1) At no point have I ever regretted leaving the Slayers comm.
2) While I concur that $50 for 13 episodes is steep these days-especially from Funimation-if you're going to compare price points with network television shows, keep in mind that they have many, many times the overhead that Funimation does. They can set a lower price point because they can afford to eat the losses and ultimately recoup a significant profit (and keep in mind that something like Lost will sell many more copies than Slayers).
2) Lost is just an example, I should really stop using it since an obscure series would better suit the argument. XD If we take a show like Trailer Park Boys, for example... each season is only about $20-$30 on DVD. There are about 8-12 episodes per season and each set comes with a lot of special features. Or alternatively we can look at Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, as it has a smaller fanbase than Trailer Park Boys (in Canada at least) and each of those seasons are still only about $30 each.
Altneratively with Lost, that takes WAY more money than the average show to produce, so it also takes more copies to sell. Not that it applies to this argument but I thought I'd throw it in anyway. XD
Right, but those shows are still shown on television and a lot of their costs are also offset by advertisement. This is a product that will likely never get picked up on television (and even in the heyday of Adult Swim, it wasn't the advertisers who were paying to have, say, Samurai Champloo on the air. It was the Geneon footing that bill). So yes, the cost of producing it may not be as high as developing a show from the ground up, but you have to consider what kind of profit margin they're operating under. It's going to be smaller than that of a national television network or premium cable (Penn&Teller is from Showtime, I think?).
I do agree that $50 for 13 episodes is high, but "it costs $X to produce a show" is only one factor.
LOL that community sounds insane, nice to know fandom never changes.
The only $50 anime sets here are bare-bones collections released without any of the features of American releases because they were licensed through different channels to the usual (and through the "secondary" local distribution company). Generally 13-episode series are $60 minimum, though they can go up to $80 in certain circumstances.
I wish we paid $50 for thirteen episodes, even that seems reasonable compared to local prices. There's a much broader market in America and greater competition however, so it makes sense that we can't get things for the same price as the US. It just means that I don't buy a lot of anime on DVD, or if I do, I import it. When I can get two seasons of a regular television show for the same price as thirteen episodes of anime, I'm going to go for the delicious TV value every time
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Yeah... I generally like the community and go there frequently because I love Slayers and it's one of the only places that's still active online in regards to the series. It can be a nice resource for series information at times. Most of the people there are generally nice but... I think sometimes it can draw out the crazy in people still
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I agree with you about the high price of anime DVDs - and I've been buying it for just as long as you have, back when it was more expensive! At least it's not as ridiculous as FLCL, which was ~$60+ for 6 episodes.
Yeah, when anime was $40 for a sub-only VHS, I didn't actually go out and buy it because I was still in school and I just didn't have the money for it. I was lucky in that the city I was in had a frigging awesome comic book shop that rented out all the latest anime releases. But I did start buying when DVDs first started coming out. It was a little more affordable since you would get 3-4 episodes instead of 1-2 and you could get the dub AND sub on one copy, but it was still ridiculously expensive
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2) While I concur that $50 for 13 episodes is steep these days-especially from Funimation-if you're going to compare price points with network television shows, keep in mind that they have many, many times the overhead that Funimation does. They can set a lower price point because they can afford to eat the losses and ultimately recoup a significant profit (and keep in mind that something like Lost will sell many more copies than Slayers).
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2) Lost is just an example, I should really stop using it since an obscure series would better suit the argument. XD If we take a show like Trailer Park Boys, for example... each season is only about $20-$30 on DVD. There are about 8-12 episodes per season and each set comes with a lot of special features. Or alternatively we can look at Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, as it has a smaller fanbase than Trailer Park Boys (in Canada at least) and each of those seasons are still only about $30 each.
Altneratively with Lost, that takes WAY more money than the average show to produce, so it also takes more copies to sell. Not that it applies to this argument but I thought I'd throw it in anyway. XD
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I do agree that $50 for 13 episodes is high, but "it costs $X to produce a show" is only one factor.
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The only $50 anime sets here are bare-bones collections released without any of the features of American releases because they were licensed through different channels to the usual (and through the "secondary" local distribution company). Generally 13-episode series are $60 minimum, though they can go up to $80 in certain circumstances.
I wish we paid $50 for thirteen episodes, even that seems reasonable compared to local prices. There's a much broader market in America and greater competition however, so it makes sense that we can't get things for the same price as the US. It just means that I don't buy a lot of anime on DVD, or if I do, I import it. When I can get two seasons of a regular television show for the same price as thirteen episodes of anime, I'm going to go for the delicious TV value every time ( ... )
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