The General Anime Thread...

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TheCorvette
:0 You'll be leaving us then?:(
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No, it's just that my current broadband plan means that I have to go out and buy credit for my modem. I'm not abandoning you guys, where else can I openly talk about anime?

Just finished the first episode of Rurouni (sp?) and I'm a little confused.
 
It will all make sense in the end. Like I also said, acts 1 and 2 are kinda slow.
 
Loliblade ver2
TC's in a dick mood today....
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Just today?

:lol: just kidding.


First episode of Baccano! is lolwut but after that it's pretty good. Up to episode 5 and I am liking it. Love the time period, art style, soundtrack, and how the stories are interweaving.


Still waiting on new Mirai Nikki...
 
TheCorvette
On a side-note, here's a guy crazy enough to import Madoka on BD, the first single for $90. 2 episodes for $90, and listen to his excitement. It also has no English subs IIRC obviously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZQJV5kBeFY
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Hey! That case is pretty nice!.... but for $90 and 2 episodes: lolwut. Got damn Japanese animation companies are marketing retards. They'd actually be making a profit if their prices were cheaper...


Sephy
Still waiting on new Mirai Nikki...
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*checks* Raw is out.
 
Actually as I learned like last month, anime sells better there because of the prices. Apparently they churn out big profits because of the high prices. Madoka is expected to make a few million dollars in DVD/BD sales, and that's from 45,000 some people buying all 6 singles.

Apparently the reason why anime doesn't sell as well here isn't because there are less fans, it's because of how cheap our prices are.
 
You don't really understand how business works. If you sell something for a very high price(something that isn't worth that price), less people will buy it.

If you start selling the same thing for less(after that $90 has become the standard), more people will buy it. More profit from more people. It's why stores have sales.
 
Loliblade ver2
You don't really understand how business works. If you sell something for a very high price(something that isn't worth that price), less people will buy it.

If you start selling the same thing for less(after that $90 has become the standard), more people will buy it. More profit from more people. It's why stores have sales.
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I do understand how it works. Also, $90 has been the standard for 2 episode BD singles for many, many years.

I recommend reading this.
http://boards.adultswim.com/t5/Othe...message-uid/61933300/highlight/true#U61933300
 
Yes, but it doesn't necessarily mean a bigger profit. You have to look at the bigger picture. If 50,000 people buy a $20 13 episode box set, and 25,000 people buy a $50 13 episode box set, the higher priced box set is going to make more money.

The 50,000 people buying the $20 13 episode box set make $1 million. The 25,000 people buying a $50 13 episode box set make $1,250,000.
 
Ye Baccano's pretty good your shure to love the name of a certain train.
on another no my friend watched the whole series of Angel Beats yesterday after i recemeded it to him but he watched it in english:tdown: the voices where very ackward . but the interesting thing i did was becauce my buddie has his own tv a few feet from mine i played the subbed ver and the dub at the the same time to see the simularities , it was pretty cool to see the diffrence in wording between both.
 
We're talking insanely priced singles, which you have stated before only hardcore otaku will buy. A boxset for $50 is like our prices. It would be more like $200 there... which is ridiculous and only hardcore fans would want that.


Larger amount of people willing to buy it(especially if they believe they're getting a "deal"), larger profit. I can see your point with the boxset though.
 
Loliblade ver2
That post was surprisingly unrelated.[/color]
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It is if you looked more closely. He was giving an example about how many people buying 6 Madoka Magica singles (Meaning the total price is in the hundreds.) versus way more people here buying the whole thing for $80 on BD, the people in Japan make the bigger profit.

Those high prices believe or not are the reason why anime makes the money it does there. Lowering the price can cause you to lose money as you got to find the right price. More people doesn't always mean a greater profit.
Loliblade ver2
We're talking insanely priced singles, which you have stated before only hardcore otaku will buy. A boxset for $50 is like our prices. It would be more like $200 there... which is ridiculous and only hardcore fans would want that.

Larger amount of people willing to buy it(especially if they believe they're getting a "deal"), larger profit. I can see your point with the boxset though.
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More people buying doesn't mean a greater profit if the price is too low. If those singles were way cheaper, like say $20 for 2 episodes, while more people will buy, it doesn't mean there will be a greater profit because you're making $20 per single, instead of $80.
 
I don't think they'll honestly be losing that much money. Those cases aren't THAT great... and besides, the lowest they should go(given their standard) would be $40 for those singles.
 
That's what they give pretty much all their anime, digipak packaging. That's how it's packaged, and those otaku probably would be furious if it was changed to stuff like our thinpaks, amarays, stackpaks, and more.
 
Oh Sephy...

*tackles me* "I AM wearing underwear, baka-DK!" *pulls up skirt*
*smirks* "Prepare for my secret weapon..."

"Caaaaa~aaaaaaan't resiiiiiii~iiiiiiist..."
 
Yes, yes we are. First up, we will point out Toei Animation's idiotic business decisions over the years.
 
Last note: TC, I never want to see you defending Japanese animation companies and their ridiculous prices again, even you think their prices suck.
 
Dude, I'm not completely defending the prices. I never said those prices were absolutely perfect and they should stay the way they are. Notice how I never bashed your "They should be $40 at the lowest." comment? I actually agreed with it, but didn't feel like replying to that.
 
I don't have the right to state my opinion, and use facts to support it? Free speech man.
 
That's your opinion, but people are free to express how they feel, just like how I express how much I feel the prices here currently are very reasonable. If you don't want to see them defended, don't get in the discussion in the first place. Japan is a much different country culturally than us, so prices are things included in that. The prices are what they are, and probably will never change./End discussion.

Now, for something good. Anyone know this scene?:p
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TheCorvette
Considering the anime is from 1999, it's unlikely. The popularity has probably died down so much it won't do well. Even InuYasha had a big popularity drop. That's why they squeezed like 30 volumes of manga into 26 episodes (It made things paced way too fast. It's a bad idea to make one volume of a manga equal one episode. So much material inside each volume.).
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^ Well unfortunately. That is my specific genre, less-popular anime hover under to those other popular but not mainstream anime series. :)
 
Come on, nobody knows what the deal is with that red sphere?:(:nervous:

TGAT, I am disappoint.:grumpy:
 
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