#AnimEigo

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News - Justin Sevakis' production company, MediaOCD, has acquired anime label AnimEigo! According to their press release:

"AnimEigo's home video releases will continue to be available at retailers through MVD Entertainment Group, who will also continue distributing AnimEigo's digital releases. AnimEigo's current and future limited-edition crowdfunded releases will remain under the AnimEigo brand.

AnimEigo's digital storefront will continue to operate under new management, migrating to the MediaOCD website "in the coming months."

Husband and wife Robert Woodhead and Natsumi Ueki, who own and operate AnimEigo, will support MediaOCD during the transition process, with Woodhead saying that AnimEigo will help MediaOCD founder Justin Sevakis with the transition "over the next few years." In addition, Woodhead and Ueki will continue to manage current and future Kickstarter projects, ensuring all promised goods are delivered, and providing support for previous Kickstarter-funded releases for the forseeable future, including the recently ended Kickstarter campaign for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again. Woodhead and Ueki plan to "slowly ease into retirement." "

AnimEigo was the first anime distributor in North America to acquire and release anime subtitled and uncut by anime fans, for anime fans, in 1988. Their first ever release was Metal Skin Panic MADOX 01, which was released in 1989.

[kitsugar01]

I drew natsumi and miyuki from your under arrest. One of my fav dubs from AnimEigo

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For anyone who may be interested, the crowdfunding/pre-order campaign for AnimEigo's release of Macross II is up and running, which is the kick-off for Big West's announcement from a few years ago that most of Macross would be making its way West.

They're also gauging interest for a UHD version of Macross II, which would be a separate campaign, but one for which they would be doing a new transfer, which is pretty great! The campaign has a little form for that, if you're interested.

And if by some chance you've got a ton of money, you can even get a painting from Haruhiko Mikimoto!

[sean-gaffney]

AnimEigo was the first anime VHS I bought (Oh My Goddess). It's not the end of an era (Robert Woodhead is merely "transitioning slowly into retirement"), but it's the start of the end of an era. Glad to know it's in good hands with Justin Sevakis.

[dyka-official]

With just under 3 days left to go, the #MacrossII kickstarter is almost to its final stretch goal! Let's push it over the 351k hurdle and get us all that 4K Blu-ray!

[comfortfoodcontent]

1991 AnimEigo Bubblegum Crisis Anime VHS Tapes Magazine Ad

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1992 Genesis Surviver Gaiarth - Artmic’s Forgotten Franchise

A 3-part OVA series released by ARTMIC from April 22, 1992 to April 28, 1993, Genesis Surviver Gaiarth is a sci-fi post-apocalyptic story that blends in elements of fantasy and mecha (the latter being ARTMIC’s staple).

The plot sees humanity living alongside powerful cyborgs, androids, and mechanical beasts on an Earth crippled long ago by a global war that pitted imperial and republican forces against each other. Orphaned as a young child, protagonist Ital Del Labard was raised by a robotic veteran of this war named Randis and trained in the art of sword combat. One day, their homestead is attacked and Randis is slain during the battle, forcing Ital to abandon his destroyed home and become a wanderer. During his desert travels, he encounters Zaxon, a war robot suffering from amnesia who bearing a striking resemblance to Randis,and the hot-headed junk hunter Sahari. Sahari quickly takes a liking to Ital and soon the three form an adventuring party, traveling from town to town in search of treasure and Randis’ lost memories amidst the ruins of the imperial and republican armies.

This OVA series, alongside 1994’s Genocyber OVA series, marks the end of ARTMIC’s golden age that first began with the OVA Gall Force: Eternal Story in 1986. By this time, ARTMIC’s legal and financial problems which began due to the lawsuit with Youmex over the ownership of the Bubblegum Crisis/AD Police franchise were starting to take a significant toll on the studio. After Genocyber’s conclusion, ARTMIC would decline further as they took on licensed projects to keep themselves afloat until the design studio’s dissolution in 1997, with the majority of its properties falling under the ownership of its frequent collaborator AIC. It is not known currently if Genesis Surviver Gaiarth is one of the properties acquired by AIC.

This series was also one of the earliest titles to be released in the US by the anime distribution company AnimEigo in the early 1990s. The OVA series was originally released subtitled, but later received a dub produced by Southwynde Studios/Swirl Studios, the same company which dubbed Bubblegum Crisis and 1989s’ Riding Bean OVA (even sharing a few voice actors with these anime). AnimEigo has never released a DVD or Blu-Ray for Genesis Surviver Gaiarth, and it is unlikely that they will for the foreseeable future. (Above is the cover of the screener VHS released by AnimEigo)

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Some comic news and reviews from around the web to kick off the day! #comics #comicbooks

It’s a holiday here at GPHQ but we have a day packed with news, reviews, and more! We’re kicking it off with stories and reviews you might have missed from around the web! The Beat – Abrams announces FANFARE imprint for children’s graphic novels – Interesting. Kotaku – Madame Web Is Getting Absolutely Cooked On Social Media – Oooph CBR – Oldest North American Anime Distributor AnimEigo…

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Bumping into announcements that AnimEigo, the long-enduring anime-releasing company, had been sold to MediaOCD, which until now I’d thought of as just “the production house of Discotek,” was indeed something...

