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Sakagami Tomoyo
 Posts: 943 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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I just went and checked my Amazon Japan order history, and shipping on DVDs actually had always been pretty good. It's shipping on manga that had been horrible; every manga order I had, I was paying more in shipping than I was for the books themselves. |
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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You are confusing OADs (which come bundled with special manga compilations) with unaired episodes included with the blu-ray release. BTW, recently some OADs have been released in blu-ray (HD) format, which makes sense as slowly but surely becomes the new standard. I wonder how long will DVD releases will continue to be a thing, sooner or later they will become a relic of the 20th century like LD or VHS. |
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relyat08
 Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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They must ship that by weight, I imagine. Which would definitely add up quite a lot... 
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Kalessin
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Actually, I'm not confusing them. The Testament of Sister New Devil had a Blu-ray come with a volume of the manga and another with one of the light novels. Queen's Blade and Samurai Girls both released Blu-rays with artbooks. And I have all of those. Also, I know that High School DxD had some come with some of its light novels as well, though unfortunately, I don't have those. For instance, here's one of the High School DxD ones: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-1695106 It may very well be as you say that the majority of them are DVDs, but they've definitely been releasing OADs that are Blu-rays for at least some of the fanservice-heavy series. |
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Ouran High School Dropout
 Posts: 440 Location: Somewhere in Massachusetts, USA |
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Actually, they're not as hard to get a hold of as you think. I've purchased three in the past year right off good ol' Amazon USA. All are retrofitted Sony Blu/DVD region-free players with built-in PAL for European DVDs, and only cost $150 a unit. Since I got these units, Amazon UK has become another anime source for me. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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OAD stands for "Original Animation DVD" so...
It.. does (albeit in passing): "Same goes for manga pack-in OVAs: those are usually controlled entirely by the manga publisher." OAD is a much later term than OVA/OAV, being a marketing term made up Kodansha. I don't know if any other publishers took it up, or if it is even still in use. |
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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I think you better update to "Original Animation Disc" http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/02/26/big-order-oad-to-be-bundled-with-manga-8th-volume |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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That really depends whether the publisher themselves actually referred to it as an "OAD" or whether that just a term Crunchyroll applied. For one thing, Big Order is Kadokawa and again, AFAIK "OAD" was a Kodansha term, and our article doesn't mention it. There's also this page which refers to it as an "Original Anime BD" and an OVA (in the URL).
For reference, I own some of the original Kodansha OADs, e.g. https://goo.gl/photos/CjgHA6DZR6mVMs1a6 
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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It makes sense that while we are in the transition period they will call it a BD (or Blu-ray) to avoid confusion (like "Hey, this is not SD but HD!") but IMO we are not too far from the moment where blu-ray market penetration (among otaku in japan) becomes too high and savings for producing in DVD format become so low that a shift in format (to lure more buyers) will happen and I don't see them coining a new acronym (OAB sounds ugly and OBA looks like a orthographic error of OVA) when the original term already refers to a Digital Video/Versatile Disc. Time will tell. |
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