Narutaru Liscensed & Outlanders Re-Liscensed

[Brent Long]

http://animeondvd.com/ As some of you may remember Central Park Media is going to have their products distributed by Warner. Well they inadvertantly announced some liscenses in their PDF that they send to their customers. It looks like Narutaru is liscensed, Outlanders has been reliscensed from Dark Image Entertainment, a hentai named Angel Blade is liscensed, Patlabor TV's second-to-last volume is coming out in March, and Patlabor: New File's first volume is coming out in June (This one has already been liscensed for a long time, in fact it has already been released on VHS)

[livingfruitvirus]

You should've said "Naruto licensed" followed by "Oh, I misspelled. Narutaru."

[Keldran]

Narutaru is so insanely messed up it's not even funny. But it's all good as long as some parent's group doesn't get their hands on it and thinks that it's a representation of all anime.

[Go-chin]

This is great news.

Narutaru is freaking insane. :D

[Mog]

You should've said "Naruto licensed" followed by "Oh, I misspelled. Narutaru."
We're already over our fanboy suicide quota for the month. Wait a few more days for December.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

You should've said "Naruto licensed" followed by "Oh, I misspelled. Narutaru."
Now that's just mean.

[Youko Recca]

Oh so they got Narutaru. That's good. The show actually made me cringe with disgust towards the end, so it gets some bonus points for it's awesome treatment of little kids and their fragile personalities. I'm not afraid to say I like the OP.

Hmm...not gonna make my day or anything but good that it's lisenced I suppose.

[AstroNerdBoy]

With the issues of underaged sex and graphic violence, one wonders how CMP will treat the series. I fear a heavier hand in domestication but it is difficult to make elementry school kids and middle school kids 18. :rolleyes: Dark Horse decided to heavily censor the manga, removing whole pages and drawing underwear on some of the girls in an attempt to make it more appealing.

But this ain't no kid's anime nor manga despite how it may look on the surface (cute 6th-grade girl with cute Pokemon-like critter). It is a very dark, disturbing title and absolutely should not be domesticated, censored, or the like.

[silverwings]

Having gotten over the double take at the title of the thread (what? it's not like I was the only one.. :p ), I really don't have anything to say about the licensed titles. However, this tibit made me very happy:


Of interest, the Yu Yu Hakusho Movie: Poltergesit Report will not be reissued, which means they've probably lost the license for that and we may see it in the future elsewhere.
If they lost their license, I hope FUNimation can pick it up and redub it with their VAs. Which would be awesome!:D

[AstroNerdBoy]

If they lost their license, I hope FUNimation can pick it up and redub it with their VAs. Which would be awesome!:D
Smeg! I'd be buying it if FUNimation scored it. Their subtitles ROCK (Japanese honorifics in the subitles are a must with me)! Heck, I might even buy "Narutaru" is FUNimation had scored it.

[Brent Long]

With the issues of underaged sex and graphic violence, one wonders how CMP will treat the series. CPM LOVES that kind of stuff. All they ever release anymore is titles for their hentai division Anime 18. I see absolutely no possibility that they will edit Narutaru at all. They never aim their titles towards a TV audience anyway.

[EnAll]

I'm surprised they're isn't as much hype as I thought.


But we now dance singing "4Kid$ didn't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[AstroNerdBoy]

CPM LOVES that kind of stuff. All they ever release anymore is titles for their hentai division Anime 18. I see absolutely no possibility that they will edit Narutaru at all. They never aim their titles towards a TV audience anyway.I don't watch hentai, but I am informed that CMP turns high school kids into college-aged kids. Thus a 15-year old 1st-year student becomes an 18-year old junior college student (or something equally dumb). So how do you turn 12-year old and 13-year old girls into 18-year olds for the sake of whatever BS excuse they have?

Will it be a warning as was on "Photon" which stated that everyone was over 19? Clearly two of the three main characters were underaged. Photon is what? 12? And "Photon" wasn't even an h-title, only an ecchi one.

So while you may not see the possibility of them editing Narutaru, their track record suggest they will.


I'm surprised they're isn't as much hype as I thought.


But we now dance singing "4Kid$ didn't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
There's no way that company would score Narutaru. If they did, it would be a 2-episode series -- the first two episodes. After that, it is clearly not a kid's title despite staring kids.

[Lord Dalek]

With the issues of underaged sex and graphic violence, one wonders how CMP will treat the series. I fear a heavier hand in domestication but it is difficult to make elementry school kids and middle school kids 18. :rolleyes: Dark Horse decided to heavily censor the manga, removing whole pages and drawing underwear on some of the girls in an attempt to make it more appealing.

But this ain't no kid's anime nor manga despite how it may look on the surface (cute 6th-grade girl with cute Pokemon-like critter). It is a very dark, disturbing title and absolutely should not be domesticated, censored, or the like.CPM distributes Urutsukidoji. I think they'll handle it ok.

