To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:18:20 -0700 From: "Joseph Riggs" Message-ID: Subject: Re: AX 2003 Meet and Funimation Panel Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 06:52:26 > From: Gregory Himes To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org Cc: > >--- Joseph Riggs wrote: > >> Eventually the Studio Pierot people left, and the topic turned to >> Funimation >> stuff. >[...] >> They also announced that they had acquired Detective Conan. >> IIRC, >> they had the first 100 or so episodes along with the first two >> movies, and >> presumeably the option to acquire all of the other episodes (at times >> it was >> a bit difficult to hear). > >With over 300 episodes (I have #319) that's gonna be a really >interesting task. I certainly hope it's handled better than the >episode quantities on YYH. At least 5 eps should be on each disc for >Conan, since I don't think anyone but die hard fans are going to buy >100 DVDs in single cases. Maybe whole season boxes? > No mention of how they were planning on selling it. I would imagine that the eventual plan is to sell it by the box, although I can't recall off the top of my head if they've done that with any of their other series - and of course both Dragonball Z and YYH are prime targets for box sets. junior