BTW, Yukikaze translates roughly to "Snow Breeze." It's a fairly common name in Anime and Manga, especially for cold-based characters. The name itself would be reused in Beast Wars II as the space ship (non-sentient) for the Maximals. Oh, and speaking of, Beast Wars II is coming out on DVD, finally. I guess I'll be able to dump my old commercial VHS tapes of it. If we're very lucky, maybe Shout!Factory will release a sub of it.
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Wait... BW II? On DVD? Finally! I still have all my BW II and BW Neo tapes I bought back in 2001 in Akihabara and I love both those shows! Thanks for the update!
Victory Leo
I seem to remember an announcement from Shout Factory that the only reason they weren't considering putting Japanese BW on DVD was a lack of digital masters, so if we all buy the complete Takara G1 collection and American BW box sets, I'm guessing we'll see them in a year or two. I've never seen anything but BWII the movie and the first 3 eps of Neo. I mean if there's enough of a market to resell the American BW stuff after the Rhino DVDs, how could there not be a market for Beast Wars series that have never been seen this side of the Pacific?
Thanks for another fine transformation sequence, Jim. I really appreciate these. Please keep 'em coming - filling in some of the gaps in the Headmasters and Masterforce sets in particular would be great!
Martin
Another great post Jim. I'll have a check through my character sheets, as I bought some more since the last time I spoke to you about them just in case I have any of the missing ones.
The release of Beast Wars II does suggest, to me, that Shout Factory will release it as it seems a little strange otherwise for it to suddenly be released but I'm not going to wait myself just in case even if Japanese DVDs are notoriously expensive
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