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Attention all remnants of the fandom who may have or may not have become Bronies or whatever: TVShowsonDVD.com has the scoop on our favorite feline heroes and not one, but TWO Boxsets coming this year!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Samurai-Pizza-Cats-DVDs-Planned/16654 (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Samurai-Pizza-Cats-DVDs-Planned/16654)


And they say that SPEEDY is fast! But with news this big, following Shout Factory's recent acquisition of the Power Rangers DVD Licence, and their pledge to release Season Sets and Complete Series sets, I can simply say that it took a long time for this to happen, and it will be well worth it in the end.

This is amazing. The fact that they're releasing both the English and Japanese versions is nothing short of a dream come true. I suppose they're doing both separately because the various cuts and such would make it impossible to simply use two audio tracks with the same video as most DVDs do.

At any rate, I'm really looking forward to this. Thanks a lot for sharing the news! :)

It IS Two Boxsets - One for each version - the 52-Episode Edited American Version we're all familiar with, and the 54-Episode Uncut ORIGINAL Edition, with the English Subtitles!

Would be so cool that the american boxset include the latin voices; I just love their voices...

It's cool to see how SPC/KNT are making noise in the world!! I mean, first the possibility of appearing in Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Although that didn't work well), then the action figures and now this!!

Would be cool Tatsunoko get interested about making some ovas or a movie like altready had happened with old series like Dragon Ball, Ranma 1/2 and Saint Seiya!!

We get PizzaCats.com, and then... this... this is so the best month EVER.

Words cannot describe how damn happy I am right now! ;3;

How about "I'm so happy I could explode!" followed by a literal explosion with rainbow smoke.

Woot~! Woot~!

Oh man, so cool, so cool! This is SUPER awesome! I just... I just can't think of any other words to say! This is so cool!

And sorry if I repeated myself, but I thought that needed emphasis.

I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting all of these! 

YoshiAngemon, you have reported the biggest news in Pizza Cats fandom since this board was created.  Good job!

How much to import it to Brazil?  :O

Not even for sale to anyone yet.  We'll have to wait a bit for prices.  If it doesn't come to Brazilian shops, I'm sure some sellers will be willing to ship to you.

I know. It's only a dream. Importing ANYTHING to Brazil is always overlypriced.

Still... maybe...

It wouldn't be the first time I reported on news relating to a DVD release of a cult classic. I was one who found out about the Complete Sam & Max: Freelance Police Boxset from Shout Factory, and spread the word about it to Toonzone's forums, back when I used to go there. And just recently, I was one who posted an error report regarding the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic DVD "The Friendship Express," regarding lag on Episodes 1 and 2, inciting a Disc-replacement program to be enacted. And millions of Bronies were glad to keep their flawed copies, while getting the new ones. Also one time, I actually held the Number One Spot on TIdal Tempest Zone 3 on Sonic CD's leaderboards on PSN, but now I'm about number 2.

So, yeah. I aim to please. As for the price, I'd wager it would cost about $40 to $60 per boxset, if you factor in sales tax, and shipping and handling. The price would be hefty, but well worth it!

When I first saw this news last night on ANN I had to do a doubletake to make sure it wasn't somehow April Fool's Day. I'm still in disbelief.

Wow... This is so great that even D-Mac posted here!! I'll have to import the KNT one to my country, I also will get the SPC one if it includes the latin audio; anywhere, I hope the cost don't infease so much or my wife will kill me...   

Well, now. This calls for a celebration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xhuhA2sa1A

Am I... dreaming?  ?:|
This is the best news I've heard in a long time!
YES!

This can't be...!

These two sets, are more than I have ever asked for. I mean; the full Japanese version with subtitles?

I can't believe this day has come.

I'd like to thank everyone here, who shared this dream with me.

The next step is getting my paws on these sets.

and that figure.

wow.

Another excuse to spend money...and I wonder why my bank account keeps shrinking on me...

I've been waiting 15 years of my life for this moment. There are no words...

I can think of a whole bunch. Just find an online thesaurus and search for all synonyms pertaining to the word "awesome".  ;)

I have never been so anxious to be able to buy something in my entire life. Ever. From a "Cat Fancy" review to an honest-to-goodness collection... one of my dreams shall soon be realized.  :D

I honestly wish I could believe this, but until someone buys it and then posts pics, no dice!

And about Sam & Max, the cartoon season was  released to help promote the videogames, but SPC? This honestly comes out of the blue, and how the heck are they gonna get KNT episodes? They got a laser disk to VHS machine on ebay?

They released a lot of other stuff on DVD. Fist of the North Star, Little Nemo in Slumberland, and others. Saban could just give them the SPC Masters, and Tatsunoko can restore the KNT Masters, as well as fulfill the requests.

The KNT masters are nowhere to be found, or so the rumor goes, so unless Saban had keep the Japenese masters somewhere... actually, aren’t they in the library of congress ?  OR at least a copy is? I remember that from years ago. Of course, the fact only 20 KNT episodes where released might have been because they where on lazerdisk (And by 1990 lazer had internationally flopped and VHS was the king).

Fist of the North Star and Little Nemo are legends, there where intentions to release First of the North Star decades ago but they didn’t do it because the show extreme violence. Little Nemo VHS video release topped the charts for more than a month, selling over 2 million, but SPC? The community is really small, is amazing, I mean one would think we would get an I-tunes release or something cheap like that. 

OK Blackcat, don't believe the damn post... We also are sceptical about but the possibility of having both versions of the series in good quality makes us so happy that we can believe at least for a while...

Go watch My Little Pony and stop popping our little bubble... 

I am quite sure we will get a SPC release, not so sure about a KNT release, after all France did get a hight quality Samurai Pizza Cats DVD release, so we are sure at least the Masters for non Japanese (SPC) exist.

The master tapes being lost/destroyed /whatever is only a rumor as far as I know. And even if they were, there could be other usable sources (broadcast tapes, etc.). At any rate, I doubt they'd be making an announcement if they didn't have any footage to work from.

 :D Awesome topic, news and thread.

Actually, the show was never very popular in Japan to start with, it got only noticed way back in 1991, during re-runs. Since Lazerdisk died, one theory is that they have avoided to re-release the show at first because it was considered as a failure, and later because Tatsunoko does not have the international rights for SPC. In fact the lack of international rights is the kind of handwaved excuse for the SPC not being in certain videogame.

Damn, shame I haven't seen an episode in about 6 years now. Looks awesome, I just MIGHT have to make the investment. Perhaps get the rest of my platoon into SPC.

... Or hazed brutally.

Eh, either or, it's all good.

~Burkey

Nah, just hold your own movie night and do what any MST3K fan would do... Riff the crap out of it!
In fact, might be a good idea to show it along with another movie, just to lessen the impact.

I'm not really getting your point here. KNT actually had pretty good ratings during its initial run, (see here (http://www.animenation.net/blog/2007/08/02/ask-john-was-samurai-pizza-cats-successful-in-its-time/) and here (http://www.edoropolis.org/forums/index.php?topic=4237.0)). KNT was never released on laserdisc, aside from possible bootlegs. I don't think anyone knows the fine details of SPC/KNT's copyright situation, but apparently this company was able to get the DVD rights. And I don't see what any of this has to do with whether or not the original tapes exist.

KNt had low ratings for the time it was aired, not by today standards, back in 1990, there where a lot less animes, and a lot less TV channels, so anime had higher TV ratings. People in Japan mostly noticed the show in their 1991 re-run.  If we compare KNT ratings to others animes aired that year, it was just average at best. Besides back then TV was the most usual way to see an anime, as buying the series to see at home was expensive and not a regular practice. Nowadays people can see anime online, buy the DVDs (Or download it legally) or pirate it, plus compared to 1990 the number of animes and TV stations has almost doubled.

And KNT was officially released in lazer disk, unless you claim Tsuneko is a liar.

Getting the DVD rights for the series is not so hard, getting the rights for the music in KNT is a whole different deal. Saban had to alter or remove most of the KNT music for copyright reasons.

To sum it up, to release KNT, they won't only have to deal with Tatsunoko, but also get the rights for the soundtrack.

Either way a decent number of people watched it. It wouldn't have gone on for 54 episodes if it was failing.

Tsuneko's posts are the only reference to KNT laserdiscs I've ever seen. I don't doubt he owns KNT laserdiscs if he says he does, but they are almost certainly bootlegs.

Do you have any proof of this? Lots of anime dubs replaced background music back then simply because they wanted to.

Which apparently they have done, otherwise they wouldn't be announcing that they were planning to release it.

According sources of various animation websites, all rights to the show apparently reverted back to Japan in the last year or so. Discotek licensed both the Japanese and English versions directly from Tatsunoko. Tatsunoko has been known to hold on to tapes of '80s dubbed Tekkaman, so it's not surprising they'd hold on to Saban's dub of SPC as well.

Nobody would know what state the original KNT masters are in but the original production company, though aren't there rips of the entire series floating around that were capped directly from a recent Japanese TV airing? One that occurred in the last 10 years? Most of them looked too good to be off something like VHS.

First post!

I wonder... If there are Laserdisc bootlegs, does that mean that somewhere out there are Laserdisc originals?

Also... That leads me to another quandary... Where did the bootleg market go so wrong as to actually make bootleg Laserdiscs?  :O

(I'm not arguing the existence of any of this... I'm just puzzled by it at the moment. Kinda like trout yogurt.)

Just chiming in to share in the celebration.  It's about time.  But you all already knew that.  ;)

Way back in 1990, Lazerdisk was dead worldwide, so unless those lazerdisks had korean text somewhere, I bet they where originals. Only Asia keep using laserdisk for a while, but they where harder to pirate than VHS, Still, korea even made microchips using cardboards at some point, and they even made a pirate dreamcast clone that used DVDs, so heck, if it was in korea, I believe it!

