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[News] Air ~ Kyoto Ani and Key has been licenced by ADV!
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Kairi Li
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Old May 8, 2007, 02:26 AM Local time: May 7, 2007, 11:26 PM 1 #1 of 6
Air ~ Kyoto Ani and Key has been licenced by ADV!


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ADV GETS AIR

Fan-Favorite TV Series Launches in August, Movie to Follow

HOUSTON, April 27, 2007 — Today ADV Films co-founder Matt Greenfield announced that ADV has acquired exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North America for the anime series Air and the 85-minute Air Movie. Greenfield made the announcement during a panel at Anime Matsuri, South Texas’ largest anime convention. Volume one of the four-disc Air series will hit store shelves August 14, and the Air Movie is slated for release in late 2007.

Air is a fan-favorite series in Japan, having placed #32 in TV Asahi’s all time Top 100 Anime list (2006). A product of the famous production studio Kyoto Animation (Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, Inuyasha) and director Tatsuya Ishihara (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kanon), Air is easily one of the most-anticipated series to reach our shores this year. The standalone Air Movie, which was produced by Toei (Air Gear, Kanon) and directed by Osamu Dezaki (Black Jack The Movie), is a fitting finale to the Air mania sweeping North America.

In announcing these acquisitions, Greenfield said “as anime fans ourselves, we’re very excited to announce that ADV will be releasing Air, as it’s already being ranked as one of the most popular anime titles of all time in Japan, and the fans who have seen it here the States are equally enthusiastic in their praise.”

Greenfield continued, “we’re also pleased to say that, while negotiating a title that’s split between two different licensors can be tricky, we have indeed secured the rights for both the TV series and the movie, thereby insuring total continuity between the English language versions.”
I noticed this series lacked an actual topic, so since during down time the licencing was announced, I made one!

Thoughts on the series and the licencing?

Jam it back in, in the dark.


{ :: ~ Air - the 1000th Summer ~ :: }

:: That sea went on forever, into the blue distance ::
* That road went on forever, continuing straight ahead *

~ : Summer comes again, shining silver : ~
: When I close my eyes, suddenly I can see that day's blue sky :

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Old May 8, 2007, 06:05 AM Local time: May 8, 2007, 03:05 AM #2 of 6
Its confirmed on another news site that the specials are also included.

The movie I think may come out later, but it will have the same VAs in both TV and movie.

The way Air was structured was kinda different from Kanon, seeing as we go through each arc one by one and the characters disappear after their arc is done, where as Kanon had more episodes to work with and the characters dont just disappear, even Makoto appears again in various ways. I think Air would have benefitted it they had 24 episodes to work with, there is so much missing from the game.

Still it was a good adaptation. The movie was only ok though. It turned it into a generic love tragedy like Romeo and Juliet... Which I am kinda sick of.

There's nowhere I can't reach.


{ :: ~ Air - the 1000th Summer ~ :: }

:: That sea went on forever, into the blue distance ::
* That road went on forever, continuing straight ahead *

~ : Summer comes again, shining silver : ~
: When I close my eyes, suddenly I can see that day's blue sky :

Last edited by Kairi Li; May 8, 2007 at 06:07 AM.
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Old May 8, 2007, 07:18 AM Local time: May 8, 2007, 04:18 AM #3 of 6
Clannad TV was announced to be in production by Kyoto Ani on the last episode of Kanon.

And yes there will be dubs and subs to choose from. I just hope the DVD encoding is better than what the Japanese got. The video looked HORRIBLE from what I've heard on the normal DVDs, and the Blue Ray ones aren't too hot either.

The TV series is far more faithful, the movie turned a story that focuses more in family relations like Mother and Daugthers and sisters and changed it into a generic Shakespearen love tragedy, minus the old language. It cheapens the ending and it just feels flat. Its not horrible, but not a good adaptation, might as well make it original and say it was inspired by Air.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.


{ :: ~ Air - the 1000th Summer ~ :: }

:: That sea went on forever, into the blue distance ::
* That road went on forever, continuing straight ahead *

~ : Summer comes again, shining silver : ~
: When I close my eyes, suddenly I can see that day's blue sky :

Last edited by Kairi Li; May 8, 2007 at 11:42 PM.
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