You know, we don't talk about anime licensing and distributing companies outside of FUNimation and Sentai Filmworks often. Can we talk about how awesome Discotek Media is? Yeah, I only own the
Samurai Pizza Cats DVD, but that in itself is actually pretty amazing, because I don't think they ever truly got the master tapes for the show--maybe for the original Japanese, but I'm not sure about the English dub. Even so, the quality may look like VHS quality (at its worst, anyway, but nostalgia, man), but they remastered the clips the best they could, and I respect them for bringing back something as obscure as
Samurai Pizza Cats and make that attempt to clean the clips up. I still think it's awesome they've been stepping up to the plate in getting the license and rights to release some old previously-licensed anime or even unlicensed anime, the latter most likely thanks to them partnering up with Crunchyroll. I think them releasing the
Lupin III franchise put them on the radar.
Like I seriously just now found out they licensed
Chi's Sweet Home, which I don't think ever got a North American release, and they also announced
Robot Carnival,
Vampire Hunter D, and the
Street Fighter II movie (wait, I thought it was already licensed... though I guess this might be the uncut version?). Though it makes me wonder what made them decide to license something so infamous as
School Days... but then again, I guess the anime
does have an audience even if most of the audience watches it for the bile fascination.