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ANNCast - The Life and Kime of Geneon, USA

but Justin's insistence on insulting Law of Ueki, especially when Kime revealed that it more than likely did much better than Justin ever thought it did (almost breaking even) just annoyed the hell out of me.

That's part of the reason why I don't watch every episode of the ANNCast: Justing and Zac's apparent need to add "clever" insult jokes just for cheap laughs sometimes, though I'll admit that Justin is a worse offender for this than Zac most of the time. But still, aside from those bad jokes, this was a very solid episode overall.

I agree completely 100% with Mike and my boss Chris McDonald always says a good review will tell you whether or not you're going to like a show, negative or positive..... And I agree with that to an extent. I think in this day and age, and I used to have a different philosophy on this, but personally in this day and age there's so much opinion out there striving to be the perfect review is not necessary. There are 1500 other people doing exactly what you're doing. So now I think the goal is to be entertaining and interesting to read and provide a unique perspective.

I remember putting off buying the Cardcaptor Sakura box sets because I couldn't afford to pay $120 for them at the time... Then, of course, Geneon went under and the box sets became scarce, driving up the price even more. Shot myself in the foot on that one.

Glad to hear the subtitled DVDs sold better than that godawful edited dub, though. Maybe there's still a chance for a license rescue...

Same reason why we haven't seen utena re-released either. People know deep down in their hearts it'll sell if done right, but the money isn't there to finance the ambition.

samuelp wrote:

Same reason why we haven't seen utena re-released either. People know deep down in their hearts it'll sell if done right, but the money isn't there to finance the ambition.

That's not why nobody has rescued Utena. People have tried with Utena. And that's all I'm allowed to say about that.

We have to release the individuals and we have to shoot for profitability because we tried it at $29.98 and we saw the sales, and we tried it at $24.98 and it sold about the same, and we tried a few at $19.98 and it was about the same. Price did not really have that big an impact, because quite frankly they [the fans] knew what titles they wanted. If they were willing to pay for it, they were willing to pay for it... and if they weren't willing to pay for it, there was the internet.