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Princess Mononoke Delayed.. To Add Japanese!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-to-go-fanboys! dept.

Dark Paladin writes: "It seems that Disney has had a change of mind (er, wallet) after hearing about the 4500 online signatures (and more on the way) regarding the DVD version of Princess Mononoke. You can read the official press release sent to DVD stores here. All I can say is: proof that sometimes The Man listens." This is very cool.

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  1. Movies I would recommend by Anonymous+Shepherd · · Score: 5

    Younger:
    Kiki's Delivery Service (1 episode, vhs)
    My Friend Totoro (1 episode, vhs)
    Pokemon (tv)

    Drama:
    Macross Plus (4 episodes, 2dvds)
    Grave of the Fireflies (1 episode, vhs)
    Serial Experiments Lain (14 episodes, 4dvds)

    Action:
    Ghost in the Shell (1 episode, vhs)
    Bubblegum Crisis (8 episodes, 3dvds, tape)
    Akira (1 episode, vhs)

    Random Highly Recommended:
    If you can find these...
    Escaflowne (7 vhs)
    El Hazard (5 vhs)
    Evangelion (26 episodes, 13vhs)


    -AS

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    -AS
    *Pikachu*
  2. topic=Anime by Stavr0 · · Score: 5

    It's been said before and I agree -- we really do need a topic just for ANIME. This one doesn't quite fit in topic=TV
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  3. How can any company be so clueless? by (void*) · · Score: 5
    In this capitalistic world, it is strange to see a company being so clueless about its customer base.

    Here is a big company, Disney, trying to release a foreign film DVD into its own market. It is putting in big money in the efforts of selling a piece of work that many customers will fork over money for. But it fails to understand the basic motivations and the demographic that is buying this foreign work.

    Whatever happened to market research? Whatever happened to giving your customers what they want? Is this big market giant asleep at the wheel?

    It happened that this particular case, the fanatical customers were very vocal. But for your average movie, and your average audience, they are just silent. I guess in such cases, these sheep deserve to be ripped off, right?