As for the DRRR, Aniplex of America only ported the Japanese blu-ray discs for the DRRR bluray set. The DVDs they did in house at Aniplex of America/Bang Zoom. The fault lies with their parent company, Aniplex of Japan, for not using sign subtitles on the BD release over there (it does have the dub and a sub track) when they were present on the AoA DVDs. It's cheaper to author and port the discs from Japan than author and replicate them here. Bakemonogatari's BD box set in Japan and ours are virtually the same, same file names and content on disc, just with subs thrown on. Madoka Magica's blu-rays are just copy-pasted onto a blu-ray disc here, they had 2 eps per disc over there. It's pretty much the same thing. I think you can't really blame them on blu-rays since they are just using AoJ's discs in every single circumstance. Just cheaper and easier to do. But hey, please keep blaming Aniplex of America for saving money and giving us premium Japanese quality releases every single time. It's hilarious to watch and observe as you grasp at means to bash them.

@themp3000 See, that's where you're wrong on a few things.

The bluray discs were NOT imported from Japan. They were pressed here in America. How do I know this? Because there is a sticker on the box that plainly says "Made in the U.S.A."

Now, it is true that they did use the same image file as the Japanese release, but this is much more of a hindrance than anything. Considering that it is an American-made product being produced predominantly for an English-speaking audience, there is absolutely no reason on this earth why they shouldn't have spent the extra time creating their own image file for the American release, with the on-screen text track (that had already been produced for the DVDs) added on.

It's funny that you mention the words "cheap and easy" in your defense of AoA, because in my mind, if they're going to charge us $150 for a SINGLE SHOW, then I don't want cheap and easy. For that price, I expect no less than absolute perfection. For that price, I expect Henry Goto & co. to get off their lazy asses and put out a quality release where I won't have to manually turn the subtitles on and off just so I can understand the conversation Izaya and Simon are having in Russian. The fact that they are taking the "cheap and easy" route and yet charging us three times as much as your typical FUNimation/Sentai release shows an IMMENSE level of laziness, lack of effort, and greed on Aniplex's part, and is pretty much a giant slap in the face to anyone wanting to watch the English dub of the series. It is a MAJOR design flaw in the bluray's production, and there is no excuse, NO EXCUSE, NO EXCUSE why it shouldn't be there!! I'm not the only one who feels this way either. Many people have tried to e-mail AoA's customer service about the issue, but as of yet no one from the company has returned a single response. Instead, they try to placate us with a cheaply assembled lunchbox that isn't even big enough to hold a standard-sized thermos in.

Meanwhile, FUNimation is offering us Lain in a bluray/DVD combo pack with a nice chipboard box and two art booklets, one of which is so big you can crack walnuts with it. It even has translated on-screen text, too. And they're giving us all of this for around 50 bucks. For that price, I can tolerate a little bit of banding.

Also, I'm not grasping for reasons to hate Aniplex. They're giving me spades and spades of reasons to work with already. The only reason they're still in business is because "LOLMADOKA", because other than that many of their other releases have sold pretty pathetically. Henry Goto still hasn't learned his lesson from when he was running Pioneer/Geneon, and it's only a matter of time until history repeats itself and the same thing happens to AoA.