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REVIEW: Gundam UC Volume 01

Well review or no review,i'm still gona get UC. Also it looks better than the other Universal Century OVAs. Though my personal OVA are 8th MS team and 0083 Stardust Memory when they showed on Toonami's midnight run. Hopefully Unicorn is as good or probably better than both of them.

It's more mass production than supply and demand. producing more = lower production cost, producing less (i.e. 70s/80s/early 90s) = higher production costs. Below a certain level, cost per disc starts to ramp up incredibly rapidly as the startup cost is spread between fewer and fewer discs.

"DVD prices dropped as DVD was the only way to watch anime and more and more people wanted to watch anime."The amount of people watching anime is likely still growing, but most don't want to buy DVDs.

More fans (higher demand) would also drive price up.

Okay, two things here:

Renaisance Otaku wrote:

Maybe because I've been in this since the days of 25 dollar, two episode, sub only VHS, I've never had much of a problem with the cost of anime. It's generally dirt cheap now, and one can get entire series (hopefully not overly crammed on too few discs) for the price of a few episodes decades ago. This fact has really spoiled the average fan these days.

Yeah, and I bet fans in the 70s and 80s would have been happy just to have any opportunity to see anime with subtitles. I'm sure you'd have still complained about raw releases though. But ya know, that's progress for you. Things change and the standard of what is reasonable change with em. If you're standards have not changed then by all means accept what you like. Don't try to act like everyone should still be living in the anime stone ages with you though and don't call people spoiled.

I'm not saying we should be "living in the stone age, just saying that having been from said "stone age", the rare 35 bucks for a title doesn't strike me as a deal breaker. Merely speaking my own position, not even judging others. No need to get huffy about it.

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No need to drag the thread down into how no one wants to pay any more than 5 bucks an episode nurtured by the series packs.

How can you even say that with a straight face? You just posted your own opinion on the price and then you're going to complain about how price discussion is off topic. In fact, if you actually read the thread, there are as many people insisting the price is reasonable as there are disagreeing and it was actually one of the former who sparked this whole issue again. But look, you're right. This is getting off topic and redundant and so I'm willing to let it go assuming others are willing to also and stop telling me that I should find this reasonable.

Just siding with PenguinTruth on how in 6 pages we have all of 1 worth of talking about the actual review. I wouldn't have said anything about the price except that the issue was made too big not to comment.

if the number of fans increases then the number of people willing to buy at any given price will have increased. Thus the demand curve shifts to the right. The new equilibrium will be at a higher price and at a greater quantity.

No, a greater demand only increases prices if the supply is lower.

so prices must rise or profits will drop or disappear.

I have to nitpick here. If the demand curve gets shifted to the right (i.e. demand increases) then that makes the price go up, irrespective of the supply. That's because the relationship between supply and demand has changed, even though supply has remained the same.

The higher the price, the less people will be willing to buy something. This is the concept of the demand curve in it's purest, most basic form. Thus, the change in profit depends entirely on the slope of the demand curve. It may increase or decrease depending on which factor changes more.

Vicserr wrote:

vashfanatic wrote: This isn't one for newcomers, but what would be a good Gundam series for newcomers? It's been my everlasting shame that, as an anime, I've yet to watch a single Gundam series. Setup for Gundam Unicorn would be Mobile Suit Gundam (Available Free at Crunchyroll until April or rent the 3 mobile Suit Gundam movies if you don't want to watch the entire series), Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Available Free right here at ANN until April) and Nu Gundam: Char's CounterAttack (you could probably Nexflix it), The 08th MS Team is a series that a lot of people that don't "get" Gundam enjoy and it would at least give you a cliffnotes version of the conflict of the original series, Gundam 0083 would give set up to the rise of the antagonists of Zeta Gundam, bur that series is definitely Mecha Porn.

you missed a series ZZ Gundam, techinally to get the full expereience you need to watch these series, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Moible Suit Gundam Double Zeta and Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack, reason I say Double Zeta in there a Puru is in the enemy roster and I won't do the biggest reveal that's a throwback to ZZ.

This assumes the potential market for the good is variable and expandable if the price were to drop.

Krotchstak, nice to see another appreciator of 0080. That one's always been a love it or hate it one for fans depending on whether you watch Gundam for the action or not. I doubt Unicorm will be anything like it. I expect something a bit more in line with 0083 given the review. That one was vastly flawed, yet still fun to watch.

The "if you don't like it, don't buy it speech" shouldn't even have to come up and I urge that nobody attempt to even give it. Let these people just cry it out and then hopefully be done with it and we can talk about the review that nobody bothered to read instead.