There's three distributors in the UK. Crunchyroll, Anime Limited and MVM Entertainment. A few years back Manga Entertainment was acquired by Funimation and later rebranded under their name. Funimation later merged and rebranded to Crunchyroll when Sony acquired the company.
Trust me when I say this, but it doesn't cost a lot or take too much resource / time to proof text; especially the amount that I have seen in their collectors edition books anyways. That is the issue I'm getting at anyways based on my own experiences working on materials like books similar to that of the one included with the Nadia set. They can always outsource this stuff to freelancers for example. If people are rushing and messing up stuff like text in what should be quality printed materials, then they need to sort themselves out...
This is my concern, I already own the first 2 seasons of Food Wars, so I wont be buying the anime limited release. I imagine there are other people in the same situation. And I'm concerned if the new sets dont sell well they wont sell the later seasons.
Yep, so easy that I am skipping it entirely. I am not being angry or spiteful here, the truth just is that there is absolutely nothing for me to buy this year. Instead I will buy NANA, Kakegurui seasons 1-2, all seasons of BanG Dream and The Executioner and Her Way of Life from Sentai. Oh, and Kageki Shojo!! from CR.
I waited a couple of years for Gundam 0080 and 08th MS Team, while AL released just about every other Gundam under the sun, before importing. I was sure that my purchase would precipitate an announcement, but nope, still nothin. I don't know what's worse, the Kakegurui situation where they assured us it's coming but (until now) it never came, or the Gundam series where they simply declined to comment one way or the other.
No excuse, competitors also release books with a lot of textual contents, some are indeed plagued by lackluster QC, others can be absolutely fine. If you ask a premium price, you proof read it.
I bought it on Zavvi for £44,99. I'm not sure, that this price was the same on early bird on Anime Ltd site.
I noticed this as well, it's very obvious when you look at the spine as you can clearly see the embosing and the print don't line up at all, which tbh the text not being centered on the spine was the first thing I noticed when I got it (This isn't uncommon for an AL release but the embosing makes it look a lot worse). I'd expect it's an issue with all copies so I don't think a replacement will help much, it's the sorta sloppyness I've come to expect from AL these days unfortunately.
Thanks for checking and for @Magical Senshi for initially reporting this. So I just received my set and immediately did some checking.
Same here. I don't think I've seen anyone receive the standard yet now that you mention it.