[Official Message] A CLIP BOX 1998-2011 on DVD & Blu-ray (1. January 2012)

[truehappiness]

I think that they hit 100 PVs with FIVE, which is why they're releasing this kind of like how once they hit 50 singles, they released A 50 SINGLES. It's a nice round number to leave off on, but to be honest, this set would be way more expensive if they waited to release it. At least at this point they can cut it off from 2011 to whenever they will release the next one.

If you don't want to buy this and think it's expensive, then don't buy it. No one is forcing you to even THINK of buying it. I mean I doubt many people here actually purchased A 50 SINGLES (a waste, money milking, stupid, etc. were among the many negative things people had to say about it) but that was her highest selling DVD of recent memory.

If she had no money,nobody bought her albums, and nobody went to her concerts i would understand, but this has been released and almost every cd and album of hers. In my opinion this is just to suck money to buyers. And i know that she has direct power to decide wht's released and what's not, so i'm really...disappointed

I think the fact that people buy her albums, go to her concerts, and so on are the reason why they released this. They KNOW people will buy this because it's been in demand for a while and just look at how it's sold out of the Blu-ray Limited Edition already.

I do not think that the Duty "PV" will be included, but it's a possibility. It's possible that the pachinko company owns that footage and Ayu/avex doesn't really own it or care for it.

To break it down, you will get every PV and TV-CM she's released (minus remix ones understandably) in this set in Blu-ray format for 24,150yen. (I will use the suggested retail price since that is what we have for this set.)

In order to get all of this content, you would have to buy the following items (in DVD format):
COMPLETE CLIP BOX - 10,290yen
Memorial address - 3,465yen
MY STORY - 3,990yen
HEAVEN - 1,890yen
(miss)understood - 3,990yen
Secret - 3,990yen
A BEST 2 -BLACK- - 4,700yen
GUILTY - 3,990yen
Mirrorcle World - 1,890yen
NEXT LEVEL - 3,990yen
Rock'n'Roll Circus - 3,990yen
crossroad - 1,890yen
Love songs - 3,990yen
FIVE - 2,940yen

Which totals about 54,995yen.

You're getting the same (video) content as the releases you would have purchased for about half with some more bonuses that you normally would not be able to find in other releases -and- they're Blu-ray discs.

IMO, something like this is inevitable when you're a fan of an artist that lasts for a really long time. The way I think of it is that it's like a really long term version of how singles culminate with albums. Fans buy the singles and just about all of the material on the singles is also on the album that's released a year or two later, but with this it's 13 years in the making.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think the fact that people buy her albums, go to her concerts, and so on are the reason why they released this. They KNOW people will buy this because it's been in demand for a while and just look at how it's sold out of the Blu-ray Limited Edition already.

I do not think that the Duty "PV" will be included, but it's a possibility. It's possible that the pachinko company owns that footage and Ayu/avex doesn't really own it or care for it.

To break it down, you will get every PV and TV-CM she's released (minus remix ones understandably) in this set in Blu-ray format for 24,150yen. (I will use the suggested retail price since that is what we have for this set.)

In order to get all of this content, you would have to buy the following items (in DVD format):
COMPLETE CLIP BOX - 10,290yen
Memorial address - 3,465yen
MY STORY - 3,990yen
HEAVEN - 1,890yen
(miss)understood - 3,990yen
Secret - 3,990yen
A BEST 2 -BLACK- - 4,700yen
GUILTY - 3,990yen
Mirrorcle World - 1,890yen
NEXT LEVEL - 3,990yen
Rock'n'Roll Circus - 3,990yen
crossroad - 1,890yen
Love songs - 3,990yen

Which totals about 52,055yen.

You're getting the same (video) content as the releases you would have purchased for about half with some more bonuses that you normally would not be able to find in other releases -and- they're Blu-ray discs.

IMO, something like this is inevitable when you're a fan of an artist that lasts for a really long time. The way I think of it is that it's like a really long term version of how singles culminate with albums. Fans buy the singles and just about all of the material on the singles is also on the album that's released a year or two later, but with this it's 13 years in the making.

Hmm...that makes good value sense - this might be worth it for Ayu collectors! (But still the price overall prohibits me from buying it personally...)

[AngelSenshi]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

In order to get all of this content, you would have to buy the following items (in DVD format):
COMPLETE CLIP BOX - 10,290yen
Memorial address - 3,465yen
MY STORY - 3,990yen
HEAVEN - 1,890yen
(miss)understood - 3,990yen
Secret - 3,990yen
A BEST 2 -BLACK- - 4,700yen
GUILTY - 3,990yen
Mirrorcle World - 1,890yen
NEXT LEVEL - 3,990yen
Rock'n'Roll Circus - 3,990yen
crossroad - 1,890yen
Love songs - 3,990yen

Which totals about 52,055yen.

And hasn't the FIVE PVs been left out here?! So that price is even higher. That means the cost of this set is even less than half the amount to get all that.


While I admit I can't afford all this, I know well enough that this isn't a bad price considering what we're getting for it. As someone else pointed out, this is the sort of thing aimed at Japanese hardcore fans that are more than used to these sorts of prices for DVD sets of any kind.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by AngelSenshi

And hasn't the FIVE PVs been left out here?! So that price is even higher. That means the cost of this set is even less than half the amount to get all that.


While I admit I can't afford all this, I know well enough that this isn't a bad price considering what we're getting for it. As someone else pointed out, this is the sort of thing aimed at Japanese hardcore fans that are more than used to these sorts of prices for DVD sets of any kind.

Oh whoops, I forgot to add FIVE in there, LOL. I guess for some reason I was unconsciously thinking that people who would buy this would already own FIVE or something. Baaah. The total with FIVE is 54,995yen.