I wonder how cheap some of those licenses are.
A title that would be cool to see licensed with a dub is Aika Zero OVAs. As far as I know it wasn’t licensed but AIKa R-16 Virgin Mission was.
The Eureka Seven suggestion makes me wonder how (or if) its new sequel will be licensed in NA.
Witch Hunter Robin would be cool to see in print, though anyone who hadn’t already bought the discs would miss out on the physical extras. The shotglass was an odd, but cool touch. I wish I had the money to finance a redub of that series as the dub is notoriously bad. It’s ironic too, as Crispin was not only a main character but a script writer and he has stated that he’s committed to making anime dubs not suck as they did in his childhood. Minor tangent, I know.
Outlaw Star could stand to live on, so could the classic Planetes, which will fit nicely into Sentai’s lineup when they release this season’s Space Brothers later on (hint hint) 
I’ve been dropping to not to subtle hints to people I know that Sentai should go for the new E7 AO series. If not I see it as a Funimation pick up.
Only the first special edition volume of Witch Hunter Robin of the singles came with that shot glass which usually ended up broken during shipping. Can’t tell you how many got returned to stores because of it. Or sat for years after because of the sound of broken glass. I have the first Fake book Complete Collection from when Bandai was doing there impractically shaped boxes that would never fit on the shelf right. Those all usually came with some kind of trinket as well. Witch Hunter Robin it was a set of three character pins in a coffin shaped holder box. S-cry-ed it was a key chain . Though the first S-cry-ed collections box was such a odd and ugly thing I contacted Bandai and they sent me the singles covers which I put in my own cases and oddly I somehow ended up with the artbox and physical extras from the first volume.
Outlaw Star would be nice as it received a remaster in 2006 in Japan we never got. I actually think most of Bandai Entertainments early titles have since gotten a remaster we never got as the Parent company does not seem to like us very much. Big O for example had a recent Blu-ray set come out over there. Way more then I could spend (around $430) but it came in a cool Black Blu-ray cases and had the English audio.
I’ve been curious about the fate of IGPX . Cartoon Network partnered with Production I.G. for that but I believe its only ever run once on CN years ago. I’m not sure who has rights to the show either I assume CN here and Production I.G. there.
The biggest release wise shame of this whole Bandai thing is Gundam. I’m pretty sure other then Gundam Wing , G-Gundam , and perhaps SEED most other companies won’t see the value in the series. Plus who knows if the Japanese will even let it be released by someone else. Been at least nice to get ZZ and V to finish out the UC shows or for them to at least have pushed the Turn A release out before they shut down DVD production. Maybe Discotek could pull another miracle out their rear or Rightstuf/Nozomi might take a chance.
I said this earlier I believe that most of Bandai Entertainments releases could probably use a new release from someone else as a lot of the older and some newer stuff had menu or player compatibility issues. That as DVD players break and Blu-ray players become more prominent people will probably lose the ability to play them.
I’d personally also like to see the Please Teacher and Please Twins series rescued by Sentai as they’d go nice with Waiting in the Summer. Though the fact Waiting in the Summer is not getting a dub from the start tells me they don’t see the value in those two series or they’d be dubbing Waiting in the Summer probably.
Going to throw this in to close. Bandai Entertainment had a lot of titles over the years that if for nothing else were dubbed making good filler programs for both VOD and Online services. Heck there might even still be a home media sale or two left in them .
They have never been mentioned I think but is a no-brainer The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, & Lucky Star I want then on blu-ray.
Haruhi, even though the first season didn’t live up to expectations, was one of Bandai’s better sellers. They will probably be holding on that until the license expires, which should still be a few years away. It wouldn’t be too surprising to see Lucky Star going out of print though.
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Only the first special edition volume of Witch Hunter Robin of the singles came with that shot glass which usually ended up broken during shipping. Can’t tell you how many got returned to stores because of it. Or sat for years after because of the sound of broken glass. [/quote]
Interesting. I’m glad that when I tracked mine down last year the shot glass was unbroken. I was also surprised that the shirt wasn’t as wimpy as other Bandai shirts were. ADV wasn’t really known, at least not to me, for having cool physical extras. 
