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Kraken Releasing announces Garo: Kiba The Dark Knight
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10-26-2017, 06:39 PM
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Dr Kain
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Simple things like textless opening and ending themes, or possibly a short video (even a text scrawl) explaining the history of Garo, would be easy enough to produce. Have you seen the special features on the Gamera DVDs? Movies about the giant turtle have HOURS of features, from music videos, interviews, commentary tracks, coverage on events, special effects explanations, even some silly antics by the dubbing crew. We don't need anything NEARLY as extravagant as that, but SOMETHING would have showed that the distributors had the tiniest care in the property. Instead we got nothing.
Again, we don't know if they have access to anything like that or are even allowed to do one. Also, why would they make some history of the show that could spoil new fans on everything?
As for Gamera, those are two different things. Daiei and Kadokawa would give anything away for their shitty movies.
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As for the half season thing, most Japanese releases in the US tend to compile full seasons, or entire series, into one box. The YuYu Hakusho blu-rays, a series with a bigger fanbase in the US that they could easily charge more for, come with twice as many episodes per set, and at a cheaper price-point.
You do realize that YYH is a show from the 90s, was a cheap license for Funimation, and that the BDs have been out for years, right? Those BDs were $50 a piece when they first came out.
Look at Sailor Moon. Those sets are $60 a piece for 20-23 episodes.
Also, you'r mistaking anime as if it encompasses everything Japanese. A toku series will only have a fraction of the market anime has. Anime DVDs were $30 for four episodes 17 years ago. It took years to get to the prices we are now. Before that, they were on VHS with TWO episodes for $40.
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And the packaging? The plastic quality on mine was noticeably flimsier than on most of my other blu-rays
That is just that type of case. Those cases are all like that.
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and the cover slip was sloppily inserted, off center and crooked.
So was the cover on the Spider-Man Homecoming UHD I bought last week (which was $30 mind you for a 2 hour movie, so 5 Garo episodes). Does that make it a shoddy product? The same goes for the BDs of Moana and Zootopia I just got.
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And remember, this series (yes, the full one, including the second half coming later), even discounting the many movies, is only HALF of Kouga's story.
No it's not. It's a full story. It's only half to you because of the sequels that came out several years later. The first season was released in 2005. Makai Senki was not until 2011. That was 6 years later.
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And if this fails to sell well........which due to their near non-existent advertising feels quite likely, I'm worried we won't ever get the rest of it out here.
How are they supposed to advertise it? There are no magazines anymore. There are no commercials. Physical stores don't care about niche stuff anymore.
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All of that as it is, it's still quite possible we WILL get more! I'm just airing my worries out. Sometimes it helps to get these sorts of negative thoughts on paper (so to speak), rather than letting them stew. :P
No worries as I understand what you mean fully well. I just don't see an issue with it as I've seen and experienced worse.
Plus, having a friend who is incharge of licensing anime has taught me a lot of how licensing works with Japanese companies. It's not as simple as you would think it would be. For one thing, Japanese companies frown upon bloopers because they don't think people should be celebrating their screw ups, as such, they don't allow English companies to put blooper reals on their releases anymore (when it does happen, it is because the licensor begged to let them be on the disc).
There are also times when a Japanese company just won't send bonus feature materials over to the licensor for months on end to the point that the licensor just has to release the product with out them.
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