Beez please - Mai-Hime for the UK

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Title says it all.

With all the Bandai on-disc goodies & maybe 1 fewer volume. And correctly spelt title.

[shokoti]

Err, My-HiME has already been announced for UK release. It'll be out around July time.

[Rogueman_8]

umm...the title IS spelt correct. Both Mai and My are accepted, though there's more official spellings using 'My' than Mai in the HiME merchandises.

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Wrath of the Njr said:
And correctly spelt title.

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My Hime is the offical English name for the series.

[Njr Scrawl]

(Having read the R1 replies). I accept that "My" could be better for Otome. But think Mai is more appropriate to MH as it is a play on the lead character's name etc.

ANN: "Mai-HiME,” was very carefully chosen because it’s a play on words in both English and Japanese. Taken literally, it’s the name of the central character with the honorific given to her for being a HiME, but if the anagram aspect is ignored then it also translates as “Dancing Princess,” an apt name given some of the moves Mai makes when using her power.

Anywhoo, glad its been licensed for here already... /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[shokoti]

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Wrath of the Njr said:
but if the anagram aspect is ignored then it also translates as “Dancing Princess,”

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Something that 99% of R1 viewers won't even have a clue about, unlike the Japanese.

[DiGiKerot]

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Wrath of the Njr said:
but if the anagram aspect is ignored then it also translates as “Dancing Princess,”

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Something that 99% of R1 viewers won't even have a clue about, unlike the Japanese.

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Precisely (not to mention what Mai only makes one move in combat what could be called Dancing *once* in the whole series). If the title bothers you that much, go buy the R2J release - if you can't understand enough Japanese for follow that, then stop harping on about them not translating in a particular way to keep a really bad pun you can't understand without explaination anyway.

Its not like spelling it Mai rather than My makes much of a difference anyway - the pun relies on the fact that they use a different character for Mai in the logo than the one used for the characters name, which also happens to sound like the english word My - part of the joke is that it sounds like the english My, as in "My Princess" or "My Highly-Advanced Materialising Equipment" - its an overly complicated and entirely stupid title. As soon as you take the word out of kanji, it doesn't actually matter how its written as long as its pronounced the same.

[Damo]

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Its not like spelling it Mai rather than My makes much of a difference anyway ... [/snip]

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Well I'm not going to buy it unless BEEZ use the EXACT spelling I want them too.
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Seriously though this is a rather pointless thread which just serves to have kicked up some bitching. I've emailed BEEZ a couple of times with My (yes "MY" /images/graemlins/tongue.gif) HiME questions and not heard anything back. I'm more curious as to the presentation it's going to get compared to the US release, which is shoddy at best, and I'm taking case/artbox here.

BEEZ recently have been doing a consistantly better job than Bandai on this front. Can we expect more artowrk / reverse cover artwork.

[naiera]

Do BEEZ use teh NTSC -> PAL conversion or do they just release region 2 discs with NTSC encoding?

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Only Digikerot has posted abraisively IMO. Perhaps reflecting the mood of his avatar!

I suppose putting an English word makes the title look slightly less foreign & offputting to potential buyers.

I hope Beez gets its subtitles spelled & syntaxed correctly for MH.....

[DiGiKerot]

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Only Digikerot has posted abraisively IMO. Perhaps reflecting the mood of his avatar!


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And its quite unlike me /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif

Honestly, its a complete none issue which shouldn't even need to be raised anyway - its just a title after all (and the R1 release left the logo in Japanese for the actual show anyway). I guess its the quoting of something from a review from ANN as gospel when its only a half-truth about the title (and one which comes off as overtly elitist to me) which got me a little wound up. Its not even a "Needless and inappropriate alteration to the title" given that the Japanese have been spelling it like that since before the show even aired (although it also contains the final logo, this (http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=himelogo1ck.jpg) was the title card they used at the end of the original promotional movie).

Still, at least no-one is throwing around ZHiME terms written as "Mai-Star" or "Mai-Battles", that would really, REALLY annoy me /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Gersen]

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Do BEEZ use teh NTSC -> PAL conversion or do they just release region 2 discs with NTSC encoding?

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99% chances of being a conversion. At least that what's Beez do in France. And their encodings are not that great (Once again based on the french releases I don't know if the UK version are better in that regard)

Gersen

[PhilipReuben]

I object to your incorrect capitalisation of "HiME."

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Seriously though this is a rather pointless thread which just serves to have kicked up some bitching.

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Oh well, it keeps this section busy i guess.

BTW, totally OT, but whens the eyeonanime forums coming back up?

[Tora-chan]

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Once again based on the french releases I don't know if the UK version are better in that regard

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I think the UK version is the same as the French version. What with the ability to choose your language and all when you start up, wouldn't make sense to put it in otherwise...

