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Asrialys
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I own the series. Twice  I own the singles and the box sets. I grabbed the boxes as soon as TRSI had them. lol And while I started collecting the singles first a little before the Clow Book came out, I only completed them after getting the last 2-3 volumes I needed back in 2010. Took about five years...
The completionist in me wants to get all of Galaxy Angel, but I don't know if I care anymore. I do have a signed copy of Volume 1 of Galaxy Angel Rune though... |
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Mesonoxian Eve
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When Aniplex recently announced its pricing for Gurren Lagann, something remarkable happened: retailers started selling copies of the version that's been available for years, collecting dust.
Once they're gone, the price is going up. $50? In your dreams, otaku! You'll be paying $100+ in 2014, because this is still a bargain when compared to the price Aniplex will charge of its imported series. Interestingly enough, I find it the least surprising this happens. Fans just want to recoup some of the money they've lost by spending money on anime, the only way they know how to recoup these losses is gouging their own kind. Rather ironic, then, to see them bitch when they feel a company is gouging them. I also don't discount the notion some publishers purposely print small volumes in order to facilitate an "artificial" limit* on the product, creating a fervor that usually builds long after it's been deemed "OoP". Funny how that works. *I still say ADV purposely did this for Kanon, volume 5. At any rate, I'm glad I'm not a completionist. If I can't get "X" to make a series complete, I just toss the rest of the set into the trash and buy something I can get complete. |
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vanfanel
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Beautiful and awesome is reason enough for me  Ah, to see awesome fantasy OVAs with Mutsumi Inomata character designs again...for less than 20,000-50,000 yen...(sigh)
I used to have Leda on subbed VHS from Rightstuf(IIRC). I could kick myself now for selling it off. The lack of an uncut, subbed Windaria in R1 (even to this very day) has always been one of the great missing pieces in R1 anime releasing. |
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LeoKnight25
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The ADV Gatchaman sets are prohibitively expensive. Single volumes are up over $100 each on some of those, not to mention the box sets. I have the first 3 or 4 sets (can't remember) but, was never able to complete the series. Now you can't find 'em anywhere. I was lucky enough to buy a lot of the other cool series that I wanted as they were coming out, like Ronin Warriors, thankfully. I had no idea they were so expensive until a friend pointed out to me that the full box set had been going for $400+ on ebay and amazon. I'm still looking for that last volume of the B't X manga I need, Volume 14. I waited too long and now I can't find it even on Amazon. I hate being such a procrastinator
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GeorgeC
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You really, really don't want to get those sets. The problem is that they were print-to-demand... IE, DVD-R. DVD-R is a horrible recording medium... The main quality issue is that these things are made so cheaply that they tend to degrade fast which means that within a matter of months a DVD-R becomes unplayable or at least freezes sporadically. I've had this happen on at least 3-5 DVD-R's I've made. They weren't older than one year when I started noticing this... This was happening with BRAND NEW DVD-R copies of the shows issued by ImaginAsian. IA never sold many copies of them so when their replicator went out of business IA never bothered to repress the shows on high-quality factory DVDs. They didn't follow through with any of their promises to repress the shows and let their short-term licenses to those shows run out. I HATE the manufacture-on-demand programs from WB, Fox, MGM, and all the other studios. It's a cheap way for them to get out old films and TV shows they don't want to bother to master properly and get out on more durable video formats. IF I were ever to get a DVD-R set (most likely with Thundarr the Barbarian, a show that SHOULD have gotten a pressed DVD format) of something I cared about, I'd make a backup as soon as possible. DVD-R just isn't a stable long-lasting format. Even VHS is far more durable than DVD-R! I have VHS tapes over 20 years old that haven't been played much that are still fine today. I doubt in 20 years that most of CD-R's or DVD-R's will barely play on any computer let alone a commerical DVD/Blu ray player. A few years back I reduped a CD soundtrack from a CD-R I got way back in 1995... That CD-R wouldn't play on any of my CD players (aside from my computer) so I did a new recording... Still have that CD-R but as I haven't used it in years I don't know its current condition. I doubt it's still playable now. These formats were just not made with much durability. Unless you buy from a higher-end, high-quality manufacturer, don't expect the discs to last much beyond 5 years. (CD-R generally holds up better, btw.) It's