Last Exile

POSTED BY: Cybersnark
UPDATED: Sunday, August 14, 2011 04:42
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And we have a second trailer.

The series launches in Japan in October. It has been licensed by FUNimation for NorAm, but that's at least a year away, natch.

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Way cool, guess I'll just have to wait for it, already waiting on Gosick and a couple others, but I did manage to bag up High School of The Dead, which is a pretty cool take on the zombie-apocalypse genre.

From the looks of the trailer so far and what info I have this sequel apparently revolves around the descendants of the first one (provided this hasn't changed in the meantime), and looks like there's one related to Dio in there - whom I liked, he was a sweet guy in his weird and bizarrely affectionate way, I bet having him for a parent would be... interesting.

I gotta say FUNimation has been pretty smart about both licensing and marketing, bringing well-recieved stories to North America in what is no doubt a profitable fashion, especially since they're really making bank offering an alternative to the absolute drek coming out of hollywood and broadcast television these days.
And without the idiocy of Geneon* who committed economic suicide due to their greed pricing their product out of the range of the folk they were trying to sell it to, most FUNimation titles are quite affordable and well worth the price.

Of course, when it comes to suicidal greed, nobody beats Harmony Gold (imma mechwarrior/battlemech fan too, so I can tell some horror stories here..) and lets not even SPEAK of Macross, which is damn sad cause they *could* make a bundle selling it here if they hadn't bungled the licensing so badly it's now prettymuch impossible.

Anyhow, I certainly look forward to seeing more of Range Muratas work, and in an era where so many stories seem hell bent to compete on how badly they can depress their viewers, I sincerely hope they stick with the hopeful, upbeat tone that was so welcome in the original series.

-Frem
*seriously, did they honestly think that pricing 2-4 episodes at $59.99 was gonna be viable in what was at the time a very niche market ?

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