Mysterious Cities Of Gold DVD box set - here!

Yay, my DVD box set arrived!



6 discs, 1120 minutes, region code 2 (Europe), stereo sound, PAL, English language, no subtitles.

PG - parental guidance. Contains mild scenes of characters in danger, infrequent mild violence, brief live action bullfight, mild threat, natural nudity, mild references to sacrifice, a scene of chicken slaughter and mild cartoon violence.

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And to everyone else in the English-speaking world who wants a copy, I got an email today from Fabulous Films with news:

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USA - DVD coming soon as possible

OK we're going to get going on trying to get this out ASAP. If you can't wait and you have a region free player you can always purchase it from HMV.
We still have to figure out some US distribution ! But we're on it !


Australia - DVD Release due June 2008

Your release date is next and here's the REALLY GOOD NEWS !!

We just heard that Umbrella Entertainment have scheduled our MCOG box set for June 23rd 2008. The contents will be exactly the same as the HMV version.
However, Umbrella may elect to add additional or delete extras but that's their call. We are supplying them with all the goodies we've produced, including the packaging !

We'll keep you posted with updates.

Umbrella Entertainment
Unit 4, 177 Beavers Road
Northcote, VIC 3070
P: +61 3 9015 0400, F: +61 3 9489 7381
www.umbrellaent.com.au

Maria-sama ga Miteru - US release!

Woo! Maria-sama ga Miteru has been licensed by Nozomi Entertainment (Rightstuf International).

Official Site: http://maria-sama.rightstuf.com/

It'll be released in box set seasons (1,2,3), subtitled only, and the first season comes out on July 29th. The other two don't have dates listed.

I placed my preorder for Season 1 already, it was only $37.49, which means that two seasons cost about the same as one volume (two episodes) on Region 2 DVDs. An excellent deal.

The Mysterious Cites Of Gold - DVD Box Set

Yay! It's all finally coming out on DVD! And yay I persuaded my boyfriend to preorder it for me as a birthday present!

It's available from HMV UK as a worldwide exclusive! It costs £37.99! Here's the link:

Mysterious Cites Of Gold DVD Box Set

The HMV preorder page has a little video clip of the opening sequence. I used to really like this series when I was little. It's really good. At least, that's what my nostalgic memory tells me. ^_^

Mysterious Cities Of Gold coming on DVD!

According to Anime News Network, the Mysterious Cities Of Gold is coming out on DVD here in the UK in February 2008! I really loved this TV series when I was a child! My boyfriend has already volunteered to get me a copy for my birthday. :D

As it doesn't say otherwise, I expect this release to be English-language only, which would be great - as I remember. It was good in English, a similar cast to Ulysses 31 (which is another superb series I'd recommend to anyone), but, I'd also love to hear this in Japanese. Why? Because Sasaki Isao is playing Mendoza. ^_^ Nozawa Masako (most of the Dragon Ball universe saiyajin, and hundreds of other leading roles) is playing Esteban, too. ^_^

It probably can't be multi-language, though, since the differences between the English, Japanese and French versions of this series are all a little different... even the UK and US versions are different...! -_-;;

Samurai Champloo - oops I won it on DVD

I got a mysterious package. Not to worry, it smelled like DVDs so I knew it was safe. ^_~

I opened it and found...



Which was strange as I certainly am not interested enough in this series to buy a copy. There was no slip in the package to say where the DVDs came from. Then I remembered... I entered a competition for them, since it was just a "send in your name and address" competition and I thought "free anime DVDs are a good thing".

...maybe I should leave competitions to win things I don't want to watch to people who do want to watch them...

...or maybe I'm the only person who bothers to enter...?

Actually, I'm still really only speculating because I can't check to see the competition winners... it would be on the website where I entered the competition, but that's down at the moment...

Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG DVDs

Woo! I found out that I won a competition by receiving the prize in the post!

(I haven't got/watched the first series of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex though!)