Recent content by Ambrogino

I'm well aware of exactly how many people start watching through fansubs. The sad reality is that the vast majority of people exposed to a medium for free are unlikely to ever consider it worth paying for. People exposed via fansubs stay watching fansubs on the whole. The distribution...

There's a wide range of difference between paying £20 sight unseen, and picking up Vampire Hunter D because it's £7 quid in the sale and looks different. IF that buyer likes what he sees he's likely to pick up a few more titles in the store, rather than going from zero to ragaing fanatic...

Except if current fans only buy from direct(ish) distributors high street stores will stop stocking anime period. And then it will become even harder to pick up new fans, as they'll actively have to go looking for anime rather than seeing it during browsing. So you're talking short term gains...

It seemed the right forum to post it in - the thread below it (currently) is about anime on-line. Is there a better sub-forum for this kind of discussion? Otaku-San, you've posted again but haven't answered my question. What did you mean by "take awhile considering it's an ADV product,"?

if the worse you've had to wait for a restock is only three weeks, you've escaped luckily so far. I've waited six months in the past before the item in question was cancelled, which is why I'm concerned that these items are displaying as "out of stock" rather than "release date moved"

Yes, it's over the limit. Even if it does get stung (which in my personal experience is only about a 1 in 5 chance) that'll add about £15 to the total price, which will still make it cheaper than buying the individual R2 disks, not all of which are out yet IIRC. And as it's a gift for my...

Is that "take a while to restock" or "tack a while to get to the UK" or something else? It was advertised as available on ANN for a couple of weeks, so if ADV never got any copies out I'd be surprised they'd waste money on advertising. Thanks for the cross-posted information...

I've been using play.com and their Region 1 arm perfectly happily since about 2000, but I've now had two items in a month go straight from pre-orderd to out-of-stock with no items being shipped. (Ah! My Goddss Flights of Fancy and Berserk boxed sets if you're interested). I can't tell whether...

I found the final arc of the second season really dragged compared to the previous 2-parters, so in many ways I'd rather see more episodic structure in the third season rather than less. Ideally some kind of subtle thread linking one and two parters together, but if that's not possible avoid...

As someone born and bred there, I truly pity you. No chance of getting it mail ordered or reserved from a Central London store?

That's actually a really good comparison. You just missed out soap opera, impractical dress sense and random fireworks.

Again, if you think the only purpose of titilation is for masturbation, that says more about you than it does about the material. It's perfectly possible for something to be "not very good" or "not very good in my opinion" without meaning it's "wank material" just because it has a few panty...

I'm slightly disturbed by people's implications that the only reason for watching anything even slightly titttilating is for masturbatory reasons. One would imagine they would find themselves being thrown out of the cinema when they went to watch Striptease, Showgirls or... well every other...

I'm not sure if I'm not being clear or you're not - As far as I'm aware Wing is the first series in the After Colony universe. G Gundam may be an alternate universe to the original series, which I can't remember the term for, but it's in no way related to Wing (outside of the overall Gundam...

Is that meaning the prediction is Funi getting Ikkitousen Great Guardians and that MB still have Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny? For some reason I read it as MB transfering/losing the Dragon Destiny rights.