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NEWS: Aniplex USA to Release Fate/Zero on BD/DVD with Dub

What an utterly moronic statement. Obviously fan entitlement at its worst are those people who feel anime should be free and therefore only ever download/stream fansubs. Objecting to paying - in some cases - WELL OVER industry standards is not expressing an entitlement. What idiots fail to understand is that purchasers of physical media are a shrinking tribe (in all forms of entertainment, not just anime). Many of us who don't like AoA prices do spend a fair amount of our disposable income on anime. We are more than prepared to pay the going rate. AoA is in a good position to exploit an inelastic, small group of anime collectors who are willing to pay top dollar. What's good for AoA is not good for the industry as a whole or for non-"I'll pay anything!" consumers. Maybe there are dough-heads out there who don't care if the only group of purchasers left are the tiny band of "charge whatever you want!" types, but anyone who actually wants as many titles as humanly possible available for physical home release would.

The other thing that told me that this would get a domestic release was the fact it's apart of fate/stay night which seems to be a fairly big money maker WOLRD wise. My Geneon complete first season set became oop quickly and was selling for hundreds on ebay till Sentai picked up the rights to rerelease it. They also dubbed the movie. Sentai doesn't dub things that won't make the money back so it was a good call on my part with all that info that fate/zero would get a dub and would get a domestic release.

solarsun wrote:

The other thing that told me that this would get a domestic release was the fact it's apart of fate/stay night which seems to be a fairly big money maker WOLRD wise. My Geneon complete first season set became oop quickly and was selling for hundreds on ebay till Sentai picked up the rights to rerelease it. They also dubbed the movie. Sentai doesn't dub things that won't make the money back so it was a good call on my part with all that info that fate/zero would get a dub and would get a domestic release.

Sure, those are good reasons for Aniplex to re-release Fate/Zero, but they could have easily re-released it just on DVD (like they did with The Garden of Sinners), and if Neon Alley hadn't forked out for the dub, Aniplex may or may not have chosen to get it dub themselves. It's easy enough to come up with good reasons for Aniplex to choose to re-release a series domestically or why it would be worth their while to get it dubbed.

What I'm pointing it is that their history thus far doesn't support the assumption that they'll choose to re-release something domestically later. They might, or they might not. The fact that we think that it makes sense for them do so doesn't make it so that they're going to, and this is the first time that they've released a series on Blu-ray domestically when it was only released as an import before. So, I think that it's pure optimism to have thought that it would happen this time or that it'll happen in the future. It did in this particular case, and it may in the future, but Aniplex has yet to create a pattern of re-releasing their imported series domestically later, even on DVD, let alone on Blu-ray. If anything, their history thus far indicates that they're unlikely to do so.

So obviously, you're free to predict whatever you want about what Aniplex is or isn't going to do, and you may even end up being right, but you really don't have much in the way of Aniplex's past history to base your predications on. Based on their past history, we got really lucky this time.