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As of this post, you got less than 23 hours to get Dear Brother cheap. That is, unless you don't mind paying $60 per boxset at Right Stuf.

Toyama: But that's still $10 more per set. Anyway, less than 5 hours left.

Right Stuf would charge $45 and not $60 if we follow the 150% price markup logic they had for Black Jack and Creamy Mami.

The deadline for ordering the Ultimate Edition or upgrading from Basic to Premium is June 1st, 2014. June 1st is also the deadline for your name being included on the disc as a backer!

After that date, and until the sets are shipped, orders, upgrades and double-vision addons will go onto a waitlist. We will be making extra copies of the basic and premium sets to cover loss/damage issues during shipping, and after dealing these, we will attempt to fulfill waitlisted orders, giving preference to upgrades and addons over new orders.

If there are a few sets left over after handling the waitlist (and setting aside some copies to handle the inevitable “The dog ate my Blu-Ray!” problems), we will sell them off on our website at a higher price than the project backer price.

Repeatedly over the course of this project, the constant stream of new signups and upgrades has increased the budget, and permitted me to add new items. But once we hit the June 1st deadline, I have to make final budgeting and production quantity decisions.

A complicating factor is that post-deadline sales should help increase the budget, but I can't know for sure how many copies will be left after handling the loss/damage issues, how many will actually sell, or how long they will take to sell -- so there is a lot of uncertainty.

I am currently wrestling with the best way to handle this, but my current idea is to make a conservative estimate of the expected post-deadline income and recalculate the budget with that in mind. Hopefully that will be enough to fund a small upgrade or two -- for more on that, see below.

Project Status

In the several weeks since our last update, the teams working on the subtitles have made a great deal of progress; we are on track to get all the subtitles done by mid-May. Apart from the obvious coolness of having multiple subtitle tracks, all the extra eyes on the script have made lots of tiny improvements in the English version as well. Also, the last of the three Music Video Maestros visited Wilmington, and all of the work on HD reconstruction of the music videos has been completed.

In the next couple of weeks, the first authoring pass will get underway. While the subtitles won't be fully complete, it will allow us to check menu functionality and the video compression. At the same time, we'll be finishing up the packaging designs -- expect an update about them soon.

^No clue, but at least they are still responding on Twitter. They say that they're "resting" basically (as told in Monty Python references), so I'm expecting they'll be back at some point, hopefully soon (and with another Black Jack pledge drive this time)

classicalzawa wrote:

^No clue, but at least they are still responding on Twitter. They say that they're "resting" basically (as told in Monty Python references), so I'm expecting they'll be back at some point, hopefully soon (and with another Black Jack pledge drive this time)

In that one Monty Python sketch the "resting" parrot was actually dead.