Next to "it looks interesting" I can't say much more about the Karneval news than that I'm surprised as Funimation never announced home video rights, so is this getting dubbed or is this another Mayo Chiki where this time Manga assumes it's going to get dubbed. Or is this a sub only on purpose. Well, wait and see is all I can do, isn't it right? I do expect Funimation to licence home video rights & dub it though.
We can confirm we'll be releasing "Sengoku Basara - The Last Party" in the UK. More details will be forthcoming
As for Sengoku Basara it quickly became the show this year I don't give a damn about supporting the whole thing legally
(anymore). It got way too complex recently when the US skipped the SE for the region A+B second season BD & just shoved it in a box with the region A only season 1. I want to get Manga's BD though...
So to make a long story short: Even if Manga releases the movie onto blu-ray, as long as season 2 is dvd-only I doubt I'll get the series on my shelf anytime soon.
I hope these cases don't happen again in the future. I'm holding my breath for Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere 2 though... I really am afraid we'll end up getting a dvd-only for season 2.
- "Fairy Tail: Part 5": 2 December 2013
- "One Piece: Collection 5": Q1 2014
*
Takes Audacity, adds some effects, adds beatdrop which makes the word sound different, press play* I donutcake!
(I don't care (at the moment of speaking), Fairy Tail would only persuade a sale from me over time if it got a BD release which just won't happen.)
- "Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail": 4 November (BD+DVD; Kaze).
- "K-On! The Movie": 28 October (Combopack+DVD)
- "Guilty Crown - Part 1": 18 November 2013 (BD+DVD)
Added all of these to my "Sustain the Industry" Excel file, marking them all in red which stands for "currently no plans to (pre-)order but definitely plan to get later".
I'm already planning on getting:
- BD [November]: Another
(This one is a definite, would be the first MVM BD I'll pre-order (but I'll do it close to the release date).)
- BD [October]: Place Promised in Our Early Days
(after my 'discussion' with Mangaranga for not supporting a new company I decided I should be able to afford this one; still will wait for Cowboy Bebop though)
- BD [September]: Blue Exorcist .
(Might ask it for my birthday though, in August. xD)
- IF BD: Heaven's Memo Pad
(I know chances are slim but you never know with MVM... (Fingers crossed)).
- "Eureka Seven AO": Q1 2014
- "Blood C: The Last Dark": Q1 2014
- "Fairy Tail - The Movie": 2014
As for Eureka Seven AO I'm hoping it gets a blu-ray release, together with the original series (the latter via Anime Ltd perhaps).
As for Blood C: The Last Dark it's very predictable it'll get a BD release, I'm planning to get it during 2014 to watch it with the series I'll get as well. I heard many mixed opinions, but if I understood correctly it comes down to: the movie concludes the series much like Eden of the East.
As for Fairy Tail I haven't watched a single episode yet, but think I'll like it. Either way, it's not top priority but I am going to try to get the US BD Collections of 24 episodes each
(because: BD sized packaging) to watch the series. And if MangaUK releases the movie on blu-ray I'll be getting that over the course of time as well. ^_^
Rui said:
It does seem rather contrary; I thought the point of combo packs was to encourage people towards adopting BD, but this way surely they'd just buy the DVD to save money then be unwilling to double dip later (all the more so if they end up with two lots of DVDs that way).
Yeah, if you think about it it's strange indeed. It should be: "Blu-ray only and combopack" or "combopack and collector's edition" or "combopack only".
I personally still believe equal prizing for dvd & blu-ray is an important next step (for 2014). Either drop the SRP of BDs or rise the SRP of dvds.
The best strategy seems to be having the same SRP by dropping the SRP of BD.
(£29.99 for 12~ episodes (where the BDs currently have an SRP of £34.99, and while it might not look like a huge difference it actually is a significant difference on large scale))
And really, they might be saying that a combopack with an SRP of £39.99 includes free dvds. But if the seperate dvd version has an SRP of £29.99, then you are actually insinuating to me you could've also left the dvds out of the combopack and given the whole blu-ray set an SRP of £10. While I don't actually want them to go bankrupt and actually know it doesn't work like that, it'd be nice if they tried some stuff with the price of BDs (or extrawise) to persuade sales from people.
And much like Funimation Manga should drop the SRP of older/unsuccessful titles in a pricing range alike the re-release of HSOTD. If some BDs don't perform well the least thing you could do is drop the SRP by at least £10. While it still might not turn into a profit you'll make more people happy and the stock won't go to waste.
Side note: I also believe the UK industry needs (more) blu-ray only releases
(or at least have the blu-ray release ahead of the dvd release), and I strongly believe Sword Art Online would be the perfect title for a(n initial) blu-ray only BECAUSE it is so popular. Yet I know some people reading this will curse me for saying this, yet 99+% of the UK anime releases get a dvd... But at the same time I do realize SAO would be a moneymaker, so maybe for example have SAO BD parts in the spring, and dvd parts in the fall.
(Just thinking out loud...) There definitely will be people who cannot wait, those will buy a blu-ray player and make it worthwhile by buying more. There are constantly people in doubt whether they should buy a BD player who just need an extra push. (Or need to get informed their console can play BD...)
Rui said:
The cut-price mainstream strategy can't coexist well with the premium collector mentality, as we see with Japan and the US now they're both making BDs. This DVD/DVD+BD strategy seems to be the same kind of contradictory approach.
It'd be nice if Manga, MVM, Kaze would listen more to our requests/suggestions towards the releases... (No disc count lables, MVM. Consistency, all. Don't cram, KAZE. Chipboard artbox every once in a while, or an LE extra, all.) Those would be small things making a huge difference. Especially leaving out disc counts and make a company-based consistent spine instead of editing the foreign one they receive and just changing logos would benefit the companies, especially MVM.
I'm sure I'm wrong about some stuff I say (!), but I do believe at least part of what I say is true and could work. Some other stuff needs serious second thought by me. Should seek time therefor.