Re: MCM July '14: No plans for Attack on Titan complete set
Joshawott said:
Well, I guess the big one was DBZ: Battle of the Gods.
It's been licensed from Fox instead of Toei though.
And that picture might as well be my TL;DR for this whole comment/reply I'm posting here. Seriously...
NormanicGrav said:
10/27 - Attack on Titan: Part 2 (Blu-ray & DVD)
10/27 - Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (Blu-ray, DVD & Steelbook)
11/24 - Bayonetta: Bloody Fate (Blu-ray & DVD)
11/24 - Ghost in the Shell: ARISE border 1 & 2 (Blu-ray & DVD)
12/10 - Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (Blu-ray & DVD)
2015 - Space Pirate Captain Harlock the Movie (Blu-ray & DVD)
- Due to Attack on Titan not being in a chipboard artbox I'm not too fuzzed about getting the parts.
- I have no interest in the life action movie/web series.
- I rather want to own Banjonette, by which I mean... I don't really feel like watching that, and I'm not saying I never will.. But for now: no.
- Ghost in the Shell Arise... If only the SAC series was out on Blu-ray... ... I'll probably wait for the final volume or complete collection to pick it up.
- *insert previously shown picture here*
- Harlock? Aaarrrrgh lock that out.
(pun intended) No. Nothing for me. Maybe in the future, but not now. I have a focus on anime anyway.
NormanicGrav said:
Well that was a rather disappointing.
Like about all MCM Expos the last 3 years?
I mean, seriously... I can't really recall the last time I wasn't disappointed by the announcements at MCM.
Most of the time the announcements are expected, or Andrew/Jerome/Tony already gave them away beforehand.
Rosencrantz said:
Though perhaps they could announce they are using slimmer disc cases, to create more shelf space
If they do that I request ALL their releases to get a slipcover so it doesn't mess up my shelf like your suggestion would.
(I understand where you're coming from though. ^_^)
Lutga said:
My personal theory is that they reckon their 'two series every week' approach could have potentially been damaging sales as people were essentially flooded with choice and didn't know what to pick.
I don't think that problem will change by shifting titles to other distributors or not releasing them in the UK. It'd even damage the UK more I reckon...
And I'm pretty sure the UK can handle more (total) anime releases a week than the current amount.
People prioritize all the time.
The thing for Manga was that as with every company there's only so much it can handle.
MVM has about 50 releases this year, Manga about 90 (IIRC said on their podcast) & AtA about 15 (?).
If you want to increase this you have to either hire more people, be happy with putting out bad products (Kaze), release less,... (lots of options)
As far as I understood team Manga has 3 people, team MVM has 2 people and team Anime Ltd has 3 people.
If I recall correctly Jerome said on one of the podcasts team Manga used to have 5 or more persons. And according to an early blog post by Andrew Team Anime Ltd has 5 people. But since we haven't heard anything about 2 of the 5 I'm under the assumption they either left or were fired.
I could be wrong though!
OF COURSE (!) you need to keep in mind that for example MVM sounded like they outsource the cover artwork to a designer, and Anime Ltd has one on the team.
And for Manga I believe there's someone who does all covers of Starz. (Once again: I could be wrong though!!)
It's obviously all more complicated than what I just wrote down, especially with Team Manga. And given we rarely get any clarifications we don't really know what they all do..
reborn said:
Can't find the post but i'm sure in the past - Manga said they were going to start licensing less titles (think it was about the time MVM started to increase again).
It wasn't a post. It was part of the podcast. They allowed MVM and AtA to get more titles by announcing they wanted to handle less titles a year so they could do more with the titles they have. Like what happened with Blood-C The Last Dark, Wolf Children, Attack on Titan, GitS, etc.. (that AoT is a disappointment is aside the point here)
NormanicGrav said:
I guess there was some misunderstandings regarding the announcement, I did some background checks. (cont) Apparently that last sentence was a joke
NormanicGrav said:
I'm surprised they haven't touched upon the negative reaction of the Attack on Titan Collector's Edition set and not even mentioning what comes with Part 2. I'm just curious, how many of us here have gone for the US/Australian version?
Unless it's a stream of comments by multiple people it's easy to "miss" or "ignore" complaints.
About the latter question, maybe you should ask who hasn't... I haven't and as said earlier on in the post I might very well wait for the complete collection (or longer).
reborn said:
Since we're talking AOT - whats the best option(s) currently available for a DVD buyer (don't go suggesting buying a BD Player!)?
Buy a VHS player!! ;D
[Nota bene: sorry, had to make the joke]
Dannielle said:
britguy said:
Don't know why I bothered getting hyped for this "big" "shelf space" announcement :/
I feel ya .. : |
Why?! Because "hype" is some kind of a feeling of excitement that promises improvement or something good/awesome, and builds anticipation.
It can be triggered due to lots of us humans tend to be influenced by other humans over "decisions". Which is one of the reasons why this went awry as nobody noticed the joke.
Hype is also a recipe for disappointment like proven by lots of people on this forum and on Twitter.
Which is one of the reasons why I tend to try to avoid overhyped anime/series until the hype dies down a bit, so I can watch it with a more clear view...
I won't always succeed at that and sometimes I'm naturally hyped myself, like with Chu2Koi... But yeah.. HYPE!
