Anime Industry in Decline?

Originally Posted by Tritoch

Last week I rented disc 1 of Gurren Lagann from Netflix, and not only did it have no dub, but the sub had several blatant spelling mistakes too (plast instead of past). A friend said that the lack of dub was a money issue, but even so why would I pay $20 for what equates to a mediocre fansub?

There is a dub, it's just on a separate DVD for some reason. Because apparently Bandai thinks we're back in the days of VHS when you had to choose between the two.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

How does that work exactly? My friend was saying they released subbed-only first to gauge interest and then released the discs with dubs. I was confused since I'd already seen a few dubbed episodes on SciFi channel a few months ago, so I knew they existed.

I'm not even sure what their thought process was, since the dub started airing on SciFi at about the same the subtitled-only DVDs came out. That means the dub was ready in time to be on the discs, and gauging interest would be kinda pointless if they already spent the money to dub it anyway.

There's nowhere I can't reach.