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September
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- Anime Word of the Week - Chibi (ちび) / Super Deformed
- Media Blasters December Schedule / Date Updates
- The Bleach #6 Boxed Set has Not Been Delayed
- Anime Word of the Week - Ahoge (アホ毛, アホげ)
- Toradora Premium Collection #2 - Now In Stock!
- The Great Recession is Dead... Long Live the Great...
- Bandai Nov / Section 23 Dec Releases - Now Availab...
- Media Blasters - New Dates
- Have an Nice Weekend Everyone!
- Funimation December 2010 Releases - Now Available ...
- Real Driving
- Anime Word of the Week - Ecchi (エッチ)
- Rin-Ne Vol #4 Cover
- Taki Corp Goes Bankrupt
- Studio Gainax - What Won't they Do...
- Toradora Opening in HD
- RACS 'Sustain the Industry' Video Challenge
- Anime Word of the Week - Dōjinshi (同人誌)
- NIS Schedules Pandora Hearts / Wagaya no Oinarisama
- RACS LABOR DAY SALE - SAVE UP TO 10%!!
- RACS - Labor Day Holiday Hours
- Media Blasters Update
- Anime Word of the Week - Yamato Nadeshiko (大和撫子)
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4 comments:
So awesome. But it just makes me sad that we never see BluRay releases of these kinds of shows here in the US.
Do you think we would actually see stuff like this on BluRay if we didn't share the same BluRay region as Japan? It seems like reverse importation is the biggest thing holding shows like this (and Haruhi, Code Geass, etc.) back.
I think so - eventually. For dual releases BD demand is still only half of regular DVD demand, even when both releases have price parity and come out at the same time. But BD sales are improving each month as more Anime fans adopt the format. Once BD demand starts to exceed regular DVD sales, maybe a year from now (?), I think we'll see lots more back catalog releases in BD. Even then though, I still think there will remain a long delay between the Japanese BD release and US BD release. In Japan BD Anime releases are selling extremely well (the only bright spot in the whole market) and they won't be willing to let anything interfere with those sales. Compared to Japanese unit sales numbers, international BD releases are just a side show anyway. The Japanese companies will never worry too much over R1 fans paying $50 for a whole series while Japanese fans are perfectly willing to pay $50 for a single episode. Still, it will come eventually, we're just a year or two behind the curve.
Digi said Toradora was mastered in DVD format. If the upscale is not done well, we'll end with another Haibane BD.
Love the show, am glad to see a HD version about. Cheers for the share. Hope you're right about the backreleases in bluray in maybe a year ^_-
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