Anime Titles You Want Licensed

by Ggultra2764 Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 14:47

I recently did this video on ten unlicensed anime titles I'd like to see get a North American release in the near future. But aside from my personal thoughts, do you have any favorite anime titles you'd like to see get licensed in your country?

by Robert Frazer Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 15:02

I know I keep griping about this, but it's a genuine irritation - five months later, and I'm still waiting on a PAL release of Il Teatrino being even announced let alone released! Hissy fit

Two other series which I've greatly enjoyed but never received a Region 2 treatment are Princess Tutu (don't laugh, ballet's not girly, it's art, and this fairy tale is incredibly composed) and Outlaw Star (a hi-octane scifi extravaganza which isn't sophisticated but is just concentrated fun-fun-fun). As both of them have been out for a while I doubt that we'll ever see them revived again, which is a great shame.

by **Kiskaloo** Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 15:35

Angel Heart
Aoi Hana
Banner of the Stars III
Dennou Coil
Dirty Pair TV
Getsumen to Heki Mina
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu
K-ON!
Kara no Kyōkai
Kimi ni Todoke
Macross Frontier
Macross Zero
Minami-ke
Nyan Koi!
Patapata Hikousen no Bouken - Secret of Cerulean Sand
RD Sennou Chosashitsu
RideBack
Rosario + Vampire
Rosario + Vampire Capu2
Sasameki Koto
Seitokai no Ichizon
Sora no Manimani
Stratos 4 Advance
Strike Witches
Toradora!

by Piero Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 16:01

I'd snap Ga-Rei Zero and Canaan up in a heartbeat if they were given a box set release over here. (And yes, that's in spite of the latter's storytelling issues.)

I'd also like to see a Macross Frontier release, but that's unlikely to happen given Harmony Gold's tendency to make life miserable for anyone who tries to license Macross series. No one wants to risk an hideously expensive legal battle with them.

Other shows I might pick up if they were licensed over here include Nyan Koi and Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (the latter being a show I actually wouldn't be surprised to see get licensed over here).

by Five_X Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 16:09

Strike Witches was licenced recently, Kisk. FUNi's releasing it in March. I posted something about it a little while ago, in the Random Media thread I think.

by 0utf0xZer0 Sun 3 Jan 2010 - 16:34

Some picks other people have already mentioned:
Spice and Wolf II: likely dependent on season 1 sales.
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu and Looking up at the Half Moon: some of the best "short but sweet" (six episode) romance animes I've seen.
Toradora: Taiga is the only Rie Kugamiya tsundere to make my favourite tsunderes list.

I also would probably second Piero's Ga-rei and Canaan picks just for some genre variety, although they aren't quite as important to me as the previous four.

Other picks:
EF: A Tale of Memories and Bakemonogatari: two of the three Shaft shows I would consider part of my top ten - the other being the already licensed Moon Phase. Nothing against shows like Maria Holic and Hidamari Sketch, but if you're going to license Shaft shows, why not get the best?
Kurenai: A near perfect storm of cuteness, character development, and action. Needs a second season ASAP.
Zipang: Geneon actually did have the license for this awesome military thriller at one point, but it's been out of print for a couple years and never really got the attention it deserved.
Wagaya no Oinari-sama: mischevious fox spirit, dojikko miko girl, and one of the greatest dance EDs ever. Gets points for being one of those shows that can appeal to my... "interests" without making me feel like I'm being completely pandered to.
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni and Higurashi Rei: The former loses points for the fact that it tries to cram too much into it's last plot arc, but these are both solid entries from the crew behind the original Higurashi.

And Robert, I hear you about the lack of remastered sets of older series. I've seen rips of a few of the R2 rereleases out there and the image quality is far and away better than the R1 discs I've seen of those shows.

by Totoum Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 0:41

French edition:

the "wishfull thinking" section:

-denno coil (still hoping...)
-Sketchbook full color's (no way it will ever happen though)
-Cross Game (might happen considering the manga seems to be out and selling well)
-Phantom (probably will happen,everything bee train has ever done has been licenced)
-True Tears (still hoping...)
-Canaan (Probably won't be)
-Summer Wars (Pretty sure it will be)

the "why the fuck isn't this lisenced yet?" section:

--Lucky Star (saying moe isn't that popular in france is quite an undersatement,hell,even Azumanga Daioh is an obscure title,though it is licenced)
- 5 cm per second (wtf?how come I can see paprika,the girl who leapt through time,piano forest and a bunch of other movies in theatre and Makoto Shinkai remains ignored?)
-Darker Than black S1 and S2 (wtf?Lots of other Bones anime have been licenced,why not this one?)

the "Why the fuck is this ALREADY Licenced?" section

-Kobato (yeah,I know it's clamp,but still,it got licenced before the show started,and the licencor has got a deal where the air it on their tv cable channel the same day as it airs in japan...)

by **rusty-spring** Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 0:50

El Cazador de la Bruja

by Piero Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 0:56

rusty-spring wrote:El Cazador de la Bruja

That is licensed.

by **rusty-spring** Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 0:57

Is it? I've been out of the anime loop for song long I have no idea what's cool anymore. Pokemon still popular? And what's all this stuff about "Moe"? I thought the 3 stooges died out long ago.

by Sakura Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 1:03

Library Wars. It came out when the 2nd season of Code Geass was showing so it was off my radar until a friend told me about it.

by Piero Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 1:09

It was licensed in February of last year and released on DVD in November and December.

For the record, I've been caught off guard by some recent developments too. Someone licensed Monster and recently released the first part of the series, which actually kind of surprised me, I watched that show with an anime club I was part of years ago. Finding out that it had an official release over here surprised me, and what surprised me even more was finding out that the company that released it decided to dub it. Back before the current trend of sub only releases for niche titles, I figured the cost of doing a dub for a series as long as Monster would be one of the biggest hurdles the show would have to face in getting a North American release (it's 74 episodes long, which probably makes producing a dub expensive, and it's not exactly the most mainstream of titles either).

by **rusty-spring** Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 1:26

Sakura wrote:Library Wars.

Yes, a very cute show. Anime Titles You Want Licensed 735198

by Totoum Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 1:34

Wow,you guys didn't get Monster until a little while ago?Guess that shows that the anime market isn't bigger or smaller in France,it's just different.

Monster was licenced years ago and shown on tv at a good timeslot on france's most popular cable channel.

by Alfisti Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 1:46

Sakura wrote:Library Wars. It came out when the 2nd season of Code Geass was showing so it was off my radar until a friend told me about it.

Definately want to see Library Wars licensed.

Other than that... did Red Garden ever get licensed? 'cause if not I'd like to see that done.

by 0utf0xZer0 Mon 4 Jan 2010 - 3:53

Red Garden is licensed in the US, I think. Been thinking of checking it out since I loved the director's work on Kurenai.

Totoum: I've always gotten the impression that the broadcast market for anime is better developed in some European countries, France included, than in the US, but that the DVD market is less developed. Do you have any idea whether this is the case?