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NEWS: Aniplex to Release Imported Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works Blu-ray Set

Sorry Aniplex, not this time.
I am NOT buying these import sets @ $400/$500,
then find out you're releasing the domestic sets (w/ a dub, no less)
at a lower price point.

Fool me once, shame on you!
Fool me twice, shame on me!

Since when are five discs necessary for 13 episodes? Wouldn't everything be able to fit in three discs or perhaps even two?

Here we go again, ok people try to get a clue this is a "Import" so it's the Japanese Release of a hot show that has a fan base willing to put up the money to own it at the same time as Japan. So of course it's going to be expensive.

They could have put no English subtitles on it and made us English speaking fans wait about 2-3 years for a domestic release. Then no one would be complaining as usual about Aniplex. Be grateful that they even bothered to put subtitles so that you don't have to learn Japanese to enjoy it.

How is anyone surprised it's the same price as the Fate Zero import from a few years ago, only difference is the Yen to Dollar Exchange rate is much better now. So if you import it from Japan you can knock the $400.00 dollar price tag down to $250.00 or so.

So if you can wait a few years you'll be able to buy the US release at around $300.00 dollars for the whole show just like for Fate Zero which I did. I could have bought the previous series at $700.00 bucks but didn't want to own it that badly for that kind of money not because it was a rip off.

Why do people defend this crap? 300 dollars for the whole set is STILL far too expensive. The value of 24-26 episodes is around 60 dollars. Aniplex never released a realistically priced version of Fate/Zero and they won't for this either. The DVDs for Fare/Zero are still officially 69.98 for 12 episodes. That's insane. Nearly 6 dollars an episode. It's higher per hour than minimum wage for the standard dub release DVDs. Not blurays, DVDs. Blurays should be the norm, not a premium in 2014. Blurays should be 30-40 dollars per 12 episodes. Just because YOU can afford it (or their parents, in most cases of people I've seen that actually own these Aniplex sets) doesn't mean most people can. Basically buying even their cheaper version for most fans basically amounts to "Do I want to buy this and nothing else for the entire year or do I want to buy nearly a hundred hours of other anime for the same price?" Then of course there's people that just can't afford to spend 300+ dollars on an anime in a single year that just screwed over forever. Aniplex has no respect for their own fans, that's all there is to it. They only care about the premium fans with really good jobs and/or rich parents.

I like the Fate series like most anime fans, but that price... Man, that's steep. I can buy several figures with that money.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a different company than the ones who released the first version of FSN, right?

EDIT: Also really surprised to see a simultaneous release. Wonder why they chose to do it that way.

...For instance, Aniplex will stream their shows pretty much EVERYWHERE. They make it available on so many platforms and in so many different countries.

also it was studio deen that did the first fsn which used all three routes but ended with the fate / saber route which in my opinion is the best route and of course might be the official route since some parts of the fate route have been mentioned in hollow ataraxia which is the sequel to FSN.

They only care about the premium fans with really good jobs and/or rich parents.

Aniplex does so much awesome stuff, yet some horse beaters still cannot let go off the fact that Aniplex charges more than traditional licensors, which is quite sad really. You don't HAVE to buy the physical release, as they make their shows available on so many different platforms.

Kougeru wrote:

They only care about the premium fans with really good jobs and/or rich parents.

Did it ever occur to you that those people ARE the target for PREMIUM items? My lord, why is this to hard to understand? Aniplex caters to people who have a lot of disposable money. Those are their main customers. They don't really care about other groups of people because they always sell all of their premium items. Why should they release a cheaper version later? They would just get less people buying the premium version. They are a business, not a charity.

tl:dr: I support the business model of Aniples, and I can't even afford their premium releases.

Again because people that think like this exist is why a trash company like Aniplex exists. Again not even just talking about the pricing, their titles are by and large overhyped garbage barely worth the watch even at the end of the day.