|
It is currently 25 Apr 2024, 12:54
|
View unsolved topics | View unanswered posts
|
|
|
|
rcarlson
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 27 Feb 2021, 21:05 |
Serious fan |
|
|
Joined: 02 Jan 2021, 00:35 Posts: 245 Location: Northern Virginia Has thanked: 164 times Been thanked: 142 times
|
That Dokaben set was so cheap (1500 yen) I wonder if it was a mistake. Anyway, I just nabbed it, and if nothing was fishy and it gets here I'll fill out its DB info.
Not familiar with this series, but I'm a huge baseball fan and absolutely adore Koshien Stadium. I had the privilege of going there once for a Hanshin Tigers game, and the crowd was just insane. Packed to the gills (47,000+) on a weeknight against a last-place team (Yakult Swallows), and they had a soccer crowd's energy. Totally different experience than a regular season MLB game (which is already one of my favorite things!). And the Koshien high school tournaments are one of the best traditions in sports. I'd love to catch one of those games in person some day. You never know, there could be a future NPB or MLB legend playing!
Anyway, hope the discs get here and as described. I didn't notice until it was too late, but something about the site's address fields is screwy; it put my apartment number above my street address.
|
|
|
|
|
rcarlson
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 21:02 |
Serious fan |
|
|
Joined: 02 Jan 2021, 00:35 Posts: 245 Location: Northern Virginia Has thanked: 164 times Been thanked: 142 times
|
takeshi666 wrote: Also I spotted that Dokaben box set several times in the past but apparently there are no fansubs for it of any kind at all? Also judging by the weight provided on the mandarake page it seems like it only contains about 32 episodes and the whole series is well past the 150 mark so idk what's going on there? High episode count would explain why no fansubbers have touched it. No fansubs does seem to be the case. Loooong 70's sports anime = not many western fans. I would guess that the deal with the episode count is that in 1995 they thought there wouldn't be enough interest for the whole series on LD, but that there would be for what I guess is a Summer Koshien tournament arc. Very curious, and it makes me wonder if there were other long series that got similar treatment on home video. Anyway, although my Japanese comprehension is still very rudimentary, I think I'll still get something out of it with the baseball animation. (I too noticed the size/weight discrepancy before I bought, so there's no buyer's remorse on that account.)
|
|
|
|
|
gypsy
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 22:20 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 23 Jun 2017, 01:55 Posts: 1693 Location: United States Has thanked: 1127 times Been thanked: 346 times
|
takeshi666 wrote: I've seen some really cheap box sets on Mandarake but the shipping gets a little high. In the other hand, they also had a complete Danguard Ace set for a while but it was 17k yen and I sat on it for too long and someone else bought it. The prices seem very random.
_________________ I have added a shop on lddb.com. Check it out, items are priced to sell.
|
|
|
|
|
takeshi666
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 22:25 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 01 Feb 2018, 02:41 Posts: 1995 Location: Finland Has thanked: 183 times Been thanked: 386 times
|
gypsy wrote: takeshi666 wrote: I've seen some really cheap box sets on Mandarake but the shipping gets a little high. In the other hand, they also had a complete Danguard Ace set for a while but it was 17k yen and I sat on it for too long and someone else bought it. The prices seem very random. I'm sure there's some reason. Maybe those titles are unavailable. Like that 1960s Moomin anime which has only been released on LD, the individual volumes go for about that much on Mandarake when/if they pop up. I saw the complete set for GE999 as well for a price that didn't seem too bad, but one box set had a badly damaged obi and another had it missing entirely I think.
|
|
|
|
|
rcarlson
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 03 Mar 2021, 01:55 |
Serious fan |
|
|
Joined: 02 Jan 2021, 00:35 Posts: 245 Location: Northern Virginia Has thanked: 164 times Been thanked: 142 times
|
Following up on the Dokaben boxset (which got here faster than I expected!), I think the 1,500 yen price was an actual mistake, especially considering Wikipedia describes the manga as "one of the most popular sports manga of all time" so Japanese demand can't possibly be that low. The box is in immaculate condition, and while I've only unsealed the first disc so far, it looked and played perfectly. Picture quality's perfectly fine, too. The set begins partway into the series as suspected, but at a sensible starting point (the main character decides to attend high school instead of going to work, with the intention of continuing his scholastic baseball career (from what I can gather with my limited Japanese)), and going by the list of episode titles it appears to end at a sensible stopping point (28 eps. total on 7 discs).
