Upon the release of Advent Children Complete in North America, many fans were surprised, and disappointed when they discovered that the old theme “Calling” by Kyosuke Himuro was played during the end credits, instead of the new theme “Safe & Sound” created specifically for Advent Children Complete by Gerard Way & Kyosuke Himuro. The iTunes release of the single was also limited to Japan only, and has not yet been released outside the region. This was especially odd, given the fact that both artists live and met in LA, California, in addition to the fact that Gerard Way’s fanbase is fairly large in the United States, and seemingly could have assisted sales.
With the recent release of Advent Children Complete in Europe, it has been confirmed that the EU version doesn’t contain the new theme song either. This makes the Japanese Region the only version of Advent Children Complete that had the new theme during the end credits.
This is especially odd, with Gerard Way recently performing “Desolation Row” for the end credits of the internationally released film Watchmen, and Kyosuke Himuro’s original ending theme appearing in the film, it’s unlikely, though possible that a licensing conflict prevented the song from being used. Either way, at this point there’s been no announcements from S-E regarding the changes, or if there will be any non Japan Region releases with the song.
The big red “X” over the picture made me LOL. It surprised the shit out of me when I loaded this page, too.
Sucks how we didn’t get this song. Makes me all the more happier that I got the Japanese version of ACC instead.
I’m also glad that I got the Japanese release, though I wish it had the damn English subs, cause I vastly prefer the Japanese VA cast. I don’t wanna get the NA region version unless the put out a fixxxed special edition or something.
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I’ve seen AC and ACC so much, I really don’t need subtitles anymore to actually tell what’s going on. XD
But I guess that’d pose a problem for those who want to show it to other people.
I’m the same way & taking 3 years of Japanese back in High School helps too. I like people to see the original voices though, and it sucks only being able to show them the NA voice cast.
Lol, even with the European DVD, I never actually used the subtitles when watching the movie in Japanese xD
I’m with you there. And, (okay I know this is asking a lot but it would be so cool), they should make it 3-D. Having Yazoo flying at you with that crazed look in his eye would look awesome.
It has the be a licensing problem. I don’t see the logic in not using this song in addition to Gerard Way’s popularity to boost sales. It has to be some botched contract somewhere with some greedy record exec looming over the situation with greedy eyes and fat fingers, just waiting to cry injustice so that he can make an extra $20 mil to cover his trophy wife’s plastic surgery.
This is an outrage! How hard can it be to simply take the English dubbing from the Japanese version, add subtitles and sell it in NA? I demand they fix it!
just another way to BS everyone else. they shouldve added the song to the US/EU versions.
Shit sucks! And it’s totally lame. >=/
Although I think it’s still more outrageous that most of the movie is just upscaled instead of being true HD.
Why didn’t we write an article about that? =/
We’ve mentioned that a little bit in some of the original reviews.
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Reviews? What reviews? O.o
Changes of ACC & such. It was widely discussed in the forums.
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That totally sucks!
At least I have the song on my iPod. <3
What the hell? This sucks :[
This is my fave song ever… ><
Man, why oh why the hell is this song not on the US release?! Whatever. Now I will be importing the Japanese version even though I still do not have a Bluray disc player and sold my PS3. This song really speaks to me, though. Honestly.
I screamed when I realised it was Calling. I was not a happy bunny >:( Stupid Stupid stupid English version!!