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I have the first Fake book Complete Collection from when Bandai was doing there impractically shaped boxes that would never fit on the shelf right. Those all usually came with some kind of trinket as well. Witch Hunter Robin it was a set of three character pins in a coffin shaped holder box. S-cry-ed it was a key chain . Though the first S-cry-ed collections box was such a odd and ugly thing I contacted Bandai and they sent me the singles covers which I put in my own cases and oddly I somehow ended up with the artbox and physical extras from the first volume.[/quote]
I too know of the utter suck of the book-styled cases. After I got Geneshaft (one of many decent Sci-fi shows once licensed by Bandai) in that style of case I refused to get any more. Those things make the hated Sentai Stack-pak look awesome in comparison IMO.
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Outlaw Star would be nice as it received a remaster in 2006 in Japan we never got. I actually think most of Bandai Entertainments early titles have since gotten a remaster we never got as the Parent company does not seem to like us very much. Big O for example had a recent Blu-ray set come out over there. Way more then I could spend (around $430) but it came in a cool Black Blu-ray cases and had the English audio.[/quote]
I liked Outlaw Star, more than CB, and I’d definitely buy a copy if Sentai were to license it, especially were it to come out on blu-ray. Though certainly not at that Japanese price point. Sorry Gene Starwind, you ain’t worth 400+ bucks.
I don’t think anyone needs to rescue-release Angel Links though. It literally killed Outlaw Star.
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I said this earlier I believe that most of Bandai Entertainments releases could probably use a new release from someone else as a lot of the older and some newer stuff had menu or player compatibility issues. That as DVD players break and Blu-ray players become more prominent people will probably lose the ability to play them.[/quote]
I’m certain that blu-ray drives play DVDs…??
I’d like to see the Otome series rescued. One of Bandai’s finer works.
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I said this earlier I believe that most of Bandai Entertainments releases could probably use a new release from someone else as a lot of the older and some newer stuff had menu or player compatibility issues. That as DVD players break and Blu-ray players become more prominent people will probably lose the ability to play them.[/quote]
I’m certain that blu-ray drives play DVDs…??
I’d like to see the Otome series rescued. One of Bandai’s finer works.[/quote]
They do. However, Bandai was known for having a lot of encoding issues with their releases that would render their discs unplayable or would cause glitches on certain players. Some of their older titles hardly work on newer bluray players. I have a couple Bandai discs that cause my PS3 to make HORRIBLE noises and sometimes the playback locks up for instance.
Also, Pup wasn’t referring to the thick bricks that Bandai used on many of their releases, as did ADV on many of their earlier complete collections. I believe he was referring to this: Amazon link: Witch Hunter Robin: Complete Collection It was actually a digi-pack insider a cardboard case designed to resemble an actual book.
they can always go for the greatest anime ever:
Dan Doh!! The Super Shot
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Also, Pup wasn’t referring to the thick bricks that Bandai used on many of their releases, as did ADV on many of their earlier complete collections. I believe he was referring to this: Amazon link: Witch Hunter Robin: Complete Collection. It was actually a digi-pack insider a cardboard case designed to resemble an actual book.[/quote]
…I totally forgot that version existed. I can see how that would be worse than their suck-tacular “Anime Legends” collection.
I’m trying to remember an ADV release which was like the Bandai legends packaging, but I’m drawing a blank.
Steel Angel Kurumi and The Devil Lady both used that packaging. I believe there are a couple more, but I can’t recall them at the moment.
Are you talking about the horrible brick packs?
Like the ones they used for the 3 seperate complete Robotech collections?
Yep, those are what we’re talking about.
I believe it was Complete Collections releases from around late 2003 to 2004 that used the alpha-brick case. Bandai Entertainment , ADV , and I think Media Blasters Media Blasters used them. My main issue with them is its impossible to get a replacement case that will fit the covers. They also had a issue with disc coming loose during shipping to stores and from hands mishandling them in stores. The local Best Buy I remember it being next to impossible to find one without a loose disc. Lucky the few I got with loose disc had little to no damage. I’ve seen horror stories from them though. I also noticed a few of mine the plastic has become brittle and either the tab that holds the pages together are breaking off or the case itself is starting to crack. Course the tabs breaking from the pages are nothing new it happened to them new a lot as well.
Why did the brick and the stack-pak come before the idea of putting 4-5 discs in a case about the same size as a single DVD case, and why does only Funimation seem to do that?
Sadly, looking back over my collection (Which is like Gilgamesh’s from Fate/Zero), I realize that I actually do own one of these monstrosities as I have the classic Ghost Stories dvd complete collection. I totally forgot as I bought that for the sole purpose of collecting signatures. I didn’t actually watch the show on those DVDs.
Hmmm I could have sworn Ghost Stories was a 5 disc M-lock not a alpha-brick.
