Anime
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Table of contents
- List of licensed anime in the Netherlands
- List of shops selling anime
- Anime series I’ve got
- My anime top list
List of licensed anime in the Netherlands
This is a list of the anime series which are licensed in the Netherlands, as far as I know. I have marked the ones I own on DVD with a ✔ tick…
| ✔ | Have this anime |
| ◐ | Have this anime, partially |
| This colour is for announced titles | |
| This colour is for announced titles, coming soon | |
| This colour is for cancelled titles | |
| Title | Licensee | Have | Release | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3 Eyes | Kaze | |||
| Aika | Dybex / Beez | ◐ | ||
| Ah! My Goddess OVA | Kaze | ✔ | Special Limited Box (2-disc) (a review) | |
| Akira | Afilm | ✔ | ||
| Alien 9 | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Angel Cop | Afilm | |||
| Angelic Layer | Kaze | |||
| Appleseed | Afilm | ✔ | ||
| Arc the Lad | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Argento Soma | Kaze | |||
| Armageddon | Afilm | |||
| Azumanga Daioh | Kaze | |||
| Battle Angel Alita | Afilm | a.k.a. Gunnm | ||
| Bio Hunter | Afilm | |||
| Blood: The Last Vampire | Afilm | |||
| Blue Submarine no. 6 | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Boogiepop Phantom | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Brain Powered | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Captain Harlock Endless Odyssey | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Chobits | Kaze | |||
| Cowboy Bebop | Dybex / Columbia Tristar | ✔ | ||
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | Columbia Tristar | |||
| Cyborg 009 | Columbia Tristar | Announced | ||
| Dai-Guard | Dybex | |||
| Demon City Shinjuki | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Deep Sea | Afilm | |||
| Daft Punk - Interstella 5555 | EMI | ✔ | ||
| Digimon | Bridge Entertainment | |||
| DNA Sights - Fire Force 999.9 | Dybex | |||
| Dominion Tank Police | Afilm | |||
| Dragonball Z | Bridge Entertainment | |||
| Excel Saga | Dybex | Soon | ||
| Earth Girl Arjuna | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Eat-Man | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Eat-Man ’98 | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Elementalors | Dybex | Announced | ||
| FLCL | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Full Metal Alchemist | Dybex | Cancelled | ||
| G-taste | Kaze | Hentai | ||
| Geisters | Pallas Entertainment | It’s Korean, actually | ||
| Generator Gawl | Dybex | |||
| Genmukan 1&2 | Kaze | Hentai | ||
| Genshiken | Kaze | |||
| Get Backers | Kaze | |||
| Ghost in the Shell | Afilm | ✔ | ||
| Giant Robo | Afilm | |||
| Golden Boy | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Golgo 13 | Afilm | |||
| Gravitation | Kaze | |||
| Great Teacher Onizuka (G.T.O.) | Kaze | |||
| Gundam Mobile Suit Films | Nekotachi | 2005 | ||
| Gundam Seed | Nekotachi | 2005 | ||
| Gundam Wing | Bridge Entertainment | This release was not completed. | ||
| Gunslinger Girl | Kaze | |||
| Guyver | Afilm | Afilm never finished this series, only published half of it. | ||
| .hack//SIGN | Nekotachi | |||
| Haibane Renmei | Dybex | ✔ | Box | |
| Haikama Sadamitsu | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Hand Maid May | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Hellsing | Dybex | |||
| Hunter X Hunter | Dybex | |||
| Hunter X Hunter Greed Island | Dybex | |||
| Humanoid Kikaider | Dybex | Announced | ||
| I Wish You Were Here | Dybex | Announced | ||
| I’ll CKBC | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Kacho Ohji | Dybex | a.k.a. Black Heaven | ||
| Le Portrait de Petite Cosette | Kaze | |||
| L/R - Licensed by Royal | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro | Afilm | ✔ | ||
| Macross Plus | Afilm | |||
| Magic Knight Rayearth | Kaze | |||
