to all those people out there who think they are supporting the industry by buying anime in malaysia , you have been tricked and terribly misinformed .

anime license need to be purchased before you can sell any anime if not they are considered bootleg .

all shop in malaysia I have see so far they are selling bootleg from taiwan or hong kong . just see where they come from . go back home and google the company see if they are licensed to sell anime . I can bet with you they arent .

Im so sick and tired of seeing people buying anime from shop and say Im supporting the industry or Im buying original . if you want original go amazon , odex , madman , tokyopop to buy .

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http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=352018 <- LordSeta's Guide to identifying Bootleg Anime DVD

This post has been edited by guest18: Feb 28 2009, 09:29 PM

Agree with what u say, but the shipping cost (amazon , odex , madman , tokyopop) is expensive...

some of the anime sold here r also actually downloaded from internet. i've seen some which were fansubbed. ady stopped buyin anime a long time ago....ahaha

odex quality sucks. No wonder singaporeans are mad at them..

Unless the original distributors can offer something very cheap, high quality and easy to obtain; which is impossible for them.

Eh, really?
I though if the Anime case got the sticky"original stickers" it should has been considered original?

But are you sure from buying the one with the stickers* and high quality case arent original, since the 'cap ayam' offers the plastic case only..
Cant blame people if its true since the anime case does look original.

yup, i used to buy anime from shop too. And feel proud of myself supporting original. Only then i realise this matter and stop buying anymore DVDs. Now BT is my new life

heck,some of my frens even worship Lambaian Filem(do i get the name right),saying they are buying ORI STUFF..

Are Malaysia/Singapore the only country that does not have a shop selling original anime?
It's kind of sad.

btw. What does BT means?
edit: and bootleg

This post has been edited by Hisyam91: Feb 28 2009, 05:34 PM

BT mean Beli Tiruan or BiTorrent

Are the anime sold at popular original stuff? I've been buying stuff from there quite often.....

So, we never did actually support the industry huh?
I just hoped some other country can get a hold on ORI anime easily,
so we wont actually see the end of anime. =X

bootleg = direct copy of the original (piratez)

no ...

check price at amazon or something
original would cost way more
and have way less episode per disc

singapore selling original , odex do license anime

bt mean bit torent and bootleg mean pirated material

This post has been edited by guest18: Feb 28 2009, 06:01 PM

lee, what are u doing?

If the original comes, it will be years& expansive. And almost everyone who is seeing Kara no Kyoukai now downloads it from the net. Bleach too. So you want to wait few years for your bleach episode...

Not everyone can fork out money. Like not everyone can buy Win Xp Pro. But almost everyone use it pirated or not.

So better live with it.

its ok if buyin ori (limited edition stuff) from amazon or wat
but buying at malaysia..speedy videoss....to lameeeee....
buy at kotaraya cheap2 or BT hi def version is moreeeeee cooolll

That sticker even wrote KPD Tulen bla bla bla..
How the hell did they even get it

Internet?

Originally copied lar

that sticker cost some cent. You want to sell? you have to stick that.

You saying that is okay for me to rob you because I am poor and have to wait for years to get my meal? So you can live with it? Can you?



And I just got my Kara no Kyokai DVD 1-3 Limited Edition original. Already placed order for Movie 4 and 5. Because I can.

This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Feb 28 2009, 08:35 PM

Actually the right statement is most Malaysians are not willing to fork out money for these stuff.

Then it comes it issue of not being well informed (of what is tulen and 'tulen').

For the average joe who seeks to enjoy random animation now and then, it's ok if they wanna claim it's original. For ppl who know, purchase and deliberately boast about it, it's another story lo. Well, just my opinion anyway.

i got fukken quality of subs when i bought few animes coz lazy download

I have given up hope on the 'original' DVDs being sold in Malaysia after I was duped into paying big money for Wolf's Rain OVA (very nice packaging/tulen stickers/yaddayadda) - I fell for the trap and learned from it. It was after that incident that I finally realise that there is no ori anime sold in Malaysia. Well, at least I know for sure that in KL there's none

this sticker can be purchased according to my research

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Added on February 28, 2009, 9:14 pmthe reason why I open this thread is to education and create awareness among anime watcher in malaysia
I hope the support for this piracy to be stop , anymore and they will gain more power and money
they are one of the reason why anime industry is shrinking

imagine you support poacher , sooner or later tiger , ponggoli and many other uniqe flora and fauna to be extinct

I believe in giving somehing to the younger generation rather than selfishly using everything now

where you get your sub from ?

