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Question about Azumanga boxset

Quoted from ANN, "ADV Films has informed us that the Azumanga Daioh ThinPak Collection does not include Azumanga Daioh - The Very Short Movie, or any other extras. ADV is keeping the extras for their initial releases in order so as not to "punish" anyone who paid the higher price for those releases." http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=6843

Kouji wrote:

Quoted from ANN, "ADV Films has informed us that the Azumanga Daioh ThinPak Collection does not include Azumanga Daioh - The Very Short Movie, or any other extras. ADV is keeping the extras for their initial releases in order so as not to "punish" anyone who paid the higher price for those releases." http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=6843

Smells like bullsh**. "Punish"? Why doesn't ADV say that the reason they did it was so that the hardcore fans would still buy the more expensive single releases, or accidently believe the thinpack has it and end up re-purchasing the series? Well I guess I know why but come on. Does anyone actually believe them?

I don't remember where I read it, or heard it. But I saw an interview once with with the president of ADV( I think his his name is Matt or something, can't remember). And he said they sometimes they mess around and purposely makes things not all-around right too:(paraphrasing)" to generate buzz among hardcore fans, listen to them and fix it so we can do a re-release". Now this has nothing to do with Azumanga Daioh , as it just doesn't have all eps. But he was saying that they would even make dubs say things that weren't even close to the original, just to generate buzz, and then fix it, and re-release.

Sick but effective.

Of course, the true solution is to just wait until the thinpack gets released and order the single discs cheap off rightstuf.com --I'm really tempted to sell my Angelic Layer thinpack and buy the original release for $52...

Smells like bullsh**. "Punish"? Why doesn't ADV say that the reason they did it was so that the hardcore fans would still buy the more expensive single releases, or accidently believe the thinpack has it and end up re-purchasing the series? Well I guess I know why but come on. Does anyone actually believe them?

joel_s95387 wrote:

Smells like bullsh**. "Punish"? Why doesn't ADV say that the reason they did it was so that the hardcore fans would still buy the more expensive single releases, or accidently believe the thinpack has it and end up re-purchasing the series? Well I guess I know why but come on. Does anyone actually believe them?

Yes, they do. Let's use CCS as an example here. CCS was originally released in 18 single volumes for $30 with only three to four episodes per disc. It took fans nearly two years to buy all the uncut CCS DVDs seperately and just recently Geneon re-released CCS in cheaper DVD boxsets. Both boxsets sell for around $70-something and they have all the exact same features as the single volumes. Now imagine you went to all the trouble to collect the single volumes for a much more expensive price and it took you a very long time to buy them all, but then somebody else buys the same exact show for a much cheaper price and all in one scoop for all the same features you got. Wouldn't that make you feel at least a little bit pissed off, if not jealous? Besides, compared to the actual show itself, it's not like the Azumanga Daioh shorts were all that funny to begin with and if you're deseperate for translation notes, you can easily find info about the Japanese culture elements in Azumanga Daioh over the Internet. Hell, even ANN has several translation notes for Azumanga Daioh up in its encyclopedia.

Let's use CCS as an example here. CCS was originally released in 18 single volumes for $30 with only three to four episodes per disc. It took fans nearly two years to buy all the uncut CCS DVDs seperately and just recently Geneon re-released CCS in cheaper DVD boxsets. Both boxsets sell for around $70-something and they have all the exact same features as the single volumes. Now imagine you went to all the trouble to collect the single volumes for a much more expensive price and it took you a very long time to buy them all, but then somebody else buys the same exact show for a much cheaper price and all in one scoop for all the same features you got. Wouldn't that make you feel at least a little bit pissed off, if not jealous?

I assume you're asking why it isn't in the thinpack collection. ADV tends to remove all the extras on the collections with a reduced DVD count. All the extras were removed, and more episodes for disc were given to cut down on the disc count.

Some thinpacks, such as RahXephon, FMP, Noir and Gantz, leave the original disc count and all the extras for reasons not understandable to anyone. I wonder if ADV has a reason for doing this? But for now, it appears that they remove extras from random series.

Ever heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum? I originally bought the 8 DVD "Perfect Collection" and was so pissed when I heard they were releasing a "Platinum" series. DId they do anything to make me feel better for buying those old releases? No. They just released the better versions for cheaper, and less volume count. Is that what we call "hypocrates"?

And if it makes you feel any better, the Evangelion Platinum Edition DVD boxset doesn't have any extras on it.

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But the segmant I'm talking about was played in the single DVD right before the ending credits, henceforth making it part of the episode! So, I'm confused...