General Discussion

[Nemo]

Expo was so good I could cry. Got all the DVDs I wanted, was kissed by a crazed Gintama fan, got loads of cosplay photos, met some great new people and the Euro Cosplay contest on Saturday was the highly of the year for me. Bloody hell, what a good time. Now back to miserable reality. Here comes the post-Expo depression, right on schedule. Seven months until the next one... the wait is horrible and I am not getting any younger!

Aha sounds amazin

Promise ill come to the next one if i dont have exams and we'll totally meet up and play brawl

[Southe,]

when you give a farewell post your suppose to not post again D:

One Piece Broke 200 Million sales ~ Yay
Sanji was orgionally going to be called Naruto, Changed to Sanji when Naruto came out. thank god for that

- back to south park

[Neversoft]

I'm still happy to keep going as long as other people post as well.

One Piece was actually discussed during the industry panel at the Expo. Some guy asked if it would ever come over to the UK and the manga guy said they have been in constant talks with Toei, but it is taking longer than usual because they first have to talk to Toei Europe who then go off and talk with Toei Japan, who then send back their thoughts and what they would like done different, then Toei Europe have to report back to Manga, then Manga have to report back to Toei Europe when then go and speak with Toei Japan again, it is taking a lot longer than usual because of the three way conversation.

The guy from Manga also said Toei can be a bit of a pain, for example they inquired about licensing Strong World but for them to get Strong World Toei want them to license all of the movies and he said that Japanese companies in general are wary of licensing things to the UK because they don't want Japanese customers to import things from our country for much cheaper than anime is in theirs. He also expressed concerns with the length of One Piece and how big a commitment distributing it will be and that over here the demand for One Piece may not be enough to support what they're doing.

He was talking about One Piece for a good five minutes and concluded that there is a lot of factors they have to really consider, but constructive talks have been going on for some time and they are getting somewhere so it is likely One Piece may eventually come over to the UK.

They also talked about the second season of Haruhi for anyone interested; because of the Endless Eight (8 episodes that are nearl enough exactly the same) he said that will of course put people off buying the series and because of that they're going to bundle the Nyoron Tsuruya san and The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya webisodes with the release, which I personally think it a fantastic idea. Plus although with the second series of Haruhi Manga have also licensed The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, but it won't be out for a while. Other licenses from Manga included K-ON!, Birdy The Mighty: Decode, the second season of Hetalia, Casshern Sins and Highschool of the Dead.

Beez have licensed two shows from the last season; The House of the Five Leaves and The Tatami Galaxy and MVM have licensed The Tower of Druaga and relicensed some of their old shows to ensure they will still be available in the UK. Andrew Partridge also announced he was leaving Beez on Monday and is joining another company named Kaze, which will be distruibuting titles to the UK so thankfully that means we have one other anime distributor over here now.

That's all I can remember from the industry panel! They did talk about bluray but I have already posted about that.

[Neversoft]

Cool, I have been meaning to visit Karnataka so I think I will look into that. Thank you very much! I'll let you know how my holiday was when I get back.

[Neversoft]

Now they removed that spammers post it looks like I am talking to myself. Oh well, nothing new! Wee weee weeee ooh doo lalalaaaaa.

[Southe,]

Nice to know cos usually when they announce new titles they always say no one piece.

Think my south park DVDs are lost since my other amazon order came and was ordered on friday.

Andrew leaving is sad. Seen him at strong world and seen him a few times on the train. Was also nice enough to send me a free ost for a dodgy disk I had.

Amazon pack had - vagabond viz big 1, bakuman 1, fma 2+3, sky crawlers bd, paranoia agent boxset, samurai champloo boxset, blue dragon boxset. Still waiting on bunch of stuff

Only posting in just posting all in 1 thread now

[Neversoft]

Nice, I am thinking of getting the vizbig's for Vagabond because some of the single volumes are becoming increasingly hard to get ahold of, but I have already bought the first 8 volumes so that's a bit of a waste but the vizbigs are such good value for money. I haven't bought any manga in a while though. Still after Evangelion which seems to be out of print and I really want to get Mushishi while I can, since come December Del Rey are withdrawing from publishing manga, but I spent all of my money on travel and at the Expo over the weekend. Typical really, just as they finish publishing the series it isn't going to be available for much longer. Speaking of Expo here is what I bought/got for free. Didn't buy anything on Saturday which is a first for me and only just spent over £80. Usually I spend over £100 easily. First time I went I spent like £250. Although it's not like I had money to throw away this time.

[Southe,]

going to read vagabond now looks awesome. so ill be picking up the others next pay day

Baccano is another box set ill be buying next month along with Beserk. Cowboy bebop theres like 3 boxsets so need to find which ones the best one.

Mr layton hmm still cant get over him and Phoenix wright PW is to awesome to be sharing a game with him. havent played any layton games tho my dad did tho.

[Neversoft]

Yeah, Vagabond is fantastic! I really need to get back into it and the best Cowboy Bebop boxset is the Remix one which I have. It's very well presented, folds out nicely and such and all works fine and dandy. Not many extras but Bebop is rather old so that is to be expected.

It's Professor Layton, not Mr. Layton. I had never played any of the games before I watched the movie and I loved it. The characters are great and would you believe there is even a guy more manly than Kamina in there! Plus the movie was only £5 so I'm not complaining. They had a deluxe edition that had the DVD and Bluray copies of the film, along with an extra disc for extras and some massive booklet and artcards and stuff but that was like £30. They had another set that was £15 that included both the DVD and Bluray copies of the film, but I don't have a bluray player so I just stuck with the plain old DVD version.

Manga had soooo much cheap DVDs there. Entire Claymore series for £10, entire Darker than Black series for £10, the massive Death Note boxset for £30, etc. Wish I bought at least Claymore because that is by far the cheapest I have seen it anywhere.

[Southe,]

My haul

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Still waiting on stuff aswell

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Love him.