UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread
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msgeek said:Have you seen the Italian version;
Possibly closer to what we could get?
http://www.amazon.it/Mobile-Gundam-01-2 ... B00OSLZ42Q
Couple of interesting points;
1) it's out already...
2) It says 5 disks - ours says 3...?
3) It's at a 60 EUR price point... Could point to the UK version being low £40's at release if cross-territory price parity is a thing?
- 4 discs are the anime (Eps 1-22 for them, so maybe including Ep 15). 3 discs for 21 episodes is AOK - 7 eps per BD50 is perfectly normal there.
- 1 disc is full of bonus features, unsure if we have access or not so I need to look into what is on our release.
- I fully expect the price to hit low 40s or late 30s by launch on Amazon so watch this space, always takes a while for pricing points to hit in
!Hope that helps!
AP
sniper_samurai
Railgun
Don't forget Italy is the only country in Europe that has domestic releases of the Gunpla kits. They also got an extremely reasonably priced bluray release of Unicorn unlike the repackaged Japanese releases that we got.
HdE
Comic Book Guy
News of the approach to extra content on the MSG discs is welcome - and goes a long way toward answering some of my questions over the value for money it represents.
Confirmation that Reconguista in G is going to be released in two parts is, for me, a little disappointing considering the RRP, but actually pretty understandable. After all, I'm not aware that ANYBODY else has solicited this for a home video release ANYWHERE outside of Japan. And the show still feelsl comparatively hot off the press. So props are due for that. All eyes on what happens with the RRP and eventual prices as discounted by vendors, though.
A question for Andrew, though, if he feels inclined to answer:
A 26 episode Gundam show is actually pretty rare. Most entries in the franchise clock in around 50-ish episodes all told, or comprise a shorter OVA series. With that in mind, could we possibly look forward to a complete series collection of G-Reco a ways down the line?
Confirmation that Reconguista in G is going to be released in two parts is, for me, a little disappointing considering the RRP, but actually pretty understandable. After all, I'm not aware that ANYBODY else has solicited this for a home video release ANYWHERE outside of Japan. And the show still feelsl comparatively hot off the press. So props are due for that. All eyes on what happens with the RRP and eventual prices as discounted by vendors, though.
A question for Andrew, though, if he feels inclined to answer:
A 26 episode Gundam show is actually pretty rare. Most entries in the franchise clock in around 50-ish episodes all told, or comprise a shorter OVA series. With that in mind, could we possibly look forward to a complete series collection of G-Reco a ways down the line?
jonno394
Za Warudo
Two parts for a series (or up to 13 per set) fits in with almost everything AL have Released so far barring ultimate editions and durarara. I think rec g will fall in line with other shows and get reduced to the 35-40 mark by amazon prior to launch (I think 32 is the lowest Amazon dropped to for blood lad)
Just need confirmation about whether it'll be "collectors edition" though, same with samurai flamenco and ping pong because if they're not, I personally think the rrp should be lower than the rest of AL releases.....
Just need confirmation about whether it'll be "collectors edition" though, same with samurai flamenco and ping pong because if they're not, I personally think the rrp should be lower than the rest of AL releases.....
HdE said:
Where we can - we do a complete set down the line
. I'm back in Japan in under two weeks so intend to discuss the topic then - as there was some swaying on if we could go straight to complete or not and either way, I'd like to do something nice with the show for folks .So TL;DR - At some point,yes, but I need to see when works
!AP
Lutga
Mad Scientist
I have to admit, I'm surprised G Reco is even getting a physical release, considering the critical reception it got during its streaming run - so glad it's being given a shot in the UK. Heck, imagine if US people were actually importing from us in the UK for a change to get it!
I have to admit, it might have been nice to have a dub for it, to hopefully try and wring some semblance of sense out of Tomino's writing in it - but anything is better than nothing, and it's a pretty good looking show, so the fact it's getting the BR treatment is appreciated.
I have to admit, it might have been nice to have a dub for it, to hopefully try and wring some semblance of sense out of Tomino's writing in it - but anything is better than nothing, and it's a pretty good looking show, so the fact it's getting the BR treatment is appreciated.
