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They are actually planning for Super Robot Wars (Super Robot Taisen) to evolve into an international franchise.
Also, Atlus is going to handle translations and adaptations.
Good luck with the copyrights, however; while Go Nagai may have managed to get a better hold on his intellectual property by reorganizing his property and subsidiaries during the ( Read more... )
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In our country this has led to a certain amount of brand competition. Bandai Ent. is releasing Galaxy Angel AA and X to coincide with the release of Galaxy Angel Rune, though someone suggested to me the other day the possibility that Bandai Visual said to Bandai Ent, hey guys, you've been sitting on this property for a while, release it or we'll take it back and then I bet you we'll make some MONEY on it.
Something goofy is going down, anyway! Unfortunately I lost my invitation to the last Namco-Bandai board meeting so all I have is conjecture... ^^;; Story of my life! :)
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In Italy the story is even a little weirder, if possible. Back in the Eighties, Gundam first appeared - but the licensing was, shall we say, less than perfect and Sunrise got justifiably appalled. For about twenty years, the white suit and its descendants were conspicously absent from local networks, though Bandai kept selling (more carefully) its other series.
The market of course isn't a uniform thing: there are two-three main companies with licensing rights to Sunrise products (ranging from classics like Daitarn 3 to Cowboy BeBop), networks both public and commercial (sometimes through the official mediators, sometimes directly: RAI is just going through a rerun of Gear Fighter Dendoh).
Even then, there have been problems (Mediaset, Silvio Berlusconi's brainchild, was the first to get Gundam back with Gundam Wing; however, they mauled it because they wanted to sell it as kid show. The original Gundam was later shown almost as a disturbance, in a Sunday morning timeslot).
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