The Coffee God: Very true and I mentioned that in my original post, and it was many times noted in MIKE FERREIRA's editorial that it's just what ADV claims in the legal documents. I failed to type that out though in this post, heh. I've typed it so many times by now though lol... BUT I do believe a lot of what they say, especially if you look over all those documents like I did, you start to see exactly what ADV is saying. But not being there, I can't say what is true and what is not. You're very right.

dragonrider_cody wrote:


I suspect that Matt Greenfield wasn't too broken up about Bandai going under. I'm picturing him with the trademark Kira Smile (from Death Note) right now.

If only the Sentai dubbed episodes of Gurren Lagaan were available to watch (with the dub)...they aren't, are they??


Would Sentai lie to us?

celestial_being wrote:


Nope their was rumors they got as far as to press review copies ,but as far as I know if they did no one has one. I think as far as any of us saw was one episode subbed up here on the old site and a "trailer" on one of the ADV releases. Don't remember which.

psychopuppet wrote:


There was an article a few weeks back, I believe it was on ANN, talking about shows and movies with multiple English dubs. The topic of Gurren Lagan came up and one of their reviewers stated they had a preview disc with the first five episodes, but hadn't watched it since the license transferred to Bandai. So they at least go some preview discs sent out, and I believe a few episodes were also shown at a few smaller anime conventions. Other than the one disc we know ANN has, I don't think there are any other copies.

psychopuppet wrote:

They might be floating around in digital format, much like the dubbed "pilot" episodes we received on VOD from the Enoki titles TAN had awhile ago.
But getting ahold of them might be nigh impossible.

psychopuppet wrote:


Brutal. This is the kind of thing that someone needs to leak (is it really a leak after all these years?) onto the internet. I'd pay for it, legally. Shoot, I bought Gintama: the Movie as a surrogate. I've seen the trailer on YouTube, but that's as much of Sentai's Gurren Lagaan as I've managed to see.

Though if Sentai loses and is forced to pay out this exorbitant sum, instead of having one or 2 lost ADV releases we could have dozens. Maybe Funimation would rescue-release them all, out of the "goodness" of its heart?

edit: Maybe ANN could leak out that review copy? This is one of the few things left to see on my "to watch" anime bucket list, up there with Sentai's Sgt. Frog with David Wald as the main char and Vic Mignogna's live-action FMA movie.

Prede wrote:
I think he left the fandom.

TornadoTamaki wrote:


Ahhh....Dragoon, Dragoon, Dragoon. He might have made the right decision with all this happening....heh. Still wish I could hear from him again.

Prede wrote:


Yeah none of us have seen or heard from him since the one last time he was here over 2 years ago now.

Prede wrote:


And here I am a refugee from the Model Railroad wing of Geekdom. That part of the larger fandom arena, along with model building as a whole, has been on this same self destructive path for the past 10 years or so.

Lawsuits between companies no larger than Funimation or Sentai, between US companies and Korean or Chinese manufacturers. Soaring prices and a nagging non-availability of basic products. Oh, and a declining aging fan base with sporatic outreach to younger generations.

I've put all my hobby money into Anime & Manga for over a year now. It will be a while still, but I anticipate a general collapse in my other hobby's world that will settle things out. Then we will see.

What's happening here is mild compared to where I came from.

celestial_being wrote:


I saw Vic's live-action FMA movie at Megacon several years ago. It was a surprisingly well done film which you don't have to be a big FMA fan to enjoy. Recommended if you can catch it.

Mark Gosdin