2006-02-18, 14:40 | Link #1 |
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Kiminozo Licensed
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8409
Funimation announced today that they have acquired the license to Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. The series will be released in North America as Rumbling Hearts. Volume 1 will be released in October 2006. Too bad KGNE pissed me off while watching it, makes me wish they had gotten something else. |
2006-02-18, 14:57 | Link #2 |
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It's interesting they chose "Rumbling Hearts", the subtitle for the PS2 port of the game and the name of the opening song instead of something like "The Eternity You Desire." According to roxfan, that's what the title of the Russian release is (translated to Russian, of course).
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2006-02-18, 15:05 | Link #3 | |
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IMHO this name change is acceptable, I guess. It's pretty clear it works better from a marketing point of view. |
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2006-02-18, 15:18 | Link #4 |
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I am a bit shocked that funimation decided to grab this title. I was expecting a smaller company to pick this title up later on. Hopefully there will not be any edits or anything of that sort. Will pick up DVD's eventually to replace my fansub ones.
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2006-02-18, 15:40 | Link #5 |
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That's good news. I just recently (like last week) saw this series for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. It was a good show. The ending was a bit annoying (I would have liked to actually see Takayuki or Hayase's faces, or get a sense of how they were actually living, instead of hearing that entire picture book's story), but I did like how the show and the characters were such that I felt sad regardless of who was picked in the end.
A little surprising it was ever licensed, since it is based on an H-game, and definitely doesn't have any giant robots, aliens, magic or things like that. Having said that, "Rumbling Hearts" as a title does sound kind of... gay. But I guess they didn't have a lot of choices (either that or stick with the untranslated "KGNE" name). |
2006-02-18, 16:11 | Link #7 |
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This is great news; it seemed pretty unlikely after the passage of a couple years. I can understand the title change for marketing purposes but I hope they give this anime the respect it deserves.
It's nice to straightup drama/romance get licensed. If the release does well, I suspect it will open the doors for more series in this genre. |
2006-02-18, 16:39 | Link #10 | |
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In short : FINALLY!! |
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2006-02-18, 16:51 | Link #11 |
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Bwahaha, this is funny: a WHOIS shows that rumblinghearts.com is registered to funimation since October 7, 2005. Takes quite a while to annouce the license, eh? I remember that some ppl found out that tsubatsachronicles.tv is registered to funimation before funi has annouced the license...
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2006-02-18, 17:48 | Link #14 |
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I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the license announcement. I was just reading the report on ANN and my eyes just skipped the lines dealing with Kiminozo.... until I actually realised what I'd read.
Although I never thought I'd say this.... thank you Funi. Thank you. ^^ -Andiyar
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2006-02-18, 18:05 | Link #16 |
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^Dammit you guys beat me to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was about to post all the reports...This forum is dead as hell (which i thought was an advantage)..Oh well... It could have been worse...atleast all those hoping will finally get an uncut DVD version (If funimation does like they do with all their shows)...I doubt seriously this thing will ever play on [adult swim] though... A few years ago I would have fallen on my sword after hearing this, but Funimation has gotten their act together (Full Metal Alchemist IMO is a great dub)...Rumbling Hearts sounds kinda cheezy though...They shoulda called it KGNE "The Eternity You Desire"...But i guess it'll be easier to sell "Rumbling Hearts" matching pajama jammy jams ..ya know without all the confusion...
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2006-02-18, 18:19 | Link #19 | |
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As for the title change, perhaps funi will be good enough to include reversable covers with the original title as well, to satasify purists. Though I'm not aware of a release that does that, so probably not.
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2006-02-18, 18:24 | Link #20 |
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I mean you could have Girls in a basketball tournament and call it "Rumbling hearts"...I think "the eternity you desire" sounds marketable enuff...It's all trivial though because no one thought this thing was gonna ever get licensed...It's the "better than nothing" ratio I guess...Can't wait to hear Spike Speigal or Yusuke Urameshi as Taka XD....
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