usually a degradation in the chemicals that the lasers write to or a failure of the glue that holds the halves of the 5-inch disc together. Same thing happens with 12-inch laserdiscs, too, and I've had a number of those go bad as well... The most durable media for digital video now are digital tapes (rapidly going extinct as flash ROM gets cheaper all the time), flash ROM drives (solid state), and the far cheaper yet-will-break-after-enough spins hard drive you use in your computer. While the latter is cheapest and VERY durable (will last 7-8 years regular daily use; far longer if its used only for archiving data and not as a main disk drive), the main issue with it are the evolving interface standards. We've gone through at least a half-dozen major interface standards since I've been using computers. Latest standard is SATA but even that has at least 3 versions with different transmission speeds. Prior to that we had SCSI interface drives (SCSI's out of use as of a years back in at least consumer PC's) and IDE/PATA drives which were the primary disk standard before SATA took over. Your HD may survive forever but will there be any computer with an interface/adapter that will work with it??? At least I found out recently that there are IDE/SATA adapters on the markets... Now how well these work and what data transmission speeds they max out at I don't know. I do know that like most out-of-production computer parts, IDE drives could go up in price. (Computer RAM prices are notorious for rising in price as supply of out-of-production RAM diminishes...) I have a DVD Recorder that has an IDE-based interface which is why I explored the IDE/SATA adapter for my needs. IDE HD's themselves max out at around 500GB. An adapter might enable the use of 1TB SATA HD's or larger... |
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walw6pK4Alo
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How great it'd be if Rightstuf or Discotek just grabbed the three Yuyama features and released them close together. Windaria should be well known enough to sell decently, so it should be first. |
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pachy_boy
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I'm mostly with you, but rather than trashing your incomplete singles, you should consider trading them in either to Robert's Anime Corner Store or Amazon (free shipping!) for store credit, that way you can at least get something back for them. |
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kevinx59
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I wish I'd known about right stuff back then. oh well. I'm able to get several random Galaxy Angel dvds at the record store though, all for under 3 bucks each.
Makes me glad I was able to get subbed vol 2 for 5 dollars, but the rest of the sets are getting more expensive. shame Aniplex is selling theirs for hundreds of dollars. |
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streexanime
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The Card Captor Sakura DVDs were the hardest to track down... I still don't have them. The two boxsets were released well before I had a feasible income. I didn't get much of an allowance as a teen/child to get them as individuals.
I remember having to argue with the state-region library to even keep the boxset intact as a whole. They wanted to list each DVD in the Clow set as a separate entry and it was completely random which DVD you got out of the set( you ask for disc 1, you're given disc 3 instead. "They're just cartoons right? It doesn't matter what order they're in"). The only OoP one I ever got was finally when TRSI annouced the Utena re-release. |
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fuuma_monou
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I managed to get the first two relatively cheap, but checking the prices for the rest of the DVDs make me a bit reluctant to finish the set. It'd be cheaper to get the new (remastered?) Japanese DVD box sets, but those don't have English subtitles. |
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luffypirate
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I am late to zee party but...
blam! Huge ass pic!! |
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streexanime
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Never have I been so tempted in my life to get the bootlegs |
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eddiehades
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Hey there, I came across this thread when searching for information regarding why dvds of Zoids: Chaotic Century were so damn expensive to buy.
I've actually got volumes 1.1 to 1.3 and 1.10 to 1.16 and am looking to sell them, and I was wondering if anyone here would be interested? The only sticking point would be that as I'm from Australia, they're region 4 dvds, but that wouldn't be a problem if you have a region free player
I'm currently selling on ebay, take a look
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181222065026#viTabs_0 Just got to my other items to find the rest of them
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Tony K.
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eddiehades, please read our policy on necroposting, and then also read Teh Rules about commerce.
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