K-On Boxset & Haruhi movie Blu-rays Cancelled!

Cathe said:
So do we know whether.or not the blu ray is happening?
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Honestly? Who knows? I imagine we'll just have to wait till someone here receives a copy, if it even gets to that stage without being cancelled, that's the only way to be sure.
 
TheLasersharkKH said:
I was kind of expecting the worst when I saw the PR for the K-on! Anime Legends set.

This whole Bandai thing has hit everything hard :cry:
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I was expecting the Anime Legends thing to be due to Namco Bandai not wanting the Japanese to reverse import a much cheaper US boxset.

Oh well...K-ON! volume 4 will be the last MangaUK purchase I make if I can avoid it...
 
Back to being unsurprised, though it would be nice if their Twitter response had been more considered. I look forward to the next update to the thread title :D

Manga seem to have the attitude that any news is good to fans, even if it is made up. I remember that after they said that the HSOTD OAV might be coming out in a future box set - at the same event they were launching the existing set - my friend turned to me in bewilderment and asked why their marketing strategy seemed based on sabotaging their own sales and encouraging fans to wait. I had no answer for him. Do companies really think that most of us buy these things multiple times? o_O

R
 
Joshawott said:
TheLasersharkKH said:
I was kind of expecting the worst when I saw the PR for the K-on! Anime Legends set.

This whole Bandai thing has hit everything hard :cry:
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I was expecting the Anime Legends thing to be due to Namco Bandai not wanting the Japanese to reverse import a much cheaper US boxset.

Oh well...K-ON! volume 4 will be the last MangaUK purchase I make if I can avoid it...
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I just had a thought, I still think Madman Entertainment are still planning to release it in Blu-Ray boxset so it may not be all bad news (time to get saving!)
 
I was thinking that maybe Manga read that Twitter question about Blu-ray boxset as just "boxset", having tuned out the words "Blu" and "ray" for the sake of their own sanity. It's inconceivable that they would tell a bare-faced lie one day before confirming its cancellation. Isn't it...?

It's disappointing but I'm loath to blame Manga when the real issue is not enough people buying their releases on BD. They're the only UK distributor who have tried to get the Blu ball rolling, but unfortunately it's got stuck in a ditch somewhere.
 
Although it's admirable that they experimented with BD, I think most people could see that it was a failure under the current market conditions several releases ago. There is no need to keep raising everyone's hopes and dashing them, and it cannot be working as a strategy to confuse people into defaulting to the Manga releases any more. I wish they'd think a little harder about what they said when speaking for the company on social networking sites.

R
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
I was thinking that maybe Manga read that Twitter question about Blu-ray boxset as just "boxset", having tuned out the words "Blu" and "ray" for the sake of their own sanity. It's inconceivable that they would tell a bare-faced lie one day before confirming its cancellation. Isn't it...?

It's disappointing but I'm loath to blame Manga when the real issue is not enough people buying their releases on BD. They're the only UK distributor who have tried to get the Blu ball rolling, but unfortunately it's got stuck in a ditch somewhere.
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Well I got the Region A bds for FMA; Brotherhood, Casshern Sins and Xam'd as Manga released they too late. It's the same with Fairy Tail - several volumes are out on Region 1/A dvd/bd before they start releasing it on dvd over here.
 
Just to clarify, I'm not blaming the customers for not buying Manga's BDs either. People are entitled to import, like I did for those first two FMA Blu-rays, and people are entitled to go for the cheaper option or simply not be interested. It's just one of those things.

I take the point about Manga raising and dashing hope, which inevitably leads to a lack of faith in them, but I do believe Manga set out with the intention of releasing on BD everything they said they would. In any case, I don't think Manga will making any rash promises in future; anime on BD in the UK is dead outside of theatrical movies or other one-offs.
 
The thing with K-ON! is, it went like this:

1) Announce release as DVD only. People were a bit miffed, but fine with it.
2) Say there's a possibility of a blu-ray boxset. People were happy.
3) Say there's little possibility of it. People get disappoint due to the long gap between 2 and 3.
4) Next say, say it's happening in April. Hopes are raised again.
5) Day after that, say it's cancelled. Hopes are dashed.

It's simple Manga: If you're not 100% sure that you can release it as a blu-ray, don't say anything about it.

In regards to things like Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, that was tragic, but was understandable. They had only just started playing around with Blu-ray and it was a big series, so the lack of sales would have surprised them. Then they tried it again with a 26-episode series (I can't remember if Casshern or XAM'd came first) and that didn't work out. So then they knew multiple volume releases wouldn't work. Then they tried the same thing a third time, it failed and the stupidity started.
 
If they had their MangaUK account set up like, oh, every other corporate account I have ever viewed before, it would only report firm news. They could use a special @JeromeFantasyWonderland account to report rumours, rant about their buyers and mention things they were "hoping" to do alongside it. Which I would never read. The problem is that people expect a certain level of organisation and professionalism from corporate accounts and take things that are published through those channels as being serious considerations, when they seem to be more often idle personal speculation in this case.

Or perhaps I am old fashioned and spoilt by my dealings with normal companies ^^;

R

(Edit: Fixed a typo that was bothering me.)
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
Just to clarify, I'm not blaming the customers for not buying Manga's BDs either. People are entitled to import, like I did for those first two FMA Blu-rays, and people are entitled to go for the cheaper option or simply not be interested. It's just one of those things.

I take the point about Manga raising and dashing hope, which inevitably leads to a lack of faith in them, but I do believe Manga set out with the intention of releasing on BD everything they said they would. In any case, I don't think Manga will making any rash promises in future; anime on BD in the UK is dead outside of theatrical movies or other one-offs.
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Movies are not a dead cert either if the live action Gantz is anything to go by.
 
We've just updated our news story at UKA, as The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya on Blu-Ray has also been cancelled.
 
That's a bizarre decision! I already have the US version, but of all of the titles to drop that one would have had some really decent selling power over here. I guess the DVD version must have flopped, but with a blu-ray version having been announced for people to wait for, surely that can't be used as the reason?

If Manga keep alienating their most devoted, patient fans, I don't see how they are going to be able to keep releasing anything other than Naruto/Bleach in a few years. Losing another US dub supplier in Bandai is a blow to the variety of their future catalogue as well.

R
 
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