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NEWS: Aniplex Confirms U.S. Release of Fate/Zero BD Boxes

My bad, very sorry. =)

If people really cared about supporting the anime industry, they'd be more willing to buy these kinds of releases.

RyanSaotome wrote:

If people really cared about supporting the anime industry, they'd be more willing to buy these kinds of releases. The reason that the anime industry doesn't care about America is because they STILL don't buy up anime even at dirt cheap prices. If you offered someone something for 1/10th the price and they still don't buy it, I'm sure you'd also get fed up and not want to cater to them. But if Americans start to buy this, it'll start to show Japan that even we can be a viable market, and they'd start making more anime aimed at us as well and not just Japan. Of course, people here will just be like "WHAT MORE THAN 50 DOLLARS, NO WAY" and then go onto complain about all the moe and ecchi these days.

Funimation sells high quality anime, with a dub (usually pretty good) for a fraction of the cost. It cost me about 150 dollars to buy all of FMA: Brotherhood tv series (64 episodes) on Bluray, it would cost me about 360 dollars to buy 13 episodes bluray subtitled only with a bunch of extras that would cost maybe 50 dollars. 80 dollars would be the amount that I would be willing to pay for that.

I see Aniplex's plan leading to a dead end, instead of helping to influence change, all your doing is supporting what the Japanese want. In the aniplex business plan you're never going to see something like Hellsing or Cowboy Bebop.

To all the people who responded to what I said about wanting to support the industry:

What I'm talking about is that as it is right now, the amount of money the industry makes from North America is a fraction of what they make from Japan. Why would studios care about making anime that America likes if they aren't making money from them? Buying 40 dollar box sets from Funimation or whatever does nothing in the long run since most of the profits go to Funimation, not the actual studios, and you'd need to sell 10 of them to make up the sales of 1 full series being sold in Japan.

As long as people aren't willing to pay what the Japanese pay, they can never expect to get any kind of preferential treatment when it comes to anime being made or released here. If people started to buy these more often, we'd get more BD releases in timely fashion, and get more of the goodies that come with the BDs and not just the bare bone sets we get now.

And yes, I understand its expensive and most people can't afford it. But if you aren't supporting the industry, you really can't complain about the direction it is going or the kind of anime that is popular.

I see Aniplex's plan leading to a dead end, instead of helping to influence change, all your doing is supporting what the Japanese want. In the aniplex business plan you're never going to see something like Hellsing or Cowboy Bebop.

fireaxe wrote:

My bad, very sorry. =)

No worries.

$369.98 and no dub... good luck with that, Aniplex. I hope this will get a proper American release with a dub and realistic pricing.

Is anyone going to fork out for this?

@RyanSaotome - I doubt anime creators would take non-Japanese opinion into account even if more non-Japanese buyers imported directly from Japan. Anime is a Japanese product created for Japanese viewers. That there is an audience of non-Japanese viewers around the world is incidental to the creators, except perhaps as a source of national pride.

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And yes, I understand its expensive and most people can't afford it. But if you aren't supporting the industry, you really can't complain about the direction it is going or the kind of anime that is popular.

neocloud9 wrote:

I wish they'd release stuff on DVD. Even if I could afford the high prices, I don't own a blu-ray player so... :?

Oreimo, the Gurren Lagann movies, Blue Exorcist, Madoka Magica, Durarara!!, and Star Driver would all like to have a word with you.

If they can afford to do a multi-tiered BD/DVD Regular and Limited Edition release for Madoka surely they should be able to do it for something just as big/a quality show that should have done quite well like Fate/Zero.

I'd honestly be glad to pay that price...for the whole thing. Having to spend $740 for both cours of a SINGLE series is just awful. Here I thought they'd finally done something right with Madoka, and then we get THIS? I was pissed about having to buy Oreimo on DVD, leaning toward pure boycott now.

And yet it is because this glorified psuedo import cockblocks any of the R1s from paying good money to license this show for everyone who doesn't want to "import"[...]

Excuse me, what "broader market release" two years later, I certainly haven't seen nor heard squat about any other Garden of Sinners release for example or any plans for one.

You'd have a point if Aniplex USA showed ANY sign of having ANY intention of the import-style release first, regular release a year later model, which they have absolutely not done which would probably please just about everyone.

With their current model you either buy the $500 import immediately day one or you can never buy it.

What I'm talking about is that as it is right now, the amount of money the industry makes from North America is a fraction of what they make from Japan. Why would studios care about making anime that America likes if they aren't making money from them?