Post your anime/manga collection

[Southe,]

US money is going straight to Funi and MANGA dont see any of it.

[Neversoft]

Since it's a collaboration, a share of the money does go to Funi. A share of the money also goes to Manga, and also to the animation studio that created the anime, and also to the staff and cast, and also to the online distributor. They all receive small shares out of the total, so buying the US version will make very little difference.

[Southe,]

Manga only get a % of the dvds sold in the UK, thats all. they dont get a % of ones sold in US. since funi distribute dvds them self.

I really do despise MANGA. Naruto the cut out the textless OP/ED. Death Note Has audio errors, Bleach has disc errors like. case says eps ?? to ?? but the dvd has extra eps. Girl who .. no subs at certain parts.

Where as ive had no problems from Funi or.. Revelations who i get th FMA sets from.

[Neversoft]

Yes, but you're saying how you're going to buy the US version so Funi receive a share of the money. I was just saying how they still receive a share of the money despite it being distributed by Manga over here in the UK, and also how buying the US version won't make much difference in the profit Funi make from UK DVDs.

Manga could improve in a lot of areas, but I don't hate them. I just don't like how they shove a load of America extra's on to their DVDs with people trying to sound like they know what they're on about. I watched The End of Evangelion a few days ago, and it had audio commentary with the American voice actors. I wondered what they'd say about the last scene considering they weren't involved in the making of the movie at all so I changed the audio track to listen and the first thing I heard was "I like that kind of rainbow over the moon effect here... I don't know what it means (laughs), but I like it." If I wanted to listen to meaningless, idle convosation I'd go sit on a bus. These people have no idea what they're taking about, so why are they doing the audio commentary? Commentary is suppost to be for original directors and cast so they can actually talk about the movie, how they made it and what it means. It's not for some people who enjoy talking. It really brings my piss to a boil, you know what I mean?

I flipped over to the commentary track on one of the series episodes as well and of course, the commentary is by the dub cast, and when one of the characters had a comedic moment on screen the dub cast doing the commentary laughed and commented how the voice actor playing the character was "the original Toji" (Toji is the characters name). Do they know what original means? This guy isn't original, but he has ruined the original character. Ahh, they just annoy me so much. Manga did the right thing with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time though. Audio commentary with the Japanese director and cast! Woohoo! I actually listened to it all, and I was enlightened. More of that please, Manga. And less of the American extra's.

Revelation are good, MVM are good, ADV are my favourites, Beez have got their extra's and stuff down, but they need to improve their subtitles and I have no opinion on Funimation because I have never bought or watched any of their DVDs. I hold a grudge against them though because they don't distribute to the UK!

Damn, I've done it again. Why do I write so much!?

[Southe,]

Yes but what i'm meaning is my copy dosen't benifit MANGA.

The dvds are on the Americans dvds they just get them when they buy the series so blame who ever they buy them off.

i can't say for any other company but Funimation. There commentarys are decent ( latest OP one was kinda crap ) due to eric vale etc are script writers aswell or have a secondary job so its intresting to hear how they solved some translation issues etc Random chat not really into.

Baki the grappler had the dir en grey/child prey pv, FMA had L'Arc~en~ciel/Ready Steady Go pv aswell. But yes. there idea of extras seem to be a commentary involving one of the actors etc. but like.. The FMA sets ive been getting come with booklets with artwork and information from the director from bones. and the FMA movie has 2 discs worth with japanese extras. so they can offer some decent stuff but really only for certain series.

Relelations just added what funi had. and yea it is a bit of :@ that they dont distribute here but just have to deal with it would be good if they did tho.

Sword of the stranger and akira blu rays are region free so buying them next month i think.

[Neversoft]

They don't make that much profit. Maybe a few quid per DVD sold... you'd have to be pretty stingy to go out of your way and waste money on importing multiple DVDs over from America. Manga are doing us a favour with Claymore since Funi did all the work and Manga are distributing it two volumes for the price of one.

The dvds are on the Americans dvds? What?

I guess if a company wants to put Japanese extra's and commentaries on the DVD they have to pay extra, so thats why Manga do their own... maybe. They're cheap. But some of their DVDs do have a little Japanese extra's... whats up with that? ADV have good extra's on their DVDs, and good commentaries. They also go out of their way to compile booklets full of information, behind the scenes extras and interviews with the Japanese staff and cast for their more well know series. I believe they do all that themselves. More companies should start doing booklets. I've come across DVDs before that have bios and tons of info as an on-disc extra. I don't want to stare at the TV and read, I'd rather read it in book form.

All BluRay discs should be region free because it's a complete rip off otherwise. If DVDs and Games were all region free the world would be a much better place.

[Southe,]

Well seeing as im paying MORE just not to help fund MANGA's crapness dosent make me stingy lol.

And i meant the american dub extras where there. so they came with the series when manga bought it. allt he did was slap there logo on it and do all there things.

and i would like booklets aswell well. id prefer if they were kept in special editions or season sets. makes them more worth while. i know the dragonbox's are coming with 80 page hardback books.

[Neversoft]

Apologies for my mistakes. I was up all night the day before at the Cambridge Rock Fest and was completed knackered when I posted that. Ok, it wouldn't make you stingy but it would make you mean and downright mad.

Huh? What America Extra's are we on about? They don't come with the series when companies license it, they produce their own America extra's. The episodes and Japanese extra's are what come with a series, ova or movie when licensed.

Theres enough info, behind the scenes extras and interviews they can right about to last them a life time so they should come with ever DVD in my opinion. Limiting the booklets to certain boxsets and special editions would just be annoying. Every volume of Utawarerumono (six in total) came with an 8 page booklet with at least two interviews in both.

Another thing I like, Manga do this a lot, is how some companies print a poster on the back of the DVD cover. I would never actually take the cover out and put it on my wall because I'd just be left with a simple DVD box but every poster I've come across so far has been excellent. ADV do this a lot as well, I don't know if any other companies do. Manga sometimes take it one step further though and include a little fold out booklet with their DVDs that folds out to reveal the poster. That's much better because I'd actually take the booklet out of the DVD and stick the poster on my wall. That's perhaps the only thing other companies should learn from Manga.

[Southe,]

meh MANGA suck imo leave it at that lol my opinion. leave me alone

so yeah my fma was covered in crap. emailed them. told me to keep it and sending me a new one. gave it to my bro lol

[Neversoft]

Your Full Metal Alchemist DVD actually arrived covered in human waste?