{"id":33314,"date":"2014-03-14T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=33314"},"modified":"2014-03-14T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:25:12","slug":"ask-john-where-is-the-bd-release-of-gothicmade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-where-is-the-bd-release-of-gothicmade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Where is the BD Release of Gothicmade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QU5pMBLfobk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy has Hana no Utame Gothicmade not been released on BD at all, even in Japan? All I think of as a reason is that Gothicmade designs and characters have been retconned in Mamoru Nagano&#8217;s life work, the Five Star Stories. I know Nagano to be quite the perfectionist and doesn&#8217;t like it when others have a say in his works, still this is baffling to me to have a movie been worked on for six or so years and then not have it released on BD\/DVD.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nRegrettably, especially for fans of Mamoru Nagano&#8217;s work, there&#8217;s no telling when or even if the Gothicmade short film will ever see home video release. Nagano near single-handedly produced the film&#8217;s footage, so presumably he would have the most influence over the film&#8217;s distribution.  Bandai of Japan did heavily promote the movie and give it a very limited theatrical release, so support for a home video release should be available if Nagano approved the film for home video release.  However, sometimes a creator&#8217;s wishes can withhold a home video release.  According to popular rumor, the 2007 Jojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood motion picture has never been released on Japanese home video due to series creator Hirohiko Araki&#8217;s dissatisfaction with the movie. Similarly, Mamoru Nagano may have decided that his film is still not at a state that he considers ideal for permanent public archiving. Alternately, Nagano may have decided that a small, limited release only to his most ardent fans may have been the most exposure he ever wanted this pet-project to receive.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the film having hit Japanese theaters a year-and-a-half-ago, hope for an eventual home video release shouldn&#8217;t be entirely discarded.  Madhouse&#8217;s anime feature film Hells Angels received a single screening at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair before receding into obscurity then resurfacing four years later on English subtitled Japanese retail Blu-ray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Why has Hana no Utame Gothicmade not been released on BD at all, even in Japan? All I think of as a reason is that Gothicmade designs and characters have been retconned in Mamoru Nagano&#8217;s life work, the Five Star Stories. I know Nagano to be quite the perfectionist and doesn&#8217;t like it when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33315,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314\/revisions\/33315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}