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Transcription: bayoab Note: ( ) is usually commenting on the panel and was not said. 14:28:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> (David Williams is here) 14:29:24 <bay|AB|Sentai> Hello 14:29:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> All having a good time? 14:29:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> Enjoying Anime boston? 14:29:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> I'm david williams 14:29:52 <bay|AB|Sentai> I'm with Sentai Filmworks, been in the industry for about 20 years 14:29:59 <bay|AB|Sentai> I started working with ADV Films 14:30:15 <bay|AB|Sentai> Producer, Director, Subtitler, DVD authorer.... Director of DNAngel, Pretear... 14:30:21 <bay|AB|Sentai> Done pretty much everything... 14:30:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> And as of 2010, I'm working with sentai 14:30:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> and this is the sentai filmworks panel 14:32:04 <bay|AB|Sentai> but if you've been to my old ones or the new ones, it's the same 14:32:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> talk about new stuff, announcements, etc 14:32:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> and of course i have dvds and blu-rays to give away 14:32:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> so we got dvds and blu-rays to give out 14:32:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> let me run through some of the titles 14:33:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> april... motto to loverum, infinite stratos, somedays dreams, golgo 13 collection 3 14:32:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> may psychi squad collection 1, getbackers, guin saga 14:32:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> book of bantorra 14:32:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> planzet, gintama movie on dvd and bluray 14:32:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> will be dubbed, first thing 14:32:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're watching to see how that does 14:32:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> june 14:32:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> kurenai complete 14:32:47 <bay|AB|Sentai> fate stay night ubw dvd and bluray 14:32:56 <bay|AB|Sentai> golgo 13 collection 4 14:33:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> k-on season 2 collection 1 on both dvd and blu-ray 14:33:15 <bay|AB|Sentai> and by the way, i know some are asking, the shorts for k-on are not available 14:33:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> they are not up for license 14:33:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> also for june, we have maria holic alive complete collection 14:33:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> and they have a japanese commentary on every episode 14:33:48 <bay|AB|Sentai> also in june, we have towanoquon 14:33:53 <bay|AB|Sentai> july ..last month we've announced titles so far 14:34:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> hidamari sketch sp coming out 14:34:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> dvd and bluray for needless 14:34:13 <bay|AB|Sentai> (having some lag) 14:34:42 <bay|AB|Sentai> mahoromatic ultimate collection and mahoromatic i'm home 14:34:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> the i'm home will be in the collection and individual, like with rozen maiden 14:34:48 <bay|AB|Sentai> book of bantorra collection 2 14:34:52 <bay|AB|Sentai> psychic squad collection 2 14:34:56 <bay|AB|Sentai> clannad after story blu-ray 14:35:13 <bay|AB|Sentai> and then we have... kinoichi theatrical, and hatsukoi limited complete which does include the specials 14:35:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> want to hear new stuff? 14:35:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> august 14:35:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> the world god only knows s2 dvd and bluray 14:35:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> we rescued another title.. 14:35:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> new release of parasite dolls 14:35:46 <bay|AB|Sentai> dvd and blu-ray of "this boy can fight aliens" 14:36:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> dvd and blu-ray of no.6 complete collection 14:36:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> and that again, has a japanese commentary on every episode that will be include 14:36:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> koihime complete collection 14:36:29 <bay|AB|Sentai> those are most of the release schedule through august 14:36:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> a few other things 14:36:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> a lot of people ask us what we plan to do with persona anime 14:36:43 <bay|AB|Sentai> what are they doing with the dub 14:36:48 <bay|AB|Sentai> want to tell you we are going to use the game cast 14:37:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> they are starting to dub that right away 14:37:04 <bay|AB|Sentai> that will be coming soon 14:37:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> some new things 14:37:11 <bay|AB|Sentai> i've got.. a ton of stuff that's being simulcast 14:37:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> but i'm only going to tell you a little 14:37:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're doing phibrain s2 14:37:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're doing sakamichi no apollon, kids on the slope 14:37:48 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're doing nazo no kanojo x 14:37:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> mystery girlfriend x 14:38:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> those are some of our new announcements, some of the things coming up 14:38:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> and now we'll open it for q&a 14:38:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q; Second season of Amagai SS? A; Neither confirm no deny 14:38:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Licensed Another? Any other news on it? A: don't think I have an other news 14:39:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: when you have titles that were before dvd only, any chance of future bluray? 