Most information we have from the show from ages ago comes from websites that might be dead nowadays, but the fact they altered every song (Even intrumental). And a few interviews talks with people who worked on the show (Just text in websites, no audio whatsoever) Seems to indicate that Saban did not buy the rights for the score to save costs. Still, back then it was just information someone posted in a website then it was copy pasted in forums and other websites. No way to corroborate it unless someone interviews those guys again, but if they hardly remember the show back then, I don’t think they will remember the fine details about 20 years later.

And guys, you must understand the anime business has changed a lot, animes used to have WAY  longer seasons.

.... TODAY IS THE BEST DAY EVER! YES! AFTER ALL THIS TIME!! Crap, need to turn off caps.
Anyway... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPg5LjGYz8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkgXhGraFM

I've deleted the Episode Download boards in preparation for the launch of the DVD boxsets. Expect a contest for a boxset sometime in the near future. :P Best of luck to you Discotek Media! :D

I thought something looked off at the forum index, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Looking forward to the contest!

Well, shipping costs means I will not get the series DVDs in the near future -_-

You could always enter that contest Blackcat ;)

Great news, aptly subtitled bringer of good news person! Hope soon means real soon!
About that: the status of the show now can't be seen as "abandoned" anymore so in due time, some of the edoropolis.org services regarding episodes will cease to exist.

I support this move.  Real fans should buy when they can, support what you love.  Now if it's out of print or impossible to get, that's a different matter...

"Real soon" would be pushing it. I prefer to wait a while. Might be summer, might be autumn, might even be an unusually hot winter for that matter, given the record warmth we've had THIS winter!

I don't think the Contest covers outside USA, shipping costs would be an overkill.

Dude... as far as I know, shipping costs for DVDs are usually around $5~8 and very rarely above $10 - nothing to whine about.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, Discotek currently ships for free. No guarantee that the offer will still be up when SPC is released, but still.

First one here to get the boxset; pictures please, and tell us exaclty how you got it.

also, maybe your home address, if you have a home alarm system, got any pets? (like big dogs).

Know where America Is? You know the continent? Look where USA is, then look where Argentina is, then google the distance you have from USA to Argentina, then you will understand why I shine about shipping costs. Plus right now trying to import anything into Argentina is difficult due to import restrictions.

I understand you. I live in Brazil and the importation taxes are always high. I bought a R/C model airplane that cost's about 130 US Dollars and I'll pay for it over 600 BR Reais, about 330 dollars, to have it.

I once imported all Slayers DVD box sets which were out at the time. Back in 2001 when those things were $120 per 4 DVDs on Amazon...Apart from shipping costs, I had to pay 19% (hmm or was it 17.5% at the time?) import taxes since the amount in total was above 40 Dutch Guilders...Quite costly, all in all.

Blackcat, you mean madness like this (http://fortunaweb.com.ar/2012-03-23-87143-el-gobierno-traba-el-ingreso-de-publicaciones-importadas-para-proteger-la-salud-de-la-poblacion/)? Urgh..

EDIT: Matt, that's just crazy, having to pay 300% its original value in import tax :/

Oh, thank goodness.  The episodes were really starting to tax my PS3 hard drive.

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Wait a second.  SPC is getting a BOXSET release?!  And this isn't a joke or some sort of virus that is making my computer display some fake message about this?!  Hang on a second...

<Runs out and cheers>

Ahem.  This is a good thing...

Seriously, first SatAM, and now SPC.  What could be next?  Bucky O'Hare?  An American release of Count Duckula?  A Ren & Stimpy collection?  The possibilities are endless...

ABOUT TIME TOO!  *bounces up and down*     :D

SatAM has WAY MORE FOLLOWING than SPC, seeing how fans keep Buying Archie Sonic the comic no matter what, one could see the market to sell old Sonic cartoons was always there.  Unless of course it was the french one that isn't Sonic X second season O_-

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=436782993017467&id=147168055312297 (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=436782993017467&id=147168055312297)

I waited this long, I can handle a few more months.

This is good news.

I concur.

Two parts, huh?  Well, at least it sounds like they'll have all the episodes.

This has made me so happy, I will update my old site (Is been two years! Wow!) Now since I switched machines 3 times since the last update, I lost my backup of the site. So I prefer to make a new design, (as long as is just html stuff). Thanks a lot to Purrcat for recovering my old site, it really needs improvement. I had lost interest due to wikipedia having a "Gatos Samurai" article, but as information in wikipedia can be edited to anyone, plus the fact we will be finally getting an OFFICIAL DVD release, makes me want to improve my site. Sorry for the "tarzan English", maybe I need some sleep right now.

Looks like the release has been pushed back a bit, a recent Facebook comment says they're hoping to receive the masters soon and that it will be released early next year. I can't find a way to link directly to the comment (I can't make heads or tails of that darn site...)

why are you spreading bad news  8O

Somehow I seem to be confident, despite being a horrible skeptic, that Discotek Media will pull this off, if not this year, then eventually. Varied as their release library is, they seem to have released a number of anime classics, proving they are able to do this kind of thing.
Whatever SPC related they will have, I'll buy on release date. The series has been underappreciated long enough and when the time comes that we'll be able to appreciate it in the way it counts most - the monetary way - , I'll be there.

According to Discotek's Facebook page (LINK (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=510170312345401&id=147168055312297)), they are working on the subtitled sets now and those will be released before the dubbed ones. This due to a delay in receiving the dubbed masters from Japan.

Thanks for the update. Good to hear they're working on it.

Latest word from Discotek says to expect the SPC and KNT DVDs around summer of 2013.

On the bright side, that gives me time to financially recover from the money I spent on the KNT book.

On the good side, I don't have the money anyway...

update from Discotek's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=519015434794222&id=147168055312297&comment_id=101537887&offset=0&total_comments=50):

More updates from Discotek. (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=534754723220293&id=147168055312297) The Teyandee DVD release will probably happen in April. Their translation of the title will be "Legendary Ninja Cats". It will be a single, full-series set. The Samurai Pizza Cats dub will also be a single full-series set, to be released at an indeterminate date next year.

That sounds great. Thanks for the update.

Glad to know things are coming along and we're getting more info on release dates.

It will be interesting to compare the differences in video quality when the sets come out, because the Japanese version was remastered while the English version was not.

Release Date for LNC is in April? Maybe in May or June, or September, we'll see SPC. A wise dog (Big Al Dente) once said the following:

"Hmmm... Gee, that's not so bad."

No, it's not bad, and neither was my recent Straight-A's earned in my first semester in college!

KNT DVD release date confirmed as April 30th!

Great news! Price is estimated to be around $65.

I can live with that.  I would pay $100 or more, but I'd rather not if I don't have to!

Am I late for the celebration?  Ah nuts!

None-the-less, when I read the news almost a year ago at ANN, I had to check the site probably a dozen times to make sure I wasn't having another dream.  Having followed Discotek's Facebook page and site thus far is proving that it's not.

All i can say is, about time.  ^_^.  15 years for me since I last saw it on an actual TV screen.  My anime viewing/collecting hobby has come full-circle once I get my paws on these sets.  KNT to sate curiosity, SPC for obvious reasons.

(PS: Been YEARS since I've been around here.  I was afraid I forgot my password, but sure enough, I remembered, thus here I am.  Introductory Post Is Here (https://www.edoropolis.org/forums/index.php?topic=74.msg6567#msg6567).  Glad to be back in the fold.)

I have a theory about the delay of the English Dub release: Discotek may be trying to experiment, by trying to use the Japanese Video as a high-quality master, and change it around, so they can work in the English Audio, and recreate the experience as accurately as possible. But they'll need Saban Brands's help for that!

I really hope you're right; I'll be glad to to get SPC however i can, but it seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to re-cut the footage since it wasn't a censorship issue like with a lot of other anime that was syndicated.  EDIT:  According to the wikipedia page, there were some censorship issues, so maybe someone with more knowledge can clear that up as well.    

Just out of curiosity, does Saban Brand's still exist?  I was under the impression Disney owned all of their back catalog aside from the series whose rights had reverted, and that Saban no longer existed, but I may be wrong about that.

There are quite a few things cut from SPC. Some of it was potentially "objectionable" content, some of it was just jokes that were too difficult to translate. There were also a few minor instances of "digital paint", mostly to remove Japanese text. At any rate, recutting the KNT footage to match SPC would be a pretty big job.

I'm not sure about the rights issues around Saban.

Yep, Saban Brands (aka, Saban Brands LLC) is actually the new name of the company under Haim Saban's helm.  Haim has regained possession of the Power Rangers and Digimon franchises, as well as taking over the CW network's Saturday AM kids' block from the ailing 4Kids Entertainment.  The old company that existed from 1984-2002 was called Saban Entertainment (International outside North America).  The whole history is kinda convoluted, but basically after milling about in first-run syndication and also running a block of shows on Nickelodeon in the late 1980s, by the late 1990s, Haim bought out The Family Channel and also took over the Fox Kids block (the Fox network themselves, owned by News Corp, wanted out of the children's programming biz by 1997...mostly forced by O&O affiliates to dump the block for local weekend / weeknight news, infomercials and local programming).  Long story short, aside from Power Rangers seasons and the Digimon franchise, the company fell on hard times, and Saban sold it in parts.  All successful properties at the time, Power Rangers and Digimon namely, went to Disney in 2002, and the Fox Family channel became ABC Family.  Anything leftover of Saban's anime and other projects, including SPC, were left to expire and revert back to their original production houses in Japan or elsewhere.

You can bet I'm sure Discotek is using the newly remastered prints that were used for the 2012 Japanese KNT box set for their Japanese audio/English Sub set that will be out this Spring.  I think part of the delay up to this point also deals with Japan wanting us to wait their turn.....they are very skittish with outside licensors releasing stuff too soon after their own dates due to reverse importation fears.  This happens a TON with anime BluRay releases...delays or outright cancellations ensue.

