I wonder if SpikeTV or SyFy would foot the bill for the dub if ADV got it. Golgo 13 is the direct opposite of what the anime market is right now, and I think that’s a great thing.
Well, how about that!
Wonderful! :cheer:
Golgo 13 as a show is great. Golgo 13 dubbed by Sentai is excellent, the perfect blend of tongue-in-cheek humor and seriousness. It’s like this decade’s Orphen, only better 
Golgo 13: The Professional is atrocious and destroys the character of Duke Togo.
Getting back to the show, lines in the dub like “Is it because Golgo 13 is Asian?” and “What’s up Doc?” were hilarious. I’m enjoying rewatching the show in English after having seen it in Japanese, something that I rarely do. This is just that good.
I have my copy of Volume 3 on pre-order. Once it comes out I can track down Chris Ayres again and ask him to sign it, like he’s done for the other 2 volumes 
Volume 3 should be shipping out today or tomorrow from Rightstuf. Not sure why but IS broke from the stranglehold and shipped before it even though they both came in and were waiting to be shipped.
Alright, my copy has been waiting to be shipped for months now.
I wonder when it’ll go up on TAN.
It probably will, seeing as how they started replaying Golgo on VOD from the begining.
I hope so, as it is a classic (best and most plentiful Fosterization in years), but I wish there were a date for it to debut on TAN. DVDs are for filling shelves and collecting signatures, not for watching, but if I must watch on DVD, I will.
Regardless, Golgo 13 volume 3 needs to hurry up and get here as I need something to overwrite David Wald’s role in Fairy Tail, in my.mind.
Well, if you do the math from the episode we got last week on VOD, I’d say begining of Sept.
Brutal. I’ve wondered how Funimation can have a same-day streaming policy as it eliminates pretty much any desire for fans like myself to buy their physical releases. I guess Sentai wondered about that too
It could be sooner if they decide to double up on the episodes down the line.
But seeing as how it’s on VOD for all companies, both 30 & 45 packages, that’ll likely not be the case.
Is there really any link between VOD and TAN in terms of post dates for video? Looking at it myself, I don’t see a case for any correlation (or even association, before someone mentions it 
).
This is one of the few areas in which I feel funi outdoes Sentai. To use a quote from American animation:“You knows it!”
Episode 22 is re-airing this week on VOD… I think it’s my favorite one. They had some fun with the dialouge, the sheriff bears a striking resemblance to Burt Reynolds, and the VA on the deputy does a good job of reminding us of Junior, son of Buford T Justice, without being over the top.
In fact, I kind of want to watch the subtitled version to see if the one crack is a localization inside joke or not -
Episode 35: Mr. Crump, the real estate mogul. Gee, wonder who he’s supposed to remind us of?
Episode 36: minor goof. I don’t remember ever seeing a horse track with a road racing course in the middle of it. Usually it’s an oval and they go however far the race distance is.
I really need to break out my DVDs of this and finish rewatching it dubbed. I wonder what Foster did during the forced by circumstance to fight the American mech episode and the John “The Duke” Wayne episode.
Episode 46:
If you pay attention to the black and white movie clips the bad guys are watching in their little theatre, you should be able to pick out not only the actors but the movies a lot were taken from… Stagecoach (John Wayne), Casablanca (Bogart and Bergman), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Jimmy Stewart), pretty sure I picked out Cary Grant too, I’d have to watch it again and pause it but I could probably pick out the rest. That was a fun little detail.
I enjoyed that treat as well! I thought I was seeing things till I backed up and replayed it. It was well done too. 
I liked the inclusion of those films (fitting as “The Duke” is supposedly Duke Togo’s namesake) though I’m a bit leery of the episode overall for the same reasons that I’m leery about the ending of the hilarious “Battle Royale” episode (which I believe to be the penultimate ep) or the episode in Hawaii where the US military is portrayed in a negative light and Golgo kills the US agent who had long known of Golgo but had never made real moves to stop him just to be a dick.
Then again, as episode 2 (the balcony sniping incident; Room 909) shows, the USA depicted in Golgo 13 is a fictional construct where the Bill of Rights never happened, every cop is Dirty Harry or the guy from The Shield and the country as a whole is a combination of Hollywood’s depiction of the Wild West & Imperial Japan, so I can’t really take umbrage at it as an American as the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek.
Besides, we all know that Japan still has a raging Karate Kid/kohai “complex” with us 
I was amused when they called it the “DIA”
I agree about the ep in Hawaii, and there’s a few other similar instances where that sort of thing happens.