Death Note - Are you buying the individual volumes or not?

Jerome actually answered a Death Note question? Don't joke about things like that. He's clearly not a fan of Death Note and doesn't want people to buy Manga's Death Note releases. Him trying to inform fans about anything Death Note related is a little hard to believe.


Serious face: It's great news if volume 5 is going to be the final R2 volume. Unless Manga do the backward thing and delay their release after they should've delayed volume 4, I can't see how they're going to do it when volume 9 still hasn't even got a R1 release yet but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I really don't get the logic behind making volume 4 the one single disc release and not volume 5, though. For one 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 is much more tidy than 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2, and for two the start of part 2 is a lot less interesting than the final few episodes of the series. Where as fans wouldn't have no issue with paying for a single disc release at the end to complete their collection, that isn't the case with a random single disc release placed at the start of the part 2 story.

I just hope volume 3 drops to £8.99 soon. £5 is generally my limit for one DVD, so getting each Death Note DVD for £4.50 is more tempting. I'm not cheap enough to expect to pay £2.50 per DVD for a series as wonderful as Death Note, but that doesn't mean I want to go over my £5 per DVD limit either.
 
It's to do with the story, not the logic. One arc finished and another starts in volume 4. If like me, you have a preference for the first arc only, then you'd probably appreciate only having to buy a single disc release instead of a double disc release.

EDIT: Incidentally, Death Note V9 is due at the end of this month in the US, while Manga have been spacing their Death Note releases between two and three months apart. The final volume should be here in April/May and still be on schedule.
 
I don't follow? Right now volume 4 costs £9, making it double the price of the first double disc set, the same price as the second double disc set and only £3 less than the third double disc set. If I as unsure of the quality of the story beyond the first half, I'd want to get more for my money to tempt me - not less. Manga would've sold more to uncertain people if volume 4 had contained a second disc.
 
Aion said:
I don't follow? Right now volume 4 costs £9, making it double the price of the first double disc set, the same price as the second double disc set and only £3 less than the third double disc set. If I as unsure of the quality of the story beyond the first half, I'd want to get more for my money to tempt me - not less. Manga would've sold more to uncertain people if volume 4 had contained a second disc.
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While I agree with you about the very odd releasing strategy, you can't compare the price of a new release to one which has been out for almost a year. That's just depreciation of value due to passage of time, and happens to all DVD's (unless they go out of print). The first 3 volumes were £12 each new, so V4 is cheaper.
 
I've bought Volume 1 and will buy the rest soon enough.
I was looking at my backlog and it seems I managed to finish almost all the series in it. Soon enough I'll need more anime =)
 
The lowest a single disc DVD will drop in price (new) is £2.99...unless the DVD is worthy of being sold in Poundland. However, boxed sets, or double-triple disc releases, are much better in terms of value for money. Volume 1 of Death Note has already dropped to £4.99, which is £2.50 per disc.

Volume 4 of Death Note won't even drop to £4.99 for many months. It'll then take more months, or ayve even years, for it to drop to £2.99-£3.99. And by the time volume 4 drops to £2.99, the box set will most likely be out, and Manga are well known for selling box sets for low amounts.
 
Well was gonna wait for the boxset but since as mentioned on the The Anime/Manga I Bought Today Was...

My wife just purchased them for me :D
 
Well, unless Manga have fed stores incorrect information or they're guessing based on the first 3 releases, that's that then. It's great that the series will be finished in only 5 volumes. I'll never understand why Manga made volume 4 and not volume 5 the single disc release but there we go.

Hopefully once volume 5 has been out for a momth or two Manga will release some information about the box set(s). Should it be a thinpack release, I'm 100% buying it at some point, even if I already own all 5 volumes already by then.
 
@Aion: They probably did it because the last volume has fewer episodes on, so it would be better value for money bundling it with the second-to-last volume.
Also, as for keeping up with the releases, I thought that was what manga was doing when they kept pushing the release date back. D:
Making me wait for a DVD with my favourite character's death on it, dearie me. D;

That reminds me, still haven't ordered it from HMV yet, must do.

Zavvi did special-edition figurines? Damn, here I was buying them from HMV while saving money to buy some figures at London Expo. DD:
 
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Kezwick_Osaka said:
@Aion: They probably did it because the last volume has fewer episodes on, so it would be better value for money bundling it with the second-to-last volume.
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Actually i think the last volume will have the 5 episodes on it according to up1.

http://www.up1.co.uk/Details/D1170

Manga probably has to release the same number of episodes per disk as what Viz media release.

I could be wrong though.
 
Titan said:
Manga probably has to release the same number of episodes per disk as what Viz media release.
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Not at all, otherwise we would have started with single disc Naruto releases and Bleach would have been single disc as well.

