UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

bakura said:
That doesn't make me feel confident about the others. Or the con as a whole, it's been surprisingly poorly handled this year.
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I mean I don't know how much its the cons fault if exhibitors don't want to go. AL said to me it was because of the ongoing covid situation. Theres not much MCM can do about companies having that opinion.
 
I talked to the only guy selling anime at the con in October, he told me that even though they had a reduced capacity due to covid they didn't lower the cost of renting the stall space so thinking they wouldn't make there money back due to less people they just didn't bother and that's why you didn't see the bigger stalls there. Meanwhile when I look on the mcm twitter there's been constant messages for weeks about people not getting confirmation on there stalls this may in ah appropriate amount of time. Plus how can it be covid related when they've removed the restrictions including limited tickets?
 
bakura said:
I talked to the only guy selling anime at the con in October, he told me that even though they had a reduced capacity due to covid they didn't lower the cost of renting the stall space so thinking they wouldn't make there money back due to less people they just didn't bother and that's why you didn't see the bigger stalls there. Meanwhile when I look on the mcm twitter there's been constant messages for weeks about people not getting confirmation on there stalls this may in ah appropriate amount of time. Plus how can it be covid related when they've removed the restrictions including limited tickets?
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I mean that's what AL said to me. This is exactly what Andy said in his email:

Regarding MCM London Comic Con, unfortunately due to the continuing COVID-19 situation we've made the decision not to attend these events this year, so we won't be exhibiting in person at the event in May.
 
Far enough just hope the others will be there. Though not sure how attended its going to be. I've actually seen people who've bought tickets say there not going because of the poor communication and week guests.
 
RadFemHedonist said:
I'm confused about Future Boy Conan... pretty sure originally they were gonna do a proper book of 132 pages? I love Victorian Romance Emma but not sure that I can justify triple dipping when I already own the US BDs.
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Heya - just dropping in briefly (the joy of growing, lots more for poor lil' old me to do now!)

Playing a bit of catch up but this one was one of mine. So actually it wasn't downgraded or the budget cut at all. We commissioned a 29,300 word piece, in line with a BFI Classics book (which average between 25,000 and 30,000 words on average).

Jonathan delivered this and in the end the image assets we had / page layout meant the page count shifted from 132 pages just because I'd based that on Momotaro's required pages as it was a similar word count (what I forgot when doing that was that with Momotaro we had a bit more room for original artwork due to age of the property.)

Hope that clarifies on it!

Andrew
 
While I'm here! Some more answers :).

Hunter_Killer said:
Anyway, I have other question, because I lost focus on information... Probably. What's going on with this:

Let the vampires reign again, as Seraph of the End returns to the UK with a new Collector’s Edition, including seasons one and two of the series plus the original soundtrack from Hiroyuki Sawano on CD!

And now I see, that this box has only TV series (without OST)?
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This one is totally on us - unfortunately after we listed the product things changed around and the soundtrack had to be removed. Nothing exciting behind it and a very unusual situation - sorry for any confusion or disappointment caused there.

Hunter_Killer said:
Second question, Blood-C Ultimate Edition Blu-ray was already sent? I'm asking, because release date is set for end of April, and I don't receive information abound send package.
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Blood-C Ultimate Edition is running behind due to me wanting to fine tune it all even more (there is A LOT) of very interesting stuff we were able to put together into it. It's off into print now so just waiting on the finished product to ship here!

Andrew
 
Lavigne said:
Does anyone know if they’ve said they have Lupin the 3rd Part 1? I also have the US release pre-ordered but will happily knock that one in the head if an AL version is coming. Seems likely given the amount of other Lupin stuff they’re releasing, but I can’t remember Part 1 being mentioned…
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We haven't said yet but we're big fans of Lupin III and have more Lupin on the way. Currently I have nothing to say about Part I yet but stay tuned for more Lupin news :).

Andrew
 
thedoctor2016 said:
I thought they would be hyping it up more videos with the new scan etc getting the newer (as it’s a few years old can’t call it new now) JP scan and changing the subs from NISA, I did think it would have been getting a big campaign but if it is truly coming out on the 23rd it will be with a whimper and not a bang,
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We definitely will be giving it a real push circa release - I'd point out that pre-sales have been very strong as is there. It's a project where a lot of curved balls can crop up in authoring given both the age of the language materials and the runtime (70 episodes is a l o t.)

Best,

Andrew
 
AHA-Lambda said:
Is ATA (or anyone else for that matter) planning to release Belle on vinyl?

I saw Milan Records had a pre order link go live last night but that appears to be US only and sold out near instantly.
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It's MIlan releasing it, not us but we'll be stocking it on our store shortly :). It's just taken a bit longer than usual to get the info on this one for the EU side - we'll have an announcement for it on the store when it's ready for preorders :).

Andrew
 
awadama fever said:
I made more than my money back too (thanks to the £13.49 Cardcaptor saving), but unfortunately I can't afford to buy much anime anymore.

I haven't bought anything from AL since the start of December and I really don't know when I'll be able to again, so Unlimited had to go! 😅
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That's pretty fair, also you can always resubscribe when you think you're likely to make back the cost of it in discounts or such as well! Always open to feedback and thoughts on ways to improve it as well :).

Andrew
 
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