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Damo

Watching volume 5 of Madlax the other night I just then wanted to watch the remaining two volumes as the momentum of the series is picking up so much but there are two volumes left with only 6 episodes to go. That's another 4 months.

So was wondering where do preffer the bigger episode discs to fall. Do you like a lot at the start, like a five episode disc to get you hooked in, or would you preffer a five episoe disc at the end of the series run so that it carries the momentum of the series as usually things get exciting near the end.
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Random · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:41 am Post subject:

This dovetails in with the 2 months between disks and episodes on disks debates.

If the release schedule was shorter then it wouldn't seem so bad.

Ideally more episodes per disk and a shorter release timetable.

2 months between 3 episodes is stupid and is why I'm waiting to buy Madlax until all are out.

Damo · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

I think that's what I'll be doing, I can't see myself wanting to sit down and watch volume 6 unless I've got volume 7 there as well. The two month thing I can handle to an extent, unless cliffhangers are involved, but as said you can get really into a series and then it filters out with a drop in episode count when it's supposed to be gaining momentum.
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Random · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject:

Pulling in yet another debate that's relevant to this.

The UK arms of the anime companies are really shooting themselves in the foot by having such long delays both between disks and between the release dates in the US.

It often happens that there's a thinpack version of a series, or at least a price reduction, available in the US before the full series is released over here.

The long delays just encourage people to go R1 import rather than wait.

ADV are particularly bad for this and I wonder what they would see if they analysed how many R1 sales are made to UK customers as this effectively takes bread out of the mouths of the UK division.

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Random · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject:

Well yes but whatever the reasons behind it the long gaps between disks and release dates must cause real problems for the UK divisions. Made all the worse when you're supposed to be a division of the same company that's leeching all your sales.

Using Madlax as an example, this was released in the US in 2004/2005 and is now on sale there on the ADV site at $10 per disk. That's approx. £35 plus shipping for all 7 disks. It won't even finish being released here until 2007. Something wrong there.

If the UK anime market is seen to be small then anything that encourages importing from abroad can't help. Until the scale of imports is quantified then it's impossible to say what the size of the market here is.

If as you say they are trying to bring the release dates closer then hopefully the market here will be seen as bigger which may lead to more releases which leads to more sales and so on.

Toraman · Shinigami Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2091 Location: London

With a 26 episode series, why can't we have both? There's enough space for 5 on the first disv to hook you in, and then 5 at the end give it a good run at the end.

3 episode DVDs are evil. I bought Gantz 6 and 7 on the same day as I knew otherwise I'd have a nasty wait for barely an hour's worth of show...

Fudce · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

For a 7 disc series, I think Noir got the episode spread spot on. Sure there were three "3 episiode" discs, but it worked somehow.
5-4-3-4-4-3-3 (I think)

For a six disc series..
6-4-4-4-4-4
or
5-4-4-5-4-4 works best
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Damo · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: