2012-01-03, 04:34 | Link #22 | |
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Sentai is the hottest player on the market now.
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2012-01-03, 04:37 | Link #23 |
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Time for you guys to start ordering from Australia licenses for some harder to get titles, I guess. Siren Visual just picked up Higurashi Kai, plus they and Madman have numerous other Bandai titles. Or try and find copies on Rightstuf before the US versions disappear.
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2012-01-03, 11:03 | Link #27 | |
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Agreed. I don't like some of the wording choices they used in Angel Beats!, but it's far better than waiting 2+ years for a release like with FUNi. |
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2012-01-03, 13:11 | Link #30 | ||
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So Bandai Ent. USA blames either the evil retailers for their huge returns and/or their evil Japanese owners for shutting them down preemptively and/or evil North American fans who don't want to buy even cheap releases. I personally blame the fans and the industry, who continuosly pressed for lower disc prices. The internet bubble has thought us that you can't make money if the market doesn't pay for your product. Instead, they could have been pushing for higher prices all along, which would create the impression that home video animation is actually a luxury product, which is what Japan has going for them now for decades. Japanese consumers, I'd argue, are in an even worse position to own home media, but lucky for Japan, they have numerous ways to sell anime. The home video industry was also too reliant on the fact that in their beginnings they had less competitors in the entirety of the entertainment field. The result of ignoring this fact are now kids who'd rather watch fan-made Vocaloid videos on Youtube, for free, than support future anime productions with legit purchases. Quote:
All in all, I see this as a good development. Now Japan only needs to create anime that I'd like to own again! |
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2012-01-03, 14:23 | Link #31 |
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Bandai doesn't blame the retailers. People don't buy stuff, it gets returned. (The problem is when it gets returned, it creates a massive accounting problem.) What causes the problem is fans create an artificial and imaginary demand through piracy and never create that demand in the actual market.
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2012-01-03, 14:37 | Link #32 | |
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Going to miss Bandai though, the Bandai/Aniplex reps (as far as I can tell they were representing both) at Sakuracon 2011 managed to give NISA's rep a run for the money in terms of best cosplay by a company rep.
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2012-01-04, 04:46 | Link #34 |
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Considering how poor their release if compared to another company release, I stand with my opinion. This way another company can pick their title, consumer got better product, all happy.(I dunno about their manga release though, but their dvd is just yuck...)
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They had two series I wanted (ToraDora and Pandora Hearts). They butchered the Pandora Hearts video, and if I recall the ToraDora video was messed up at first too (though they eventually fixed it). I don't trust them at all, regardless of how nice their premium sets are compared to everyone else. |
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2012-01-05, 00:16 | Link #36 |
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I will miss Bandai, they always released a better quality of anime than most of the other big houses of the time, and fir the most part had better dubs, but that's just my opinion.
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