--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 06:52:26 
> From: Gregory Himes <gdhimes@yahoo.com>
To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org
Cc: 

>
>--- Joseph Riggs <josephriggs@lycos.com> 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