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MediaOCD Acquires AnimEigo's Home Video Distribution Business

MediaOCD and AnimEigo have announced that the two companies have reached an agreement to transition AnimEigo’s mass-market video distribution business to MediaOCD over the coming months. The brand will join MediaOCD’s existing home video label Whole Grain Pictures. AnimEigo will continue to release current and future limited-edition crowdfunded projects using the AnimEigo brand. Founded in 1988,…

[false-songstress]

The AnimEigo Kickstarter for the Macross II BluRay is LIVE

[ here is the link ]

The Kickstarter ends Jan 15 2024 - they did note the add-ons will be available in their store after Kickstarter orders are filled, I'd imagine the BluRay itself would be too but they did not specify that anywhere

and they have noted the discs are NOT region-locked

[animenostalgia]

Tomorrow I'll be streaming a watch-along for the new Animeigo Townhall Stream they'll be doing! Come watch and chat along with me Monday, April 22nd at around 8:45pm EST on my Twitch channel here. I'm looking forward to hearing about what's happening in the future of AnimEigo. Hope to see you there!

[verm1c1de]

oc voiceclaims,,,,

manon: martha ellen senseney [as lum, urusei yatsura, animeigo dub] alternatively, terri hawkes [as sailor moon, dic dub]

marron: the sweet dulcet sounds of silence alternatively, suggest what Mew think hed sound like if he said things

dango: kent osborne [as deckard, bee and puppycat] alternatively, max mittelman

kingsley: jamie demetrious [as fingers, dead end paranormal park] alternatively, alex beckham [as mettaton] announcer shmip: the doctor [whoefur the hell that guy from neytirixs videos is] alternatively, ron perlman [as slade, teen titans]

shnumy + jangles: DONT. even look at me idk. i have no idea. pick a pair of creepy twins furom basically any media and mewve got these two alternatively, natalie venetia belcon specifically in schadenfreude [as gary coleman, avenue q]

[chernobog13]

ZATOICHI'S PILGRIMAGE (1966)

This was the second Zatoichi film released in 1966, and the fourteenth in the series over all.

Zatoichi, tired of killing, has traveled to Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, to visit the 88 temples there in an effort to atone for his sins. However, his entreaties to God/Buddha go unheard, as he is soon attacked by a sword-wielding man, forcing Ichi to kill the man in order to save himself.

Ichi then travels to the man's hometown and meets his sister, Okichi. She initially attacks Ichi when she learns he killed her brother, but her resolve melts when she sees how repentant Ichi is.

Okichi tells Ichi that her brother was sent to kill him by Boss Tohachi, one of the more despicable villains in the series, who loves to torment people with his bow and arrows. Tohachi has his eyes on Okichi and her property, as well as taking over the entire town. Surprisingly, the townspeople don't seem to care, and are unwilling to help Ichi and Okichi's efforts to stop Tohachi.

This film, based on the opening scenes, seemed to be going in a different, more risk-taking direction than preceding entries in the series. Several reports state that the studio, Daiei Film, insisted on a more conventional Zatoichi film and intervened to ensure they got one. That doesn't negate the fact that this is one of the better entries of the middle period of the series. The final fight, especially, is extremely well executed, with Zatoichi not only overwhelmingly outnumbered, but harassed by Tohachi's arrows at the same time.

This title was not available commercially on DVD in the States for the longest time. When Home Vision Entertainment first released the series (or at least the first two-thirds), Zatoichi's Pilgrimage was missing. AnimEigo, which then released the remaining films of the initial 25, did not release Pilgrimage either. In order to see the film, I ended up purchasing a DVD of it from Britain (luckily I had an all-region player).

I later found out that the Weinstein's, through (what was then) their company, Miramar, had bought the rights to Zatoichi's Pilgrimage for Quentin Tarantino. Apparently, Tarantino had expressed the desire to do a remake of the film. As I am no Tarantino fan I am extremely pleased that project never came to fruition.

Criterion was able to include Pilgrimage with its Zatoichi box set released several years ago, so it is readily available for view if you can't find the film streaming anywhere.

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My blu-ray of Iria: Zeiram the Animation came in!

Discotek found the film masters for this OVA in the same fault they found all of Project A-ko (courtesy of AnimEigo's Robert Woodhead), and I do love comparisons when the opportunity arises, so here's a comparison between Discotek's original DVD release of the series from 2016, and the new blu-ray using the clean OP:

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AnimEigo to Launch Kickstarter Campaign for Macross II Anime Release

AnimEigo's Robert Woodhead announced at the Animazement event last week that AnimEigo will launch a Kickstarter campaign for the release of the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II original video anime film this summer. The company will reveal more details at its panel at the Otakon event, which runs from July 28-30. #Macross2 Kickstarter is coming later this summer. Details at @Otakon panel. We announced this at @animazement but somehow I "spaced" on tweeting about it. If you have interesting ideas for stretch goals, tweet away! — Robert Woodhead (@AnimEigo) June 5, 2023 Biggest announced in July 2022 that AnimEigo would be releasing the anime on Blu-ray discs. At the time, Woodhead revealed on Twitter that his release of Macross II would be a high-definition transfer and not a resolution bump. The six-episode anime premiered in 1992. The story is set eight decades after Space War I and follows a civilian news reporter who meets a mysterious singer from a previously unknown alien race. Studio Nue began the Macross franchise in 1982 with The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a television anime series featuring the themes of a love triangle, music, and transforming fighter jets. Studio Nue worked with advertising agency Bigwest and anime studio Tatsunoko Production as production partners. The franchise spawned three other television series (Macross 7, Macross Frontier, and Macross Delta), several theatrical films (beginning with The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?), and several video series (including Macross II, Macross Plus, Macross Dynamite 7 and Macross Zero). Macross Delta aired from April to September 2016, after a trailer for the first episode in 2015. The latest animated work in the Macross franchise, the feature film Gekijōban Macross Delta: Zettai LIVE!!!!!!, opened in Japan in October 2021 along with the short film “Gekijō Tanpen Macross Frontier Toki no Meikyū” (Macross Frontier Film Short: Labyrinth of Time). Sunrise is releasing a new Macross animation project. via Anime Networks Read the full article