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Answerman - What's The Worst Anime Release You've Ever Seen?

Pointing out the flaws of the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Blu-ray got you banned form Anchor Bay's Twitter account as well. They still haven't to my knowledge admitted that there was a problem with the release.

Anchor Bay's BDs of Stand Alone Complex are outright appalling. Even worse was their attempt to sweep it under the rug by deleting comments and banning people. Nothing has been said about fixing it either. Amazon stopped selling those sets not long after they were released but I still see them at my local Best Buy.

All of Anchor Bay's social media accounts have been abandoned since the beginning of May so something must have happened there at least.

If I had to pick a worst release, it would have to be the release of Saint Seiya by Cinedigm if that's the right company. The subtitles tend to speed by fast, feels out of sync with the character's voices and just aren't that good. Kinda hoping for a proper re-release of the original series.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood had a really poor release in the UK, where they didn't make a menu system, instead just used the standard out of the box default one, didn't even replace the buttons.

...I had an ex-friend who was unlucky enough that their Bubblegum Crisis set had a live action martial arts flick on the last DVD instead of the rest of it. that seems like more of a fluke that something widespread tho as I've not really heard of that happening to other people.

You aren't talking to a receptionist or an HR person. You're basically complaining to the sign-twirler on the street corner.

Weazul-chan wrote:

...I had an ex-friend who was unlucky enough that their Bubblegum Crisis set had a live action martial arts flick on the last DVD instead of the rest of it. that seems like more of a fluke that something widespread tho as I've not really heard of that happening to other people.

I can't tell if you're talking about our BGC OVA DVD set or the TV series, but this sounds like a mishap at the pressing plant. On rare occasions, one or more of the wrong DVD get made with the "right" disc art, or the wrong disc gets into the stack of discs being inserted into Amarays, resulting in a production run with a set or two that's got a bizarre, but easily fixable mistake.

Those of you who followed our recent Riding Bean BluRay release know that due to a bizarre sequence of mistakes and mis-assumptions (our fault, not the pressing plant) the original discs ended up with the wrong art on them. And then when we emergency-repressed them with the correct disc art, that job ended up getting done at at pressing plant in Australia, which meant that the labels got printed upside-down.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood had a really poor release in the UK, where they didn't make a menu system, instead just used the standard out of the box default one, didn't even replace the buttons.

MarshalBanana wrote:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood had a really poor release in the UK, where they didn't make a menu system, instead just used the standard out of the box default one, didn't even replace the buttons.

That's the standard now for all of Warner Bros.' domestic mainstream (i.e. Hollywood) Blu-ray releases, which strikes me (and plenty of others) as embarrassingly lazy and unprofessional. But hey, think of all the pennies they're saving!

They ignored retailers like RightStuf too. Someone on Twitter who works for Discotek Media and CNN called there called there parent company Lion's Gate and got this response "I mean, that's the way they released it, so that's the way it was intended to be released and there's no information about any issues or them re-doing anything... so..." Then finally ended with "Well, I can pass your comments along, that's all I can do for you."

The quality of the ADV Sailor Moon subbed box sets for Classic and R are nigh unwatchable in terms of video quality.