*pet pet chibitenko*

alot have been in that trap before , let your experience be warning to those want to buy

This post has been edited by guest18: Feb 28 2009, 09:14 PM

Actually I've seen Odex Animes being sold locally, but since the packaging quality is equivalent to bootlegs, no comments there how you differentiate.. All I know is that if that shop has Odex Titles, it will be more expensive than bootlegs.

Some US publishing house like Viz Media and stuff also available, though really expensive. like 10-20times that of bootleg prices.

Unless there's people here who thinks they can make a living doing legit subs for legit products, don't think anything will happen/change.

Huh? can get the stickers for few cents?
Wow..
That's new..
I never know..

Crap,
no wonder the price for 'fake' original seems way near the pure fake price..
Thanks for the info,
Keep away from the stickers huh..

Info,
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=352018
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/451806

Well, i did try googling for 'videostar animation' (distributor)
it ended up, .With This,no other link.
It's Fake..
since the episode was 1-13 with only 2 DVD inside..


*ouch* The moment of truth always hurt.. *ouch*

Still, collecting big box that contain anime DVD sure feels nice(feels like ori) rather than a plain plastic.

PS: can show me some real price+link for anime from tokyopop? just curios

This post has been edited by Hisyam91: Feb 28 2009, 09:26 PM

http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue...625&method=view

around 200 havent plus tax shipping etc and compare this to local

http://www.animetech.net/dvd/detail.php?co...38E&catalogue=D

can you see the different ?

aspect ratio : madman is 16.9 , animetech is 4.3
disc : madman is 6 , animetech is 3


This post has been edited by guest18: Feb 28 2009, 09:36 PM

Most Malaysians are cheap.

I am cheap. Therefore, I only buy DVDs from pirated stuffs.

Notice this long ago but what to do

I wonder why wont they sell it cheaper, and go global.

12800Yen for complete anime,
that's like.. *speechless*
Even some other country goes for bootleg.

i mean, i bought the original anime sold in msia, and the subs were horrible.

Kena duped into buying so-called original DVDs is bad enough - adding insult to injury, the subtitles are horrendous! Direct chinese-english translation or nonsensical subs.

Truth be told, I've BTed most of my anime nowadays. *strokes 1TB HDD* Instead of paying money for sub-quality bootlegged DVDs, might as well go for FOC high-quality subs.

BTW, I'm sure most of you guys know that alot (well, most) of the anime OSTs being sold are bootleg OSTs ya? I also learned the hard way after buying the 'original' OSTs from Tower Records. Oh well - I'm wiser now

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Added on February 28, 2009, 10:51 pm You can purchase anything for a price in Malaysia. Stickers are just sap sap sui.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Feb 28 2009, 10:51 PM

based on what average malaysian earning IMO it should be ok they buy "original/legal" animes/tv series rather then downloading only

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Added on February 28, 2009, 10:56 pmplus in my case if I realy like an anime/tv series i will do both download and buy it

download-easy to watch, quality better...
buy-at least doing something to support "ori" stuff rather then kepo2 only or bias only certain part like support ori games/software/etc.. while pirating other stuff is ok

This post has been edited by miloy2k: Feb 28 2009, 10:56 PM

I see before people selling those sultan car badge

Got cheated once because of my lack of understanding..
explosive Angel = RM100++
gundam seed = RM79.90
gundam seed destiny = RM100++
dragonball whole season (HK version, cantonese dub) = RM300++ (my dad kena)

you know thw original one was released with japanese labels.. plus it won't have any subs for u to read

zaman jahiliah dulu masa sekolah menengah. Baru tau masa macam mana nak beza bila masuk uni..

original from tbs or fuji tv

I have original shin getter armageddon dvd. Imported.

kalau ko takumi .. aku percaya

That looks like midori no hibi.

It is Midori no Hibi.

Anyway, there's two types of original I guess. One from Japan (no subs) and those with english subs/dubs like Viz Media.

