Lucky Star Licensed
Uh, what? Okay, so Kadokawa USA decided to skip the pre-license tease and get straight to the announcement this time. The R1 release of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu Vol.4 contained a short translated clip from Lucky Star episode 16.
I haven’t received my Haruhi Vol.4 DVD yet, so I don’t know if there’s anything else in there. But long story short, Lucky Star is licensed. Video embedded after the break.
Actually, I wonder how well Lucky Star will fare… It’s definitely not Haruhi’s kind of awe-inspiring existential sci-fi high school moé adventure, and the otaku jokes get quite hardcore on some occasions. How many anime fans in America have actually heard of Animate’s tenchou?
And slightly off-topic, I really hate what Bandai did to the limited edition R1 releases for Haruhi. The DVDs come with way too much useless crap and the thin cardboard box feels cheap. I would gladly do without the Haruhi hair ribbon and other miscellaneous trinkets in exchange for cooler-looking and more durable DVD packagings. I still bought them anyway but that’s only because I’m an idiot. Oh well.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Personally I didn’t really like most of his EDs. I loved the anime song karaoke EDs for the first half of the series, though.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Bought the limited editions for various stuff.
Most and foremost, limited editions rule if they are in within a certain spending fee.
Other than that, iron on, now all I need is some nice clothes and I´ll probably make a fool out of myself with Haruhi-Ism and SOS dan on atleast one pair of clothing :p
And will most likely buy this as well when it arrives. If I have the funds for it…
But all in all, great news :)
And yes, it was a little intruging with Animate´s Tenchou, since all earlier experience with him was from Akane Maniax. So I was wondering a little what his story was. But then again, I must have missed more than so.
Always fun to go back to a series to see how much you missed the time before isn´t it?
October 29th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
“How many anime fans in America have actually heard of Animate’s tenchou?”
Ones who watched Lucky Star beforehand? :P
Fun news, though I’m not expecting it to sell well.
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Lucky Star Gets Licensed « Pink DominoOctober 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
[...] the news going around is that Lucky Star has be licensed by Bandai. *cringe* Is it me or does Lucky Star just not seem the type of Anime that is going to dub over [...]
October 30th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I’m curious how they’re going to emulate Konata’s voice in the dub. They’d probably hire Wendy Lee again though since she did dubbed Haruhi.
BTW I’ve never really seen the dubs. How’s the voice acting?
October 31st, 2007 at 12:26 am
“I’m curious how they’re going to emulate Konata’s voice in the dub. They’d probably hire Wendy Lee again though since she did dubbed Haruhi.”
No idea but lets hope she’s talented. That scene where Aya changed voices back and forth from Konata to Haruhi was pretty good =/
November 1st, 2007 at 5:31 am
I just noticed Kagami’s ‘yare yare’ which I can’t believe I missed before. I guess bandai’s good for something…
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Lucky Star License Confirmed by ANN « じ――ツಠ_ಠ。。。November 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
[...] has confirmed rumors (see DM) that a teaser for Lucky ☆ Star is included as an extra on The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya [...]
November 7th, 2007 at 4:40 am
. . .
and here i thought the only real competition for my money (aside from importing LS to the states) is going to be clannad… and maybe AIR…
i feel my wallet crying…