Never had any problem with any of their release in the last couple of years. (I'm excluding the whole Escaflowne, Gundam Wing era and am talking about their second generation releases so to speak)

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(I'm excluding the whole Escaflowne, Gundam Wing era and am talking about their second generation releases so to speak)

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I think everyone will be better of if they ignore them. Beez have improved 1000% since then, and if they would sort out the whole release dates thing would be my fave UK company.

[Damo]

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IanC said:
and if they would sort out the whole release dates thing would be my fave UK company.

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what release dates thing?

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what release dates thing?

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Well the fact they are worse than MVM for keeping to dates :p

[Damo]

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what release dates thing?

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Well the fact they are worse than MVM for keeping to dates :p

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nah they're not that bad, MVM's are all over the map.

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Even before the fire?

[Damo]

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Even before the fire?

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the fire was july/aug of last year, that's plenty of time to have corrected things by now. and most companies plan in advance, Manga / ADV both affected by the fire and are both fine.

[shokoti]

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nah they're not that bad, MVM's are all over the map.

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I'd say MVM hit the dates the announce more often than Beez. Their series schedules are just screwed and that is partly because of the fire (in that they couldn't release as much as they wanted, so things like Battle Vixens, Paranoia Agent, Trigun etc. had massive delays between releases to fit around the new shows coming out). But you can pretty much count on Beez not to hit the first date they announce for a series. And the time between discs can be a bit random as well. They usually please me by releasing two discs of a series at a time though. I like that a lot. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[Damo]

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Damo said:
nah they're not that bad, MVM's are all over the map.

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I'd say MVM hit the dates the announce more often than Beez.


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I'd have to completely disagree with that
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But you can pretty much count on Beez not to hit the first date they announce for a series. And the time between discs can be a bit random as well.

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Exactly the same goes for MVM, BEEZ most likly only announce one date and miss it, MVM keep changing them so they'll hit it eventiually, whenever I update eyeoanime's release date table it's usually MVM's I'm changing.
paranoia agent vol 3 as an example regarldess of the BBFC "issues" I've had 10/04 17/04/ one in march and IIRC originally solicited for feb, (when the check disc was sent out) so they are bound to hit one of em.

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They usually please me by releasing two discs of a series at a time though. I like that a lot. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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Gundam SEED marathons /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[shokoti]

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Exactly the same goes for MVM, BEEZ most likly only announce one date and miss it, MVM keep changing them so they'll hit it eventiually, whenever I update eyeoanime's release date table it's usually MVM's I'm changing.
paranoia agent vol 3 as an example regarldess of the BBFC "issues" I've had 10/04 17/04/ one in march and IIRC originally solicited for feb, (when the check disc was sent out) so they are bound to hit one of em.

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No... The Paranoia Agent date was only moved from Feb to the April date (and then delayed a week ahgain), according to the PR company's dates (I don't know why you've put the word "issues" in quotes for the BBFC reason which makes it read like they're fabricated, when it's obvious that was the reason for the delay of PA 3 and it's unfair to take that as an example of regular behaviour).

And granted, earlier in the year they had a habit of moving dates from the start of the month to the middle on some series (which they've stopped doing now), but Beez do that much more with their dates which for series in the past (Planetes and WHR come to mind straight away) have jumped around on an almost weekly basis as the release dates approach.

It's a moot point really, but Beez definitelty miss their dates more often than MVM, from looking in stores, on online stores, getting dates from the companies and updating the releases here. With MVM, for most series (yes, excluding the whole fire fiasco) you can pretty much guarantee a bi-monthly release for shows as well. With Beez it's anyone's guess. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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They usually please me by releasing two discs of a series at a time though. I like that a lot. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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Gundam SEED marathons /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

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I'm looking forward to their release of Destiny for that reason, since I'll probably hold out for it since the US release is a bit crap. Same with some of their other series.

[Damo]

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paranoia agent vol 3 as an example regarldess of the BBFC "issues" I've had 10/04 17/04/ one in march and IIRC originally solicited for feb, (when the check disc was sent out) so they are bound to hit one of em.

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No... The Paranoia Agent date was only moved from Feb to the April date (and then delayed a week ahgain), according to the PR company's dates


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That's still three changes compared to the four I mentioned,
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(I don't know why you've put the word "issues" in quotes for the BBFC reason which makes it read like they're fabricated, when it's obvious that was the reason for the delay of PA 3 and it's unfair to take that as an example of regular behaviour).

