UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Puringa said:
I've read the page and it's a shame they don't have a final sale for remaining and rediscovered stock this year. It was my favourite part of the 2024 sale! Due to that special sale I was able to get the Esclaflowne Ultimate Edition, Snow White with the Red Hair CE, Silent Voice CE...

I'll just hope the 2026 Christmas sale will have this clearance sale again.
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I'm sure there'll be future iterations of clearance sales from titles that we currently have on more general sale, but all the last chance to buy stock from last Christmas is gone - turns out it was indeed the last chance to buy most of it! 😁
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
With apologies for my ignorance on logistical aspects, two points I'd enquire to the feasibility of regarding pre-orders:

1. Would it be possible to have an option for individual pre-orders to be collected and sent together once all have been released, assuming it would save you postage costs as well (and be more environmentally friendly??)?

2. Likewise, any possibility of an option for separating postage for in-stock items and pre-orders within the same order? This could help during normal periods but in particular during sales negating the need to exclude pre-orders during sale periods.

As a layperson I'm probably thinking of how you have the option of separating out delivery and postage of individual items on Amazon, not saying that it is easy or possible to replicate that at a smaller scale, but just a thought.
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Unfortunately our system doesn't allow us to do anything of these things.

1. When you place an order it goes straight into our fulfilment partner system and gets processed from there according to what's in the order and your location, so we don't have the facility to combine them.

2. The issue here is that we can split orders, but a. It's manual, and b. We don't have any facility to calculate the postage costs on checkout to make sure that all works currently. As you've alluded to, we don't have the size or scale to replicate the kind of things that Amazon can do (but we're also not small enough to be able to tend to every order manually by hand either!)
 
Grimraven said:
HAving no new titles to offer seems like a big middle finger to people who have supported, you could have at least provided a couple, this seems more like yeah we still got leftovers so we are giving you our leftover scraps. (All Anime are great don't get me wrong) But cmon this def feels a bit disheartening, This is why i tend to skip a year or two and comeback as they have been pulling this a lot more lately.
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In fairness, we do release a new title almost literally every week of the year all year round, so this isn't a reduction in our output or anything like that, and it certainly isn't a middle finger to anyone. If people are under the impression that we've cancelled half a dozen or more new releases just because there are no new products in this sale, I really do want to disavow folks of that notion!

The general voices we've been hearing over the past few years have been overwhelming in telling us that people don't want to pre-order products during the Christmas sale that will ship in January, and trying to rush products through the process so they can ship in December causes a bunch of knock-on issues, and honestly wouldn't be feasible in a year like this one when we have a lot of large-scale products shipping in late-November and early-December anyway.

That isn't to say there'll never be new products launching in our Christmas sale ever again - every year is its own unique scenario where I have to weigh up a lot of considerations to shape the sale - but for 2025 (and especially considering the cost of living situation for people) I really wanted to focus to be on bigger, better savings to get our currently available titles into the hands of everyone who wants them.
 
Hi again @Hanners

Which 2025 AL release made you the most delighted to get into your personal collection?

And, depending on the materials you get from the licensor, when your side is mocking up cover art (for argument sake lets keep to standard BR format) how many do you typically look at before the team argues it out over which direction to head in?

(let's have some fun questions while we have you!)
 
sirijo said:
Hi again @Hanners

Which 2025 AL release made you the most delighted to get into your personal collection?

And, depending on the materials you get from the licensor, when your side is mocking up cover art (for argument sake lets keep to standard BR format) how many do you typically look at before the team argues it out over which direction to head in?

(let's have some fun questions while we have you!)
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I never signed up for fun!! 😅

Sample stock of our Perfect Blue 4K Deluxe Edition just turned up at the office today, so it may be recency bias but I'm so excited to see this new edition in the flesh. But for sheer cool factor, definitely our DAN DA DAN Season 1 Collector's Editions - I've wanted us to be able to do variant designs on a product in forever, and this was the perfect opportunity and they both came out fantastically, and let us play with cool stuff like glow in the dark effects plus some fantastic custom slipcase designs.

As for when we're working on product designs, it really depends - personally when I'm a product manager I tend to mock up the possibilities myself to see what works in situ, and from there sometimes we make a few variations to show to the team to look at and cast judgement on, and sometimes there's one design that "just works" aesthetically or logically. If I could tell you how many hours I've spent deciding who should go on the front covers of Love Live and Konosuba releases over the years....
 
Hanners said:
I never signed up for fun!! 😅

Sample stock of our Perfect Blue 4K Deluxe Edition just turned up at the office today, so it may be recency bias but I'm so excited to see this new edition in the flesh. But for sheer cool factor, definitely our DAN DA DAN Season 1 Collector's Editions - I've wanted us to be able to do variant designs on a product in forever, and this was the perfect opportunity and they both came out fantastically, and let us play with cool stuff like glow in the dark effects plus some fantastic custom slipcase designs.

As for when we're working on product designs, it really depends - personally when I'm a product manager I tend to mock up the possibilities myself to see what works in situ, and from there sometimes we make a few variations to show to the team to look at and cast judgement on, and sometimes there's one design that "just works" aesthetically or logically. If I could tell you how many hours I've spent deciding who should go on the front covers of Love Live and Konosuba releases over the years....
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I went Team Yokai :D
 
@Hanners hey, probably to late for you to answer today but encase your still here my copy of diebuster hasn't arrived yet and i would have expected it to have arrived by now. the royal mail tracker also doesn't seem to be tracking it, i already sent a message through your contact page but thought i'd try here as well. thanks.
 
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