hui43210 wrote:Wrong, the re-dub was done Aug 2014, Funi has been sitting on it since then, my theory is they wanted to focus on promoting DBZ, as that is their golden egg laying goose.

Evangelion has been very profitable for them, IIRC 2.22 blu ray sales were beating the dragonball release Funi was doing at the time.

I just hope the cover is that simple sky blue.

But I'm certain that nice sky blue is just a slipcover & beneath it will either be that famous Shinji & Kaworu image OR something marketable with the one of the girls.
As for the delay? Would not be surprised if there's some math to be worked about quarterly profits & best to hold off on Title X until Date Y to assure Quarter Z doesn't dip below Margin T so we'll delay Project ... Q.

Like someone else said, Evangelion is one of the few anime titles that is actually going to SELL real numbers. It's a title that can actually reach outside the usual small niche anime market.

FreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:^^ A novelty I'll certainly purchase. Like I said, I want that translated booklet. And I would also like to not have to plug in a computer to my TV overtime I want to watch Eva Q. That would be nice as well.

Me too! I've seen the movie a couple dozen times by now, but watching Eva dubbed after seeing it subbed is practically a whole new experience! I'm really curious to see if Funi's "more accurate" dub and subtitles influence the way the movie is received here in the west compared to UTW/Github's subs. Their original dub was one of the few where Asuka didn't tell Shinji to die!

Even the (official?) Hong Kong subs say "let me kill you", so it'll be interesting to see the final "considered" rendering.

You know, I totally forgot about that controversy in translation. That will probably be one of the first things I look at on the Blu-ray.

pwhodges wrote:Um, it's not yet three years since Q came out in theatres. It'll be just shy of two years after the originally announced date for Funi's edition.

Still too long for a dub that was already finished tho.

Anyways thankfully we have it now, or rather will have it soon. Now I think I am going to take time and Rewatch 1.0 and 2.0 again, in English in time for 3.0 in English for the very first time.

I'll never watch the dub because I despise the Eva dubs with every fiber of my being. But I didn't realize there was questionable translation as well. Ugh Funi.

It's not just Funi, though. Parts of Q are very hard to translate, so all the translations we have are questionable in places. Whether you watch the dub or the subs, the new release will have translations approved by Khara; we hope that the translation difficulties will be resolved by this.

pwhodges wrote:Um, it's not yet three years since Q came out in theatres.

You're right, and the figure of four years is incorrect. That makes it a (still not) reasonable more than three years since the movie was in theaters!

pwhodges wrote:It's not just Funi, though. Parts of Q are very hard to translate, so all the translations we have are questionable in places. Whether you watch the dub or the subs, the new release will have translations approved by Khara; we hope that the translation difficulties will be resolved by this.

Oh yes I'm not disputing that some of it's very hard to translate, more that I simply have a great deal of mistrust of Funi since they've been shown time and time again to just take ridiculous liberties with translations and generally change things.
That might only be applicable to their awful dubs than to their regular subs, though. (And I suppose I should have more faith in Khara since they did make Funi redo things.)
I'll buy it either way for the sake of having it and for convenience, mind you.

I could do with a new dub? The Japanese one has something like a super polite tone even when characters go insane, it kind of kills the moment. *runs to the nearest exit fullspeed*

What's the Italian one like?

pwhodges wrote:What's the Italian one like?

Super faithful to the Japanese one, so yeah overly polite in everything. I only watched 2.22 with the ita dub though. The fansubs differ in very few lines or words, I trust them with nte stuff.

pwhodges wrote:Even the (official?) Hong Kong subs say "let me kill you", so it'll be interesting to see the final "considered" rendering.

In their first dub, she yells "Just lie down and take your punishment! Quit fighting!" in an exasperated tone.

Hopefully the new one tones down Mari's snark and sarcasm.

^ Well in the subs I saw, that line was something on the lines of "Shut up and die" or something like that, so I am very interested to see what the actual lines are in this movie.

May answer a few questions that we have had. But unlikely.

Now we just need 4.0....

Sicarius VI wrote:^ Well in the subs I saw, that line was something on the lines of "Shut up and die" or something like that, so I am very interested to see what the actual lines are in this movie

Given the changes noted in Q's Groundwork books that would seem to be a very poor translation. The idea seems to be that Asuka's frustrated, not homicidal (and that artwork was deliberately changed to communicate that exact fact).

Once Amazon puts up the page for the combo pack, I'll probably buy it. I can't resist a deal like that.

I just want to know why the A.A. bullets were absorbed if the blueray/dvd stuff comes with new infos and stuff.

Tumbling Down wrote:Once Amazon puts up the page for the combo pack, I'll probably buy it. I can't resist a deal like that.

Any particular reason you want to make sure you get the DVD as well as the bluray? Just wondering since once I gained the capacity to play blurays, I didn't bother too much with DVDs anymore. Are there going to be worthwhile special features that are DVD only?

(Offtopic, I love your icon so very much. It makes me snicker every time I see it.)

Nuclear Lunchbox wrote:Only took 'em more than four years.

Can't believe it's been 3 years already.

Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Jo: 2007
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Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Ha: 2009
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Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Kyū: 2012
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Shin Evangerion Gekijōban|: 2016

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