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Googlyhead said:
It’s 2026 now. Unless I’m mistaken, next month is the release date.
Which means come Xmas it probably won’t still be a pre-order, therefore no EB or redux of same.

Although yes; hopefully in some offer or discount.
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Redux is simply going down to the EB price as far as I understand. Never needed to do it before, either bought the thing during EB or wasn't going to anyway.

EDIT: Just checked the redux list from last year and picked one I bought. TEKKONKINKREET went up for EB last January and I posted my dispatch notice in February. So went to EB redux 10 months after release. Now the Summer Wars release is May, but the EB was March so it might just about be eligible.
 
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sirijo said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2039251535633228265

Oh boy what a cool announcement not at all suspiciously timed
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Ironically, as someone who owns a VCR but not a 4K TV or a record player, this would have been one of the few recent AL releases I could have bought!

Hopefully they will be following up the joke with a real newswire soon. It's been three months since the last one.
 
Dai said:
Ironically, as someone who owns a VCR but not a 4K TV or a record player, this would have been one of the few recent AL releases I could have bought!

Hopefully they will be following up the joke with a real newswire soon. It's been three months since the last one.
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Maybe the recently revealed Gkids DANDADAN S2 sets would be the headliners....
 
Suzu said:
@Hanners what is the situation with Kakegurui Season 2? In 2021 AL said said that people have nothing to worry about regarding them releasing Kakegurui's second season only to never release it. Like, people expressed worry about AL not releasing Kakegurui's second season due to AL having a track record of not licensing and releasing second seasons of March Comes in Like a Lion and Amanchu and AL said "Let's just say you don't have anything to worry about in that regard in Kakegurui's case" only to never give any updates or news regarding the release of second season and then just never releasing it. Has the license for season 2 expired or has AL just given up on ever releasing it?

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F*ck, Sentai Filmworks' release of Kakegurui Season 2 is out of print. I never ever should have trusted AL. I should have just bought Sentai's releases of seasons 1 and 2 of Kakegurui but no, I was a f*cking idiot who wanted to trust AL's words when they claimed we have nothing to worry about in regarding them releasing the second season. I cancelled my pre-order for Sentai's release of Kakegurui seasons 1-2 in favor of AL's release and wasted my time waiting for them to release season 2 which they never released.
 
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Suzu said:
F*ck, Sentai Filmworks' release of Kakegurui Season 2 is out of print. I never ever should have trusted AL. I should have just bought Sentai's releases of seasons 1 and 2 of Kakegurui but no, I was a f*cking idiot who wanted to trust AL's words when they claimed we have nothing to worry about in regarding them releasing the second season. I cancelled my pre-order for Sentai's release of Kakegurui seasons 1-2 in favor of AxVL's release and wasted my time waiting for them to release season 2 which they never released.
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Between Kakegurui and a few other seemingly abandoned shows, AL have created a situation for themselves where customers might hesitate to buy a series 1 release because of their tendency to never release series 2 - which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy as the series 1 sells poorly. I mean, I'm wondering if it's worth buying Dangers in My Heart s1 as it's 50/50 whether we'll get any more.

I don't necessarily blame them for not releasing more of a series that hasn't sold. But either staying quiet about it or, as in the case of Kakegurui, insisting that it's coming when it never does, is not ideal.
 
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fabio de lunatico said:
Between Kakegurui and a few other seemingly abandoned shows, AL have created a situation for themselves where customers might hesitate to buy a series 1 release because of their tendency to never release series 2 - which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy as the series 1 sells poorly. I mean, I'm wondering if it's worth buying Dangers in My Heart s1 as it's 50/50 whether we'll get any more.

I don't necessarily blame them for not releasing more of a series that hasn't sold. But either staying quiet about it or, as in the case of Kakegurui, insisting that it's coming when it never does, is not ideal.
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If I'm remembering correctly, AL announced seasons 1 & 2 together.

Edit: They announced both seasons at the May 2025 expo.

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fabio de lunatico said:
Between Kakegurui and a few other seemingly abandoned shows, AL have created a situation for themselves where customers might hesitate to buy a series 1 release because of their tendency to never release series 2 - which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy as the series 1 sells poorly. I mean, I'm wondering if it's worth buying Dangers in My Heart s1 as it's 50/50 whether we'll get any more.

I don't necessarily blame them for not releasing more of a series that hasn't sold. But either staying quiet about it or, as in the case of Kakegurui, insisting that it's coming when it never does, is not ideal.
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I've kicked myself a few times for not pouncing on the really obscure Gundam stuff rightstuf did. Even if AL are still working on the franchise, I struggle to see them EVER doing stuff like Gundam-san or SD. It's been a decade and they haven't even finished UC.
 
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