Megazone 23 Fans...

You will be interested to learn that ADV has secured the rights to the series for release on DVD in R1!!!

How do I know? From THIS THREAD over at Anime On DVD.com. Evidently the trailer showed up on an ADV catalog disc. As far as I know, this is the FIRST time this has been made public.

And people thought it would never happen...

Anyone else excited?

Oh hell yeah! MZ23 is probablly oneof the more underrated/overlooked animes. I can finally retire my boots and get the real deal

lol I cant wait to hear some guy say "OMG!@@ teH MatriX ripOff!!!@!"

Probably want to release 'Robotech: The Untold Story'

So, will they use the existing dubs, or new ones? I guess the first 2 parts are dubbed, right? Streamline dub, and the Asian educational dub. And then there is the 'Robotech' version of one of the parts. And, I am certain they will need to clean up the show as well, do to its age.

It will be nice to eventually see all of the series though. I never saw any of the third part.

jaydubnb said:

Oh hell yeah! MZ23 is probablly oneof the more underrated/overlooked animes. I can finally retire my boots and get the real deal

lol I cant wait to hear some guy say "OMG!@@ teH MatriX ripOff!!!@!"

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Actually THE MATRIX ripped off MEGAZONE 23. I represent with my beloved HK DVD set =



...but with the LEGIT release I'll buy this one too. *I'm just happy to see someone over here in the states realizes what a "ahead of it's time" and largely forgotton OAV series MZ23 really was. MAD PROPS for lettin' us know Slerch!



MERCENARY X99

This isn't the first of this news. Remember back when I was obssessing over Wedding Peach (finally) being licensed? That same Anime Con announcement mentioned all 3 parts of MegaZone 23. AFAIK, isn't this the first ever OVA produced?

This was news on MW several months ago.

Mouse_Master said:

Probably want to release 'Robotech: The Untold Story'

So, will they use the existing dubs, or new ones? I guess the first 2 parts are dubbed, right? Streamline dub, and the Asian educational dub. And then there is the 'Robotech' version of one of the parts. And, I am certain they will need to clean up the show as well, do to its age.

It will be nice to eventually see all of the series though. I never saw any of the third part.

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As far as I know, there isn't much info on the MZ23 DVDs, so I don't think I can answer those questions.

And CCC- I remember your WP obsession, but I don't recall the MZ23 announcement... with so many announcements being made, I'm sure to miss things. Of course, how I missed THIS one, I don't know... and I'm not sure if MZ23 was the first OVA...

I don't know much, do I?

Whats the deal here, have the previous parts not been released before??

ow much of it has been released, i have the Manga video release of "Megazone 23", which states on the back it was originally 2 Japanese episodes Part III A & B, ive not seen other parts for sale before.

CapcomFanConverted said:

AFAIK, isn't this the first ever OVA produced?

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Actually, the first OVA was Dallos (1983, directed by Oshii Mamoru), although Megazone 23 (1985) wasn't far behind. The breakdown of Megazone 23 (pronounced "two three," btw) is as follows:

Megazone 23 (originally released 1985, 81mins)
Megazone 23 Part II ~Himitsu ku-da-sa-i~ (originally released 1986, 83mins)
Megazone 23 III ~Eve no mezame~ (originally released 1989, 53mins)
Megazone 23 III ~Kaihou no hi~ (originally released 1989, 53mins)


Oh, yeah -- I forgot I'd seen Shogo and BD (and a whole mess o' Garlands) in a Super Robot Taisen promo film running in a gamestore in Akihabara at the beginning of January. I'm getting some fairly heavy flashbacks thanks to all this -- my first cosplay (at AnimeCon'91 in San Jose) was Shogo.

--Chris