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Hey, Answerman! - Simply Cel-ular

I hope Aniplex releases a sanely priced Fate/Zero box over here, like they did with Baccano! Of course we all know that's not gonna happen .

Family Guy has alot of episodes to draw from and rotate around to keep people interested (seeing that many of the episodes are stand alone and don't exactly fall in a set timeline). Whereas FLCL and Cowboy Bebop are too linear and getting in the middle might leave viewers with questions about what happened earlier (For example, how Faye came to know Spike and Jet).

What I am really worried about is that Aniplex may be driving up the cost of their "hardcore" licenses so high that American companies don't even consider them, and then justifying it by making a killing on those expensive sets.

..you should definitely give Mike Toole's article on cel collecting..

There was no reason to sell Garden of Sinners at such an insane price!

Utena
El Hazard
Nadesico, Dirty Pair OVA/Movie/Flash
Trigun, Hellsing, Haibane Renmei, Ai Yori Aoshi, Tenchi Muyo OVA/Universe/Tokyo/Movies, Tehxnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain, Armitage III
FLCL
Project A-Ko, [Adieu] Galaxy Express 999
5 cm/s
Lodoss War OVA/TV

The farthest this spans is to January of last year, so just under two years ago. License rescues still happen, they just aren't happening in the bulk from when Funimation took a big scoop of ADV stuff.

EDIT:
Forgot Girls Bravo.

Weiss_Yohji wrote:

There was no reason to sell Garden of Sinners at such an insane price!

Yes, there was a reason. It is called "Animation enthusiasts pay through the nose".

Seriously, you likey you payee. At whatever price. I will be glad when I have completed college (and have a job) so I can then afford the entertainment I want.

There was no reason to sell Garden of Sinners at such an insane price! Whoever at Aniplex was responsible for that decision should be strung up, shot, drawn, and quartered and their head put on display as a warning to anyone else who dares to try the same bullshit.

One of the Ten Commandments of Anime: Thou shalt not gouge nerds with high prices! We will find thee and punish thee according to the will of Our Lady and Savior, Haruhi Suzumiya!

Why must Aniplex actively push us away? This is like Bandai Visual USA all over again! Selling anime at such a high price is never a good idea, especially during a recession! Who are they to push away the 99%?

Since Aniplex is listed as a Production company for Garden, Zero, and Madoka, do they even have to offer a license price? Can't they just say "no, we'll release it ourselves" to any licensing offers?

if Funimation wanted Garden of Sinners or Fate/Zero, they would've grabbed them already, before Aniplex decided to release them themselves

Anymouse wrote:

Weiss_Yohji wrote: There was no reason to sell Garden of Sinners at such an insane price! Yes, there was a reason. It is called "Animation enthusiasts pay through the nose". Seriously, you likey you payee. At whatever price. I will be glad when I have completed college (and have a job) so I can then afford the entertainment I want.

You can only mark something up so much before people refuse to buy it. There was no excuse for Aniplex to pull that shit. If they do it again, those blood claats will get merked so hard their mothers will be crying and wondering why they didn't sell Garden of Sinners at a proper price!

t is funny that people say they like Japan, but then refuses to pay Japanese prices.

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t is funny that people say they like Japan, but then refuses to pay Japanese prices.

I assume if they had Japanese incomes they would gladly pay Japanese prices.

I mean the whole series is nuts already, watching an episode hear or there probably won't leave a casual viewer any more confused than if they were following episode to episode.

EireformContinent wrote:

Quote: t is funny that people say they like Japan, but then refuses to pay Japanese prices. I assume if they had Japanese incomes they would gladly pay Japanese prices.

or further, if we were working on Japan economic system...I mean seriously do people hear themselves when they say stupid things like that? Because I like to watch Japan's animation, I should have to pay their insane prices? Yeah, sorry maybe if I lived in Japan, but I don't.

It's great that he has standards instead of watching the same ecchi crap that keeps polluting the market these days. (With all that ecchi crap, Osamu Tezuka must be spinning in his grave.)