Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
References: <01GSR28K28LU90N7XD@delphi.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:49:50 GMT
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In article <01GSR28K28LU90N7XD@delphi.com> MAXSTERLING@delphi.com writes:
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>>Kevin Winkler
>>A.D. Vision Representitive
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>It's great to have a representative of A.D. Visions on the 'net so we can
>have a link to them.
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>I was very pleased and very surprised to see Devil Hunter Yohko in U.S.
>video release. Pleased, because it's a very good anime, and surprised
>because I didn't think anyone would be brave enough to release anything with
>this much overtly sexual content. After hearing about the Minna Aga Chau
>controversy of a couple years back, I thought all subbing companies would be
>afraid to release anything too racy. I am pleased to see that A.D. Visions
>is brave enough to licence this video. I am wondering if there is a certain
>philosophy behind A.D. Visions with regard to releasing titles with the
>kind of overtly sexual nature found in this video. As I haven't seen the
>packaging, I'm also wondering what kind of warnings are on it. I'd hate to
>see an unsuspecting mother rent it for her kids and then get all upset
>when she saw that it wasn't appropriate for the little tots.
> Misunderstandings like that could give all anime a black eye.
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Well, Thank you for your comments. Well, Devil Hunter Yohko was
pretty much the choice for our first release. It sorta had a little bit of
everything in it. It had girls, it had action, it had a nice sword fight
scene, it had slapstick comedy. Also, lets face it, it has some kinky stuff
in it.
Well, we premeried it in Dallas over the Thanksgiving weekend, and it
went over well. The thing is, however, we had an edited screener copy
when we ran it in the dealer's room. USMC, made the mistake of running
"I Give my all", which is a lot more risque than our feature, in it's
entirety, with the press running around. It played it safe. Peoplecould see Yohko in it's entirety in the Anime Room that was at the convention. Besides,
we didn't want to make an apperance on CNN, which was there at the time.
We have put a warning on the video itself, warning of nudity, sexually
explicite sceens and violence. Hopefully, a mother can read these things.
We are trying to keep from doing what USMC did at Animcon.