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Obsessed Spreadsheeter (ist? izer?). Likes old anime dubs, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and that weird sticky goo that holds magazine inserts in place. Frequently wrong.

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susVIRia
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These liner notes aren't the most words I've said about The Big O, but it's the most I've ever said about The Big O There are plenty of deep, D E E P cuts in here and clarification of some common and widespread misconceptions!

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That's a lot of notes.

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Neat seeing a fancy logo for Tatsunoko’s 65th anniversary on Outlanders and Speed Racer. I wonder if any other western-market anime releases will have it before 2026 ends.

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Tsun. All Tsun.
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Reminder that advertising and editorial are completely siloed from each other at ANN. I'm as disappointed as anyone else to see this on the feed.

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Really not happy to see ANN running an advertorial for an AI company.

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CNN
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Eric Bauza, the voice actor behind the modern-day Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, among other iconic animated characters, has died at age 46, according to his family and official health records. https://cnn.it/3TWijLJ

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One of my favorite cases of weird disc reuse. Bandai originally released Blue Sub No.6 on 4 DVD-5s. For the “special edition” box set, they reduced this to 3, and added a bunch of extras only authoring one new disc. How? They reused the singles, but as 2 double-sided discs (plus a bonus disc)

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Looking into it, it appears that Impact Video likely managed to get out the entire series over 13 DVDs. Neat. Always super cool to see an English-language anime DVD from a country you don't normally think has an anime home video market like South Africa or India. web.archive.org/web/20101124...

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Additionally,if anybody knows which episodes are on these UK-market VHS tapes, and if Harmony Gold edited them in anyway, I'd greatly appreciate it. #1 and #2 are 88 minutes, #3 and #4 are 65 minutes. I'm attempting to document the home video history of Speed Racer, and it's slowly driving me insane

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Interesting discovery: At some point in the late 80s, Harmony Gold was distributing Speed Racer for Trans-Lux in the UK. This is a fascinating discovery, because it may provide the missing link for how Speed Racer Enterprises came to be (1/5)

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Additionally,if anybody knows which episodes are on these UK-market VHS tapes, and if Harmony Gold edited them in anyway, I'd greatly appreciate it. #1 and #2 are 88 minutes, #3 and #4 are 65 minutes. I'm attempting to document the home video history of Speed Racer, and it's slowly driving me insane

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My assumption is that the 65 minute ones are The Most Dangerous Race (eps 9-11), but I have no idea if Harmony Gold edited it down for time. As for the 88 minute ones, I have no idea. That would cover The Great Plan and Challenge of the Masked Racer (eps 1-4), so maybe it's those?

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Interesting discovery: At some point in the late 80s, Harmony Gold was distributing Speed Racer for Trans-Lux in the UK. This is a fascinating discovery, because it may provide the missing link for how Speed Racer Enterprises came to be (1/5)

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Either was looking to sell or decided not to renew their license, of course Tatsunoko would go to Harmony Gold first. As for why they passed on US rights, I'm not sure, but I have heard that the attempts to sell the series in the UK didn't exactly take off, so maybe they passed? (4/5)

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Rocknowski recognized that unlike the UK, the US actually had some nostalgia for Speed Racer that could be exploited, and thus, SRE came to be. Of course, if anyone has any other good sources on the foundation of SRE, please let me know! It's anime history! (And I may be obsessed)

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Interesting discovery: At some point in the late 80s, Harmony Gold was distributing Speed Racer for Trans-Lux in the UK. This is a fascinating discovery, because it may provide the missing link for how Speed Racer Enterprises came to be (1/5)

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In 1991, Trans-Lux would sell the rights to John Rocknowski, who would establish Speed Racer Enterprises, and would control the rights to the series into the 2010s. What I didn't mention was that in 1991, Rocknowski was an employee of Harmony Gold! (2/5)

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While I've certainly not read every single interview and feature that SRE ever put out, I was never able to figure out how the rights to Speed Racer just fell into Rocknowski's lap, but these UK tapes serve as the missing link! His employer already had UK rights, so when Trans-Lux... (3/5)

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anime diminishment: The Mild-Injurers

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So what exactly is the point of giving GKIDS store exclusives MSRPs if they’re only ever sold on “discount” on the GKIDS store? It’s actually impossible to pay $59.99 for Angel’s Egg, so are they really allowed to say that’s the actual price?

