Warning: Many Of This Week’s Bandai Releases Are Buggy

Over the past week, there have been reports of problems with Bandai’s January 8th releases involving unreadable discs or specific episodes and extras not accessible. The affected titles (from ANN and the AOD forum thread) include Eureka Seven #11, Flag #2, My-Otome #4, and both the standard and limited editions of Gundam Seed Destiny #12. Not a good way to start 2008, for sure. If you have bought any of these and had problems, you can use Bandai’s customer service form to get in touch with them since they seem to be handling the problem directly, which RightStuf has advised its customers do in a recent news update on their site.

RACS owner Robert wrote about the problem, reporting a 20% rate and ended his post with the following warning:

For the record, this will be the third GSD DVD of the twelve that has come from Bandai with some sort of encoding problem in the first batch. It really is time for Bandai to fire their replicator and hire a contractor that has some decent quality control. These types of problems are getting too common in their releases, and if they continue fans will become more reluctant to buy their DVD’s – and then we’ll have another ‘Geneon’ fiasco on our hands…

So if you’re thinking of picking any of the above at your local brick-and-mortar tomorrow, chances are they will play fine but don’t be surprised if they do not. The only new release from Bandai this week that seems not to have had problems so far is Di Gi Charat Nyo! #5 but I expect that a lot fewer people were anticipating that release compared to Eureka or Gundam.

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