UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Blank2001 said:
Got my all the anime haul today
Mystery boxes were just packed in bubble wrap so can’t tell which is which but here are contents - not great lots of them are movie Al lot of which aren’t work much then £2-£5 each

bloodlad, outlaw star, lupin the first movie, fairy tail dragon cry and promare

emma Victorian romance, miss Hokusai, megalobox, maquia, and mind game
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Thanks for this. I'm glad I didn't get these as I'm only interested in one thing listed there.

I've never purchased a mystery box from ATA before but I read it's the same 5 blu rays for each box. I don't know a single company that does decent mystery boxes - it's usually a way to just shift old stock that nobody is buying.
 
BrokenPhoenix said:
Thanks for this. I'm glad I didn't get these as I'm only interested in one thing listed there.

I've never purchased a mystery box from ATA before but I read it's the same 5 blu rays for each box. I don't know a single company that does decent mystery boxes - it's usually a way to just shift old stock that nobody is buying.
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Yeah I always buy them as you never know and what I like most about them is that it introduces me to series I’ve not watched and wouldn’t normally get. Like last year I picked up the box and got lupin and now it’s like my favourite anime, Josee tiger and the fish, my hime, big order, el hazard all of which I would never have watched

The Christmas ones are better, the summer 5 normal blu rays are always not amazing but still have things I haven’t watched like outlaw star, megalobox and maquia which I will keep and get rid of the rest, recently sold my new promare collectors edition as I don’t think I would like the movie but now can watch it without losing out if I didn’t like it unlike opening a collectors editon which was worth more new

Although have gone up they did go up another £10 each box this year as they was £35 each box last year and I don’t think they was good enough for that price as 4 of the movies this year CeX will give me a combined total of £7.50 voucher
 
BrokenPhoenix said:
Crazy price. The 4K special edition has been on offer in the past for around £23. Although, I suppose the special edition is getting harder and harder to find.

£30 for a bog standard 4k is mad though, even if it's a great film.
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Think it's just Amazon listing the SRP I'd think it'll drop to around £25 before release... probably.
 
Blank2001 said:
Got my all the anime haul today
Mystery boxes were just packed in bubble wrap so can’t tell which is which but here are contents - not great lots of them are movie Al lot of which aren’t work much then £2-£5 each

bloodlad, outlaw star, lupin the first movie, fairy tail dragon cry and promare

emma Victorian romance, miss Hokusai, megalobox, maquia, and mind game
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I used to buy the Mid year Mystery bundles, but with my growing collection i've usually got everything in them, and even when I did buy them a few years back was getting more and more disappionted by the standard edtion myster bundles, it just stopped being a good buy for me.

The Christmas Mystery bundle I still get as they are collectors edition and I do still usually have some of them but usually feels a bit more worth it, but may have to see what the new christmas pricing is gonna be for the CE mystery bundles.

I thought the CE Mystery bundles were £45 last year (£40 the year before that) and standards from the previous mid year mystery bundles were £40 the previous year, so it being just £5 cheaper for the same amount but standard edition (and often standard edition it felt like they were just trying to get rid of (so stuff they had put recently put on sale for previously at a very cheap price))
But maybe there expecting mystery bundle buyers to be Anime limted sub (so 15% off, althoug nothing to dsay you can't use the one off 10% they give out)
 
Good thing I didn't go for the mystery boxes as the only title which is on my list of potential purchases is Emma Victorian Romance

Agreed with options, the Christmas ones are better value as they are Collectors Editions rather than the plain standard editions which you can pick up quite cheap 2nd hand (i.e. some of those movies)
 
@anime_andrew @Hanners

Sorry to tag both of you but this is a continuation from the rant here.

The Garden of Words steelbook just released in French speaking territories and it manages to be quite WORSE than Kazé's release. This is absolutely outrageous and plain disrepectful to your client at this point. Also the issues with Gunbuster have not been addressed either. I would advise english customers to be wary of the way ATA France has turned lately, it may also affect the UK branch in the future.

FYI, here's a comparison with the old Kazé release which wasn't good in the first place. An absolute bliss to see wrong colours and some of the worst color banding seen on Blu-Ray in Anime here yet. (Pics courtesy of Vick). This is shameful for 2023.
 
SpaceDandy said:
FYI, here's a comparison with the old Kazé release which wasn't good in the first place. An absolute bliss to see wrong colours and some of the worst color banding seen on Blu-Ray in Anime here yet. (Pics courtesy of Vick). This is shameful for 2023.
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Looked at the comparison and I honestly think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Took me a while to see the difference. Seems a bit of an overreaction to call it "outrageous" and "shameful".
 
Blank2001 said:
Got my all the anime haul today
Mystery boxes were just packed in bubble wrap so can’t tell which is which but here are contents - not great lots of them are movie Al lot of which aren’t work much then £2-£5 each

bloodlad, outlaw star, lupin the first movie, fairy tail dragon cry and promare

emma Victorian romance, miss Hokusai, megalobox, maquia, and mind game
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I think we can infer that the ‘Too old for school’ should be the one containing at least Emma and Hokusai
While the ‘Too cool for school’ would (IMHO) encompass Bloodlad / Outlaw / Lupin / Promare
Some of the others seem a little less well allocated, so I’m simply going to assume a combination of running out of suitable titles and having some that just needed to be stuffed in somewhere.

Anyway; I’ve got every single one of those, so I’m quite happy not to have bought either box (ignoring the fact they’re standard editions, and a little pricey for that)
 
ActionFaust said:
Looked at the comparison and I honestly think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Took me a while to see the difference. Seems a bit of an overreaction to call it "outrageous" and "shameful".
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I think part of the issue is less that there’s a ‘difference’, but the lack of improvement or fix.
I do have the opinion that such as banding is less a problem (in most anime) than other potential issues with detail or artefacts. But it would be nice to think that encoding was improving in terms of both technology and the simple knowledge of how / where / why certain issues occur.
 
