Kannagi News – License/DVD/Streaming
Brett | July 16, 2009 | 12:01 am
Announced today was the acquisition of Kannagi – Crazy Shrine Maidens by Bandai today. The biggest shocker is that Bandai also announced that the first volume is right off production and can be ordered starting today on Amazon and tomorrow on the Rightstuf. Just to top it all off, Kannagi started streaming today on Anime News Network, with two episodes being added every week.
Kannagi is a slice-of-life-ish, comedic, romantic anime. It follows Nagi and Jin through 14 episodes of laughter and some seriousness.
For me, I just finished this series this week. To be exact on Monday, and I enjoyed it greatly. The OP has to be my favorite in years, I like the catchy music, the dancing, and the comedy.
I can see how some controversy can be found for Bandai not including a dub on the disc, but I feel like the people who will buy this series would prefer to watch the sub anyways. Exclusion of a dub is also quicker, cheaper, faster releases, and easier.
I guess I just have never heard of a dvd being available on the day it was announced that the series was licensed. The sub only treatment has been seen from Bandai for Gurren Laggan, but that is also a much more popular series than Kannagi.
Volume 2 is scheduled to be released in September, and if you pre-order volume 2 before September 8 you will snag a Kannagi t-shirt.I am going to get vol. 2, since I just ordered vol. 1 off Amazon, pretty nice with 25% off!
News and Image Source: Anime News Network
Update: added box-art and t-shirt
~Brett
They were streaming the first episode too, but unfortunately they were not availible for my country, the UK. The release would have me more excited if it was region 2 but looks like no dice, although the box art and the t-shirt has me wanting to get it nonetheless.
I myself am glad it is a sub only release, which explains why it is out so fast, and not bank breaking. I personally don’t see Kannagi actually doing well enough to warrant a dub, and the majority who do buy, I expected are only after the subs. So tempting though T_T
I was very surprised to hear that the series was already being sold the same day it was announced, but then lost interest when I found out it was sub only. I, for one, was excited for a Kannagi dub (any possible duns of a series I like excites me really), and now it feels like such a wasted opportunity. It’s cheaper, faster, and also kind of disgusting in my eyes.
Oh well, I’ll end up buying it for the shirt.
Man, I feel for R2. You get the ultra short end of the stick it seems.
I like sub releases, more episodes for less money, and I usually only watch the subs anyways.
I am a big fan of the t-shirt, I just don’t know if I would wear it out, maybe to a con though.
Well, there are some countries where there are no legal anime releases. So it could be worse. But it’s not much fun.
The only time I got a t-shirt with some anime I decided that I didn’t feel confident wearing it.
True. Even if I used to be a Dragon Ball fan over ten years ago, I was never really confident to wear a DBGT t-shirt I got with a VHS in Portugal back then.
It’s a different story with my ARIA t-shirts though… but that’s because it doesn’t show weeaboo-ish stuff at all, just stripes and small logos. In this case I’d rather have something a little more… fancy. So that it raises people’s curiosity without giving them the “lolol weeaboo otakutard” feel.
Besides, I haven’t watched Kannagi yet (I really wanted to though but never got around to actually care) but I love the OP song. Heck, I listen it almost every day, lol. Best song in a while.
“So that it raises people’s curiosity without giving them the “lolol weeaboo otakutard” feel.”
That Kannagi shirt is just asking for that. xD
I suppose it’s all about figures. They probably polled a certain number of people, only to find out that only the fewest would watch dubbed anime; not dubbing a series seems like a win-win solution for them since they don’t need to hire voice actors any longer, less production costs. On top of that they can release the series near instantly after announcing the licensing, so there are less excuses for fansubbers not to continue distributing this series any further.
But this now raises the question of paying the usual price for such dvds.
Well with 7 episodes on one disc you are actually getting a deal in that sense. Without dual audio there is much more free space on a DVD.