Forum - View topicNIS America December 2012 Solicitations
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WTK
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via TRSI... | Note: there are no anime release planned for November.
TITLE: Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Volume 1 Premium Edition MSRP: $79.99 RELEASE DATE: December 4, 2012 LENGTH: Approx. 413 mins/18 eps FORMAT: 2 Blu-ray discs LANGUAGE: Japanese audio, English subtitles TITLE: Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Volume 2 Premium Edition MSRP: $49.99 RELEASE DATE: December 4, 2012 LENGTH: Approx. 191 mins/8 eps FORMAT: 1 Blu-ray disc LANGUAGE: Japanese audio, English subtitles |
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Animegomaniac
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Someone's crying somewhere, I know that much. I take it that the single Blu-Ray disk comes free with the bonuses in part 2?
Did anyone there think this one through? "Well, we could make it a single set since we're not adding the DVDs this time?" "No, no, packaging. It's essential to mask price inflation." "But it looks silly..." "Not as silly as your face when it meets my fist." Put it all in one set, combine the bonuses, charge, I don't know, 99 to 119.99, it's not that hard to come up with these things. I wouldn't buy it anyway but I'd like to see some common sense in this side industry every now and then. |
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Blood-
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@ Animegomaniac - I'm not sure what you're bitching about - except that you seem to bitch about everything.
 Anyway, for people who don't whine about everything, I'll point out that the overall cost of these two sets from TRSI will be $96. Normally, NISA's BD/DVD combo sets go for $52 each which means if NISA had done it's usual 1-13 and 14-26 episode split, you'd be paying $104 instead of $96.
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OldCharlieStoletheHandle
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@Blood-: You're point about looking at the total cost of the show is valid, but keep in mind this is a BD-only release, the $52-per-set price you're quoting is for BD/DVD combo sets (like Katanagatari) so Umineko isn't really cheaper. The only other BD-only release was Occult Academy at $48 at TRSI, so multiplying that by 2 for a 2-cour show gets $96 which is what they're charging for all of Umineko.
It's a strange breakdown, true, but it's not like NISA is the only one doing multiple sets on initial release-even FUNimation still does that on 2-cour shows as does Sentai Filmworks. |
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Blood-
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@OldCharlie - valid point. The 18/8 split is strange insofar as it is not entirely clear why they are doing that way as opposed to the more usual half and half split. However, splitting a 2 cours show into two sets is totally consistent with their usual release strategy. The exception so far is their upcoming Natsume release where, thankfully, they are putting S1 & 2 in the same set, thus we only have to buy two sets to get the first four seasons of that title.
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@Blood- I was under the impression that they split it like that to keep the arcs intact on each set. Of course, this loses some validity since both sets seem to be coming out at the same time so if there's a better reason, I've not heard it.
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Blood-
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I heard the arc thing, too. My guess is that it is probably true. They wanted to stick to their 2 sets per cours release strategy, but wanted to break it in the story where it made the most sense. I tend to treat the two sets of the same title as a single purchase, but not everybody does.
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Xanas
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I guess I can't really understand whining about not getting certain discs because I don't use them after the initial rip anyway, but it really isn't expensive to get a BD player anymore even if you don't have an HDTV to take full advantage of it yet (which would be odd considering how cheap they are.. but if you don't value image quality you don't value it I guess)
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WTK
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Kruszer
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Looking sharp, I must say.
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WTK
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NIS America Online Store listing
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Blood-
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*whew* When I saw this thread had a new WTK post in it, I was worried it was a warning that another NISA PE title was going oop.
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Judge Of Toyama
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Have they said if they are going to put anything in the Umineko - When They Cry Part 2 box to take up the space where the second blu ray case would have fit in like some kind of filler piece or something else extra?
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