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Kisa
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Location: England
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| No these episodes are sub only. |
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Veoryn87
Joined: 14 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:29 pm |
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| mufurc wrote: | | So, aside from being US only - are they dub only, too? Because if there's no sub option I wouldn't use it even if it was available in my country. |
These are Bandai Visual anime. There are no dubs. |
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ikillchicken
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Location: Vancouver - Go Canucks Go!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:39 pm |
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| Quote: | | free of charge, for a limited time, and to viewers in the United States and Canada only. |
Thank you!!!
I'm glad to see somebody include Canada. I get why it's tricky to make it available to people in non-R1 areas. However, I never saw any reason other similar services couldn't be made available in Canada. So yeah, thank you Bandai Visual for thinking of your customers to the North. |
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BluMeino
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Yeah, the stream is a good idea. But come on people, are you REALLY going to spend $270 on a single mediocre show when our economy is spiraling into hell? If you answer yes, then I applaud you on trying to help Japan's economy, not ours. |
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daedelus
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:07 am |
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| BluMeino wrote: | | Yeah, the stream is a good idea. But come on people, are you REALLY going to spend $270 on a single mediocre show when our economy is spiraling into hell? If you answer yes, then I applaud you on trying to help Japan's economy, not ours. |
Wait, we are talking about Bandai Visual USA, aren't we? Besides, you must realize that when we buy any anime, some portion of what we pay does wind up in Japanese coffers.
Anyway, I do hope they support Mac OS X. Maybe I will go to their site and politely ask them to support it. Couldn't hurt. |
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Conan-san
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:19 am |
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| daedelus wrote: | | BluMeino wrote: | | Yeah, the stream is a good idea. But come on people, are you REALLY going to spend $270 on a single mediocre show when our economy is spiraling into hell? If you answer yes, then I applaud you on trying to help Japan's economy, not ours. |
Wait, we are talking about Bandai Visual USA, aren't we? Besides, you must realize that when we buy any anime, some portion of what we pay does wind up in Japanese coffers.
Anyway, I do hope they support Mac OS X. Maybe I will go to their site and politely ask them to support it. Couldn't hurt. |
I belive he meens moreso |
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CCSYueh
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
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Location: San Diego, CA
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:21 pm |
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| BluMeino wrote: | | Yeah, the stream is a good idea. But come on people, are you REALLY going to spend $270 on a single mediocre show when our economy is spiraling into hell? If you answer yes, then I applaud you on trying to help Japan's economy, not ours. |
$270?
On Haruka?
You be ripped off.
I'm looking at $165 for 9 dvds, although I still have to order the last 2. I have ordered the first 7 for $18-$19 each.
Your mediocre is my shojo harem fetish.
You can have Eva & Gunbuster, whatnot, not to mention the endless shonen harem titles, moe & the ilk.
Don't we gals deserve our fanservice titles?
I realize most guys take it for granted that the world revolves around their tastes, but is it really too much for you to allow us a certain amount of eye candy? |
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BluMeino
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| That's all fine and dandy, but even $165 is outrageous for 26 episodes. Enjoy your 100% mark-up anime. |
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CCSYueh
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
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Location: San Diego, CA
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:09 pm |
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| BluMeino wrote: | | That's all fine and dandy, but even $165 is outrageous for 26 episodes. Enjoy your 100% mark-up anime. |
On what?
Someone else offering the licensed version of this title for $80 here in the States?
This title aired in Japan in 2004.
No one has bothered to bring it over in the last 4 yrs. You have some sort of inside information to indicate one of the remaining players planned to bring it over before BV jumped up to the plate & offered it?
From where I'm sitting no licensed version means no licensed version. That means I don't see it because my morality views downloading as stealing.
Why can you not understand this concept?
No one else has considered Haruka worth the effort, yet it is a title I want to see. Had BV not offered it in their pricing range, I would have to assume no one else had plans to ever offer Haruka in the United States.
That means no mark-up of any kind.
That means no anime
BV is bringing over a title no one else licensed.
That means their price is the only price.
Since no other licensee has bothered with Haruka, I have to view it as a "rare" import like the lps rock bands used to make for foreign markets & never made for the US market. I paid more for those.
Just as I've paid as much as $50 for cd sets from Japan because I figure no one is going to bother bringing over character song collections from titles that have never been licensed in the US like Angelique or Meine Liebe, it seems at this point Haruka (I bought that character cd, also) wasn't going to catch any licensee's eye.