As for Saban's interpretation, I don't know.  Discotek is a small indie label that, I'm sure, does its best to get the absolute best quality masters for digital transfer.....first-gen if possible from the Japanese source....which will be the case for the KNT set, or very HQ 'broadcast' (on Beta-tape cassettes) masters if there are no first-gen tapes out there.  If the tapes have been prepped for digital broadcast, most of the grunt work is already done.  Even so, there's sometimes still the problem of transferring an analog (tape) source onto a digital (disc) format.  You wind up seeing all the imperfections of video.  This was done often in the early days of anime DVD releases with less-than-average results half the time.

If the delay is to get the highest-quality tapes for the English version, then I'm all for a bit of a delay.  SPC was edited two-fold;  1: for censorship (which for 1991/1996, was more lax for children's programming than it probably is today), and 2: to allow the required 9-10 minutes commercial time.  While it would be great for Discotek's folks to go back and timecode the Japanese tapes they have and partake in synching the English audio to the edits, this would be a time-consuming, not to mention expensive process.  Why do that work when Saban already did it 22 years ago?

Maybe Saban also has regained control of all its other former properties, but decided to shuffle SPC / KNT to Discotek, or maybe did a sub-license deal?  ANN's page and the Wiki article both show Discotek as the license holder, but then again, with the Digimon Complete Season 1 and upcoming 02 DVD sets, Saban's tag/logo is still at the end of those episodes, so obviously Toei and NewVideo had those masters lying around somewhere.  (Moot point as Saban, as I said, has regained formal control of all things Digimon.)

I spend too much time reading up on this stuff, but there you be.  :)

Thanks for explaining that, felineki.  I remember reading up on it years ago, but we old fogies in our mid-20's tend to forget stuff.  If you don't mind, I was just reading the wikipedia page and it said that there were two unaired, dubbed episodes (that were pulled for censorship issues).  Were those shown in  Canada/Europe, and were they part of the torrent that was floating around for years?  Or is there potentially unseen SPC out there?  I hadn't heard of that before, but I've seen every episode that was part of the torrent, so I'm just curious.

The two episodes you're referring to were never dubbed, and hence only exist in KNT. Thus KNT has a total of 54 episodes and SPC has a total of 52. However, the two episodes in question are clip shows (pure clip shows, unlike Candid Kitties and Big Cheese's High Defintion TV, which had some newly-made scenes), so you don't really miss much. They were probably dropped from SPC simply because they weren't really necessary, and in fact the first of the two seems to have been an odd spur of the moment thing that came about due to the change in KNT's time slot early in its run; it was even omitted from the Japanese VHS releases. The latter of the two does have some amusing voiceovers from the Big Cheese and Jerry Atrick's Japanese counterparts added in, though.

I had always known about those two clip EPs.  I didn't know that first one came so early in the series' run because of a time-slot change.  Otherwise, it's pretty well established that these episodes did nothing to further the plot along.

SPC was pretty much run in full everywhere except the U.S., where 12 episodes (one clip show, "Cats Cop Cartoon Careers", and 11 regular episodes) went un-aired.  This 'was', I believe, due to censorship conflicts at the time.  I also need to correct myself on that matter......I'm honestly not sure if censorship has loosened up at all.  Not that it makes much difference, as there isn't much out there anymore for network and syndicated children's blocks on broadcast anymore.  Everything's gone to CN, Nick, or The Hub.  Some classic stuff runs on 'retro TV' sub-channels in some markets, but nothing from the 1990s so far.

For those like myself in the U.S. who have been stuck with having to of seen those purposely-skipped-over episodes for a good many years as low-quality RealVideo files, that DVD set will be the first time ever we'll be seeing those in decent quality.  Same goes for the entire series, really.  Tsuneko's efforts (which I nabbed early last year, but deleted from my HDD since the official DVD announcement) have been the cleanest I had seen SPC up to this point.

I haven't been here allot due to toku and ponies keeping me busy.

Though I thought I should come back to express my happiness with these two dvd sets and ES Gokin Speedy (no sign of a pre-order on AmiAmi yet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTtsLfyCkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTtsLfyCkc
I also found this HD dvd rip on youtube just after it was announced. It looks so good I cannot wait to order it.  :D

That is from the same transfers (edit) Discotek should be getting, right?  I really can't wait for these sets...

I thought it was Discotek who has SPC/KNT.  Shout Factory! has the Power Rangers franchise I believe.  I stand corrected if I am wrong.

To the clip posted:  Considering this is a 1990 period anime, and in 'Youtube' quality, that transfer looks quite clear, though it looks like the image here is stretched and 'letterboxed'.  Will look quite good on a decent-quality TV with a player that can properly up-convert DVD, though let's not expect HD-quality.  It will be 4:3 and, pending your setup is correct, 'pillarboxed' (bars at the left / right).  I have a few older 1980s-era anime and TV shows (Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku for anime, and the 1980s TV drama 'Dallas' among them), and those looked clear and vibrant on my TV, so I'm expecting like-quality with SPC.  I've got my setup where it plays the formats properly depending on the source material.  I've tried in the past watching older shows with 'fullscreen' productions are stretched to fill my widescreen setup.  In short, terrible-looking to my eyes....stretched faces and what-not.

I notice with cel animation, whether Western like Disney, or from Japan, the quality depended on money spent and release format.  The more spent (like on something like Escaflowne), or on the many OAVs and movies released in those days, the quality was often-times better than any typical weekly TV series that were aired.  Long-running shows just often looked average to below....choppy animation, jitter in scene-changes, etc.  Some studios (GAINAX) were notorious for basically running the money well dry to the point where all they could do were still shots.

That said, again, I say this looks quite nice.  It'll be nicer running off a BluRay / DVD player via HDMI on a regular TV.  I wouldn't pass final judgement on a YT clip.

>_< sorry, I meant Discotek.  I mixed them up because I just bought some DVDs from Shout Factory, actually...

Yes you are correct about that, I assumed it was DVD quality because its the only KNT video on youtube that has a remastered look instead of looking like the encodes KNT used to sub the first 3 episodes. And this being the only one posted in 2012 I honestly thought I was right.
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/530985_492901464088319_1048711915_n.jpg)

Also I should have posted the ED too :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-sOISVvOGU

About this: I've read that for copyright reasons (Bandai still having merchandising rights, maybe?), the ES Gokin Speedy isn't being sold in Japan. Which would explain why it isn't listed on any Japan-based sites, even ones that are taking preorders for other upcoming ES Gokin figures. Most of the sites I've seen selling ES Gokin Speedy are based in Hong Kong, which is where the company making the figures is located.

The new coverart for the KNT-box.

(http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/528785_566191190076646_413037107_n.jpg)

Not bad but having in mind how the japanese DVD's and other media are getting new art this can look a bit bland; the coloring should be a lot better with more effects and a better background... I hope this isn't the final option...

Do anybody know if this will include the spanish dub?

Well here is a post I thought I would never make here; my thoughts on DVD box set cover art...

I like the background patten on the new KNT...er I mean LNC box, with a nice clear picture of the three in stock promo pose 1. But yes, it does look a little "flat" so to speak, and a nice background of Edoropolis or something similar might work better, and then use the current blue pattern on the inside of the box. The SPC box, with our three heroes in stock promo pose 2 looks good, but again, it could do with something else in the background, and again I can only think of some Little Tokyo skyline or something. One quick change to make is the SPC logo needs a small black outline rather than the white one it has at the moment.

I just had a quick look back at the Déclic Images DVD boxes, and they seemed to have a bit more going on in them. I guess it's just a case of how much time and money Discotek have when it comes to cover art. They seem to be up for amending things, so they could be open to suggestions.

Overall, I'm just happy by their mere existence; in another set of circumstances this post would have been the single word "Squee!" set at 72 point. In magenta.

Everything I've heard so far only refers to Japanese and English, so I don't think the Spanish dub will be included. Which is unfortunate because from what I can tell there are quite a few SPC fans from Spanish-speaking countries that enjoyed that dub.

Also looks like they've revealed the cover art for the dubbed set, too. (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=566192393409859&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1)

The Japanese set cover art is better IMHO with the blue BG.  The English set is good so far, but I agree, the logo/lettering needs to be outlined in black, not white, so it stands out better against the bright red / white BG.

Also take note that the KNT / LNC art is flat anime-style cel-art, whilst the SPC art, they seemed to have gone with an almost 3-d cel-shaded look to our feline heroes.

While I'd like the art to probably be a bit more 'active', it's just nice to see that this series is getting put out there.

Unlike the other players in anime distribution, Discotek seems to listen to its consumer base more actively, so we should probably get suggestions out to them ASAP.  They are slating the KNT set for Spring already.

Just add shadows and lights to the current art and I'll be happy...

There will probably be a Spanish version someday after the English version is done.

Violet is probably right; I know that often language tracks are held back to prevent importing into markets where a license could be sold.  If there is any interest from a Spanish company, they probably don't want to hand those tracks over to Discotek.  That's actually why some Anime DVDs and Blu-rays take so long to come out, they are afraid that with the Japanese vocal track on the U.S. release, fans will reverse import them.

Hello.

I'm counting this as my 1st post here, and decided to compile a list of what I believe will be the episode order on the Legendary Ninja Cats and Samurai Pizza Cats DVD boxsets.

With both sets containing 8 discs a piece, I did my episodes-per-disc number listing under the following formulas.

With the LNC set, I gave the discs a 7-7-7-6-7-7-7-6 episode numbering matrix, while with the SPC set, I gave that one a 7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6 episode numbering matrix. That is assuming that Discotek Media will keep a balanced numbering scheme for both the 1st half and 2nd half for each set, which I believe they will. The episode orders for LNC and SPC are also different, depending on each set. I used the Pizza Cats episode listing page at Wikipedia as my reference page.

