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Anonymous
About $50 each. Ouch. However, if I make it over to Korea this spring, I'll stop by Yongsan and get copies ($2 per dvd straight off the original, yay).
I hate piracy, but $50 for two episodes of animation that was low budget twenty years ago? And a well known title to boot? Sorry, Japanese video companies, I ain't biting. With the contracts this series was produced under, in all likelyhood they don't even have to pay royalties to most of the original staff...
The same deal with Macross DYRL R2 dvd. A title that everyone will buy, has NO restoration work put into it whatsoever, they just dump the same master they used for the LD, no extras, no special packaging, and Bandai still charges Y7000. FUCK THAT. The film made it's production costs back within the first week of it's original theatrical release and has been bought two or three times by every otaku in Japan since, not to mention the moutains of cheaply produced CDs and other mechandise... I don't have a problem paying the price of a movie for a movie (Y3000-4000 these days because of competition from warner and univeral, who are selling dvds at 1000-2000 now...), but too much is too much.
Throw some story boards, test reels, conduct a few interviews, do SOMETHING to show me you care about a dvd release, OR charge an average price for an average product.
end rant.
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