14:39:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: most of the stuff.. depends on multiple things, depends on if hd masters are available,i don't like upresing sd video 14:39:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> it depends on if we did a dub for the title 14:40:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> blu-ray is still really expensive to press and doesn't sell as much and so we press less and is expensive 14:40:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> there are cases like with clannad where we've gone back 14:40:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> there are possibliities, it depends on the title 14:40:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Highschool of the dead? A; you want to know about s2? i do too, we keep pushing them 14:40:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> no news on season 2 yet 14:40:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> we keep pushing them though 14:41:12 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: P4 JYB role? A: game cast will be doing their roles again 14:41:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Nanoha StrikerS? A: I'll consider licensing anything, i guess in that case i'm a licensing whore 14:41:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> we look at a lot of titles 14:41:46 <bay|AB|Sentai> when we first look at titles, many cases, the japanese haven't started production on it.. 14:41:56 <bay|AB|Sentai> if i think there is enough fans, i'm up for it 14:42:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: I've noticed that you guys have licensed a lot of stuff... and it's obvious that you are coming back in a big way, ... it's interesting, all those titles is a huge risk... what sort of thinking goes into that... 14:42:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: what goes into all the titles at once? what you don't see... what you see is the announcements... what you don't see is the ones we pass on, the large number of titles 14:42:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> what we consider is if we have the production capacity to do it 14:43:04 <bay|AB|Sentai> what i'm leery of is that we have a bunch of simuclasts 14:43:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> and as we've grown, we've had more and more 14:43:24 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're a small company, we're nothing like what when i used to work at adv 14:43:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> we look at production first off 14:43:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> then we look at what they want for the show 14:43:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're trying very hard not to repeat the errors that were done years ago, no bidding wars, 14:43:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> we want to pay an appropriate price.. 14:44:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> and also the market condition.. and we think things are looking good (missing part) 14:44:12 <bay|AB|Sentai> (lost) 14:44:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Since you started doing blu-rays, they all have text subs... i was wondering if you were doing picture subs like funi... 14:44:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; We do tiffs, we do yellow because we choose it because it's the most readable color for video 14:44:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> (paraphrase) 14:44:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Glass Mask collection2 ? 14:45:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; Would love to, but at the moment, has not sold, we're still in the red on that title 14:45:25 <bay|AB|Sentai> we've kicked around various ideas, like getting the japanese to give it to us hoping it will boost early sales 14:45:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Maid-sama in full collection? 14:45:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; Should be soon... 14:46:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Familiar of Zero simulcast and challenges with past seasons not being available? 14:46:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; one thing i like doing that is to make sure we're consistent... we look for people to do the translation, we look at the names.. don't think there were any titles with that title in itself... i know there is one, but i can't think of the title, but they want the same translator for... 14:46:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q; i mean in terms of the fans not able to get others 14:47:08 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: That is a concern, but it's something we take and discuss internally before we license a show 14:47:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> In the case of Familiar, I hope the others will come available, i dont' have any word to say on it 14:47:30 <bay|AB|Sentai> so it will become a moot point in the future 14:47:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Have you looked into re-licensing classic shows in the past that have fallen out of license? 