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According to Section23, a North American anime distributor, Sentai Filmworks has licensed the following titles for a Spring release:

Gintama - First set releasing on April 27th
Hidamari Sketch x 365 - Full series releasing on April 6th
Asatte no Houkou - Full series releasing on April 13th
Le Portrait de Petit Cossette - Complete OVA releasing on April 20th

Le Portrait de Petit Cossette was previously licensed by Geneon Entertainment.


Source: ANN

Thank to user Touka for the tip.

Angry comment:
HOW DARE SENTAI LICENSE ONE OF MAI FAVORITE ANIME AND NOT GIVE IT A DUB

Not so angry comment:
I'm glad HidaSketch was licensed a few months back, but the lack of dub makes me sad :(

And since they licensed the second season, I'm guessing the first one sold well enough over here. Which is good.

Yuno Desu

and lol Gintama. I betcha everyone thought FUNi would for sure pick it up. Wonder if it will receive a dub since it's a much more well known series. Baby Naruto will be happy.

edit: actually read the link. gintama will be subbed only it seem.

two pretty random ones i never would have guessed. i don't care if they dub the shows or not, subbed is way better imo

I personally was on the fence about buying the first season of Hidamari Sketch because I don't like owning the first season of a series if the next season won't be released in America. Like, I have Shakugan no Shana season 1 and Higurashi season 1's boxed sets, but there's been no word on whether the next seasons are ever going to come to America. Sad, sad.

But now I can buy Hidamari Sketch knowing for sure I'll get season 2 <333333333. I trust Sentai to license season 3 later also.

Only reaction here is that I'm glad that Gintama is getting some attention...

Well Gintama was a real shocker for me. I'm kind of relieved that it's gonna be subbed only not that I think a dub would be bad. It's just too many things would get lost in translation. And correct me if I'm wrong but I think the Lucky Star dub kept some of the comments and jokes about Japanese pop-culture and the likes. So hearing a Gintama version of that where the whole series is one big parody on Japanese history seems pretty eh.

I'm just happy to be able to own my favorite series of all time even if it's only subs.

This news has been out since yesterday, if I'm not mistaken.

But I'll still spread the love anyway.

Gintama is finally getting licensed! I don't care if it's sub only (I do prefer that, they would just ruin the dub I think) but at least I can finally buy it and add it to my collection.

The choice to release a long on-going series like Gintama sub-only seems strange to say the least. Don't they usually aim to get shows like that aired on tv (As far as I can remember, all others like it did. Bleach, Naruto, Inuyasha, One Piece [at least for some time], etc.)? And of course, they only ever air English dubbed anime on tv in the states.

Ugh, I hate Sentai. They release everything sub-only.

I've been hearing good things about Gintama, so I would surely try it out at some point. Though, after getting a bit tired of the fillers in One Piece and switching over to the manga, I wonder whether to go with anime or the manga in the case of Gintama.

Now Sentai, don't forget to consider Mononoke, Nodame Cantabile and Mouryou no Hako the next time you want to license something ;)

Read this a while ago. I might get Gintama for the hell of it.

Nice, all series sounds good. I'll buy them whenever they're released. :D

gintama & le portrait :D
i'll make sure to buy those items~

I own the Geneon release of Le Portrait. If this packaging is as beautiful as Geneon's though, I'll consider owning both.

No dub ... from the looks of it a lot of anime recently isnt getting dubbed... another reason not to buy anymore

Definitely picking up Hidamari and Gintama. Glad April is not too far away.

I'm a huge fan of Gintama, but living in England this news doesn't really affect me, although perhaps I will import the DVDs. I am just glad Gintama its getting some attention. I'm also glad it's Sentai and Section32 that are handling licensing and distribution. Thankfully ADV isn't completely down and out yet. I've always been impressed by their releases. I'm happy the series won't be getting a dub as well, since as mentioned so much would be lost in translation. Also, thanks for the mention Panaru!

Hey, no problem. Actually another user linked me to your topic and that kind of started the whole thing.

nice gintama u r getting some attention

I approve of Hidamari DVDs. 0 . 0X
Not interested in the rest though. >:

OH GOD YES

Thanks for the info!