[quote=“The Coffee God”]
[quote=“celestial_being”]
Sadly otakon tends to be the place where acquisitions are announced, as opposed to where near-future awesome releases are announced, which is rather brutal as it is a lot of hype then for properties that take at least a year to come out, case-in-point: Sunday Without God (14 months), Fate/Illya (13 months).[/quote]
I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at with this.
If they’re simulcast announcements, of course the release will be much later.
For the 2 examples you used…
Sunday Without God - 8 month turn around between final JP volume and ENG collection
Fate/Illya - 8 month turn around between final JP volume and ENG collection
This really goes without saying for any simulcast announcement, regardless of where their announced, be it at AX (which will probably have a few) or Otakon (which will also probably have a few).[/quote]
What I’m getting at is that the announcements at Otakon, and not just from Sentai, have a history of being ones that are for products that are not in the near future. Last year the “hype train” was made up of Rescue Releases and acquisitions like the aforementioned 2. When otakon rolls around this year will any of them have been released? So far, the answer looks to be no.
Spice it up a bit by bringing some (preferably all) more pertinent, more realized announcements to otakon and giving some (if not all) of the nebulous “we’ll release this thing sometime in the distant future…maybe” stuff to AX. Besides the (horrible) announcement that the “bluray rule” had ended there were precious few “near future” announcements from Sentai @ Otakon 2013.