Animejin News - 23rd February 1997
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A.D.Vision Plans for 1997

A.D.Vision have revealed their release plans for the rest of the year. After
Powerdolls this month, the provisional future schedule looks like this:

       March:    Hannape Bazooka (sub)
       May:      Evangelion volume 1 (dub)
       June:     Evangelion volume 2 (dub), Gunsmith Cats 3 (sub+dub)
       August:   Evangelion volume 3 (dub), Elicia (dub)
       October:  Evangelion volume 4 (dub), Super Atragon 2 (dub)
       December: Evangelion volume 5 (dub), Shutendoji (sub)

Evangelion will be released two episodes per tape. Gunsmith Cats 3 will contain
both subtitled and dubbed versions on the same tape. Elicia is a fantasy-style
OAV, Shutendoji is another creation of Go Nagai.

The current slow pace of releases is due to ADV changing their distributor, a
move with which they hope to improve their presence in the marketplace. They
will continue to supply specialist shops themselves, while the distributor
handles the mainstream retailers. A practical upshot of this is that only the
specialist shops will get the subtitled releases.

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Kiseki Schedule MD Geist

Kiseki Films have now scheduled their next release, M.D.Geist, for 24th March.
The press release announcing this contained the following passage:

   "Although nobody at Kiseki was willing to confirm or deny recent
    rumours, it would seem that the latest problem has been caused by the
    5 minutes of "previously unseen footage" from cult director Koichi
    Ohata, the use of which has now, it would appear, been restricted, a
    move which, as you might expect, Kiseki are strongly resisting.

   "At the moment the row is being played down by the two companies
    involved, but it is sure to be a big blow, not just to Kiseki but to
    the whole anime market who saw the Geist films as this years 2 biggest
    sellers, helping to shoot Japanese Animation back into the big time
    limelight."

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