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Lord of Fire:
--- Quote from: zherok on October 28, 2013, 12:10:05 AM ---The division of episodes is ridiculous. Persona 4 is two blu-rays in the US. It's ten in Japan. And they cost about the same per volume. It's cheaper to reverse-import anime from the US than it is to buy locally. And while that might not actually be too common, they occasionally end up dropping the Japanese dub from the American blu-ray release solely because of fear that the Japanese market will do just that.
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It's also a reason why it takes so long for an anime to be released overseas after it's licensed.
They could solve that by putting English subtitles on the BDs/DVDs (which is already happening to a few shows and/or movies), and license it for dubs only. Of course, that would be problematic for those who want their anime with subtitles and not spend a godlike amount of money for a whole show.
vuzedome:
Keep buying them chara CDs, plus all the nice little goodies from the first press.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 27, 2013, 05:57:10 PM ---Bob, you mentioned they target on average 20,000 in sales. Is that PER volume or is that in whole for, say, a single season (13 episodes on average)?
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I just pulled that number out of my arse. You probably know far better than me how many copies get sold of anime DVDs.
But quickly looking at a totally random sales ranking, it looks like sales are mostly significantly lower than that. Of all the anime released in 2012, only 12 of them passed 10,000 sales cumulative within that year (though it's important to note that many of them were only partly released by the end of 2012 - many would have had further volumes coming out in 2013). The majority of anime sold well below 10,000 copies.
It actually looks to me as though 20,000 sales cumulative is enough to be considered moderately successful, or at least not a failure. The really successful ones, 2 or 3 each year, sell three or four times that, but generally no more.
Either way, compare it to sales volumes for mainstream TV, and total sales of anime really are very low. There's no doubt they rely on high pricing to turn a profit.
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