Spice & Wolf BD to be $100
The basicchannel blog reports that the Japanese Spice & Wolf II home video release will be four volumes with the first volume released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 7. The first Blu-ray disc will contain episodes 0-4 in 1080p and retail at 9,999 yen (presently $104 US). Blu-ray volumes 2 & 3 will retail at 7,980 yen each. The DVD volumes will retail at 6,930 (US $72) each.
Ouch!
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
For what it’s worth. it’s actually that the first Blu-Ray volume contains 4 episodes starting at episode 0 (episodes 0 to 3). Episode 0 was already released on DVD earlier. From Volume 2 on, each volume will contain 3 episodes. There’ll be 4 volumes in total.
And yeah… this is basically the same as the first season, except that they’re releasing the Blu-Ray from the get-go (thankfully), and they’re putting 3 episodes per disc over 4 volumes (the way the Blu-Rays were released) instead of 2 per disc over 6 volumes (the way the DVDs were released). Actually, if you compare the prices, the Blu-Ray box for the first season cost 33,600 Yen, and the total of these 4 volumes will be 33,939 Yen.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Wow. No wonder pirating is so common. How can they really expect people to pay so much for so little?
July 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am
These prices aren’t that uncommon in Japan. Just be thankful anime is so cheap over here. If it was $100 per disc, it just wouldn’t sell.