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Anime News Network's Holiday 2017 Gift Guide

katscradle wrote:

So is there a release cut-off date for products to be included in the guide? I ask because one of the BD sets in the list looked like a good idea for someone I know. Unfortunately, the release date is probably too far into December to receive on time, unless maybe I were to pay for ridiculous expedited shipping. There are already a few things I pre-ordered that are expected later because the release dates are in mid-December.

I try to only include items that will be released before Christmas. If you pre-order the item, at least in my experience, it will arrive by (or sometimes a little earlier than) street date as opposed to being shipped ON street date, if that makes sense.

$85 for Fruits Basket? Ouch! (But the Girl Who Leapt Through Time is only $35.....)

I think the Utena set is about $146 right now, actually. To say I'm tempted is an understatement.

CandisWhite wrote:

No. Nooooo. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That Speed Racer collector's set better not be what they are solely selling Mach Go Go in. Please tell me that we are going to get a standalone set for the Japanese version. Because otherwise........ Fffff-Bell clangs. Ned Flanders: That's the loudest piece of profanity I've ever heard.

I think you're going to be disappointed...

People that are Speed fans want the dub. The dub along with the racing action is what made the show iconic. The Japanese part is incidental whether people here want to acknowledge that or not. I mean it's a racing show for goodness sake!
I've seen bits and pieces of the Japanese version and frankly it wasn't all that different. There wasn't as much to edit out as people think and I'm pretty sure (going by the subs I saw) that the stories weren't altered all that much.

I agree, though, this is a CRUMMY way to do it but it's also possible Tatsunoko forced Funimation through the license agreement to release the series this way. If that's the case, they really need to rethink the negotiations and NOT do this again but sometimes they can't do a darn thing and the series holder won't budge.
There were some really weird past releases of shows where the release pattern was mandated by show owners (Gantz, for instance, and Record of Lodoss War more recently).

Still, $300 for a 50-year-old series is too rich for me...
... and the 1997 remake really isn't that good, either.

I might have gotten the set, too, but again, the pricepoint was ridiculous, I don't need Speed's face staring at me and taking up HUGE space on my shelf, and I sure as hell don't need the 1997 series which was not-so-good. That was par the course for Tatsunoko in the 1990s. They did remakes/reboots of a few of their most popular shows (Casshan, Gatchaman, and Mach Go Go) and none of them were very good. The remakes are pretty much forgotten and anybody with sense (good taste) would tell you to get the original shows and watch those instead.

GeorgeC wrote:

I might have gotten the set, too, but again, the pricepoint was ridiculous, I don't need Speed's face staring at me and taking up HUGE space on my shelf, and I sure as hell don't need the 1997 series which was not-so-good. That was par the course for Tatsunoko in the 1990s. They did remakes/reboots of a few of their most popular shows (Casshan, Gatchaman, and Mach Go Go) and none of them were very good. The remakes are pretty much forgotten and anybody with sense (good taste) would tell you to get the original shows and watch those instead.

With regards to Gatchaman Crowds and especially Casshern Sins, I would strongly disagree.