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[Bebop (#48738)]

 Kimi Ga Nozumu Eien licensed!

[Villain (#24670)]

Yep, this is good news. Even though I find the series only slightly above average overall, I will still buy it, as this proves (some) anime-companies do listen to what the fans want. Were Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien aka Rumbling Hearts not so popular on sites like AnimeNfo.com, I doubt it would have been ever licensed.

Now, I hope everyone who rated the series highly will go and buy it on DVD.

-Villain

[Sumomo (#45447)]

Finally! I've been wanting to see KGNE for a long time now, and of course have to wait for it to come to dvd so thats very good news

[[AN]Wölf_Brother (#5002)]

Good news indeed. Hope the release is a good one and worthy of the title.

[Bebop (#48738)]

[Maru Botan (#40395)]

Rumbling Hearts huh... I don't know, sounds a bit generic than the actual translation, but that's just me I guess. But I'll buy it anyway since it's one of my favorite animes :)

[edit]

Maybe relevant, maybe not, but Rumbling Hearts is the opening theme from the game (also played at the end of episode 2). Meh, I'd still call it KimiNozo :p

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

I already have since it's been licensed here for quite a while already, but I'm happy that it's finally going to reach a wider audience. It certainly deserves a wider exposure.

I wonder why it's called Rumbling Hearts though. It's called the same here, but I never found out why.

[Cipher7 (#91028)]

Whats the point of changing names? I don't like to have to remember an anime with two animes and it would create confusion. Are they trying to just give an english name for it?

[Villain (#24670)]

Rumbling Hearts is the "English" name used for all KimiNozo-merhcandise in Japan, I've heard. Japanese marketing people prefer English names for everything, thus the name Rumbling Hearts has been assigned to KimiNozo for years already.

The same applies to hundreds of anime-series. Shin Seiki Evangelion is a good example (no, "Neon Genesis" is not a proper translation, it's just the "English" title Gainax used for the series).

The US release of Rumbling Hearts will have "Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien" as a subtitle.

-Villain

[charn (#40191)]

That's not a good title. I always find all anime which have the word 'hearts' in it to be, well, crap

But oh wait, KgNE is crap too SO that should be all right then

And no, I don't think I'll buy the DVDs. I have seen it twice .. and while I like it, I don't hail it as a masterpiece like other 99% of the fans do.

[Stick (#5576)]

rumbling hearts? that's what happens when a person is having a myocardial infarction. :\


seriously, it sounds like a bad rip from a fighting game involving scantily clad women. ...

..


:O~

[Cynor (#76639)]

Like I said in the thread in the kimi ga forum about this same thing, I never thought I would see this liscensed.

I'm more interested in atm is HOW they are going to handle the animeation and dubbing and such. The story itself is way more mature then funi normally does. I mean even gunslinger girl (which I believe funi did) isn't really on par with kimi ga (or should I say rumbling hearts now) in terms of how mature it is. Sure, it isn't exactly all that "kiddy" but it sure isn't on the same level as kimi ga imo.

At the same time, while i'm wondering about how they will handle it, I think Funi picked this up simply because of how popular it is (notice that this and several other highly rated shows like Full Moon have been liscensed recently) so they will probably piss a LOT of people off if they botch it or change the story around too much.

So, again, we do kind of run into the whole mature thing. They change it too much to make it more "kid friendly" (or hell, even teen at times) and they are going to piss off a ton of people. If they don't, we pretty much have a TV-M/R rated anime put out by a company that doesn't really do that.

[Boris0231 (#99019)]

They cant make it less mature or something, if they will they will ruin the whole storyline, they should just dub it like it is right now!

[Maru Botan (#40395)]

You people are silly, of course it's kid friendly! They have cute cartoons at the end of every episodes right!?

...

Okay, that was bad, sorry.

I doubt funi would dare to tone KimiNozo down, because if they've been reading forums, they should be aware that it's popular because of the way it is.

[Cynor (#76639)]

[jsy3k (#32616)]

[Arilou (#34809)]

IIRC it was actually the japanese producers of the show who got ot pick the english name.

