With series like this you release fewer copies of each volume as you go along. If you produce 10,000 copies of volume 1, assuming it is a perfect market and their will be no excess supply/demand. Not every person is going to want volume 2. Now companies would have market research data so that they can best guestimate how many copies to produce as series drag along. If their data says that 80% of vol. 1 purchasers will continue with the series, then you would want to produce 8,000, again assuming it is a perfect supply/demand.
If 90% of volume 2 buyers continue with the series then 7,200 of vol. 3 are produced, etc.

If you produce 10,000 of each disc, you can see that over time each volume would continue to sell fewer copies and there would be excess volumes sitting in storage, which loses you money.

Valid point. I decided to render a response in the official anime discussion thread. I forgot that this was a thread devoted specifically to bargains.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....07#post8417207

I would like to see your/a response to my post. The following quote is from the "anime official discussion" thread.

so i believe you can cross out the Family Video Coupons WTK, cuz they no longer work. and also estarland has removed all anime dvds from their site! all that remains now are anime figures

I will remove the coupon codes later today when I do some updating. I still see plenty of used anime dvd titles at eStarland.com (330 pages worth).

Shawne's Deals of the Day for Thursday, January 10 2008:

Deal 01: Hellsing Ultimate DVD 3 (Hyb)
$24.98 // $14.49 (42.0%) // $13.04 (47.8%)
*** quantity remaining =169

Deal 06: Magical Project S DVD Set 2 (S): Pixy Misa Finale!
$44.98 // $29.14 (35.2%) // $26.23 (41.7%)
*** quantity remaining = 58

VERY tempted to jump on that hellsing ultimate at that price! unless you know of a better place to get it for cheaper WTK?

My local FYE still has the 2 disc steel case version for $19.99. If you're a Backstage member, then it would be $17.99 plus tax. The next Animania Day is January 27(Buy 1, Get 1 at 50% off). If you can find another $20 title, then it would only be $10 on that day.

illl mark my calendar for this day :-D maybe ill have to go into my FYE and hide that Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 3 LE hehe..

Might also want to see if they have the $10 GC promotion. They had it the day I was there go get Vol 2 and 3, but had a heck of a time entering into their system and had to hack it somehow..

I wish I picked up vol 1 at Bestbuy while it was there to complete the single steelbook series..

Later

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Wow the Bleach boxset is already gone! I want this so bad.

It has been OOP since mid-December 2007. This was a limited edition release (limited to 15k).

Yeah I know its just even worse because I had it in my cart ready to buy yesterday from them and I didnt for some reason. Now its on sale and out of stock, such a bummer.

The listing was removed sometime this morning. It could have been removed at around the time when the Viz sale was posted.

FINALLY! PREORDERING DEATH NOTE VOL. 3 AND 4 LE! SWEEET! and grabbing death note manga vols for my g/f

Meh, it'd probably be worth waiting on Death Note, they screwed up video on the first two volumes pretty badly. Hopefully a boxset will warrant a fix.

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WTK,

Should I have ordered the 2-Disc Neon Evangelion Rebirth/Death set from DD (now OOS) or the two separate release Director's Cuts on Rightstuf's website.

fyi folks that dig the anime!

fye current sale which features a bunch of dvd's at 50% off ends wednesday night.

next promo (starts thursday) is $10 off all Geneon, Funmation, and Bandai DVD's this will ring up in the registers but will not be sale priced according to the period planner.

It depends what you're looking to watch. I have included some excerpts from AnimeOnDVD below. It may help you decide which one to get.

Neon Genesis Rebirth/Death Set (from Manga Entertainment) includes:
Director's Cuts (from ADV) includes

Thanks for the information!

WTK,

Thanks for the info. I bought the 2-disc set before it sold out, so what the hek, I'll buy the other versions as well.

That's the spirit! One can not have enough anime!

I got a question regarding manga... I just bought my first English translated manga and realized that the cover is in back, not front.... Then I looked inside and got little confused.

Do I read the book "backward" - Japanese style?

Awesome! Time to get Rozen Maiden and When They Cry before they go bye-bye. Thanks.