These are the Alpha-pak bricks we are talking about.
The Multi-disc M-lock cases Bandai and ADV used were actually quite nice . I’ve only ever had a issue when the machine or person did not engage the lock correctly. Even then the disc stayed on the hub.
M-locks Multi-disc have at least two hubs that look like this
The 4 disc and below all of the hubs are like that. The 5 Disc and up the center page hubs were different.
Bandai had a odd ball version of the M-lock 4 disc case it was basically two double disc cases stuck together then had a holder for the cover around both cases. It’s a very odd thing I’ve only seen once in my Angel Links set.
My main problem with the standard sized multi-disc cases of today is when they get over 4 disc most of the ones used are ones that overlap the disc. I’ve seen a six disc ones that had a disc per side not overlapped but not many use them.
Yeah my original statement was aimed at Bandai Entertainment’s player compatibility issues. Not many of them were ever fixed either. Bandai seemed to use the same encodes for all versions of their stuff.
[quote=“celestial_being”]Why did the brick and the stack-pak come before the idea of putting 4-5 discs in a case about the same size as a single DVD case, and why does only Funimation seem to do that?
Sadly, looking back over my collection (Which is like Gilgamesh’s from Fate/Zero), I realize that I actually do own one of these monstrosities as I have the classic Ghost Stories dvd complete collection. I totally forgot as I bought that for the sole purpose of collecting signatures. I didn’t actually watch the show on those DVDs.[/quote]
That would be quite odd for Ghost Stories to have that type of case. It was one of ADV’s later complete collections and they have switched over to the double width cases by then (about the thickness of two DVD’s.) As Pup said, ADV hasn’t used those since the early 2000’s.
The fact that Outlaw Star played on April Fool’s Toonami block means Bandai still has it.
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[quote=“celestial_being”]Why did the brick and the stack-pak come before the idea of putting 4-5 discs in a case about the same size as a single DVD case, and why does only Funimation seem to do that?
Sadly, looking back over my collection (Which is like Gilgamesh’s from Fate/Zero), I realize that I actually do own one of these monstrosities as I have the classic Ghost Stories dvd complete collection. I totally forgot as I bought that for the sole purpose of collecting signatures. I didn’t actually watch the show on those DVDs.[/quote]
That would be quite odd for Ghost Stories to have that type of case. It was one of ADV’s later complete collections and they have switched over to the double width cases by then (about the thickness of two DVD’s.) As Pup said, ADV hasn’t used those since the early 2000’s.[/quote]
I stand corrected then. I tar all “book-type” cases with the same brush as they all blow, and blow hard. I’d rather have the singles and an artbox than any of the variations of the abhorrent book-design (and my collection reflects that). The multiple-dvds-in-one-normal-sized-case design is far superior, I find. Are those types of cases really too expensive for Sentai to use?
Though if the ancient AD Police: To Protect and Serve case (NOT the double-pack with Parasite Dolls, the original one), is an example of this other type of book-like case that you describe then I do own one. The DVDs were tedious to get out of the case for ADP as you can’t “push the spindle” to release the disc in any way, you have to pop the disc out from a groove along its edge, which looks similar to the pictures you’ve posted (Thoug ADP is only 2 discs). If only that had been streaming here then I wouldn’t have had to track down a used copy to watch, but that’s a different topic altogether.
Funny I generally find most of the current multi-disc normal sized keepcases to be horrible. Especially when they are eco-friendly cases. The ones Bandai and Rightstuf have used for their more recent releases horrid. I greatly prefer M-locks as do many collectors if if there is no artbox and singles. The hubs generally tend to hold better and they allow the disc to float just the right amount so it does not get damaged on the hub during shipping. I actually have a bunch of the single disc ones I used to replace my Scanavo grip of death cases Geneon loved to use. Rightstuf used the single M-locks for the longest time on their releases because they had one of the best track records of staying intact during shipping and day to day handling.
Yeah Bandai pretty much anything that came from their Japanese parent like Outlaw Star they still have. Only a few are still in print though. I think for the most part all but a few of the titles Bandai had on TV here were Sunrise or Bandai Visual shows. The problem is though Bandai Ent. Japanese Parents fear reverse importation a little to much and usually we have a inferior release compared to what Japan has or we got some kind of crappy excuse as to why something was licensed then never released.
It’s very hard to say with Bandai Visual or Sunrise titles if they will go to anyone else or if they will release a Japanese version with the dubs and English subs instead of letting someone else license it here again.