Other Tidbits from A-kon

A production panel at the A-kon convention yielded a few interesting news facts. The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga will soon be resuming after its hiatus due to a halt in the production of the Japanese release. Carl Horn, Viz’ manga editor, said that the Eva manga will resume in October with more original scenes not seen in the filmed version.

Shin Kurokawa gave a status update of the Animeigo release of the original Superdimensional Fortress Macross series. Kurokawa spent part of April and most of May in Hollywood remastering the 1980’s TV series. That new digital master is almost finished, and is taking longer to complete than expected because there are a lot of flaws in the original film. There are still flaws that need to be worked out.

John Sirabella of Media Blasters stated that sales of subtitled VHS anime will continue to decline as more buyers acquire DVD players. Media Blasters plans to transfer its catalog to DVD as long as the titles have decent sales. Mahou Tsukai Tai is going to be one of the few TV series that Media Blasters will carry since it’s too hard to keep long series on store shelves. [Editor’s note: Maho Tsukai Tai TV is only 12 episodes.] Sirabella also reiterated that Media Blasters will not be releasing an uncut version of Kite.

Source: A Fan’s View