UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

I am little agreed with @Girls with Guns. I mean, the CE editions push me to buy titles, and after I'm so happy with them. I want to pay more, and get something that looks better. I know, due to fact, that CE editions had better looking boxes, booklets, means, that release date delays, but I have similar problems with vinyls or printed mangas - so, I can wait, and I think, even if AL will be stop creating CE editions, it didn't speed up the releases much at all - this may sound a bit unpleasant, but they would tell us that the delay was due to another reason.
 
Anime fans are their own worst enemies sometimes. It’s an incredibly silly thing to ask the company who calls themselves Anime Limited to stop releasing every title in a Collector’s Edition. It’s not even a real issue. Just be patient nerds and wait for it to go on sale or the standard set to be released.
 
gloomranger said:
Anime fans are their own worst enemies sometimes. It’s an incredibly silly thing to ask the company who calls themselves Anime Limited to stop releasing every title in a Collector’s Edition. It’s not even a real issue. Just be patient nerds and wait for it to go on sale or the standard set to be released.
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The issue is that AL blame so many aspects of the collector’s editions for the neverending delays, that if we choose to believe them, they could get titles out 6-9 months earlier by not bothering with collector’s editions. That is, if we choose to believe the reasons for the delays.
 
Yeah, delays can be a little annoying at times but in the end we always get a great product and for me personally even when they arrive it can end up taking years before I even watch what I bought, each to their own though at the end of the day.
 
bakura said:
Delays are annoying but yeah I don't take them personally and always get annoyed somewhat at the reaction here to Delays, there annoying but there not as big a deal as people here make it out to be.
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Personally, I think people are well within their right to be annoyed when AL take people's money up-front and then take almost a year in some cases to deliver a product to them.
 
bakura said:
Delays are annoying but yeah I don't take them personally and always get annoyed somewhat at the reaction here to Delays, there annoying but there not as big a deal as people here make it out to be.
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I didn't really mind delays before but I consider them a big deal now that AL aren't doing partial shipments. Sorry but I get quite unhappy when my entire shipment of £100+, which you took the money upfront, keeps getting delayed for ages when the majority of the items are in stock.
 
Girls with Guns said:
Well, in my case, if AL stops making Collectors Editions, then I won't be importing anything from the UK anymore and so will most likely drop off of the forum here as well
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I live for the CE's tbh they are the main thing I want, but AL will know the logistics of costs/returns on CE's and whether they are worth it I expect. It would be a shame if they stopped making them.

More annoying in a way is how one series can get a CE/license but then Crunchyroll or whoever comes and takes it back, will we get a CE for the next bits of Demon Slayer for example? I have the Season 1 and Mugen Train CE's but no sign of Entertainment District one. Same for stuff like Re;Zero where I have Season 1 but not sure if will ever get Season 2.

gloomranger said:
I don’t know, man. It just seems to me that some of you take the delays a little personally.
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I've mentioned before but if every single release is slipping, then release dates are unrealistic to begin with.

I don't think people seem to be taking it personally, but there is a point where making the same mistake constantly is kind of inexcusable.
 
Postponing premiere dates is one problem, but I have an item that, according to the Anime Ltd store website, was already released on Monday and nothing is happening, support is not responding.

At the moment, I have about 5 blocked orders, each of which always has several items (one of them is 10 from the last sale). I decided to buy it because I could wait until the premiere, but then the date was postponed several times.

In my opinion, sending everything in one package is understandable, but only if you stick to the release date or are just a little late - not a few months. Should these situations be taken into account when placing an order? Ehh... What a year. RighStuff is closed and CR does not ship outside the USA, then it destroys United Publications, and Anime Ltd has constant delays and very extensive ones.
 
Googlyhead said:
Even if that were to be a factor in the retail price, that’s not the case here:
  • It‘s rather unlikely to be anything more than a BD25 disc at <30mins with no extras. Other releases would span multiple discs and require BD50 dual layers.
  • A quick evaluation of material would be that the CE is the standard Amaray cased product put into a card outer sleeve with a 16 page insert.
  • It’s not like there’s even any art to commission, (assuming outer sleeve uses the same as the JP release, and booklet materials are supplied)
Tell me I’m missing something here, or that 16 page booklet is worth around £15 (’cheap’ pricing £25 CE vs £10) or £25 (srp of both: £40 CE vs £15 )

If you’re just looking at material costs (not licensing), there‘s one heck of a mark-up with anime anyway.
I’ve previously looked up BR pressing companies to see how much more the ‘premium’ digipak packaging costs, and you can fairly well approximate £1 per item for a (pricey) short run with flashy/premium bits, or half that for more basic items. That‘s £3-£4 of material cost at most.
I guess you could infer that the material costs for the CE may be up to double the cost of the ‘standard’. But that doesn’t work either, as the end price difference is more like 2.5x…

In summary: the CE costs more than 2.5x as much as the standard edition. That extra £15-£25 gets you a 16-page leaflet, and an outer slipcover.
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Good analysis, the whole point of this CE is to have it on shelves and online market places and lure the uninformed into a silly purchase. Quick cash grab, little to no effect on the company's image as long as the runlength is advertised properly, so the blame can be put on the customer.
 
Gemsy-chan said:
It works for me, just tried it.
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I heard it's pretty much myself and one other individual on AUKN Discord who's having this issue. It's annoying because I wanted to get the film ordered so that I don't have to worry about it later. Hanners is aware but I don't know if they can fix it on time (got the same error notice again just now).

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My membership is still active until May and I didn't have any issue ordering MAPPA's show last Thursday so I don't know why its happening now of all things.
 
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Do we know if Digimon Last Kizuna will receive a standard Blu-ray or is it just a collectors edition as I cannot find any websites with the option to pre-order just the standard Blu-ray.
 
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