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The Mike Toole Show - 2012: Well, That Happened, I Guess

I don't know if what Mr. Toole is saying is true and I have no idea that it is,but Discotek is going to be releasing "Mad Bull 34" on DVD. Now I read many of the reviews of this one,even Mr. Sevakis did something on this in his "Buried Treasure/Garbage" column some years ago. I've never seen "Mad Bull 34" before. I've heard about it in reviews. But if the reviews are accurate,I have no idea why this is coming to DVD in February.
This show even got a terrible review in "The Anime Encyclopedia" if I remember correctly. If I remember right,the thing describing it was that it was a little like "Gunsmith Cats,"but without the redeeming features that made "Cats" such a fun view. Again,I don't know if this is true or not but in light of the just plain awful reviews I've read about this,it make one wonder,why would anyone release this on DVD? Why not someone just license "Gunsmith Cats" again and re-release it somewhere else?

It's very good and it's gotten a lot of great reviews. I didn't see any great push for "Mad Bull 34" to be released on DVD. After what I've heard of this,I'm still a bit confused. Why is Discotek releasing this show on DVD? It didn't get any good reviews when it was on VHS. It certainly isn't going to get any good reviews when it comes out on DVD.

Lord Geo wrote:

I don't think they say it anymore, but I always did tend to get really annoyed whenever CrunchyRoll outright stated in interviews & con panels that they "put in a bid for every new show that was coming out every season". I don't doubt that CR looked at each & every new show when each new season came, but I highly doubt that they had the money, manpower, or even interest in honestly trying to get every new show each season. Just like any other anime company over here I'm sure that CR indeed looked at certain shows and simply thought "Maybe someone else will simulcast it" or "Maybe we can get it later as a catalog title" (as rare as catalog-focused streaming licenses are for CR) or even "Why do this show when we can do this other one?". To even say that they try to get everything every season to people in public is silly & unreasonable.

It almost sounds as if you are wanting to say CR is lying without coming straight out and saying so.

Given the number of titles each season they stream that elicit a "Why did you waste money on that?" response, the evidence suggests they are telling the truth. Most fans seem to look at titles that are expected to be popular (i.e., JoJo's and Little Busters) and point those as evidence CR doesn't try to get everything. (To which I counter with pointing out that Funimation or Sentai didn't get them either, and they do pick and choose).

Just because you put in a bid doesn't mean a company isn't flat out going to say "No", or counter-offer with terms that would mean losing money on the property. I'm certain CR wouldn't mind taking the risk of breaking even or perhaps losing a bit on a property if it would drive new traffic to the site, but only a fool would take a bath on something.

I don't see how anyone could make it past more than a few episodes of Bodacious Space Pirates.

Why not someone just license "Gunsmith Cats" again and re-release it somewhere else?

It almost sounds as if you are wanting to say CR is lying without coming straight out and saying so.

Given the number of titles each season they stream that elicit a "Why did you waste money on that?" response, the evidence suggests they are telling the truth. Most fans seem to look at titles that are expected to be popular (i.e., JoJo's and Little Busters) and point those as evidence CR doesn't try to get everything. (To which I counter with pointing out that Funimation or Sentai didn't get them either, and they do pick and choose).

TitanXL wrote:

I'm surprised CR doesn't try for Kamen Rider or Super Sentai

I think that is a whole other beast to deal with. I think you would have to pull those from Toei's cold dead hands before they would let their baby's stream on the internet for free. Even though it would make them some money from people out side japan instead of next to nothing.

Is anyone out there still staying away from these services entirely?

Yen Press... well, as long as they keep publishing Yotsuba&!, they can do whatever the hell they want in my book.

And Vertical, who take so many risks, brought some new goodies to the table, like The Limit and Heroman.

Granted, since then, none of Aniplex USA's offerings have sold out-- even the extremely popular Fate/Zero seems to be a victim of its sky-high price tag

According to Shawne from TRSI from a few ANNCasts ago, they did have to restock boxset 1 even though consumers probably didn't notice.

I know for Bakemonogatari, the first shipment was gone before street date. If you placed a pre-order just a few days before, you had to wait for the 2nd shipment to come in to get your copy.