Right Stuf has announced that they have obtained the license for both seasons of Victorian Romance Emma: http://emma.rightstuf.com/
First up: We're excited to announce the acquisition of VICTORIAN ROMANCE EMMA, as well as its continuation ("Second Act"), which is currently airing on Japanese television.
Right Stuf will release the anime series through its Nozomi Entertainment label as two "season" box sets with Japanese audio and English-language subtitles:
- The initial box set release will contain the 12-episode first season in its entirety; and
- The second box set will include the 12 episodes of the series’ "Second Act," plus "Episode 0: Intermission," a recap/preview that aired prior to the start of the Season 2 telecast.
Additionally, the first 1,000 anime fans to order each box set will be recognized in a "special thanks" section of the DVD credits for that respective set.
Thank you whispers and company for all of your beautiful work! I've enjoyed every chapter of the manga, every episode of both seasons, every Whisper's Guide! Although it sucks that we will now have to wait just a bit longer to see the end of the second season of the anime, the fact that it was very likely your efforts that grew the fan-base that allows us to now anticipate enjoying the licensed copies. And it will probably be all the sweeter for it.
Thanks for everything!
@ 102: Rightstuf's always been one of the best companies in terms of good-quality subs, translation notes and typesetting, as in they do put sign translations in the position and style of the Japanese text. Main subs are typically yellow, but imo their font is more eye-pleasing compared to other companies. Seriously though, if you watch enough DVDs, you get used to whatever white or yellow text they throw at you; "I don't like the colors" is a pretty lame reason not to buy DVDs. I mean, what do you expect, 12 different font colors coordinated by hair color like with Static's My-Hime?
It might be strange, but I'm always happy when I hear news like this. I don't know if this will happen in Italy, so I'm happy that somewhere in the world someone "more important" than a group of fan believes in a "project" like Emma.
I would like to thanks IItran translation group. Thanks for your work!
This is total horse shit.... Im loving the anime, now being liscensed and no longer subbing? please no... Im getting into the climax of the whole story, why now....
Thanks IItran translation group for your effort.
Are there any other translation groups that can translate the final 3 episodes???
in before the barrage of SHUT THE HECK UP
I don't want to see whispers or ANY MEMBER of this group to be harassed by any company with the law on their side. This group has done a magnificent job subbing the series up until now, and I don't want to see it end badly for them.
Sure, it ends badly for us, but if you had read the previous posts the series will be SUB ONLY (kind of a surprise to hear that) and it will be INEXPENSIVE. Remember when subs on VHS were $10 more than VHS dubs to take advantage of the fanboy base? Maybe this will be the new trend by Funimation. If we support them it can only be better for us. If we oppose them it can (will) get much, much worse.
Yes, I'm disappointed by the timing of their licencing announcement. Licencing an anime while it's still being fansubbed is like getting beat up for your lunch money. All I can say is weather it out, you'll have the DVDs before you know it.
Pizzagrapes -- Anime old timer, 20+ years
Well... this is a very bad news for me... since not many anime - translated or not - comes by my country and since Emma was only subbed by Ichan I was expecting to get to finish downloading the series..... it's sad... seems I won't get to see the end.
Anyway guys, congrats on the terrific job you did on it (both series).
Keep it up!!
Amazon and others ship world-wide.
Almost 40 dollars for one season? Ridiculous. Sorry if I'm "cheap" or not enough of a fan.
I'll stick to my illegal stuff until it's down to 20 a box, kthx. Get friends to translate the stuff. So sorry if I can't afford to get a single cheap item I want every few weeks or so, even with a job. Getting a boxed set that is the same price as 2 weeks worth of food is not worth the money.
Not only are you cheap and not enough of a fan, you're also kind of insane.
The raws of the last three episodes are still available for download, aren't they? If you watch those I'm sure you can figure out what happens.
From Malaysia, sad, theres no DVD for that here... even if there is- the price would be astronomical (a normal monthly salary would be $50)- no fair to everyone getting their DVD...
awww.. please at least finish translating it up to 12 :(
Gees i hoped that some random group will anonymously sub last 3 eps but it doesn't look like it, this blows
Guys, someone uploaded a torrent for ep.10.
omg...guess I'm too late.....havent been here for a while and got shocked when learned that emma got licenced (well, in the other hand, kinda expected it, but not this early)....too bad i've only seen eps 00 and 01...... and d/led ep 09 (how weird is that?)
btw, thanks IIchan guys & girls for all the subs so far..... will continue to support your future works ^^
Posting links or pointers to fansubs of licensed anime... especially when it risks legal problems for us... makes whispers cry.
Yes, the last three episodes have been subbed by another group. No, we really don't want to publicize links to them here. There are other sites where one might do such a thing; Google is your friend.
I'm aware that if you're determined enough, there isn't a thing I can do about it, but please... don't.
