Anime series are too hard to get

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Anime series are too hard to get Feb 20, 2024 19:09:33 GMT via mobile extremewreck2000 likes this

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Post by laluzerne69 on Feb 20, 2024 19:09:33 GMT

Why is it so difficult to get certain anime series on a complete series collection? I get that there are rights issues and legal ownership and other legal issues, but why can't most anime shows be made available on physical media? For example, I want to buy, own, and watch all of the episodes and movies of Gurren Lagann, but the only blu rays of it available are in $300 dollar box sets (which in my opinion, should be no more than $100 dollars), Tekkaman Blade is another one that I want to own and watch, but it's only available on DVD sets that are hard to come by and is way overdue for a blu ray release, and I already got an answer as to why Legend of the Galactic Heroes hasn't been re-released in America from another thread (which is kind of a bummer).

darkrage6 Lost Media Veteran Banned Posts: 4,447	Anime series are too hard to get Feb 20, 2024 21:41:14 GMT extremewreck2000 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by darkrage6 on Feb 20, 2024 21:41:14 GMT Dragon Ball Z is a major offender in that department, this video perfectly sums it up:

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Feb 21, 2024 0:22:32 GMT

Nightmare Ned is an obscure cartoon that aired on ABC Saturday mornings in 1997 & was rarely shown afterwards, with Disney allegedly taking it as a tax write-off later on. There might just never be a home media release of it, not even on Disney+ it seems. If there ever WAS a home media release in like, Germany or Sweden or wherever other country that isn't in North America, then it's dang near impossible to find.

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Post by rowler on Feb 21, 2024 14:02:44 GMT

My guess is that they have limited prints. The distribution company knew the demand was low so they only made a few. A video store may only get a couple of them because they know that most people aren’t coming in to buy them. The distribution company sees that only a few sold and they don’t print more.

A decade or so later, the box sets are considered rare. If the demand suddenly goes up, people who held onto the unsold set end up upping the price.

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Post by Jr on Feb 21, 2024 17:49:22 GMT

If you think that's bad then imagine trying to collect the My Hero Academia dvds/blu-rays, other than the first season, the rest are split into parts which are $50 each. Though the one saving grace is that there are collections (like Seasons 1-2 and 3-4) at a relatively decent price of $30-$50 per collection.

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Anime series are too hard to get Feb 21, 2024 21:35:23 GMT

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Feb 21, 2024 21:35:23 GMT

There are some Gundam boxsets that are very hard to find these days & will cost you over $400. Or how about some of those Saban Entertainment dubs of anime, which might've had a few very hard to find home media releases? Or even some of their own cartoons like Space Strikers, Jin Jin And the Panda Patrol, Kid 'n' Play(yes they had a cartoon), Around the World In 80 Dreams, The Mouse And the Monster, Creepy Crawlers, Walter Melon, Iznogoud, Monster Farm(this show, not the anime), etc.

The 2009(?) DVD boxsets for Akazukin ChaCha from Japan are probably kinda hard to get & any other known releases from other countries are likely near impossible to find evidence of, let alone actually finding them.

Well, funnily enough this DOES sorta tie back into lost media, as some direct-to-video/direct-to-DVD material has been lost for years, though a couple such as Crazy Pets - The Mystery of the Vanishing River & Waffle - Eviction.

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Anime series are too hard to get Feb 21, 2024 22:37:00 GMT extremewreck2000 and laluzerne69 like this

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Post by Azuki<3 on Feb 21, 2024 22:37:00 GMT

Feb 21, 2024 14:02:44 GMT rowler said:

My guess is that they have limited prints. The distribution company knew the demand was low so they only made a few. A video store may only get a couple of them because they know that most people aren’t coming in to buy them. The distribution company sees that only a few sold and they don’t print more.

A decade or so later, the box sets are considered rare. If the demand suddenly goes up, people who held onto the unsold set end up upping the price.

Yeah, my partner and I were discussing this the other day in regards to gaming-the phenomenon of a series suddenly getting popular with a new installment (or new game from an older publisher), and then WHOOP WHOOP everyone is quickly trying to snatch up the original series/games and prices shoot up like crazy. And I imagine something similar happens with anime.

Heck, was searching Japanese Ojamajo Doremi DVDs on Ebay and was shocked at the prices for such a common and popular series. I guess people are really willing to shell out for $175 for like 7 DVDs???

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Post by darkrage6 on Feb 22, 2024 4:03:29 GMT

Feb 21, 2024 21:35:23 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

There are some Gundam boxsets that are very hard to find these days & will cost you over $400. Or how about some of those Saban Entertainment dubs of anime, which might've had a few very hard to find home media releases? Or even some of their own cartoons like Space Strikers, Jin Jin And the Panda Patrol, Kid 'n' Play(yes they had a cartoon), Around the World In 80 Dreams, The Mouse And the Monster, Creepy Crawlers, Walter Melon, Iznogoud, Monster Farm(this show, not the anime), etc.

The 2009(?) DVD boxsets for Akazukin ChaCha from Japan are probably kinda hard to get & any other known releases from other countries are likely near impossible to find evidence of, let alone actually finding them.

