awadama
Mad Scientist
Are you becoming Girls with Swords?!
UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread
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Girls with Guns
Shinki
Are you becoming Girls with Swords?!
Well, "Girls with Katana" had always been my second choice for favorite anime with armed female characters...
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I'm a bit concerned about the UK release for I'm Standing on a Million-Lives now. Crunchyroll US have re-obtained the home video rights from Sentai (so their sub-license deal is pretty much over at this point) and they're going to be releasing the series in two season sets (12 eps per 2 discs per release), starting with Season 1 this September.
I'm bringing this up because Anime Ltd are currently planning to release all the episodes together in one complete set on 3 discs but since their initial early bird their release has been pushed back to August with no explanation (and for Amazon its now the start of September).
With Crunchyroll handling the US release, now would be a good opportunity to be upfront and clarify what is going on - is the UK release sticking to a complete set and if so why was it delayed (there was no email communication about the delay from what I've seen), or is it going to be modified to follow the US release instead by splitting it up into two parts (and I personally don't want to pay for two CEs where the second set is just a poster and art cards)?
I'm bringing this up because Anime Ltd are currently planning to release all the episodes together in one complete set on 3 discs but since their initial early bird their release has been pushed back to August with no explanation (and for Amazon its now the start of September).
With Crunchyroll handling the US release, now would be a good opportunity to be upfront and clarify what is going on - is the UK release sticking to a complete set and if so why was it delayed (there was no email communication about the delay from what I've seen), or is it going to be modified to follow the US release instead by splitting it up into two parts (and I personally don't want to pay for two CEs where the second set is just a poster and art cards)?
cfx
Student Council President
As soon as I saw this as part of the Crunchyroll announcements, I had similar thoughts.
As you point out, at the very minimum Sentai has lost their rights to release this one. Do you know if AL sublicensed from Sentai or got it from Crunchyroll? I assumed the former but I have no particular knowledge; that it was to be 3 discs at least suggested the possibility of reusing Sentai's discs (assuming Sentai had gotten to that point in their release plans of course).
Even if AL sticks to the single set, would they now delay to where they will use Crunchyroll's discs and thus up the disc count to 4? And if not, which encoding house will they use? I'm not up on all of that other than I know AL has some very good releases but certain ones that come from a French(?) source that aren't so good in quality, like Yohane The Parhelion. Knowing the answer to that would influence which company's product I would want to buy. I will get AL's version as long as it isn't inferior in video quality. This is a show I've really been looking forward to owning.
When Sentai (and Viz) acquired a bunch of Crunchyroll titles, their license only covered the US & Canada, so Anime Limited and Crunchyroll UK were able to pick up the UK rights direct from Crunchyroll US without a problem.
Crunchyroll authors the discs themselves for their releases and are fine for the most part. Anime Limited probably would have used VDMS if Sentai didn't author the discs on-time, as I don't believe this title is being released in France by them so using a French authoring company wouldn't make sense in this instance.
Takei Daloui
Vampire Ninja
I imagine changing stuff at this stage to be a totally different product of 2 parts wouldn't be possible either without giving refunds to everyone first who doesn't want it as they'd be releasing a product vastly different from what they let people order.
cfx
Student Council President
Aha, that makes more sense than what I was thinking.
Yeah I don't have any problem with Crunchyroll's discs in general. I know there are said to be some issues but it's not something I notice. I've heard VDMS is very good.
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
I haven't ordered anything from AL in so long I'm not even sure if I still have the Anime Unlimited discount code or not. Do they auto renew unless you cancel? Normally I'm pretty good at being on top of this kind of stuff but having just recovered from a major depression episode a lot of things that weren't important at that moment were put on the back burner.
EDIT: Didn't order anything last year and they still sent me the exclusive discount codes so I must still be a member. Is there a way to find your code when signed into your account or do you need to find it in an old email?
EDIT: Didn't order anything last year and they still sent me the exclusive discount codes so I must still be a member. Is there a way to find your code when signed into your account or do you need to find it in an old email?
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Shadow Cat
Death Scythe
Auto renews
To check
Account - where your address shows there is "manage membership"
Desktop its center/right
Mobile its bottom
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
@shadowcat Found it thanks. yeah as I suspected it's active. Still not sure how I find my code though. Going through all my old emails to see if I've still got the initial one where it was sent to me.
Shadow Cat
Death Scythe
ANIMEUNLIMITED for 10% off
Then they do single use 15% promo's during sales like Christmas
Scrambled Valkyrie
School Idol
Ha Ha. Now I feel like a tit. For some reason I thought it was different for everyone. Thanks. Not sure they've got anything I actually want but it's nice to have access to for future reference.
