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Unedited Feed from the Sentai Filmworks panel at Anime Boston 2011. Transcription: bayoab
Note: ( ) is usually commenting on the panel and was not said. 14:10:42 <bay|AB|Sentai> (Semi-pointless room clear - the line was shorter than the panel size when i got on it) 14:10:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> (Still filling the room) 14:10:56 <bay|AB|Sentai> Hello 14:11:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> Well, this is kinda nice, i haven't been up here in a while 14:11:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> (DLW) 14:11:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> Welcome to the sentai filmworks panel 14:11:30 <bay|AB|Sentai> The very first one i've held at animeboston 14:11:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> Those of you who are new, I'm david willimans, with sentai filmworks, formerly with ADV films. 14:11:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> but now i'm with sentai and i just started working with them last year 14:11:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> this is my first sentai at AB 14:12:01 <bay|AB|Sentai> i did one at AWA last september 14:12:13 <bay|AB|Sentai> some of the people there who are familar with me.. i have DVDs to give away 14:12:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> I'm going to start off... i'm going to run down the stuff we have coming out 14:12:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> and ... 14:12:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> okay 14:12:43 <bay|AB|Sentai> run through the stuff we hae coming out 14:12:48 <bay|AB|Sentai> and give you what our schedule is and we have stuff coming out 14:12:59 <bay|AB|Sentai> then we have the first episode of the premiere of angel beats 14:13:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> i'm here in boston, i have a crew in sakura-kon, i'm like we're going to show it in boston first 14:13:22 <bay|AB|Sentai> i'll do some usual Q&A and give away dvds and have a good time 14:13:25 <bay|AB|Sentai> what's coming out... 14:13:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> where are we... 14:13:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> this is april.... 14:13:43 <bay|AB|Sentai> my mind is fried... 14:13:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> been busy trying to get HSoTD done.. 14:14:02 <bay|AB|Sentai> you can watch for that, it's coming out in june 14:14:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> on dvd and bluray 14:14:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> on april was special a complete, needless 2, clannad as w/ dub 14:14:28 <bay|AB|Sentai> which was my return to the directors chair 14:14:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> asylum session 14:14:33 <bay|AB|Sentai> may 14:14:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> ghost sweeper mikami collection 4, coffee samurai, 14:15:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> allison and lilia first collection 14:15:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> shin koihime muso 14:15:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> guin saga c2 14:15:15 <bay|AB|Sentai> june 14:15:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> maid sama c1 14:15:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> demon king daimo complete 14:15:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> something that popped up, originally we licensed it, we were looking at it for sub only 14:15:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> but after we licensed it to TAN, the numbers they reported for it, we decided to dub it 14:15:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> and give it a bluray 14:16:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> demon king is second to high school of the dead for streaming numbers 14:16:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> your under arrest full throttle 14:16:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> hsotd in june... 14:16:33 <bay|AB|Sentai> re-release of orphen, both season 14:16:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> we've been able to acquire that for july 14:16:45 <bay|AB|Sentai> allison lilia c2 in july 14:16:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> hidamari sketch in july 14:16:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> and angel beats in july as well 14:17:03 <bay|AB|Sentai> and that's pretty much what we've announced through now 14:17:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> the next thing is august... 14:17:12 <bay|AB|Sentai> those actually don't get announced till next month 14:17:21 <bay|AB|Sentai> but...what the hell... 14:17:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> what can i talk about in august 14:17:45 <bay|AB|Sentai> i'll say this much 14:17:47 <bay|AB|Sentai> maid sama c2 14:17:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> if i can get this thing to come up, i'll talk about this other one 14:18:02 <bay|AB|Sentai> also... 14:18:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> night raid 1931 in august 14:18:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> complete collection 14:18:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> (Trying to confirm if it's the 2nd anime no chikara series) 14:18:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> let's go ahead and get the ep showing, then we'll do questions 14:20:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> (having technical issues) 14:21:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> (it wasn't even hooked up) 14:22:03 <bay|AB|Sentai> while they're doing that... 14:22:13 <bay|AB|Sentai> i'm sure this will be easy for a lot of you... 14:22:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> (give away) 14:22:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> (it works~) 14:23:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> (pretty logo) 14:33:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> (oops, sorry, hit enter too early) 14:43:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> (Songs are subbed with ronaji and english) 14:43:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> (not dubbed) 14:48:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> That's the first episode 14:48:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> the series will be on dvd and bluray in july 14:48:47 <bay|AB|Sentai> got a few moments left so will take a few questions 14:49:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: (handing of TK during dub?) A; couldn't say 14:49:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Do you know anything about the cast list for angel beats... 