Kara no Kyoukai BD Box Set to be distributed in the USA

I don't know what you mean, Jayme. As in, I don't know why this is going to feel "old" in February next year when it gets its first ever BD release, and I don't know why that would be an issue anyway- the most significant recent release in the live-action BD market was Kurosawa Akira's Shichinin no Samurai.
 
So, we've pretty much confirmed Roy and Maes will be the only UK residents extreme enough to pay so much for so little?

For seven feature length films (plus the epilogue?), the RRP would still be crazy. The fact that all but two are in the 40-60 minute range make this uber-crazy. I haven't watched the grand finale, but out of the first six only Elfen Lied and Baccano have any worth, and the GitS-lite opener is mighty lame. At least two (maybe three) of the titles are pretty much filler, in terms of overall worth, and - viewed as a whole - Kara is very much over-rated. Kajiura's music is wonderful... but not THAT wonderful; not wonderful enough to make paying such an obscene (/Geek) amount worthwhile.

Leave Japanese prices to the Japanese and Wapanese, plz.

PS: i wan dvd now!!

fabricatedlunatic said:
Nice if you've got the dough and don't have an issue with paying Japanese prices. Unfortunately I haven't and I do, so I'll be waiting for a "proper" R1 release.
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Always looking for excuses to avoid my recommendations... You said you were waiting for the BR box set, and now it's too expensive for you. Ha!
 
Why on Earth would I buy you something you'd only moan about, like a plonker?

"Oh noes, there's too much talking for my head to handle! I can't follow the order of events! I drop and eBay this!!!" (pretty realistic, imo)

Your lack of respect for AMG and Peach Girl continues to irritate me. You remove the seals and proceed to drop my gifts.
 
AironicallyHuman said:
So, we've pretty much confirmed Roy and Maes will be the only UK residents extreme enough to pay so much for so little?
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I've already paid more than that for the LE DVDs, but not in one lump sum. They didn't have the benefit of english subs unfortunately but did come with the OSTs and other stuff. Right now I have no expectation of having that much money come Februrary unfortunately.
 
ilmaestro said:
I don't know what you mean, Jayme. As in, I don't know why this is going to feel "old" in February next year when it gets its first ever BD release, and I don't know why that would be an issue anyway- the most significant recent release in the live-action BD market was Kurosawa Akira's Shichinin no Samurai.
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Oh? sorry. My point was due to it being films and OVAs, I can't see it ever being "complete". It's like when you buy a trilogy, and then a fourth film comes out diminishing the point of the trilogy that you own. Cos, I want the quadrilogy. I can understand the Dragon Box since its so far from over - its well and truly complete. All I was asking if it was complete, it seems to be, but I'm never too sure.
 
This isn't even that expensive, really, compared with historical releases. There have been plenty of DVD sets come out in Japan @ 100,000 yen. Admittedly with much longer run-times, though.
 
Jayme said:
ilmaestro said:
I don't know what you mean, Jayme. As in, I don't know why this is going to feel "old" in February next year when it gets its first ever BD release, and I don't know why that would be an issue anyway- the most significant recent release in the live-action BD market was Kurosawa Akira's Shichinin no Samurai.
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Oh? sorry. My point was due to it being films and OVAs, I can't see it ever being "complete". It's like when you buy a trilogy, and then a fourth film comes out diminishing the point of the trilogy that you own. Cos, I want the quadrilogy. I can understand the Dragon Box since its so far from over - its well and truly complete. All I was asking if it was complete, it seems to be, but I'm never too sure.
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To my knowledge it animates the entirety of the source novel, which was completed over 10 years ago.
So there shouldn't be the series is complete.
 
Jayme said:
ilmaestro said:
I don't know what you mean, Jayme. As in, I don't know why this is going to feel "old" in February next year when it gets its first ever BD release, and I don't know why that would be an issue anyway- the most significant recent release in the live-action BD market was Kurosawa Akira's Shichinin no Samurai.
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Oh? sorry. My point was due to it being films and OVAs, I can't see it ever being "complete". It's like when you buy a trilogy, and then a fourth film comes out diminishing the point of the trilogy that you own. Cos, I want the quadrilogy. I can understand the Dragon Box since its so far from over - its well and truly complete. All I was asking if it was complete, it seems to be, but I'm never too sure.
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Ah, in that case yes, the movies have all been in the cinema, and story is finished within these movies and OVA, like Jiindama says. This should be the most "premium" release it sees... until we have holographic discs or whatever. ^^;
 
So, a week later and with Christams shopping presumably finished, has anyone moved their position on this?

I noticed Rui has ordered it, so we could end up with four people from this relatively tiny forum buying this release that I have seen some people speculate would struggle to get into double digit sales over here. That's probably more than a lot of regular UK releases. ^^;
 
It's so awesome that quite a few UK fans are picking it up. While I certainly enjoy the era of $29.99 box sets of fanservice harem shows flying out of the US these days, I'm glad Aniplex will see that there's a [small but viable] market for premium releases too. At the very worst, it would be cool if the experiment convinces them to pop English subtitles on a few more Japanese releases in future to give importers more choice - since it tangibly shows that there's a small but dedicated market for this.

For shows which had English subtitles but no US press in the past, it was impossible for the publisher to say for sure whether it added any sales on top. Now we can show them that it does.

Tsukihime is better than I expected, so I'm feeling good about my purchase.

R
 
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