Overseas The Discotek Media Thread (plus AnimEigo)

[fabio de lunatico]

Ginrei OVA is a lighthearted spinoff that's more fanservice than anything. It's entirely unnecessary.

Wish they'd made another couple of episodes of GR instead as while the series does end conclusively, it also leaves things tantalisingly open for more.

 

[MRDA]

Crunchyroll do ship to the UK, as I've done an order with them. But you do have to pay customs when it gets here.

Which UK courier picked it up, and was the order over £135?

 

[Lucky_Deity]

Along with Golden Boy mentioned the other day the Dr. Slump movie collection is also back in-stock on the Crunchyroll Store.

Was going to wait until payday but bit the bullet and ordered them now as they're OOP and was annoyed that I didn't get them earlier when they went out-of-stock prior.

Was hoping that would mean Monkey Punch's Cinderella Boy would come back in-stock as well as that was another title that went OOP at the same time as the other two but it hasn't popped up unfortunately.

 

[Lucky_Deity]

UPDATE: Golden Boy is again out-of-stock and out-of-print for anyone who was interested. I'm glad I got my order in when I did now.

 

[HWR]

Thanks for the heads up on Saturday @Lucky_Deity looks like I picked it up in time.

 

[Lucky_Deity]

Thanks for the heads up on Saturday @Lucky_Deity looks like I picked it up in time.

No worries!

I'm pretty sure Discotek said at some point that a blu-ray wouldn't be possible for Golden Boy so this was likely the last chance for people (including myself) to get this for the foreseeable future (without paying ridiculous prices on ebay).

Dr. Slump I have no idea if it'll come back on blu-ray or SD-BD in the future and considering it's still fairly niche (despite being a Toriyama work), I can see it not happening unfortunately though interest may have risen due to Toriyama's unfortunate passing recently.

Now if Cinderella Boy could surprisingly come back in-stock for a bit I'd be happy (not to keep going on about it but annoyed I didn't get it earlier), I can't seem to find it on ebay at all (the Discotek release anyway).

 

[NormanicGrav]

Discotek's July 2024 line-up was revealed. They are going for a bi-monthly approach from here on I believe and they also mentioned their next expected Discotek Day event isn't until Otakon, but at least this timeframe is good for us to catch up on those classics.

Also worth noting they teased and revealed the Tokusatsu series Mobile Cop Jiban over the weekend. They did mention a while back that they were cooking some Toku Time titles so there's probably more to come.

Anime	SRP	Audio/Subs	Content	Format
Futakoi Alternative	$39.95	Japanese with English Subs	13 episodes	Blu-ray
Lupin the Third: Princess of the Breeze	$24.95	Japanese with English Subs	TV Special	Blu-ray
Lupin the Third: The Secret Page of Marco Polo	$24.95	Japanese with English Subs	TV Special	Blu-ray
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's	$39.95	English & Japanese with English Subs	13 episodes	Blu-ray
Mazinkaizer: The OVA Series	$39.95	English & Japanese with English Subs	7 OVAs	Blu-ray
Mobile Cop Jiban 機動刑事ジバン	$49.95	Japanese with English Subs	52 episodes [TOKU TIME]	SD-BD
Space Emperor God Sigma	$49.95	Japanese with English Subs	50 episodes	SD-BD
Urusei Yatsura: The OVA Series	$39.95	Japanese with English Subs	11 OVAs	Blu-ray

Remaining:

• Digimon Adventure 02
• Digimon Movie Collection 01
• Reborn! Special Fan Disc
• Sgt. Frog Seasons 5-7 Collection
• Tona-Gura!

 

[Nico87]

Giant Robo is region A only. I don't own the Ginrei OVA so I can't check the region code.

Works with the Panasonic top menu trick

 

[NormanicGrav]

Sorted out my next Discotek Media haul, which hopefully will arrive in time for this month's haul!

I've gone for 12 titles once again, was hoping to add more but the shows always up the costs. Pretty happy with the selection as there was more freedom to choose given almost everything was available. Obviously it's a challenge to pick what's best especially given the randomness of the out of print notices.

My haul has a title from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, four from 2022, two from 2023 and one from 2024. Not going to completely give away what they all are but I will highlight that two of them are Lupin the Third: Mystery of Mamo and Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal which I have watched from way back in 2012 so it's going to be interesting to revisit them when they arrive.

Reborn! was considered but I held off because they're planning the Fan Disc release which I felt was extending the lifespan of the release a bit (though I will pick it up sooner than later to avoid the hassle, but they're not cheap sets for context).

 

[NormanicGrav]

More out of print releases now listed:

Anime	SRP	Audio	Content	Released
City Hunter Season 2 Set 1	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-38	July 2021​
City Hunter Season 2 Set 2 [SOLD OUT ON CR STORE]	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 39-63	September 2021​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 1	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-39	December 2019​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 2	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 40-76	July 2020​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 3	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 77-113	September 2020​

A surprise out of print batch here with the two-part sets for City Hunter 2 and also the Galaxy Express 999 TV series (the films are fine for now).

 

[HWR]

Luckily I have all of these already but those are some notable losses.

 

[AgeOfBoredom]

More out of print releases now listed:

Anime	SRP	Audio	Content	Released
City Hunter Season 2 Set 1	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-38	July 2021​
City Hunter Season 2 Set 2 [SOLD OUT ON CR STORE]	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 39-63	September 2021​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 1	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-39	December 2019​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 2	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 40-76	July 2020​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 3	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 77-113	September 2020​

A surprise out of print batch here with the two-part sets for City Hunter 2 and also the Galaxy Express 999 TV series (the films are fine for now).

