Aka-con Convention Announcements

David Williams of AD Vision announced at this past weekend’s Aka-con that the upcoming ADV Films release of Robotech on DVD will be filled with supplementary material, most likely from Carl Macek’s restoration work and archives. Currently there are no plans for a Robotech DVD boxed set release, but AD Vision does plan to release a box that will eventually hold all of the series’ discs.

Anime Village stated that there is no news regarding when they may release the Escaflowne movie domestically. They report that the television series is doing better on Canadian YTV than it did on Fox, and that YTV has taken delivery of the entire series with the intent to air all of the episodes.

Viz Video producer, Toshifumi Yoshida, stated that there is no news on the possibility of Viz acquiring the Inu Yasha TV series. However he did speculate that whatever company did get Inu Yasha might be able to get the series on store shelves before the end of 2001. Yoshida also added that there’s a chance that Viz may revive the dubbed version of Maison Ikoku. Defending Viz’s prior decision to cancel the dub version Yoshida stated, “If the fan support was there, it would have never stopped.” A DVD release was not mentioned.

Source: A Fan’s View