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BigOnAnime
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So a bit of history: In 2009 they released Aquarion in parts, and those were $59.98. In 2011, they introduced Limited Editions where they would cost $64.98, and then they introduced combo packs, the regular edition would be $64.98 and the Limited Edition would be $69.98. Around 2015, they increased the price of Limited Editions to $84.98. When they started going Blu-ray-only around 2018, they kept these price points despite no longer including the DVDs. Sub-only stuff was always a little bit cheaper once they started doing those beginning with OniAi at the end of 2013. C³ in 2016 was $49.98 for its combo pack rather than $64.98. Though Hypnososis Mic in 2022 I see ended up being $64.98 despite being sub-only, and Lapis Re:LiGHTS in 2021 was the same, so looks like for sub-only they increased prices earlier, the last $49.98 sub-only combo pack release was The Tatami Galaxy in 2019. Starting in July 2023, they raised the price of regular edition Blu-rays to $69.98 while the Limited Editions went up to $89.98, or, roughly how much a one-cour show released in 3 DVD singles cost in the 2000s unadjusted for inflation. Just to note, with like say hentai, Media Blasters still charges $29.99 regardless of if it's Blu-ray or DVD, as well as if it's dubbed or not. So not everyone charges less for sub-only content. |
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NJ_
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In Love Live's case, they would have been stupid not to dub them considering NIS America did for all of the original. |
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Stelman257
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Ahaha, how times have changed huh? I was never into that genre at all, but it sure felt like you didn't count as a real anime fan if you weren't back in the day. Now, I'm not sure that generic trash isekai's and crunch time produced shounens are a great replacement, but it's funny how these things change over time.
Honestly though, same. For all the reasons listed in the review, the direction, the incredibly innovative animation, it was all just so charming in ways I never expected from this genre of show. Really glad I checked it out despite it's genre forebearers absolutely never being my thing. And yeah as others have said, really disappointing release from Crunchyroll. But I may end up grabbing it anyway for the reasons stated in the review. And I do love my physical media releases. |
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Rob J.
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Maybe they like Bocchi the Rock more than they do the more conventional Idol shows and are thus treating it more delicately by choosing to not dub it? Eh, it's either that or, okay, I'm changing my mind, it's probably to save money. Seriously, though, it must be a little from column A, a little from column B. The review definitely makes it look like Bocchi is unconventional for an Idol show, so CrunchyFun might have felt it was too idiosyncratic to localize well, much less to break out as much as it has. Thus they thought they were saving money by being faithful enough to it to not do a dub. A subbing advocate could argue that CrunchyFun did the right thing for the wrong reason, but I'm not, so I'll just chalk it up to CrunchyFun being shortsighted. |
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NeoStrayCat
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Yeah, not having a dub after its many stream numbers for it doesn't make any sense having the home release not get one. (Sheesh, even people were cheering hard [the entire panel room even] on Bocchi when they had the screening of the Rascal does not Dream: Sister Venturing Out at Anime Expo (AX) 2023 when they showcased the animation studio's stuff before they aired the film and Bocchi was one of them. Could feel the energy how everyone was hyped on Bocchi.)
But yeah, it woudn't be the first time Funi/CR would do re-releases that included a dub. There were a few, and then there was Nichijou that was sub only previously, then re-released years later with a dub (and with dual audio) as an example. But yeah, all they can just do is have English everything on the series itself (Bocchi) except the songs if they ever do re-release it with a dub (hopeful). |
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Greed1914
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I doubt if the decision not to dub it at all was because of the music. More recent dubs with music left the songs in Japanese. I know that the cast for Zombieland 2 were disappointed by that, especially since the casting for season 1 was done in part with having people with music skills in mind. Love Live has been a blanket "no" on the songs, but hasn't stopped the different series from getting dubbed. Other companies never did English songs in the first place.
I was holding out hope that they would come back to it since sometimes they have done that with shows that weren't at the same popularity, and they sometimes guess wrong and don't have the resources at the time to do a simuldub. The lack of extras is standard these days. Funimation used to do include them, or even make their own, to give people a little something extra for their purchase, but I noticed that as simuldubs grew, the extras shrank. I think they decided that stuff like commentaries wasn't something they were going to commit to since the booths were needed for new episodes. |
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BigOnAnime
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Worth noting, FUNimation on nearly every release included nearly every JP video extra. As I mentioned before, anime releases were never really like Hollywood releases video-extras wise. The stuff we had back in the day was more on the English production side than the Japanese production side (Ex: Nearly everything for Colorful was stuff ADV Films produced, the only extras from the JP side were clean OP/ED, the only video extras found on the JP DVD release). There were things they did not include for Bocchi as Erufailon4 pointed out, but it's not the sort of at-length making of extra going into the actual animation production the review was hoping for. |
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FireChick
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For what little it's worth, Discotek still puts a ton of extras in everything they release, including existing commentaries whenever possible. The only time they couldn't include any extras was for their release of the Urusei Yatsura 80s TV series, and that was due to tight regulations on the Japanese end, since UY is a very protected property in Japan. |
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DemonMaster65
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Or look at TLR and how it took over 10years to get a dub. |
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varmintx
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Or Emma - A Victorian Romance, took like a decade and a half. |
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