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varmintx wrote:

Blind-buying the $225 Madoka LEs might seem like complete insanity

For 12 episodes? Yes that is insanity. And this is coming from someone who really enjoyed Madoka, but honestlyly do the math. You're paying $18.75 an episode. For one episode. Back in the day you could get 4 or 5 for a little more than that. I understand people like their LE sets, but honestly there is nothing anyone could tell me that would justify that price for so few episodes.

As for me, I'm a frugal being. The only thing I've ever paid more than I should for was the $50 I paid for 5cm per seconds right after ADV pulled it off the shelves. I can't say it wasn't worth it though.

RogueJedi86 wrote:

Surprised the Answer on "Western cartoons in Japan" didn't mention "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Given how anime-styled it is, I'd love to hear how it did in Japan if it's aired there(or even the internet reception if it hasn't aired on tv there). It feels anime enough that Japan could dig it, and it doesn't have any odd cultural puns that would kill a show like Family Guy in translation.

Bombed hard, didn't even finish it's run. Cancelled mid season 2.

Pretty much all the Japanese communities I go to online don't even know about it.. the few people I've ever seen that do (like.. maybe one person) didn't like it, and said they didn't see how it was supposed to be 'Japanese/anime-y' when I told them it was "An American cartoon trying to be like anime" as an off-mention when they asked how big anime was in America. So take that as you will.

So, I mean, head on over to Amazon or your video game console or iTunes, whichever you prefer, if you're still keen on downloading some "legit" anime episodes. Because the way the tides are a-turnin', I don't think they'll be around for too much longer.

I suppose that both groups are too small to have a proper judge.

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Surprised the Answer on "Western cartoons in Japan" didn't mention "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Given how anime-styled it is, I'd love to hear how it did in Japan if it's aired there(or even the internet reception if it hasn't aired on tv there).

It was on Japanese Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon tanked in Japan and so did Avatar.

The JP dub of Avatar was also really bad, which might have had an effect on it's poor reception (this is spoken as a fan of the show).

kakoishii wrote:

varmintx wrote: Blind-buying the $225 Madoka LEs might seem like complete insanity For 12 episodes? Yes that is insanity. And this is coming from someone who really enjoyed Madoka, but honestlyly do the math. You're paying $18.75 an episode. For one episode. Back in the day you could get 4 or 5 for a little more than that. I understand people like their LE sets, but honestly there is nothing anyone could tell me that would justify that price for so few episodes. As for me, I'm a frugal being. The only thing I've ever paid more than I should for was the $50 I paid for 5cm per seconds right after ADV pulled it off the shelves. I can't say it wasn't worth it though.

Quoting only that portion of my post is taking what I said completely out-of-context. The point was that there's a chance you could actually make money on the LEs.

Well, the $225 covers the Limited Special Edition, which DOES give you more than just the episodes. The first $75 set will get you:

~A Collector's Box (even though it wont be chipboard, it's still sorta "special"...)
~Both a Blu-Ray disc and DVD version of the episodes
~Soundtrack CD #1
~A 24 page booklet featuring aoki ume 4koma and character designs (including Gekidan Inu Curry art)
∗ Double-sided poster
∗ Kyubey sticker
∗ Postcards featuring the title cards shown at the end of each episode

The latter two special editions should follow the exact same format, but of course with different OSTs, different booklets, different postcards, etcetera. So no, people aren't forking over $225 total just for the episodes by themselves; they're paying for largely otaku-minded extras as well.

If you really want to look at buying the show in a dollar-amount-per-episode way, look at the standard edition pricing: it's about $10/episode for the $40 BDs, and about $7.50/episode for the $30 DVDs. Considering that not every venue I'd like to play this show will have a BD player, I consider the BD/DVD Limited Edition combo a fine enough deal (even though that yes, this will still pain my wallet some).