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Summer Ghost is up for its Early Bird price again.

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Lucky_Deity said:
Summer Ghost is up for its Early Bird price again.

www.alltheanime.com

Summer Ghost Collector's Edition

A group of high-school students light fireworks in the hope of awaking the ghost of a young woman who has been sighted over several years. Each of the friends has a reason for being there, and on one night the living and the dead are joined together...
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It boggles the mind that there's a £40 RRP for a 40-minute short. Even super-expensive items like the Pony Canyon US Sound! Euphonium discs didn't work out at a pound per minute!
 
Seems Anime Limited has the Bleach vinyl up for preorder. I wonder how many copies since the email about it said extremely limited.

I should also consider whether to get it-And it's ordered. I really didn't hesitate it seems...
 
Doctorkev said:
Yeah, I almost stumped up for this then saw it was only 40 minutes long. Even at the currently reduced price of £25... no.
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Manga Video had an almost perfect pricing model for OAVs back in the mid-90s. It started at £6 for half-hour episodes like The Guyver, 45 minutes tended to be £9 for the likes of a Doomed Megalopolis episodes, an hour would be £11 for something like Battle Angel Alita (2x 30 minutes), and feature-length movies were £13. They bumped up some brackets by a pound later on, but it always felt like value for running time; you knew how much you were getting for your money.

The fact that I still remember the exact prices of various anime from the 90s probably explains why I never absorbed much of what I was taught at school at the time...
 
Dai said:
Manga Video had an almost perfect pricing model for OAVs back in the mid-90s. It started at £6 for half-hour episodes like The Guyver, 45 minutes tended to be £9 for the likes of a Doomed Megalopolis episodes, an hour would be £11 for something like Battle Angel Alita (2x 30 minutes), and feature-length movies were £13. They bumped up some brackets by a pound later on, but it always felt like value for running time; you knew how much you were getting for your money.

The fact that I still remember the exact prices of various anime from the 90s probably explains why I never absorbed much of what I was taught at school at the time...
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Well done.
My earliest memory is GITS SAC1.
Bought 4 episodes at a time for about £15. 8 volumes.
Volume 8 was available in a steel tin with a t-shirt. I bought it.
They didn't think to make the tin to fit all volumes, it fits 7. Aaargh.
Put me off special editions for life.

No idea what I paid for anything else before that. Didn't buy any anime until 2015.
 
Dai said:
Manga Video had an almost perfect pricing model for OAVs back in the mid-90s. It started at £6 for half-hour episodes like The Guyver, 45 minutes tended to be £9 for the likes of a Doomed Megalopolis episodes, an hour would be £11 for something like Battle Angel Alita (2x 30 minutes), and feature-length movies were £13. They bumped up some brackets by a pound later on, but it always felt like value for running time; you knew how much you were getting for your money.
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As I started reading your post I recalled that they raised the prices by £1 at some point. Then you got to that part. Never have I felt a keener moment of kinship with another forum dweller 🤜🤛

Reminds me of getting the first 6 epsiodes of Giant Robo for 6 quid each. What a bargain. Some of those episodes are 45-50 mins as well (shortest around 35).

Summer Ghost finds itself in the unfortunate position of having a short runtime and being released after AL bumped up the price of films. There's not even a compelling extra like a soundtrack to make the price more palatable. I'd possibly bite at £20 but that extra fiver makes me want to hold out for Xmas.
 
Dai said:
It boggles the mind that there's a £40 RRP for a 40-minute short. Even super-expensive items like the Pony Canyon US Sound! Euphonium discs didn't work out at a pound per minute!
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You have to keep in mind that it comes with four little postcards (to be thrown in a drawer and forgotten about), a poster (with lovely lovely fold lines) and a little pamphlet (including the same pictures as the postcards and poster).

If anything, AL are being overly generous with this price. They could easily throw in a sheet of temporary tattoos and a pencil sharpener and charge £70!
 
fabio de lunatico said:
Reminds me of getting the first 6 epsiodes of Giant Robo for 6 quid each. What a bargain. Some of those episodes are 45-50 mins as well (shortest around 35).
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Even more so when Giant Robo has such stellar animation and fighting sequences 🥵🥵

I was ready to jump on summer ghost.... before seeing the runtime

Crunchy are kind of on the same level with AoT, they're smoking some good scheisse
 
awadama said:
If anything, AL are being overly generous with this price. They could easily throw in a pencil sharpener and charge £70!
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I demand that it be translucent and vanish temporarily, then reappear... after about a month when I find it down the back of the sofa along with 43p in change and a chewing gum wrapper with "beware of the lion" scrawled on it in a leaky pen which I will find in the pocket of my favourite shirt a week after that... or I want my money back :) 👍
 
Dai said:
It boggles the mind that there's a £40 RRP for a 40-minute short. Even super-expensive items like the Pony Canyon US Sound! Euphonium discs didn't work out at a pound per minute!
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Which is still better pricing than JP Blu-Rays.

Bocchi The Rock in Japan will be 6 volumes total, 2 episodes in each volume. The total set with exclusive storage box plus art cards is £291.
 
RadFemHedonist said:
I demand that it be translucent and vanish temporarily, then reappear... after about a month when I find it down the back of the sofa along with 43p in change and a chewing gum wrapper with "beware of the lion" scrawled on it in a leaky pen which I will find in the pocket of my favourite shirt a week after that... or I want my money back :) 👍
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That's very specific - did that happen to you? 😅
 
fabio de lunatico said:
As I started reading your post I recalled that they raised the prices by £1 at some point. Then you got to that part. Never have I felt a keener moment of kinship with another forum dweller 🤜🤛
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awadama said:
They could easily throw in a sheet of temporary tattoos and a pencil sharpener and charge £70!
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You mean like these ones that came free with the £9 Crying Freeman tapes? 😅
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