Googlyhead said:
I think part of the issue is less that there’s a ‘difference’, but the lack of improvement or fix.
I do have the opinion that such as banding is less a problem (in most anime) than other potential issues with detail or artefacts. But it would be nice to think that encoding was improving in terms of both technology and the simple knowledge of how / where / why certain issues occur.
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I don't deny that there's room for improvement but I think there are bigger issues for people to get outraged by than a Blu-ray issue the majority of people won't notice. Being a videophile seems absolutely miserable so I'm fine with being oblivious to this stuff.
 
ActionFaust said:
Looked at the comparison and I honestly think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Took me a while to see the difference. Seems a bit of an overreaction to call it "outrageous" and "shameful".
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To be honest, it is a bit egregious. I don't think you have to be a videophile to notice.

I mean look at the green shirt.
 
Wicker said:
To be honest, it is a bit egregious. I don't think you have to be a videophile to notice.

I mean look at the green shirt.
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Like I said it took a while. It's more obvious now I know it's there but it's really the kind of thing you'd see if you were actively looking for it. Were I to watch this without being aware of the issues I wouldn't have noticed that.
 
ActionFaust said:
Like I said it took a while. It's more obvious now I know it's there but it's really the kind of thing you'd see if you were actively looking for it. Were I to watch this without being aware of the issues I wouldn't have noticed that.
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You need to observe that I have shown a still from a movie with changing lighting conditions during a scene. The color bands moves around, as a part of the movie.

A re-release should be better than the previous one, not critically worse.

ActionFaust said:
Looked at the comparison and I honestly think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Took me a while to see the difference. Seems a bit of an overreaction to call it "outrageous" and "shameful".
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Googlyhead said:
I think part of the issue is less that there’s a ‘difference’, but the lack of improvement or fix.
I do have the opinion that such as banding is less a problem (in most anime) than other potential issues with detail or artefacts. But it would be nice to think that encoding was improving in terms of both technology and the simple knowledge of how / where / why certain issues occur.
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If you pay close attention to the wooden area on the right, you will see details loss. This is not just ugly banding that moves around during the movie, there's less details, wrong colours, and poor compression as a whole.

This is Violet Evergarden again, but I presume since it does not affect the english AL customers, you don't see or feel there's an issue. Maybe you do need to get a coauthered boxset done by AL FR in the future and get a taste of the wrongs and feel the reason to support this complaint.
 
SpaceDandy said:
You need to observe that I have shown a still from a movie with changing lighting conditions during a scene. The color bands moves around, as a part of the movie.
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If this is as you say then perhaps it would've be better to post a link to a video to get your point across better. The average viewer also likely won't notice issues like detail loss, wrong colours and whatever compression is unless it's actually major enough to affect the experience.

It's also pretty rude to wish a poor product on someone but I may as well entertain you I guess. Like I've said I'm not denying that there's issues but based on that image alone and what you've described it sounds like an overreaction. I've already watched Blu-rays known to have issues and my general reaction every time was "is that it?". Unless there's something seriously wrong and by that I mean something that will actively ruin the experience then the average customer just won't notice.
 
"Look, there are numerous complaint on the internet, video reviews of french boxset that shows sufficient evidence but let's pretend this is not real and ask for yet more evidence."

I don't wish a poor product for anyone, this is exactly why I am complaining here and trying to get attention from AL staff. I do wish they fix their QC. But since you don't believe me or video reviews and others are minimizing the issue, you don't leave me a choice but to suggest you to actually "try" one of these releases.

I don't think you would enjoy missing subtitles on Gunbuster, for example. I certainly don't.
 
SpaceDandy said:
"Look, there are numerous complaint on the internet, video reviews of french boxset that shows sufficient evidence but let's pretend this is not real and ask for yet more evidence."

I don't wish a poor product for anyone, this is exactly why I am complaining here and trying to get attention from AL staff. I do wish they fix their QC. But since you don't believe me or video reviews and others are minimizing the issue, you don't leave me a choice but to suggest you to actually "try" one of these releases.

I don't think you would enjoy missing subtitles on Gunbuster, for example. I certainly don't.
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I'm sure there are complaints in the French speaking community but as I'm an English speaker on a British-based forum with a very poor understanding of the French language your posts are the only thing I've seen on the subject. I'm not going to go out of my way to watch reviews in a language I don't fully understand.

That said I also believe you fully when you say that there are issues but in the case of The Garden of Words it really isn't what I'd call outrageous. Annoying for sure but I think you need to focus your energy on bigger issues like this Gunbuster problem you're talking about. I'm not saying it's not worth complaining about but your initial post just seems silly when you compare the tone with the problem.

I only asked for a video as I cannot fully understand the issue from just a screenshot. Were you to provide such a clip it would convey your problem better.
 
Scavenger said:
The Italian Dynit BD screenshot that I posted on the previous page doesn't have any of the banding artifacts on the left wall, green t-shirt and chair as seen on the French BDs. I've added the Italian screenshot to the comparison: GoW | Slowpoke Pics
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Looking at that, both the Kaze and Anime Limited have severe banding on the right guys back and chair. With the Kaze bluray outright redrawing the guys face..

How is the Kaze Bluray any better @SpaceDandy ? Literally looks like hes got a stairway on his back lol

While the Anime Limited one looks like the path to the wizard of oz

Only good one is the Dynit one
 
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