UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

britguy said:
wow, awesome stuff, wonder if we'll get the same with Space Dandy?

Sadly not - just doesn't match up as well but we're definitely keeping it in mind on other projects. Wait til you see what we have planned for Dandy Season 2 ;).

Andrew
 
Mangaranga said:
DesuDayo said:
Just pre-ordered part 2+3 from Amazon really hoping that I will get the Collector's Box ( ̄□ ̄;)!!

If I order it right now directly from Anime Limited am I guaranteed to get the Collector's Box?
It's a first print run bonus. If you pre-order part 3 then you are guaranteed to get the Box regardless of who you order from.

Exactly as Mangaranga says - it'll cover everyone in the first day purchase at the very least (I'd imagine for a while afterwards too).

AP
 
anime_andrew said:
britguy said:
wow, awesome stuff, wonder if we'll get the same with Space Dandy?

Sadly not - just doesn't match up as well but we're definitely keeping it in mind on other projects. Wait til you see what we have planned for Dandy Season 2 ;).

Andrew

I hate your teases :twisted:

But can't wait :)
 
I know you probably get requests all the time but could you maybe release sword of the stranger. It has never come over to the UK and the only option at the moment to get it with english subs would be to spend about £35 on a spanish import that apparently had english subs.
 
black1blade said:
I know you probably get requests all the time but could you maybe release sword of the stranger. It has never come over to the UK and the only option at the moment to get it with english subs would be to spend about £35 on a spanish import that apparently had english subs.

Beez did it a few years back. I have a dvd copy if you wanted it.
 
Durial666 said:
black1blade said:
I know you probably get requests all the time but could you maybe release sword of the stranger. It has never come over to the UK and the only option at the moment to get it with english subs would be to spend about £35 on a spanish import that apparently had english subs.

Beez did it a few years back. I have a dvd copy if you wanted it.


The also did a blu-Ray release which I have. It came quite a bit after the DVD release IIRC. I do think it could do with another release though it's a great film and I think with the rep that Anime Ltd are building it will probably get more attention this time.
 
qaiz said:
The box is alright, more custom than I thought they would go for, and its good that they listened to peoples feedback as it was something that a lot of people on Facebook and Twitter were asking for since the announcement of KLK being released in multiple parts. Its a little too...over-engineered for my tastes.

All it needed was a simple slipbox, like the one that came with the Vol 1 Manman released in Australia. A little 'OCD', but why does the 'spine' have five stripes when there's only 3 volumes? :$ Its a design choice, but an odd one for me at least. Design wise its a bit plain with huge logos and a profile pic on one side and another on the outer spine, with her bottom half missing, but given the assets available and the fact that they weren't going to do a box at all at first, fair enough I guess. I have a feeling that the 1st press will last a while, even long after release. Its a miss for me in any case, for obvious reasons but it seems like everyone is happy, and it works to get people who might have otherwise waited to now go and pre-order. Good business move for Anime Limited to get pre-order numbers up and I can see more first press/pre-order bonuses down the line mimicking the way games have been for a while.

The box that they released in Aus:
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Less special, more practical.

Re stripes- it's an odd choice to you because you're deriving meaning from the wrong place. The stripes were never mean to correspond to the number of volumes in the box but rather a design choice based on Kill la KIll's packaging as a whole :).

Re cover design - can't please everyone alas but the design was based on a highly restrictive set of assets and a genuine desire to do something interesting design wise as opposed to a cookie-cut using the only keyart available. France did similar to Australia but in a clamshell for example, Germany did the same as Australia etc. Worth noting is that profile pic didn't cut her bottom half off - it matches the original illustration which came from Volume 9's cover in Japan with 100% accuracy and we felt was a nice touch instead of a blank spine :).

To be fair - if you're not buying it anyway it's no worry for you I guess anyway - but glad to see both sides of the coin on it and personally I'm very happy with the work given it's no only very unique on the homevideo frontier compared to the rest of the world but we're also offering it at no extra cost as part of the service :).

Ultimately if we'd wanted practical & a bit dull we'd have taken less time to approve or design but we went instead for something far more interesting, no less practical (moreso I'd argue as you can lift each volume out without tipping the box) and with a real feeling of care into the design :).

Hopefully regardless of it's the box for you or not it makes sense :)!

Andrew
 
Dan said:
Durial666 said:
black1blade said:
I know you probably get requests all the time but could you maybe release sword of the stranger. It has never come over to the UK and the only option at the moment to get it with english subs would be to spend about £35 on a spanish import that apparently had english subs.

Beez did it a few years back. I have a dvd copy if you wanted it.


The also did a blu-Ray release which I have. It came quite a bit after the DVD release IIRC. I do think it could do with another release though it's a great film and I think with the rep that Anime Ltd are building it will probably get more attention this time.

It is on a list somewhere so watch this space...

