{"id":30186,"date":"2012-12-21T21:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=30186"},"modified":"2012-12-21T21:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:56:17","slug":"wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SME_DVDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SME_DVDR-450x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SME_DVDR\" width=\"450\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SME_DVDR-450x211.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SME_DVDR-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SME_DVDR.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just realized that Sony&#8217;s domestic release of Kurozuka was available, so I was about to purchase it, along with Ultraviolet: Code 044 and Viper&#8217;s Creed when I realized that all three releases are English dubbed only.  Really, Sony?  After the botched debacle of a failed Cyborg 009 domestic release and a sub-par Blood+ DVD release, you still haven&#8217;t learned how to get it right? You actually expect American consumers to purchase dubbed only, made-on demand DVDRs at the same cost as purchasing equal length replicated Blu-ray releases from smaller distributors such as Media Blasters, FUNimation, and Sentai Filmworks?<\/p>\n<p>No thank, Sony.  I really love Kurozuka, and I&#8217;m only a handful away from completing my collection of every anime title released on commercial American DVD, but I won&#8217;t support dub-only DVDs. I&#8217;ll bitterly go without official Kurozuka DVDs before I encourage the continued release of sub-par, over-priced domestic anime releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that Sony&#8217;s domestic release of Kurozuka was available, so I was about to purchase it, along with Ultraviolet: Code 044 and Viper&#8217;s Creed when I realized that all three releases are English dubbed only. Really, Sony? After the botched debacle of a failed Cyborg 009 domestic release and a sub-par Blood+ DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30189,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions\/30189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}