That is really cool.
Back to Bandai Entertainment proper, run by marketing head Bob Napton and president Ken Iyadomi. This next bit is the sum-up of current and upcoming titles. I'll just share release dates as they go through.
Sword of the Stranger out now...
Kurokami DVD info ncoming soon
Code Geass is currently airing on Adult Swim at 2am, and the first part of R2 is coming out in August, with a regular edition and special with volume 4 of the manga-- that should be interesting.
Gundam 00 second season is also airing on SyFy. Season 1 part 1 is due out July 21st; special edition has the first manga volume and Gundam 00-F, neither of which will be released until sometime later.
Gurren Lagann is out in its entirety of course.
The Lucky Star OVA is due out the first week of August at an SRP of $14.98-- no dub, but a few extras, like the Washinomiya Lucky Star Event and some Lucky Channel stuff.
Hayate no Gotoku is also dub-less, episodes 1-7 on July 21st for $39.98.
.hack//G.U. Trilogy is $19.98 and due out in August, also no dub. Extras include "parody mode." Hmm!
True Tears is due in July as an Anime Legends release.
Aaaaand sola is also due in August in a complete collection.
FREEDOM standard-def and anime legends Eureka Seven are both due out this month.
Volume 2 of the Code Geass light novels are due out soon. Suzaku of the Counter-Attack is on sale now, both volumes.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time manga is also due out this month.
Lucky Star volume 1 is on sale currently, came out about a week ago. Volume 2 in September. Apparently it's doing very well!
Gundam 00 regular and Gundam 00F will be out in August and October respectively, but both are available early with the Gundam 00 season 1 part 1 special edition.
The Eureka Seven manga is being released in an omnibus, the first of a series we're told, in September.
Witchblade Takeru of course just got nominated for a Harvey again; omnibus in November.
ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
It's another Bones item. Let's see...the Eureka Seven movie. Looks very AU from the series, but it's Bones, so it'll be awesome-lookin'. They're calling the movie now "Eureka Seven -good night, sleep tight, young lovers-."And more: on September 24th they'll have a one-night-only engagement with Fathom at 3-400 theaters, like Sword of the Stranger and other films. Sweet! Tickets go on sale August 21st. It'll be the debut of the English-language version, so sounds like dub. You can check out their site for the movie, eurekasevenmovie.bandai-ent.com, which is currently up and running.
Part three of the announcement? Also live right now, ANN is now streaming the Eureka Seven TV series.
Q&A session-- someone asked about Haruhi season 2, but it's "classified." Someone's asking about Blu-Ray, which of course they have several releases of.
The end!
Edit:
OK, I see you added True Tears. How about about Shigofumi still?
That seems a little... pricey.
It's almost the same stupid thing that's going on with the gaming industry. They put on DRM to keep people from stealing it, but in the end it bites them in the ass since it gets cracked anyway and less people buy it because they don't want to have to put up with an intrusive system. In this case they're cutting out dubs so that it costs a little less to produce, but then less people buy it (at least, people like me) because they were at least hoping to get SOME feature they hadn't seen before with it. I happily paid that $50 for the Familiar of Zero boxset, and 90% of the reasoning in my head (regardless if I'm force tricking myself into it) was because at the very least I'd get to hear a dub of it that I hadn't heard before. Heck, most of the fun with watching a series you've already seen before is from judging the dub job regardless if it's good or bad.
I buy DVDs for extras and to support whatever license I want to support. Special features like documentaries, interviews, and all that stuff is what really makes me pick up a series.
I do like dubs. I also find fun times rewatching a series and comparing the dub to the sub. Granted, I don't know moonspeak or anything but I can still tell a quality dub from a... not so quality dub.
I still want dubs to be on my DVDs but if they don't have them, it's not a complete lost to me. As long as there are extras worth looking into, I'll continue buying DVDs.
Plus, I'm all about the less than accurate mouth flaps. The writing is more personable, and most of us can engage in suspended disbelief.
As far as Bandai is concerned, probably yes. Obviously pandering up to the hardcore sub fans again(no offense). I was looking so forward to hearing the dub of the Lucky Star OAV considering the good job the did on the series (imo).