HellCat
Combat Butler
Doesn't fight a space kaiju like the original book, 0/10.
UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread
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RadFemHedonist
Guild Member
Aww really? I have read the book as well, I think the film is beautiful, moving and the cold war setting is chilling and effective. That and Fantastic Mr Fox are the two adaptations of UK children's literature into US-made films that I rank the highest, certainly the first that come to mind when I am trying to think of films that actually got it right
Otomo
Pokémon Master
Well said.Aww really? I have read the book as well, I think the film is beautiful, moving and the cold war setting is chilling and effective. That and Fantastic Mr Fox are the two adaptations of UK children's literature into US-made films that I rank the highest, certainly the first that come to mind when I am trying to think of films that actually got it right
Girls with Guns
Claymore
Ah, a month early? I have my copy ordered from AOL, and they have the release date set for 23 March, so I guess I will need to wait a while yet before it ships from there. No big hurry, as I already own the AL CE set with Voices of a Distant Star included. I just wanted this one to add to my anime steelbook collection.
Dragon Slayer
Soul Reaper
Otaku Elf CE has been dispatched.
sniper_samurai
Time-Traveller
Still no sign of Lupin Zero though despite the standard being out, release date was today.
Still waiting for our stock to land - we have samples in the office, but the main stock drops seem to be held up in transit. Fully expect we'll have them this week.
HellCat
Combat Butler
Hanners checking in the thread once he's back:
Falcon1991
Kiznaiver
I spoke to him last mcm comic con about this, the digimon movies is something there trying to get there hands on.
Girls with Guns
Claymore
At first I thought you were talking about Yandere Dark Elf, and I was thinking "What?? That got a CE?!? Oh, I want that!"
But then, I realized my mistake, and my bubble was burst. Sigh.
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HellCat
Combat Butler
I'd love to know why Gundam seems to be the one series AL won't offer fixes for. Any other title that ships with problems gets a replacement program. But when Gundam ships with packaging errors or booklet typos, we just get shrugged at. The only way I can square it is seemingly fixing these errors means going back through Bandai Namco and AL just can't be bothered with the hassle. Meaning fans in the UK (who often have to wait ages to get anything from AL) are stuck with a ramshackle 'premium' collection of one of the most influential franchises in Japanese animation.
BrokenPhoenix
Thousand Master
Perhaps it's because of the severity of the error. I don't own any Gundam; but the replacement disc schemes I can remember AL doing were for missing subtitles on an entire episode or the wrong set of subtitles from an episode, for example.
I guess a typo in a booklet or on the back of the info page thing isn't worth the hassle and doesn't necessarily make the product unusable like missing subtitles do. That said, there shouldn't be any errors on a product with a premium price, no matter how small.
HellCat
Combat Butler
A prime example I was thinking of- the typos in the booklet with the £100 4K trilogy set. That's something they're aiming at the nerdiest of nerds for a relatively high price. It shouldn't have shipped in that state and I've heard nothing on offering replacements.
When your company's brand is premium collectable, it's not a good look
Curious to hear what these "any other titles" are - as far as I recall our modus operandi has always been to fix issues deemed "product breaking" in a fundamental fashion. Of course, our ideal is to avoid any typos or errors and that's what we strive for, but we're only human, and from a pure logistical perspective running full replacement programmes for smaller issues (however frustrating) simply isn't feasible.
This is certainly looking like it's progressing on the Digimon movie front - it's been a complicated one but we're getting there!
Card Captor Sakura movies - no, and honestly that should be considered parked for the time being. Hopefully not forever by any means, but don't expect anything any time soon.
On the Gundam front, Gundam SEED FREEDOM home video is really just down to approvals at this juncture, and other Gundam plans are moving along in the background and we're really keen to bring more to bear for Gundam fans this year and are doing all we can to make that happen!