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luffypirate
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Funny thing is that I like those less than grade A titles that Bandai Visual released over most of Aniplexs. Bought 'em ALL (everything except Freedom and Honneamise on HD DVD) and have watched every single bit of content on the discs. My favorite extra was the live event on the first Galaxy Angel Rune disc! Fantastic extra.
As for pricing I've never been deterred because of it. If I want it I'll buy it no complaints. |
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publicenemy333
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Why would they wanna focus on a title that already made em money two years ago when they got so many new hot titles for this year that they can make profits from now. Sucks as it may, they arent idiots. If this strategy wasnt working they wouldnt do it. They are focusing on the now, and they know enough people will buy them to make them the maximum profit. If it doesnt make them money in two years, so? They'll have the next biggest thing that will sell just as much. |
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Blood-
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It's an interesting question and I'm not sure anyone really knows the answer. I personally feel they are leaving money on the table by appealing primarily to dedicated collectors who don't blanch at their prices. Eh, but what do I know? AoA is definitely increasing the number of titles they offer from year to year so it seems safe to make the assumption that they are happy with their model. |
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Juno016
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That's a definite side-reason they're most definitely aware of, but the priority is selling to a niche group of truly dedicated fans. There would be no incentive to prevent reverse importation if the prices turned customers in the region they're trying to sell to off to the product. As for their profits, I don't think we have actual numbers, but from their business model, it seems they're focusing on selling a goal amount and not trying to over-indulge (which costs more to produce and could extend beyond the cut-off point where they'd get profit back to make up those costs) or under-indulge (producing so little that they make very little, leaving a significant number of fans with the money and desire to purchase the products empty-handed). If they make their goal, it's a success and was worth the investment. Besides, even in the latter's case, if they sold everything and were still receiving a lot of demand, I can bet that they'd push to make a few more volumes of the product to satisfy the excess demand. Not a whole lot, but enough to perceive when sales start to fall. Not everything they've pushed out has been a huge success in general, but they're smart with their business and tend to not place so many hopes on those. The ones they sell are typically just really popular with the particular fans they're targeting. |
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gravediggernalk
Space Cowboy
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If you're going to have garbage, you might as well have funny garbage, and that's the ADV dub of Ghost Stories.
As far as Aniplex USA's pricing model goes . . . don't buy from them if you don't like it, it's that simple. Oh no, they probably won't stop, but they don't have to, see: Instead of "selling X-large amount of discs at Y-small price" and hoping and praying that they sell all of them to get enough out to replace what they put in, they "sell X-small amount of discs at Y-large price" and know that they're going to at least sell the minimum they need to keep the lights on and the water runnin'. With things like Gurren Lagann, Madoka, and Kill la Kill, sure, they could probably lower the prices a little bit and sell more discs, but from their point of view, it's not worth the risk when they don't need to do it, and that's business. They wouldn't be doing it if they weren't doing well with it. |
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Northlander
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I got a mail some years ago from one of our readers who asked me whether I thought Elfen Lied was appropriate viewing for her 15 year old son, to which I replied something along the lines of: "With the abundance of violence and gore on display from time to time; no, probably not."
The reply I got went something like "Oh, I'm not too concerned about the violence -- he watches that sort of thing on TV normally anyway -- but I heard there was nudity in the show". So... yeah. I guess it's easier to misuse nudity and/or fanservice, but it was still an amazing thing to hear. |
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Zalis116
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re: DVD Easter Eggs -- It saddens me that we'll likely never see anything on par with the Noir and Madlax Sock Puppet Theatre extras again.
re: Dub rewrites -- they don't work for everything, but the more Japanese you know, the more you see that Japanese anime scriptwriting (and to an extent, the Japanese language itself) is often boring and repetitive, depending on the creativity of subtitle writers (best case: the a.f.k. Haruhi fansubs vs. the official subs) to seem more interesting. Dub rewrites can and do improve a show or salvage it from being bland and uninteresting. Like Steven Foster's Orphen dub: turn on the subtitles with the English audio, and you can see that the original (as represented by the subtitles) is a snoozefest compared to the dub.
And yet, another prevalent criticism of those shows is that the male leads are overly shy, indecisive, or downright terrified (if not literally allergic) to the female touch, and thus not deserving to have a bevy of babes competing for his attention via degrading acts such as making boxed lunches. So somehow, harem/fanservice male leads are wimpy cowardly milquetoast losers who blush and turn away at the sight of female skin, but are also hardcore sexual predators and rapists.
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SouthPacific
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One could speculate that they do, with the influx of titles they've been getting in recent times. Or else they'd be in the business of losing money, which I don't think they are. To be honest, i much prefer Aniplex of America over companies like Funimation & Sentai Filmworks because with AoA i'm guaranteed a great release in both video & audio quality, as well as packaging/extras. With Funimation & Sentai Filmworks I never pre-order something, because it's nearly always hit or miss with what they're going to screw up. Sometimes it's something small that won't affect ones viewing pleasure all too much, and sometimes it's things beyond that... I was really psyched about the premium editions that Funimation put out, but yeah... Cheap extras, art box malfunctions etc... With Aniplex this never happens. Never. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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The quote says "a lot", not "all". If you're going to quote me to try and make your point you could at least not mischaracterize what I actually said in the thing you're quoting. |
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PCDOS
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My issue with Aniplex is that I could buy one show from them, or three shows from someone else for the same price. I've got a region free player already, so it just makes financial sense for me to import UK editions of shows they release, and end up with more anime in my collection overall.
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Just-another-face
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And yet those same ignorant folks think that because something is subtitled, it's still the "original script" to them anyway and also think they're learning Japanese by watching it subbed. Poor delusional fools... |
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Utsuro no Hako
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Any series that uses the trip-fall-grope gag. Well, maybe "sexual-assaulty" would be more accurate, but "rapey" is easier to say. |
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SouthPacific
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While I myself haven't heard anyone ever call subtitles "the original script" i've many times seen people say that it's as close as you'll get to the original. And I don't think this is an opinion, but rather a fact. And i've never seen anyone proclaim that they're learning Japanese by reading subtitles in English either, that's just plain silly haha |
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EighteenSky
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Justin just summed up Aniplex's pricing strategy perfectly. I have no problem with their pricing, every show they've had has seemed reasonable to me if I like the show. Even when I don't like a show they have the prices are never too high. I imported their SAO sets because they were gorgeous and worth the money instead of the bare bones UK release.
This kinda sums up my thoughts. Though I am a big ecchi fan I haven't really seen any shows that are just boobs and nothing else. Sure I've seen appalling fan service laden shows like Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart and Kill La Kill but to me they are the exception. Well maybe I just haven't seen enough of these shows despite my love for them. Actually I'm pretty sure of that. |
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GATSU
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In this case, that kind of grindhouse action is what made anime awesome, while dudes who whine about their normal lives while hanging out with stacked bitches is what makes anime shitty. |
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