In the LNC list below, the SPC English dub episode title is in brackets, to allow for easier reference. The SPC listing does contain a repeat episode listing, but only for the sake of completion.

(n/a is only used in the LNC section, where it means that no English dub for that particular episode was made)

Speculated LNC Episode Order

Disc 1

1-Secret Ninja Group, Nyankii Dispatch!(Stop Dragon My Cat Around!)
2-The Town is full of Sushi! Panic!(If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi)
3-Dig Dig a Hole and Dig More!?(Underground, Underwater, Undercooked)
4-Have a Worry? A Card will solve it!(The Great Golden Cluck)
5-An Idol is Born? Sweet Trap of the Entertainment World(Singing Samurai Sensation!)
6-Exploration! Amusement Park for a Tomboy Princess(Let the Cellar Beware)
7-Karamaru Becomes a Hero?(The Nuclear Potato)

Disc 2

1-Is it Dreadful? Koon no Kami's Se-cr-et(Kind of a Drag)
2-The Princess is Excited! Everyone is worried!(Double Trouble for Princess Vi)
3-Teyandee! This is Nyankii(n/a)
4-Father of the Bullied Child is a Gifted Scientist?!(Hot and Cold Kitties)
5-Unusual play, wonderful play! The Weakness of Nyankii!(Candid Kitties)
6-Nyankii Defeat? The Dark 4 Ninja Appear!(Part 1)(The Pizza Cats Are Only Human(Part 1))
7-Reversion! Nyankii Fly Through the Air(Part 2)(The Pizza Cats Are Only Human(Part 2))

Disc 3

1-Wish! Koon no Kami Wants to be Popular(Those Transformin' Felines)
2-A Lie! The Shogun is an Imposter!?(The Case of the Bogus Billionaire)
3-Where? The Professor Disappeared(Big Cheese's IQ Corral)
4-Courtship, Courtship A Baseball Challenge(Field of Screwballs)
5-Double Date It is Full of Danger(Speedy's Double Time Trick)
6-Eh!? Pururun's Debutante Declaration(Samurai Charm School)
7-Boom-boom A Tanuki Makes a Fuss!(Drummin' Up Trouble with a Big Bad Beat)

Disc 4

1-A Crow with Pizza, Limited Express Delivery?(Pizza Bird Delivers)
2-Crash! Who is the Star of the Movie?(Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance)
3-Strange? Koon no Kami has a Child!?(Son of Big Cheese)
4-Cute? Yattaro Turns into a Girl(Gender Bender Butterflies!)
5-A Big Adventure! Search for the Zekko Bird(Cold and Crabby in Little Tokyo)
6-Unpleasant! We are Banished to an Island?(The Terror of Prisoner Island)

Disc 5

1-Is it so? The Nyankii are Disbanded?!(Pizza Cat Performance Review)
2-Exposed!? Nyankii's True Character(Destructo Robots at Popular Prices)
3-Legendary Idol? Sukashi Dispatched(No Talent Guido)
4-Karamaru in Pain! A Ninja's Love(All You Need is Love)
5-Pururun's Flute has a Story(Polly's Magical Flute)
6-Mysterious?! A Friend from the Stars!(Close Encounters of the Pig Kind)
7-A Plan for Certain Victory! The Karakara Clan is Strong(Big Cheese's High Definition TV)

Disc 6

1-Sagase! Nekkii Disappeared at the Lake(Pizza Delivery of Doom!)
2-Youth Burn with Passion! Also, the Professor returns.(Youth Is for Exploding)
3-Really!? Yattaro Dies at Sundown(Part 1)(Bad Bird Uncaged(Part 1))
4-Defeat Karamaru! Tears, Tears of a Big Revival(Part 2)(Bad Bird Uncaged(Part 2))
5-Hello! Yattaro Flies to Another Country(A Mission in Manhattan)
6-UFO!? Nyankii vs Aliens(Unidentified Flying Oddballs)
7-Touching! Mother Returns Home(Princess Vi's Hippy-Dippy Mom)

Disc 7

1-A Big, Confusing Fight at the Spa?(A Wet and Wild Weekend!)
2-Everyone is Coming! A Contest to decide Who is #1 in the Land(Kung Fu Kitty Kontest)
3-Pinch! The Masamasa is Stolen(Gone with the Ginzu)
4-Disappointment! The Misery of Koon no Kami(A Little Bit 'O Luck)
5-Nyankii are Stuck in Time(Samurai Savings Time)
6-They Appeared! Imitation Nyankii(Phoney Baloney Cat)
7-Nyankii Santas Fly Through the Air(The Cheese Who Stole Christmas)

Disc 8

1-Tired Yattaro is Banished to an Island(Emperor Fred Does Hard Time)
2-Gennarisai's "WAHAHA" Big Plan!(Quake, Rattle, and Roll)
3-Frightening! Koon no Kami's Big Research(n/a)
4-Koon no Kami's Biggest Operation Ever!(Part 1)(The Big Comet Caper(Part 1))
5-Tomorrow will be Absolutely Beautiful!(Part 2)(The Big Comet Caper(Part 2))
6-Nyankii is Forever!(The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers)

Speculated SPC Episode Order

Disc 1

1-Stop Dragon My Cat Around!
2-If You Knew Sushi Like I Know Sushi
3-Underground, Underwater, Undercooked
4-The Great Golden Cluck
5-Let the Cellar Beware
6-Singing Samurai Sensation!
7-The Nuclear Potato

Disc 2

1-Kind of a Drag
2-Double Trouble for Princess Vi
3-Hot and Cold Kitties
4-Candid Kitties
5-The Pizza Cats Are Only Human(Part 1)
6-The Pizza Cats Are Only Human(Part 2)

Disc 3

1-Those Transformin' Felines
2-The Case of the Bogus Billionaire
3-Big Cheese's IQ Corral
4-Field of Screwballs
5-Speedy's Double Time Trick
6-Samurai Charm School
7-Drummin' Up Trouble with a Big Bad Beat

Disc 4

1-Pizza Bird Delivers
2-Big Cheese Shows His Filmy Substance
3-Son of Big Cheese
4-Gender Bender Butterflies!
5-Pizza Cat Performance Review
6-Cold and Crabby in Little Tokyo

Disc 5

1-The Terror of Prisoner Island
2-Destructo Robots at Popular Prices
3-No Talent Guido
4-All You Need is Love
5-Polly's Magical Flute
6-Close Encounters of the Pig Kind
7-Big Cheese's High Definition TV

Disc 6

1-Pizza Delivery of Doom!
2-Youth Is for Exploding
3-Bad Bird Uncaged(Part 1)
4-Bad Bird Uncaged(Part 2)
5-A Mission in Manhattan
6-Unidentified Flying Oddballs

Disc 7

1-Princess Vi's Hippy-Dippy Mom
2-A Wet and Wild Weekend
3-Kung Fu Kitty Kontest
4-Gone with the Ginzu
5-A Little Bit 'O Luck
6-Samurai Savings Time
7-Phoney Baloney Cat

Disc 8

1-The Cheese Who Stole Christmas
2-Emperor Fred Does Hard Time
3-Quake, Rattle, and Roll
4-The Big Comet Caper(Part 1)
5-The Big Comet Caper(Part 2)
6-The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers

And there you have it. =)

I see you finally got access to the forums, Ronic.  Welcome aboard.  =^_^=

That's a running order I can see happening.  The Digimon Season 1 collection I picked up over the Christmas break, and I have it sitting by me right now, is also 54 episodes like KNT (or LNC, as Discotek is calling it..but I'll cite it as KNT henceforth).  The thing of it is, they didn't quite evenly spread the episode count.

Over those 8 discs, it's a 7/7/7/7/7/7/7/5 matrix, the last disc bearing a pair of image galleries as bonus material.

Series done in 4:3 at 480I like these don't require a whole ton of compression, thus still look good, yet be able to cram a ton of episodes on a single-layer DVD.  Few, if any companies, bother with dual-layer DVD these days thanks to Blu-Ray...they're prone to issues in older DVD players....they freeze for a long period or just crash the player at the layer switch.  All they're good for is data storage.  The video also tends to look like crap, worse than normal DVDs, since it has to read through more information stored on the disc.

For those who grew up with the Spanish dub (I'm guessing this version aired in Mexico and possibly Southern CA), I think that's up to a different distributor altogether, since Discotek only has rights for the Japanese version and Saban's English adaption.  Hopefully someone gets those rights and puts it out there for you folks, and soon.

I really hope that, i just love the spanish voices and some of them sound really similar to the japanese voices; Bad Bird doesn't sound like a parrot like the english one, in fact that's the same voice that we had for Shredder from 80's TMNT, Wolverine from X-Men animated Series and Otto From The Simpsons... I mean, I like the english voices although they can be too "cartoony" while the japanese voices are damn serious; the spanish dub is a mid point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Jl6q7FTgg

Also, Polly has the voice of Kodachi from Ranma 1/2 and Lucille has the voice of frigging Dana Scully!!

The Legendary Ninja Cats set is now up for preorder at RightStuf.com (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/XB0JbreO7Yoyvvh87H/browse/item/97556/4/0/0)... and cheap, at only $41.99!

Discotek lets people order straight from their own site as well.

RightStuf is my go-to anime store.....has been since 1999, back when you got print catalogs the thickness of an old JCPenney or Sears catalog during their prime, so obviously I put trust in them.

Then again, if I ordered direct from Discotek themselves, maybe they get a bigger slice of the pizza in terms of profits, yet I'm not sure how secure their site is (never ordered there before).

What to do...what to do?  *flails arms*  I'll figure something out, but I'm getting my name on that pre-order list, doggone it!

