Naruto on Blu-ray

[nagpo]

"Hey let's release this japanese animation"
"Yeah but use western artstyle"

A very 90's take, Viz

[tylerman29]

Yeah, it really is a random choice to do it at all...like why..just make it like the other movie collections...so odd.

[Member-571539]

Originally Posted by tylerman29

Yeah, it really is a random choice to do it at all...like why..just make it like the other movie collections...so odd.

I mean, I get why they did it. They’re hopping onto that SteelBook bandwagon. Viz’s usual modus operandi of plopping the movie posters on the front cover would have still solicited derision from fans. The fact is if they had acquired the talents of say Jim Lee, we’d be having a different conversation right now.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by neoz

Imagine being an anime fan and wanting the title but then having to look at this every time you go and watch it lol.

Naruto’s creepy smile on the front cover would keep me awake. Believe it!

[InuYashaCrusade]

Viz is straight up trolling now

[veritas]

My overall reaction is meh could be worse. Like ya it looks a bit weird but I can see what they are going for.

Just be glad it’s not as bad as the flintstones cover art or should I say:
the
Flin
tsto
nes

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by veritas

My overall reaction is meh could be worse. Like ya it looks a bit weird but I can see what they are going for.

Just be glad it’s not as bad as the flintstones cover art or should I say:
the
Flin
tsto
nes

I'd take that Flintstones cover over the packaging that Scooby got.

[zenpai]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

I'd take that Flintstones cover over the packaging that Scooby got.

I think the outer packaging for the Scooby-Doo: Where Are You 50th Anniversary blu-ray set is really cool and definitely a collector’s piece. I just hate what they did with the inside - the crummy small digipak instead of an amaray, and the encyclopedia could have been much more substantial in content.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

Viz is straight up trolling now

What's funny is bots out there target posts with variations of "T-shirt" and then make listings for them as designs on shirt sites. If they hit that it'll be the whole image of the shirt on a shirt, arms and all lmao

[battlechateau]

This reminds me of Viz's release of Sailor Moon R: The Movie and the controversy behind it.



For better context, Viz Media was using the stock image artwork of Marco Albiero for their Sailor Moon releases up until this point.





But when the artwork for the R Movie was revealed, the design seemed very disproportionate and it was later confirmed by Marco himself that he had not created it. The actual artist was never revealed, but pushback was loud enough for Viz to drastically change the way the S and SuperS Movie artworks looked.





It's really bizarre how Viz Media has handled some of their home video releases. Offering the first volume of Hunter X Hunter (2011) as a Steelbook but not later volumes and releasing Season 21 of Pokémon as a complete collection Blu-ray release only to release Season 22 in 18-episode DVD volumes, Viz seems to have a real problem with consistency. They really need to get it together if they want to sell units.

[MOONPHASE]

Well Hunter x Hunter Steelbook was a Best Buy Exclusive and I don’t think it did well enough to get it for later Volumes. I just think people were not buying the series at Best Buy in-general which is why very few Volumes made it into their stores. I think once Best Buy marked down the Steelbook to help get rid of it people started buying it. But by then it was like well I guess that’s it. There was never really a guarantee that Viz would continue.

Personally with Sailor Moon movies, R’s slipcover looks the best with S and SuperS looks great without the slipcover. Never liked the bland coverarts like from the TV series and R’s slipcover gave it a cover that basically tells you that it’s a movie just by looking at its slipcover.

So count me as a person who was disappointed when Viz went back to the bland coverarts for the S and SuperS movies but at least the good cover is underneath the slipcover.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Amazon lists the triple feature Blu-ray as having 1 disc for the standard and 2 for the Steelbook. I wonder why it would be different between the two.

[Member-571539]

INTERVIEW: Whilce Portacio on His Naruto Cover Art, Manga's Influence on American Comics

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-fe...merican-comics

[Yuukaa_Sa]

I never boycott a release due to the artwork on the cover.....

Until now.

Seriously....this looks so lame....i hope there will be a normal release after this abomination.

No disrespect to the artist, they are talented....but this is disrespect to the original author and series creator of Naruto and I won't support this move by Viz.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Yuukaa_Sa

I never boycott a release due to the artwork on the cover.....

Until now.

Seriously....this looks so lame....i hope there will be a normal release after this abomination.

No disrespect to the artist, they are talented....but this is disrespect to the original author and series creator of Naruto and I won't support this move by Viz.

Agreed. It's a shame because I honestly would have bought this in an instant. I hope potential low sales don't give Viz the assumption that Naruto on Blu-ray won't sell well. Because I'm sure Boruto isn't selling all that great and now this horrendous cover is going to turn people away from it.

[Member-571539]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

I hope potential low sales don't give Viz the assumption that Naruto on Blu-ray won't sell well.

I’m pretty sure you just answered your question.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by gloomranger

I’m pretty sure you just answered your question.

Maybe the Shippuden movies on Blu-ray have sold well enough to justify it.

[veritas]

I would say the bigger problem is these covers don't really give people an idea of whats even included in the set. You can kind of guess it includes the first Naruto movie by the artwork but a random person who sees this in a store will have very little information about it not even knowing what the artwork normally looks like. That's fine for a collectors edition your trying to sell to people already looking for the item but its pretty awful for a standard edition your trying to sell to a new audience.

this is a trilogy I'm actually interested in buying but when i first saw it I had to google it and look up more information because going off targets page I could not tell much at all about the release and I wasn't even totally sure what movies the set came with going off just the cover.

[InuYashaCrusade]

It's finally happening! Naruto Set 1 Blu-ray releasing 11/3, features episodes 1-27

[gundamcero]

Well at least Naruto looks like Naruto on this release and not some crap US artist.