RedundantSquash
Dandy Guy, in Space
I am about ready to give up on this company. I contacted them on May 22nd to say that my Blu-ray from my Blue Giant Collectors Edition was skipping during playback. It took them 8 days to reply to me, they wanted me to send the entire collectors edition with all its contents back to them at my own cost upfront so they could investigate.
I replied instantly telling them that I thought this was unreasonable it was only the disc that was the problem and could they just send a replacement disc. It took them another 5 days to reply saying they would just send a replacement disc out to me and I should receive it soon. This was back on June 3rd and it still hasn't arrived. I contacted them again almost a week ago to ask if the replacement had been dispatched but they have not replied.
Are they a very small company that don't have many staff? They don't appear to be but I am probably wrong. This is the only reason I can think of for these terrible response times. MVM are amazing with things like this, I remember having one of their releases that had the subtitles missing on one episode, I received a replacement within a couple of days of contacting them. I will be giving MVM much more of my business now even when they are more expensive.
Sorry for the rant, I am just irritated that I paid a good amount of money for something and the company I bought it from don't seem to be taking my problem seriously
I replied instantly telling them that I thought this was unreasonable it was only the disc that was the problem and could they just send a replacement disc. It took them another 5 days to reply saying they would just send a replacement disc out to me and I should receive it soon. This was back on June 3rd and it still hasn't arrived. I contacted them again almost a week ago to ask if the replacement had been dispatched but they have not replied.
Are they a very small company that don't have many staff? They don't appear to be but I am probably wrong. This is the only reason I can think of for these terrible response times. MVM are amazing with things like this, I remember having one of their releases that had the subtitles missing on one episode, I received a replacement within a couple of days of contacting them. I will be giving MVM much more of my business now even when they are more expensive.
Sorry for the rant, I am just irritated that I paid a good amount of money for something and the company I bought it from don't seem to be taking my problem seriously
Falcon1991
Brigade Leader
I feel for you - they take weeks typically to dispatch normally during sales for most people too.
Can they not just hire a handful of extra staff or outsource them to sort that?
Can they not just hire a handful of extra staff or outsource them to sort that?
Dave1988
Death Scythe
Doubt that they would hire someone to just answer emails, not going to happen.
Christmas sales i get, they have hundreds of orders to ship out, and last 2 years touch wood ive had most before christmas which is fair
Dave1988
Death Scythe
Are they are small company? Well not so much, they were small when they were independant, and since they got bought out, the customer service is just terrible, which again was never the case when independant, circle of life, great when independant and then shockingly bad when someone else buys outI am about ready to give up on this company. I contacted them on May 22nd to say that my Blu-ray from my Blue Giant Collectors Edition was skipping during playback. It took them 8 days to reply to me, they wanted me to send the entire collectors edition with all its contents back to them at my own cost upfront so they could investigate.
I replied instantly telling them that I thought this was unreasonable it was only the disc that was the problem and could they just send a replacement disc. It took them another 5 days to reply saying they would just send a replacement disc out to me and I should receive it soon. This was back on June 3rd and it still hasn't arrived. I contacted them again almost a week ago to ask if the replacement had been dispatched but they have not replied.
Are they a very small company that don't have many staff? They don't appear to be but I am probably wrong. This is the only reason I can think of for these terrible response times. MVM are amazing with things like this, I remember having one of their releases that had the subtitles missing on one episode, I received a replacement within a couple of days of contacting them. I will be giving MVM much more of my business now even when they are more expensive.
Sorry for the rant, I am just irritated that I paid a good amount of money for something and the company I bought it from don't seem to be taking my problem seriously
Scavenger
Straw Hat Pirate
I got The Colors Within German Collector's Edition in the mail today, which uses the discs of the yet to be announced UK release.
Screenshot comparison with Japanese release
Waveform comparison of the Japanese audio track (from top to bottom: left, right, center, LFE, surround-left&right)
Unfortunately the Japanese audio track suffers from strong dynamic range compression. I can't check the US BD, but it too is not free of audio problems, but not as bad as the Plaion disc.
They also seem to use the same video master as the US BD with baked-in lowpass filtered chroma that causes the colors to be slightly muted and blurry compared to the Japanese release.
Screenshot comparison with Japanese release
Waveform comparison of the Japanese audio track (from top to bottom: left, right, center, LFE, surround-left&right)
Unfortunately the Japanese audio track suffers from strong dynamic range compression. I can't check the US BD, but it too is not free of audio problems, but not as bad as the Plaion disc.
They also seem to use the same video master as the US BD with baked-in lowpass filtered chroma that causes the colors to be slightly muted and blurry compared to the Japanese release.
Dai
Dragon Knight
Am I missing something? All I'm seeing from those waveform comparisons are boosted levels, not compressed dynamics. Not that I would be likely to mind anyway; I always have my soundbar's dynamic compression mode switched on to avoid annoying my neighbours with sudden loud noises.