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NEWS: Tatami Time Machine Blues Anime Reveals New Trailer, Preview Screening




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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:25 pm Reply with quote
Man, it's nice to see the whole gang again. Also, ponytail Akashi!
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I wonder if you have to have seen Galaxy to enjoy this one. I've tried 3 times to watch it, and have never been able to make it more than halfway through before giving up.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:30 pm Reply with quote
The article links to an earlier one from October 2021, where Disney announced they'd be streaming Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, Summertime Rendering, and Tatami Time Machine Blues globally. Unless I'm mistaken, the first two titles are currently streaming only in Japan.

I wonder if Disney's claim of worldwide streaming just means they have global exclusive streaming rights, but no particular plans to release those titles anywhere else. After all, the 1st season is only available in the US on Funimation (it hasn't yet moved over to Crunchyroll), and I don't know how eager Disney would be to direct traffic to its competition at Sony, especially if Tatami Time Machine Blues assumes the viewer is familiar with the earlier series. OTOH, The Night is Short, Walk On Girl didn't assume any familiarity with The Tatami Galaxy, so this may be a total non-issue - but Disney still doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get these anime series out to the US in the same way they did Star Wars: Visions.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:49 pm Reply with quote
azabaro wrote:
I wonder if Disney's claim of worldwide streaming just means they have global exclusive streaming rights, but no particular plans to release those titles anywhere else. After all, the 1st season is only available in the US on Funimation (it hasn't yet moved over to Crunchyroll), and I don't know how eager Disney would be to direct traffic to its competition at Sony


Doubtful. There'd be no point in licensing the show in the first place if they were worried about something like that. I think it's just a case of another big company wading into anime streaming with no real clue about what standard or expected practice is. Netflix was the same way when they first started licensing TV series, often releasing them in batches over a year after they aired in Japan. It's one of (many) reasons most folks aren't too happy whenever a big existing company tries to sidle into the simulcast game.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:22 pm Reply with quote
azabaro wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken, the first two titles are currently streaming only in Japan.

Nope. Both titles are already streaming in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand; with Summer Time Rendering additionally being available in South Korea starting last Wednesday.

Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall already has Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish, and English dubs available for some episodes; and subtitles in over 20+ languages prepared for the western release(s).

The first 5-6 episodes of Summer Time Rendering already have Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish (voice-over), and Turkish dubs ahead of the unspecified premiere date outside Asia-Pacific too.

They're definitely gearing up for non-APAC releases of both series. ANN has even made articles on some of these Asian releases if you missed them.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:42 pm Reply with quote
ChickyBro wrote:

They're definitely gearing up for non-APAC releases of both series. ANN has even made articles on some of these Asian releases if you missed them.


I guess I did miss them. I'm not surprised to see shows released in other territories before the US, but I'm always puzzled when a company has a global license only to handle English-language releases piecemeal - I'd have thought Canada, US, and UK releases would have accompanied the Australia and New Zealand ones. I wonder if that's a result of a company that divides administration (or at least release strategies) based on geographic regions rather than release languages?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:11 am Reply with quote
Gina Szanboti wrote:
I wonder if you have to have seen Galaxy to enjoy this one. I've tried 3 times to watch it, and have never been able to make it more than halfway through before giving up.

I’m in a similar position. I never got around to continuing Tatami Galaxy past the first episode (open to trying though) but liked the live-action film of Summer Time Machine Blues.
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