Thanks for the heads-up.  :)

PizzaCatFan, I checked their website, and they allow you to pay via M.O.  You could always just fire off your payment in the mail, and as long as you keep your western union stub, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.  I'll probably just go with Amazon personally, because I hate paypal and they don't accept Google Checkout.

A description has surfaced at ADA Music's website (http://www.ada-music.com/release?id=adarelease209610759&config=adarconfig209608358), which gives a glimpse into some of the romanizations and translations that will be used for Legendary Ninja Cats:

Whilst I've had no issues with PayPal itself, I definitely understand it's given people major headaches, reading all sorts of gripes about them online, ESPECIALLY when one is dealing with international sellers and just in-general ripoff artists. 

That said, I'm probably going to go through Rightstuf, or wait until Anime Central in May (one of the several vendors with deep DVD / BluRay selections should have it).  I've had 'zero' hangups with them (Rightstuf), and unlike most web-based stores, they started as a print catalog, thus still have people that can be reached by phone should any snags occur in orders, or you need to return defective products.

Thanks.  :)

Legendary Ninja Cats is now available to pre-order from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Legendary-Ninja-Cats-Artist-Provided/dp/B00BG475V6/) at $48.97
Still not available yet on the main Discotek site, but it can't be long now.

Latest word from Discotek is that they're hoping for a July release for the SPC set.

I just pre-ordered my LNC/KNT set; that really is a great deal for the money.  I remember paying $30 + for anime DVDs in the late 90's/early 2000's.  I'm really grateful to get this series at all, let alone for such a good deal. 

Yeah, I think I'm going to be throwing my name into the hat.  I was going to wait until the convention, but I'll have other anime and such I can buy at that time.  Can't really pass this up at that price.

Still aiming for a July release for the English version it sounds like.

 ?:|

Please tell me that isn't really how they're going to romanize it. "Nyankee" I can live with, "Yattaro" is fine, and even if they don't include honorifics (most official subs never do anyway) I can learn to deal with that too. But "Skashee" is just bad. I know I shouldn't complain, I know I had a chance to try to do things my way, but if that's how they're choosing to write it, it really makes me cringe.

It seems like that's what they're going with, as that same description has been showing up on more websites. Tatsunoko themselves can't seem to follow a consistent romanization for his name anyway. "Sukashii", "Sukasy", "Sukacy"... all on officially-licensed products. If we're going to talk translation peeves, I'm a little disappointed that "Teyandee" was completely cut from the title. I can understand why, since it's a bit of obscure Edo-speak that doesn't translate well, but to me "Legendary Ninja Cats" by itself sort of comes off like "Mobile Suit" without "Gundam", or "Neon Genesisi" without "Evangelion"... it's not really the full title. But, since it is the actual title of the product, I suppose there might be marketing concerns and such that apply to it and not to the dialogue contained within, so I'm not going to judge anything too harshly just yet.

On the subject of translation, here's an unexpected development: Apparently Tatsunoko wasn't happy with the "Legendary Ninja Cats" title and had Discotek change it to the directly-romanized Japanese "Kyatto-Ninden Teyandee". (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=596880483674383&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1) With only a little over a month until release, it must have been frustrating to have to modify the cover art, and change the title of the product in catalogs and listings and such everywhere. Also it has been confirmed that the extras present on the Japanese set (textless OP and ED, commercial) will also be included.

"KNT" it remains.

I'm really glad they kept the original title, but I do feel bad for Discotek if they now have to change all of the stuff they had already printed.  Just so long as I get my SPC boxset nothing will bum me out at this point!

I don't think they've sent the finalized materials over for replication.  This change back over to the 'KNT' title was probably the final thing they had to do.  If that's the case, good call on Tatsunoko's part to catch it 'before' money was wasted on replication, only to have a recall later on, which would only delay release.  A simple graphic/art change is cheaper than having thousands of copies of media printed out and shipped to wholesale/retail.

Clearly Discotek seems to have a good working relationship with its Japanese clients...that is to say, there's good communication there.  They, and us, the fans, win all around that way.

That's more than can be said about some other anime distributors out there, and these guys just stick to niche stuff.

Gah!  The anticipation builds.  I can't wait a day longer.  Why can't the calendar say 'April 21' instead of 'March'.  >_<  The same is gonna happen with the English version's release this summer.

I also looked at the most recent exhibitor list for Anime Central, the convention I am attending this coming May (pending no family or other emergencies occur).  Discotek will be present.  Hopefully they'll have it on hand....I'll just buy it directly from the source in person and thank them.  Probably bow down to the floor.  (Kidding on that last bit.)

Well, that was unexpected. But even though "Legendary Ninja Cats" wasn't too bad, it's nice to see the original name restored, even if that hyphen in there is kinda random. And I always preferred using "Kyattou" Ninden Teyandee to "Cat" Ninden Teyandee, personally. You lose the pun if you change it that way.

Now if only they'd romanize Sukashii's name right...

And I'm with you, felineki, I hope that "Teyandee" remains in the subs and that they didn't try to translate it to some weird thing. Fingers crossed.

Discotek's site now has the KNT pre-order page up here (http://www.discotekmedia.com/kyatto_ninden_teyandee.htm). Lord Korn?

Also, Amazon have updated their LNC listing to KNT (http://www.amazon.com/Kyatto-Ninden-Teyandee-Artist-Not-Provided/dp/B00BG475V6/) (and upped the price to $62.96, but I'll bet that price will change before the end of April).

"Lord" seems like a good translation of the "no kami" title, but "Korn" seems kind of weird. I would have gone with "Kohn",  or something.

Korn? Like the band? So he was a milk derivate and now he is a mispelled vegetable?

At least this will make one of the puns involving his name easier. There's a part in one episode where Karamaru orders a meal without corn (because in Japanese it's the same as "Koon"), then gets mad when it arrives with corn.

Now now... how do you know you don't like it unless you try it?  :D

*curls up into a ball and whimpers*


:badbird: Take it away, or suffer the consequences.

I'm wondering if the "Onmitsu" thing is just a typo. Like how RightStuf's page (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/PJlHOVPsEkdIsBCwXP/browse/item/97556/4/0/0) features "Tattaro". "Yetyet" reminds me of how a deck of cards shown in one episode romanized it as "Yea-Yea".

I was still frustrated by the poor romanizations, so I e-mailed Discotek. I almost wasn't expecting to get a reply, but they wrote back very quickly, even if they were brief. They told me


and that they don't have any say. I tried to verify that the company was in fact Tatsunoko, but they didn't answer that part. I'm sure it is, though. So it looks like Discotek is blameless on this one, and it was very nice of them to communicate with me and let me know what was going on. I'm still annoyed about this, but hey, it's subtitled KNT. Project Dream fell apart and I had no idea when it could be put back together again, so this is the next best thing and I'd encourage you all to grab a copy anyway.


I'm hoping so.


I remember seeing that too, but not on a card.

Huh, interesting. Personally, I'm glad to hear that Tatsunoko is providing input, even if the names are a bit different from what we've been used to.

I still plan on getting this, even if it does have these 'typos'.  I had a hunch Discotek isn't really to blame here.

I think of it this way too.  This gives us a great insight of what bigger players like FUNimation have to deal with.  Basically these distributors are just that....distributors.  They don't own one iota of the series they license.  They're only licensing the rights to 'distribute' a series.  To others who collect and watch anime as I do, check out your DVD/BluRay covers next time.  99% of the time, they carry another company's logo aside from the Stateside/NA/international distributor's own.  (Ex: my copy of Spice & Wolf is plastered all over not only with FUNimation's logo, but also that of Kadokawa Shoten USA.)

You're seeing this a lot more than in the past.....the Japanese companies establishing US divisions of their Japanese counterparts as they want 100% control of production 'and' distribution.  Sony's done it with ANIPLEX USA, Enoki Films USA (Slayers, Utena) has been around for a long time.  Bandai tried with Bandai Visual.....that flopped because they came into the game too soon and were putting out series that were too old and too overpriced to justify it.  ANIPLEX can get away with high prices and limited edition releases because they are on the up-and-up with current anime people want to own.  Enoki's stuff is being put out by various companies, and anything Shonen Jump is automatically with Viz, save a few exceptions (One Piece).

Maybe this is how things always have been done, I just never knew of it until recently.

Bottom line.  If Japanese companies want to establish their namesake distribution labels in the rest of the world rather than going through third-parties like FUNimation, something built into every computer called 'spell check' would be of great benefit.  A little QA (quality assurance) goes a long way in the business realm.  It is what it is though....Tatsunoko is new at this whole gig, and it's just nice they're finally allowing a US distributor (Discotek) access to their vaults and getting all this classic stuff out there that other players have ignored for years.  I'm not going to nitpick.  Not after having waited so long to have this series in my possession in a legit, official release.

Pre-order will be going in shortly.

This is news to me.  I guess broadcast licenses run for a good long time before expiring, even if the series isn't airing on any network or independent channel.


I can understand this.  Having to correct people every time can get a bit distracting, and it's not even their fault.  It's an error by people we have no control over.

I had to pull up the original Japanese for a mental refresher.....yeah, Tatsunoko screwed up.  Japanese don't have some letters that we do (ex: no 'L's), and half the time, their 'n's and 'u's are not pronounced.  Thus the sloppy translations.

I sure hope the subtitle track isn't going to be this messed up.  >_<  *crossing fingers*

Ditto, but I guess we can always correct them. Something like a site or maybe just a post with a list of all the characters wouldn't hurt either. Their names from the foreign dubs could be listed too, which was something I attempted to do with the character profiles on my site back in the day.

So Discotek has given word via their Facebook page that KNT pre-orders from their site are now out the door and on their way into the paws of those who dared feed their plastic numbers to them.

Being I just pre-ordered from Righstuf, I won't have mine for (in the least) a week.  I was considering waiting until Anime Central, but I have other anime and 'other' (artbooks, etc) -must haves- that take priority, so I figured may as well get it done now.

