UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

I don't know why AL (or any other anime label, to my knowledge) have never used Fidelity in Motion to author their releases. They're widely considered the best in the business and, considering their clientele is mostly boutique labels, I doubt their asking price is excessively high. They should definitely consider them for releases like Gundam 4K
 
HellCat said:
It feels silly to split Build Fighters when the US got complete sets of that and Try. Plus as I've said before the Gundam Collection art books vary so wildly in terms of quality I'm not keen to have to wait/pay more just to get a book of likely whatever Blu-ray covers AL opted not to use.

It puts me in the mind of when BEI did stuff like release SEED Destiny over 12 volumes to claw back every penny to help recover licensing costs.
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Feels incredibly greedy to do the same style release as OG, Zeta, ZZ, Wing, OO, Turn A, IBO which ALL had 25eps in their first part for a release that has 12eps!

In my opinion it's a massive L for Anime Limited and to fans who put off importing.

Sould've been part one 25eps part two GBF Try... oh well at least the US complete season one is only £45!
 
Jon O Fun said:
Feels incredibly greedy to do the same style release as OG, Zeta, ZZ, Wing, OO, Turn A, IBO which ALL had 25eps in their first part for a release that has 12eps!

In my opinion it's a massive L for Anime Limited and to fans who put off importing.

Sould've been part one 25eps part two GBF Try... oh well at least the US complete season one is only £45!
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Everything Embracer touches turns to ****.
 
For me it’s the fact they want me to spend £40 on something they can’t even show a pack shot off. Well that was more of a concern before it’s lets make these Gundam releases more global when we have discs that already exist. (Also is that US release 7 years old wow…)

Also the fact these Gundam releases no longer have any rhyme or reason anymore just baffles me now. Like where is G which was popular in America enough for a UE or if more UC Victory. I want the 0079 films in 4K but if it’s like £100+ that’s a no as I think the expenses for the other language support may tip the price up just look at CR’s platinum end.
 
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Jon O Fun said:
Pretty sure AL have been sitting on this license since long before the Embracer takeover.
But yes, they are s#it.
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Andrew told me that they were just waiting on packaging files for Build and Build Try (and Victory)... in 2016. So yeah, they've had it a wee while lol (yes, I'm aware plans can change. I'm just messing).

I'll also say I'm not thrilled about the split of Build, feels pretty shady tbh, made even worse by the fact it's their first Gundam release with the new pricing, which doesn't exactly help lol.
 
Buzzkillington said:
I'll also say I'm not thrilled about the split of Build, feels pretty shady tbh, made even worse by the fact it's their first Gundam release with the new pricing, which doesn't exactly help lol.
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Oh yeah I forgot it was the 'new pricing'!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but their last split part Gundam series release was IBO part 2? Which I'm pretty sure was £34.99 for 25eps? so this is £39.99 for 12eps, that's a 115%'ish price increase 😱

Will probably be the same for GBF Try so that's £180 for 2 seasons of Build Fighters?!
That's more than either of their Gundam Ultimate Editions 🤣 that's insane.

I love AL's Gundam releases and hope they sell out and they make all the monies.
I won't be one of the sales though.
Sorry guys, I'm out.
 
Sad thing is offering all of Build Fighters in one set could have given them a great impulse purchase given how many new fans it brought in when originally aired. Splitting it like this is just a very penny pinching idea. We know from releases like CCA and F91 they can do decent Gundam standalones so why not repeat that here?

Half makes me wonder if they'll split up Island Wars and GM's Counterattack if they get to them.

I really don't want to be/like being negative but AL's handling of Gundam feels increasingly like a monkey's paw wish.
 
Since we're all discussing our concerns on the Build Fighters release news, I am also in agreement that it's not a good look to split up a 2-cour series when Nozomi has already released this for the exact same price of this set back in 2016. Now I get that the US release is region locked but it's not a good excuse to split it up as we're not a region that shares the same Blu-ray code as Japan.

Now I would have treated this like any other TV set if Gundam in general never had the 2-cour per set layout to begin with, but all this is doing is a few factors - 1) inflating the space for the Gundam collection when Build Fighters could have easily been optimised to have Part 1 cover the first series and Part 2 cover the second series (Build Fighters Try). 2) making fans who had waited patiently for years to complete their Region B Gundam collection to now spend twice as much due to this format on specific titles if this is to be the norm. SRP increase isn't my issue as it's only a £5 increase when taking into account the 10% membership for early birds.

We know that this will also be self-authored rather than utilise the Nozomi masters, and I generally do not have an issue with this on the condition that it's handled to an authoring company who has a good reputation. As I mentioned before, handling it over to Com’on Screen (who authored French discs like Anime Limited's French branch) is not a good sign especially as they have a track record of pretty bad releases (with Gundam Narrative being one example as explained before). If this was VDMS I'll be more comfortable as I know Levius did have multi-language support and looked good, but even so you could easily have all 4 discs in one part than split it up - unless you realised that the BBFC asks for ratings for each audio and subtitle track which increased the costs (this is an assumption fyi).

Overall, not a good comeback when it comes to Gundam.
 
I'm sure it is the Japanese licensor who is responsible for mandating how the series is allowed to be released by AL, so I think you guys should verify that before you go so hard on AL themselves. They generally have little control whatsoever over how they would prefer to release a series or what they can and cannot include in a release.
 
Girls with Guns said:
I'm sure it is the Japanese licensor who is responsible for mandating how the series is allowed to be released by AL, so I think you guys should verify that before you go so hard on AL themselves. They generally have little control whatsoever over how they would prefer to release a series or what they can and cannot include in a release.
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If the licensor didn't mandate this release strategy for Iron Blooded Orphans, I'm definitely going to lean towards it being an AL decision.
 
I struggle to believe that after the US got full season sets Bandai/Sunrise suddenly dictated a European release would have to split. It's not impossible but this seems to entirely be AL's choice and designed to recoup 'double' the money back on one show.

Reminded of when 00 was announced as a full series set and then downgraded into 3 separate releases.
 
Googlyhead said:
They always require at least two emails to do anything. I normally just give them a week or two then repeat the email (and again if needed).

When they actually look at your email; they respond quite quickly (“yes; we’ve received it, and have just shipped out the replacement”)
But you do need to re-attempt contact until you get a response; otherwise it won’t get shipped either.
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I have now sent multiple emails and still no reponse...
 
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