Buzz201
Mad Scientist
Lutga said:
I don't know, but from what I've heard, a lot of AL's Aniplex titles get imported by Americans, because AL's prices are much more affordable than Aniplex of America's. I think that might be behind the drive to split titles into more and more smaller boxes.
If Andrew could secure a lossless dub for Aldnoah.Zero, that'd probably get him a few as well. (Baffling decision from AoA there, for the prices they charge, you'd think they could afford more than one disc.) Although, I'd personally have to think carefully about buying it, if A/Z was split into 4 different releases.
HdE
Comic Book Guy
anime_andrew said:HdE said:
Where we can - we do a complete set down the line
So TL;DR - At some point,yes, but I need to see when works
AP
Thanks for the answer, Andrew.
I can fully appreciate negotiating release details for a behemoth franchise like this must be an undertaking in and of itself. Best of luck!
Rosencrantz
Dragon Knight
Anyone got any info about the AL release of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya?
It's out in September but there seems to be a distinct lack of info at present, all I've been able to find was an article on all the anime written by the chief of UK Anime Network. Tokyo Ghoul is out the same day and we've had the box art for that since June, even allowing for licensors being annoying it seems to be very quiet on this title.
It's out in September but there seems to be a distinct lack of info at present, all I've been able to find was an article on all the anime written by the chief of UK Anime Network. Tokyo Ghoul is out the same day and we've had the box art for that since June, even allowing for licensors being annoying it seems to be very quiet on this title.
Mangaranga
Za Warudo
Disc space was certainly not the problem for the Aniplex.Buzz201 said:
The dub track on Aniplex's release crackles/distorts a lot. If that's as a result of being a low quality audio track rather than being in the recording, I'd certainly appreciate a lossless track if it exists and you can access it.
Buzz201
Mad Scientist
Well that's... bizarre. Everyone was assuming disc space was the problem, which is why I made that comment.Mangaranga said:
I'm wondering if there were production flaws they couldn't afford to fix, so as a result went for lossy audio to try and cover some of it up. I thought Aniplex normally went to Bang Zoom! though, so I'd be surprised if it was a production error, given they have a fair amount of experience and work on some big US animated shows.
Emulsion
Death Scythe
Buzz201 said:
It could be. There might not be enough room in the title set containing the episode(s) for two lossless tracks.
Watchmen directors cut is encoded at 27mbps and has 3 audio tracks. The total mux rate for the stream containing the movie is 34.53Mbps, so it's well within the specified limit of 48Mbps allowed.
msgeek
Magical Girl
Given that it's a just over 30GB and a just over 20GB it almost looks as if they went;
Ah lets fit it all on one 50GB disk.
It's gonna be tight - gonna have to compress the audio.
Hey guys... We forgot all this other stuff...
Ah ****.... Looks like it's 2 disks after all...
Should we re-do the audio now we got the space?
Nah... Time + Money + No-one notices that stuff do they...?
Ah lets fit it all on one 50GB disk.
It's gonna be tight - gonna have to compress the audio.
Hey guys... We forgot all this other stuff...
Ah ****.... Looks like it's 2 disks after all...
Should we re-do the audio now we got the space?
Nah... Time + Money + No-one notices that stuff do they...?
Mangaranga
Za Warudo
Most AoA part releases are two discs. The only time where space has ever been an issue previously was for volume 5 of Kill La Kill. Ultimately we still got dual 24bit PCM streams, but the video bitrate was reduced ever so slightly to fit everything on one disc. For A/Z, the only thing I can think of is that they were absolutely adamant to have 3 episodes on each disc for an equal split, and that they couldn't fit 3 episodes as is with uncompressed audio onto disc 2 (BD25).
I don't see how this can be an issue when you strictly have 47gb to play around with. I believe there are some releases which go over that limit slightly though. (Index S2 and UK release of Blood Lad?)Buzz201 said:
Buzz201
Mad Scientist
Mangaranga said:
45gb was an approximation, I don't know the exactly limit, but you are supposed to leave a gig or two free, because some players can't handle full discs.
The video bit rate limit thing is because the chips in some old players can't handle bitrates that exceed a certain amount. Most new players would do perfectly fine with the content, but most masterers choose to cap bitrates off just in case. I mean how depressing would it be a disc was "too good" for your player...