Australia will get it in autumn, and no one in the US has even licensed it at this time. This time we are the first English speaking territory in the world to get Cowboy Bebop in high definition. You know the usual path to UK anime? A US company licenses it, creates subtitles and possibly dubs it, then hopefully someone in Australia licenses it and creates a PAL master for the DVDs, or a Region B encode for the Blu-rays, and then we in the UK get it. The label is called All The Anime, and their first title is Cowboy Bebop on Blu-ray! Anime Limited need a bona fide classic to make their mark, they need a title that will grab the attention, and they need to do something with it that no one else has done. What’s big now will be forgotten in two years.
That’s a lofty target, as anime is by its very nature a disposable, transient commodity. But the intention was to have physical distribution of home media as well, with the laudable goal of becoming the Criterion of anime. For the first part of this year they’ve been busy releasing Kenji Kamiyama’s 009 Re: Cyborg in cinemas and online. We have a new company distributing anime in the UK! Actually we’ve had it for quite some time now, as Anime Limited has been up and running since the end of 2012.
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