Toon Zone Talkback - Bandai Entertainment Announces New March Titles Including "Gundam 00" S2

It's the durab fear of importing from the states that riles up the Japanese companies, forcing outdated sales structures, and delaying licenses for no other reason than to give a heaRABtart on the domestic sales.
 
Well, two schools of thought on this:

1. The LE's and the show as a whole were slow sellers, and they'd like to not clearance out all those singles just yet if they don't have to (see: Haruhi Suzumiya, where we are just now seeing the remainders of the singles get flushed out at bargain prices.)

2. Singles are dead and LEs like Lucky Star's are what killed it. At least do some Funimation style half-season boxes, or even just half-season bundles. No one is going to buy it otherwise now. Really, they should just cut to the denouement and do a $60-70 msrp box now, come back with a $30-40 msrp single-case thick boxset in another 18 months, maybe at the same time as a blu-ray boxset.

As it stanRAB, Bandai still does too many SKUs for one show. Stop doing LEs - there isn't enough audience to split the sales like that any more.
 
I've never seen the point of LEs, espicially when most of them include--at the most--a simple figurine.


But with the way Bandai is releasing Gundam and Geass, I might be more tempted to wait for the full season sets (assuming those retain the same extras and commentaries).
 
yeah you're right, I forgot all about that one.

I guess that shows how memorable Bandai releases are these days

*I'm curious to see what happens with Bandai once both Code Geass and Gundam 00 are finished.
 
Perhaps they may do Blu-ray next. Like compress the MS Gundam 00 episodes on 2 or 3 discs.

Though, did you also forget that there's still to be that E7 Movie release on DVD? Then there's the movie of Gundam 00.
 
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