Kara no Kyoukai BD Box Set to be distributed in the USA
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Shiroi Hane
Dragon Knight
Personally, I've only been in work now for 12 weeks following a year of jobseekers, and I'm still only part time. What with the debts I've also got (prior Japanese imports and credit cards contributed to that) I don't have any spare money to save. I did splash out on the Eden of the East BDs after Christmas, but being a tenth of the price helped...Reaper gI said:
Bleh, my KnK was sent out by insured post due to TRSI being terrified of losing them, so it got nabbed by customs despite being lower value than my usual orders!
Still, I have paid the ransom and will pick it up tomorrow, as it has overtaken my last regular shipment somewhere in transit
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Still, I have paid the ransom and will pick it up tomorrow, as it has overtaken my last regular shipment somewhere in transit
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mangaman74
Akatsuki
CloudedMinds said:Cant wait to get this
I cant believe how many people on ANN are whining about the price! They lynch those who paid honest money for a legal copy of it because they believe it will force future releases to be expensive (typical american thinking i suppose?)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/ ... of-sinners
£300 for a series of this quality is well worth it in my eyes. Though unlike in the review, i fell in love with the series straight away (then again i am a Type-Moon fanboy so that might be partly to blame lol!)
The most I have paid for a single box set is around £150 for the Escaflowne Limited Edition released back in 2002. The difference between that and the Garden of Sinners Box Set is that I had already seen Escaflowne when it was shown on TV (even if it was the cut, dubbed version) and the fact it costs half the price.
You may feel £300 is worth it for Garden of Sinners but then you are a Type-Moon fanboy - for me £300 for a something I have never seen is too much no matter how good the reviews it has received.
I did consider buying the ROD TV Series Blu-ray release but held off as buy all accounts it was not much better than the dvd version which I own. If Garden of Sinners had been released at a similar price point as the ROD Blu-ray I would have considered buying it.
mangaman74
Akatsuki
That I understand, but £300 is a bit much. Also the version of Escaflowne I saw on TV was both cut & dubbed therefore it was still worth buying.
Besides some shows and films are still worth buying despite having seen them first - I saw the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Blue Sub No. 6, Akira, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Patlabor Movies 1 & 2, The Castle of Cagliostro, Porco Rosso, Laputa: Castle in the Sky & Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind either on TV or in the cinema before buying - as I had already seen them should I not have purchased them Rui?
Besides some shows and films are still worth buying despite having seen them first - I saw the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Blue Sub No. 6, Akira, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Patlabor Movies 1 & 2, The Castle of Cagliostro, Porco Rosso, Laputa: Castle in the Sky & Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind either on TV or in the cinema before buying - as I had already seen them should I not have purchased them Rui?
mangaman74 said:
Nope, you're entitled to do as you want of course
I can understand buying things you've already seen (I recently bought the Star Trek original series on blu-ray, and I've seen some of those episodes half a dozen times or more over the years at my Dad's yet still had to own them for myself) but for me cracking open a brand new show is much more enjoyable than a rewatch. Unless of course it's a rewatch of something heavily tweaked for the home release, as your Escaflowne would have been, and things like the Eva Rebuild movies are for me. That can be almost as good as a brand new show if the upgrade is substantial.
It should be noted that I don't have any television, which may also skew my outlook on things.
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mangaman74
Akatsuki
ilmaestro said:Heh, I don't think too many of us are living off the anime offerings on TV.
Now there isn't much anime on TV other than the odd showing of Ghibli movies, but when I first got into anime there was a fair bit on and I have since gone on to buy many of them on dvd - in the case of shows like Cardcaptor and Escaflowne the dvd version is better than the version I saw on TV.
mangaman74
Akatsuki
If I had not seen Cardcaptor, I may not have purchased Carcaptor Sakura as at the time I was not thinking of buying that kind of show (also Robotech is awful and the only Macross I own is Macross Plus which is very good).
Of course instead Cardcaptors never got a full release, combine all the official DVDs/VHS worldwide and you still only have about 40 of the 70 episodes, and how cut it is depends on which country you saw it in. My favourite is the Australian-style version.Reaper gI said:
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*Hopes for Madman to someday somehow release a BD boxset, but knows it'll probably never happen.*
Shiroi Hane
Dragon Knight
I've got the UK Cardcaptors VHS tapes (4 double volumes so 24 eps) and the DVDs (two volumes done so cheaply it beggars belief - each disc had two tapes worth dumped on and two a button to play each one although it did at least have chapter markers between episodes - which is a shame really since Contender did a really good job on the menus for the movie, even if it was dub-only)