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Speaking of dub casts, Shakugan No Shana season 2 confirmed for mass VA replacement. The rabid fanboys probably won't like this...though Christopher Bevins is directing, so that's a good sign at least.

edited 29th Jun '12 4:20:48 PM by PikaHikariKT

Mass: Implying some might return. If they don't at least bring back Tabitha St Germain, I will rage.

edited 29th Jun '12 4:34:02 PM by JenKunoichi351

Don't mind me. I'm just a creepy little lurker.

Don't call me out on my poor wording. I try to warn the fans in advance and that's the thanks I get...

Anyway, AX license rundown.

Sentai Filmworks: Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere II, Hiiro No Kakera, the Legend Of Heroes VI anime, Hakuoki Reimeiroku, Mayo Chiki, Idolmaster Xenoglossia, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, and Campione.

Funimation: Michiko To Hatchin, Ikki Tousen Great Guardians and Xtreme Xecutor (NOOOOOOOO~), Blood-C (both series and movie), Appleseed XIII, streaming rights for Binbogami Ga and Hagure Yuusha No Aestetica (Aesthetica of a Rogue), and dubbing rights for Jormungand and Aria The Scarlet Ammo.

edited 16th Jul '12 9:31:56 PM by PikaHikariKT

Only Campione even slightly has my attention from that entire set of licenses. Oh well.

Oh, Sentai pulled a last minute one on us — La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia...yeah, I have no idea either. x-x

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_storia_della_Arcana_Famiglia

Sorry if I sounded rude. It's just that Tabitha St Germain is my favorite of the Canadian V As and it's rare for her to be in anime to begin with, so I was having a bit of a "rabid fangirl freakout moment" when I heard that news.

It's probably just me, but I'm really underwhelmed by the AX announcements. There's still a good number of fan-favorite titles from last year that are stuck in a licensing limbo, and I guess I just had some unreasonable expectations. :/

And Tokyopop was there apparently. I'm very confused with them at the moment. Are they dead or not?

Don't mind me. I'm just a creepy little lurker.

Sentai has also just licensed Qwaser Of Stigmata.

edited 1st Jul '12 10:14:22 AM by dmysta3000

Tokyopop is moribund, but certain of its corporate office functions are still ongoing.

"moribound?"

They don't actually do anything anymore, but some of the offices still have people operating in them.

Watch Symphogear

Sentai has also liscened Detroit Metal City

... You're shitting me. There's no way that that near-pornographic, lactation-breastfeeding-fetish-revolving anime would ever make it into the Western world's markets unless it's restricted to the adult-only sections!

What's next, Manyuu Hikenchou?

edited 1st Jul '12 4:43:01 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Marq, you're forgetting a few things.

For instance, how Queens Blade acted as life support for Media Blasters for so long, how well stuff like High School DXD did in Japan, how it seems that you can almost guarantee that someone will pick up the most explicit anime of any given season given that they don't hit Kodomo no Jikan levels...

They need to grab the explicit stuff because, sadly, this is what sells. Universally. With the upcoming court case, both Sentai and Funi are gonna take a serious hit in legal fees, so of course they want to brace themselves.

edited 1st Jul '12 4:51:22 PM by burnpsy

Thankfully, that's apparently one anime we'll be glad that's not getting a dub if it's THAT bad.

And now they got Dakara Boku Wa H Ga Dekinai and Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers). Oi, Otakon's gonna be rough at the speed they're going.

edited 1st Jul '12 4:58:54 PM by PikaHikariKT

There is difference between importing an anime heavy with "mainstream" fanservice, and importing one whose very premise has "graphically-depicted erotic lactation and adult breastfeeding" as a core, defining tenet that not a single episode passes without a considerable portion of its scenes involving either one. Last I know, such a premise would not only be very much an Audience-Alienating Premise in Western cultures ^note IIRC breastfeeding in public, and to some people even the very idea of breastfeeding, has a lot of negative social stigma in the West — and that's all when the one being fed is a baby. I don't need to tell you what the general public in the Western world thinks of erotic lactation and adult breastfeeding, do I?, it would be guaranteed to attract the Moral Guardians like moths to a massive bonfire if there was so much a hint that the European/American-based publishers had the intention of putting on the "mainstream" works sections.

I don't think it's bad per se. I'm just astounded that a Western publisher thinks that they could get the Audience-Alienating Premise past the Moral Guardians and the culture barrier — Europe and the Americas are a lot more uptight about nonmainstream sexuality in mainstream works than Japan is. Heck, how much of Western porn even goes as far as Japanese porn goes in nonmainstream sex?

And what's this "Dakara Boku Wa H Ga Dekinai"?

edited 1st Jul '12 5:07:12 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

...you're not very well-versed in how these things go down, are you?

You generally don't see most anime at actual mainstream brick-and-mortar stores, and these are generally low-profile enough to not attract Moral Guardians.

Unlike manga, that gets shipped to most bookstores, so Kodomo no Jikan had to be cancelled when there were mass order cancellation threats by the bookstores.

Ergo, Qwaser won't even register a blip so long as they keep it to online sales. You overestimate anime's visibility to mainstream audiences.

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Also, we have the Summer 2012 Anime page for new anime you don't know. Personally, I think Dakara Boku Wa H Ga Dekinai's official English title ("So I Can't Play H!") sounds like utter nonsense.

edited 1st Jul '12 5:11:19 PM by burnpsy

Ah... I don't live in Europe or the Americas, so I mostly go by my own personal deductive and/or inductive reasoning-based speculations. I do know that they're comparatively a lot less conservative than where I am living, though.

It's online orders-only? Well, that changes everything. ^^;

edited 1st Jul '12 5:16:40 PM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Yeah, anime that hasn't aired on TV is generally online-only. Especially if it's a sub-only boxset, like Qwaser will likely be.

Still, you'd have to wonder at how Sentai Filmworks' leadership managed to stomach the premise. Maybe they're largely amoral and pragmatic commercial-oppurtunists?

I dunno, it kinda fits with the "lost his erotic spirit" premise. At least it's not as long-winded as Ore Imo's english title.

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Oreimo's official title for Western markets is... Oreimo.

Much like how Haganai's official dub title will be Haganai.

edited 1st Jul '12 5:20:11 PM by burnpsy

.... It's not "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute"?

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They probably figured the shorthand Japanese title would work well enough.

You ninja'd my edit saying FU Nimation though the same with I Dont Have Many Friends.

edited 1st Jul '12 5:21:39 PM by burnpsy