Toon Zone Talkback - Otakon 2009: Bandai Industry Panel

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Bandai's first Blu-Ray release for a series, hmm...maybe they'll do it for Gundam 00 someday relatively soon.
 
432 theaters is a solid nuraber. Still waiting on the official theater list to be announced, but I'm pretty sure there's one about 30 minutes from me that'll carry it.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you go to the Fathom events page and enter your zip code on the upper right it provides a list of participating theaters in your area.
 
Not surprisingly, they seem to have a surplus of Lucky Star shirts, they gave one out to everyone at the surprise panel at last year's Otakon. Then we danced with JAM Project.

Wow, that wasn't working before. It's going to be playing at the theater a few blocks from my house! As much as I'm not liking some of their recent business decisions, all the news relating to Eureka Seven has been very welcome news.
 
Oh my God, the US debut is on my birthday.

I usually don't go out of the way for stuff like this but I think I have to this time. I love E7 too much to miss this in theaters. Especially as one that's showing this is about 7 miles from my house. That's a helluva lot better than the One Piece movie when it came out.
 
Humm, nothing on Rangers at all.

Was kind of hoping for some kind of clairfication on the mixed messages we've been getting.

of course, if they're going to shock everyone with it being either animated or Shinkenger then any toys would still be hush hush until they were further along.
 
Glad to see that the film will be playing in a theater I stopped going to after the crew took too long to clean up the room where I was going to see the film Robots. I wished the Eureka Seven was at AMC White Marsh 17.
 
Yes, those shirts, some of the worst DVD pack-ins IMO. I haven't worn mine since I got it last Otakon, it was fun then, but too erabarrassing anytime else. The Eureka Seven shirts were better, and I plan to wear one of those when I see the movie.

Hopefully the fact that Bandai's putting Kurokami on Blu-ray means we'll see other shows on the format sometime later, like Code Geass.
 
Wow, there's actually 1 theater playing it in Connecticut.

I'll have to thank Bandai for at least thinking about New England, we're always left out of everything else.
 
I want to know WHY Code Geass is not on Blu-Ray. There is simply no exscuse for a series to not be released on DVD and Blu-Ray at the same time.
 
But Geass was #10 in anime DVD sales in Q1 2009. Kurokami is coming in fresh, albeit off of a TV run and an online stream. Geass or Gundam would make more sense for high-def first, it seems to me. But hey, that said, they may very well know what they're doing...

Edit: Well, come to think of it, a lot of the people who might buy Blu-Ray already own the Code Geass DVD's...ergo, actually, doing it upfront with a new title probably is the best move by far. There's no guarantee people will double-dip at all, especially when the show isn't even done releasing. And yeah, it's expensive. Gundam 00 is just about the only series I would buy in HD right now.
 
I'm gonna point out an ugly truth. Bandai Japan are now much more controlling of BEI. It was Bandai Japan that waited until the final 00 DVD volume was released over there before going "Da da, BLU-RAY!"
 
Yeah, they want to move as many discs as possible in Japan, although any Japanese fan should have expected Blu-Ray as inevitable if that was what they wanted to hold out for. Well, so far as the R1 market goes, it makes sense...you make sure a title is popular and then you go to Blu-Ray. With very few exceptions (Shigurui), FUNimation's Blu-Ray releases are titles that were out awhile on DVD. For Bandai, it's been movies up until now.
 
It comes back to [evil]Reverse Importation[/evil] once again.
Japan was just starting their Blu-ray release of Code Geass when the DVRAB were coming out in the US.

Since Japan and North America are both Region A for Blu-ray, you can bet Japan will wait until any Blu-ray release is long finished over there before allowing the series to be released in Hi-Def over here.
 
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