bkev said:While Galaxy Express IS easily available via either Korea or Japan, the VIZ dub is lost to the VCR bargain bin.
I would LOVE if someone picked up the series at one point, even if only for a sub only release.
I heard, read the dub was horrible and the film had cuts made to it. Which is why they released an uncut subbed version right? or am i wrong.
A lot of old english dubs are lost to a vhs bargain bin which is why only fan presevations can save them, unless they get released somewhere worldwide like akira streamline dub being on the madman dvd release in Australia or something and in low quality 2.0 dolby 286k with pal speed up. When the criterion CAV laserdisc release is uncompressed PCM on the dub.
Matsumoto Fans get almost nothing in the us. It was better in the vhs laserdisc days to get some of his series and films, in the dvd era they are harder to find in region 1.
Harlock is available officially as a streaming online release with engrish subs. Can be wathed on crunchyroll or funimation sites. The same for galaxy express i think, have not watched it yet so cannot vouch for the quality of the subs. LIVE-EVIL's Harlock had the remastered video, and audio and original audio, fan commentaries and real english subs. But they were only doing it to try and get someone to get off their duff and license it here which finally happened if in youtube quality, with engrish subs.
The galaxy express movies however i am not sure who owns the rights to them. Often a tv series is under another licensee than the movies. Does BANDAI own the rights like they do for space battleship yamato?
You know the reason you cannot import the tv series one season at a time unless you wish to spend 400 hundred dollars a piece.
Which is not unheard of in japan But usually you get at least 2 episodes for dvd. Now the first Episode of Haruhi Season 2 is going to be on dvd as a single episode and wil be 50 dollars,lol.
Usually if a company is going to include an older dub they need to have a master to work with and clean up for dvd, they are not going to dub the audio off a vhs tape unless it is the only existing copy left.
They need the dialogue reels or tapes recorded for a series. Voyager Entertainment could not locate the original dialog reels for starblazers for instance, and they also claimed they needed access to the sound effects and music tracks to do a remaster. They best they could do was take the broadcast master and dub it to dvd.
In the case of robotech they were able to create a new 5.1 mix because the japanese gave them access to their sound library, and they located the original recording reels for the english dub.
I am something of a purist i like the old stereo or monoaural dubs for a series to be either left alone warts and all or be cleaned up from the best possible source. Transformers season 1 recently got a re-release with the old mono dub remixed into stereo. But i would have preferred 2 channel or 1 channel mono, whatever at least it was the real audio and sound effects unlike the rhino 5.1 mix.
As for the robotech protoculture box they left off the old mix that was on the old dvd release in 2.0 though was a mono mix.