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NEWS: Aniplex USA Adds Valvrave the Liberator, Gurren Lagann TV Anime Series

vinnycthatwhoibe wrote:

Remember the Dragon Ball Z HD remaster Funimation was doing on Blu-Ray? The real one, not the Kai garbage. Each season was at most $30 a pop. That was all remastered, from an original film print, and underwent extensive treatment to obtain optimal picture and sound. You either make back your costs and a profit by selling it to an elite few lottery winners, or you sell it to a much wider audience at a reduced but still profitable price. I'm no expert

No, you clearly aren't, because you're using an example of a demonstrable expensive failure to prove a point about what price points "should" be.

In fact, if Funimation had sunk the amount they did into that DBZ remaster project but only sold it as a severely limited edition that came with some sort of replica Dragonball and a Goku silk shirt, cut the print run down to nearly nothing and then charged out the ass for it, it might not have been the financial boondoggle it turned out to be. Spending wads of cash on a top-notch restoration and then charging next-to-nothing turned out to be a bad business model for the top-selling anime series in American history. Why you're using that as an example in this case is beyond me.

So basically, Aniplex are choosing to alienate the other 9 potential buyers who could give them, at a lower price, the same amount of money the 1 is getting them, or even more?

That makes a lot of sense.

Holy shit, people, we go over this every goddamn thread.

Clearly this is working for AoA. They continue to release anime and they release MORE of it than they used to. Seriously people. STOP BITCHING. It's utterly pointless. This is working for them. They don't want to stop. The collective moaning from a bunch of people is irrelevant in the face of the few who are ponying up the bank to buy these releases.

RyanSaotome wrote:

partysmores wrote: So basically, Aniplex are choosing to alienate the other 9 potential buyers who could give them, at a lower price, the same amount of money the 1 is getting them, or even more? That makes a lot of sense. There will be legal streams to watch for people like you.

But they tore down my legal streams a couple months ago.

All I wanted out of life was to finish Gurren Lagann via Netflix on my Wii...

Holy shit, people, we go over this every goddamn thread.

Clearly this is working for AoA. They continue to release anime and they release MORE of it than they used to. Seriously people. STOP BITCHING. It's utterly pointless. This is working for them. They don't want to stop. The collective moaning from a bunch of people is irrelevant in the face of the few who are ponying up the bank to buy these releases.

Holy shit, people, we go over this every goddamn thread.

Clearly this is working for AoA. They continue to release anime and they release MORE of it than they used to. Seriously people. STOP BITCHING. It's utterly pointless. This is working for them. They don't want to stop. The collective moaning from a bunch of people is irrelevant in the face of the few who are ponying up the bank to buy these releases.

Chagen46 wrote:

Holy shit, people, we go over this every goddamn thread. Clearly this is working for AoA. They continue to release anime and they release MORE of it than they used to. Seriously people. STOP BITCHING. It's utterly pointless. This is working for them. They don't want to stop. The collective moaning from a bunch of people is irrelevant in the face of the few who are ponying up the bank to buy these releases.

Then we persuade the few willing to pony up (aka, complete idiots) to NOT do it. It's not rocket surgery.

"Clearly this is working for AoA."

Is that why Durarara!! bombed?

partysmores wrote:

So basically, Aniplex are choosing to alienate the other 9 potential buyers who could give them, at a lower price, the same amount of money the 1 is getting them, or even more? That makes a lot of sense.

It makes sense if there aren't actually that many people that are going to give them the money at the theoretical lower price.

It was the cheaper release (which was pretty much in line with standard R1 pricing) of Durarara!! that bombed, not the BD import set they released a few years later. I don't think we've heard anything about how that did for them.

Why should people who happily buy these releases listen to people who don't buy anime? Why should those people care what you think?

Why should people who happily buy these releases listen to people who don't buy anime? Why should those people care what you think?

As someone who bought the Fate/Zero release, I just think these people feel they are entitled to their dirt cheap American prices, and they should get used to paying Japanese prices since I fully expect that will become more the norm as time goes on.

Is that why Durarara!! bombed? Of course, if Aniplex were selling overpriced diapers, we'd be hearing a lot more complaints out of you...

RyanSaotome wrote:

Why should people who happily buy these releases listen to people who don't buy anime? Why should those people care what you think? As someone who bought the Fate/Zero release, I just think these people feel they are entitled to their dirt cheap American prices, and they should get used to paying Japanese prices since I fully expect that will become more the norm as time goes on.

You're basically saying, just because you're a complete idiot, everyone else should become one as well - in opposition to my idea of turning complete idiots into people using their brains?

You're essentially supporting anti-intellectualism here. On top of that, you're willingly supporting market elitism. That doesn't fly with a whole lot of people, friend. Not many at all. It's a laughably weak argument on your part that just bolsters my statements.