[Caddberry (#27690)]

KgNE rocks.. I'm glad it got licensed.. Maybe someone will seriously port the game now.. I'd love to play it.. Hell.. I'd even buy it.. Well.. If it wasn't like $80 or something crazy..

[Villain (#24670)]

[Boris0231 (#99019)]

Awesome Anime, now more people will watch it !

[DarkCntry (#45489)]

It was also stated by one of the FUNi employees that this is the title given to all non-Asian markets...FUNi went ahead and left the Kimi ga Nozomu Eien as a subtitle. Furthermore, the only items that were dubbed Rumbling Hearts was the PS2 version of the game, the rest of them from the original CD version to the Special Fan Disc are all titled Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.

Besides, most everyone who will purchase this already knows what it's actual title is, and the ones who don't outright purchase under this assumption usually get it via word-of-mouth.

Soon as pre-orders go up for it, it's on my to-get list, seeing as all three volumes are supposed to be in before the end of the year. THe biggest questions overall is how they are going to handle the characters and emphasize the secondaries like they were in the Japanese release. Furthermore, considering FUNi's love in recent months over extras, I want to see what they plan on doing with KimiNozo, I expect at the very least we'll be getting the same disc extras as the Japanese release, hopefully we can get the book releases as well.

[Cynor (#76639)]

So long as they don't totally screw the translation of the book that would be awesome to see. Though, I hope they put it out in something like a series box with disc 1 and the extras rather then with a boxed set AFTER all the normal dvds have been released.

[Nuhsshun Takamoto (#69832)]

OK i find this really interesting for the fact that the states AVOID liscenceing shows that have backgrounds as HENTAI GAMES, about the name Rumbling Hearts, that was the original H game opening theme song. I dunno how well thiswould turn out though, bein that the now the US liscenced this that they may have issues about the popularity of the H game?

Whats next? Kanon? Air? Fate/Stay Night? Da Capo?

the next thing that happens is they liscence the KGNE H Game heh heh

KGNE H game Opening

[Luther (#82867)]

[Nuhsshun Takamoto (#69832)]

If they edit ANY part of KGNE ill be sure to commit anime suicide and go Samurai on Funimation

DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funimation BTW isnt of real high standard to me, they havent really liscenced anythin real well.

*clicks sword*

whos next?

[Villain (#24670)]

[Boris0231 (#99019)]

They can edit the naked scenes..

[Luther (#82867)]

[DarkCntry (#45489)]

[Nuhsshun Takamoto (#69832)]

heres a question...

WHAT HAS FUNIMATION NOT BUTCHERED?

[DarkCntry (#45489)]

[Nuhsshun Takamoto (#69832)]

[DarkCntry (#45489)]

Well technically, Hare+Guu is not a true FUNi title, although their resources are going into it.

[Villain (#24670)]

[Ace Starleaf (#96031)]

Well about bloody time a decent series gets licensed, and like Nuhsshun Takamoto said, if FUNi does edit stuff out ........ (Sry, I'm too polite to post what I would do) ^_^

As for a localization of the Kiminozo game I am working on it currently, though at a VERY slow pace, i have about the first 5 min of the prologue done so far, and the patching program is nowhere near stable yet. site is here if anyone wants to keep tabs http://www.geocities.com/kgnetranslation/

[Bebop (#48738)]

I think Funi is well aware of the adult nature of the show and KNOW that if they were to chop it up that people would be asking for their heads. Regarding the nudity in it I think that there were only two occasions where frontal nudity (appearance of nipples) ever came up. Sure there are the sex scenes but they aren't anything worse then what we see here in the states. I can't wait for this to come out and I am sure Funimation wouldn't ruin it. Full Metal Alchemist has turned out pretty damn well after all

[Trine (#63183)]

its about time this was Licensed. KGNE is awesome. but... I just hope KGNE has good english dub... since its a drama. nothing kills a drama more than simply reading off the script.

[Calvin_Du (#67546)]

I don't know why I don't feel happy at all for this, I guess I'm just scared that they might butcher the series and have a bad rep over here.

[neo (#67420)]

Man, I've wanted to see this anime for a long time, I hope it comes to a store near me.

[Stick (#5576)]

not sure why this wasn't moved over here or locked since there was a thread here in the first place. anyways, since this one has more replies than the other i locked the other one.