Review of Death Note #1

Spyro201 said:
Rui said:
FLCL is a direct to video, quirky artsy title aimed at older fans. Death Note is unusually good, fairly long Shounen Jump suspense show with an interesting hook aimed squarely at the mass market (ok, mass *anime* market in the UK, a little different). A lot of anime watchers will not "get" FLCL.

If they released every episode of FLCL on one disc, it would still not have as many episodes as one pack of Death Note. If they halved the price too, they'd make no money on their release at all. They can't win, so they're instead taking the highly reasonable business plan of trying to release it in a way that balances value and profitability so they can afford to release more crazy Gainax stuff.

We still get twice as many episodes per disc as the Japanese did for almost half the price (remember, it was an OAV so it wasn't televised when it came out; they had to buy/rent like we do) and double the language options. I really see little room to complain.

As for choice of months - well it's hard to avoid Death Note, Naruto or Bleach entirely as is at the rate the Shounen Jump series are churned out. And any TV series disc will have more episodes available than FLCL got in its entire run. They're not hoping to outsell the major shounen fare. They simply won't be able to. It's aimed at a different type of fan.

I'd buy FLCL over Death Note if I didn't already have the R2Js (preordered on release as imports and I don't feel ripped off even now it's cheaper; love it).

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Thing is though; its still a horrible price thats practically robbery. I wouldnt buy FLCL, simply because im not eager enough to throw money down the drain.

If they know it wont sell well in the UK, dont release it here, just let us import it *Shrug*. But oh we must support UK Anime Industry, thats fine but, they'll just have to settle for less money. Frankly, I find it a rip off.
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If it's being released here, they believe there is a market and if you're not buying, well, you're not part of that market.
BTW, FLCL V1 is sold out at amazon, while death note is already at 60% discount.
If it's sold out at amazon already, I don't think they were that off the mark... V2 have only 4 copies available for pre-order now that I've checked...

Kireek said:
...But anyway back onto the deathnote review
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Agreed, sorry I've missed it the first time.
 
To the people complaining about £45 being too expensive for 6 episodes: don't buy it in high-street shops. FLCL will only cost you about £30 for all 3 volumes if you buy them from Play, Amazon or anime-on-line.

And the R1 set for £32 (as Kireek pointed out) isn't worth importing, even with extras, due to the massive customs that will be added to it at that price.

The R2UK release of FLCL is probably the best value for money of any of the releases. And the Death Note R2UK release is, for once, better value for money than the R1.
 
ryuzaki said:
To the people complaining about £45 being too expensive for 6 episodes: don't buy it in high-street shops. FLCL will only cost you about £30 for all 3 volumes if you buy them from Play, Amazon or anime-on-line.

And the R1 set for £32 (as Kireek pointed out) isn't worth importing, even with extras, due to the massive customs that will be added to it at that price.

The R2UK release of FLCL is probably the best value for money of any of the releases. And the Death Note R2UK release is, for once, better value for money than the R1.
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Actually its pretty likely that given a small enough time gap between FLCL vol 3 there will be a boxset that (given online discounts, that'll probably be around £20-25)
 
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