Crossing the fingers and hoping the subtitle job isn't something akin to the synopsis full of name misspellings.

I "pre-ordered" mine today, so we'll see what happens.  Wanted to wait until I had more money, but the price might go up later if this was a special pre-order incentive price.

SPC boxset release date to be July 30th.  $79.95 MSRP price. (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=615340705161694&id=147168055312297)

I guess I know what I'm saving up for next.

Beat me to the punch, I see.  =^_^=

Bear in mind, that MSRP is surely to be knocked down 20-40% (latter percentile with discount offers) by most retailers.

I still can't believe this is coming out.....didn't when ANN had the news on their site about SPC / KNT getting licensed last year, and probably won't until I have an actual, officially licensed-and-released copy in my grubby little mitts.  I feel like the anime fan I used to be back in the late '90s / early 2000s when a series was licensed and released again.  In one word......stoked!

Agh. That is much more expensive than I imagined it would be. I thought it would be closer to the amount the KNT boxed set is going for. Are there going to be extras with it or something? Because that's pricey if it's just the DVDs only and nothing else.


I sure hope so. :-\

My KNT copies came in yesterday.... I can confirm Lord Korn and Skashee are the names in the subs... not too thrilled but the art is so nice and crisp compared to the old rips I had... more than willing to overlook (maybe we get a small group togother to make some edits to the subs? Don't release the video, but just the editted sub files)

groan...

Not surprised, but I'm not about to nail this to Discotek.  Anime, being a Japanese product, unfortunately, they (the Japanese) have the most say in it than those who license the rights to release it to the rest of the world.  After all, why do you think BluRay discs take forever-and-a-day to get released here?  Not that reverse-importation is the issue here, but still.....

Though I admit, now that we know this for sure, it makes me question the integrity of every DVD I have that has English subs on them.  Not that I watch most anime in Japanese (Cardcaptor Sakura is the only one I have thus far).....due to my limited eyesight, I have to have it dubbed.  Still though, makes one question.

Lord Kön (or "Koon" w/out special characters) is supposed to be his name, if I'm not mistaken.

Still taking it for what its worth.  At least we won't have to worry about this sort of thing with the English version coming out this Summer.

That's exactly what I've been considering ever since I found out about the poor name choices. A re-subbing project would please us die-hard fans as well as spare some headaches for the newbies who are wondering why we groan whenever they mention "Skashee" or "Shogun Yetyet".


"Ko'on" is the most popular way to spell it, but "Kohn" or even "Kön", like you wrote, would be acceptable. Much better than "Korn", anyway.

Too bad about the names, but, oh well. Translators tend to take liberties.
A couple of Russian romhacking groups translated the game last year and they assumed Ko'on is Cone.
Much more probable than Korn consindering the form of his nose. I don't think any corn is involved.

"Koon" comes form "kon" which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a fox's bark (like how "Nyankee" comes form "nyan" which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow). "Korn" is just a strange Anglicization, as far as I can tell.

The Japanese word for "koon" (fox bark) "Corn" and "Cone" is コーン  "koon" which is also the way it is written in his name, コーン守.  We all know it's the fox bark, but most translators who are not familiar with the show are going to go with the other 2 choices, which occur much more commonly in daily speech than the fox bark.

Oftentimes, I give Japanese-to-English translators the benefit of the doubt, but this is why big anime distributors (much to the disdain of die-hard fans at times) hire people to adapt the scripts into a more smooth-flowing English one....filling in the blanks, spell-checking and so on, which is then taken a step further (sometimes) when an English recording is to be done (to match timecode, moth-flap, etc).

Tatsunoko probably forgot that important task and just gave us the literal translation, errors and all.  Discotek having no say whatsoever, I can't pin it on them so much.  

This is a niche thing anyways....well, SPC -and- KNT are both niche (except to us die-hard fans), but SPC is the bigger slice of the pie for a general majority who look at the series as nostalgia entertainment, myself included.  It will clearly be the bigger seller for Discotek.  They surely know that and thus better not mess THAT one up.

Which is funny, because they've used the ko'on/corn pun with names before, like "Pop Ko'on" (popcorn), although that's still no excuse for "Lord Korn" in my opinion. Oh well, gotta live with it now.

Looks like some KNT is going to be screened at Anime Boston this weekend. (http://www.animeboston.com/coninfo/schedule_video/550)

Odd, since under audio format they state it as being in English.  Mistake, or maybe they got copies of the SPC DVDs ahead of time for screening purposes?

Nice to see at least one convention is screening KNT.

A'Cen had a few Discotek-licensed titles that were screened.  Unfortunately KNT wasn't one of them.

I wasn't in time to see it, but this weekend's Anime North in Toronto had "Ninja Cats" listed on their schedule. I wonder...

Figures it happens the year AFTER we move from Boston... :P

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SPC DVD set up for preorder! (http://www.discotekmedia.com/samurai_pizza_cats.htm)

$59.99, release date July 30th.

My pre-order is in, directly to Discotek themselves.  Could've gone through Rightstuf (my usual go-to place for anime) but SPC was too significant for me to not give my money directly to those responsible for getting it a proper official release.

I want this in my grubby little mitts ASAP.  It streets on July 30, but Discotek sent KNT sets out ahead of its release day...we'll see if the same happens with SPC.

Going by what I'm reading in the comments on FB, Discotek went straight to Saban themselves for the tapes.  We're getting the show in the best possible quality available.  Hopefully it's as good-looking as the KNT set was.  I'm especially looking forwards to the 12 episodes I never got to see in the original U.S. airing, but I plan to do a run of the original 40, in aired order for nostalgia's sake.

Can't wait much longer.  =^^=

Got my replacement for disc 2 today.  (The first release had a glitch in the 2nd disc and Discotech is sending out free replacements.  In case you didn't read that already)

Whats the glitch?

And what if we went through a seller like Rightstuff for eg?

EP 09 on Disc 2, the subtitle track was off by a line (of code) so it got shifted to where the subs show up too early throughout the entire episode (sans OP and ED credits).


I'm still waiting for word on replacements for people like myself who also purchased through other retailers (Amazon, Rightstuf, etc).  They're getting around to those who purchased straight from Discotek themselves first.  This is the other reason I put the order to Discotek rather than a 3rd party for SPC.....as a 'just in case' measure should one of those discs have any issues.  Crossing my fingers and hoping that's not the case though.  Discotek is usually very quality-conscious.

Edit: Replacement disc is on its way.  Whoo-hoo.

...I have not the words to describe my happiness at knowing that my 14-year wait is soon to end.  :D

They finally did it.
As Daniel Bryan would say... YES! YES! YES!

I just hope this is the first step to release in DVD more good old 90s cartoon shows or to bring to Europe and America Japanese animes which never were aired outside Japan or other Asian countries like South Korea

My replacement KNT disc 2 just arrived, so hopefully anyone else who ordered from RightStuf should be receiving theirs soon too. :)

Yep, got mine this past Saturday.  Checked the episode in question, and all is well now.

Where did you all pre-order your copies of SPC. I did mine at amazon when the price was still at $55.97 ^^

I pre-ordered at the Discotek web page. (both for KNT and SPC)

I would too, the only reason I didn't order at Discotek is the customs duty. With Amazon you can pay upfront, at Discotek when you get a package in the Netherlands, you'll have to pay the duty tax and an extra €12,50 for letting the post handle the customs clearing process.

I ordered from Right Stuf (for KNT) and Discotek directly (for SPC).  I would have taken up SPC with Right Stuf, but 1: I'm anxious / excited for SPC....couldn't wait til the street date.  2: In case there's disc issues like what happened with KNT *

* = Doubt you got KNT Speedy, but just for the record....  They sold out of the first (defective) run.  The second and future printings of KNT will have the corrected 2nd DVD.  Episode 9 had a big subtitle track issue explained earlier in the thread.  This has since been corrected.

You're right I didn't get the KNT set. Even though I have watched a few eps of KNT, for me it's just not the same feeling I get when watching SPC; but that's just me :p

I got KNT as a curiosity, and as sort of a 'thanks' for them getting SPC.  I've watched all 54 episodes...at least I think so (been watching the show out of order), and while it is interesting, I too didn't quite get that feeling....the one that I had when I first discovered SPC all those years back.  KNT at times took itself too seriously.  That's Japan for ya though......even in their anime aimed more at children (such as KNT was), they like going over-the-top with seriousness.  It gets worse the older you get into the demographics.

Frankly, I'm glad Saban couldn't find the scripts, and literally ad-libbed and played along to the animation, making it all up as they went.

One more thing I realized.....Saban was actually fairly good with SPC, keeping most of KNT's animated content intact.  All they edited out were scenes that contained Japanese text that couldn't easily be inked out or explained away, and in place of the opening sequence that's the same for each episode (between the OP and the title card), they gave us the 'Fanclub Oath' that precedes the end credits.

I can't wait to see the 12 unaired (in the US, if only due to material that, at the time (1996) was deemed 'inappropriate' for kids.....this would have been little to no issue if we had the TV rating system that would get enacted a couple years after SPC left the air) episodes in the same quality that I've seen the rest of SPC, and now KNT in.

I don't think KNT can fairly be described as taking itself seriously at all. It's full of puns, 4th wall breaking, pop culture references, and self parody. Granted, some of that doesn't come through as well in the Discotek subtitles.

Perhaps it is the sometimes haphazard subtitle job, but even in more recent stuff like Azumanga Daioh (which is about as rife with Japanese jokes / puns as KNT is), things just get plain lost in translation.

At least the various 'funny' bits are easier to understand than with most other anime I've watched, but that may be because I came into knowing about KNT via SPC,  If I ever were in question about certain things, that's what the Internet is for.