| Maetel Legend | Dybex | Announced | OVA | |
| Maetel Space Symphony | Kaze | TV | ||
| Mahoromatic | Kaze | |||
| Memories | Columbia Tristar | |||
| Metropolis | Columbia Tristar | |||
| Mermaids Forest | Kaze | Rumiko Takahashi’s | ||
| Nadesico Movie - Prince of Darkness | Dybex | |||
| Najica Blitz Tactics | Dybex | |||
| Nanako | Dybex | |||
| Natural 2 Duo | Kaze | Hentai | ||
| Neoranga | Dybex | Announced | ||
| New Dominion Tank Police | Afilm | |||
| Ninja Resurrection | Kaze | a.k.a. Makkai Tenshou | ||
| Ninja Scroll | Afilm | |||
| Ninja Scroll TV | Afilm | Box | ||
| Noir | Dybex | |||
| Otaku no Video | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Overman King Gainer | Kaze | |||
| Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat | Kaze | |||
| Paranoia Agent | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Patlabor 1 Movie | Afilm | |||
| Patlabor 2 Movie | Afilm | |||
| Petshop of Horrors | Dybex | |||
| Planetes | Nekotachi | |||
| Please Teacher! | Dybex | ◐ | a.k.a. Onegai Teacher | |
| Pokemon TV | Arcade Video | |||
| Pretear | Dybex | |||
| Queen Emeraldas | Dybex | |||
| RahXephon | Dybex | |||
| Read Or Die (R.O.D) | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Roujin Z | Afilm | |||
| Rumiko Takahashi Anthologie | Kaze | |||
| Rurouni Kenshin TV | Dybex | Up till episode 70 | ||
| Rurouni Kenshin OVA1 | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Rurouni Kenshin OVA2 | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Rurouni Kenshin Movie | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Saiyuki Requiem | Kaze | Bonus DVD w/ making of, 4 ex-libris and 32-page booklet | ||
| Sakigake! Cromartie Highschool | Kaze | French title: Le bahut des tordus | ||
| Sakura Mail | Dybex | ✔ | a.k.a. Sakura Diaries | |
| Sakura Wars the Movie | Dybex | Soon | ||
| Samurai Champloo | Dybex | Announced | ||
| s-CRY-ed | Nekotachi | ✔ | ||
| Serial Experiments Lain | Dybex | |||
| Shura no Toki | Kaze | French title: L'ère des Shura | ||
| Soultaker | Dybex | |||
| Space Adventure Cobra | Afilm (?) | |||
| Spirited Away | Paradiso | ✔ | ||
| Spriggan | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Steamboy | Columbia Tristar | March 18, 2005 | ||
| Strange Dawn | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Stratos 4 | Nekotachi | ✔ | ||
| Street Fighter Alpha | Afilm | |||
| Street Fighter II | Afilm (?) | |||
| Street Fighter II V | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Tekken | Dybex | |||
| Tenchi Muyo In Love 2 Movie | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Tenjou Tenge | Kaze | |||
| Texhnolyze | Dybex | Soon | ||
| The Big O | Dybex | |||
| The Cat Returns | Movie Affairs | ✔ | ||
| Tokyo Godfathers | Columbia Tristar | |||
| Trigun | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Twilight of the Dark Master | Afilm | |||
| Urotsukidoji | Afilm | |||
| Vampire Hunter | Dybex | Announced | a.k.a. Night Warriors | |
| Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust | Afilm | |||
| Vampire Princess Miyu OVA | Afilm | ✔ | ||
| Vision of Escaflowne | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Wave of Rage | Afilm | |||
| Weathering Continent | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Wicked City | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Wild Arms TV | Dybex | Announced | ||
| Wings of Honneamise | Afilm | |||
| Witch Hunter Robin | Nekotachi | ✔ | 2005 | |
| Wolf’s Rain | Nekotachi | ✔ | ||
| You’re Under Arrest - The Movie | Dybex | ✔ | ||
| Yu-Gi-Oh | Indies Home Entertainment |
Publishers
- Dybex
- Website: http://www.dybex.com/
Distribution: Filmfreak - Nekotachi Entertainment
- Website: http://www.nte.be/
- Kaze
- Website: http://www.kaze.fr/
- Afilm
- Website: http://www.mangadvd.nl/
- Columbia Tristar
- Note: as of september 2004, Columbia Tristar publishes under the label ‘Anime Essentials’.
