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NEWS: Macross Frontier Film Box Adds New Footage, English Subtitles

SouthPacific wrote:

Hmm... The vast majority of NA otaku buys 59.99$ barebone releases without complaining, but when Japan generously offers their extensive & high quality releases along w/ english subtitles they won't support it . It's like most NA otaku don't like quality releases, and would rather buy 3 barebones for ~180$ rather than one really great release for 150-170$. I for one am highly supportive of these types of releases, as you many times can sense all the work that was put into the product, unlike many releases we get over here... I have seen most of the Macross Frontier series & have heard good things about these movies, so i'll most likely be getting them !

What kind of extras are going to make buying two movies worth over a hundred dollars? A good box? Some artwork? Promotional material like commercials and trailers? What the eff would I need commercials for? I'm watching the movies themselves already! An interview I can get off the internet? Some crappy poster? Do those really hike the value up to over 100 bucks?

The video quality is going to be the same on the discs as in any bare bones release, right? The video, the actual movies, are the thing, right? If I watch a Macross movie on a bare bones release, it's the same movie as the one in the super deluxe version, right?

Unless the box is encrusted with diamonds and rubies and full of steak and cupcakes, I'm not forking over a hundy for two movies. They're movies.

We in North America are really REALLY spoiled with our media pricing. There are a lot of media buyers in North America, publishers make a ton of money on volume sales. Not so much in a country like Japan, which is about the size of a single STATE. They have to make their profits on individual sales. Their culture is much more used to paying a premium.

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The Blu-ray Disc version of the box will cost 16,800 yen (about US$168), while the DVD version will cost 14,800 yen (US$148).

Yeah, hahahaha, no.

Is the set bejeweled?

penguintruth wrote:

Quote: The Blu-ray Disc version of the box will cost 16,800 yen (about US$168), while the DVD version will cost 14,800 yen (US$148). Yeah, hahahaha, no. Is the set bejeweled?

100% with you on this. 170$+s&h+taxes is preposterous for 2 films.
They can keep it.

Taxes? On an internet purchase? Does anyone actually pay taxes on things they buy online?

Seriously.

It's just not worth it. No film is worth it. :

penguintruth wrote:

SouthPacific wrote: Hmm... The vast majority of NA otaku buys 59.99$ barebone releases without complaining, but when Japan generously offers their extensive & high quality releases along w/ english subtitles they won't support it . It's like most NA otaku don't like quality releases, and would rather buy 3 barebones for ~180$ rather than one really great release for 150-170$. I for one am highly supportive of these types of releases, as you many times can sense all the work that was put into the product, unlike many releases we get over here... I have seen most of the Macross Frontier series & have heard good things about these movies, so i'll most likely be getting them ! What kind of extras are going to make buying two movies worth over a hundred dollars? A good box? Some artwork? Promotional material like commercials and trailers? What the eff would I need commercials for? I'm watching the movies themselves already! An interview I can get off the internet? Some crappy poster? Do those really hike the value up to over 100 bucks? The video quality is going to be the same on the discs as in any bare bones release, right? The video, the actual movies, are the thing, right? If I watch a Macross movie on a bare bones release, it's the same movie as the one in the super deluxe version, right? Unless the box is encrusted with diamonds and rubies and full of steak and cupcakes, I'm not forking over a hundy for two movies. They're movies.

While I agree with all of your arguments, a couple things.

We in North America are really REALLY spoiled with our media pricing. There are a lot of media buyers in North America, publishers make a ton of money on volume sales. Not so much in a country like Japan, which is about the size of a single STATE. They have to make their profits on individual sales. Their culture is much more used to paying a premium.

Their also really into the whole 'collectors edition' crap. Frankly I can do without it. Like you say, it should be about the MOVIES. But that's not where the profits lie in Japan. In Japan its all about the junk that comes with the movies.

This is not a North American release, so you can't expect a North American price point. That's just the way it is. So if you want to watch the movies, you gotta pay.

I wish Aniplex would release that when they DO release North America releases at Japanese price points. If they were about the fans tehy would go for volume of sales here in the America instead of thinking we're all Japanese and can pay 90 dollars for 7 episodes.

You do realize that this has nothing to do with any American release, right?

This is a Japanese box set sold in, primarily, Japan. Aniplex has NOTHING to do with this release, it's Bandai Namco.

Unless the box is encrusted with diamonds and rubies and full of steak and cupcakes, I'm not forking over a hundy for two movies. They're movies.