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The King of Harts
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Wait, wait, wait. Not to veer too off topic, but how can we pay for it we don't have it. |
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SXAniMedia
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Because they can make a profit this way. Plus an Ad campaign costs likely in the 1-3K range (give or take), you're comparing that with dubbing that costs over $100K? |
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shirou.sama
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It's simultaneous. It's already on sale on Bandai's Amazon Marketplace In Stock. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HT4IN2?ie=UTF8&seller=A3JWE47SRKS871&sn=Bandai%20Entertainment |
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Sam Murai
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Very good one, Bandai Ent. The simultaneous announcement/streaming/DVD release plan is ingenious and a nice change of pace that should be very interesting to watch played out and see if it will be duplicated in the future. And while the volumes have beautiful covers and have a good price tag, I'm not that pleased that it doesn't have a dub. But as I thought with ARIA, I will still definitely look to get it.
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TheBigN
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To me, this is the more important thing. Regardless of the show (and I really like Kannagi by the way), just that Bandai tried all of this is great. |
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DmonHiro
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Well, while this does not interest me, as I've already seen the show...props to Bandai: speedy license, speedy release, interesting advertising, no dub, half the show at once....I tip my hat to you.
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hissatsu01
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Not without cutting into maximum bitrates there isn't. The max ideally should be 5 episodes for DVD-9 and 3 for DVD-5. The lack of a dub doesn't make much of difference, as the amount of space stereo audio takes is negligible compared to video. Frankly I know it's a losing battle. Aside from Right Stuf, everyone is moving to this kind of release. The vast majority of people will be fine with it. But most of them would be fine with bootleg video quality as well. Doesn't mean I have to like it. I'll buy this because I have the fansubs, but I'll hope for a higher quality Japanese blu-ray release somewhere down the line, because this doesn't cut it. Last edited by hissatsu01 on Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Myaow
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Putting anything else aside for the minute, soliciting the series so soon after announcing the license instantly crowns Bandai as The Best Company EVER for the day. The worst part of getting anime, for me, is the wait in between "it's licensed!" and "it's solicited!" This is awesome awesome awesome, and I hope that other companies will do similar releases. That would make me so happy.
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jyuichi
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And this attitude is why anime sales are so lackluster. I'm happy to see new stuff from Bandai but box sets for Code Geass and Lucky Star are long over due. |
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Takkun4343
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WHY CAN'T ANYTHING BE DUBBED ANYMORE!?
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SongstressCela
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...Sigh. Wow. I about lost it when I saw the sidebar on the site today. But no dub? Thanks a lot, Bandai. Talk about a kick in the metaphorical, well...you know.
I guess at this point the american anime industry is dead. Funimation is the only real studio doing anything beyond glorified fansubs, and fans of both dubs and slice-of-life shows can just turn around and let the door hit them on their way out. What a sad state of affairs...First they ruin Hayate, then Sola and True Tears, now this. Words can't even begin to express how disappointed I am in Bandai right now...they used to be great, too...
No. No no no no no. **** that. I'll be damned if I hope for any company ruining slice-of-life series to get Toradora of all things. Funimation needs to snap it up yesterday. Last edited by SongstressCela on Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Jarmel
Posts: 280 Location: NYC |
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Now the question is whether the release next year will have features that this DVD doesn't. Still Bravo Bandai!
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nagato316
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I stand corrected. When the article/press release said DVD availability "within one day" at Right Stuf and Amazon, I was figuring by tomorrow morning, if not late this afternoon. _Very_ well played, Bandai. |
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Myaow
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Just out of curiosity, do you think that the shows themselves have no intrinsic value of their own if they're not dubbed? I'm sure the shows are still just as good as they ever were, they're just in a different language. Or did getting released sub-only suddenly destroy all of the merits they previously had and make them into horrible series? I mean, if an anime was ever good, it was good in Japanese first.
BECAUSE NO ONE IS BUYING DVDS ANYMORE!! |
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Jacut
Posts: 140 Location: Paris, France |
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This. I wouldn't have bought Kannagi if I were them. Well, we didn't licence it in France when Aniplex offered us Kannagi in March with a similar deal, so figure why 
I think it's not commercially appealing enough, especially to test a new model, since you have to test it on big, well-known title that would have worked well otherwise to see its real strength. Not on a "barely above average" comedy series aiming at otaku demographics. |
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Sigh, there's plenty of room on a DVD 9 for 7 episodes of anime, even more so when there is only one audio track. It isn't even 3 hours worth of content, so there is no reason for the quality to suffer for it. There are plenty of 3 hour movies on DVD 9 discs. 
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