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NEWS: Section23 Adds Canaan, Kimikiss Anime

An interesting note of comparison is that I have never seen a Japanese company with an incomplete release, no matter how bad sales are i.e. it might be costing them more to continue to release discs, but they still finish the release.

@The King of Harts Tears to Tiara BD is listed for $67.49 at rightstuf.com, or $60.74 with member discount. Which is an amazing deal for 26 episodes of a relatively recent show.

With all these Blu-ray announcements starting to come from Section23, I wonder if they've invested in their own equipment for that like Funimation did, or if they're still doing all that out of house. In either case, I'm glad that they're releasing Blu-ray titles at the same time as the DVDs. While it's fantastic that Funimation has been releasing titles on Blu-ray, there's almost always a delay between the DVD releases and the Blu-ray releases, which leaves the question of whether I should by a title now, since it might not be coming out on Blu-ray any time soon - if ever - or whether I should just wait for the Blu-ray release. Sometimes a Blu-ray release is fairly quick in coming, and in other cases, it has yet to materialize.

In any case, this is a great announcement. Good news indeed.

For those looking to save money on the blu-ray sets I would suggest keeping an eye on Amazon once these are released as they sometimes beat Right Stuf on anime blu-ray pricing (and beat a lot of other online retailers on blu-ray in general).

That may be technically correct, but it's hardly the first time we've had an anime dropped after a season in North America. Everybody has done this, including ADV, Funimation, Viz, Geneon, etc. If the first season flops, most companies aren't going to loose more money on releasing season 2.

Also, they never claimed they had season 2, nor made any implications that they planned on licensing and releasing it.

At least we got one complete season, and we aren't getting dropped at some random point as Viz has done in the past.

Also, the designation of "seasons" seems artificial to me, as they were not originally released as separate seasons in Japan, if I recall (? I think). Glass Mask was a single 51 ep show, Eyeshield 21 a continuous 145 ep show, and likewise Gintama a solid block of 201 eps.

I remember Kimikiss having some sweet moments because of its formatting (instead of one guy getting all the girls there were two guys with two girls each; it worked out a lot better in my opinion). I will probably pick it up as I've been watching Toradora! with my mom and she absolutely loves it. I'm hoping to find some other anime like that to watch with her as well.

I don't know about Canaan, I've heard some negative things about where the story goes but I might give it another chance. It was an obvious choice for a dub, with all of its action and mainstream style. But I'm surprised at the lack of blu-ray. I remember this being a pretty slick series with a lot of action and pretty nice production values.

Also, my sweet Section23, please release ef a tale of memories. If you're going to release Kimikiss and not ef, I will be very disappointed.

EDIT: Oh, never mind. They listed the Canaan blu-ray and dvd sets as seperate in the press release. That makes a lot more sense now.

configspace wrote:

@The King of Harts Tears to Tiara BD is listed for $67.49 at rightstuf.com, or $60.74 with member discount. Which is an amazing deal for 26 episodes of a relatively recent show.

It'll be $53.99 (40% of retail) without the membership discount and $48.59 (46% of retail) with the membership discount if you're willing to wait for right stuf to have a Sentai Filmworks / Section23 sale. Since it doesn't come out until October, odds are that there will be one before it's released.

Kalessin wrote:

configspace wrote: @The King of Harts Tears to Tiara BD is listed for $67.49 at rightstuf.com, or $60.74 with member discount. Which is an amazing deal for 26 episodes of a relatively recent show. It'll be $53.99 (40% of retail) without the membership discount and $48.59 (46% of retail) with the membership discount if you're willing to wait for right stuf to have a Sentai Filmworks / Section23 sale. Since it doesn't come out until October, odds are that there will be one before it's released.

Yeah, and DVDPacfic has a standard 45-48% off the bat without a membership or a special sale, but that wasn't my question. My question was is a BD of Tears to Tiara really worth those extra 20 dollars?

Short answer: This will have lossless audio, so if they do as good a job as they did with Appleseed in the visual department, then yes. Tears to Tiara has some excellent visuals and could really look amazing in bluray. Sentai has already confirmed they will be using lossless audio for all their planned future bluray releases, so it should be worth the extra $20. Also, you won't have a stack pack to deal with, which is a plus for most people.

MSRP really means very little, as other than FYE (which is rapidly fading away and many don't even carry new anime anyway) no one charges MSRP for media products. I don't hear people complaining how most DVD movie releases still have an MSRP Of $29.99, because no one sells them at that.

Technically a season is 12-13 episodes. A 24-26 episode show runs for 2 seasons. Many companies, including Funimation, like to sell their sets as seasons but with a season being 24-26 episodes, ala D. Gray-Man (which they really need to finish by the way). It makes sense for a marketing standpoint because it makes people feel they are getting more for their money. I just wish all companies would stick to the normal standpoint in that a season is only a short amount of episodes.

geishageek wrote:

Technically a season is 12-13 episodes. A 24-26 episode show runs for 2 seasons. Many companies, including Funimation, like to sell their sets as seasons but with a season being 24-26 episodes, ala D. Gray-Man (which they really need to finish by the way). It makes sense for a marketing standpoint because it makes people feel they are getting more for their money. I just wish all companies would stick to the normal standpoint in that a season is only a short amount of episodes.

Not based on Japanese standards, which apply here.

Not based on Japanese standards, which apply here.