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NEWS: NIS America to Release Natsume Yūjin-Chō Anime

Happy at first, but here come the doubts. Is NIS America really a bad company?

ringoiero360 wrote:

Happy at first, but here come the doubts. Is NIS America really a bad company?

They have had a lot of snags, but aside from Pandora Hearts (which the issue sounds more like the master copy they received than from what they did), they have always made good. If a DVD had a playback issue or if there was an artbox issue, they ran an easy exchange program (much simpler than what Bandai did).

Their Blurays do weird things (send you back to the start menu if you hit stop or shut the player off) but nothing unforgivable. Their releases come in beautiful boxes with nice hardcover books. If you're a collector, you will appreciate them.

I have everything they've released so far and am a happy customer. Once again, they have had some problems (and so have Funimation, Bandai, etc.), but they are quick to fix them.

If CR is part of the whole deal, I will be happy to buy this release (although I still think it deserves a dub,) but as it stands I feel that I'm being sold the same product with possibly lesser quality.

I doublechecked, and at NISA the Ho5L boxset is $47.99 while at TRSI it's $43.99. Unless NISA had some sort of super-early preorder deal that I missed(?).

poonk wrote:

I doublechecked, and at NISA the Ho5L boxset is $47.99 while at TRSI it's $43.99. Unless NISA had some sort of super-early preorder deal that I missed(?).

That's the initial price but with shipping NISA was cheaper (unless you are a TRSI member or are ordering more than one item from them). Although I might have misread the shipping costs on TRSI. But on NISA shipping is free.

Also I am not sure if I can watch Natsume Yuujinchou with anything but Kamiya Hiroshi as the soft & soothing quality of his performance as Natsume is one of the major reasons I love the series so much.

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I already own all the Japanese BD releases but I certainly have no qualms about re-buying.

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If CR is part of the whole deal, I will be happy to buy this release (although I still think it deserves a dub,) but as it stands I feel that I'm being sold the same product with possibly lesser quality.

Of course you're being sold the same product. When a person watching a TV show and if impressed enough to go out and buy the home video release a rational person usually expects to get the same product that they saw.

I have to ask you how do you figure the home video release's quality will be less than the CR stream? Particularly when formats haven't even been confirmed yet. I am willing to bet that the on-disc features and menus alone will make the release better quality than the stream. As for video quality I've never seen a HD-DVD or BluRay look worse than a stream.

GokuMew2 wrote:

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I already own all the Japanese BD releases but I certainly have no qualms about re-buying.

Out of curiosity, why would you buy it if you already have the all of the Blurays? Is it because you'd like English subs (seems unlikely if you're living in Japan) or the collector goodies? Just wondering and I mean absolutely no disrespect at all.

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I would rather pay for DVDs straight from CrunchyRoll, because they've done such a good job already and I would love to support that more.

Now, it could very well be that NISA is indeed publishing the title for CrunchyRoll, much like how Bandai published 5cm Per Second for them, but the press release does not explicitly state this.

Except anime is different. For the LONGEST time, the main feature of anime DVDs in America has been the localization, in my opinion. A great dub can improve a series, and any English dub at all instantly makes a series easier to throw in a player and show to somebody.

Sub-only DVDs are fantastic if it's something that you can't get elsewhere, but if it's already all over the internet (and with an already fantastic localization and subtitling job,) I fail to see how it can be improved upon.

Now, alright, I'm sure there are some people who do have friends who'll sit through a subtitled DVD but not a stream, but I feel that it's a pretty rare case, and somebody's usually just going to buy a subtitled DVD for themselves while linking everybody else to the stream.

Format and resolution were never a concern. My point involved possible defects and a new translation/subtitles. I've already voiced my concern over what hoops I'd have to jump through if something happened, be it with the physical product or the video/audio itself.