It’s been something like a month since I last put up an anime credits post, but it’s mostly because I forget about it. I’m either tired or am so ready for the weekend that it slips my mind. I’ll try to renew that this week, though I said that to myself last week and the week before too…
On another topic, I’ve had a subscription with Netflix for a while renting anime from them. The problem with renting anime from a single place is that, while they may have most things, there is no guarantee that they’ll have every series, or every disc of every series. While I haven’t run into that yet with Netflix with what I’ve rented, I know that there are some series on there that are incomplete.
To begin with, I remedied that situation by having a 1-disc subscription to Rent Anime. I got tired of that when it took basically 9 or 10 days for a disc to go roundtrip. So I switched back to blockbuster and signed up for their 1-disc plan. After all, Blockbuster ant Netflix combined pretty much covers most everything.
Of course, I saw “switched back” because I had originally been with Blockbuster before going to Netflix. Why I ultimately left was because their discs were always arrived later than they said they should (that’s rarely been a problem with Netflix) and they had a bad problem of not sending the discs at the top of your queue, even if it said they were available.
I thought that, since they’ve kind of tried to re-do their image and integrated their online store at least a little more into their traditional stores, that maybe things had changed. Alas, they apparently have not. While it typically takes 2 days for a Netflix disc from Richmond to get here, it has taken no shorter than 3 days for a Blockbuster disc from the same city to get to me. Also, they sent the last disc to me over, I believe, two other discs ahead of it, despite the fact that both discs were labeled as available now. I’ve never had that problem with Blockbuster.
Look, it’s cool that you get monthly coupons for free movies and can take the envelopes back for free movies at the store, and the like, but that deal becomes less appealing if they aren’t even going to send me what I most want to see on their online list.
