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Bandai refunds shipping costs for gurren lagann pre orders

I got home from work with a nice email from Bandai Entertainment stating that they were now going to refund the costs of shipping to anyone who pre ordered BOTH Gurren Lagann movies. This goes for those who used Paypal for their orders also.

There are fresh new listings in the Bandai Store for these Combo Deals, so if anyone was on the fence about ordering the movies this may be the decision maker you've been waiting for.

$79.96 for the combo pack of both limited editions

$47.96 for the combo pack of both regular editions

I'm stoked that's almost $11 off my order.
IT'S GO TIME

Movies to be released in North America in July

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne…

Important points:

-No English dub. Aniplex America is releasing the movies themselves instead of licensing them to anybody, and they don't plan on spending time and money on a dub unless it has a chance for TV broadcasting.

-Limited Editions will come with bonus discs each containing four of the first Parallel Works. It appears this will be the only way to buy the Parallel Works 1 videos on DVD in North America. No word yet on whether Parallel Works 2 will be released eventually.

-They will be sold exclusively on Bandai Entertainment's site.

Sooo kind of a mix of good and bad news? :/ The website has also been updated. More info on the DVDs are here and they're already up for preorder.
Once upon a time...

More info on the Parallel Works 2 DVD

This time from GAINAX's site.

Complete limited pressing will include:
-Bonus CD (has 5 tracks of new music)
-B5 size booklet
-Three-sided box (new illustration by Hiroyuki Imaishi)
-Seven newly drawn "Another Jacket" (new illustrations by each creator)

HELL YEAH I AM SO GETTING THIS

And the titles of each video:
Sushio: "Kittan Zero"
Akemi Hayashi: "The sense of Wonder"
Gekidan Inu Curry: "Ore no xxx ha uchuu hitotsu" (My xxx is best in the universe)
Shouko Nishigaki: "Sayonara Dai-Gurren" (Goodbye Dai-Gurren)
Ayumu Kotake & Shintarou Douge: "BIG BUILDING"
Satoshi Yamaguchi: "Kiyal no Magical Time, Sanpun Mae" (Kiyal's Magical Time, Three Minutes Before)
Shouji Saeki & Shingo Abe: "Gunmen Symphonia"

Omg does this mean Gekidan Inu Curry's video will use that track from the movie? I guess it makes sense since there's only 5 tracks of new music and seven videos, so maybe two of them will use old music. Also is that young Nia holding a butcher knife WTF?

EDIT: Parallel Works 2 official site is now UP!
TFA-Furmanism

DVDs

I watched the entirety of Gurren Lagann on YouTube. After becoming a fan of it, I resolved to buy the actual DVDs one day.

Now I have actually found some in JB Hi-Fi (a store which is the only place I know which sells anime not of the saturday-morning-dub variety). The first one I found was a single case with Simon on the front cover, which had about four or so episodes in it. More recently, I found a later volume, and also, most interestingly, a big box, covered in very pretty artwork, with a DVD marked 'Volume One' and a plastic core drill. I liked the sound of that, but the 'volume one' tag made me a bit wary, as the first DVD I had found was also marked as volume one and only had for episodes. I don't want to have to pay about AU$33 for four episodes and a plastic drill. What exactly is on this DVD?
W00T

Lagann-hen DVD release date has been leaked!

...and it's January 27, 2010!

Source

It's not an official announcement so there's no pictures yet, but it looks like the limited edition will have:

-box illustrated by Nishigori
-digipack illustrated by Yoshinari
-bonus feature DVD with staff interviews and a video of the opening day audience greeting
-staff & cast commentary
-"Otoko-gumi Dayo! Gurren Lagann" drama CD
-pocket edition of the movie pamphlet
-pinup

Plenty of time to save up money for it ahaha.