14:48:12 <bay|AB|Sentai> 80's stuff... 14:48:28 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; There is stuff we're interested in... and i think there are a lot of good shows out there from the 80-s and 90s that are out there 14:48:33 <bay|AB|Sentai> we'd like to do some of those 14:48:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> but we can't do a lot because they don't sell as awell 14:48:42 <bay|AB|Sentai> everyone wants to the new shiny 14:48:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> we'd like to do some and get some of those out 14:49:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: higurashi? A; No, adv didn't originally... 14:49:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Any interest? A: actually there is... i know several of the people in the company like the series 14:49:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> it's an issue... we can see the sales figures for s1, it's about getting the other series at a price point that it can make money (lost part) 14:50:11 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Since you are releasing compelte collection of like... mahoromatic and it has a single disc too... and I know you guys have elfen lied... 14:50:20 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: first of all, we don't have elfen lied... adv has it.. 14:50:25 <bay|AB|Sentai> and adv is still a company and it's still out there 14:50:33 <bay|AB|Sentai> and adv never had the rights to the OVA, we just had the series 14:50:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> anything like that.. i can't talk about ADV, because i haven't been there since 2008 14:50:59 <bay|AB|Sentai> but their plans and everythign else, i can't say anything about that 14:51:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Considered live action? A; We have a few live action at sentai right now 14:51:25 <bay|AB|Sentai> we really wanted to get the company on a solid footing so stuck to anime 14:51:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Getting titles on Amazon Video? A; We have stuff on amazon video 14:52:01 <bay|AB|Sentai> we put our shows on any of the streaming outfits that are interesting in carrying them, we got stuff on hulu, netflix..etc 14:52:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Are you guys going to have channels like FUNimation channel? 14:52:30 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: when we were at ADV we did... we do contract with TAN to show stuff 14:52:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're really a small company, there aren't many people there 14:53:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: What about Hayate the combat butler? A: interested... but can neither confirm nor deny 14:53:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: (can't hear at all) 14:53:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: Talking about using something like kickstarter to get anime released out there... it's a good thought and it's a similar thought to what some shows and smaller companies, they would put it up for preorder and then they would release it when they hit that number 14:54:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> the problem we have with that, is you can't put up something like that unless you have the rights to the title... 14:54:20 <bay|AB|Sentai> and you don't buy a title that you don't think is going to do well 14:54:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> so you can't put it on kickstarter until you buy it and you don't want to buy it until you know it would work on kickstarer 14:55:08 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Are you going to license FSN? A; we got the movie but not the tv 14:55:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> cannot confirm or deny 14:55:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Do streaming numbers correspond to sales numbers? or are past sales better indication? 14:56:08 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: We look at both, we look at what titles, similar titles hvae done in the past. If it's something we rescued, we look at the streaming numbers, which are becoming more important for us, we look at those numbers and they can change our plans 14:56:37 <bay|AB|Sentai> we plan one thing for dvd and something else for dvd/blu... but we're streaming them... so we see the numbers and we bump them up to blu-ray 14:57:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> we saw the streaming numbers for demon king and it was on both on CR and TAN and it was second to the HSoTD numbers, so we decided to bump it up and give it a dub 14:57:15 <bay|AB|Sentai> it's not somnething we can use to license a title 14:57:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> because we have to license it first 14:57:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> but we look at past sales numnbers for similar shows 14:57:29 <bay|AB|Sentai> we use both 14:57:53 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Dub version of Hanasaku Iroha? A: Don't have any comment on doing dub at the moment... 14:58:08 <bay|AB|Sentai> we look at the titles, and if there is enough interest, and if we think it'll sell, we'll do a dub, 14:58:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> but dubs are really expensive.... 