UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

Yeah I agree with this. It does seem they're biting off more than they can chew. They'd get far more of my money if they'd release more retro shows as well but alas we seem to get only a handful of pre 2000's anime every few years and meanwhile the US has stuff that's not even on disc in Japan currently. I totally agree about the lack of transparency forcing people to go elsewhere. It used to be that about 70% of my purchases were from the US because I'm more of an enthusiast of retro anime. Even though I do enjoy newer stuff, I've just been chasing a big backlog of decades worth of unreleased titles that America is finally putting out on disc as an older fan who got into it young. That remaining 30% though....the newer stuff? I used to be picking that up from AL however now I find they're not really releasing that much that I enjoy on that front either.

I've been a bit out of the loop regarding news with not being on the forum for a while but are they really focusing on Macross? if that's the case they don't seem to be doing too good a job with it considering it's only really Zero and Plus that have come out (and the Plus release as documented here wasn't exactly well handled).
 
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Scrambled Valkyrie said:
Yeah I agree with this. It does seem they're biting off more than they can chew. They'd get far more of my money if they'd release more retro shows as well but alas we seem to get only a handful of pre 2000's anime every few years and meanwhile the US has stuff that's not even on disc in Japan currently. I totally agree about the lack of transparency forcing people to go elsewhere. It used to be that about 70% of my purchases were from the US because I'm more of an enthusiast of retro anime. Even though I do enjoy newer stuff, I've just been chasing a big backlog of decades worth of unreleased titles that America is finally putting out on disc since I'm an older fan who got into it young. That remaining 30% though....the newer stuff? I used to be picking that up from AL however now I find they're not really releasing that much that I enjoy on that front either.

I've been a bit out of the loop regarding news with not being on the forum for a while but are they really focusing on Macross? if that's the case they don't seem to be doing too good a job with it considering it's only really Zero and Plus that have come out (and the Plus release as documented here wasn't exactly well handled).
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It's how it feels to me at least. The only Gundam stuff they've done in recent memory were the Freedom and GQuuuuuuX theatrical releases and those seem to have more been a case of Bandai bringing them in because (to give AL their due) they really push the boat out with theatrical releases. Other than that I think it's just the HD movie trilogy set, which was forced to use archaic subs by Sunrise and had a booklet full of errors and typos.

In contrast in recent history Macross seems to be getting a lot of dedicated attention from them.
 
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Yep, it's a shame. I have been waiting for this movie ever since the first trailer was released and I have been daydreaming about what kind of beautiful Collector's Edition AL will give to it.
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No need to daydream?
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The Italian edition of The Colors Within is listed with English & German dub & sub. The German edition is a store exclusive. Both include a special features disc & OST.
I guess it's quite likely that the Anime Ltd release will look quite close to one of these - and given the fact that the Italian & German releases are scheduled for June will be announced & released very soon.
 
Relaxo said:
No need to daydream?
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The Italian edition of The Colors Within is listed with English & German dub & sub. The German edition is a store exclusive. Both include a special features disc & OST.
I guess it's quite likely that the Anime Ltd release will look quite close to one of these - and given the fact that the Italian & German releases are scheduled for June will be announced & released very soon.
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Sooooo pretty and lovely! 😍
 
Ive never understood how they can get 1 series of an anime, and then crunchyroll the rest, rent a girlfriend for example, whats the point in that?
 
Dave1988 said:
Ive never understood how they can get 1 series of an anime, and then crunchyroll the rest, rent a girlfriend for example, whats the point in that?
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I think sometimes they're at the whims of what the production committee/studio feel is in their own interest. I know there have been cases where season 1 of a show has gone to one service, exploded in popularity and then the rights for season 2 have been sold to a different streaming service.

From my own firsthand experience, a lot of the production side of anime can be cutthroat internationally. It's a way to make money for them, nothing more. Some will quite happily put a bigger licensing fee first and leave their initial regional partner to face irate fans.
 
@HellCat Wasn't exactly sure what you were getting at in regards to A-ko. Were you saying you picked up AL's release of A-ko to illustrate the point you don't enjoy being negative about AL? Just felt I missed some context.

@Dave1988 It's incredibly annoying when 2 separate companies release something and their releases aren't even remotely similar. Like one company puts out a big fat collector's box using the official logo and some other company releases it in a standard set with their own completely different design with a huge BBFC logo bigger than the title and the text looks completely different alongside the other set.

Not that I'm OCD or anything :D
 
Scrambled Valkyrie said:
@HellCat Wasn't exactly sure what you were getting at in regards to A-ko. Were you saying you picked up AL's release of A-ko to illustrate the point you don't enjoy being negative about AL? Just felt I missed some context.

@Dave1988 It's incredibly annoying when 2 separate companies release something and their releases aren't even remotely similar. Like one company puts out a big fat collector's box using the official logo and some other company releases it in a standard set with their own completely different design with a huge BBFC logo bigger than the title and the text looks completely different alongside the other set.

Not that I'm OCD or anything :D
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Got the AL release of A-Ko just before the Early Bird ended. A case of partially putting my money where my mouth is.
 
@HellCat I thought that's what you meant but just wanted to double check just in case.

I've got the Discotek release of Project A-ko but I kinda want the AL one as a big retro anime guy for the artbox and the Jonathan Clements article. It's a lot to pay for an artbox and a 12 page booklet though (Continues to hum and ha further). 🤔
 
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While we're all complaining having thoughts...

Inuyasha Season 1 - November 2021

Inuyasha Season 2 - May 2024

Inuyasha Season 3 - ?????????
 
awadama said:
While we're all complaining having thoughts...

Inuyasha Season 1 - November 2021

Inuyasha Season 2 - May 2024

Inuyasha Season 3 - ?????????
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I would like to point out the episode count of the 2nd, being 3 lower than the US release, are we to see those eps spread over later sets or is it to be more sets than the Viz released?
 
Scrambled Valkyrie said:
I've got the Discotek release of Project A-ko but I kinda want the AL one as a big retro anime guy for the artbox and the Jonathan Clements article. It's a lot to pay for an artbox and a 12 page booklet though (Continues to hum and ha further). 🤔
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I have the Discotek too as I got it before AL announced theirs, but I will still get AL's standard edition just because I greatly prefer the thicker and sturdier UK style cases. Discotek's packaging always seems a little cheap to me; they tend to use low quality cases that I end up replacing, and their slips aren't very well made or printed, and I absolutely hate their slips after they started doing them with the rounded corners as the one on A-ko is; I just throw those rounded corner ones in the trash so them having slips now isn't any selling point for me.
 
Since they announced a second Bleach box set, has AL confirmed anything about fixing the Viz Media Blu-rays from Set 7 onward? Set 7 is when the really bad Viz upscale begins.
 
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