I also don't see Demon Prince Enma as a title anyone would have bothered with. It's not a huge gore-fest like Hellsing. It doesn't have tons of gratuitous nudity or sex like Gantz. Go Nagai has his fans, but we don't seem that plentiful here in the States.
I've seen comments on the net SRW would never be licensed
BV did & I'm grateful. |
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:58 am |
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CCS: | Quote: | | Don't we gals deserve our fanservice titles? |
I'd imagine most chicks would just opt to save money with a Playgirl and a vibrator. 
| Quote: | | You have some sort of inside information to indicate one of the remaining players planned to bring it over before BV jumped up to the plate & offered it? |
No, but I'm not sure why you think BV is doing fans who would probably just read the manga a favor.
| Quote: | | No one else has considered Haruka worth the effort, |
You don't know that any more than we know whether someone else planned to license it first.
| Quote: | | Had BV not offered it in their pricing range, I would have to assume no one else had plans to ever offer Haruka in the United States. |
BV's pricing range is due to their lack of experience in a competitive environment.
| Quote: | | BV is bringing over a title no one else licensed. |
That's because BV got to it first.
| Quote: | | Since no other licensee has bothered with Haruka, I have to view it as a "rare" import like the lps rock bands used to make for foreign markets & never made for the US market. I paid more for those. |
That's a dumb analogy, since import music only cost slightly more than the stuff released here. In addition, Haruka is not an some obscure production only meant to break in to a particular market, but a whole franchise in itself.
| Quote: | | Just as I've paid as much as $50 for cd sets from Japan because I figure no one is going to bother bringing over character song collections from titles that have never been licensed in the US like Angelique or Meine Liebe, |
But even the artists behind those types of songs realize that, if they want to break in here, they have to sell their material at the market value. And those kinds of albums tends to be niche, even in Japan.
| Quote: | | I also don't see Demon Prince Enma as a title anyone would have bothered with. It's not a huge gore-fest like Hellsing. It doesn't have tons of gratuitous nudity or sex like Gantz. |
So the logic would suggest that, since it doesn't have a hook like the other two, it should be cheaper, not more expensive.
| Quote: | | Go Nagai has his fans, but we don't seem that plentiful here in the States. |
But I'm not sure how helpful it is to him, if two of his OVAs cost more than the competition. |
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Psycho 101
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Location: In the Grumpmobile with Grumpyman fighting crime one pot of coffee at a time.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:13 am |
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| BluMeino wrote: | | That's all fine and dandy, but even $165 is outrageous for 26 episodes. Enjoy your 100% mark-up anime. |
Is saying "enjoy paying more" all you can say? Considering this iw aht the Japanese pay pretty much this isn't a mark up. Compared to what they pay all of ours is in essence discounted to begin with. Plus at least BV USA is trying something new. At least they're trying to provide their product on new formats. Why don't you applaud that fact and cut them a break for crying out loud. I'm so sorry the episodes aren't simply $1 for you. |
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Xanas
Joined: 27 Aug 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:21 pm |
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The japanese are getting more value out of the episodes because they are originally made for them and they are in their native language, however. There is not added value, but lost value, to episodes released here without a solid dub. That, in tandem with the entirely different market, is what makes it a bad deal.
That being said, if they aren't going to get many buyers, I can understand why they do it. Those crazy licensing fees probably don't go down much even for titles like this.
| kokuryu wrote: | | For those of you ranting about how they should or shouldnt and what they should be showing - go to the dot anime website, register, and then leave a message for the the president |
I joined to leave a few comments on 2 of the blogs (notes 9 and 12), is this what you were referring ot by "leave a message"? |
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tempest
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Joined: 29 Dec 2001
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Location: Montreal
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:52 pm |
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| BluMeino wrote: | | Yeah, the stream is a good idea. But come on people, are you REALLY going to spend $270 on a single mediocre show when our economy is spiraling into hell? If you answer yes, then I applaud you on trying to help Japan's economy, not ours. |
Buying R1 DVDs does help the US economy. While the parent company is in Japan, the DVDs are being produced in the USA, require a USA sales force, go through USA retail outlets, etc...
Obviously you aren't helping as much as if you spend $270 on DVDs containing North American animation.
Likewise, by visiting this site you're helping Canada's economy as well as the USA's. While ANN employees a large number of American residents/citizens, it is a Canadian company.
If you have a problem with helping foreign markets, you really shouldn't be watching anime. You also shouldn't watch / read Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit; you shouldn't buy a foreign car, and you should get rid of all those foreign electronics you own.
As for the actual price ($275), it's off topic for this thread. Please stop complaining about the price of R1 anime DVDs in every single thread you post in.
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