Sometimes it did cross my mind to find a group of anime/manga fans who wants to buy stuff from Amazon and then share the shipping costs together. However, some of the kiasu people complained that they only purchase 1 boxset and shouldn't share equal costs with those who purchase 2-3 boxsets

lol, now only want to make a hoo-haa about pirated disks.... last time some1 tried to do the same thing and tell ppl its not ori but no ppl bothered..

lets be real, most peeps here wont bother shelling out 'proper retail' price for originals, and will never until the gov properly enforces IP laws which is pretty much a never

lol then i don't want to buy anime from malaysia liao lo XD

Actually can buy original from malaysia. I remember a store in Times Square have a small section for the original imports, but i ll tell you, they're not cheap as the bootleg one. Suncomic also can buy ori, search the rack far behind, the price also not cheap. You can also talk to the staff about importing any ori dvd.

Buying anime in Malaysia is a joke. I'd rather buy US-licensed manga and novels and support the original creators.

joke or not, its way better then only downloading and pro-claim support teh ori creator

Hey guys, is it possible to pre-order US licensed manga from Borders or KinoKuniya? There's several titles that Viz Media had already licensed but it's not available on Amazon. Please advice ya.

I don't know if you can pre-order from Kino, but you can contact them and see if this can be done.

rather than buying them at low quality, i prefer the subbed ones

of course, since it is free right?

Thanks for the info

for sure u can order it from them.. we got pre ordered compace directly from japan every months for us there at kino... if u want to buy the original. go there

how about those american dvd with region lock?, it's original but it's not suppose to be view by this part of asian region. even if we use region free lock won't it still means we are watching it illegally?

Technically yes.....but the reason for region lock was supposedly to lock movies sold in "cheaper area" i.e. Asia, SEA from being sold in more "Expensive area" like the USA, Europe. But here we are buying expensive region 1 from USA so I think it helps them more than it impedes them.

Hmm but those are in japanese. I was looking for the english version. You know anyone ordering english translated manga?

manga?
Can easily get english Version from Kinokuniya ar..

ya.. the biggest name of mangas sold there/

Hmm, I checked for the mangaka that I wanted but it's not available. Worst is that I check in Amazon also don't have but I read online that Viz Media already licensed that manga. Maybe it's not translated yet?

lots of manga they only took the license but they never really translated it, they declare all the titles cos they have an exclusive agreement with the company japan manga publisher... they will list the title but it's up to them to translate and sell or not.

well thats one of teh reason why people goes to "on-line" translate manga/novels or local ones like kreko/etc..

price also teh gap is quite huge for local "ori" bm/chinese translate manga compare to "international one"

Deng... No wonder I can't find some of the titles that's been licensed by Viz Media laa. Some already licensed for several years but still can't find it on Amazon. Now want to finish the manga also cannot. (T_T)

Beli cetrom sudey..

Actually... There are original animes here, licensed and authourised, but they are few and sometimes rare and can only be found at either Sp**dy or EzyV*deo (because of licensing problem), mostly...

I'll list some of it that I've found, seen or bought -

Karas: The Prophercy and Karas: Revelation - released by Innoform, region 3. I am a big fan of Karas, I've actually collected all 6 volumes of the Limited 2-disc Edition from Hong kong (by AVP, original japanese transfer), the collector set from US (by Manga) and yeah, a special collector's edition that comes with a Karas figurine (by Innoform, priced around RM 70-80)...

Steamboy and Appleseed - released by Innoform as well.


Appleseed Ex Machina - licensed by Warner, distributed by Alliance Entertainment which is under Spe*dy... Yeah, that Sp**dy...

Final Fantasy Advent Children - licensed by Sony Entertainment, distributed by their local authorized distributor which is Mediamax.

And yeah, Bleach is actually licensed in Malaysia to the one and only Berjaya HVN... It's an 'indirect disctribution' (I think...), not from japan but through a company named Medialink which is located in Hongkong, so don't be surprised if ya find an extra audio track which is cantonese dubbed... I remember seeing old stock of Bleach volume 1 (1 disc - 4 episode) somewhere, and it comes with a insert - a free poster.

Shonen Omnyouji and Keikaishi (by PMP) are both licensed authorized distribution as well. But, they seemed to be lacking the original japanesed audio... Which is ashame...