14:49:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: Don't know actually...credits are on the DVD though... 14:50:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Hidmari sketch on blu? A: No, dvd only now 14:50:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q; Bluray/DVD combo packs 14:50:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: not at the moment, not sure how to make it work, we're really small right now and we have to watch our funds..and honestly to do it, the only thing that i could do financially is to press some extra dvds and stick them in the bluray 14:50:45 <bay|AB|Sentai> how many are going to pick that up at the extra cost of the DVD... 14:50:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> i can't pack extra blu-ray and stick them with DVDs, that costs too much 14:50:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're doing separate releases.... 14:51:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> bluray is still really expensive to press 14:51:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: how do you determine which get complete collections... 14:51:21 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: depends on the number of episodes... 14:51:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> 12 or 13 goes complete... 24+ in sets 14:51:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> down the road, the half series will be combined 14:51:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> like we did with the clannads and what not 14:51:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> who knows in the room what the last show i did at ADV was.... 14:52:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Have the current circumstances in Japan... the disaster and youth ordiance bill affected sentai at all? 14:52:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; passing of the bill hasn't... the earthquake yes, it had a devistating effect on japan.. i know one of the licensors was in sendai and suffered a lot of damage 14:53:22 <bay|AB|Sentai> there are a lot of people that we know over there that are...let's say still missing... but we hope for the best and hope they get on their feet soon 14:53:28 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Thoughts on digital downloads and streaming? 14:53:47 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; we tend to license our stuff to TAN for itunes/xbox... i like it.... i like it as long as i can view it on my tv 14:53:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> i don't like to sit at my computer, i don't like watching it on my phone 14:54:02 <bay|AB|Sentai> digital is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of the market place 14:54:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> digital doesn't make enough yet to support a series by itself 14:54:29 <bay|AB|Sentai> it is growing.. it's beneficial.. we saw the numbers of people watching it on TAN and it wasn't exclusive..and they were still getting really good numbers 14:54:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> so we used that to decide how we're going to release it later on 14:54:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Sentai was part of ADV? 14:55:03 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: no, was never part of ADV... originally had a contract with ADV to distribute to titles to them 14:55:11 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Why did you leave ADV for sentai... 14:55:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: ADV and I parted ways in 2008, and i did my own business and did my own stuff.. and then in january of last year, sentai asked me to come and help with blu-ray and other stuff 14:55:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> so they asked me to come to the company to work with them and seraphim digital 14:55:46 <bay|AB|Sentai> then they decided they needed to do a better job getting their name out there 14:55:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> so they then asked me to do what i used to do for adv... 14:56:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> that's why i'm working there now 14:56:08 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Do you like it better than ADV/ 14:56:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; Tough to say, more like the early days of ADV 14:56:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> few employees doing everything 14:56:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> I'm really enjoying it a lot 14:56:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Subtitle only blur-rays? 14:56:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: not at the moment 14:57:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> subtitle stuff only stuff won't support them with a dub 14:57:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> how many people in here would wan't a subtitle only bluray...not a lot 14:57:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> we feel those titles are niche.. 14:57:30 <bay|AB|Sentai> bluray... those shows we think will be bigger and can support a dub 14:58:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> (give away) 14:58:53 <bay|AB|Sentai> and no, the banner is not for sale... 14:59:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> (HSoTD banner at the booth) 14:59:20 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Does sentai have any plans to expand in the future? 14:59:24 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: we'd like to expand some 14:59:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> we want to make sure we can do everything and everything can support itself before we can expand and grow.. 14:59:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> ADV expanded too fast at one point 14:59:52 <bay|AB|Sentai> Pop in to the s23 booth...come by if you want to talk and stuff 15:00:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> End |
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