Slayers Season 1 Details

[urufudo]

Okay, I spent a while digging around for information and stumbled onto the Anime on DVD forums. There's a FUNimation representative who posts there and there's a thread on details for the upcoming "remastered" release

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[dqbunny]

For the pricepoint, I wasn't expecting much beyond a repackaging of the CPM series. I'm just grateful to get it - especially since I entered the fandom after the CPM sets went out of print. For $40, I wasn't expected to be handed much more than what the CPM sets were and the subtitles aren't that bad. They're much, much better than ADV subtitles, which I want to hack through with a chainsaw. (And yes, if some of this sounds familiar I did make the same arguments in that thread

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[phibby]

We're better off than the Sailormoon fans who don't have anything at all anymore.

I heard that. The whole SM situation pisses me off so much I can barely stand it. I don't understand Toei's reasoning (like they have any) for pulling all international licenses at all. I can only be so thankful that the first two seasons got uncut, subbed releases (not the ones they deserved, though), but the fact that the manga never got another chance (the PGSM rereleases too good for us?) and the fact that Stars never got a chance in the first place...I don't know what to say.

I think the recent Stars Amazon bootleg debacle, particularly the number of people who were actually buying the set, knowing it was a bootleg/dubless, and the crazy prices the OOP Mixx/Tokyopop manga sells for on eBay (I'd sell my complete set if I wasn't so attached to it and it wasn't falling apart) would clue Toei in that SM can still turn a good profit here, but I guess it's not enough.

I'll never understand it.

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[dqbunny]

The only reason I'm getting classic SM is that my boyfriend managed to snag both ADV sub sets before they went completely out of print. He's indicated that he might give them to me, which means I owe him my firstborn or two. ^_^

What was the Stars Amazon debacle? I've seen some fansubs floating around of Stars for sale, successors to VKLL it seems. My VHS Stars tapes are completely worn through. I also need to buy the re-release of the manga in Japanese. The new covers are all so very pretty. I wish it would be relicensed by a company that'd give it a good and proper translation - say Del Rey or Dark Horse, though Del Rey would be the more likely of the two given their relationship with Kodansha. It's amazing how SM is still so popular, yet they won't give it to us! I feel like watching my "R" movie DVD again...

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[phibby]

I'd buy the first two season boxsets in a heartbeat if they were released again. That said, I wasn't completely happy with the releases when they were in print. Sub par audio and video quality, not to mention episode 67 was still nowhere to be seen. I know that most of this wasn't ADV's fault, but comparing the quality of the Japanese remastered R2s to ADV's boxsets is...well, they're incomparable.

Which is why, if I do end up buying season one and R on DVD, it'll either be Omegapin's fansubs of the remastered R2s, or the remastered R2s themselves (though at $36+ a pop that might be slow goings).

This was the Amazon debacle. Basically, Amazon was selling a bootleg Stars DVD boxset (not through the marketplace, but Amazon itself) labeled as the "Complete Official Boxset." When people discovered this and complained, it was then changed to the "Complete Bootleg Boxset" before finally being taken down a day or two later. Although I generally don't support the selling of bootlegs (why buy something for $30+ when you can get fansubs of

[foxfrosta]

You have a good point about the price. I am still debating on buying it but with two repairs on my car I just don't have it at the moment. But, I did pre-order the novels!!! I can't wait to read them. :)

I had no idea what happened to SM till I just read the post today. Been a little busy lately. Wish I could have gotten the seasons before they pulled them but I couldn't afford them. I have some of the english manga but not all of them. Not to mention the first manga of Sailor V that I found about 6 years ago now. After doing research into Sailor Moon I didn't realize all the things that were cut from it.

I actually have the correct ending to the first season against Beryl since my friend got the bootlegs. I know that's not right but it was the only way we could see it.

I got so upset with DBZ when they changed the voices. My favorite was Piccolo and the new english actor just totally changed what I loved about Piccolo!

[dqbunny]

Gah! Keep forgetting to pre-order the novels! *gets herself over to Right Stuf*

I love the uncut SM series, especially the last season that never made it over here to begin with. I do have SuperS and the movies and I've been doing my best to sweettalk my boyfriend out of his original and R boxsets that he's never even opened.

I understand completely about the car! I just did two major repairs myself. Owie...

[foxfrosta]

They are released supposedly tomorrow. *Jumping up and down in joy!* And, what the great DQBunny hasn't pre-ordered her's yet. He He!

Loved Pegasus in SuperS, he is just so cute. Not opened? Mine would so be opened! I couldn't stand to look at them and not watch them. I remember the first time I saw SM. It was its premier on US TV and I just fell in love with Luna. We had a group of friends that we were all scouts and I took Luna since I found them after the group was started. My best friend was Lita and boy she was her, right down to the cooking. :)

It's that just funny about the car. Mine was the water pump/timing belt and the radiator.

[dqbunny]

I couldn't include them on my pre-order for the boxset, so I needed to go back for them. ;) Plus, the car repairs hurt as well and I didn't want the novels to accidentally send me into the negative. Mine was for the timing belt and the battery.

[foxfrosta]

I know what you mean. I order the novels before my car decide to have problems. So I have to remember to put it in my checkbook since they don't charge you till the product is shipped.

I just paid my car off to. That timing belt is so expensive.