Baccano! was released on Blu-ray in Japan, in both English and Japanese, with English and Japanese subtitles, and Aniplex imported those discs and repackaged them for the US market. They sell comparatively small numbers to a niche within a niche audience, those who will pay a premium for the shows that they really want, and where selling just a few hundred copies is still enough to turn a profit. It’s a compromise to cater for the Japanese idea of a show’s value, a seemingly fair balance. Aniplex US do premium releases of anime, selling at prices that make Western anime fans feel faint, but still look ridiculously cheap to Japanese fans. Baccano! is an anime of the old school, in that it is animated in SD resolution, but when I heard that Aniplex US was re-releasing the show on Blu-ray, I was more than interested.
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