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firedragon54738
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Well it good they will pick it up but sucks for to high of a price
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050795
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Excited for Silver Spoon, I hope the anime does well enough to make someone pick up the manga.
As for the price I think it will depend on how popular the show is. If it is really popular like PPMM or SAO then they will have L.E. box set and release it in as many volumes that they can. If it's not very popular then they will do a single set release more like Oreimo at fairly reasonable price. I can't imagine that it will be as popular as something like SAO just from it's subject matter so I think the eventual release will probably be around $80 for a Blu-ray (if it is even popular enough to justify a Blu-ray) and around $60 for DVD. |
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Pokenatic
 Posts: 563 Location: Neo Venezia |
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As for the Silver Spoon manga, it's pretty much VIZ or bust as they have the say for all Shueisha and Shogakukan titles in the US and Canada at least.
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fathomlessblue
 Posts: 348 Location: Manchester, UK |
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While hardly a perfect solution, you could always try a multi-region player and import European releases after Aniplex sublets the licence to them; eg Manga Entertainment in the UK picks up a number of Aniplex titles. Obviously there is the sting of buying a new, pricy system up-front, waiting for anything up to a year after the show is released in the states, import tax, the possibility of a dvd-only release, & the product not being a premium edition; still, if you see yourself buying a fair number of Aniplex products, it'll probably save you a bit of money in the end. I picked up the entire season of Madoka on Blu-ray for less than £25/around $40. At least it's an alternative to grumbling every time Aniplex so much a glances in a show's direction.
As for the extortionate price of Sword Art Online, I'd like to stay positive and try to imagine Aniplex actually doing people a favour by placing it out of their reach. ^^ Honestly, the acquisition of that show always bothered me. I know it was super popular, but unlike, say, Madoka or Bakemonogatari, there didn't seem much of an audience outside the early/mid teenage crowd. Maybe, I have it wrong & the show is also popular with older fans, but it seems the most vocal supporters are also the most unlikely to afford it. That feels a little skeezy. |
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Shiratori1
 Posts: 300 Location: Los Angeles |
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Nice! Glad to see that Servant × Service will be getting a home release. The series is one of the top five summer season series that I am looking forward to (bureaucracy + slice-of-life = interesting) , so its nice to know that I will eventually be able to get my hands on a physical copy of it.
Maybe she shouldn't be surprised, but she (as well as any other rational person) are well within the right to roll their eyes when they see those complaints due to the reality that the debate/conversation surrounding AoA and its pricing structure is a DEAD HORSE that you and other Anti-AoA people, for some ridiculous reason, still desire to kick (seriously, Aniplex of America is NOT going to change (nor should they) and everyone's opinions about the company and its business model are set in stone at this point (i.e.: continuing to complain about AoA and their pricing is POINTLESS, A WASTE of TIME, and TROLLING). |
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Blood-
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Wow, you have a real genius for simply repeating my point, don't you? I've already posted that I can understand why somebody would be tired of reading AoA price complaints but that nobody should be surprised that they crop up any time AoA is mentioned. The only way that is going to stop is if ANN starts making AoA price complaints a bannable offense.
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Sachiko2010
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And the Pollyanna defenders of AniplexUSA dutifully march out to defend handing their wallets over to that company. lol I just remember the Haneamise and Bandai Visual experiment of trying to push outrageous Japanese otaku prices onto the US market. Where is that distribution company right now...? Oh yeah, they went out of business in the US. We'll see how long AniplexUSA can stay around. |
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gothicangel89
 Posts: 45 Location: Chandler, AZ |
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I know but like I said, I never have enough money for it. I'm still trying to pay off my credit card here after buying Blue Exorcist on DVD and August is gonna be terrible for me because of two video games I've pre-ordered. And as if I can spend a little over $40 each month for SAO. I always end up choosing UPS as my shipping so that's gonna have to wait until either the holidays or next year to buy all of it since shipping is free on Right Stuf when you buy over $49. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Yeah, but they were offering either old content (Gunbuster, Honneamise, Patlabor) or things people really didn't want in big numbers (Galaxy Angel Rune, SRW, etc). There's a wide gulf of difference between anime like that THE NEW HOTNESS like SAO, *Gatari, or whatever is burning fresh from the anime oven. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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I would have thought that Funimation would snap up Silver Spoon, since they have FMA too
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Sachiko2010
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Well, we'll see what the market will bear, I guess. My suspicion is that as time goes on their market will decrease dramatically and they will either go out of business (at least the business of distributing blu rays and DVDs in the US) or they will change their price point. |
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agila61
 Posts: 3213 Location: NE Ohio |
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No way I can afford the Aniplex releases, but if there is more money to be made at their price points than at lower price points, I'm fine with it. After all, the difference between Aniplex price points and highway robbery is that Aniplex only takes money from people who volunteer to hand their money over. As long as Aniplex makes the content widely available via streaming, the complaint about the pricing of the collectible release is just people whining about the shape of the demand curve that Aniplex happens to find in the market for anime. |
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Shiratori1
Posts: 300 Location: Los Angeles |
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Keep telling yourself that (whatever helps you sleep at night). 
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RyanSaotome
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Its not up to Funimation, since Aniplex produces it. They'll release all their notable titles themselves now instead of going through a middleman. |
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Shiratori1
Posts: 300 Location: Los Angeles |
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Or...... the moderators could just delete comments about AoA's pricing in talkback sections that are related to news articles that have nothing to do with the prices of specific releases (that will make it stop). 
Ultimately, people need to drop the debate about AoA's pricing instead of trying to rekindle it every time a news post related to AoA shows up (everyone has said what can be said about the subject, everyone's heels are dug in at this point, and Aniplex of America is not going to change (no matter how many times the Anti-AoA crowd busts out their tired "Aniplex of America is an evil and greedy company that is 'cock blocking' shows" argument)). |
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