14:58:22 <bay|AB|Sentai> if we think we can cover the cost of the dub, we'll do it 14:58:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> there are a few we've gone back... i don't like to do that 14:58:45 <bay|AB|Sentai> we try to be careful about that, there are a few special cases where we go back and do it again like with clannada 14:58:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> and it's possible there will be dubs for other titles 14:59:03 <bay|AB|Sentai> so there are things that are coming out subtitled only (lost) 14:59:29 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: what goes into the dub... 14:59:34 <bay|AB|Sentai> (skippping this) 15:00:27 <bay|AB|Sentai> there is a lot of work and time invovled in doing the dub 15:00:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: You mentioned earlier about live action.. what about kamen rider? 15:00:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; Interested... can neither confirm or deny if i've looked at it, but interested 15:01:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Look at Kara no Kyokai series? A; We look at everything... guys...seriously, we look at EVERYTHING 15:01:25 <bay|AB|Sentai> beyond that, unless i make a license announcement, I can't comment on it... 15:01:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> the other companies may have not noticed something.... 15:02:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Second season of Higuarshi? A; that would be the primary reason we would be interested in licensing it 15:02:11 <bay|AB|Sentai> the first season would be nice to get ont he shelve 15:02:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> but the main reason we would be after it is to get the later seasons 15:02:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Sub or dub no.6? A: both, blu-ray and DVD 15:03:20 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: hoshi no ou kodomo? A; neither confirm nor deny that we have that title (he started to say something) 15:03:03 <bay|AB|Sentai> I know that people see things on the internet, but i can neither confirm nor deny that 15:04:22 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: (Can't hear...and dlw doesn't know) 15:04:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: (something about single style spindle dvd packaging) 15:04:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: The reason for it is it's very inexpensive, when you have a bunch of discs in a set 15:04:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> like blu-rays, they don't come on spindles... 15:05:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> dvds, when 4 or more discs, on spindles... 15:05:07 <bay|AB|Sentai> otherwise on keepcase 15:05:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> we're a small company, and we're watching our expenses everywhere we can 15:05:55 <bay|AB|Sentai> (DVD sales falling...) in the past... 10000 titles was doing okay... now, 2000 or 3000 copies is a hit 15:06:15 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: before you look at streaming numbers when you consider licensing a title, how do you decide about the dub or sub... 15:06:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: First thing is our gut thing about the title 15:06:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> I've been an anime fan for a long time 15:06:36 <bay|AB|Sentai> I got to every convention I can 15:06:39 <bay|AB|Sentai> i try to keep on top of what i can 15:06:47 <bay|AB|Sentai> what types of shows, what the market is going, where fandom is going 15:06:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> and being a fan, i can look at it and bel ike 'wow this is cool" 15:06:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> that would be first and formost 15:07:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> but then we can go and look at a show and say it's similar to a show, how did that show, we go on video scan 15:07:19 <bay|AB|Sentai> is this a title that has been done recently in the US 15:07:28 <bay|AB|Sentai> if they give me another high school girl show, i'm going to pull my hair out 15:07:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: K-on season 2, reusing bandai voic actors? A: yes, same voice cast 15:08:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> Anywhere we can, we like to keep consistent 15:08:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> it;s actually being dubbed right now 15:08:53 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: How you are going to release persona 4? A: that's up in the air, we just recently agreed on the dub cast.. we're looking at.. .the materials from japan.. all the dub stuff from japan 15:08:57 <bay|AB|Sentai> it's going to be a matter of what and when 15:09:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Mentioned keeping consistent on dub cast... for UBW, going to get original cast? A; That one.. um... leme think, what are we doing on that, they are already working on it, i don't remember 15:09:51 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: What has been sentai's best selling title? A: High school of the dead, nothing beats boobs and zombies 15:10:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> angel beats, clannad and demon king are some of our others best sellers 15:10:20 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: What's the fallout from bandai and their titles? In terms of availability...? 