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braves



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:09 pm Reply with quote
Media Blasters

*Armored Fleet Dairugger Collection 2 05-25-2010 450 mins $34.99
*Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny Premium Box Set 05-25-2010 300 mins $79.99
*Queen's Blade Vol. 2 05-25-2010 100 mins $29.99
*Rurouni Kenshin Complete Series 05-25-2010 2375 mins $159.99
*Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei Vol. #1 05-25-2010 150 mins $24.99
*Tweeny Witches Core Collection Litebox 05-18-2010 459 mins $39.99
*Voltron Lion Force Part 1 05-04-2010 900 mins $49.99
*Voltron Lion Force Part 2 05-04-2010 900 mins $49.99

Kitty Media

*Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend Complete First Series
*Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend Movie

From here and here.

EDIT: Clarified a title. Thanks, Blood-.


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John Casey



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:17 pm Reply with quote
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*Rurouni Kenshin Complete Series 05-25-2010 2375 mins $159.99


Have they lost their frakking marbles?
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The King of Harts



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*Ikki Tousen Premium Box Set 05-25-2010 300 mins $79.99

This is kind of what I've been waiting for. I've actually been waiting on 1) confirmation of an art box at all and 2) I was actually hoping it'd be just the box since I can score the singles for cheap from various places. Now I just hope the box matches or at least compliments the Geneon art box (and now I need to get that one too...guess I'm throwing my thinpak into the sell pile).
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Blood-
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:04 pm Reply with quote
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*Rurouni Kenshin Complete Series 05-25-2010 2375 mins $159.99


Have they lost their frakking marbles?


Rurouni is 95 eppies and at $160, that means a per episode cost of roughly $1.70, which is far from outrageous. Now $80 for Ikki Tousen's 13 episodes ($6.15 per eppie)? That's just cahzayzee.
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The King of Harts



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:11 pm Reply with quote
I think he's upset because they're charging that much with the third season included and the third season was nothing but filler and a lot of people don't like it. It's kind of like how some people won't buy Haruhi 2 because they don't want to pay for Endless Eight. Maybe he doesn't want to have to pay for the third season?

Also, with art boxes becoming a thing of the past and dubs slowly disapperaing, I'll gladly pay that price for Ikkitousen because it has both. It's not like I'll be paying anything close to MSRP anyways Laughing That's the cost of premium.
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John Casey



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:16 pm Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
John Casey wrote:
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*Rurouni Kenshin Complete Series 05-25-2010 2375 mins $159.99


Have they lost their frakking marbles?


Rurouni is 95 eppies and at $160, that means a per episode cost of roughly $1.70, which is far from outrageous. Now $80 for Ikki Tousen's 13 episodes ($6.15 per eppie)? That's just cahzayzee.

Yu Yu Hakusho. 112 episodes. 4 boxsets. Around $20 for each boxset.

Yeah. Even with the economy, anime is getting a little bit cheaper - even Faildai is packing their releases into two-disc sets, and selling at a relatively fair price. Media Blasters is the only one who seemingly hasn't caught on.

Oh well. Hopefully Best Buy, or something will fix up the price - like how they rationalized those Moribito price tags into much more....consumer friendly prices.
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The King of Harts



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:22 pm Reply with quote
Well, yea they're $20 each if you go by TRSI's weekly specials price. They MSRP at $34.98 * 4 = $140....which is actually still cheaper. Look at that.
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John Casey



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:35 pm Reply with quote
The King of Harts wrote:
Well, yea they're $20 each if you go by TRSI's weekly specials price. They MSRP at $34.98 * 4 = $140....which is actually still cheaper. Look at that.

No. I got them for $20 at FYE - brand new. They're $25 a pop at Best Buy, clocking in at $100 for the entire show.

No TSRI specials here.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:12 pm Reply with quote
Hey braves, you should probably edit your OP thusly:

*Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny Premium Box Set 05-25-2010 300 mins $79.99

I was confused and thought that it was a re-issue of the first Ikki Tousen series. Anyhoo, TRSI is currently offering it for $60 and if you have the Got Anime membership (which I do), that would bring it down to $54. Still an ungodly price for 13 eppies as far as I'm concerned. The Funi first season Ikki Tousen is going for $37.50 at TRSI (although when I bought it from them last May, I only paid $25) and that's 13 episodes as well.

I defo want the Dragon Destiny box set but I'll wait until it's a bit more in my price comfort zone.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:13 pm Reply with quote
John Casey wrote:
The King of Harts wrote:
Well, yea they're $20 each if you go by TRSI's weekly specials price. They MSRP at $34.98 * 4 = $140....which is actually still cheaper. Look at that.

No. I got them for $20 at FYE - brand new. They're $25 a pop at Best Buy, clocking in at $100 for the entire show.

No TRSI specials here.
That still doesn't mean $20 is the MSRP. It's also safe to assume that the RK set will also be sold at somewhere below MSRP. Considering that $199.99 was once the asking price for 26-episode boxed sets, $159.99 for 95 is hardly unreasonable.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:16 pm Reply with quote
$200 for 26 episodes???? Geez, how did you anime old-timers not go bankrupt?
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I'd pay that much to get Kenshin again, even though it wasn't that much originally if they actually made decent quality video this time... the original release was horrible quality.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:31 pm Reply with quote
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$200 for 26 episodes???? Geez, how did you anime old-timers not go bankrupt?


Pssst. Fansub tapes. Psst. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:15 am Reply with quote
Add a TRSI special on top of that Rurouni Kenshin set, and it may just slip into the price window I will feel like putting out. If not, I'll just wait for the litebox version.

Also, that is a good price for Tweeny Witches (esp. once you add on some sort of discount)--a show I enjoyed a lot.
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The King of Harts



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:15 am Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
I was confused and thought that it was a re-issue of the first Ikki Tousen series. Anyhoo, TRSI is currently offering it for $60 and if you have the Got Anime membership (which I do), that would bring it down to $54. Still an ungodly price for 13 eppies as far as I'm concerned. The Funi first season Ikki Tousen is going for $37.50 at TRSI (although when I bought it from them last May, I only paid $25) and that's 13 episodes as well.

You have to remember, though, that by the time Funimation released it, it was the 4th time (Geneon singles, Geneon complete collection, Geneon Thinpak and then the Funimation box set) so of course it's going to be cheaper.

If you wait for it to hit the weekly specials it'll probably be 42% off and about $46.
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