Re: Bringing LOGH to the US?
Dan Milliken (outlawed@pobox.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:57:13 -0500
# LOGH_LURK=OFF;export LOGH_LURK
NOTE: I have only seen up to episode 42
At 02:04 PM 7/21/99 -0700, Hank Wong wrote:
>Well from talking to Robert Woodhead at the convention, it seems Macross
>will keep Animeigo very busy for at least the next year. And even if they
>had the bandwidth, there are four other series ahead in Animeigo's "queue"
>so to speak (the series petitions on their site.) Besides, Animeigo does
>not do dubs (although I prefer subs, I agree with Lee, it probably needs a
>dubbed version to succeed here.)
Of the well-known anime translators stateside, Animeigo is currently the
only shot for Ginga. However, I'm almost positive it won't happen.
Animeigo already has one long fan show (Urusei Yatsura) and look how long
it has taken them to get this far. Until they finish that you can bet they
won't even consider it. I was on Animeigo's discussion ML's for a little
bit when they were first created. One of my posts mentioned that I would
love to see them do Ginga. The response from Mr. Woodhead was something like:
Oh great. Now you want me to do a serious so long I won't be done till
early retirement.
Although he was making a joke there is some truth in all things. I'm sure
Animeigo would seriously consider doing Ginga but their plate is full.
Though never having met him, Mr. Woodhead seems to have a very good sense
of humour besides being one of the best commercial subtitled anime
supporters of the fan community.
I will make one point on the dub. To get that to succeed you're going to
need the support of something like PBS. The demographic that buys the
anime dubs in retail is not the type of market for which Ginga will bear
fruit. In fact I will go so far as to say it would be hard with the subs.
Several people I have show Ginga to said they liked it but would not go to
the bother to buy something that is so much talking. In otherwords the
show is just to cerebral for them. I guess they want more action but that
is not what Ginga is.
I'm not trying to discourage stateside licensing with this but merely
making a few points. Personally I would rather see the Japanese companies
themselves or a true subsidary or branch office of theirs release their
works stateside. Well at least it's happening with the Five Star Stories
manga.
Until then the only one to rely on is yourself. And I intend to do that.
So now that Macross is licensed.........
I could use some help being pointed towards places to buy the first two
Ginga LD boxes as close to yen retail as possible. And I do mean as close
to yen retail as possible.
>I'll try and post my comments on the convention and panel tonight.
I look forward to hearing them.
Until the next...
Dan Milliken
Email: outlawed@pobox.com
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