PS: Best way to spot a local original is focus on company like PMP, Innoform, HVN, Alliance Entertainment, Mediamax and Movie Magic. Finding logos\trademark of the anime production company, original distributor(japan based), licensor and ect are important as well...

Anyway, I am an average joe as well, but I still manage to save some money to get myself original stuff from amazon\rightstuff and ect, well, maybe it's a little slow, but it's better than bootleg or BT, for me atleast...

This post has been edited by thesecond: Mar 3 2009, 06:28 PM

well if it's licensed from hong kong company, don't it means that the hongkong counterpart illegally sell the license that japan company given exclusively to develop in HK, Taiwan and China market?

Not really... Medialink is actually a licensing agency, which is probably given the right to distributed (licensing) the product exclusively in region 3 which include malaysia, singapore, thailand, taiwan and hongkong... China is not included since they are region 6 (not one of us). And yeah, Japan is region 2. This regional system is more or less created by the japanese, so blame them...

And, yeah, medialink won the Best Asian Licensing Agency of the Year awards last year...

This post has been edited by thesecond: Mar 3 2009, 06:52 PM

please provide me link to support and proof that those company you mentioned have legally license those anime for selling purpose

by this I Mean

I mean proof of warner give alliance entertainment right to distribute applespeed
innoform licensed steamboy and appleseed for distribution
mediamax have been asked by sony to sell ff advent children
berjaya hvn have licensed bleach for distribution in malaysia
pmp have license shonen and keikaishi for distribution

any licensing that is happening will instantly become headline and news in many anime news network , finding legimate proof should be easy
if you cant find any IM sorry but those are fake and pirate .

take example on one piece/budak getah:

RM24 for original at kino
RM5.8 for translated at any book stalls

LOL Malay version of One Piece is licensed lar (if you read SBS section in the tankoubon, Oda did mentioned Malaysia as one of the countries that have OP translated in their respective native language), and it's RM 4.30. The original one (I assumed you talked about the japanese version) is RM 24 due to difference in currencies.

BTW, AFAIK, Comics House got license for all of the manga they printed.

Though the "international" one is more exp. at least you will get the uncensored version

actually i was talking about how u can pick either original japanese and translated malay. it's up to you to choose what u want to read

Well, we are actually lacking a 'proper and more official channel' for anime actually, anime are just the 'minority' here and quick to be ignore... And more Malaysia company don't really update their website anyway, and they are always lacking of information... But, there are still other way...

News About Mediamax being the sole distributor for Sony Entertainment locally - from starAll Sony Entertainment releases are distributed by Mediamax, there is no other(mediamax doesn't distributed other products beside Sony Ent's as well)... Appleseed Ex Machina is licensed to Warner in region 1 & 3, not sure about region 2 which is UK.

Mediamax official Site

This About Us page in Speedy's new official site has an article which show that Alliance Entertainment is the sole licensed distributor for Warner locally, Movie Magic for Fox and MGM, again there should be no other...
Click n' Scroll down to near the end to read about Speedy's About US...
Again, Final Fantasy Advent Children is released by Sony Entertainment worldwide, so the only sole distributor here is Alliance Entertainment.

Berjaya HVN is the largest distributor locally and here is the list...
Berjaya HVN's Official Website - product Breach belongs to the other studios here... So again, lack of information...

But, found here is the same release for Bleach I see selling under HVN's license locally, Poh Kim SingaporeBerjaya HVN operate across malaysia and singapore, so it might as well be 'parallel import' since HVN does not own the license for Bleach in Singapore (checked at HVN's singapore site)...

Anyway, this is the page for Innoform Media's Karas item page-
Karas The Prophecy

The PMP entertainment part is to blur due to lack of information (the only certain thing is the E-muse logo on their release - E-muse is a licensing company in taiwan), sorry...

I hope these above are useful though...

One thing is quite certain though, any legitimate distributor doesn't distribute different animes from different company all at a time - point to L*mb*ian F*lm, An*pl*x, V*sc8p* and ect, simply because licensee are expensive and exclusive.

