I remember the first time I saw it was on a VCD mailed to me by an online friend from USA. XDI remember being a young boy and Ai no Kusabi being the holy grail of yaoi anime to hunt for. The bonuses on the first prints special editions do seem fun though, but $128 each is far to steep for me, unless somewhere has them cheaper than CD Japan.I’d really like to see this do well, the mess that was Togainu no Chi’s anime should have been scrapped and their budget donated to this project haha.Sorry my thoughts are all over the place.
I wonder how much the full set will cost when it comes out. I don’t understand why they come with coupons for buying the whole set if you’re already buying them individually?
Well I will eventually want to own them if the Blurays are region free so maybe I’ll import them one day when I have lots of spare change (hah), since they will never be localized. For such a niched work like Ai no Kusabi with a non-mainstream audience, it’s probably even worse.Anyway,hopefully they can get the anime licensed overseas and it can be available at a better I suppose so, and I see generally prices are higher for such media in Japan than they are here to begin with. When people just don’t buy any of the releases, smaller studios in Japan just can’t survive. If we put this into perspective, it is actually a reasonable price. Each episode is measured in the tens of thousands (USD?), depending on the technologies used, like 3D and stuff. Get it from I think there may only be 4 episodes tho they didn’t say if there would still be 13 episodes or not.I’ve read about a report online a breakdown of costs involved in making anime by an independent animator.
Maybe if the sales are positive, the makers may be encouraged to make the rest of the dropped episodes.Fingers crossed. I don’t think the Region 1 US versions will have the extra goodies but it’s a good start. Usual price: US$19.99) Compare that to almost US$400 bucks for the Region 2 Japan versions ^^ but we get what we pay for. English-subtitled DVDs licensed by Media Blasters now available for preorder!Title: Ai no Kusabi: The Space Between (2012), all four OVAs will be available in one DVD at only US$14.99 (Discounted price. Mut there's a manga to it and the story is loooong ahead of this anime. Finally here! The 4th episode with sub! Thanx to aarinfantasy!:D YAAAAY! Category: Cartoon.