Sentai Filmworks Licenses Angel Beats! [Update April 3]

According to the official website, Sentai Filmworks has announced their license of the TV anime Angel Beats!. The series will be released in the U.S. on DVD and Blu-Ray with English dubs. The first episodes will premiere at Anime Boston, a convention taking place on April 22-24.

Update on April 3rd
According to Otaku Review's twitter, Section 23 (Sentai Filmworks' distribution company) will leave Angel Beats!' music in its original Japanese.

Source: official website, Otaku Review's twitter

Not subs?

Yes! I'll probably get it the moment it comes out. I hope they just release it all in a single box set though.

YES DUB. Thank you~ ;A;

but...no subtitles at all?

I will be buying this on blu-ray you can count on it and I will finally have all of the key works in my anime collection!

How will tks voice work in the dubs

It would be very strange if they don't release it dual audio. I wouldn't jump to conclusions on the lack of a subtitles announcement.

Cool stuff, though. I wonder what they'll do with TK.

I am so buying this on Blu-Ray. If it comes dubbed, then there will probably be an option for it to be subbed. Isn't that how it is with the other anime DVD's.

Presuming there are subs and this is released in my region I'll buy it.

Yea the official page says it INCLUDES the dub, so that points that it will have the original japanese ^^

I hope someone will lisence it for the UK

I've been wondering when it'll be dubbed, I can't wait to get it :)

(And cue the dub haters)

Interesting.

fff the synopsis is so misleading haha. Absolutely no mention of how UTTERLY HEARTBREAKING it is.

Still, looking forward to hearing the dub~

Strange that it's not getting a sub-only release first. I guess they're finally realizing which ones deserve a dual-audio release the first time around.

It's nice that Angel Beats will be coming over here.

Hope the dub is good. I doubt they'll dub the songs though (which is a good thing), it would be too much work.

Awesome, a good enough reason to watch it again.

I can die happy now. ; w ;

Hopefully the voice acting will be good though. Clannad's dub by them was God awful, so hopefully they'll be wiser on this.

And also, subs hopefully?

their clannad dub was pretty bad. i wonder if they'll actually do a good dub. they better keep t.k.

I assume they will have subs. Anyway, glad that it is coming here.

sweet! i wonder if il be able to snag a ride with friends to get to go to boston...

This is awesome news. Another anime I can add to my small, yet ever growing collection! :D

I hope they bring other stuff like Madoka Magica over here, that would be pure awesome!

cool i think tk's voice will be in japanese lol
on another note i wonder when season 2 will come out I heard they were making season 2

Great news, I'll definitely be buying it. Though I am wondering about TK's voice, seems kind of redundant to dub it plus it won't be as good anyway ┐(-｡ｰ;)┌ .

I'm actually pretty surprised it took this long.

I just hope it's better then the Clannad dub...

Meh, that just means I get to watch something else at Anime Boston >.>

And hey, at least their Highschool of the Dead dub wasn't all too terrible... Although... Clannad was horrible... They kinda messed up one of my favorite anime.... >_>

All I'm really concerned about is how Iwasawa's and Yui's singing and voice acting will go.

This just went on the top of my "to buy" list. Though I do hope there are subs as I prefer them to dubs 9 times out of 10.

Why the hell do they insist on dubbing everything they can get their hands on. F.

Terrible version of their synopsis, also. Makes it sound like an all action Bruce Willis movie when it's actually NOT.

I'll probably buy this, but I'll wait for it to drop in price. It'll take a long time to get to the price I am willing to pay for this. As for dubbing it, I'll watch the SUB anyways, but owning a DUB / SUB version doesn't hurt.

I'm not really fond of dubbed anime.. but it'd be awesome if it was subbed.

Yeah its pretty much impossible if they just release the dub on the track. I'd assume companies would only do that if they couldn't even get their hands on the show. xD

I'll be skipping this one. Angel Beats! was nice (and knowing Sentai, the cover art will be absolutely gorgeous) but I didn't loooooove the show.
Still, Sentai will likely make a lotta money from this. xD

(Also expecting dubbed over T.K. Only because a lot of his lines are total Engrish).
If they can turn a small creature's squeaking peep sounds (in Xam'd) from a VA to a literal squeaking sound effect (rrmg I was so annoyed with that), they'll dub T.K over. ._.

FINALLY!!!!! I will buy this on opening day, aw yeah (if there are subs as well as dubs).

I wonder what the dub will sound like.

Wow, blue-ray? I wonder if they'll dub any of those character commentaries... XDD

i wonder if the dubs will be good! >_<

It's funny because I just watched it a week ago, and through out the week I was wishing please get licensed, please get licensed.
Har my wish came true X-D

Woohoo very very exciting news to me. What makes it even better is that it will be on blu-ray. I only wish they would release Clannad on Blu-ray, that would be the best news. I love how Sentai has brought over amazing anime from Key animation. One of the best news for me so far this year. I too cant wait to continue my Key animation collection.

damn, this would have to wait till i find a new job!

What I think is that they use the original voice of TK, but it will be more fun if they make TK Japanese speaking, although his looks make then no sense anymore.

It's a good news!

Dubbing? What the hell, why would they get rid of the strongest point (apart from the incredible soundtrack) of the series. Thanks, but no thanks.

What, is having two audio tracks terrible or something?

I personally loved the Clannad dub. It was the packaging that pissed me off.

Well anyways glad its getting a dub I hate buying subbed-only DVDs.

LOL all these people that are hating because it dubbed, never watched nor seen an anime on dvd before.
*you can select different audio tracks*

Really, and you call your selfs anime fans. Go buy/rent the dvd kids...and support the industry

+1

Seriously they can just switch the track if they don't like the dub its not that hard. Besides most dubs today I've seen were either excellent, good, or decent. If they want to see terrible dubs so much go watch anime from the early days of dubbing now THATS terrible.

that's very good but anime boston should i guess that it's in boston

I wonder how they'll pull this one off. Will be looking forward to the dub.

Was exactly thinking the same, hah!

Lol after a insane day at work this announcement made my day!!!!