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NEWS: ADV Announces April/May Releases

EDIT: @LordRyo -- ADV will most likely do an artbox release with volume 2, which they've been doing for most of their series in the last year and a half. So no need to have fears about rebuying a vol.1 special edition.

Like GATSU, I can think of several examples of much greater release windows, like 10 years with Marmalade Boy, 9 years for Kodocha, 8 years for To Heart, 6 years for Boys Be, etc. Granted, none of those have had the widespread anticipation that Gurren-Lagann's enjoyed. But I don't like the idea that this release scheduling (and licensing) is a zero-sum game, i.e.

Those other releases give ADV a financial incentive to put GL on R1 dvd.

Shattered Angels? I don't know how I like that. I thought they were just going to call it Kyoshiro? Well at least it finally has a date. It will look pretty next to my Kannazuki set!

I'm also not sure where anyone gets the idea that Haruhi is disappointing. It's true I haven't caught it yet, either, other than all those Youtube dance-offs; nor do I plan to do so in the future. But I can't imagine Kadokawa would continue to do business with Bandai Entertainment if the series was a failure here. True, it was popular with otakus, but what's probably kept it from failing is that it's not an otaku-centric title. That is, anyone can watch it and enjoy it, not just people who whack off to dating sims. I know that's a hard concept to swallow nowadays, but that was what anime was like once.

So what part of that isn't true?

You're happy, because you can't tell them apart, and don't care either way.

Zalis116 wrote:

EDIT: @LordRyo -- ADV will most likely do an artbox release with volume 2, which they've been doing for most of their series in the last year and a half. So no need to have fears about rebuying a vol.1 special edition.

Zalis is correct. The reason why they do that is to see how well it sells. If the first dvd does well, then then they'll invest the money for putting out an art box. Art boxes are expensive. Why put one out with the first dvd if the series is a flop?

As others have mentioned, Haruhi's sales numbers were above average for an anime series but below Kadokawa's expectations.

The part where it's destroying anime. If anything is destroying anime it's anime "fans" who aren't willing to shell out a little green.

At least Japanese otaku buy moe consistently.

Come on GATSU, I'm sure there's some anime or other entertainment property you like that others hate.

maidenoftheredhand wrote:

I don't think people who actually want to spend money on the DVD should be given a hard time. People get upset when they are looking forward to something and their hopes are dashed. It's as simple as that.

I'm not trying to give those people a hard time; obviously I'm glad they want to put down money for TTGL or whatever series, but I just don't understand the "I want it yesterday" mentality. Right now I'm watching a series called Eden's Bowy, which aired in 1999-2000 and has a 2003 copyright on the DVD. And I can't find any indication that that was considered a disastrously long wait time back then. Yeah I know it's not 2003 anymore, but looking at things from a long-term perspective, average release windows have dropped considerably over the past 5 years. And yet it's still not fast enough in some cases.

Well, I will admit I like Go Nagai. But the difference between his anime and moe anime is that it's dumb fun, not retarded fun.