Set 1 is also sold out now too

 

[AgeOfBoredom]

Does any of the discotek stuff ever get another run or am I just dreaming?

 

[NormanicGrav]

Does any of the discotek stuff ever get another run or am I just dreaming?

Only the ones that run out of stock within say the first 12-36 months or so. If it doesn't run out then it's likely to not receive a reprint due to poor sales.

Some of the older releases have been reprinted with the curved slipcases which does suggest it did well enough to stay around a bit longer, but sometimes license expirations can occur to which stock would get eaten up sooner than later.

If you look on the first post, basically any title that's been released up to about early 2021 I would recommend you go ahead and grab if you have access to a Region Free Blu-ray player (or Panasonic player) at this point.

Regarding City Hunter, I'm still convinced that Anime Limited will eventually license the entire franchise given their relationship with Sunrise, the fact that Discotek doesn't have UK rights (only US & Canada and Australia & New Zealand) and Anime Limited picking up the latest City Hunter film Angel Dust for UK & US.

 

[Dai]

More out of print releases now listed:

Anime	SRP	Audio	Content	Released
City Hunter Season 2 Set 1	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-38	July 2021​
City Hunter Season 2 Set 2 [SOLD OUT ON CR STORE]	$49.95​	Japanese​	eps 39-63	September 2021​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 1	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 1-39	December 2019​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 2	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 40-76	July 2020​
Galaxy Express 999 Collection 3	$69.95​	Japanese​	eps 77-113	September 2020​

A surprise out of print batch here with the two-part sets for City Hunter 2 and also the Galaxy Express 999 TV series (the films are fine for now).

Grrr, I was trying to buy City Hunter season 2 for months a while back, but it was constantly out of stock on Amazon. At least I've got season 1 and the movies.

Does City Hunter remain purely episodic with no ongoing continuity throughout? I'm just wondering if it's worth skipping ahead to season 3 and 91 or if there are major events in season 2 that would make the later ones difficult to follow.

 

[TakamakiJoker]

Grrr, I was trying to buy City Hunter season 2 for months a while back, but it was constantly out of stock on Amazon. At least I've got season 1 and the movies.

Does City Hunter remain purely episodic with no ongoing continuity throughout? I'm just wondering if it's worth skipping ahead to season 3 and 91 or if there are major events in season 2 that would make the later ones difficult to follow.

I was planning to do a City Hunter and Cats Eye haul later this and the reason why I haven't done it yet is because how unnecessarily hard to find and expensive City Hunter 2 is.
I never want to spend £60+ of one set out of two.
I thought there will be a complete Season 2 set for money and storage convenience reasons on my end.

Not to mention one of the parts keeps going out of stock without warning

Thankfully I was only mildly interested in the series so City Hunter Season 1 and the Movies as well Cats Eye stuff will be just enough for me.

Plus I often heard mixed opinions on City Hunter 2 anyway from my peer so I saved a bit of cash of spending a crap ton of money on 2 sets that I may not even end up liking.

Now if that happened to You're Under Arrest for example, then I would be upset, although I would had brought all.the SD-BDs on release

 

[zappi]

I was planning to do a City Hunter and Cats Eye haul later this and the reason why I haven't done it yet is because how unnecessarily hard to find and expensive City Hunter 2 is.
I never want to spend £60+ of one set out of two.
I thought there will be a complete Season 2 set for money and storage convenience reasons on my end.

Not to mention one of the parts keeps going out of stock without warning

Thankfully I was only mildly interested in the series so City Hunter Season 1 and the Movies as well Cats Eye stuff will be just enough for me.

Plus I often heard mixed opinions on City Hunter 2 anyway from my peer so I saved a bit of cash of spending a crap ton of money on 2 sets that I may not even end up liking.

Now if that happened to You're Under Arrest for example, then I would be upset, although I would had brought all.the SD-BDs on release

very similar thoughts to me
I have City Hunter S1 but have never seen a decent price for S2, annoying it is split into two parts and didn't want to end up with just one part. have both Cat's Eye sets tho, much prefer it as a series too!
and yes will someone pleeeeease release You're Under Arrest on blu ray

 

[NormanicGrav]

I thought there will be a complete Season 2 set for money and storage convenience reasons on my end.

Yeah it was an assumption for many but Discotek confirmed on their reddit that Season 1's complete set impacted the Season 2 Parts 1 & 2 sales so plans cancelled. Though I recall they revealed it pretty early so I think it was bad planning on Discotek's part because they should have done it after Season 2 Parts 1 & 2 were out of the way.

 

[Lucky_Deity]

Oh, that sucks a complete season two set was cancelled, would had got on it sooner. I've only bought Shinjuku Private Eyes so far.

 

[Girls with Guns]

Discotek titles I pretty much buy on pre-order, so I have the separate Parts 1 & 2 for both Seasons 1 and 2, and didn't bother double dipping on the Complete Season 1. I actually prefer collecting the separate Parts 1 & 2 of any anime that eventually gets a Complete Collection set, mainly because more surface area on the slips and cases and disks for artwork. I have almost no complete collection re-releases of any anime in my collection, because if it was a series I liked I would have already bought the separate Parts 1 & 2 long before, so then I'm not really interested in double-dipping just for a combined set. So, I have every City Hunter Discotek release except for the Season 1 Complete Collection set.

I've got all of the releases for the Galaxy Express series and movies and Cat's Eye as well - I blind-bought all of them because I could tell I was going to really like them.