mad Movie" like nature of Ninja Senshi Tobikage, this is probably the only series they could have gotten away with that move.

** There are movies that Discotek has mentioned that they would have liked to dub, such as ''Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion'' and ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'', but are unable to because the music and effects tracks, which are required to make dubs, are lost.
* NoExportForYou: ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust''. Fans had been asking for years that the Japanese audio be included on any re-release, but when Discotek requested it, they were denied, the original rights-holder stating that the Japanese track was not to leave Japan.
** Their main market is North America, the UK, West Europe and the Pacific. If you live outside of those regions, chances are any anime they release onto Crunchyroll will not be available to you.


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* SequelFirst: They released ''Diebuster'' (even doing so with the name ''Gunbuster 2'') several years before acquiring the license to the original ''Gunbuster''. Discotek has also licensed ''Tekkaman Blade II'', but has yet to license the first ''Tekkaman Blade''.
** They released several ''Franchise/LupinIII'' specials before they put out the original ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 "Green Jacket"]]'' series. Had negotiations not fallen through, they would have released the third ''Lupin'' movie (''Babylon'') before the first (''Mamo''). But since this franchise runs on NegativeContinuity, it's not too big a deal.
*** However, the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' crossovers, which ''do'' share continuity with each other, were also released out of order: [[Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConanTheMovie the movie]] was released before the [[Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan TV special]], but in this case the switcheroo was due to the video for the latter being... ''[[https://twitter.com/BradyHartel/status/1530548737810083840 rather messy]]'', so the movie wound up releasing first while the team went work fixing up the TV special.
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''[[note]]Both the original Japanese series and its English release, referred to as Season 1 of ''Digimon: Digital Monsters'', were released as separate Blu-Ray sets.[[/note]]
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** ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie''[[note]]Includes both a remaster of the original CompilationMovie, and brand new uncut dubs for the [[Recap/DigimonAdventurePilot Digimon Adventure pilot]], [[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame Our War Game]], Game]]'', and [[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M1TranscendentEvolutionTheGoldenDigimentals the Adventure 02 movie]].[[/note]]


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