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Fluwm
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Yeah, "a lot to swallow" is a bit of an understatement there, I think. In theory, I don't mind deluxe edition releases sold at a premium, but in practice? I think it's pretty indefensible if there's not also gonna be a "normal" version released at a more accessible price point.
LoGH's ridiculously over-the-top $1000 edition should've been the last time we ever had to endure this. But I guess as fans of classic SF anime, we're just here to be fleeced? |
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Giolon
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“A lot to swallow” is especially true given that Anime Limited sold UK pre-orders for this exact same set for half the price American audiences are being asked to pay by Crunchyroll.
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Covnam
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I picked this up during Crunchy's holiday sale as the price came down to ~$125 and am happy with it. Luckily it was shipped in nice packaging, so either they changed or they just took the nice way that animelimited shipped it to them and stuck a shipping label on it
While I'd rather have a more normal sized set for a more reasonable price, it's hard to discount that 180 page art book. My biggest issue with the set though is how the discs are stuck in the artbook. They really should have their own proper case, especially at this price. |
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BigOnAnime
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I felt it was a bit weird to mention the shipping quality in the Vinland Saga S2 review, but here I'd say it's valid as this release in the US is exclusive to the Crunchyroll Store, and pretty much every single copy people have posted about online arrived damaged (here's two examples from Reddit). Such a massive shame we lost Right Stuf, really good chance they would have shipped these properly.
I've made a grand total of 5 orders at the Crunchyroll Store since the closure of Right Stuf, and the most recent from late August (bunch of OOP Nozomi releases as everything was clearanced with no hope of a re-release) which was the first since March resembled the old FUNimation Shop (awful packing quality, why I often avoided them like the plague), just toss stuff in a box with not much packing paper, it wasn't the Right Stuf quality that was still there for a short while after the closure. The "premium packaging" they promised (the old CR Store should have had that to begin with...) is now gone. BTW, if you order old OOP FUNimation releases, good chance they'll ship from the Texas warehouse (remnants of the FUNimation Shop) where they'll toss them in with a single piece of paper or so and everything will move around a lot. And they wonder why the "business has shrunk". Anime fans are more demanding of how their stuff arrives? Who'd have thought? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-20/sony-s-crunchyroll-finds-its-early-lead-in-anime-under-attack Last edited by BigOnAnime on Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:59 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Top Gun
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Exactly how I feel. I've loved Macross Plus since I saw it on SyFy many years ago, and I was super excited when I heard we'd finally be getting a BD release. But then this absurd set got announced, with no sign of a standard release alongside it, and I immediately lost all interest. Like...it's a single 4-episode OVA and movie recut. As far as I'm concerned that shouldn't cost me more than $40 or so. I don't need a giant box with a book I'll almost certainly never read. Just shove those two discs in a standard Amaray and I'm good. And It's not even the price, either...like, I now own well over a thousand individual anime releases. I have zero room for some giant honking box that holds all of two discs. You're dead on with the comparison to that obscene LoGH release, too. Never going to forgive whoever was responsible for that. Way to hold one of the greatest shows of all time hostage. |
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meiam
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Yeah its just too much, I'd love to have the big book, but not at that price. For that price at least give us the full soundtrack and a storyboard, like the patlabor movie dvd have.
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