It was the still shot of the blonde girl if you roll down a little there was a massive zoom to show.

Those have been so altered, but its done.
now they can buy to-y and remaster that one, need to get all copies to remove those horrible dropouts

I would be blown away if we ever got to-y or anything on that level of obscurity that was a one off. Even by Discotek standards those would be poor sellers.

I don’t know. You may just have to build the right hype train. Back in my day To-y was somewhat famous in con circles...although mostly for a fandub of it called Anime Sucks that made the story about Morrissey vs Pearl Jam.

Sadly if the LD is $1000-15000 per they’ll never be able to do it as sourcing multiple copies would exceed the budget of a new OVA.

Well I'm not here to make discotek another million, they are worth a lot of money.
They are for profit otherwise they wouldn't be doing what they do.

Would like to see the fandub of Anime Sucks.

Sort of odd why the Yoji gets punched right in the beginning by To-y.

I mentioned this before but some of their lower sellers were under 1k copies. That's part of why the prices are higher and don't go on fire sales. Obviously other things sell better. Lupin helps them a lot I'm sure. I'm just glad to be able to have some of this stuff. Fist of the North Star finally released in it's entirety, Galaxy Express 999 being obtainable, KOR no longer costing hundreds of dollars and being in HD for the first time the list goes on and on. SDBD for content that doesn't upscale well is a boon too. There is a big difference between a well made SDBD and a poor one. I would not judge SDBD on say, that Votoms set lol. I have direct compared some of their SDBD sets to old DVDs and it is a noticeable improvement. I don't get nearly everything they put out, but I'm glad for every old anime that gets new life whether it's Discotek, Sentai, Rightstuf house brands etc

The cost of a To-y LD is definitely a detriment. They could probably make the numbers work if they didn't have to deal with that.

The margins you expect are way beyond that of an actual company. Any company looking for your idea of a payday would crash into the sea, straight to the bottom under the weight of its investments. Discotek is a company...it has a name...but it isn’t Bandai Visual, it’s puny. Regardless of size, how much money do you think they net from selling 1000 DVDs for $25 each? It’s probably about a weeks pay, which is about how long they spend having the same guy master everything. I’d bet a lot of these projects are licensed, manufactured, and eventually discontinued for less than $80,000 changing hands, especially those properties that seem to have come free in package deals. If you think there’s some Ferrari driving millionaire kingpin running Discotek you’re nuts. It’s basically a garage sale. We probably have better collections than they do, except that ANN guy.

They are worth millions, my last two jobs were super small and they were netting over 2. each.
discotek is much larger than that so just look with your eyes and know what's going on and you can see they are making money.
If they aren't then they are doing a lot wrong.

do you think they are getting copyrights to these anime for free???? Or paying a few hundred bucks?????
then you are clearly wrong and they can afford to pay cbs for the LDs and rights and I'll still have my paperweight.

I really don't care if anybody buys it from me, make an offer or message me but no matter i still own it.

Remember zeta the place you work at is for profit also, i know it hurts you but we are all for profit, even your bank.

I have no doubt they are making money but it's probably not as much as some people think. Did you guys see the leaked info on licenses and what ADV paid for them? I would imagine by working with older content (in some cases Japan cares SO LITTLE that Discotek is releasing the first BD of it anywhere in the world including Japan) that most of their licensing fees aren't that bad but it's difficult to make money with a large amount of anime. Hanasakeru Seishounen is a fantastic anime that reminds me good things are still being made but I doubt they made much on it at all.

I would expect that A-Ko will make them a fair bit of money, seems to be quite popular plus they get the double dip from many people having already released it on DVD. That's something which won't be a thing in the future, as they have abandoned DVD completely. They even reiterated that on their twitter recently.

Yes, even my bank! Hahaha! I’d say especially my bank, it’s a bank. I am not a bank though, neither are you, so it’s embarrassing to see you pretend to be a power dealer.

In some cases, yes, I’m sure they got a license or two for literally free.

I was at a licensing show once, no license copyrights are free.

Only thing you get free are some stickers and bags.