2010-07-03, 20:28 | Link #27 |
Orthodox Haruhiist
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Making metal ... for fish
Age: 44
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K-ON!! must've been that other "big title" Bandai is betting the farm on(*). This one, and Haruhi 2009. Good news for K-ON!! fans willing to fork over American cash for Bandai discs, certainly. Is it going to save Bandai's bacon, though? I mean, what is K-ON!!'s demographic in the US? In Japan, we know who K-ON!!'s demographic is . . . single males with too much disposable income. Only problem with this is that K-ON!! is pretty far down the list of things I think of, when I think of things likely to appeal to young males with too much disposable income in the States.
Perhaps Bandai sees what a smash this has been in Japan, and online, and figure that it's got a shot to do well in the West. Only I suspect many outside of Asia who've wanted to see this show have already pirated it six ways from Sunday and will be hard to convince to fork over the $50 a DVD box-set of this title is likely to cost. I hear Haruhi and Lucky Star have worked out real well for Bandai . . . haven't you?(+) I, personally, will pick this up. This is also one show where I am unlikely to listen to the dub track . . . although, given that Animax has already set the bar for English dubs of this show pretty low, it'll be really hard for whichever ADR Bandai selects to do anything but improve on that. Unless they involve Christina Vee in any non-promotional capacity. In which case, they'll limbo right under that bar and deserve everything coming to them. (**) (* - Assumes they're not just picking this up for sub-only release. Even so, with all the merchandising that comes with the K-ON!! license, it can't have been anything remotely resembling cheap to acquire.) (+ - Bandai tops the list of US companies most likely to next share the fate of the likes of ADV and Geneon.) (** - I really don't like Christina Vee. I think her voice sounds like what I'd imagine Hell for cats would sound like. But that's just me.)
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2010-07-03, 20:44 | Link #28 |
ひきこもりアイドル
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania , United States
Age: 34
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I enjoyed the first season although the second season is a lot more enjoyable. I will probably get this after I get the higher priority anime from the list (which is only 2-3 titles). I'm more interested on how they will perform these songs in English like they did with "God Knows" from the Suzumiya Haruhi dub... but yea, the songs from K-ON! will probably sound better in Japanese... but I wait on my final opinion after I take a look of it when I get the DVDs.
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2010-07-04, 04:26 | Link #31 | |
anime fanbot..LOL!
Join Date: Jun 2009
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I really do wish Bang Zoom will be the ones to dub this one!Though I prefer Cristina Vee to be Azusa Nakano or Yui Hirasawa's voice actress for this English dub of K-ON!. |
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2010-07-05, 09:28 | Link #37 |
Paper-Fan of DOOM!!
Join Date: Jul 2010
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They did do a "School Locker" made out of aluminium for the School Rumble collection down in Australia... so a "Geetah Case" would not really be out of the question.
And Lord Of Fire, is that Sawa-chan sensei headbanging the night away in your avatar?
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2010-07-05, 16:23 | Link #39 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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The only demographic I could see K-On! failing in is the "young male teen too insecure to watch anything but violent gar stuff" category
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