09/27/2001 Edition

Here we go again. Back from a convention, have news from 2 of them, some new announcements made this week, lots of opinions flying back and forth about the latest discs to hit the market... This is how a forum should be! (regardless of whether you guys deprive me of all my sleep while I'm reading this stuff!)

Everything to Everyone

There's soooo much con news, I'm not going to bother re-posting it this week. Instead, gonna move right to the important parts - The summary of events this week

Whether real on or on DVD - Girls take all your money
 

After Chris posted a very positive review of ADV's upcoming Princess Nine disc, a few forum members got together to curse his very name. The excitement about this disc really seems to be increasing weekly, and the impressions we'll see when the disc finally gets in everyone's hands should be interesting.

Male, Female... Blue?
 

A review regarding the Blue Gender dub was posted to the forum over the weekend, and ended up revealing some details about the Blue Gender DVD that should put some minds at rest. Original openings and endings are in there, as are the original eyecatches. The dub has redone versions of the opening and ending, but the originals are present on the Japanese audio track.

CHRIS-BEVERIDGE
 

Lots of name calling and finger pointing over registered trademarks of names. End result of discussion: Everyone has agreed to spell Tokyopop and Synch-Point anyway they want. Just like it was before :P

Let's go fly a kite...
 

Kite: Director's Cut DVD 1/29/2002. DVD version of the less-cut Kite VHS that came out earlier in 2001

*bounce*
 

Despite the lack of any fanfare, CPM has licensed the 4 episode OAV Geobreeders 2. Being the huge fan of Geobreeders I am, I just felt I had to mention this despite the fact that it is mentioned on the main page.

Are you the Gatekeeper?
 

Early impressions of the Gatekeepers DVD seem to be pretty good. The pack-in extra is "Earth Defense Licenses". DVD Extras include: Special Prologue, Special Ending, Non Credit Opening and Ending, and TV commercials. Neat reversible cover

X: not just a common mathematical variable
 

The DVD is out on the streets, but what does everyone think? The opinions on content are all over, but people do agree that it's a pretty horrible dubbing job. Technical job on DVD seems ok, though it's not anamorphic.

As if Evangelion wasn't confusing enough..
 

Evangelion boxes, box set. The only known details right now are that the remastered Vol 1 will be available with a box. Buying this box + disc will be the only way to get the remastered Vol 1 for now. When the stock of original volume 1s is depleted, they will be replaced with the remastered disc.

Blurred Image... made clean

CPM is looking into remastering a number of their titles that were released under sub-license from Image Entertainment. While we already knew about Project A-ko and La Blue Girl, forum posts have indicated that Iria, Big Wars, Twin Angels, Roujin Z, Harmageddon, and Lodoss OVA are up for a possible remaster.

Big Numbers:
Number of locked General Forum posts: 8
Number of people who support more descriptive Studio Feedback Forum topics: 8 of 8
Number after GrantM's name: 45000
Number of anime cons that should be allowed in a weekend: 1
Number of anime cons that occurred this weekend: 2
Quote of the week: (1-p)^4 + 4* p * (1-p)^3 = 0.95 -quen
 

Amazingly enough, this already marks a month that I've been writing this article, and I've only received one piece of hate mail! I guess this means you all like the job I'm doing. Starting next week, I'll go ahead and start linking to an archive of the articles, and I'll be writing 'Forum Buzz' weekly, without fail.

Thanks for the support everyone!
Sean Broestl
broestl@animeondvd.com