So far I can follow it well enough, so I'm looking forward to some roughly animated, modestly exaggerated baseball anime. Thanks again gypsy for the find! I'll see if I have time this weekend to fill out its info and take cover pictures.
|
|
|
|
|
takeshi666
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 03 Mar 2021, 02:32 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 01 Feb 2018, 02:41 Posts: 1995 Location: Finland Has thanked: 183 times Been thanked: 386 times
|
rcarlson wrote: Following up on the Dokaben boxset (which got here faster than I expected!), I think the 1,500 yen price was an actual mistake, especially considering Wikipedia describes the manga as "one of the most popular sports manga of all time" so Japanese demand can't possibly be that low. Well it might be if the whole series is available on DVD or some other far more accessible format. Who'd want to spend money for the Laserdisc after that if you can't even get the whole series that way? Also if the manga is so popular, why hasn't there been another anime series? Ashita no Joe has had several. Maybe it isn't as popular as wikipedia claims it is.
|
|
|
|
|
signofzeta
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 03 Mar 2021, 02:45 |
Jedi Knight |
|
|
Joined: 14 Jan 2010, 09:44 Posts: 5988 Location: Ann Arbor Has thanked: 1292 times Been thanked: 1106 times
|
It’s likely a ratio of popularity to units produced. The main reason I eventually got super into Araiguma Rascal is because the LD box set was ¥8000, either version. This intrigued me because the same seller was selling me half boxes for as low as ¥550 and single discs as low as ¥50. If they didn’t make enough units the price will always be sort of high. LDDB doesn’t have a release date for the first print, but we do have the price, ¥68,000, clearly a late 80s/very early 90s price point for a show this size. The box I got was the reprint but it was from 1997, published by Pioneer this time, and...still ¥68,000 and it’s an NHK show, not a Bandai OVA, so they didn’t flood the market. The Pioneer one has pretty poor video (show is from 1977) but all new art that was also used for the eventual DVD release. If it was released simultaneously on DVD that usually makes the LD worthless as well. If it wasn’t finished on LD (Initial D, for example) then the LD is unlikely to be the preferred version. Anyway, fast forward to today and I’m a massive Rascal fan. I’ve read the book, the audio book, visited the author’s boyhood home, bought my kid the stuffed toy and he loves Rascal. None of this would have happened probably if the LD box was as cheap as the Final Fantasy OVAs.
_________________ All about LD care, inner sleeves, shrink wrap, etc.
https://youtu.be/b3O-vHpHRpM
|
|
|
|
|
gypsy
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 22 Mar 2021, 22:43 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 23 Jun 2017, 01:55 Posts: 1693 Location: United States Has thanked: 1127 times Been thanked: 346 times
|
harlock wrote: Some great LDs on Mandarake, but what about the pandemic shipping situation? Their site shows DHL as pretty much it for shipping to the USA, like other similar sites in JP that generally have EMS and SAL X'ed out (or warnings about EMS being incredibly slow because no planes flying to put the packages on). Sounds like it could get pricey on shipping. DHL and Fedex only. It's not ideal but it's livable. Kinda kills getting cheap stuff though.
_________________ I have added a shop on lddb.com. Check it out, items are priced to sell.
|
|
|
|
|
harlock
|
Post subject: Re: Anime Set w/o much data on Mandarake Posted: 11 Apr 2021, 17:02 |
Serious fan |
|
|
Joined: 20 Oct 2011, 21:57 Posts: 188 Location: United States Has thanked: 2 times Been thanked: 54 times
|
God, I just found out how bad the shipping situation is. "Surugaya is back!" - the legendarily cheap LD source is selling to the US again, and I remembered the good old days where the EMS might be an "expensive" 50 bucks or something but the LDs were practically free so it worked out. Found an 8 disc box set I've wanted for like $10, went to the checkout and saw DHL shipping for around $150 The hunt will continue for that title.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
|
|