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NEWS: Bakemonogatari Vol. 4 Blu-ray Sells 48,000 in 1st Week

ESPECIALLY since you can't even get this in the US, without finding a fansub.

Most of us don't speak Japanese, and would therefore still need fansubs, hissatsu.

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote:

Most of us don't speak Japanese, and would therefore still need fansubs, hissatsu.

I realize that, but I was just referring to the claim that you can't get it. I need subs as well for a title like Bakemonogatari, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to be licensed (if ever.) And once I've seen it with subs, I don't really need them for a rewatch.

hissatsu01 wrote:

I realize that, but I was just referring to the claim that you can't get it. I need subs as well for a title like Bakemonogatari, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to be licensed (if ever.) And once I've seen it with subs, I don't really need them for a rewatch.

Seriously? For this show?

Either you can flash memorize 400 lines of dialog an episode or you just like the pretty pictures...

This show lives and dies on clever dialog and flashes of obscure kanji-filled screens for less than a second.

Native Japanese people have issues understand it without pausing and rewinding (or an encyclopedic knowledge of the original novels).

That being said, I think this show will be available in the west one of these days. Might take a year.

It doesn't have to be released on Blu-Ray. Anime fans in North America tend to be choosy with how they spend their money, and DVDs are perfectly fine in terms of audio and video quality. If I were a licensor I would try and release it as a complete boxset and on DVD.

It doesn't have to be released on Blu-Ray. Anime fans in North America tend to be choosy with how they spend their money

DVDs are perfectly fine in terms of audio and video quality. If I were a licensor I would try and release it as a complete boxset and on DVD.

I think if it's not licensed in a year aniplex should put english subs on the inevitable Japanese Blu-ray box set and sell another 1000 copies or so overseas.

But hopefully someone in R1 takes a chance on it.

To me, "done in a rush" means roughly the same as "half-assed". They did not put in the effort to completely animate scenes, possibly due to time/budget constraints... which is forgivable the first time, but when pretty much every show by the studio has the same quality problems, I think it goes beyond poor planning and into the realm of "screw it, let's just put together whatever we can as cheaply as possible and try to sell it".

You lost me there. I'm not buying any DVDs when a non-upscaled Blu-ray release already exists.

What I'm arguing about is that there's no point selling this on Blu-Ray as foreigners won't buy it in the numbers necessary. And I might be wrong, but I think a loss on an unsold Blu-Ray DVD is higher than on an unsold normal DVD.

Any chance you wanna take your head out of your ass and wake up and smell SHAFT's marketing ploy (release unfinished episode, shell out the dvds with finished episodes and new animation and extras) then I'll take your word for it :roll: