Anime Limited/All the Anime (UK) Thread

[Cerberus40000]

Apparently the rest of my Christmas sale stuff is coming today.

It's only taken Royal Mail 2 weeks

I do partly blame ATA for even using them during their strikes and having to constantly order BOGOF discs separately from everything else because the discount codes don't work with them

Yeah first world problems but I got better things to do than sit around waiting for late deliveries.

[PGW]

Interesting. My Informed Delivery NEVER includes foreign packages. They must like you!

[Ben_C]

Originally Posted by Cerberus40000

Apparently the rest of my Christmas sale stuff is coming today.

It's only taken Royal Mail 2 weeks

I do partly blame ATA for even using them during their strikes and having to constantly order BOGOF discs separately from everything else because the discount codes don't work with them

Yeah first world problems but I got better things to do than sit around waiting for late deliveries.

They used FedEx for my sale order - and that was only one mystery box and the CG Lupin film, so fairly small compared to others.

[pikagreg]

Yeah I had just one big order and everything but one item went in a FedEx box and the single steelbook went out Royal Mail so rip lol

[Bobo1313]

Originally Posted by Girls With Guns

Yuss! I just checked my USPS Informed Delivery email for Sunday and it says I am getting a non-trackable Royal Mail package from the UK delivered today (Monday) - that should be my Violet Evergarden Movie CE from AOL...

I need to move to Central PA to get my packages faster. Horse and Buggy > Gas Engine.

[Girls With Guns]

Originally Posted by Bobo1313

I need to move to Central PA to get my packages faster. Horse and Buggy > Gas Engine.

You never know what ol' Jakey Stoltzfus keeps out behind the barn for delivering the mail flamingly fast out here in Amish Farm Country, now wunst...

[PGW]

Happily, my Violet Evergarden box showed up today. So glad I went all-region, since as far as I know they haven't even announced a U.S. issue yet.

Did anyone receive the anime-on-line mystery blu-ray set? I ordered one but haven't gotten it yet, and was wondering what I'm in for (or what kind of things I'm in for, if all of them aren't the same titles).

[Cerberus40000]

Originally Posted by Ben_C

They used FedEx for my sale order - and that was only one mystery box and the CG Lupin film, so fairly small compared to others.

Most of mine were FedEx, they were using them for the big orders and Royal Mail for the smaller ones, not sure where the cut off point is because 8 blu-rays still needed a fairly sizable box to ship them in.

[TThomas]

Afaik everything above ~2kg incl packaging uses Fedex and smaller orders RM

[mysticwaterfall]

Well after I asked them about my Mystery Boxes from 2 weeks ago I got a shipping notice via Fed Ex so they must have just forgot, lol. So waiting on that and another Royal Mail order, plus VE Movie 4K and FBC 2 4K from AoL.

[kiyozi]

Originally Posted by PGW

Happily, my Violet Evergarden box showed up today. So glad I went all-region, since as far as I know they haven't even announced a U.S. issue yet.

Did anyone receive the anime-on-line mystery blu-ray set? I ordered one but haven't gotten it yet, and was wondering what I'm in for (or what kind of things I'm in for, if all of them aren't the same titles).

I was going to buy one of the mystery bundles but I just decided to buy the The Eccentric Family collector edition.
From what I saw on a different forum:AOL mystery bundles

Blu-ray - psychoelectric girl, love and lies, devils line, the girl in twilight, and the battle girl high school.

Dvd bundle- kanon, air, skull man, venus versus virus, and fate stay night movie 3.

[PGW]

Thanks, kiyozi. I have the "Psychoelectric Girl" LE (I enjoyed that one), and "Girl In Twilight" (which I found so boring I didn't make it past episode two), but the others are new to me (presuming the selections in each box are the same, of course).

Glad I didn't order the DVD bundle, since I have all of those except "Venus Versus Virus" (never even heard of that).

Started to watch the 4K Violet Evergarden movie last night. It looked fantastic.

[ApocalypseKnight]

So I watched my copy of the Violet Evergarden 4K LE and notice 2 errors in the subs that you don't even need to understand Japanese to realize that something is wrong (I double checked with the dub and it's correctly translated there):

1) At 00:58:57 Violet gives the thumbs up at the end of the visit with the sick kid at the hospital and the subs show "About your feet..." instead of "About your fee..."

Let's just say that kinda pulls you out of the moment and ruins what would have been an endearing punchline.

2) At 01:13:52 They just arrived on the island and are about to see the Major. Subs read "It seems like they don't have names here," when what was actually meant was that the Major doesn't use his real name here.

After spotting the first mistake I tried paying more attention with the rudimentary Japanese that I know, but it seemed fine except for point #2. There might have been other obvious issues before the first one that slipped me since I wasn't as focus, but probably someone actually fluent would be able to add to this list.

It's disappointing since I specifically wanted the UK release because they had the fixed subs for the tv series. I'll contact them later on to let them know, but I doubt they'll do anything to fix this, unless someone is able to provide a much longer list of issues or that many complain. I wonder if the eventual US release will have the same subs, corrected ones or perhaps even worst ones?

[PGW]

Yikes. "About your feet" is a particularly unfortunate error. I wouldn't have noticed this when I watched it because I prefer the dub.

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by ApocalypseKnight

So I watched my copy of the Violet Evergarden 4K LE and notice 2 errors in the subs that you don't even need to understand Japanese to realize that something is wrong (I double checked with the dub and it's correctly translated there):

1) At 00:58:57 Violet gives the thumbs up at the end of the visit with the sick kid at the hospital and the subs show "About your feet..." instead of "About your fee..."

Let's just say that kinda pulls you out of the moment and ruins what would have been an endearing punchline.

2) At 01:13:52 They just arrived on the island and are about to see the Major. Subs read "It seems like they don't have names here," when what was actually meant was that the Major doesn't use his real name here.

After spotting the first mistake I tried paying more attention with the rudimentary Japanese that I know, but it seemed fine except for point #2. There might have been other obvious issues before the first one that slipped me since I wasn't as focus, but probably someone actually fluent would be able to add to this list.

It's disappointing since I specifically wanted the UK release because they had the fixed subs for the tv series. I'll contact them later on to let them know, but I doubt they'll do anything to fix this, unless someone is able to provide a much longer list of issues or that many complain. I wonder if the eventual US release will have the same subs, corrected ones or perhaps even worst ones?

I said this before, but for whatever reason this release uses the subtitle script from the Asian iTunes release of the film by Front Row Filmed Entertainment, which in turn more or less matches their laughably bad English dub. The quality was always going to be somewhat dubious. The editing is what immediately turned me off of them though. The best case scenario at this point would be for Funimation to release it with their own subtitle script, much like they did for the first movie.

[Hydra Spectre]

Originally Posted by Mangaranga

I said this before, but for whatever reason this release uses the subtitle script from the Asian iTunes release of the film by Front Row Filmed Entertainment, which in turn more or less matches their laughably bad English dub. The quality was always going to be somewhat dubious. The editing is what immediately turned me off of them though. The best case scenario at this point would be for Funimation to release it with their own subtitle script, much like they did for the first movie.

I really wish they included that dub as a bonus. It would've blown up as a massive meme similar to the Big Green dubs of the Dragon Ball movies and specials, or the Russian Pinocchio movie with Pauly Shore doing the English dub.

[Zen_Amako]

It's too bad about the subtitle script, because it's a great looking release otherwise. I was focused on the story when I watched it, as I hadn't seen the film yet and I mainly wanted to see how the story wrapped up. Even so, I did notice a number of strange grammatical issues in the subtitles. If the subtitle script comes from an Asian release, that makes sense. It's a shame, because I wouldn't be too excited about buying another release of this film after dropping $90 on this edition.

[mysticwaterfall]

So I got my FBC2 4K in today but not my VE 4K that was mailed before that, so that's weird. Also got my Royal Mail order in from AtA but Fed Ex still says it's in the UK for the mystery boxes.

[Bobo1313]

Originally Posted by mysticwaterfall

So I got my FBC2 4K in today but not my VE 4K that was mailed before that, so that's weird. Also got my Royal Mail order in from AtA but Fed Ex still says it's in the UK for the mystery boxes.

Looks like our copies are in the same pile somewhere. Stay strong 💪.

[Girls With Guns]

I'd send Jakey Stolzfus out to sift through the Royal mail for you guys, but I don't think his horse and buggy would make it all the way to the UK, floating across the Atlantic...