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Australia, New Zealand, UK. Ireland, Canada, the US, and some Asian countries. I don’t know how many exactly, but I believe it’s between 10 and 20 countries overhall.

As an European the first thing I'm hoping is that Sunrise implication goes further than animation production, and that they could help the inexperienced Big West to make the right choices internationally. Yeah, with a restricted distribution to Asia and English-speaking territories, excluding a bunch of countries where Robotech and Macross were popular in the 80's and 90's, Disney+ was willy-nilly a terrible choice. I mean even in France we'll have a theater release of the new Gundam in March.

They're already struggling to release it in the US and add more subtitle languages, so I don't believe dubbing is a priority. Maybe they'll consider it the day the roll out will be complete.

Well, let's hope 2025 will be the year of a massive roll out around the world. Kindly reminder that within a year, your partnership with Disney+ brought Macross sequels in about 20 countries in 3 languages subs while the service is active in more than 120.

Talk about a failure. About 20 countries got something (high estimation) when Disney+ is active in more than 120. And a deafening silence from both the service and Big West.

"Many countries", yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, Macross stuff is currently available on Disney+ in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Canada and some Asian countries only, with English, Chinese and Korean subtitles. Those who use a VPN may correct me but I don't think there's more languages. Disney+ announced a 2024 worldwide release back in March, and they're active in more than 120 countries. We're still very far from it. They'll have to clarify things sooner or later. For the US, but also the rest of the world on their will to add more languages.

If you mean last in line regarding to English audience, then I totally understand the frustration since the US is the main target in the west. And I bet Big West feel the same. But on a worldwide range, they've only completed English, Chinese and Korean subtitles. That's a big part of the world without anything, wondering if Disney+ is willing to add more languages and so countries regarding the countless translations it needs.

Nothing in Europe too, but there's rumors we won't get it. Too many translations needed I guess. I really hope it's wrong.

Nothing in Europe and Latam. Moreover there are rumors that Disney+ won't stream any Macross in France. Hard to really know what's going on and if some territories will be skipped.

As a French guy, I can answer. Our ultimate edition will include French discs with our old French dub and refresh subs. That's the only difference. The 180-pages artbook will still remain in English. Anyway, Crunchyroll's price is the UK price without the early bid offer. Feel sorry for you guys. IMO that's a bad move since the US are the main target in the west. They should have made a cheapest collector's edition alongside the ultimate one like they're doing for us.

UK only for now, since they didn't specify any other territory.

It's normal you can't find anything, the game won't be released on console outside Japan. Both disc and digital. It will be only available on Steam globally. Here's the official statement :

Bushiroad made a statement. Their first English tweet in months about the game. So basically at the launch date, the game will be only available in Japan on Switch and PS4/5, and globally on Steam. Full Japanese, "other languages" incoming. Well, I bet there will be only English and maybe Korean. Predicable. I guess everybody had a bad feeling about this at the very moment they announced a global release. I can only hope that the global console release was delayed until the English translation is done.

That's a Japanese release with English subs in first place. But coming after the worldwide agreement. Which might discreetly suggest Zero won't get a home video release outside Japan. (Wasn't announced last year among the other releases)

As a French guy, I followed each step of Big West european IP claim since nearly the beginning on the EUIPO website. The worldwide agreement was announced a couple of time after Harmony Gold ultimate appeal. So I believe all of these are related. I'd also say that was Big West initial goal, and probably the only way to gain something in the US market since I heard IP claims are way more difficult there. They had already won in the UK and on the verge of winning in Europe, so it probably gave them enough weight to negotiate. Anyway, I don't believe we'll get more stuff than you, and certainly not the prohibited one. Actually it's quite the opposite, we're not really Big West nor Bandai top priority for anything related to Macross, despite the worldwide labelled toys are avalaible for preorder.