[Go-chin]

To add something a bit off-topic, the press release also mentions Angel Blade.

HOO-RAY.

Finally. Another masterpiece by Masami Obari is released stateside.
(He also did Viper GTS and was the original creator of Chojuushin Gravion.)

And yes, this does have D-girls. Waha.
I've been wanting this show uncensored for a looong time.

[Nobuyuki sama]

I don't watch hentai, but I am informed that CMP turns high school kids into college-aged kids. Thus a 15-year old 1st-year student becomes an 18-year old junior college student (or something equally dumb). So how do you turn 12-year old and 13-year old girls into 18-year olds for the sake of whatever BS excuse they have?

Will it be a warning as was on "Photon" which stated that everyone was over 19? Clearly two of the three main characters were underaged. Photon is what? 12? And "Photon" wasn't even an h-title, only an ecchi one.

So while you may not see the possibility of them editing Narutaru, their track record suggest they will.
That's not an example of editing, ANB.

That's trying to put one past 'the man'. ;)

P.S.- Outlanders! Yay!

[Brent Long]

I don't watch hentai, but I am informed that CMP turns high school kids into college-aged kids. Thus a 15-year old 1st-year student becomes an 18-year old junior college student (or something equally dumb). So how do you turn 12-year old and 13-year old girls into 18-year olds for the sake of whatever BS excuse they have?

Will it be a warning as was on "Photon" which stated that everyone was over 19? Clearly two of the three main characters were underaged. Photon is what? 12? And "Photon" wasn't even an h-title, only an ecchi one.

So while you may not see the possibility of them editing Narutaru, their track record suggest they will. I don't watch hentai either, but it's pretty commonly known about CPM's current and more recent track record. You have to realize all shows from them that are edited are much older shows from when they were a much more dominant force in the American anime market. Back when their products would be seen by the general American market. They were worried at this time because a supplier of a lot of their titles, Manga UK started off on the wrong foot in of course the UK by releasing Urutsukidoji amongst their first titles. This sent the country into an outrage which is why the anime market is such a jumbled up mess in the UK in the first place. If they could have avoided tarnishing their good name in the American market by simply dubbing over some of the problems in such an unpopular title such as Photon or changing the marketing on the packaging itself why wouldn't they? They are now of course not as popular in the US and have few of their new products even wind on retail shelves. They Struggle to release anything, so they go for more mature titles that are guranteed to sell with fans of hentai or fans of extreme violence. For example some of their more recent titles include Ichi the Killer: Episode Zero, and Shootfighter Tekken. These are both a good old dose of the ultra-violence and aren't edited.

[FlyByNite77]

With the issues of underaged sex and graphic violence, one wonders how CMP will treat the series. I fear a heavier hand in domestication but it is difficult to make elementry school kids and middle school kids 18. :rolleyes: Dark Horse decided to heavily censor the manga, removing whole pages and drawing underwear on some of the girls in an attempt to make it more appealing.

Part of me hoped 4Kids or someone would pick it up thinking it was a Pokemon clone and be like "oooooooops" :D

Didn't CPM release Now and Then, Here and there? That had torture and rape occur to underage characters.

[AstroNerdBoy]

They Struggle to release anything, so they go for more mature titles that are guranteed to sell with fans of hentai.
That's all fine providing they don't edit the subtitles. However, if they are going to modify even the subtitles to make things less shocking, then what the smeg was the point of licensing it? Maybe the vain hopes of running a con to score some cash.


Part of me hoped 4Kids or someone would pick it up thinking it was a Pokemon clone and be like "oooooooops"
*lol* OK, that would be funny.


Didn't CPM release Now and Then, Here and there? That had torture and rape occur to underage characters.
They did license Now and Then, Here and There but I've not seen it yet. It is on my rental list though.

OK, for those who've seen it, how did they treat that series?

[Karl Olson]

OK, for those who've seen it, how did they treat that series?


From what I've heard, it got great treatment. No holds barred. If Narutaru has depth to back underage violence/rape/etc up, odds are it'll get the same respect. Heck, they might even be buy Narutaru just because of Now and Then's success.

[Karl Olson]

but, I decided to dig up some info on Narutaru after talking to a few friends of mine who are into it about it. Turns out the TV adaptation was written none than the notorius Chiaki J. Konaka, aka the Head Writer on Serial Experiments Lain, Big O 2, Texhnolyze and a bunch of other shows. Given that this then means that Narutaru can be plugged as "from Creators of Serial Experiments Lain and Big O," I think that might help get it in uncut because they'll be able to directly advertise to some existing fandoms (IE: oddly enough, it's not a totally unknown quanity.)

As a matter of fact, just having Konaka name attached is a pretty big incentive for me to pick it up. He's a odd writer who writer who odd stories, but they are usually atleast conceptually and/or directionally interesting.

[Royce]

An update on the animeondvd.com. CPM didn't lose the license to the Yu Yu Hakusho Movie.