Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence (US release from Bandai) is a BD-25 with Dolby Digital

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Originally Posted by Afrobean

If you refuse to buy this on the grounds of the audio not being good enough for your tastes, the producer may see low sales and decide not to keep releasing anime titles. Do you want to indirectly contribute to anime titles not getting released as much here as they could be?

I'm a professional translator and don't need subtitles, so I've purchased dozens of anime Blu-rays here in Japan in the past year, as well as the US releases of Freedom and the Gunbuster/Diebuster Gattai box set. And I already have the first Japanese release of Innocence, so I wouldn't be buying the US release even if it did have lossless. I'm doing more than my fair share of buying anime on Blu-ray, thank you very much. The US won't be getting as much as Japan anyways, there's simply too much of it even if the US market was twice as strong as it is right now.