v-i.dev
Manic 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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Only one that’s worked for me was Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG, but that was only an “Adult Swim anime” by the loosest definition (and was over 20 years ago now)
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Before this, I thought the only RSP thing on Betamax was the Document File making-of tape. Finding out the film was actually released on the format is super cool.
(Not my photos below):
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what I'd heard-- from Bandai people who will remain nameless-- is that Tomino became interested in Gundam's fate in north america AFTER Wing became a huge breakout hit, and his wishlist started with First Gundam going to TV ASAP instead of the other shows.
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My Japanese professor used to encourage weird sentences in dialogue practice, because it made people stop and actually break the sentence down part by part. No idea if that actually works or not, but it sure was fun
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MTV only aired The Running Man segment, and it has a different dub than the Streamline one (which covered all 3 parts). Which is why I find it so funny that ADV was bragging about the title’s MTV cred on the cover when that dub isn’t even included
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Windaria/Once Upon a Time, Robotech, Crying Freeman, Neo-Tokyo, Doomed Megalopolis, and Casshan: Robot Hunter all made it to ADV DVD with their Streamline/Harmony Gold dubs intact, and only Neo-Tokyo has that credit, weirdly.
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It is. Most of the streamline stuff came in while Macek was actually at ADV, and I think he may have worked on the Neo-Tokyo disc, if this copy his estate is selling is anything to go by.
ebay.us/m/QUVGsE
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Sorry, the discs says BD65089. 650809 is a typo
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Sets seem to have the same SKU, kinda. Anchor Bay set is either BD65089 or ZBD65089LIT, and Lionsgate is 65089 (but the discs say BD650809)
Also, no sign of an updated 2nd GIG set. Please reach out if you find one, I’d love to get pictures.
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Ironically, this very release actually has a big advertisement for the *other* dub smack dab in the cover! (Which is not included, by the way. Pure Macek on this disc)
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And MangaUK was also part of those first 4 stages, so really, I wouldn’t be surprised if their UK branch has similar reprints with minor changes to logos and SKUs
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MangaUS changed ownership 5 times in roughly 15 years (Palm Pictures->Independent->Liberty->Starz->Anchor Bay->Lionsgate). Frankly, I’m amazed there aren’t even more variants, to be honest.
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The Anime Legends sets for Stand Alone Complex 1st and 2nd GIG also got sets with Anchor Bay SKUs (start with ZM). My guess is once Bandai closed up shop, they got permission to keep printing them.
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And a few with a different UPC, but also for the US, Karas Essence being the most notable. I previously thought they were the ones with a free copy of the GitS UMD jammed in, but it appears that was a whole other thing unrelated to the change in UPC/SKU
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Pretty much all of the Manga stuff that made it to the anchor bay days has at least 2 versions at this point. The original 1999 GitS DVD has at least 3 (not even counting the essence of anime one)
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Been working on a list of UK anime dubs recently.
Vampire Wars, Sword for Truth, and Psychic Wars are the last known Manga UK/CTV Studios Cardiff dubs, all coming out in '98. (Unless I missed one)
CTV was the recording studio for the 2004 Welsh dub of Medabots, but Manga had no involvement in that
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Interestingly, it was the very last dub Manga ever did at World Wide Sound, and Manga wouldn’t record another dub in the UK until Millennium Actress at Village Productions 5 years later
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(Unaffiliated eBay link if you would like to purchase the advanced piece of audiovisual equipment in the pictures)
ebay.us/m/gmddtg
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Okay, I lied. The *main* site was last updated in 2012. Apparently by then they were selling “Himidifiers and Flat Screen TVs”, because I’m sure there’s a ton of overlap in those.
www.broksonic.com
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eBay’s been overrun by AI descriptions over the last year or so. They’re pushed really hard when you list an item, and there’s seemingly zero consequences for a hallucinated description with no relation to the actual item. Wish I screenshotted the Blu-ray set I saw that was described as a Betamax.
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This is anecdotal, but I’ve had a glass screen protector save my phone after a face-first fall onto gravel on 2 separate occasions. No idea how much armor you want to addd to your phone, but you can get a 3-pack for like $8 (the “nice” ones are functionally identical)
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Unfortunately they’ve been out of the smartphone business since 2021, so I’d be worried about parts availability
www.lg.com/us/notice
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Ah, here we go. They *will* be the largest shareholder, but not yet.
If this deal was made a number of years ago, however, it would predate any Sony ownership
www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-to-beco...
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Except Sony’s not the majority owner? They’re #11
group.kadokawa.co.jp/global/ir/st...
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Of course, the wizards at Corning keep on claiming newer versions of Gorilla Glass are more shatterproof (and they don’t seem to be any more scratch-prone), so clearly there’s a lot more to physics than can be conveyed in 280 characters.
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As I understand it, there’s an inverse relationship between being shatterproof and being scratch proof. A plastic screen (like the Nintendo Switch) is nearly impossible to crack, but scratches super easy.
Last phone I know of to go plastic was the Droid Turbo in 2015
www.wired.com/2015/11/the-...
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There's more than 250 titles in the Crunchyroll catalog that were a condition of licensing the newest titles. All Japanese companies care about is flooding streaming platforms with what they consider bad bets to earn the losses back.
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It’s got Spanish and Portuguese subs as well, and I don’t think those were on the ADV DVD, but as for the video itself, I have no idea.
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480p only as well. While it never got a BD in Japan, it did have an HDTV broadcast, so this is really disappointing.
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Crunchyroll likely got it from Kadokawa in a bundle with more contemporary licenses. Standard practice when I was there was that they'd negotiate for a new show in exchange for taking on older catalog shows that haven't otherwise seen recent visibility.
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It’s also oddly subtitled only. I get not including the MTV dub of The Running Man, but the lack of the Streamline dub makes the whole thing feel super low-effort, even for CR.
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That alone may explain a lack of Discotek release, as they work with Kadokawa incredibly infrequently.
I’m really just curious how and why it ended up on CR, and sub-only to boot.
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Correction, 2008 dvd
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ADV’s DVD lists Kadokawa as the copyright holder, and they’re they ones who handled the most recent JP release, the 2003 DVD
chronotomo.aaandnn.com/2003/01/dvd-...