About ADV/Sentai’s Pricing of October Releases

They shouldn’t need to subtitle this chalkboard shot much, if at all!

When ADV/Sentai Filmworks announced some new acquistions via retail solicitations on Tuesday, I was surprised by a few things. The first was Ghost Hound, a series I only got 3 episodes into and forgot to resume watching despite kind of liking it, and the second was the pricing of its release relative to others that were also revealed.

The first Ghost Hound set will have episodes 1-11 and retail for $59.98 (current pre-order: $45) while the complete set 12-episode release of He is My Master and the 12-episode Clannad After Story part 1 will both street for $40 (current pre-order: $30). Maybe they figure GH has a smaller appeal than HIMM and Clannad and thus estimate lower expected sales, necessitating a higher price point to recoup acquistion costs. Perhaps being a Production I.G. project also has something to do with it.

Kiba previously ran on Toonami Jetstream and 33 of its 51 episodes are currently available to be watched on Anime Network Online by Premium users with new episodes going live each Thursday. $60 retail ($45 pre-order) for the whole set (Oct. 13th) sounds like a good deal to me as a consolidation of two previously released 26-episode sets at $50 a piece but I imagine it will a re-packaging of those two sets (Bandai’s Anime Legends bricks come to mind). I saw about half the series in anime club a few years ago and enjoyed it so I’ll look into this.

I have no opinion about the other “new” acquistions, Popotan and Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy, except I may rent the Geneon discs eventually just to see what either are about.

Links
Clannad After Story set 1: TRSI - RACS
Ghost Hound Collection 1: TRSI - RACS
He is My Master Complete Collection: TRSI - RACS
Kiba Complete Collection: TRSI - RACS
Popotan Collection: TRSI - RACS
Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy Collection: TRSI - RACS