PS: Anyway, I am not doing this to get people to buy 'em, anyone not confident with our distributor here can just try other option like buying online (or continue with their DL), just don't buy too much at a time - something that we've gotten used to with those so called 'ori' anime here - 1-50 end in one whole box inside 2 disc...?!!

wow you really go and search

but anyway sad news is that even if they are licensed to sell sony and whatever title , they still can sell anime illegally bootleg from hk or taiwan , nobody would really care anyway

furthermore , most anime have max of 4 eps per disc and usually cost you arm and leg

well it is up to you to buy or not from those shop but I highly advice people not to . unless you want to suffer with hk eng translate or middle of the show got written this is a free fansub

I am a little surprised how uniformed and naive (and also dumb if you want to put it harsher) the mass is. It really shouldn't take a genius to realize all the "tulen" chopped stuff are just pirated things, most people should be able to observe how large the price gap is between the actual legit stuff you can get online and the stuff you can buy at your local shop. The reason why the pirated things are able to get the tulen sign is because they are legitimate copies from taiwan or china, but they aren't legitimately produced in taiwan or china in the first place, to put it another way it is a legit copy of a pirated product.

And personally I find it worse to buy pirated things than downloading them. By downloading it illegally, the original maker loses money. By paying money for illegal copies, the original maker loses money and the pirates earn money for doing nothing.

So stop and think again before you hop to your local SPEED store thinking of buying a few series or soundtracks next time.

Do vscape have licensed to anime OST? I saw some OST selling at RM15 but with cheap printing..

lol for uncensored one can get online imo should be ok to be collected for those who have the "local-ori" manga

same thing happen to anime in most cases..

buy "local ori" but with censored thinggy but download teh uncensored version for another collection/viewing purposed

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Added on March 3, 2009, 10:37 pmIMO other aspect should also take into consideration, such as average salary that a malaysian earn vs teh price of "ori" items that in international market.

At least they has tried to buy "ori". Btw are j-dorama applicable as well?

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Added on March 3, 2009, 10:44 pmwhich remind me... a cozen of my fren goes to singapore last year, in her bag few "bootleg" anime and some burn anime dvd (download ones) and at teh "kastam/checkup" kena tahan, thank goodness she tell teh officer in-charge that the burn anime is her backup, and they let her pass if not...

This post has been edited by miloy2k: Mar 3 2009, 10:44 PM

Well, in my case I'm looking for Yoshihara Yuki's manga - Since most of her titles are considered smutty (there are several josei titles which are very good), there's no way it's gonna be translated and distributed locally. I really appreciate some of her works and don't mind to fork out the money to buy her manga (as a collection le). There are some mangas worth paying the big moolah for. Damn Viz Media licensing her manga but not translating it. Damn them.

BTW, you guys who bought original translated manga - do they change the japanese names into english names or are the names retained? I hate it when they start giving them english names. If that's the case, I sure as heck won't buy the manga.

As for Speedy selling original anime - I highly doubt it. Maybe selected outlets, I don't know, but most of the Speedy shops sells bootleg anime and same goes for Tower Records (bootleg anime and OSTs).

Heck, I paid RM60+ for a LOTR extended version VCD (ok, so I was in a hurry to watch it and couldn't wait for the DVD) and the quality was so freakin bad that I stomp back to Speedy and demanded a refund. Knew what the idiot told me? "Speedy punya quality memang macam tu le". Bad visual (very blur like pirated cinema version and you can't even read what the subtitles clearly) and bad audio (can barely hear what they're saying). Ever since that incident, I NEVER bought anything from Speedy ever again.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 4 2009, 07:34 AM

Tower Records shut down worldwide years back, the Tower Records here is no longer the same entity, they are just using the name.

I don't really need to search, they have passed my way a long time ago... - I have been buying vcd (and later, dvd) for the last eight years starting from 'ori', fake and bootlegs, I stopped and convert to buying only licensed and authorised stuff nowadays (with an exception of a few 'ori' now and then because of my 'hunger' for some specific anime, but will replace 'em in the future.) So, yeah, I have to walk a long path to reach where I am today - wasting thousands on fakes and bootlegs, I think... Got cheated many times too...

I think people misunderstood how Sp**dy operate, as a whole Sp**dy consist of several businesses including distributor, copyright holder, and 'brick and mortal outlet', and yeah, now, or currently, online merchant. - with an expensive shipping rate for foreigners...