Well, funnily enough this DOES sorta tie back into lost media, as some direct-to-video/direct-to-DVD material has been lost for years, though a couple such as Crazy Pets - The Mystery of the Vanishing River & Waffle - Eviction.

The old Sailor Moon box-sets of the Cloverway dub go for a hefty sum of money as well as they weren't in print very long, long story short in 2003 some behind-the-scenes stuff happened with Toei that prevented any Sailor Moon stuff from being released outside of Japan for an entire decade which resulted in box sets of the English dub going out of print pretty quickly and becoming quite pricey as a result.

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Anime series are too hard to get Feb 22, 2024 4:04:53 GMT

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Post by darkrage6 on Feb 22, 2024 4:04:53 GMT

Feb 21, 2024 0:22:32 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

Nightmare Ned is an obscure cartoon that aired on ABC Saturday mornings in 1997 & was rarely shown afterwards, with Disney allegedly taking it as a tax write-off later on. There might just never be a home media release of it, not even on Disney+ it seems. If there ever WAS a home media release in like, Germany or Sweden or wherever other country that isn't in North America, then it's dang near impossible to find.

This thread is specifically about anime, not western cartoons. Plus we're talking about stuff that actually did got physical releases that just happen to be rare and/or expensive.

darkrage6 Lost Media Veteran Banned Posts: 4,447	Anime series are too hard to get Feb 22, 2024 4:06:08 GMT extremewreck2000 and Azuki<3 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by darkrage6 on Feb 22, 2024 4:06:08 GMT Also many 4Kids DVDs are pretty expensive nowadays so if you want to actually get their dub of One Piece on DVD be prepared to spend quite a bit.

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Anime series are too hard to get Feb 22, 2024 11:30:31 GMT

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Feb 22, 2024 11:30:31 GMT

Feb 22, 2024 4:04:53 GMT darkrage6 said:

Feb 21, 2024 0:22:32 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

Nightmare Ned is an obscure cartoon that aired on ABC Saturday mornings in 1997 & was rarely shown afterwards, with Disney allegedly taking it as a tax write-off later on. There might just never be a home media release of it, not even on Disney+ it seems. If there ever WAS a home media release in like, Germany or Sweden or wherever other country that isn't in North America, then it's dang near impossible to find.

This thread is specifically about anime, not western cartoons. Plus we're talking about stuff that actually did got physical releases that just happen to be rare and/or expensive.

I get too much into my deep bizarro brain of random cartoon material sometimes. I swear that it's freakin' massive in there & it can feel like you've gone into the Flipside. Oh crap, another obscure reference lmao.

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Feb 21, 2024 22:37:00 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Feb 21, 2024 14:02:44 GMT rowler said:

My guess is that they have limited prints. The distribution company knew the demand was low so they only made a few. A video store may only get a couple of them because they know that most people aren’t coming in to buy them. The distribution company sees that only a few sold and they don’t print more.

A decade or so later, the box sets are considered rare. If the demand suddenly goes up, people who held onto the unsold set end up upping the price.

Yeah, my partner and I were discussing this the other day in regards to gaming-the phenomenon of a series suddenly getting popular with a new installment (or new game from an older publisher), and then WHOOP WHOOP everyone is quickly trying to snatch up the original series/games and prices shoot up like crazy. And I imagine something similar happens with anime.

Heck, was searching Japanese Ojamajo Doremi DVDs on Ebay and was shocked at the prices for such a common and popular series. I guess people are really willing to shell out for $175 for like 7 DVDs???

Japanese DVDs in general are just expensive.

Especially in the case of Ojamajo Doremi where the only DVD release of the series was from 2000-2001 and, as far as I know, it's never been rereleased on the format since then and you had no way to legally own it physically until it got released on BD in 2016. So it makes sense why it was (and still is) pretty expensive.

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Post by Etienne_LeLoupChien on Mar 2, 2024 12:31:59 GMT

Feb 21, 2024 0:22:32 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

Nightmare Ned is an obscure cartoon that aired on ABC Saturday mornings in 1997 & was rarely shown afterwards, with Disney allegedly taking it as a tax write-off later on. There might just never be a home media release of it, not even on Disney+ it seems. If there ever WAS a home media release in like, Germany or Sweden or wherever other country that isn't in North America, then it's dang near impossible to find.

Oh, I remember watching and enjoying "Nightmare Ned" back in the day. I thought it was a bit too creepy for young children but by then I was already 13 so I wasn't really scared. I was more fascinated by it.

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darkrage6 Lost Media Veteran Banned Posts: 4,447	Anime series are too hard to get Mar 5, 2024 16:29:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by darkrage6 on Mar 5, 2024 16:29:47 GMT Mar 4, 2024 1:56:27 GMT ModWalletGuy said: Cory In The House is for some reason expensive to get on DVD. Very good anime, give it a watch sometime. I never understood the "Cory in the House is anime" meme.

Post by laluzerne69 on Feb 20, 2024 19:09:33 GMT

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Post by Jr on Feb 21, 2024 17:49:22 GMT

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