AP
 
Can't argue about taste, it's an endless discussion :D

But i like the UK collector's box set much better than that Australian release. On the AU release it seems to me like "hey, let's just slam all the characters of the show on there ... just because we can" :)
 
The new box is very sexy. I already preordered the set so hopefully I'll be receiving it in due course :3

(And I don't even like the show that much!)

R
 
I haven't even watched it yet lol. The collectors box just makes me want to own it even more, though.

@Stiivun Yeah. I'm not a big fan of too many images on the AU box either.

anime_andrew said:
Sadly not - just doesn't match up as well but we're definitely keeping it in mind on other projects. Wait til you see what we have planned for Dandy Season 2 ;).

Andrew

Hopefully one of those other projects is a box to collect all of the Satoshi Kon works. *shifty*

A Collector's box in the shape of Dandy's two favourite things?! :eek:
 
Rui said:
(And I don't even like the show that much!)
Do i spot the sign of the real collector there :D

Well i absolutely loved it, it's so weird and wonderful. Also different from a lot of other shows. Maybe a strange connection in my brain (i do have them :) ), but Kill la Kill reminds me a lot of those weird seventies and eighties movies, Vanishing Point, Deliverance and Runaway Train to name just those three.
 
Personally I love KlK's box. I pre-ordered it quite a while ago (February 3rd, to be more exact), but sometimes Amazon doesn't send me my orders on the first day (I remember having to wait for almost a week after Durarara was released for them to send it). Hopefully that won't happen this time around and I get the box as well.
 
Y2Johnny said:
Personally I love KlK's box. I pre-ordered it quite a while ago (February 3rd, to be more exact), but sometimes Amazon doesn't send me my orders on the first day (I remember having to wait for almost a week after Durarara was released for them to send it). Hopefully that won't happen this time around and I get the box as well.
Since Amazon started really pushing prime they 90% of the time won't ship preorders until 2 to 3 days after release for standard delivery.
 
Jon O Fun said:
Y2Johnny said:
Personally I love KlK's box. I pre-ordered it quite a while ago (February 3rd, to be more exact), but sometimes Amazon doesn't send me my orders on the first day (I remember having to wait for almost a week after Durarara was released for them to send it). Hopefully that won't happen this time around and I get the box as well.
Since Amazon started really pushing prime they 90% of the time won't ship preorders until 2 to 3 days after release for standard delivery.

See, but that's the thing... my last order from them (the second volume of KlK) got sent on Saturday, two days before the official release date. First time it ever happened to me, too, and I don't have Prime nor am I from the UK. I just attributed it down to luck. Still, I really hope I'll get the box.
 
anime_andrew said:
Re stripes- it's an odd choice to you because you're deriving meaning from the wrong place. The stripes were never mean to correspond to the number of volumes in the box but rather a design choice based on Kill la KIll's packaging as a whole :).

Re cover design - can't please everyone alas but the design was based on a highly restrictive set of assets and a genuine desire to do something interesting design wise as opposed to a cookie-cut using the only keyart available. France did similar to Australia but in a clamshell for example, Germany did the same as Australia etc. Worth noting is that profile pic didn't cut her bottom half off - it matches the original illustration which came from Volume 9's cover in Japan with 100% accuracy and we felt was a nice touch instead of a blank spine :).

To be fair - if you're not buying it anyway it's no worry for you I guess anyway - but glad to see both sides of the coin on it and personally I'm very happy with the work given it's no only very unique on the homevideo frontier compared to the rest of the world but we're also offering it at no extra cost as part of the service :).

Ultimately if we'd wanted practical & a bit dull we'd have taken less time to approve or design but we went instead for something far more interesting, no less practical (moreso I'd argue as you can lift each volume out without tipping the box) and with a real feeling of care into the design :).

Hopefully regardless of it's the box for you or not it makes sense :)!

Andrew
Don't worry about it, like I said, its obvious that the response in regards to the box has been very positive by everyone here and on your social media channels to say the least and again I noted the surprise that you went out of your way to not only delivery one of the more requested items for the KLK set but also put effort into the box itself instead of going to easy way out, I guess I've just been burned plenty times over and in the end prefer the easy way. The stripes was just a silly ocd gripe, one that I have whilst understanding why it's designed the way it is in the first place and again is something that 99.99% of the people buying this will have no issues with, because in the end there is no issue. Is the lid hinged or removable? Because if it was removable then that would be a lot better.

In any case, I will watch the release on the sideline and will resume purchasing Anime Limited goods when I'm personally happy with the way things are heading and the way this box turns out for people will play a role in that, but for now I wait. As it goes, I've been burned too many times and...I've got enough on my hands with those stupid Amiibo's...
 
Double post, but there's some comparisons of the new Royal Space Force release: Link

The Blu-ray is going to look the same as the Bandai Visual release and these are just the DVD comparisons..right?
 
The Blu-ray is going to look the same as the Bandai Visual release and these are just the DVD comparisons..right?
Suggests the AL HD screencaps appear lower quality than the Bandai ones (although to me they don't look any different). If that wasn't your intention I'm sorry qaiz, but I'm not sure how else that statement could have been taken.
 
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