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No I don't know why I did that either, I'm not saying they were fabricated /images/graemlins/tongue.gif but I don't see it as an excuse for a 2 month slip, as with comapnies working ahead the date was most likly solicited around the end of 2005 by which time it should have gone to the BBFC anyway.
gungrave vol4 - oct/05
gungrave vol5 - may/06
the fire may have caused that massive gap so where's vol6 listing MVM's july dates are already up in various places.
R.O.D jumps from Jan-mar-june all well after the fire, not to mention where's yu yu hakusho. Unlucky or not MVM IMO are far more erratic than BEEZ.

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It's a moot point really, but Beez definitelty miss their dates more often than MVM,


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Well we'll have to agree to disagree wont we? /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif


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They usually please me by releasing two discs of a series at a time though. I like that a lot. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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Gundam SEED marathons /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif
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I'm looking forward to their release of Destiny for that reason, since I'll probably hold out for it since the US release is a bit crap. Same with some of their other series.

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Completely agrees I was goign to get vol#1 of Destiny from the US purly for the box and CD but the box seems to be some random "arty" thing ratehr than a box, at least that's all I'm managed to read about it. BEEZ on the whole are doing better releases than Bandai inserts, case presentation, lower disc counts. It's hard to describe... bandais R1 stuff feels cheap BEEZ doesn't.

[shokoti]

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gungrave vol4 - oct/05
gungrave vol5 - may/06
the fire may have caused that massive gap so where's vol6 listing MVM's july dates are already up in various places.
R.O.D jumps from Jan-mar-june all well after the fire, not to mention where's yu yu hakusho. Unlucky or not MVM IMO are far more erratic than BEEZ.

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Dunno what is up with Gungrave but I've not seen all of July's dates anywhere from them (only the first set seem to be up for early July). But as I say, I think if you look at the likes of PA, ROD and Gungrave, they're all clearly affected but if you look at the new stuff - Gantz, Samurai 7, Burst Angel etc - then you'll see regularity, whereas with Beez you've no idea when the next volume of a series is coming most of the time. I'd rather not talk about Yu Yu though. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif /images/graemlins/relief1.gif /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

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It's a moot point really, but Beez definitelty miss their dates more often than MVM,


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Well we'll have to agree to disagree wont we? /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

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Yep, definitely. /images/graemlins/happy.gif I don't really count it too badly against either company either.

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Completely agrees I was goign to get vol#1 of Destiny from the US purly for the box and CD but the box seems to be some random "arty" thing ratehr than a box, at least that's all I'm managed to read about it. BEEZ on the whole are doing better releases than Bandai inserts, case presentation, lower disc counts. It's hard to describe... bandais R1 stuff feels cheap BEEZ doesn't.

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I really like the R1 box, although the CD pisses me off because I expected an OST and that's not what I got. But I agree, Bandai USA's single releases feel really cheap at the moment (I love things like the Galaxy Angel A collection because it is cheap), things like My-HiME and Destiny deserve far better than the cheap-ass releases they're getting. Beez releases defintiely feel better in that regard now.

[abigsmurf]

the only trouble with their 2 discs every month schedule is that it's easy to get a backlog quickly. I was 4 volumes behind at one point X_x

It does suprise me that they're able to fast track series without flooding the market though. Wish they'd give us Midori's Days or Guu though instead of teasing us (cancelling Midori's Days and putting Guu trailers on a few discs)

[shokoti]

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the only trouble with their 2 discs every month schedule is that it's easy to get a backlog quickly. I was 4 volumes behind at one point X_x

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and putting Guu trailers on a few discs)

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The Guu trailers aren't meant for the UK though, they only show up for some of the foreign selections (or if you screw the menu up by not using the on screen selections properly).

[Damo]

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It's a moot point really, but Beez definitelty miss their dates more often than MVM,
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Well we'll have to agree to disagree wont we? /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif
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Neitehr do I, it's just annoying sometimes, though I do want to see Gungrave sometime in the near future. /images/graemlins/relief1.gif

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BEEZ on the whole are doing better releases than Bandai inserts, case presentation, lower disc counts. It's hard to describe... bandais R1 stuff feels cheap BEEZ doesn't.

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I love things like the Galaxy Angel A collection because it is cheap, things like My-HiME and Destiny deserve far better than the cheap-ass releases they're getting. Beez releases defintiely feel better in that regard now.

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Galaxy Angel sets are cheap becuase they are supposed to be, in that regard i don't mind bare-bone brick sets but My HiME, SEED Destiny, should get far better treatment hence why I'll be waiting for the UK releases. If you're collecting it look at R1 Yukikaze vol1 compared to vol2, that shows the downward cheapness progression of bandai right there.

[Damo]

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the only trouble with their 2 discs every month schedule is that it's easy to get a backlog quickly. I was 4 volumes behind at one point X_x

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Yeah but that's only really a problem for reviewers. /images/graemlins/wink.gif


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*looks back fondly at the six volume gundam seed review marathon* I loved that. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif