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On top of that, if you release the series on BD you can cram 25 episode on a single disc and advance in huge chunks - something all those other shounen series could not achieve due to technological limitations of DVDs at the time they were released.

Wow, are people still using this idea of simply dropping a ton of episodes on a BD? No company is going to do that. They've been asked before, and they will not do it. Even Hollywood isn't doing this, and that should say something.

Lord Geo wrote:

Wow, are people still using this idea of simply dropping a ton of episodes on a BD? No company is going to do that. They've been asked before, and they will not do it. Even Hollywood isn't doing this, and that should say something.

I think it's important to describe why that's (likely) not going to happen, though.

There are two main reasons:

(1) Price for the episodes
Simply put, there is far more money to be made the first run through in charging $35 for 17 episodes of DBZ on Blu-ray than there is for charging $35 for 40 episodes. The film was already paid for, sure (they used it to make the orange bricks in 2007), but now there are whole new products and processes being paid for that need to be recouped (&TRANSFER's second digital transfer of the film and coloring adjustment, the new Image Systems hardware FUNimation purchased, etc.). Make no mistake, it will almost certainly come out in "season" packs doubling up the episode count and reducing the price down the line, but that's then -- this is now.

(2) SD vs HD compression
Sure, you can dump a buttload of SD content onto even a single-layer Blu-ray disc, but that's not what's happening here. These are genuinely high-def-ified episodes. It takes redonkulous more disc space to hold and properly compress these episodes than it did on the Dragon Box, not to mention the lossless audio that's coming alongside it in three audio tracks. I've seen folks say, yeah, just toss 25 episodes onto a disc. In HD? With multiple audio tracks? That's... possible, but they're going to look like garbage. In SD? Sure, that's possible (you can absolutely master a Blu-ray with nothing but 480p video if you really want to), but then you cycle back to the first point about episodes <-> cost <-> profit margins, and then (for the time being), it's cheaper to go the SD production route (DVD) with SD material.

And that's for anime when they're sub-licensing it through some other owner. That's as opposed to the Hollywood example where they outright own the whole darn production beginning to end, and they're still not dumping 25+ episodes in SD on a Blu-ray.

Good points, but the whole "dumping episodes onto a BD" post was regarding Reborn, not DBZ on BD.

Also, if DBZ was to have 40 episodes on one BD, they would never charge $35 for it, so I don't know where you thought up that figurative price.

I really didn't like how Brian decided Hitman Reborn and Hanasaku Iroha are not good DVD titles. I mean, sure Reborn has more than 200 episodes, but so are Bleach, Naruto and One Piece and they work just fine.

David the Gnome was a Spanish animation, not an anime.

And no, you cannot cram 25 episodes into a single BR disc. That would result in some of the worst video quality ever, if they could even fit period.

While I do agree that a release for Bunny Drop is very likely, given that attention it has received, I am pretty sure it is over. Unless, of course, I missed a second season being announced somewhere. The first one is definitely done though.

Hanasaku Iroha? I can see Nozomi snatching this title pretty soon. It fits their marketing strategy and will look natural next to Aria and Sora no Woto. It has a huge fan base (don't know why Brian acknowledge that fact and then decides the fan base will not buy it). On second though I hope Sentai will release it because they do BD releases and Hanasaku Iroha should be released on BD.

If I could send an axe to series right now it would definently be Bleach. The series had no business spoiler[going on after Aizen was defeated] and everything afterwards has been disappointing. As a fan I have to say that Bleach has gotten me to a point where I almost completely despise it, and it's sad to feel that way about a series I used to really like.

I think a lot of people would pick Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece because they're so long running. Bleach really does look like it's finished, although the current arc (in the anime) is more interesting than I thought it would be. There is something refreshing about not having the Soul Society popping up all the time and Ichigo not developing ridiculous amounts of power. But I would like to see an end it it.

Naruto appears to be in the middle of a "One Piece" filler arc right now but it's obviously got a little ways to go before it's reached it's end. However I wouldn't mind the show taking a break the way it did between the original series and the current one. I can't say I want it to end right away but I would like to see them get on with the story. At this rate they seem to be waiting until everyone looses interest.

Reborn ALSO got its release halted by Viz and shows no signs of starting again, and I don't recall it ever making the weekly top 10 best-selling manga list, whereas Naruto and Bleach constantly make the list and One Piece shows up occasionally as well. I'd like to see Reborn on DVD as well, but I'm not holding my breath. Sentai hasn't licensed any more Gintama episodes yet so there's another long-runner that may have been halted, and in terms of FUNi they recently got the more recent Fairy Tail, which makes me think it's unlikely they'll get an older long-runner if they just got a newer one.