Talk:Rebirth of Mothra/@comment-4600455-20160425171705/@comment-24277243-20160425181023

What really sucks about the early 2000's Rebirth of Mothra releases (as well as most Heisei Godzilla movie releases at the time) is that they suffer from the "Japanese to American" DVD curse that was going around at the time.

Due to the insanely high prices of Japanese media, most Japanese collectors buy American releases of DVD's (as they are, funnily enough, cheaper). To combat this, most Japanese companies allowed English distributers to release their films, but only on the condition that they don't release it with a Japanese audio track. This is why most anime releases only had an English audio track.

Thankfully we've mostly gotten past this trend, but Japanese products are still extremely expensive.