They did it up to episode 12 - I heard that their translations are fine - but the quality of episode 10 was bad (video/audio). Episode 11-12 were better
lol episode 10 was bad cause it had very low quality raw just check tt raw for emma 10 it sucks they only took what they could
>>124
very good translation, ep 10 had questionable good quality, but its not that bad to go and kill yourself, ep 11 and 12 are normal. altough i kinda missed the guide at the end
translation was fine but soon someone will be ripping emma it's like movies like spiderman 3, harrypotter some will rip it not for now but soon.
Lol they shoulfd do it already with japaneese dvds
yup someone will be ripping it i already cancel my order rightstuf make's me wait for so long imagine waiting for 1 month 1 week and they allways says they keep working i'm disappointed when emma 2nd 10-12 has been sub by other group so i full back my order and that's how the story end emma not that good the manga is good hope that they'll remake emma like neon evangelion and make it a 36 ep .maybe when the dvd of emma becomes available they'll be ripping very very soon (sigh)
If you want it remade (which I highly doubt will happen anyways) then BUY the DVD's. No company will remake a product if no one is buying it. And Emma has no where near the fanbase that NGE has, and probably never will. NGE has been re-released so many times only because fans keep buying the products, even though they're usually the exact same product, just with a different name and slightly different features. You can't even compare the two.
To reiterate; if you don't buy the Emma DVDs you aren't supporting the product, the company then doesn't make as much money and doesn't know that there's yet another fan out there that might just buy more Emma related products, thus lowering the chance even further of any Emma related merchandise.
And honestly, the boxsets aren't that expensive, considering how most anime DVD's only have 3-5 episodes on them and cost $25 each. So you get 12 episodes plus any bonus features for $50, compare that to, say, the Hellsing series that ran for 13 episodes. With Hellsing they released the episodes on 4 DVD's that with tax came to ~$23; that's $92, $42 more than the 12 episodes of Emma, just to give some perspective.
hoping that they remake emma soon i already order the dvd but it's not yet release still waiting.
to whispers
Ever been told, that you can do magic? If not -- you know it now.
I think, I'll order RightStuff-released DVD's. A few more enquiries on dealing with overseas shipping, but mind is made).
Mind -- this is told by die-hard fansub-loader and copyright-hater). I have torrented down all the second season, but could not come over the strange reluctance to watch them. Hell is this a first sign of rehabitation ?
Just wanted to tell you my BIG, WARM THANKS for doing all this work to bring us this wonderful anime & manga!! I'll be looking forward for your next releases!!
Just got a Right Stuf catalog in the mail (I don't really use it, but they send one anyway), and looking at an ad for Emma in the catalog, it says Emma should be released sometime in 2008. That's not saying much of anything really, but it's better than the placeholder of 2012, right?
>>136
Haha, I was just about to post this. And yeah, it's good to know the DVDs will be hitting in 2008. Just wish it was a more specific date. Better than nothing!
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t239/ana-nita/misc/S5001724.jpg
Crappy pic of the ad for those who care to look.
hope i can see emma laugh like urd =))
Great, now I have that image in my head and it isn't going away
Omg it says it will be released in freaking 2012 thats way too long!!!!!!!
First boxset out in June.
http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/?ForumThreadName=FT0000000268&ReturnTo=Main
Annoyingly enough I've been trying to pre-order both of these. The idiots won't ship out to the UK, has to be a US postal address.
God damn it.
>>144 Maybe you should try later at Amazon, or some other retailer.
It's been mentioned earlier, but I'd like to see the Whisper's notes for the last three episodes. It certainly doesn't breach any copyright, and it is unlikely (no matter how good the company) that a similar thing will be included in the boxsets.
Wow. I am so happy. the release date for first DVD is june 24th this year! yay! Thanks "anonymous".
Well, I got my name on the box. I guess most of you did already. I am so thrilled. It was thanks to this board that I found out they were pre-ordering the item.
Thank you all!
Love.
Thanks for the link! I've purcased 1-4 of the manga so far, and I just did the preorder.
Although I'm worried about their date of 2012 for the second act...is this just a placeholder date?
The 2012 is just a placeholder. The first season boxset had the date of 2012 up until a few months or so ago, too =)
The Emma website got an update and a trailer.
Forgot link.
http://emma.rightstuf.com/
The first box set came out awhile ago, and it's awesome. Aside from one pretty big problem. Every episode after 1 has mono audio. Rightstuf is already collecting information from buyers to keep them updated on a future replacement plan. If you have the boxset and want your discs replaced, send the following information to info@rightstuf.com
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E-mail Subject Line: Emma S1 Audio
Your name
Your AnimeOnDVD username (if you have one, if not then remove this)
Your Right Stuf Order # (or where you bought the set, if it wasn’t from Right Stuf)
Your e-mail address
Your mailing/shipping address
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Otherwise it's a great release, so it's a real shame something like this happened. I'm glad they've been quick to respond and help out though. The replacement discs may take awhile to make though, so sit tight.
