1 & Only US Anime Releases Missing Extras Thread

[BigOnAnime]

They also got the (meh) Vandread compilation OVAs that Geneon never got. And whelp, there's another I remembered I need to add. I think FUNi in general is missing the video extras Geneon got.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Good gawd, it was a struggle to put what I had already made on Fandom Post on here. I had to multiple times figure out where to shorten it so it'd fit within the 30,000 character limit... I'm not sure if 12 reserved posts will be enough... Maybe I should make the Blu-ray.com version of the thread a little different to save on character counts. Hopefully people that care about extras will find this helpful.

Anyway, I'm going to try replacing some of these ANN links with Blu-ray.com ones sometime tomorrow even though I doubt that many entries have been made. There's so many DVD releases missing, especially singles.

I hear you. I tried to transfer over a massive thread from another site and this forum's software was crippling. I eventually gave up. The character limits are also too strict in PMs on this site.

[BigOnAnime]

Something I'm now thinking about is maybe I should still list out the affected series in bold, but turn that into a link to the releases portion of its Blu-ray.com entry. That could save me time and characters as far as linking so people know exactly what release(s) I'm talking about for a specific series missing extras, and what they look like so they know what to look for. Though there's so many older anime releases still missing from the database (from my collection alone, there's 70+ releases missing from the database I need to add).

An example of what it would look like:

Baccano! Aniplex USA Blu-rays
The Aniplex USA Blu-rays are missing the English commentaries, as well as the promotional video, and Baccano! Propaganda Program (AKA Baccano!: The Complete Guide) extras which are present on FUNimation's DVD releases excluding the singles which have only English commentaries.

What it currently looks like.

Baccano! Aniplex USA Blu-rays
The Aniplex USA LE and RE BDs are missing the English commentaries from FUNimation Entertainment, as well as the promotional video, and Baccano! Propaganda Program (AKA Baccano!: The Complete Guide) extras which are present on FUNimation's DVD releases (1st box set, Viridian Collection/Anime Classics) excluding the singles which have only English commentaries.

[Z-95]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Something I'm now thinking about is maybe I should still list out the affected series in bold, but turn that into a link to the releases portion of its Blu-ray.com entry. That could save me time and characters as far as linking so people know exactly what release(s) I'm talking about for a specific series missing extras, and what they look like so they know what to look for. Though there's so many older anime releases still missing from the database (from my collection alone, there's 70+ releases missing from the database I need to add).

Yea, especially for DVDs there are a ton still missing from the site.

The shortest link format I've found for releases (not the "movie" entry that you are looking in to using) is either

"https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id={}"

or

"https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/movies.php?id={}"

for Blus and DVDs respectively where id is the number at the end of release links. This will link to the release by redirecting to the URL that includes the long title in it.

I've also found that writing a script to generate the output takes care of the BBCode and character limits much better. I store all the data for the premium packaging thread in a SQLite DB and generate the posts using a Python script.

[BigOnAnime]

Replaced all ANN release links with just the Blu-ray.com releases page for each show (despite the many, many, many missing releases). This should look much better, though I have to now rewrite certain portions. This will save me time and characters in the future though.