UK Anime Distributor Crunchyroll/Funimation/Manga UK Discussion Thread

[IncendiaryLemon]

*Cough* MVM's £28 two-cour Berserk BD CE with digipack and artbox for a title the US don't have blows everyone else out of the water. *Cough*

And I'll admit, I absolutely love MVM to death for doing that. Honestly, MVM LEs are definitely the best for me. Cheap, yet still high quality. Hell, if the artbox was clean, it could have passed for an AL set. It's just too bad they don't really have the catalogue.

 

[Jaysgba]

And I'll admit, I absolutely love MVM to death for doing that. Honestly, MVM LEs are definitely the best for me. Cheap, yet still high quality. Hell, if the artbox was clean, it could have passed for an AL set. It's just too bad they don't really have the catalogue.

MVM have a great catalogue as of late, and there's still more to come.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

MVM have a great catalogue as of late, and there's still more to come.

I dunno like, outside of Fate and Monogatari, I can't think of anything of late I've really wanted, Berserk aside.

 

[thedoctor2016]

I hope we get a standard edition. For both

 

[crashmatt]

I dunno like, outside of Fate and Monogatari, I can't think of anything of late I've really wanted, Berserk aside.

I would have thought the Girls & Panzer movie would be right up your street

 

[Jaysgba]

I dunno like, outside of Fate and Monogatari, I can't think of anything of late I've really wanted, Berserk aside.

There must be something wrong with you. There's Nozaki-kun, Photo Kano, Sakura Trick, Invaders of the Rokujyouma, Chobits, Ergo Proxy, and we've got Re-Kan out soon.

 

[Jaysgba]

I hope we get a standard edition. For both

Standard editions are bad for the market.

 

[SnowWolf]

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ANNOUNCEMENT: We will now be working with Shout! Factory on our Digimon Adventure Tri release! This means a new release date of 22/05/17, but also fantastic new bonus content for UK fans! Our sincere apologies for the change.

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

There must be something wrong with you. There's Nozaki-kun, Photo Kano, Sakura Trick, Invaders of the Rokujyouma, Chobits, Ergo Proxy, and we've got Re-Kan out soon.

I mean, I wouldn't say Nozaki kun is recent, pretty sure that was at least 6 months ago. Photo Kano is garbage, Sakura Trick is good, but nothing amazing, and I haven't seen the rest so I can't comment.

 

[crashmatt]

Standard editions are fine, overcharging for Collectors editions that arn't very collectable isnt

 

[Buzz201]

Standard editions are fine, overcharging for Collectors editions that arn't very collectable isnt

Surely if nobody buys it that just makes it more collectable?

 

[Jaysgba]

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Meh, at this rate, the Tri movies will be over before the UK gets the first one.

 

[Rui]

These passive aggressive comments towards other vague "forum users" are becoming a wee bit grating, guys. If you've got something to say to someone, say it then and there when they mention it and then let it go. You realize everyone else can read these public posts yes? You're not so much bitching behind people's backs as right in front of them without actually addressing them personally.

They can't say something to anyone specific because the bogeyman they keep citing is a fictitious person made up of a mishmash of other people's opinions (real and imaginary). I agree that it is getting tiresome and undermines the actual valid defenses being made.

R

 

[Jaysgba]

undermines the actual valid defenses being made.

So you're saying prominent members of AUKN don't complain when Manga use rigid boxes, cardboard not-rigid boxes, slipcovers, totally clean artboxes or standard Amaray/Elite keepcases? I'm not actually sure what else they could possibly use.

 

[Rui]

So you're saying prominent members of AUKN don't complain when Manga use rigid boxes, cardboard not-rigid boxes, slipcovers, totally clean artboxes or standard Amaray/Elite keepcases? I'm not actually sure what else they could possibly use.

Prominent members of the forum also complain when other companies do those things. Some companies don't do those things these days at all, but I am pretty sure nobody liked it when, say, MB made their grotty flimsy card boxes either (I binned every one of mine). And everyone here complained unanimously about the spine on Giovanni's Island. You do like trying to put words into my mouth lately in the absence of an actual person brimming with the opinions everyone who dislikes Manga releases supposedly has.

R

 

[HdE]

Standard editions are bad for the market.

Citation please? Just because I have a very hard time believing the anime market is adversely affected by products being made available that people can actually afford.

I'm fully expecting the fallout of Brexit to kill the CE sales model over time. We'll all be buying MUCH less anime.

 

[Buzz201]

So you're saying prominent members of AUKN don't complain when Manga use rigid boxes, cardboard not-rigid boxes, slipcovers, totally clean artboxes or standard Amaray/Elite keepcases? I'm not actually sure what else they could possibly use.

That's not what @Rui is saying. As I understand it (and maybe I'm wrong) Rui is saying that I have perhaps tarred several of the people I have got into debates with with the same brush. Which is a perfectly valid statement.

Yes, I was unhappy that several people in the "Everybody loves Jerome" thread were sat there referring to streaming as a right and asking for streaming, after previously having characterised me as entitled and whiny for asking for cheaper anime releases. I had this whole post written out about how annoyed I was, and how I didn't understand how anime fans justified treating people differently just because their views different from the general consensus. In the end I didn't post it because I didn't want to deal with the arguments it would inevitably cause.

But Rui is right, I am guilty of transforming forum members into some kind of bizarre single entity. One of the things I noticed whilst writing the post is that some of the people that had made the comments weren't the same as those that had criticised me. Whilst there was some overlap, it wasn't exactly the same people. It's not reasonable to expect every post to be viewed and judged equally, and that's just not how things work.


I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but ultimately, assuming I've understood her correctly, Rui is right as always, and I need to stop viewing anime fans as some kind of weird single entity

 

[Buzz201]

Citation please? Just because I have a very hard time believing the anime market is adversely affected by products being made available that people can actually afford.

I'm fully expecting the fallout of Brexit to kill the CE sales model over time. We'll all be buying MUCH less anime.

I think he's just being incredibly facetious. I was tempted to call him out on it and point out that CE fans hadn't ever questioned the value of standard editions, but I didn't think it was worth it.

 

[fabio de lunatico]

MVM seem to have the balance better, just look at the Berserk set and price.

But Berserk's RRP is £50, same as this Pulling Girls in Dungeons thing. MVM take 30% off everything so you'll be able to get it from Anime-On-Line for £35... same as Berserk. And Berserk only has art cards!

I'd always take a booklet over art cards or posters but we really don't know if Manga were even able to get the booklet.

 

[NormanicGrav]

But Berserk's RRP is £50, same as this Pulling Girls in Dungeons thing. MVM take 30% off everything so you'll be able to get it from Anime-On-Line for £35... same as Berserk. And Berserk only has art cards!

I'd always take a booklet over art cards or posters but we really don't know if Manga were even able to get the booklet.

Berserk is 25 episodes long, which personally I feel SRP £49.99 is acceptable enough.

DanMachi is 12 episodes long.