English (especially American) humor is more slapstick and 'gross out' for its comedy, whereas the UK is more about dry / sarcastic humor.  Japan seems to be more about visual cues and puns that only they can understand, and are basically lost on the rest of the world.

It's definitely one of the toughest genres of anime to translate from what I've seen, based on both dubs and subtitle tracks.

Hey there, guys!  I know it's been a while, but I'm thinking of returning, and I am psyched about our favorite cartoon finally getting a legit DVD release! $40, $80, I'll pay whatever it takes to get that set in my possession!

According to Discotek, they're shipping today!

That's early, but I won't complain.

Mine is HERE!!!
Have to go out right now, but I'll open it up and write a little report when I get home.

So, after all these years, here I am watching SPC on an official DVD!

I was hoping for a booklet or some stickers or something to come in the DVD case, but it's just the DVDs.  Good enough.

Quality?  Well, it's the best I've ever seen SPC and really the best you're going to get, just keep in mind our show is from the early 90s.  For me it brought back memories of the good old days watching SPC on TV, but no commercials, a little better quality picture, and no annoying TV station announcer talking over the end credits.  I did have to turn up my TV sound more than I normally do for watching a DVD.  I was just using my bedroom TV which isn't the most high-end entertainment system. 

The episodes are all 100% complete, with opening, previews, fan club oath, and full end credits.

I'm very pleased with the box-set, well worth every dollar. (I would have gladly paid even more!)

Glad to hear they're arriving. I'm a bit low on cash at the moment, so I'll have to wait to but my copy.

I've never seen SPC in anything but grainy quality, even when it aired originally, so this is very good news to read.

I still await my copy's arrival, but that's okay, as I won't be 'not-so-busy' until early the coming week anyways when I'll have time to check it out myself.

There's no rush with me after waiting so long.  I prefer to savor my DVDs bit by bit rather than try to watch everything right away.  Today I bought a pizza and I'm going to watch a few while I eat some of that.

That sounds like a brilliant idea... I think I may do the same when my set arrives  ;]

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To-Do list:

1. Pre-order SPC
2. Make plans with someone I know who also wants to watch SPC again
3. Order pizza
4. Watch as many episodes as possible in a single day
5. Anything else WATCH MORE EPISODES!

;)

My Samurai Pizza Cats set arrived yesterday, I'll probably post a quickie review if anyone's interested.

Likewise...I'll get some sort of little review up here when I've had more time with it.  I just got my set in today.

This was many years in the making, that's for sure.  The pleading, the e-mails, the petitions...not sure what those did in the efforts, but it probably just came down to patience, a resurgence in the wanting of current and past generations to see '90s-era material (nostalgia is a strong selling point), and a company who listens to the fanbase of niche entertainment media (which SPC and anime in general, are in the grand scope), to get all the pieces in place for this to happen.

Let's enjoy it to the fullest.  :)

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Edit/Addition:

I had a little time to poke around the first episode in whole.  Since we know the show already, I'd prefer to put the episode reviews board to use for episode-by-episode things.  This review is more for those who are tech-geek and have a somewhat decent A/V setup.

Video Quality: As Violet pointed out, this is a 1990-1991'era anime....about on par with the KNT set, if just a slight bit less-sharp.  These are obviously 1st-gen masters straight from Saban, as they carry the 'Saban International' logo at the end (When aired in the U.S. in 1996, their new-at-the-time trademark / logo (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Saban_Entertainment_Twirly_Doo_Logo_%281996-2002%29.JPG) was put into use).  This is a good thing that they went back to find the cleanest masters possible.*  No ad-bumpers, no previews after the first couple dozen episodes, no 'remastered / horribly upscaled/cropped for HD' hoopla....this is exactly as you remember it back in (1992 in Canada) 1996-1997.  Just without the snow or noise you would have seen like myself stuck watching it on the UHF side of the dial.

( * = I still have faith that these 'were' the best possible masters that could be found, as I have since went straight to the twelve episodes that were never aired in SPC's  U.S. airing.  Again, most of the episodes (the 40 we did get) look about on par with the KNT set, but there are at least two on which I did a little A/B comparison.....first with component / HDMI on my TV (SPC only, then SPC/KNT), and then against the KNT set using my PC's two optical drives....did this with a few episodes, aired and un-aired.  Sure enough, "Gender Bender Butterflies!" and "Gone With the Ginzu" are sourced otherwise compared to other episodes... PAL-to-NTSC digital conversion or some videotape source.  Colors are over-saturated (sometimes bleedingly so), a bit TOO warm, and the animation blurs up more.  Reminds me of how anime used to be sourced in DVD's infancy, and it was almost always from a videotape source.

HDMI only seemed to improve this marginally...if at all.  Bears repeating that they still look cleaner/clearer than what we've had for years, but I felt this had to be pointed out for those with good A/V setups.  They may look better on a CRT TV, but I have none to test on. )  While it will probably disappoint those with the highest-end setups, there's only so much that can be done with animation that's 20+ years old.

Audio: Crank up those volume knobs, and turn on the auto-volume level settings if you have them.  This is probably the only weakness, if just a very minor one.  In retrospect, I'd consider when it was recorded....basically in a time where audio wasn't compressed and you were blasted from here to Mars with ear-deafening volumes.  Saying that, it becomes really just a minor quibble.  Just take care when switching back to another source that is louder, be it the game console, satellite/cable box, etc.

Understandably it's mixed down in mono (the cover says 2.0 sound, but it's 1.0), seeing as all the sound effects (MANY holdovers from KNT in here) were mono elements originally, so Saban just put the whole thing (SFX, music, voices) to one-channel, just as KNT is.  Then again, this is a moot thing as most syndication / independent channels back in the 1990s were still in mono until they were turned over to the MY (UPN) and CW (WB) Networks.  You're hearing SPC just as you did in the 90s....sounding the same through one or two speakers.

Packaging / Overall Presentation: I'll be first to admit, when I first saw the cover art on Discotek's Facebook posts for SPC/KNT, I was indifferent, but it's since grown on me.  I like how each of the discs, ie: Disc #, Episodes: # - # and the "One Special Express Delivery....." spiel carries over the show title's font style.  Colorful and crazy, as the show is.  Menus are just like KNT, just done in the SPC setup, and that memorable theme song plays while choosing which episode to start with.

While there are no extras (a shame, but understandable), for those like me in the U.S., the 12 'skipped episodes' are a HUGE extra.  We can finally kiss those less-than-average RealVideo rips that have been floating around on YouTube and other various sites (SPC fansite and non-fansite alike) 'Sayonara'.  To have those alone, in the clear for the first time are worth the cost of the set alone.  Those episodes aside (which are going to give us U.S. fans all the more zany one-liners to turn into the latest Internet memes), for someone like me who hasn't seen SPC since its original airing in 1996-1997, the various jokes, puns, culture references (albeit showing their age by now), still coax out the chuckles.  At least for me they did with the first episode alone......and I got 51 to go yet.

Overall, this is about as solid of a presentation of SPC as I was expecting, all points considered.  While Discotek or Saban could have nudged that 'master volume' slider up a couple notches and given us long-time fans a little something to bite into in the extras department, I'm going to give them a 9/10 for this one.

Now go order your favorite pizza, have some ice cold beverage on the side, and enjoy.

(Edit 2: Had to further comment on video, having gone deeper into this set.)

Oh!  I had completely overlooked that fact.  So many years searching and collecting all the SPC and KNT episodes online.  Some of them are extremely poor quality too, but it's all I had so I saved them.  And people put a lot of work into trying to make good copies for us to watch (That work was not in vain!  It kept us going while we waited for this day.)  I was so proud of myself when I was able to offer everyone a complete set of all the KNT episodes after weeks of searching and trading with Japanese fans (most of those recorded off Japanese TV or from the incomplete set of VHS tapes released in Japan)
Now I can clear up a bunch of hard drive space.  Still gonna keep the Project Dream versions due to their superior subtitles on the few episodes.  And I'll check the KNTs before I delete them because I think some may have Japanese commercials intact.  I know somewhere at least I had a commercial for the KNT toys, but that might be on one of my VHS tapes.  I also have some tapes and CDs I can probably toss out.

No, definitely keep the stuff that took a lot of hard work to obtain, Violet.  The ads and such you have on your videotapes and files are of some historical/nostalgic value, even if we now have clean, clear English episodes to watch.

I was just aiming my little review at this DVD set in terms of those who may be a bit newer to the series.  Those of us who've been into this for years (since the late 1990s speaking for myself)...it all goes without saying.

I'm still hanging onto my video of recorded-off-TV episodes.  Drew up my own cover art for that since I had some spare clamshell cases lying around back then.

Don't worry, I kept anything unusual. (didn't find the commercials, those are on a VHS somewhere)  I just don't need all these KNT and SPC episodes that I have on DVD now.  I did feel a little sad deleting them though.

Among the things I saved were an episode in German, a few in Spanish, 2 videos SPC Producer Andy Thomas had sent me, several AMVs, and Project Dream episodes.

I'm not sure what other things Andy has done, save for the pilot episode of COPS (which I have on DVD via that show's 20th Anniversary release, on which it was contained), but we do have him to thank for SPC.  It was all up to him after Saban pitched the project his way.

You definitely sound like a die-hard fanatic.  Nothing wrong with that at all either.  I don't have nearly as much....I just have my own self-drawn fanart, the one video of recorded eps, and now to that, the two box sets (KNT and SPC) and that KNT/SPC fanbook.  Yet my enthusiasm hasn't and probably won't die out for my (and everyone else's) favorite feline heroes.  =^_^=

Haha, newbie. ;] Princess Vi is THE ultimate die-hard Pizza Cat fanatic.

:violet: = #1 Pizza Cat Fan!

I used to think that was me, until I discovered the internet. But it was nice to find other people that were as passionate about the show as me, if not moreso.

