Kamen Rider Kabuto Receiving Blu-Ray Release
 

The man who will rule the world... must be seen at 1080p HD.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BB%AE%E9.../dp/B00N2OFAGK

"Grandmother said this: Those in HD will open eyes to the truth."

23000 yen? Holy shit.

Am I understanding it wrong, or is it seriously 21,384 yen per set? That's completely insane, I doubt I'd be willing to pay that for the whole series, let alone a single volume of 16 episodes!

DVDs and Blu-rays can get pretty pricy over in Japan.

Lets hope the delete scenes are included.

WTF happened to Blade? They did Ryuki, 555, and they just skip to Kabuto? That's messed up!!

Why is anyone surprised at these prices by now? Each DVD had cost 5800Y, and there were 12 volumes. As such, that was 69600Y for an entire series. The BD sets cost 69000Y in total, making it cheaper than the whole series was on DVD.

It shouldn't cost more then a fucking Perfect Grade Gundam kit in order to own 50 episodes and a movie of a show.

Don't you get it?
Special interview with cast earlier for the carddass rouse card set.
Bluray box comes out WITH original video.... ;)

Clockup in Blu-ray glory... *drools

It costs whatever the Japanese deem it costs. This is not America. They do not have to sell things at American prices. Costs are higher in Japan. I have a friend who lives out there and movie tickets are about $20 for a matinee. Also, most people don't buy DVDs, they only rent them. DVDs are really for collectors out there.

And Japan wonders why it has such a big piracy problem when their market makes things like this so ludicrously expensive.

That's interesting. How much would this Kabuto Blu-Ray release cost if it were, say, an American product?

And how much does the surrounding economy really play into the cost of a DVD? I'm sure there's some sort of unanimous base price that's intrinsic to production of these discs. Or does Toei only pay for the most choice quality Blu-Ray production and Americans always pay for the mediocre slop Blu-Ray quality?

One of the things that factors into these prices in Japan is like Kain mentioned that so little people are actually buying DVDs/Blu-Rays. So they have to set the prices high for the collectors out there that do buy them so that they make enough money out of those releases.

For instance in germany our prices for japanese media is also pretty high. For six episodes of Psycho-Pass on Blu-Ray we pay around fourty to fifty euros. This comes also from the fact that there are not that many people over here that buy animes on home video anymore also the production of the dub is insanely expensive plus the high licensing costs.

How much do you guys pay in america for those kinds of stuff? :)

Well you could look at it this way.
Toei "TV" division and Toei "Video" division are really 2 separate entities.
Toei Video actually has to purchase the source from the TV division, and pay the rest of the cost to throw in all the post-productions like staff/cast interviews, fixing the visuals, and materials for the discs.
Sentai OVs, Uchu Keiji OVs, etc. are Toei Video projects, which is why they cost more than a single episode on disc.
They work pretty much like Bandai Group subsidiaries.

I paid about $60 for all of Psycho Pass on BD.

Doesn't justify the DVD/Blu-ray cost though. I'm not sure what Japanese people get paid over there, but if the get paid relatively the same as America/Europe, this is ridiculously price gouging.

Yeah thats alot less than we pay for that over here. The full series over here is roundabout 200 dollars.

One of the reason I hate the euro still curious on what that would be in Dutch mark

Yeah that has nothing to do with the euro really. Its just that the licensing and production costs for anime in germany is ridiculously expensive.

Well then complain to the Japanese government. Tell them it is unfair for us to pay the prices of their products.

Yeah, I've already decided that if I ever moved to Europe, I would import all of my BDs and games.

Yeah that would be the easiest way. Normal Movies and TV Shows are not very expensive over here but anime...those really cost a fortune.

In the UK it's not that bad manga UK disruption really good

I ment the old German curancy DM

Other than getting everything 6 months to a year (or years in Dragonball/Z/GT's case) later than the US, sure.

That toei Europ fault

Hmm, that's quite the asking price.
*Shrugs*
Oh well. *Downloads*

My grandmother said "My TV series has to be more HD."

Box art

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2ZseB8CEAA9pc6.jpg

That's awesome, but when is Blade coming out? They did Ryuki, 555, but then they seemed to just skip over Blade and Hibiki for Kabuto.

Does anyone know if it has english subtitles?

No.