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Dooby-Scoo has arrived. WB missed a golden opportunity to put Hotdog Water on the 6th disc for the joke. Someone ironic to say it’s part of the “Hanna-Barbera” collection considering both William Hanna and Joseph Barbera *hated* Mystery Inc.

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Anime Dubs
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New English Dub Episodes for Detective Conan are scheduled for November 1st, streaming on Crunchyroll & Netflix with Selective Eps at 12 a.m Pacific Time. Studio - Studio Nano Director - Apphia Yu Casting Director - Michelle Rojas

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Justin Sevakis
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I don't mind saying that these are INCREDIBLE commentaries. I learned so much about the inner-workings of the 80s OVA scene, and the cottage 90s dub scene in Wilmington, NC.

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Cover reveal for Phantom Quest Corp, hooray!

Media Blasters@media-blasters.com

Back to chain gang for me at MB and give you guys some exciting updates on all our productions. For those wanting to order any of our wares new or catalog go to mb-storefront.com #tokusatsu #ecchi #anime #anime

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Space Leech
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Vampire Princess Miyu arrived, but for some strange reason it has box art!? Oh well, I’ll just have to take matters into my own hands.

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“Only Japanese Company” How things have changed since 1997 (The complete anime guide, 2nd edition)

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This technically isn’t correct as Voyager Entertainment had been around since 1993, but it’s still quite different than today.

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Genshiken 2 is up for preorder on Media Blaster’s store (and MediaOCD) MB-Storefront has free shipping on everything and 10% back in points And no, I do not know why they replaced the season 1 page with season 2. Can’t even backorder S1 on their site right now. mb-storefront.com/products/gen...

mb-storefront.comGenshiken Season Two [BD]GENSHIKEN 2: TV SERIES SEASON 2 COMPLETE- Welcome to the strange world of Japanese fandom geekery, where cosplay is a year-round thing, and memes are the basic form of communication. Genshiken boldly ...

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James GHOULizio 👻
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Seeing some folks speculate this is a bit, but uhhhh he reached out to media with a PR blast and offering to do interviews. This is probably genuine.

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Kotaro Uchikoshi next game got cancelled. crashkeys.com

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Peow2
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🪲INCOMING LICENSE‼️ Alien 9 -The Complete- by Hitoshi Tomizawa Grimcute sci-fi?! A grade school Alien Defense Force risks their lives on a daily basis to dispatch aliens that are constantly trying to invade their school. It’s sticky, slimy, scary work, but somebody has gotta do it. Coming 2027

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Mike Toole
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Damn. I didn’t know this was a finished retail sample with an SKU and everything. oh god they probably had to landfill a few thousand of these

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Super excited to see them go back and license Kino’s Journey. Not often we get classic LNs licensed. Back in the day, Tokyopop put out 1 out-of-order compilation volume before giving up due to “issues with the licensor”

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Also: The Girls Adrift Among the Stars, Dungeon Master: Creating a Hot Spring Dungeon, and more!

animenewsnetwork.comYen Press Licenses Fate/strange Fake, Kino's Journey, Spice and Wolf Diner: Gourmet Exploration, More Manga/NovelsAlso: The Girls Adrift Among the Stars, Dungeon Master: Creating a Hot Spring Dungeon, more

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Sean | Zimmerit
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The very odd phrasing of this announcement makes me wonder if it’s an iffy translation or there’s some strange legal situation where the movie as a product (or physical product) cannot be sold. Like, streaming is okay but no blurays or if this just means the characters and music can be used.

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It’s not split over 12 discs, huzzah

AnimEigo@animeigo.com

The Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie Trilogy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Box is up to pre-order and will be shipping this month! Beginnings, Eternal, & Rebellion are all here subbed & dubbed from Aniplex of America! mediaocd.com/product/puel...

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So another interesting tidbit they dropped on Facebook: Macross Frontier goes up for preorder in December, and in the U.S. it’s through the new GKIDS store, despite being an Anime Ltd license. Sure seems like Toho wants to bring the two closer together.

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from a facebook post of the nycc 2026 macross panel: its happening.

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Juliko
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Reminder for anyone interested: If you have an account on the MediaOCD site, you can use their extremely generous points system to reduce prices on stuff you buy, Aniplex stuff included. Not perfect, but it's better than nothing. And I can confirm that their points system is EXTREMELY generous.

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Aniplex of America arrives at the MediaOCD store with four box sets! Gurren Lagann: TV Series Complete Blu-ray Box and Gurren Lagann the Movies 4K! Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 1 and The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam! More to come! mediaocd.com/shop/?post_t...