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A Crunchy-Test Complete
Steady complaints about now having to order anime from the Crunchyroll Store in the place of Right Stuf accumulated on message boards to the point of me very much contemplating trying to buy from some new alternative. The problem was that a great deal of the anime I buy nowadays is from Discotek, and their Blu-Rays aren’t available from a lot of places. So far as “big companies don’t care” goes, ordering from Amazon seems just about as dubious as ordering from a subsidiary of Sony. I do know Discotek titles are now being listed at “Robert’s Anime Corner Store,” a site with a distinct “Web 1.0” vibe to it, but there I fear I might have had to confront the thought that it’s one thing to disdain “a big company” and another to be uncertain (if also perhaps just altogether wrong through having noticed the wrong comments) about the personalities at small companies. There was also that extra bit of uncertainty as to whether an order from this store actually meant “just a bit less money going to a big company.”
For all of that, I was just about ready to try that new leap when the holiday sales at the Crunchyroll Store, now working through the Discotek catalogue, included the new and fully-high definition release of Cyber City Oedo 808. That OVA just happens to have been what was playing when I stepped into one of my university’s anime club showings for the first time, although it took me twenty-five years to get around to watching the rest of that first episode. I braced myself in a new way and made an order, although in resolving to try some preorders as well I wound up with quite a bit of anime.
Not even bothering to see what shipping across the border now amounted to, I resorted to the coded address of the middleman service I had happened on a pointer to when, in the last days of Right Stuf, they hadn’t been able to offer free cross-border shipping at any threshold. That left me wondering, after some “did you mean this?” prompting from this new store, if I’d got the address just right. As it turned out, my order wound up being broken up with Cyber City Oedo shipping by itself, which meant both being charged more fees from the middleman service and not having to wait quite as long for confirmation one way or another.
USPS tracking declared the package had been picked up, and then a few nervous days passed before a notice arrived from the middleman service. I filled out the online forms, paid my fees, and at last I had the chance to pick up the package myself. One of the first things I saw was that my account code hadn’t got on the shipping label, which worried me for a while concerning the rest of this order before I was able to check the service’s site and see the real problem resulting in penalty charges seems to be missing both the code and your own name. Maybe I haven’t altogether stepped into a new era, but I’ve taken a first step.
For all of that, I was just about ready to try that new leap when the holiday sales at the Crunchyroll Store, now working through the Discotek catalogue, included the new and fully-high definition release of Cyber City Oedo 808. That OVA just happens to have been what was playing when I stepped into one of my university’s anime club showings for the first time, although it took me twenty-five years to get around to watching the rest of that first episode. I braced myself in a new way and made an order, although in resolving to try some preorders as well I wound up with quite a bit of anime.
Not even bothering to see what shipping across the border now amounted to, I resorted to the coded address of the middleman service I had happened on a pointer to when, in the last days of Right Stuf, they hadn’t been able to offer free cross-border shipping at any threshold. That left me wondering, after some “did you mean this?” prompting from this new store, if I’d got the address just right. As it turned out, my order wound up being broken up with Cyber City Oedo shipping by itself, which meant both being charged more fees from the middleman service and not having to wait quite as long for confirmation one way or another.
USPS tracking declared the package had been picked up, and then a few nervous days passed before a notice arrived from the middleman service. I filled out the online forms, paid my fees, and at last I had the chance to pick up the package myself. One of the first things I saw was that my account code hadn’t got on the shipping label, which worried me for a while concerning the rest of this order before I was able to check the service’s site and see the real problem resulting in penalty charges seems to be missing both the code and your own name. Maybe I haven’t altogether stepped into a new era, but I’ve taken a first step.