As a distribution company, Sp**dy own two susidiaries - Alliance Entertainment which is the sole licensed distributor for Warner Bros and Warner Bros only. Movie Magic which is the sole licensed distributor for Fox and MGM. They don't sell 'em, they only distribute 'em to shop and their Sp**dy outlets. Any Warner or Fox's title
that is not distribute by 'em is totally not legit except for 'parallel import'.

Sp**dy (Alliance Ent. & Movie Magic) does not made, produce or manufacture their dvds or well vcds (avoid them anyway), the whole content or package is supply by the Warner Bros or Fox - same goes for Hongkong or Taiwan, in this case here Deltamac for both, mostly (equivalent to HVN here -malaysia and singapore)... All region 3 Warner Bros, Fox and MGM dvd release all same for Malaysia, Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan (even Thailand too) - same content, quality, package.

But... One exception is the extra merchandise like the giftset or steelcase - need to pay extra fee for 'em, so it differ from country to country within region 3. Heck, I got the Limited 'batpod' edition of Dark Knight, and yeah, it's the same and 20++ bucks cheaper than getting it from Y*sasi*\Pl*yasi* despite the annoying stickers.

As a copyright holders, Speedy holds broadcast and screening copyrights for tv and cinema, heck, golden screen cinema is actually licensed under them...

As a 'brick and mortar' outlet, Sp**dy sell stuff that are supplied by other supplier as well, supplier like LF, Vsc*p* and ect.

Actual licensed release are always fewer, just a few new titles, some old stocks and less than 0.1%% of animes or even less (Warner, Fox and MGM don't do much anime, or well, probably none for Fox and MGM, but Warner did licensed Ex Machina and they did do Batman: Gotham Knight), and there's a limit imposed (let say, 10,000 for the whole malaysia?) by the licensor to the total amount of dvds to be distribute. And then even after adding in the stuff supplied by other legit distributors like HVN, Innoform, PMP, AOE, Multimedia, they are still really the minority here comparing with the other stuff supplied by other company.

That's the reason why more than 80% of what Sp**dy is selling is just 'ori' with stickers is because stuff supplied by those other company are not authorized - not need to pay licensed fee, no distribution limit imposed, so they can just made more and more and more, without any worry or ect... The problem is the law, the law that is never enforce strict enough locally - Just close one eye lah, no problemo, easier for all...

Anyway, I am not encouraging people to buy at Sp**dy, it's just that next time ya happen to be miraculously inside Sp**dy or any other video shop, go look at the region 3 release and then compare them to other 'ori' - look at the back cover, mostly the mess of stuff below, ya shall see the differences between an authorized release and the so called 'ori'.

And yeah, bad customer service is a common thing here locally anyway, and then there's the 'no refund, change only' rules that doesn't seem to apply elsewhere beside here... The best way to get dvd locally (if ya want to), is to wait, patiently, do your homework, search the announcement for official region 3 release especially Hongkong (our release date is close to them), use HVN's site if it's a Paramount, Touchstone, Buena Vista release (there should a banner for new release especially the popular ones), read about the spec and info if ya can find them and compare them with the region 1.

At the end of all of that, go to the store and find the dvd and then ask 'nice' staff to open and test it - it's your right as a consumer.

PS: Update: This is Innoform.

News about Innoform acquiring Alliance Entertainment Singapore - not to be confuse with Alliance Entertainment Malaysia...

PSS: Although 1 volume of a single original release DVD might just contain 4 episodes and it is a-hell-expensive, one can always wait for the eventual Thinpack especially since US company are starting to put back the same extra nowadays... Waiting for price drop, special offer or going direct to Rightstuf (my anime heaven - by anime fans for anime fans) is a good idea as well.

This post has been edited by thesecond: Mar 4 2009, 12:27 PM

yeah i bought many mangas such as FMA and GTO, they didn't change their original name. It's only on Chinese translated manga

The only way we can afford cheap original anime is when local distribution companies buy the licenses and distribute it for malaysian market. The problem is most likely it will be malay subtitles since majority of people seem to prefer BM as their language. If its english its harder since english usually means region 1 so its hard for them to sell the license at a cheaper region 3 price if your anime will be subtitled in english.

And i'm sure ppl know about the ODEX saga with their crappy translations and VCD-only releases.

chinese translation also got but one thing i didn't like about malay translated manga was on the censorial part lol.. it's too much

Chinese is translated by HK.

