Sentai Targets Golgo 13
Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of the 50 episode Golgo 13 television series originally broadcast in Japan in 2008. The first bilingual DVD collection will contain 13 episodes and retail at $59.98 beginning July 13.
Takao Saito’s Golgo 13 manga has been ongoing since 1968. The story has been adapted into two live action feature films, an anime feature film, and OVA, and the 2008 TV series. The iconic sniper Golgo 13 is one of anime/manga’s most recognized and respected characters.
Speaking as a long time Golgo fan, I’m thrilled by this license. I do wish Sentai the best of luck with it, though, as the Golgo 13 franchise has never achieved especially strong success in America.
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I don’t think Golgo should have a problem. Those NES games alone give it a strong cult following on the Internets.
I’m not behind the price (especially since other sub-only Sentai releases have been $24 upon release), since I’ll probably never watch it dubbed, but, I’m glad to hear this series is coming out at all. There’s been a serious lack of love for Duke. This will be worth checking out.
Sounds good, but I still want to hear more from Sentai/Section23 how productive a majority of their releases have been… I’m loving a few of the titles they’ve released so far — YOZAKURA QUARTET is really fun so far — but I still get the impression they’re just licensing and releasing titles all willy-nilly.
I think they’re not as willy-nilly as FUNi.