Best Buy NOT stocking Gurren Lagann part 2 DVDs

One Piece is doing very well on Amazon out of the rest of FUNimation's titles. Pretty sure Ouran was a successful for them as well. I can't speak for the entirety of fandom but if I really love a show I buy it. One Piece is a given it's my favorite cartoon period.
 
My wal-mart stinks, they only have naruto seasons 4-9, dragonball z seasons 3-7 and bleach seasons 1+2 and the movie.

My wal-mart literally hates anime, a rep told me they might be clearing there anime at that perticular wal-mart because of the low sales in there anime section.
 
I will say this now. I promise myself after watching One Piece the naughty naughty way, when Funi started releasing the series that I will buy each volume of the series as it comes out. And I did my side of the work by buying the series sets that are out so far and Movie 8.

I also did the same with Bleach, and I'm buying it as well. I'm mostly buying my stuff online, since I don't have a Best Buy near me expect for the one that is 2 hours away from my house. And the only place that is even selling anime in my town is Wal-Mart, which where I only buying the DBZ season sets at.
 
Personally, I don't blame Best Buy for dumping some of these titles. I mean, when I went to my local Best Buy on Sunday, there was an ENTIRE SHELF dedicated to just Lucky Star. Seriously, how many people in this area even want that series (no one around here has heard of it, and I pretty much know every anime-watcher within a ten mile radius), let alone getting every single volume/set.

And the Gurren Lagann sets...jeez. I had to actually look at the back to see what language set I was buying. Seriously, the subbed set and the dubbed set look ALMOST IDENTICAL, to the point of where I don't even think a casual buyer would be able to know the difference. And all my local store had in terms of singles were subbed, the only dubbed version being the two-disk sets that were put BEHIND the similar-looking subbed sets (showing that not even the people putting these on the shelves know the difference).

Besides, why is Best Buy even stocking sub-only sets of shows? The only sub-only sets that should be there is GoLion, because that has the excuse of a crappy dub.

Personally, I see this as a wake-up call to companies like Bandai. Stores don't want niche series like Lucky Star or specialty sets like the subbed Gurren Lagann sets, they want series that can at least appeal to enough people to make money and sets that won't confuse buyers to the point of mass-returns. On the internet, you can sell all the niche/specialty sets you want, but putting them in-stores just makes you lose money.
 
At the very least, single disks and giant boxes containing one DVD need to either die or be relegated to online-only.

Also, CG at Wal mart?! That's NUTS. It isn`t even on their website. Then again, I nearly died of a heart attack when I saw MORIBITO of all things at wal-mart, 10 episodes for $20.(THAT IS THE PROPER RATIO, DOORAB)
 
Well, I hit a Best Buy last night to find a replacement remote, and while the anime section was looking quite picked over, the rest of the DVD sections had some big hole in it them as well, suggesting in fact that Best Buy may be doing a major rework of their DVD sections in general.
 
What the heck does "niche" mean?!

Also, that's just a way to say that people don't want to try "different anime", like if people only like "action anime", because it's everywhere.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_market

This pretty much explains it, niche (pronounced neesh) means to target people (like me) who aren't really into the mainstream stuff
 
Geez, have you ever thought that some people like to... oh, I don't know, Buy the DVD in stores due to not having sufficient money in the credit/debit carRAB but carries some spending cash?
 
KZK's just like that, just ignore posts like that.

Ultimately I think, from the sound of the announcement from BB reps, the company is in a transition with how they sell anime, and we just caught them at the worst time (ie not ordering much of anything at the moment).

Things will probably level out eventually, but this is indeed a rough patch.
 
The problem with a statement like that is everyone has different degrees of fandom towarRAB a series. Some absolutely crave each new volume and will buy on release day. Some think a show is good and wouldn't mind seeing more, but can wait a while, and other releases which they DO crave take priority.

So does not buying on release day and trying to score a good deal not make one a true fan? I don't see it that way at all. This isn't three years ago. People are more frugal and careful with their money, and for good reason. If someone likes One Piece but likes other anime series more, OF COURSE they're going to buy those other series first. Especially if they're on sale. I've done this many times, especially when it comes to an expensive hobby like anime.
 
is this maybe because they no longer have Circuit City as competition I've been doing all of my video shopping online-only for a while now so this doesn't hurt me directly but will indirectly when a lot less anime are licensed and released here because of this
 
It's more likely that the same circumstances that drove Circuit City out of business are also putting the screws to Best Buy. It's just that Circuit City's management was completely, entirely stupid and Best Buy's isn't (or is only kind of stupid) Both were getting mauled financially, even before the collapse of the economy, and recent news about Best Buy indicates that they haven't been able to take advantage of the bankruptcy because they're too busy getting their butts kicked in the market.

I suspect that Best Buy is probably also going to be cutting back on a lot more than just anime. You can probably say goodbye to a lot of the quirkier or lower-selling stuff, like foreign films, classic TV, or just about anything that's not a guaranteed monster hit. Home video and CD sales have been dropping for years due to a nuraber of factors, so a lot of the headaches that Best Buy is having are a direct consequence of being a specialty retailer that's also competing with the likes of Wal-Mart and Target. Toys R' Us has been having the same sorts of problems.

Doesn't affect me personally a whole lot -- I find most of their anime way overpriced compared to DeepDiscount or Amazon, and non-anime DVRAB are usually cheaper at Target. But is is pretty bad news for the anime retailers, since they're losing a major outlet for their product that still can't be compensated for through stuff like Xbox Live or iTunes pay-for-download services.
 
My CC that went out of buissness had pokemon,dragonball z, bleach, and lucky star.

The day of the sale I went there, ALL of the dvd's were cleared out.

(and it was only 9:00 am)
 
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