UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

BrokenPhoenix said:
Shonen Jump manga volumes used to be £5.99 RRP (probably less before that, but that's as far as my memory goes back), now they're £8.99 RRP a pop. I think everything has just gone up in price over the past few years because of inflation and the cost of materials going up.

£50 is kind of the price you pay for boutique blu-ray collector sets nowadays unfortunately - if you look at a lot of collector's sets on Arrow and other boutique labels, it's kind of the standard price without sales or discounts. I think I paid about £50 for the collector's set of Battle Royale from HMV and that was essentially just two films with a bunch of behind the scenes stuff and nice extras in a nice box. It's £18 for a bog standard blu-ray from Arrow at full price.

I don't remember having a lot of boutique-style anime sets available before. Sure, you used to pay stupid prices for a 4/5 episode DVD, but that was just a disc in a standard case with no bells or whistles.
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You say Shonen Jump manga volumes and yes the RRP has increased to £8.99 on most but you'll actually pay between £6.50 - £7 and IRL bookstores have a 3 for 2 deal at most times.

You also use Arrow's Battle Royale CE as an example and yes it was £50 (or more for 4K) but that was very much an outlier and not the norm for a single film release (with the sequel added as an extra) as for most boutique releases you're looking at £30 for 4K CE, £25 blu CE, and £15 - £20 blu std.
(I'm also under no illusion this WILL go up)

As for no boutique-style anime sets before.... that's literally Anime Limited's entire business model from day one!

I'm not saying prices aren't going up everywhere, they are, and it's to be expected but AL's are excessive compared to almost all others.
Crunchy beats them on some but their prices are intentionally priced to the extreme as a pi$$take to try and stop reverse imports and after the inital few months on sale drop to realistic prices.
 
Jon O Fun said:
You say Shonen Jump manga volumes and yes the RRP has increased to £8.99 on most but you'll actually pay between £6.50 - £7 and IRL bookstores have a 3 for 2 deal at most times.
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Of course, the RRP going up still means the 'discounted' price going up as well. Forbidden Planet had volumes for around £5 online, but now they're £6-something.

Jon O Fun said:
You also use Arrow's Battle Royale CE as an example and yes it was £50 (or more for 4K) but that was very much an outlier and not the norm for a single film release (with the sequel added as an extra) as for most boutique releases you're looking at £30 for 4K CE, £25 blu CE, and £15 - £20 blu std.
(I'm also under no illusion this WILL go up)
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I hear you. However, a single blu-ray film is say 2 hours (120 minutes) and those are £15-£20 a pop at boutique labels now. A 13 episode anime is around 312 minutes if each episode is ~24 minutes. And as someone else mentioned, you are getting two CDs in this set as well and all the art stuff too. I certainly wouldn't pay the £79.99 SRP for it, but £45-£49.99 is reasonable in my view for a new release and with what you are getting.

Jon O Fun said:
As for no boutique-style anime sets before.... that's literally Anime Limited's entire business model from day one!
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Sorry, I meant before Anime Limited - I don't recall there being an abundance of boutique-style anime sets in the UK before they came along.

Jon O Fun said:
I'm not saying prices aren't going up everywhere, they are, and it's to be expected but AL's are excessive compared to almost all others.
Crunchy beats them on some but their prices are intentionally priced to the extreme as a pi$$take to try and stop reverse imports and after the inital few months on sale drop to realistic prices.
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I am with you. Some of AL's prices for what you're getting are questionable at times. Some of the sets where they just copy and paste an 18-page art booklet, 4 art cards, and slap a £49.99+ price tag on it is uncomfortable. However, with this set in particular you are getting a pretty hefty 92-page booklet + the soundtrack across 2 CDs.

Jujutsu Kaisen S1P1 standard edition, for example, is currently £24.99 for 12 episodes on AL's store. So with this new set, for an extra £20-£25 you're getting a collector's edition box, 2 CDs, a 92-page booklet, a poster, and some art cards. I can see that 2 CD sets go for £12.99-£14.99 on ATA, so then you're looking at around a tenner for the booklet, poster, and art cards. To me at least, it looks like a bit more care and effort has gone into this set.

Of course I'd love to pay less, but I don't think it's too bad for AL to price it at £49.99 initially. I can't imagine many would pay the SRP £79.99. Maybe AL are becoming a bit like Domino's Pizza - no one pays full SRP.
 
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Jon O Fun said:
I've not seen the series but I've heard nothing but good things and I'm sure fans will lap it up at any price.

But dang, £50 for a 13ep series and thats the EB price!! it was only a matter of time after Crunchyroll started charging it for the barebones releases but this really shouldn't be normalised.
We're literally going backwards in time on pricing.
I'm old enough to remember multi volume series with 3 - 5 eps for £25 and looks like we're almost back there again. 🤦‍♂️
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I'd worry that they start reducing the number of episodes as well. It's like the double whammy of my Digestives (yes, I'm an old git who likes moaning about his tea and biscuits) going up in price with a simultaneous reduction in package size. Oh wait, that's everything in the shops these days...

But after seeing some of the US Aniplex set prices over the years, hoo boy I hope we don't get there anytime soon.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
I'd worry that they start reducing the number of episodes as well. It's like the double whammy of my Digestives (yes, I'm an old git who likes moaning about his tea and biscuits) going up in price with a simultaneous reduction in package size. Oh wait, that's everything in the shops these days...

But after seeing some of the US Aniplex set prices over the years, hoo boy I hope we don't get there anytime soon.
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You could say we're getting there considering the £99.99 rrp on the AoT: Final Season Part 2 CE. By the look of it that set tanked due to being £35 more than the previous sets.
 
sniper_samurai said:
You could say we're getting there considering the £99.99 rrp on the AoT: Final Season Part 2 CE. By the look of it that set tanked due to being £35 more than the previous sets.
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Ah yes you are very right, I will only rarely look at non-AL LEs as who else is left now but Crunchyroll and that is effectively the same as Aniplex. I did think it was only a matter of time before we got either Aniplex rates here, or were left with no choice but to just order the US ones when they stopped bothering to release in UK altogether.
 
BrokenPhoenix said:
Of course, the RRP going up still means the 'discounted' price going up as well. Forbidden Planet had volumes for around £5 online, but now they're £6-something.



I hear you. However, a single blu-ray film is say 2 hours (120 minutes) and those are £15-£20 a pop at boutique labels now. A 13 episode anime is around 312 minutes if each episode is ~24 minutes. And as someone else mentioned, you are getting two CDs in this set as well and all the art stuff too. I certainly wouldn't pay the £79.99 SRP for it, but £45-£49.99 is reasonable in my view for a new release and with what you are getting.



Sorry, I meant before Anime Limited - I don't recall there being an abundance of boutique-style anime sets in the UK before they came along.



I am with you. Some of AL's prices for what you're getting are questionable at times. Some of the sets where they just copy and paste an 18-page art booklet, 4 art cards, and slap a £49.99+ price tag on it is uncomfortable. However, with this set in particular you are getting a pretty hefty 92-page booklet + the soundtrack across 2 CDs.

Jujutsu Kaisen S1P1 standard edition, for example, is currently £24.99 for 12 episodes on AL's store. So with this new set, for an extra £20-£25 you're getting a collector's edition box, 2 CDs, a 92-page booklet, a poster, and some art cards. I can see that 2 CD sets go for £12.99-£14.99 on ATA, so then you're looking at around a tenner for the booklet, poster, and art cards. To me at least, it looks like a bit more care and effort has gone into this set.

Of course I'd love to pay less, but I don't think it's too bad for AL to price it at £49.99 initially. I can't imagine many would pay the SRP £79.99. Maybe AL are becoming a bit like Domino's Pizza - no one pays full SRP.
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I'm fully there that this release does include more than others and they could even justify the price with the fact (I believe) they commissioned a dub.
If this was an outlier I could understand but it's not. Their standard SRP for releases is now £70 and their none EB prices are £52 for releases that include a lot less (£62 for SRP £80 titles) and like I said I fully understand prices going up but when AL are doing re-releases of Animatsu titles using the same discs and charging £62 for it they are not charging a fair price.
I won't put full blame on them though as I'm willing to bet alot of it is mandated by corporate overlords.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
I'd worry that they start reducing the number of episodes as well. It's like the double whammy of my Digestives (yes, I'm an old git who likes moaning about his tea and biscuits) going up in price with a simultaneous reduction in package size. Oh wait, that's everything in the shops these days...

But after seeing some of the US Aniplex set prices over the years, hoo boy I hope we don't get there anytime soon.
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Don't even get me started on their release of Gundam Build Fighters! 😂
Half the episodes for £5 more than every other Gundam release? Bargain!!
 
Lucky_Deity said:
A Place Further Than the Universe is available to pre-order now, it is £49.99 (£44.99 with Unlimited).

EB window is up until the 15th March which I read after I ordered it so could had waited a little bit before ordering but don't wanna miss out on this set.

www.alltheanime.com

A Place Further Than the Universe - Blu-ray + Soundtrack CD Collector'

Scenery that we have never seen. Sounds that we have never heard. Scent that we have never smelled. Food that we have never tasted. And the surge of emotion that we have never experienced. This is the expedition of recollecting the pieces torn apart and sensation left alone. When we reach that...
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Plain white spine 🥲

I'll see how this on goes. If it's not been delayed before the EB price ends, I might take a punt and use the store. They did get Gundam Origin to me quicksharp tbf.

I assume the price is due to the soundtrack CD. AL haven't announced a broader price rise as they did the last time.
 
Wicker said:
I don't mind the white spine tbh but I do mind that they keep breaking up the digipack artwork with an unnecessary spine with the ugly logo and title- there's no need to do that!
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Absolutely a huge complaint of mine too! A digipak is supposed to have nothing but artwork on it - There is absolutely no need for a spine layout on a digipak whatsoever - that is truly disgusting and someone should be fired for even considering it! They ruined the Planetes digipak with that nonsense too. :mad:
 
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