15:10:50 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: Well, some of them, it's my understanding, they are still releasing, they still have product and they will keep releasing, others are reverting to licensors or bandai is looking at licensing about 15:10:58 <bay|AB|Sentai> I have confidence that bandai titles will still be available 15:11:02 <bay|AB|Sentai> that there won't be a rush to grab them 15:11:18 <bay|AB|Sentai> their titles.. before they announce that... they were making the rounds and letting people know 15:11:26 <bay|AB|Sentai> i'd assume other companies would pick up things 15:11:38 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: (can't hear) 15:11:54 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: Extra episode of ??? Do we have it? I'd have to ask at the office 15:12:05 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: How well did allison and lilia do? 15:12:09 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: it did pretty well for us 15:12:23 <bay|AB|Sentai> probably it's right in line with what we expected, can't say it'll get dubbed 15:12:43 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Complete collection? A: dont' have anything on the schedule for it 15:13:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> (question about streaming rights and showing rights) 15:14:22 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Gintama dub news? A: beside the movie, have no news... it's been done, waiting to see how that sells 15:14:32 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: How did Amagami SS do? A: It's a very good title 15:14:42 <bay|AB|Sentai> Why aren't there blu-rays? It's not doing blu-ray numbers... 15:14:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> The only thing we've gotten that we're disappointed in is glass mask 15:15:06 <bay|AB|Sentai> the other titles that we've been careful... they've been doing fairly well for us 15:16:13 <bay|AB|Sentai> Give away time 15:20:16 <bay|AB|Sentai> (Sentai started on the dub for clannad, and then stuff happened, and they shelved it, and when madman and the others licensed it, they all wanted a dub for it so they pitched in) 15:25:35 <bay|AB|Sentai> more Q&A... 15:25:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Looking into ef2? A; A possibility 15:25:53 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: looking to stay a small company or looking to go bigger? 15:26:01 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: Sentai is looking to stay in business 15:26:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> whatever that takes, if we stay small, we stay small 15:27:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Information on Wating in the summer? A: Nothing I can tell you 15:27:34 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q; What goes into the decisions to change the script.. in how to adapt a script? 15:28:01 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; you got two different scripts, you get the raw translation, you give that to one group and they make the subs... they will try and stick to it as close to possible... 15:28:11 <bay|AB|Sentai> the other group is the dub group who will try and match lipflaps 15:28:21 <bay|AB|Sentai> the sub script will do written english, but it might not be the way it's spoken 15:28:31 <bay|AB|Sentai> so spoken and written english are different ... 15:29:45 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Ever run into situations where the japanese license holder give you instructions that don't work well in english 15:29:49 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: All the time 15:30:02 <bay|AB|Sentai> especially in things like titles... there are lots of things for titles for shows that we don't want to use over here 15:30:10 <bay|AB|Sentai> and there are trnaslations of thing sthat must be translated this way 15:30:17 <bay|AB|Sentai> you are going to release it in this format and not thins one, at this time 15:30:29 <bay|AB|Sentai> the japanese own all the rights and they have approval on everything and anything that gets done 15:30:59 <bay|AB|Sentai> fortunately, we've got a long enough history with most licensors that at a certain point, they know what we do, they know what we've odne 15:31:14 <bay|AB|Sentai> if they want approval, they'll glance, but otherwise they'll be more hands off 15:32:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: Doing a dub like ghost stories again? 15:32:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> A; if a particular title came along where that's possible, we might, but nothing we're planning on doing that on 15:32:40 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q: For promnotion for the upcoming streaming titles.. looking for some news ways to promote them 15:32:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> but for the streaming titles you can't do that, so how do you deal with those 15:32:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: I don't do that, i turn that over to the market people, and we turn that over to s23 who we have a contract with 15:32:41 <bay|AB|Sentai> Promoting a stream is more difficult, it's more the streaming company themself, 15:32:46 <bay|AB|Sentai> You get notices up on every news site 15:33:00 <bay|AB|Sentai> we try and put stuff up on our site, but i really need a web designer to work on our site 15:33:04 <bay|AB|Sentai> you do what you can to get the word out 15:33:21 <bay|AB|Sentai> Q; What's your primary simulcast source? Where do you put your simulcasts? 15:33:44 <bay|AB|Sentai> A: that depends, we don't have our own, we license them out to streaming sites, we work with crunchyroll, the anime network... those are the two places that primarily do it 15:33:52 <bay|AB|Sentai> non-simulcast is eveywhere, hulu, netflix, amazon, etc 15:34:01 <bay|AB|Sentai> Thank you all for coming out, i'm down at thebooth
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