On DVD yet?

Lensman came out during the anime explosion in North America (and subsequently the rest of the English speaking world like the UK, Australia, etc) during the late 80's-early 90's. Back then, we began to be flooded with a wave of good quality anime - all professionally dubbed/subtitled in English and all official releases (Lensman, Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival, Fist Of The North Star, Windaria AKA Once Upon A Time, Zillion, Project A-Ko, Venus Wars, Dominion: Tank Police, Appleseed, M.D. Geist, Macross II, Legend Of The Overfiend, Bubblegum Crisis, Gunbuster, Dangaio, etc.). Prior to that, during the Dark Ages of Anime, English speaking fans had to be content with the few anime shown on broadcast TV (which were almost always horribly butchered through heavy editing and rewrites) and bootleg anime from overseas (which were usually in Japanese only - which most of us cannot understand). Of course, now that anime wave has turned into a tsunami. A tremendous amount of English translated, unedited anime is now readily available for sale in DVD format at major stores or on-line as well as being shown on cable TV.

Unfortunately, when the English language anime explosion occured all those years ago, we were still using VHS format. As a result, I started accumulatng a huge collection of English language anime in VHS including Lensman. I have now for the most part, discarded the old VHS tapes in my collection, and replaced them with high quality DVDs (as financially painful as it was to do so). One of the animes that I am now awaitng to replace is of course, Lensman along with Robot Carnival. If they do release them eventually in DVD format, I hope they have the common sense of giving the DVDs the option of English dub or subtitle. I mean, isn't that one of the major benefits of DVD technology in the first place? The individual viewer should always have the choice of which option they prefer. The whole debate about "sub vs. dub" is a throwback to the early days of the English language anime explosion when everything was still in VHS format. It should no longer apply in this day and age. With DVD, you can sometimes get other language options in addition to English and Japanese such as French. I also hope when they release the films, they be in their original widescreen theatrical release format, and not fullscreen (again, a throwback to the old days of VHS).

Strength of mind, force of will...

Can't speak for the others, but the Macross: Do You Remember Love has been in legal limbo for a good 15 years now, at least.

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2013. No movie.

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