I only just noticed it today, but yesterday Viz announced it had licensed Death Note, and all fansub groups following it have since dropped the project. This would come as terribly disappointing news, as we were only on episode 12 of 37 but Viz has decided to release them over the internet as download-to-own or download-to-rent “soon after they air in Japan.”
Now, I don’t know what type of ’soon’ they’re talking about, but I doubt it will be the same ’soon’ that fansub groups release episodes ’soon after the original airs.’ Even if they can release it in a similar time frame, I doubt they’d just release all 12 episodes already out in one lump deal. They’d want to space them out as much as the currently airing ones, so it might be a while before Viz’s release schedule catches up to the Japanese airing schedule.
Beyond all that, as long as the price isn’t too exorbitant (I find iTunes’ $2 per episode to be fairly reasonable) I probably wouldn’t mind paying a little to stay in the loop with this excellent series.
It had to be viz……damn them and their gosh-awful dubbing jobs.
In any case, their idea for downloading it sounds good, but if they try to space it at an episode a week, how do you dub an entire episode a week? Is it gonna have subtitled as an option? they leave so many questions to be answered it’s annoying.
Ummm….and how does download-to-rent work??
Man, I found that out this morning and was mothering irritated.
I wonder if they’re gonna Bosch Light like they did Ichigo. If they use the same english equivilents for some of these characters, I think we ought to kill them slowly and painfully.
That said, the downloading option seems fair.
Have u guys seen its Movie? Really awesomme, it same as the anime.
BTW Episode 14 is out going to dll it.