Kill la Kill: Part 1 Collector's Edition - Release Details

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I was thinking about getting Psycho Pass at MCM Glasgow this weekend, but I was fairly limited budget wise.
 
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Psycho-Pass is absolutely top notch entertainment, but FUNi released a really nice LE with a chipboard box and soundtrack and I'm glad I went for that version. Shame about the ghastly video quality, but Manga UK just cloned that anyway so either way I'd have to wait for the new series to see the show looking its best ;_;

Psycho-Pass should totally be on Netflix and its ilk. It could definitely appeal to some of the casual viewers who like the kind of shows Netflix specialise in and because it wasn't given a proper UK stream it's missed out on some well-deserved promotion.

R
 
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Rui said:
Psycho-Pass is absolutely top notch entertainment, but FUNi released a really nice LE with a chipboard box and soundtrack and I'm glad I went for that version. Shame about the ghastly video quality, but Manga UK just cloned that anyway so either way I'd have to wait for the new series to see the show looking its best ;_;

Psycho-Pass should totally be on Netflix and its ilk. It could definitely appeal to some of the casual viewers who like the kind of shows Netflix specialise in and because it wasn't given a proper UK stream it's missed out on some well-deserved promotion.

R
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It's on Netflix US, so I'd like to see it made available on the UK side but...I'm guessing FUNimation have the UK streaming rights too?
 
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anime_andrew said:
Ath said:
Seems totally sound to me. In the case of Kill la Kill I'm totally happy to wait for the standard BD next year. If I want to watch it before then, it's on Netflix.

Just wanted to say - I'm really both proud and impressed by this reaction :). I forgot to point out to folks that also chronologically the show finished in March and in under a year we're releasing it. For Psycho Pass as an example - it finished broadcast in March 2013 and took a year and a half for release, which is a pretty noticeable gap.

The sooner titles come out in other territories too the sooner we're expected to release something - we've not forgotten the regular edition though and appreciate people's logic as above a lot :). We'll get a standard version out as soon as we can :).

Andrew
Honestly as someone who runs a HTPC, I'd be happy just to get the files off Wakanim for the £50 aprox as I was doing with Space Dandy.

I Just wish it wasn't so clunky to actauly use.
 
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Yeah I'm with my twin, I'm waiting for it's price reduction before I go ahead and buy Psycho Pass. The same with Kill La Kill too. I cannot justify that much on 9 episodes at all. Since it's a blind buy, I'll probably even wait a fair while to see if they release a complete collection or something.

Samurai Flamenco, *googles*, hmmm, I can't decide whether I would love or hate that. Upon reading the wiki plot it screamed Kick Ass to me which put me off but then the whoe supermodel thing might salvage that if they have the right amount of comedy. I'll see about this one.
 
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-Danielle- said:
Samurai Flamenco, *googles*, hmmm, I can't decide whether I would love or hate that. Upon reading the wiki plot it screamed Kick Ass to me which put me off but then the whoe supermodel thing might salvage that if they have the right amount of comedy. I'll see about this one.

It starts off like Kick Ass.. then it gets 'wacky'. It's on Netflix if you have that.
 
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I could deal with wacky. I don't have netflix or the internets at my house (not in current budget) but I hope to get both eventually and hopefully by then it might have a dub for me hehe :)

I thought Kick Ass was ok first watch but after that, I stopped liking it. Kick Ass 2 was AWFUL. Such a let down for a remotely interesting idea.
 
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-Danielle- said:
Yeah I'm with my twin, I'm waiting for it's price reduction before I go ahead and buy Psycho Pass. The same with Kill La Kill too. I cannot justify that much on 9 episodes at all. Since it's a blind buy, I'll probably even wait a fair while to see if they release a complete collection or something.

Samurai Flamenco, *googles*, hmmm, I can't decide whether I would love or hate that. Upon reading the wiki plot it screamed Kick Ass to me which put me off but then the whoe supermodel thing might salvage that if they have the right amount of comedy. I'll see about this one.

Xtravision/HMV Ireland are selling the Psycho-Pass bluray for €40/£35 at the moment which is £8.25 cheaper than Amazon. The dvd version is €30/£18, which is £10.75 cheaper than Amazon.

They have it mismarked as the abandoned part 2 half season set if that makes a difference. I can confirm that its the same in store.
http://www.xtra-vision.co.uk/Search/Results?media=&term=psycho-pass

Got KlK ordered from Amazon and am really looking forward to getting my hands on it, wonder what Andrew is planning for the company store version, might make me switch over.
 
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I have to admit, personally I've seen far fewer price reductions these days. Possibly because titles aren't selling as much so remain at full price for longer?

Last thing I remember coming down significantly in price that wasn't an MVM deal of the week was Code Geass.
 
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Am I the only one who thinks £40 for a blu ray complete series (22 episodes) is a good price to pay for such a new series? Look at Blue Exorcist, one half season set is STILL floating around the £27 - £33 mark and has never really come down.
 
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Jon O Fun said:
Am I the only one who thinks £40 for a blu ray complete series (22 episodes) is a good price to pay for such a new series? Look at Blue Exorcist, one half season set is STILL floating around the £27 - £33 mark and has never really come down.
I have no problem with paying that either. I've been around long enough that I got FMA in singles for €30 a pop, a total of €390 for a 52 episode series. £40 for a 22 episode series is nothing compared to that.

Got lucky with Blue Exorcist myself on bluray. Wasn't planning on double dipping but I got both sets for €15/£12 each at a convention last month.
 