Newbie?  No way.  I've been an SPC fan since 1996...even though it was just on its 2nd episode, and it would take me a few months (Jan' 1997) to find it again and watch its entire run.  I too, thought I was probably the biggest and only fan until I got access to the Internet.

I remember being obsessed with SPC to the point some probably would find me insane.  While I'm more tame now with being older, the inner fanboy still rages on.  I definitely felt it when finally holding that DVD set in my hands a few days ago.

I can't wait to get my SPC box set.. I'll probably squee aloud with joy ^^

I demand video evidence...

Yeah video or it didn't happen.

Still waiting for my box set btw. Have many people gotten it yet?

+1 for video evidence.  :P

I got mine a week ago, and the official release was yesterday.

Mine FINALLY came in today! The problem with living in rural Canada is that the postal system is less than stellar.

I promise I squee'd!! But I didn't think to record it xD

I do have proof I got the dvds though :D

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OH. And we're totally having pizza tonight while watching. And cuddling with our cats. Pizza, cats and Pizza Cats. :9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzWyq0SnTs

My DVDs finally arrived today so Im pretty stoked and pleased, now Ive got the complete KNT and SPC collection, going back over a year ago I never would've imagined this.

Also some good news on my end and for anyone else in Australia. Madman Entertainment is doing its own release of SPC here
(http://media.tumblr.com/af62d8c5f8e0de28ebc752d0a522ed83/tumblr_inline_mqujdk7O4x1qz4rgp.png)
http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/20280/samurai-pizza-cats-collection-1-eps-126
 
It will be split into two volumes, the covers for the two volumes might use Tenkos art by the looks of it. Plus there was some mention on Madmans acquisition news page stating "look out for a deluxe release of this title"
http://www.madman.com.au/news/madman-acquisition-round-up-april-2013/
which might mean could be a planned special collectors edition, which would mean some extra sweet bonuses and goodies. Definitely hoping for something like an included random Nendoroid figure of one of the cats would be the best thing ever, but thats just wishful thinking.

Seriously though thinking about the Nendoroid products, KNT/SPC fits right into their existing chibi style and product types, I'm surprised Tatsunoko ect hasn't gotten them to produce some. Made we should send some ideas to either companies.

Yay! My DVD arrived today!

Who'd have thought, only a few years ago, that it was not only possible, but a DVD release was actually imminent. Thank you, Discotek Media!

*high fives Vi*

Awesome to see so many of us getting the dvds! It's exciting! :D

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I'll definitely be getting this set ASAP. As I already said, I'm a huge fan of the show, and of nostalgia in general. It's a big deal to me.

I gotta ask: does anyone think that SPC will be back on TV? I'm not sure when Digimon (season 1) premiered on Nicktoons. But it's been there for a while.

I'm only familiar with U.S. TV networks so bear with me.  For those outside, just use your equivalents if you have any.

In my dreamy world though, If SPC goes anywhere, it should probably be on either a broadcast digital sub-channel (MeTV, ThisTV, etc), or on The Hub.

It wouldn't work on broadcast channels like CW's block anymore, or mainstream cable networks like CN or Nicktoons.  Both want flashy, newer material to run.  Yeah, Digimon (S1) Adventure is running on Nicktoons, but that's a bit more recent vintage (1999-2000), and Digimon is still fairly relevant.

Who knows though?  Personally, I think it should go on a digital broadcast sub-channel, The Hub, and on a streaming site like Hulu.  You'll reach the newbies who've been watching it via YouTube with Hulu and other streaming sites much faster than TV.

In all likelyhood, I don't think it'll return to TV anytime soon.  Would be nice to see though, if just for nostalgic reasons, and despite now owning it.  I've always thought, with the way things are in the world nowadays, I don't think some of the episodes that aired back in 1996-1997 would be fit to air these days.  The 2010s is a far different beast in terms of society and culture (we're far more PC than ever before in other words) than the mid/late 1990s.

It may fly better in other countries though.

I would be in favor of SPC coming on ThisTV, Antenna TV, or ME TV. I don't know why, because when I buy the DVDs, I'll own it and be able to watch it on my computer or a tv, but I want it to return to TV for those that don't have the DVDs.

And heck, as a fan of the series that got into it a bit late, I'd like to see it return just for that reason.

As much as I'd like to see it back on the air, the references are too dated for it to survive outside of a nostalgia-block... and I think Bandai still has merch rights, which means The Hub is not going to be interested. Best bet might be Boomerang/Teletoon Retro

Call me a sucker for nostalgia.  It's too bad that their 'kids blocks' run too early.

This is the nice thing about the DVD sets.  I can watch RIGHT at the time I remember.  :)  For commercials, just hit up Youtube.

It all works out.

Ordered mine just now, and I should probably receive it by Thursday or so. Don't know how much of it I'll be able to watch, since life, Garfield, fanfiction and video games are distracting me at the present time, but I know I'll look at it at some point. It's just a matter of when.

I too am a sucker for it. To me, it's not just the show itself but the time period, the 90's. It was awesome...at least to me.

I'm happy that SPC is finally getting their due.

I am almost positive I have my DVDs in my mailbox right now. I also have a missing mailbox key.
And a postal service that's 10 day behind on giving me a new mailbox key.

This is cruel and unusual punishment.

*pats on the back* That.. is so, so sad. xD

Nothing a little Cat's-Eye Slash can't handle.

Then of course, said DVD set may get destroyed in such a manner.

Oh well.  :P

Hope you can get that resolved soon.

I had to check your profile, and I guess you have been here a while. I'm just saying that any longtime, active member of the community should know that Vi is the #1 fan around these parts. (Now smile and agree with me. You don't want a one-way ticket to Extra's Island.)
:violet:


That's what we consider "normal" around here. ;]



I have a better solution. All you really need is a good... Nyan-key.

(http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq268/Teyandee/Samurai%20Pizza%20Cats%20Kyattou%20Ninden%20Teyandee/Nyan-key.png~original) (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/Teyandee/media/Samurai%20Pizza%20Cats%20Kyattou%20Ninden%20Teyandee/Nyan-key.png.html)

(Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night. Well, not really...)

You know, I kind of thought this would happen. I have the box set on my desk, but just can't get the time to watch a good block of episodes back to back. Sure, I've watched the odd episode here and there, but....
Right. This Sunday = nothing but the show. Might even watch some KNT episodes back to back with the SPC version, and see what changes were made by Saban to the plot and stuff.

Speaking of, Saban get a mention on the back of the box blurb and in the credits underneath, but no mentions for Disney or BVS anywhere. Good.

As to having the show back on the TV...if it came back on the air that would be fun. In the UK maybe Kix or Pop could pick it up, but it's a long shot.


Or a Ninja Crow Bar......

My box set came today.  Later, taters.  Time for me to watch this show in the best quality I've seen it since it aired on TV.

I want to be able to save a batch of episodes for Labor Day; that's the only time I figure I'll be able to watch a whole bunch of 'em in one sitting. 'Course, I do intend to order some pizza later this week and enjoy the show the way it was meant to be enjoyed.  ;-)

I'm just going to watch a few episodes every week or 2, so that by the time I've gone through both the KNT and SPC sets, I'll be about ready to watch the ones I started with again.

I got 'em! I got my SPC box set.

With other favorites like the Dragon Ball Z original dub and My Little Pony Season 2 out before this, I had to pace myself. But the long wait paid off and I ordered it for a total of $24.81.  8O

The packaging is definitely on the cheap side--clear plastic, no outer sleeve, and the discs all look alike. No extras either. But for all 52 episodes of the first cartoon that ever really inspired me as a kid, who cares? They're finally here! Now I'm on Episode 5.

Looks like you may have bought a bootleg.

From Discotek's FB page:

"Be on the lookout for fake Samurai Pizza Cats sets being sold as original Discotek/Eastern Star releases. Someone has started making factory copies of region 1 anime titles using the same cover art as the original and they are using the same UPC to list them. The copied set is in a clear case with no security sticker on the top. Our original sets are in a black 8 disc case with a security sticker on top."

Got my Discotek SPC set today as a birthday gift! :D Unfortunately my computer's DVD drive is on the fritz, so I won't be watching it right away.

I am happy so many people got the Boxset, lucky guys.

I keep meaning to, but money's been really tight.  December is the worst though.  Maybe I'll get money for Christmas.  Otherwise probably not January because that's vet checkup month.

I haven't finished watching the series on DVD yet, but it is everything I could have hoped for.  It is so nice to physically own this show.  I'm in heaven.

Yep, if that description is right I guess my copy is a bootleg. Damn, it was listed under the same ISBN on Amazon. :P  But what the heck. It's as good as I'll get right now. No problem with the quality of the discs as of yet.

I was scared that the show wasn't going to be as good as I remembered it, but it's even better!   Seriously everyone should buy this.

I've only just got around to checking this out (shame on me for taking so long!  :-[ ) and I've discovered that Discotek only ship to the US and Canada.  What about us UK/European bods?

I'm from Italy. I've ordered the KNT Box on Amazon and I can see them perfecty.

It took me a whole month to save money for Anime Boston, but I finally got the DVD Box Set, and it's direct from the makers themselves! I cosplayed as Ash Ketchum, though.

Nyehehe.. My weapon of choice xD

This just in, it's looking like they're releasing Blu-Ray editions of the DVD's also. Though, it's also looking like it's more of a bundle package than a true HD release. We shall see though.

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Yeah, I just saw that about an hour ago; honestly, it looks great--and I'm not just talking about the box-art; I think it's awesome to be able to watch all the episodes without constantly having to switch discs.

Nice, one more thing to add to my list of future purchases. Would be great if they took the opportunity to do the same thing with KNT and include better subtitles.

The Discotek stall at Megacon had both DVDs. I was pleased to see it represented there.

I agree. I think some SPC/KNT representation is always good.