I'm glad for any news of Penguindrum being made accessible to more people, and is hoping that Ikuhara will churn out another anime within the next two years or so instead of going through another decade+ hiatus.

That's exciting!

I really hope that they get they use the Japanese box art for the DVDs.  Because I want this pic on a DVD box so bad:



I was so excited when I first saw it. Kanba/Himari is my all time OTP, so I would have to have this picture on a DVD box. Come on Sentai!

So now it sounds like Sentai's calling the series Penguin Drum for their release.

I'm still excited either way, though I hear Sentai doesn't make very good dubs. Can anyone shed some light on that?

Atropos wrote:

It's basically formed from the remnants of ADV, and the dub quality is the same.

So then it basically varies with each series?

crystalwren wrote:

I hope they do a UK dub! It'd be nice to get a series that isn't in American, or even worse, yet another American dub with Americans trying to sound like non-Americans, and failing abysmally... *coughblackbutlercoughissomeonetorturingafroginthatsoundboothcough*

I've been distrustful of the UK translations in general after making the mistake of buying the British blu-ray for Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. I haven't seen a worse butcher of a script. For whatever reason, it still seems to pay to buy stuff from America, when it comes to anime.

HonorableShadow wrote:

Here's the first US cover. For some reason Sentai decided to drop the Mawaru and make Penguindrum two words...

Will there be a DVD release, too? I don't own a Blu-Ray player...

In other news, Penguindrum will start airing here in Italy on Thursday!
Still no date or other info about a DVD/BD release, unfortunately.

I'm curious about the dub, as the show and its many catchphrases are pretty hard to translate. 8thsin and the rest of the gg staff did a great job with their English fansub, but I don't have the same confidence in our (paid!) translators and VAs. Let's see what they can do.


(too bad I can't receive that channel in my new apartment - that newfangled digital-VCR-USB-thing I've just bought and set up at my old house just to record this had better work right on the first try)

the_architect wrote:

In other news, Penguindrum will start airing here in Italy on Thursday!
Still no date or other info about a DVD/BD release, unfortunately.

I'm curious about the dub, as the show and its many catchphrases are pretty hard to translate. 8thsin and the rest of the gg staff did a great job with their English fansub, but I don't have the same confidence in our (paid!) translators and VAs. Let's see what they can do.


(too bad I can't receive that channel in my new apartment - that newfangled digital-VCR-USB-thing I've just bought and set up at my old house just to record this had better work right on the first try)

Here's a clip from episode 5 in Italian. It sounds great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … _0MsPcZOoA

The second UK boxset release has been given an 18 cert by the BBFC, the equivalent of a strong R, as seen here. It's entirely the fault of what happens with Yuri in episodes 14 and 15 (both her own actions and her backstory), otherwise it would've been rated 12 like the first boxset.

Just thought that might be a point of interest.