'No-one shall beat my R model car...'

[Jamezilla]

Famous last words of a hack GTR driver

Yep - Initial D, local release DVD.

November 12th.

http://www.madman.com.au/ViewItem.php?CatNo=MMA861

I will speak to Madman and see if there are any launch festivities or at least get the option for a group buy.

Anyone interested?

[Snowman]

Ive heard so much about this damn series but never seen it so Id like to have a look.

[inark]

if u want a preview i could setup an FTP with some medium quality avis for u

[Cortide]

It is pretty cool, i've know for a while

i have a friend who works there.

Him: we are releasing this cool street racing series on dvd soon

Me: INITIAL D?????

Him: yeah thats the one.

Me: SWEET!

[predator]

bah.. don't we have all the DVD's by now?

i have a dvd writer.. um..

It would be good if we could combine some sort of club activity with this launch.

I'm waiting for the game mainly!

[inark]

the arcade game sucked... the PS2 one looks a little better.

[Jamezilla]

Have sent email to Tim at Madman.

Will see where it goes...

[predator]

what?! they're charging $30 PER 3 EPISODES. hmmm, looks kinda expensive to buy locally.

I bought mine from here... The WHOLE season 1 (3xDVD) in funky foldout packaging.. $65 shipped to australia (takes about a week)...

http://www.meganimedvd.com/

[Cortide]

Cool, well if that doesn't work (tim@madman) i may be able to buy a few off my friend.

ps2 game would be sweet, has that been release over here?

[whistla]

wait, is that just the first battle stage?

man, wish stage4 would hurry up

[doxximus]

madman is god

they released trigun recently (there is another trigun that came out ages ago but dunno if that was through madman)

time to save the cash and buy more dvds

[Guest INASNT]

This used to be on everyday on TV when i was in Taiwan. But it was in Japanese with Taiwanese subtitles so it was hard to figure out WTF was going on.

[funkymonkey]

james I can give u a copy of the US version of that if you want, it'd be the same as the aussie one I'd expect but in NTSC.

[funkymonkey]

actually, shmeh.. just realised I got this copy from thailand, and its the original jap version with english subtitles.

I wonder if they did a good dubbing job, most of the time the fubar the movie, like in ghost in the shell etc.

[Guest RedLineGTR]

well if ive seen them in jap with english subtitles i dont think i wanna watch it again and again already seen it a shitload of times...depends on the cost thoe.

[tarwin]

Probably best not to email directly to [email protected] ... he's the boss and thus really busy most of the time ...

If you want some info you can email me [email protected] ... I'll more than likely be putting it together in a week or so, so u can blame me if it goes wrong

What are you saying about "we get it wrong"? Yeah I know ghost in the shell had problems with the subs but as far as I know that was actually done by madman UK ... hmm .. anyway ... I'll make a special effort just for you guys!

Tarwin

[funkymonkey]

oo oo can you make special mention of the club? we lub u long time and help u promote the dvd :D

I dunno most probably just me, but most of the time when anime gets translated to english it looses its charm...

BTW do u know which stores you'll be distributing these DVD's at?

[funkymonkey]

omg i can't believe madman reps frequent these forums now... quick... hide the hentai...

[tarwin]

Ahah! Guess it will be at all the normal DVD vendors. I'm sure it will be at places like JB and EB though!

As far as I know so far it's going to be pretty much the american version but PAL. Sorry about that. But at the same time a good thing as it comes with both a Jap (with subs) cut and an american cut so that's a good thing. As far as I know the sub translation is pretty good though I'm not yet sure of the rating (they may have dulled it down a little if it's going to be released as PG, but here's hoping it's M - I'll tell you tomorrow at work).

[Jamezilla]

Thanks Tarwin