It's only Geneon that insisted with Hellsing. We'll need to wait to see what happens with their Funimation licences. But xxxHolic was originally a single disc release in the US, we went straight to boxset.
 
No-one knows what Manga are doing. I don't think Manga even themselves do a lot of the time. One minute they're releasing a 24 episode series in two 3-disc sets, the next they're planning on releasing Claymore/Darker than BLACK in one-disc releases... Their releases are all over the place at present.

I haven't had a reply to my email, which makes me believe even more strongly that Manga are as confused about their future releases as we and the internet stores are. Or, maybe Jerome isn't in the loop and can't answer?
 
Aion said:
No-one knows what Manga are doing. I don't think Manga even themselves do a lot of the time. One minute there's releasing a 24 episodes series in two 3-disc sets, the next they're planning on releasing Claymore/Darker than BLACK in one-disc sets... Their releases are all over the place at present.

I haven't had a reply from my email, which makes me believe even more strongly that Manga are as confused about their future releases as we and the internet stores are. Or, maybe Jerome isn't in the loop and can't answer?
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Actually, Anime-on-line are now listing Darker than Black and Claymore as 2 disc sets with a RRP of £19.99 like the Death Note releases. The reason for the confusion for these two shows is because they're probably contractually obliged to release both shows as singles, even though they don't want to. We know for a fact that the Japanese insisted Funimation release both shows this way in R1, however anecdotal evidence suggests that both shows have underperformed as a result. Thus, Manga may have managed to re-negotiate the contract to allow for 2 disc sets.

Incidentally, Death Note 5 is also listed with a run time of 183 minutes and £19.99 RRP on Anime-on-line, which would seem to confirm that it's a 2 disc release.
 
Noratav said:
Actually, Anime-on-line are now listing Darker than Black and Claymore as 2 disc sets with a RRP of £19.99 like the Death Note releases. The reason for the confusion for these two shows is because they're probably contractually obliged to release both shows as singles, even though they don't want to. We know for a fact that the Japanese insisted Funimation release both shows this way in R1, however anecdotal evidence suggests that both shows have underperformed as a result. Thus, Manga may have managed to re-negotiate the contract to allow for 2 disc sets.

Incidentally, Death Note 5 is also listed with a run time of 183 minutes and £19.99 RRP on Anime-on-line, which would seem to confirm that it's a 2 disc release.
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Y'know, I really need to read through EVERYTHING I type before posting it -- I make some kind of error in practically every sentence. It bugs me when I re-read my posts and see the stupid mistakes I make.

I'm still not sure if I should take advantage of the confusion by pre-ordering volume 1 of both series. For a double disc set on release, £8.99 is too low -- it's the same as selling a DVD for £4.99 on release. Volume 4 of Death Note, which came with one disc, was (and still is) selling for £8.99 on the release date... It just doesn't seem likely that stores would sell sets with double the disc count for the same price. Of course, they could be being sold cheaper than future volumes in order to attract attention, but I'm still doubtful...

If Claymore and Darker than BLACK really are going to be double disc releases then it's great for UK anime. We've been ripped off for so long that it's refreshing to see value for monney UK releases. And the whole thing is made sweeter by the quality of the two series...or, worded better, the quality of Claymore and the quality of the first six episodes of DtB. I'll 100% by buying both if they're still selling for £9-10 on release, when it's confirmed they are both in fact double disc sets.

For the time being I'm going to play the waiting game. I haven't pre-ordered because Manga have made this messy and have failed to inform UK anime fans what they're doing. It seems like even polite emails fall on blind eyes in the case of Manga. Manga have been going out of their way to advertise their releases, even putting huge banners on MAL, but they seem unable to do the simple thing and communicate with anime fans directly.
 
I've been buying the DVD's from Play shortly after they have been released.
I didn't see the point in buying them all one disk at a time.. although I do like the cover art ^^
 
I am purchasing each volume of Death Note individually. Not only do I do so with regards to all of the anime series' that I am collecting, but also it is more better, I think, to have them as a collection.

This anime is definitely worth the amounts of money of which I pay for it, and thus I could not care less. I watch anime to be entertained and this series fulfills that easily and perfectly.

What is more is that I am always an honest buyer. I like to give publishers and creators the money that they deserve from making these amazing productions.
 
My girlfriend has received each volume of Death Note as gifts (spread across xmas/birthday). Personally, I prefer to get box sets as I don't like getting to the end of a disc and having to wait weeks/months for the next episode. For this reason alone we have taken to only watching an episode or two every so often, to make the wait a little less painful :)
 
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