Gotta Wait ‘Til February For Ghost Slayers Ayashi, Clamp School Detectives
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by calaggie in NewsAccording to Mania (formerly AnimeOnDVD), Bandai has delayed the release of Ghost Slayers Ayashi Part 1 and Clamp School Detectives Complete Collection by two months, meaning both are now scheduled to come out February 3rd instead of December 2nd. There are other minor, one- or two-week delays for more prominent titles like Code Geass Part 2 and vol. 5/vol. 6, Lucky Star v. 4, and Gurren Lagann Part 1 and vol. 1/vol. 2.
Some of you may recall the reissuing of Clamp School Detectives on DVD was kind of a surprise announcement during Bandai’s Fanime 2007 panel. Oddly enough, this is not the first delay for Ghost Slayers Ayashi since being announced at Otakon 2007: September 9th was the date given for these releases during the company’s panel at this year’s Fanime.
Bandai has not given an official explanation for the delays but I suspect ensuring the quality of the authoring process could be a factor given frequent reports of defective discs, like a AOD member who complained in August about receiving at least 12 defective discs from Bandai releases since late 2007, and of course that one week from last January where many of their releases had issues playing correctly. Better to delay the releases to fix any emerging problems than to risk worsening their reputation among heavy buyers. Another factor may have been increased attention in working on Gundam 00, which is debuting on Sci-Fi Channel’s Ani-Monday block on the 24th.
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