I emailed Super Techno Arts who own the rights to the Robot Carnival anime.
They say they 100% defintly plan to release this show on dvd in the US and will most likely happen sometime in 2007.
Feel free to email them and see for yourself:
[email protected]
Nice. I just stumbled on this page, and it sounds like something that I would like. So hopefully it will get released next year.
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Looks like you forgot to take your anti-retard pills again.
I'd be a rich man if I got one dollar everytime Super Techno Arts kept it's word. To be honest, they never promised much in years with regards to Robot Carnival, only vague notions of a tentative DVD release. This has been going on since January 2001, when someone posted info about it on Anime on DVD's forums (animeondvd.com) alongside the impending JoJo's Bizarre Adventure release which did eventually happen two years later after STA cancelled their distribution deal with Synch Point.
STA always stressed that they would concentrate on titles from Studio A.P.P.P.( http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1005 ) which includes Robot Carnival and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, so who the heck knows.
Interesting enough, since true public word on Robot Carnival has been more teases and no return, it's not even listed under STA on various online databases anymore ( http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=120 ).
The only thing anyone knows for sure is that the U.S. once got a release of it thanks to Streamline Picture, but as with most anime in the U.S. during the 1990's and after Streamline went out of business in 1999, the rights have long since expired and/or changed hands.
E-mails are proof of nothing really. The proof will be when they 100% acknowledge they have the rights still publically at a con or in a press release and set a release date in stone. Until then, it's just rumors. I e-mail people lies all day. You should have posted the e-mail with full message headers so we could verify and hold them to account for it with fanboy furor. ;>
Well, here we are. 2008. Still no release.
shareI second that ( and anime companies wonder why people buy bootlegs ) Like what I'm doing right now...watching a bootleg copy of Robot Carnival . I will buy the real version if they release it .
shareSadly I caved and bought the version on discountanimedvd.com...I think it's a region 0 bootleg of the Chinese release. If Neo-Tokyo and Memories get region 1, why not Robot Carnival? It's absurd.
shareEh, who knows why media companies seem to abandon one thing or another. A lot of times it doesn't make one bit of sense.
shareHaha ! Yeah , I didn't want to do it too , but...I couldn't resist . The same thing happen to me with the Fist Of The NorthStar animated movie .
shareI too love how the dish out a ton of money for the rights only to lose the movie behind the counter or under the fridge.
shareM'kay it's 2009 and it seems like we're no closer to a legit DVD release than we were 5 years ago. I agree with you locust, if we can have Neo Tokyo on DVD, there's no excuse for not having Robot Carnival by now. Whoever owns the rights to this clearly don't give a *beep*
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