List of shops selling anime
| Name / website | Location | Anime | Manga | Merchandise | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD Valley | Amsterdam, Utrecht, Haarlem, webshop | ✔ | |||
| Next Level | Amersfoort, Arnhem, Hilversum, webshop | ✔ | The webshop doesn’t sell anime, the Hilversum shop does, don’t know about the other two (if you happen to know, email me). | ||
| Piet Snot | Utrecht | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Blunder | Utrecht | ✔ | |||
| Fame | Amsterdam | ✔ | |||
| Boudisque | Amsterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen | ✔ | Only has US import (with a few exceptions). | ||
| Gizmoxia | Gent (Belgium), webshop | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Archonia.com | webshop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
If you have additions to this list, you can send me an email.
Anime series I’ve got
I have got a fair amount of anime, both on DVDs and as fansubs. For the fansubs, since a while I have been maintaining a list on AniDB. This list is however not complete yet, I still have to index a fair lot of my burned series.
If you want to borrow something, and if I know you, feel free to ask. Note that I will not borrow or copy fansubs of anime which are licensed in the Netherlands (see the licenses list below).
On DVD, I have the anime series marked with a ✔ in the Dutch licenses list above. In addition to that I have the following anime series from non-Dutch origins on DVD:
| Title | Origin | Distributor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | Japan | Ghibli | |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Japan | Ghibli | |
| My Neighbour Totoro | Japan | Ghibli | |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Japan | Ghibli | Special edition with étui and figurine |
| Only Yesterday | Japan | Ghibli | |
| Spirited Away | Japan | Ghibli | |
| The Cat Returns | Japan | Ghibli | |
| Whisper of the Heart | Japan | Ghibli | |
| Grave of the Fireflies | UK | Optimum Asia | |
| Nadesico | Australia | MadMan | |
| Gunsmith Cats | Australia | MadMan | |
| Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 | Australia | MadMan | |
| Bubblegum Crisis | UK | MVM | |
| Ah! My Goddess OVA | UK | MVM | NTSC (?!), quality is so-so… |
| Ah! My Goddess the Movie | UK | MVM | |
| Fruits Basket | UK | MVM | |
| You’re Under Arrest OVA | UK | MVM | English language version >_< |
| Urusei Yatsura movies 1, 3-6 | UK | AnimEigo | I wonder why they never released UY movie 2… |
| New Gall Force | UK | Manga | |
| Plastic Little | UK | Kiseki | Combo with Black Magic M-66 |
| Black Magic M-66 | UK | Kiseki | Combo with Plastic Little |
| Cardcaptors the Movie | UK | Contender | English language version |
| Dragon Half | USA | ADV | Region 1 |
| Ys - Book One | USA | Anime Works | Region 1 |
| Ys - Book Two | USA | Anime Works | Region 1 |
| Ys II - Castle in the Heavens | USA | Anime Works | Region 1 |
| Salamander | Bootleg… | ||
| Love Hina TV | Bootleg… | ||
| Love Hina Spring Special | Bootleg… | ||
| Love Hina Christmas Special | Bootleg… | ||
| Love Hina Final Selection & Love Live Hina in 東京Bay N.K. | Bootleg… Recap and concert in Tokyo |
My anime top list
Note that this list can be both outdated and inaccurate, and may change drastically over time. Basically you shouldn’t really see it strictly as a ‘top list’ as such (it is just too difficult to make such a list accurately :)), but more something like anime I liked and would recommend, with the best ones on top.
- Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (Kare Kano)
- Mahoromatic
- Maison Ikkoku
- Kimagure Orange Road
- Video Girl Ai
- Ranma ½
- Ah! My Goddess
- I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
- Azumanga Daioh
- Eureka 7
- Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
- Read or Die
- Love Hina
Other worthwhile series to watch:
- Last Exile
- Photon
- Midori no Hibi
- DearS
- Chobits
- Ai Yori Aoshi
Candidates, when I am done watching them:
- Tenshi na Konamaiki
- School Rumble
- Mai-HiME
- Ah! My Goddess TV