RACS NEWS & UPDATES
Greetings Fellow Otakus From Anime Corner World Headquarters!
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January 28th, 2022 | Issue # 1723
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RACS NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE - SAVE 10%!! |
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The weather outside of frightful, but the fire
is so delightful. Because there's simply no
place to go, lets watch some Anime
and let it snow, let it snow, let is snow!
This weekend only RACS newsletter subscribers can save an additional 10% off any IN STOCK order over $123! Just use the following
coupon at checkout:
WINTERWONDERLAND
This offer includes pretty much EVERYTHING we carry as long as it's showing in stock at the time of your order. The more you purchase the more you save, so be sure to take advantage of this great opportunity to load up on some of the Anime stuff you've had your eye on!
Valid for new orders of 'STOCKING' items only. Offer not valid for pre-order items and cannot be combined with FREESHIP or any other discount or coupon offers.
Expires at midnight EST on February 3rd, so don't wait!!
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Store News and Tab Clearing |
STORE NEWS and TAB CLEARING
It looks like we might get a couple inches of snow again tonight, but up the coast just North and East of us from Chesapeake to New York to Boston it looks like they are gonna get slammed. Like maybe 1 or 2 feet of snow. Yikes. Everyone in the storm zone - be prepared, take care and stay safe this weekend! ;-)
So far we have managed to avoid much staff downtime due to COVID. No one on the RACS crew has caught COVID as of yet, but we have had sporadic staff shortages due to quarantines because of family members being infected. Knock on wood. If it's of interest to anyone, we keep up with the pandemic situation via Dr. John Campbell's daily video updates, which are data rich and entirely non-partisan. Very good stuff.
Even though things seem to go out of stock right now as fast as restocks come in, we are making headway and continue to fill backorders for previously out of stock items at a furious pace. In fact, we have sent out quite a few backorder shipments again this week. So be on the lookout for an RACS parcel to arrive soon in your mailbox with something you've been waiting for!
Sentai announced their April slate this week, which includes the standard edition Food Wars! The Fifth Plate BLURAY. Just a heads up, there will be a Premium Edition box for the fifth installment of Food Wars coming down the pike, probably sometime this summer. We'll post it for pre-order once Sentai announces a date.
We completed shipping pre-orders for the Interspecies Reviewers Steelbook BLURAYs (Adult) this week, so those should be arriving in your mailbox soon if not already. If anyone wants to know what this beefy set actually looks like, I had the crew snap a couple of pictures of the one that they have set aside for me: |
And finally, we added an additional pre-owned section to the store this week for Non-Anime live action films and video releases, and have started to curate some hand picked items into it for you to peruse, so make sure to check that out!
NEW LICENSES
Kodansha Comics announced on Wednesday new manga titles that will debut in print in this fall:
Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
Falling Drowning
Fungus and Iron
Lightning and Romance
The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch
Sakura's Dedication
Parasyte Full Color Collection 1
Be Very Afraid of Inuki Kanako
Is Love the Answer?
Sentai Filmworks announced that it has licensed director Pierre Itō's Period of the Mouseman, Kenda Master Ken, and World, Before You End short anime films. The company will release the anime on home video in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavian and Nordic Countries, Spain, Portugal, Central America, and South America.
IN THE NEWS
An interesting price fixing case involving Amazon has popped up in the news this week. Here is a snippet from the ATG WA GOV site:
"Amazon targeted a small fraction of the millions of third-party sellers on its platform to join the “Sold by Amazon” program. Amazon kept the program small as an experiment then slowly began to request more sellers join as it evolved.
Ferguson asserted Amazon enticed sellers into the “Sold by Amazon” program by guaranteeing that they would receive at least an agreed upon minimum payment for sales of their consumer goods in exchange for their agreement to stop competing with Amazon for the pricing of their products. Consequently, if sales exceeded the negotiated minimum payment, Amazon and its competitors split the surplus proceeds amongst themselves. For example, if a seller and Amazon agreed to a $20 minimum payment and the item sold for $25, the seller would receive the $20 minimum price and share the $5 additional profit with Amazon, in addition to any fees.
The “Sold by Amazon” program resulted in prices for some products increasing when Amazon programmed its pricing algorithm to match the prices that certain external retailers offer to online consumers. As a result, when prices increased, some sellers experienced a marked decline in the sales and resulting profits from products enrolled in the program. Faced with price increases, online customers sometimes opted to buy Amazon’s own branded products — particularly its private label products. This resulted in Amazon maximizing its own profits regardless of whether consumers paid a higher price for sales of products enrolled in the “Sold by Amazon” program or settled for buying the same or similar product offered through Amazon.
Prices for the vast majority of the remaining products enrolled in the “Sold by Amazon” program stabilized at artificially high levels. This is because Amazon programmed its pricing algorithm to maintain the seller’s pre-enrollment price as the price floor. This meant participating sellers had limited, if any, ability to lower the price of their products without withdrawing the product’s enrollment in the Sold by Amazon program."
Amazon, of course, said these were unintended consequences and 'voluntarily' ended the program. ;-)
Crunchyroll announced that the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film will open with English subtitles and with an English dub in the U.S. and Canada on March 18. The film will launch in over 1,500 theaters, as well as in IMAX theaters. Tickets will go on sale on February 25. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer here.
DELAYS & DATE CHANGES
WAS - Feb 1, 2022
WAS - Mar 1, 2022
WAS - Mar 8, 2022
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If you haven't noticed yet, we've added a previously owned section to the store site. That section keeps getting bigger and bigger, and I just wanted to give you folks the inside scoop. Everything we add there is a (1) unit only proposition, so be sure to check back often to make sure you don't miss out on anything cool we might just drop in there!
