Comments on: Buying Cardcaptor Sakura

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:24:27 +0000

The remaster is worth it if the following conditions are true:

1) You have the cash to afford it, and can spend that kind of money on it. (We’re talking $1,000 here.)

2) You feel justified in spending that amount of money on a 70-episode series.

3) You have no problems with a series in Japanese with no English subtitles.

4) You have a DVD player that can play region 3 DVDs. These will not play on a region one player.

By: Miu

Miu — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:51:03 +0000

Thank you so much for all your reviews~! I’m so happy I found them before I bought a box set–a bootleg. Your pages gave me a lot of info on all the different cardcaptor sakura dvds, and so I’m wondering about getting the remastered version…

Do you think the remastered version is worth it? Because I live in Region 1, and I don’t know if the remastered dvds would play on my dvd player….

Thank you so much~!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:03:11 +0000

Considering there’s a reusable set of subtitles, the only things prohibiting a re-release would be 1) cost of licensing/production, and 2) whether there’s any indication of a return on investment. Unless there was a sudden return/increase of Cardcaptor Sakura in the USA, I wouldn’t imagine a region one release using the remastered DVDs, unfortunately.

By: tambre

tambre — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:54:19 +0000

since they released a remastered version of cardcaptor sakura in japan, do you suppose we’ll be seeing a rerelease in the states? a lot of shows come back around again…. hopefully…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:21:38 +0000

It kind of makes you wish you bought four sets from RightStuf, so you could sell three for $200 each on eBay now, huh? But who could have predicted this scarcity and popularity combined would lead to such prices for the region one subtitled release?

By: Optimus

Optimus — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:29:09 +0000

Thanks for your post! It struck a chord with me as Ive been trawling the web over the past year or so looking for an affordable release of cardcaptor sakura.

Worst of all - I was actually on to the Rightstuf 79.99 offer a while back for the complete 18 DVDs bundle, but decided against getting it as cashflow was bit tight then. Been kicking myself since.

Praying for re-release…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:20:54 +0000

At $400, 70 episodes is under $6 an episode, which is about the high end of what I typically pay. I go for box sets when I can. I do agree that $400 is reasonable for Cardcaptor Sakura, but prices will only increase from here on, unless someone in the industry wises up and licenses a re-release. What I found interesting about the Japanese remastered box sets, which I pointed out as being upwards of $1,000 (try calling that reasonable ;) is that if you were to buy the original release Japanese DVDs one by one, they remastered box sets are actually the cheaper way to go! I've read about Japanese DVDs being meant for collectors, not for casual buyers. My jaw hit the flow when I saw the prices for Ojamajo Doremi DVD box sets. I've since seen the prices of the Saint Tail and Princess Tutu releases in Japan, and it's outrageous. On a level of comparison between $400 for the region one Cardcaptor Sakura DVDs and the Japanese DVDs, $400 is a drop in the bucket. For the collector, though, you can't argue with the quality of the remasters. For the price of the remasters, they should pile in all the OST CDs...

By: Wonderduck

Wonderduck — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:17 +0000

Considering the quality of the show, $390 isn’t unreasonable… it’s one of the best anime series ever, to be frank, and $22/DVD is actually quite comparable to the prices for new shows.

Of course, I got my copy of the Nelvana set from Rightstuf.com when they were selling it at $90, so take that for what it’s worth. Unfortunately, that deal is no longer available (indeed, when I jumped on it Rightstuf was so low on stock that they actually had to get some of the DVDs for it from amazon).

I understand about low cashflow. If you had to get one series, though, you’d do a lot worse than CCS.