Pledge to get Marine Express, Black Jack DVDs and more

[jeffbert]

I looked at the site, but it lacks an deadline. As much as having one can be a liability, it also means "act now." I will contribute, but it will be later.

Also, there is no mention of making DVD sets; though it may be premature, because the licensing fees would be much higher, plus production costs, etc.

Likewise, no mention of intent to make the remainder of the series streaming.

[F-Man]

I looked at the site, but it lacks an deadline. As much as having one can be a liability, it also means "act now." I will contribute, but it will be later.

Yeah, no deadline yet for this.

But on the other hand, it's a fact that the earlier you pledge, the more other people will pledge. It's psychological. People are more likely to contribute to something that others are also contributing to. And when it reaches the 70% threshold everything starts really moving forward.

So if you're going to pledge, the earlier the better!

Also, there is no mention of making DVD sets; though it may be premature, because the licensing fees would be much higher, plus production costs, etc.

That will come later if this is successful enough. So all the more reason to hurry up.

Likewise, no mention of intent to make the remainder of the series streaming.

Sam has said that he will start the goal for the second half as soon as the first one is funded.

[jeffbert]

Just today animesols sent an email:

Anime Sols Update! Kindaichi, Dororo, Gordian, and More!

admin@animesols.com
Jul 23 at 12:40 AM

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Greetings, Anime Sols members!

A few days ago we launched 3 new projects you might be interested in!

First off, we're collecting pledges toward creation of a DVD set for the brand new mystery series, The File of Young Kindaichi Returns! It'll contain episodes 1-14 and the goal is set at $26,000 (it's a little higher because it's a _brand new_ show!)
We're actually embedding the simulcast streams from Crunchyroll, so feel free to check out new episodes every week either on animesols.com or Crunchyroll!

Second, we've launched 2 campaigns which are a little different than we've done before.
For Tezuka's Dororo, and Tatsunoko's Gordian, The Warrior, we've put up 3 episodes each and are looking to get $2700 in pledges towards the subtitling and streaming of the rest of episodes 1-13.
Once these are a success we'll put up the goal for episodes 14-26, etc etc, and when everything is subbed then we can put up goals toward DVD sets or other physical items.

Unlike the DVD goals, you can pledge as much or as little as you'd like, from $2 on up, and if you pledge more than $50 you'll get your name in the streaming episodes themselves!
These goals don't have any deadlines either... We'll keep them going until we get enough pledges to sub the next episodes!

Dororo is a truly classic show, a black and white show from 1969 based on Tezuka's even classicer(is that a word?) manga! The artists and directors working on it all went on to become lions in the world of Japanese animation.

Gordian, The Warrior, is a series from the early 80s from Tatsunoko Productions, which features mecha designs from a 19 year-old Shoji Kawamori (Macross Frontier, AKB0048, and every other good mecha show for the past 10 years...)

And special information just for our members, we're not stopping with just these 2 shows!

We've got 7 more shows lined up for streaming support goals! Every 2 weeks we'll put up 3 episodes of another 2 shows for support!

7/26
Goku no Daibouken (directed by Gisabur? Sugii !)
Space Ace (The first show ever produced by Tatsunoko Productions, right before Speed Racer)

8/9
Time Bokan (the first in what became the Time Bokan series, which only really became a hit in Japan with the release of Yatterman)
Temple the Balloonist (Honestly even I've never heard of this one... It was popular in Europe I guess? Check it out!)
8/30
Wonder 3 (Just ask Mike Toole)
Kerokko Dematan (One of the "cute anthropomorphic animals' lives are filled with terrible childhood trauma inducing death and destruction" series of shows from Tatsunoko, which also includes Hutch the Honeybee. Just try and get through these 3 episodes without shedding a tear.)
9/13
Belfy and Lil'bit (This was dubbed and shown on TV as "The Lil'bits" back in the early 90s by Saban. Check out the original Japanese version for the first time!)

Look forward to more classic shows from Anime Sols!

Thank you

I am very interested in Dororo, but more so in W3, because D manga has been translated & published in English, while W3 has not.

[F-Man]

I am very interested in Dororo, but more so in W3, because D manga has been translated & published in English, while W3 has not.

Dororo for me, because the manga has been translated and published in English/French, so I know exactly how good it is and how loveable the main characters are. Plus I want to see the definitive ending the anime has that was absent in the manga. I'll contribute equally to the other Tezuka shows though.

Has everyone pledged their $5 yet? Only 33 supporters so far and it seems to have stopped completely since two days ago. And I have a feeling most of them aren't from here.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I did $10

[F-Man]

I did $10

I know. And I did... well, you don't wanna know.

[Strange Wings]

It won't let me contribute anything, because I'm living outside US/Canada. Too bad, I would've gladly helped...

[F-Man]

It won't let me contribute anything, because I'm living outside US/Canada. Too bad, I would've gladly helped...

Aw man.

If anyone has this problem and is cool with it, I'll gladly pledge for you if you paypal me. You can trust me, I've done it for lots of people for Black Jack. You can then watch the streams either by tricking the site into thinking you're in the US or I could send you good quality videos I'll make myself. Or there's that DVD release that will hopefully happen if the stream gets funded quickly enough...

[jeffbert]

I finally pledged my $50.

[F-Man]

I finally pledged my $50.

Awesome! So that was the one from 3 days ago?

Sadly I don't know why, but the number of new supporters has plummeted lately. :d oh: That was the first new pledge in almost a week and no more since.

If Tezuka shows were funded quickly, it wouldn't be long before Astro Boy would get his turn. It's not like there are that many Mushi/Tezuka productions.