12-13-2003, 07:42 PM
Okay, I'm prolly like a year behind everyone else but I was looking into buying Fushigi Yugi from Pioneer, the entire set, which I had priced at $400 for the OAV's and the two box sets...
Well, the second box set was short on availability and I was not going to wait months for it to get on stock. In what I may call moderate desperation, as I absolutely have to have this series by the end of the year, I checked the Amazon used/new prices and wow!!! Less than $50 for a boxed set lowest priced by dvdpricesearch.com at $145?!?
Okay, that had to be waaaay too good to be true... So I click on this seller (cool anime from california) and check out some of their other items... Trigun complete at $35... Tenchi Universe TV at $55... Escaflowne at $35... okay, I'm trippin'
I could swear that each of these series were like $100+ so there has to be something wrong. It wasn't until I saw Gasaraki, a set I darn well know comes with 8 discs, being reported with only 3 discs. Now since Gasaraki isn't going to save me more than $50, I'll prolly just buy it from ADV anyways when I ever do get around to getting that but I'm still at ends trying to figure out what is going on.
After noting that they all claimed import and often had less discs than the original highly priced boxed sets, I ran a search import anime and obviously this was the darn first site that came up. First thing I notice is all the titles I found waaaay nicely priced to be released by FX. Okay... no clue who FX is.
So that brings me down to the real question. Are the anime titles being condensed by FX being redone by fans? I'm fairly certain the Japanese version won't be affected but I am rather curious if FX is doing their own dubbing and subbing of these anime... Not that I really care if they are or not as I don't really have any love for Pioneer Entertainment (the original releasing company of many of the titles on my to get list). The biggest reason I ask is because there are several titles also done by ADV that appear to be redone by FX and in all honesty, I enjoy most of the dub work done by the people from ADV.
And of course... if it is the same dub versions... how are they selling them for soooo cheap >,<
I've browsed around the forums already and I've formulated a half-guess that it has to do with DVD region settings but I can't get any straightforward remarks about whether or not the english voices are the same or not... mostly just the usual remarks of hating dub or hating subtitles which I only have to remark that if I had never had a dubbed version of any anime ever, I prolly would never have bought a single VHS... I prolly have enough Japanese language knowledge to get me through a statement of not having a clue what you're saying... which really doesn't need words anyways now that I think about it...
well anyways, wonder if my sig works...
Well, the second box set was short on availability and I was not going to wait months for it to get on stock. In what I may call moderate desperation, as I absolutely have to have this series by the end of the year, I checked the Amazon used/new prices and wow!!! Less than $50 for a boxed set lowest priced by dvdpricesearch.com at $145?!?
Okay, that had to be waaaay too good to be true... So I click on this seller (cool anime from california) and check out some of their other items... Trigun complete at $35... Tenchi Universe TV at $55... Escaflowne at $35... okay, I'm trippin'
I could swear that each of these series were like $100+ so there has to be something wrong. It wasn't until I saw Gasaraki, a set I darn well know comes with 8 discs, being reported with only 3 discs. Now since Gasaraki isn't going to save me more than $50, I'll prolly just buy it from ADV anyways when I ever do get around to getting that but I'm still at ends trying to figure out what is going on.
After noting that they all claimed import and often had less discs than the original highly priced boxed sets, I ran a search import anime and obviously this was the darn first site that came up. First thing I notice is all the titles I found waaaay nicely priced to be released by FX. Okay... no clue who FX is.
So that brings me down to the real question. Are the anime titles being condensed by FX being redone by fans? I'm fairly certain the Japanese version won't be affected but I am rather curious if FX is doing their own dubbing and subbing of these anime... Not that I really care if they are or not as I don't really have any love for Pioneer Entertainment (the original releasing company of many of the titles on my to get list). The biggest reason I ask is because there are several titles also done by ADV that appear to be redone by FX and in all honesty, I enjoy most of the dub work done by the people from ADV.
And of course... if it is the same dub versions... how are they selling them for soooo cheap >,<
I've browsed around the forums already and I've formulated a half-guess that it has to do with DVD region settings but I can't get any straightforward remarks about whether or not the english voices are the same or not... mostly just the usual remarks of hating dub or hating subtitles which I only have to remark that if I had never had a dubbed version of any anime ever, I prolly would never have bought a single VHS... I prolly have enough Japanese language knowledge to get me through a statement of not having a clue what you're saying... which really doesn't need words anyways now that I think about it...
well anyways, wonder if my sig works...
![[Image: trishfksig.jpg]](http://www.frostknights.com/sigs/trishfksig.jpg)
The Walker