[PRE OWNED] Amazing Spiderman Steelbook 3D/BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Big Hero 6 Steelbook BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Dark Knight Trilogy Boxed Set BLURAY [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Divergent Steelbook BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Divergent Series: Insurgent Steelbook 3D/BD/DVD [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Gods of Egypt Steelbook 3D/BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Gone Girl BLURAY [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey Extended BLURAY [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug Extended BLURAY [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Hunger Games : Catching Fire Steelbook BLURAY [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 1 Steelbook BD/DVD [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 2 Steelbook BD/DVD [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Jack Ryan Special Edition Collection (The Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger/The Sum of All Fears) DVD Boxed Set [GRADE 6]
[PRE OWNED] Jurassic World Round Tin 3D/BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Lion King (Live Action) Steelbook 4K UHD/2K BLURAY [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Maze Runner Steelbook BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Maze Runner : Scorch Trials Steelbook BD/DVD [GRADE 8]
[PRE OWNED] Star Wars Trilogy (A New Hope / The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi) DVD Boxed Set [GRADE 7]
[PRE OWNED] Wrath of the Titans Steelbook 3D/BD/DVD Combo [GRADE 8]
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Tempers flare, surprise ingredients abound, and someone's sure to get burned in most heated cook off of all in the fifth and possibly final season of Food Wars!
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RACS Collectors Cards - Now Shipping!
We are very glad to hear so much positive feedback regarding our new batch of RACS collectors cards. There are 10 cards in all, each featuring a unique piece of Anime art created exclusively around our group of RACS spokes characters. You can't order the cards, we are including one card at random in all outgoing RACS store orders. We have printed a limited run of 5,000 of each card, and we hope this gives everyone a chance to collect them all. Good luck!
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Fund Your Anime Habit with BitCoin @ RACS! |
You can now use BitCoin to satisfy your Anime addiction here at RACS, and it's easy! Just select BITCOIN as your payment method when you checkout. We will process your order and calculate the amount based on the current exchange rate for BTC and send you an e-mail with the amount of due and the wallet address to send it to. Once we confirm transfer of your funds, we will process and ship your order. It's easy, and you can fund your order in BitCoin from anywhere in the world without all those high bank fees or exchange rate woes. Many of our customers already buy their Anime this way, so why not give it a try!
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Amazon Gift Codes? - You Can Use em @RACS!! |
If you have an Amazon gift card or code (or codes), and you want to use them here at the Anime Corner Store instead, don't worry - you can! The process is simple - just setup and place your order, and while you are checking out, drop the Amazon code (or codes) you want to use in the comments box on the order form along with the amounts next to each code that you want to use. Then finalize and place your order. Once it's done, we'll manually apply the codes to your order on our end and only bill your credit card for the balance left over after we deduct them.
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*** ANIME BD/DVD - NEW ARRIVALS!! ***
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In a world bursting at the seams with moe monsters and
humanoids of the horned sort...
...which brave heroes will take it upon themselves to review the
beastly babes of the red-light district? Behold the
most tantalizing of trials...
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After dying in his sleep, Ryoma is reincarnated by three divine beings into a world of magic. Now he spends his time there researching and caring for slimes.
But after healing an injured traveler, Ryoma and his slimes decide to set out and use his power to help others.
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Half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna reunite after ten years to discover that they are the daughters of the great demon Sesshomaru.
Joined by Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome, the girls set out on a journey to regain their missing past.
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Armed with the power of science,
high school genius Senku has awoken himself and his friends from their petrified state. While they’ve escaped the stone-cold eye of Tsukasa, Senku must leave his friends to find new allies and grow the Kingdom of Science. Although his new friends might be human,they’re certainly not from his time.
Get excited—the road to saving humanity is paved in stone
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Average 37-year-old Minami Satoru dies
and is reincarnated as the most unremarkable creature imaginable—a slime. Initially, things are pretty grim. He’s blind, deaf, and weak. But by combining his two special abilities, “Predator” and “Great Sage”...
...the newly named, Rimuru Tempest, will use his blobby powers to gain both friends and foes alike in a diverse new world.
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When four hardworking friends pair up to chase their dream of becoming
professional stand-up comedians, they quickly find out that being funny is seriously difficult!
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Peer into the dark once more, the Black Swordsman roars again! |
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*** MANGA & BOOK - NEW ARRIVALS!! ***
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NEW BOOKS & MANGA IN STOCK:
FEATURED NEW ARRIVAL:
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Haruka is just your average high school loner, minding his own business and keeping to himself as he makes it through his high school career, until one day—he's suddenly sent to another world alongside the rest of his class!
Before he knows it, he’s face-to-face with the god of this new world, who presents him with a list of cheat skills to choose from…but there’s a catch. It’s first come first served, and his classmates have already beaten him to the punch.
Haruka has to make do with what he can get as he navigates his way through this brave new world, all while flying solo!
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Upcoming Anime Figurines:
February Slate Coming Soon!
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Trade In Your BDs, DVDs, CDs, Manga, or Games - IT'S EASY! |
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Did you know that you can trade in your previously viewed BD's and DVD's, CD's, Manga, and Video Games for store credit? |
Trading in your excellent condition previously owned stuff for credit is now very easy, and we've even expanded the program for some non-Anime items too! Just click on this link to see the trade in values of your used stuff, then pack-up your items and send them to us - there is no need to contact us first or obtain an authorization number. Once they arrive and are inspected, we'll e-mail you with a credit code you can spend on our store.
It's that easy! So why just let your stuff collect dust? Trade it in and get something you really want!
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Thank you for reading! Have a great weekend, and enjoy your anime! |
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