Nozomi Announces License Rescues
Nozomi Entertainment has picked up a selection of domestic license-rescues: The “Original” Dirty Pair OVA series, the “Affair of Nolandia” and “Flight 005 Conspiracy” OVAs, the “Project EDEN” motion picture, the 16 episode Dirty Pair Flash OVA series, the Martian Successor Nadesico television series, movie, and Gekiganger-III OVA, and the Gasaraki television series. The Nadesico: Gekiganger-III OVA which bridges the time gap between the end of the television series and beginning of the motion picture has never been officially released in America before.
The 10 episode Dirty Pair OVA series and Nolandia, 005 Conspiracy and movie will be released in two DVD collections featuring video sourced from the new Japanese remasters. The bilingual OVA series will include its prior ADV produced English dub. The bilingual Nolandia & 005 Conspiracy OVAs and movie will include both their Streamline & ADV produced English dubs.
Dirty Pair Flash will be released in a single set featuring video sourced from the Japanese remastered release. The bilingual release will include the prior ADV English dub.
The complete Nadesico saga will be released in a single collection feautring video sourced from the remastered Japanese DVD release. The TV series and movie will include their ADV English dubs.
The complete Gasaraki TV series will be re-released in a single collection with its original ADV English dub selectable.
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GASARAKI is a guilty pleasure for me, so I’m glad to see it back out on the market. But realistically, the program doesn’t have any extraordinary outward appeal — it’s very slow moving.
I am highly interested in Martian Successor Nadesico: Another classic I have never seen.
Why is Gasaraki a guilty pleasure ? Isn’t it one of the important real robot shows ?
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Nozomi picked up the rest of the Dirty pair material. Though not as good as the orignal, Dirty Pair Flash is still a good title, and is one I hoped would be rescued. Also, I find it interesting that Nozomi will include both the Streamline and ADV dub tracks on 005 and Nolandia.
All older ADV material- none of which I’ll need to purchase due to already owning all titles listed, unless I really want the remastered versions.
Guess I’m surprised/biased in seeing that Nadesico’s license had expired or was allowed to drop, but it looks like neither AN or another well-known competing etailer has the series in stock any more.
GASARAKI is a guilty pleasure for me because there’s no real discernible reason for it to be a popular release in the U.S…. it’s a slow-moving political drama about stock manipulation, military industrial complexes, and criminal nepotism. The anime captures the essence of some of these better than others, I think, but should not be marketed as a mecha anime.
Not to say the mecha aren’t cool, they’re plenty realistic, only to clarify that the thrust of the program is a slightly above-average delivery of nothing people in the west think of when they imagine a hot-selling anime property.
What’s the guilt in liking Gasaraki? I enjoyed it quite a bit. Are you applying “guilty pleasure” because Gasaraki was not popular?