And i can't read chinese.

lee can read i guess

Last time out of desperation, I bought chinese translated manga and had to half read manga-half read dictionary ( can only read simple chinese characters ). Imagine that - Fushigi Yuugi vol 1-18.

Malay translated manga likes to censor by putting on 'bodysuits' on naked body, even though the said naked body are only the outer silhouette. At least if there's some shounen-ai-ish or shoujo-ai-ish dialog, they don't change it.

If there's good malay translator, I seriously don't mind to pay for a locally distributed original anime. However, after watching countless shows on Astro/TV, I seriously doubt there's any good japanese-malay translator (since the english-malay ones do only crappy to tolerably translations)

"Sleep tight, cupcake" = Selamat malam, kek manis <-- ( sweet cake... Goodness )

(some friends commenting on bride's gown's length) "...the train looks great!" = keretapi ni nampak bagus!

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 4 2009, 05:32 PM

Not anime, but does toku show count...? - A local company named M. Master holds the exclusive right for Ultraman Nexus from Tsuburaya, they apparently took their master source from the HK Region3 version (japanese audio + cantonese dubbed + chinese subtitle + original HK menu) which would of course be 'cheaper' (in case of copyright and license fees) and 'quicker' to produce.

They add in the malay dubbed audio track (from the one which was broadcasted at TV3), and put malay episode titles to the original menu (no additional subtitles though), then they got Sp**dy to distribute their product under Sp**dy with dvd cover and slipcase printed by Sp**dy (adding the logo). Have no doubt that Sp**dy also provided help during the manufacturing - providing the malay dubbed and factory press - Sp**dy holds the right for the tv broadcast.

And voila, each single volumes of the dvd (1st volume = 5 episodes, 2nd++ volume = 4 episodes, all 13 volumes) are selling for RM 19++ at Sp**dy, or even less in other shop, if ya know where to find 'em.

Each of the volume almost always released a month late following the release of their HK counterpart. So one can assumed that they do follow a contracted schedule.

I bought 'em but stopped after volume 3 because there was a glitches, went to the shop and try to get a change but outcome is still same - conclusion, either the master source they obtain was tainted or not much quality control... They should hired people to view the disc first...

PS: I've bought some of the Odex copies before the Odex Fiasco...

This post has been edited by thesecond: Mar 4 2009, 05:58 PM

Supporting the thread with related pic.

Lol funny pic.

For me, I buy oris for keeping sake. I hunt down those good animes and have them in glorious DVD/Bluray boxset is a great feeling for me. Best part is I still keep the subs too. LOL.

I really lol'd at some of the so called ori subs. Tetsu becomes Iron. Straight translation!

direct translation?

meh if truely ori = no sub XD

ya milo yg ori biasanya tarak sub and direct from japan.. yes u can order it tru the interbut and kino if i wasn't mistaken.

Hello, new Lowyat member here. Great to see true anime fans who want to support the creators. I'd like to do the same, but as everyone knows, quite hard to do in Malaysia. But are there any legitimate anime being sold that aren't imported? Obviously the title of this topic tells me no, but thesecond seems to suggest otherwise. I think a Sticky listing all the truly legitimate releases/distributers would be really useful. Any way to get that information easily? Check the official company's sites for each anime? O.o I'm aware of the "how to spot bootlegs" (or something) topic but I'm looking for official confirmation (for example, listing on the official sites).

According to thesecond:



Those are okay, so does that mean all mediamax, innoform and HVN DVD/VCDs are legitimate? If not, which are legitimate and which are not? I just bought Paprika (VCD) at RM15.90 O.o Too good to be true. It says "pastikan yang asli", "stop piracy" and "hapuskan cetak rompak" on the back >_> Also, I got Advent Children from AnimeTech at RM60 (no indication of who's the distributer). Looks like I have to re-buy from Alliance Entertainment to give Square some money. Waitaminute, special edition (or something) Blu-ray coming out soon, maybe I'll get that Even though I don't have any way to play Blu-rays : ( Maybe I'll buy and download. Yessssssss.

Looks like buying online from official sources is the only way to be sure. Even then, phishing abounds.... sigh.

As for the bump, i thought a new topic would be rather strange since I want to quote thesecond's post. There needs be a stickied topic on this issue!

This post has been edited by rtg: Mar 22 2009, 01:37 AM