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sniper_samurai said:
Jon O Fun said:
Am I the only one who thinks £40 for a blu ray complete series (22 episodes) is a good price to pay for such a new series? Look at Blue Exorcist, one half season set is STILL floating around the £27 - £33 mark and has never really come down.
I have no problem with paying that either. I've been around long enough that I got FMA in singles for €30 a pop, a total of €390 for a 52 episode series. £40 for a 22 episode series is nothing compared to that.

Got lucky with Blue Exorcist myself on bluray. Wasn't planning on double dipping but I got both sets for €15/£12 each at a convention last month.

30 euros for 4 episodes, blimey I was importing them from the US for about £13 each, god bless dvdpacific.com, it used to be my source of all imported anime.
 
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I have no idea why Manga UK decided to release Psycho Pass as a complete series. Do they not understand that the UK is home to the most tightfis... er, thrifty people on the planet? Personally I would've given the first half of Psycho Pass a try*, but I'm not laying down £40 for the whole thing when Urobochi has been so hit and miss for me.

*or rather I would have before I found out that Manga UK authored the discs themselves for some reason, which invariably means poor subtitling.

Bit disappointed in the Kill la Kill set. The booklet full of black and white line art and storyboards ain't terribly exciting, so I'll be waiting on a regular edition.
 
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britguy said:
sniper_samurai said:
Jon O Fun said:
Am I the only one who thinks £40 for a blu ray complete series (22 episodes) is a good price to pay for such a new series? Look at Blue Exorcist, one half season set is STILL floating around the £27 - £33 mark and has never really come down.
I have no problem with paying that either. I've been around long enough that I got FMA in singles for €30 a pop, a total of €390 for a 52 episode series. £40 for a 22 episode series is nothing compared to that.

Got lucky with Blue Exorcist myself on bluray. Wasn't planning on double dipping but I got both sets for €15/£12 each at a convention last month.

30 euros for 4 episodes, blimey I was importing them from the US for about £13 each, god bless dvdpacific.com, it used to be my source of all imported anime.
Used to import quite a lot myself, usually used dvdpacific or deepdiscount.

Mainly stick to the domestic releases now except for stuff that wont get licenced here and good collectors editions like Funis AoT.
 
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I think £40 for a BluRay series with that many episodes is good value. If you shoved that price on DVD however (what I buy) I would say no.

I used to be tight arse dependant on my want for a series and just how blind buy-ish it is, and still kinda am dependant on my outgoings each particular month. A mortgage does that to you lol. Imagine waiting for Birthdays & Xmas for the bulk of the animes you want that you're not a price stinge with then welcome to my world haha.

So yeah I am happy/perfectly fine in saying that Kill La Kill to me is a proper rip off when you consider what part 1 of AoT is going for for more episodes and I'm jealous of all those with the money they have to part with for it and a lot of high cost kickstarters hehe :)
 
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Apologies for the mess splitting these posts, just tidying up some orphaned comments now >_>;;

Edit: I decided the conversation made no sense without also bringing over the Psycho-Pass and Samurai Flamenco parts so hopefully everything is now in the right place.

R
 
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Just FYI Manga were selling the PP Bluray set for £43 at their stand at MCM Glasgow. £30 for the DVD set. Works out to ~£2/ep for BluRay which isn't bad at all. I didn't buy it because my entire budget for the day was £50, and I wanted to buy figures. Media is much more easily obtainable online.
 
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-Danielle- said:
I think £40 for a BluRay series with that many episodes is good value. If you shoved that price on DVD however (what I buy) I would say no.

I used to be tight arse dependant on my want for a series and just how blind buy-ish it is, and still kinda am dependant on my outgoings each particular month. A mortgage does that to you lol. Imagine waiting for Birthdays & Xmas for the bulk of the animes you want that you're not a price stinge with then welcome to my world haha.

So yeah I am happy/perfectly fine in saying that Kill La Kill to me is a proper rip off when you consider what part 1 of AoT is going for for more episodes and I'm jealous of all those with the money they have to part with for it and a lot of high cost kickstarters hehe :)

Don't worry Danielle - we can and will do a cheaper edition as soon as we can. When you think about it (as I've said on Faceache):

- Standard editions are not only something we know there is keen demand for - and also want to accommodate. In some cases we can do it immediately (Blood Lad on DVD), others take more time.

- Standard editions are very often released between 1 year for half seasons (13 eps) and 1.5 years for complete sets for big shows. Take Psycho Pass which came out Sept 1st - 17-18 months after broadcast in Japan ended. Kill la Kill Part 1 is coming out /7 months/ after Japanese broadcast ends and with English dub no less so it's not very often seen.

- When a release is available elsewhere, no matter how high the price (see comparisons given) we lose sales and are not catering towards another side of the market (the collector's one). In fact for KLK they won't finish the dub til next year anyway and if we respected the usual US dub holdbacks end of next year would be the soonest we could have produced a standard edition anyway sadly.

It doesn't mean we've forgotten everyone who wants a standard edition nor does it mean we're actively trying to exclude them but we have to play by the same rules everyone else does. So the Collector's Edition does not replace the standard editions, it merely is preceding them in a space that otherwise would have been empty in the UK before barring digital.

We've also filled that void with ways to watch the show digitally which is a bit more traditional as a method (Netflix and beyond).

It doesn't make it any easier to swallow - but if you do consider that the standard editions that come out from competitors occur on the same timeline with nothing sooner, then maybe it makes somewhat more sense at least.

Hope this helps and just remember - we've not forgotten the mass market does want a regular edition and we'll get one out as soon as we physically can!

Very best,

Andrew
 
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