Anime Bargains

Cerenia

Ooooh, Elfen Lied! Everyone says I need to get into it, currently into Fate Stay Night ^^ Definatly need to pickup a few of these bargains!

As for anime lovers - don't forget the anime expo at the Edexcel enter london in october, i'm there cosplaying again this fall

Aionic

Who or what as?

/attempts to take mind off my NTSC PS2 seeming to have the 'Click of death' problem...right when I'm playing .hack Vol.1-2 to get ready for the release of Vol.3.

Cerenia

Oh, I do princess peach at the min, did last time, remaking my dress out of cotton this time, satin was a BAD choice, but looked nice, lol. When I get time and finances sorted properly, i'll do Belldandy next march and (if I bother to do a diet), Chii or Freya from Chobits next october (although Saber from Fate Stay Night/ Princess Serena from Sailor Moon is on my mind)

Aionic

Akira: Ultimate Edition - £4.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £6.99

Full Metal Panic!
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 01 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 02 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 03 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 04 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 05 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 06 - £7.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic! - Mission 07 - £7.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £13.99 for 4 out of the 7, £13.47 for Vol. 7.

Find-DVD hasn't got Vol. 4 or Vol. 6 listed and DVD PriceCheck is too **** to check with. But, going on the other prices, there's a 99.9% chance they have the same £5 and £7 price gap all the other volumes do.

Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU: Vol.1 - Full Metal Pandemonium -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU: Vol.2 - Full Metal Fracas! -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU: Vol.3 - Full Metal Fervor! -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU: Vol.4 - Full Metal Mania! -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £7.82 for Vol. 1, £9.89 for the other 3.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £7.99

Gungrave: Vol.1 - Beyond the Grave - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £9.49

Hellsing
Hellsing - Vol. 1: Impure Souls -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Hellsing - Vol. 2: Blood Brothers -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Hellsing - Vol. 3: Search And Destroy -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Hellsing - Vol. 4: Eternal Damnation -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best: £7.97 + £1.45 delivery for Vol. 1&2, £7.99 for Vol. 3 and £8.97 + £1.45 delivery for Vol. 4.

Keep in mind that the best price for the Hellsing box set is currently £36.25.

Last Exile
Last Exile: Vol.1 - First Move -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.2 - Positional Play -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.3 - Discovered Attack -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.4 - Breakthrough -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.5 - Grand Stream -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.6 - Queen Delphine -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Last Exile: Vol.7 - Sealed Move -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £9.97 + £1.45 delivery for Vol. 1, 6 and 7 and £9.99 for the others.

Buying all 7 volumes works out cheaper than buying the (presumably) crappy M-lock box set.

Le Chevalier D'Eon
Le Chevalier D'Eon: Vol.1 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Le Chevalier D'Eon: Vol.2 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best: £13.47 (both)

Ninja Scroll 10th Anniversary Edition - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £21.45

Rahxephon - Vol. 5: Synaesthesia -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Rahxephon - The Motion Picture -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best: £13.47 (both)

Read or Die
Read or Die - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Read or Die: Vol. 1 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Read or Die: Vol. 2 - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £7.99 for the movie and £11.97 + £1.45 for Vol. 2.

Vol. 1 isn't listed on Find-DVD. There's a pretty high chance HMV will have the best price by some distance going on the price of Vol. 2, but you might want to check for yourself.

Trigun: Vol.1 - The Sixty Billion Double Dollar Man -- £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £9.99

Vampire Hunter D - £5.99 + 10% QuidCo
Next best = £7.99

God, I feel drained after doing that. Never again! :evil:

I'd just like to mention that HMV are also selling all of Excel Saga for £5.99 each. Didn't list those since the (presumably) M-lock box set is currently cheaper to buy at £32.99, which unsurprisingly is another HMV deal.

All these huge differences in prices conclusively prove 3 things:

1: Anime is retardly over-priced in the UK. There can be no argument when HMV have so much anime lower in price than other stores all at once.

2: HMV are trying to become the UK anime retailer. They'd be godly in my mind if they hadn't cancelled the Gantz box set mis-price on the very last day, somewhere between 1-2 months after ordering.

3: Only the rich and/or stupid are buying anime at the usual prices.

Aionic

Saw these last week... Thought I'd post them to show I'm still posting in this thread.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Season 1 (R1) - £16.46 (Including P&P)

This includes the following DVD's:

Fullmetal Alchemist 1: The Curse
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Scarred Man of the East
Fullmetal Alchemist 3: Equivalent Exchange
Fullmetal Alchemist 4: The Fall of Ishbal

The next best UK price of all of the above is £7.89.

There currently isn't a release date for the UK box set. You can enter your email here if you would like Play.com to let you know when you can pre-order it.

DVD Pacific have lots of good prices, the Anime Legends box sets in particular all being VERY cheap. Not sure if I should order them though, can't find any pictures to see how the box sets look...

Anyway, DVD Pacific also have both Get Backers box sets for £21.29 (Inc P&P). These are excellent prices since Get Backers is a 49 episode series, which would costs £75-77 to buy all the DVD's at current UK prices.

Get Backers: Season 1 (R1)
Get Backers: Season 2 (R1)

Ordered the series 1 box set after being assured by DVD Pacific that they don't include P&P on the parcel.

Aionic

Since I'm such a nice guy, I'm going to share something that will make a fair few people here happy: EVERYTHING IN THE CLEARANCE SECTION AT ADV IS BACK IN STOCK!!! EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

http://www.advfilms.co.uk/acatalog/SPECIAL_OFFERS.html

Madlax 1-7 at £2 each, Angelic Layer 1-7 at £2 each and some other stuff for £1. Hurry!

spuds_2

Thanks to a post from Tune Up on another forum, I ordered some anime dvd's from Animeonline. Never used the company before, but disks came quickly and all sealed. I'm not a big anime tv fan (quite like Studio Ghibli things like Totoro), but I thought they could be good presents. Here is the link:

http://www.anime-on-line.com/xcart/home.php?cat=1083&sort=price&sort_direction=0

According to Tune Up, the best DVD's in this sale are as follows:

Saiyuki Reload: Vol. 1 (99p)
Serial Experiments Lain: Vol. 1 (99p)
Texhnolyze: Vol. 1 (99p)
Gad Guard: Vol. 1 (99p)
Zone of the Enders: Delores - Vol. 1 (99p)

Normal price for each of these is £5-8. Tune Up also recommended Chobits, but that doesn't seem to be in stock at 99p now.

I actually got mine a couple of weeks ago, but thought I had already posted it on Grabbit. Getting old.

larsltd

Thanks for this (and the OP in 'another forum'),

Just got 6 DVD's for £6.94 delivered.... bargain.

Apparantly the offer updates regularly so I have bookmarked to check back periodically.

thanks again.

chuffed :-)

newmommyjen

I got Howls moving castle 2 weeks ago instore at Tesco for £5.
Normally retails 3 times the price.
anime can be so expensive, esp the books and dvds.
good post

spuds_2

I don't know anything about this kind of animation, so any Anime fans feel free to add to the recommendations of the bargain dvds. I wouldn't have bothered if Tune Up hadn't recommended particular ones, as I've never heard of any of them and they all look a bit the same.