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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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penguintruth
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This was ludicrously priced, but I have to admit, I enjoy owning one of my favorite anime on Blu-Ray, both versions, and the art book is nice. They even included both dubbed versions of episode 4 of the OVA, though it would have been nice if they had finally dubbed the movie version.
After this and that Ultimate Edition of Evangelion, I think I'm done buying these absurdly priced boxsets, though. Well, unless they re-release LoGH at a lower price. |
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rmcclo
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I agree, this is such a great box set. No damage to mine at all. If I was going to buy a set this expensive for anything it would be for Macross Plus. I saw it as a kid on SyFy and was blown away. I can't believe I've still never been able to watch the original Macross to know the larger story, but I'm glad it stands on its own so well.
I'm a total fighter jet nut, engineer, anime fan, especially mecha: Macross Plus has everything. The soundtrack is incredible, and it's amazing to watch it now and see it speak to the present moment better than a lot of contemporary works. I especially loved one of the written interviews where they talked about team members getting to go up in planes with an American company and experience dogfighting firsthand. It totally explains why nothing else has dogfighting scenes that look anything like Macross Plus. You can just feel the passion the whole way through. |
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nyaa
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$189.99 is a bitter pill to swallow, too bitter for me-maybe $60 or possibly $80. Macross+ is undeniably excellent and I don't care how many extras the set comes with because all I want is the show. I vastly prefer the 4 original episodes to the so-called "movie" which I consider to be a total hack job.
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micpp
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Just a note, "Forced Narratives" is apparently an industry term for what most other anime blurays call a "signs and songs" subtitle track - i.e. the track that just translates onscreen text and any untranslated song lyrics. So I suspect it's a reference to the subtitle track that accompanies the dub, and not a comment on the accuracy.
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Battle Cossack
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Oh wow VI & Coop in the same article... my Bsky feed has bled into ANN
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Moonsaber
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The price sucked. I got it down to about $150, and when it arrived it was packed... well not so much. Corner of box a bit mushed, and it telegraphed to the rest of the contents. I was PO'd.
Called CR, they gave me a discount on it, which got it down to about $130 all told, and offered to re-ship. Now, I had an issue a year or so ago from Rightstuf shipping me the Alita manga box set, the big heavy hardback one... and it took 3 tries to get it intact. CR wanted it shipped back, and I just didn't want to deal with it, so the bitter pill is on my shelf, and I have little pride in ownership of this set, that said... the disks themselves are fantastic. |
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MarshalBanana
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i saw it on Disney+ and enjoyed it, but no way near enough to spend that sort of money on it.
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DangerMouse
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Yeah, for this price we really should have gotten a full soundtrack CD given the legendary music of this. When they get up this high I'm definitely a lot more picky, still got this and the Eva set, but would not buy just anything. Also, totally would have wanted to get LoGH to finally see it, but not at that ridiculous price Sentai/RS had put it up for for Sentai back then, let alone without an English Dub (even then $800 was way too much for my wallet, let alone for something I've never actually seen, lol).
Same here, I guess I've just been pretty lucky with their packaging so far despite the change to Crunchyroll somehow. Most of my packages have still had some extra inner paper package materials holding things in place (and the shipments of single blu-rays the same exact single sized cardboard package), even if not the full stiff extra cardboard holder (this was the best), so not fully like Right Stuf, but still better than I get from Target, Amazon, etc. (same address as RS was too, don't know if they now ship from multiple but that's where mine seem to have been coming from). Agreed, the way the discs are placed in these things is a notable issue I tend to have with a bunch of limited edition sets, especially those really shitty ones that try to make you place the discs in the sleeve of the artwork. At least this still had holders lol. |
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