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Looks like the Japanese BDs have English subtitles.  (& French & Chinese ones).  Wonder what that means for an R1 license?

A site called "Can you Moe?" seems to be tracking all the Japanese-release BDs with English dubs or subs.  Not too many yet, but I wonder if some folks are making a bid for the R1 market at R2 prices...

I've got a few imported BDs (more concert videos than anime), but serious collecting would be an expensive proposition.

2 The download isn't finished yet, so I can't confirm that. But if it's true, I might buy this one.

3 The Amazon Japan listing for the limited edition confirms that: 「Blu-rayのみ英語、仏語、中国語(簡体字)本編字幕あり」,  or  "Blu-ray only has English, French, and Chinese (Simplified) subtitles". Also a soundtrack CD, etc. Subtitle details aren't up for the later volumes yet, but presumably they're the same.

-j

4 Given that the Japanese Nanoha 1st Movie release also had English subtitles, I'm just wondering if maybe Seven Arcs hired an English speaker within the last year.

Actually, I had been hoping that my copy might have turned up today, but alas, t'was not to be. The English subs are there, though, and apparently perfectly legible, though I gather they've subbed the protagonists name as "Sink".

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That's right. (I thought it was supposed to be "Cinque".) And the world (?) is named "Flonyald".

And yeah, the rip does include the English subtitles on the three episodes. The extras don't have, but they're just clips from each of the three episodes. They aren't real omake.

6 One of the hallmarks of the native Japanese speaker using romaji is extreme difficulty with placing compound consonant syllables like "sh" (or "ts" in front of a vowel, which is more understandable since English really doesn't do "tsu" natively.)

And one of the pitfalls of enjoying R2 subs is the fact that it's unlikely the Japanese company has someone to tell them "hey, that is not how it sounds to an American". Not that they listen even when they do have someone to tell them, to be sure...