[JP] Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari / Akage no Anne / Perrine Monogatari DVD-Boxes

[WTK]

Three series from World Masterpiece Theater are getting DVD-Boxes this December.

Amazon Japan links below:
Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008YRZJJI) (Little Women) - 48 eps., 15750yen, 12/21
Akage no Anne (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008YS1AN6) (Anne of Green Gables) - 50 eps., 15750yen, 12/21
Perrine Monogatari (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008YRYSRW) (The Perrine Story) - 53 eps., 15750yen, 12/21

(sources: 1 (http://product.bandaivisual.co.jp/web_service/shop_product_info.asp?item_no=BCBA-4429) / 2 (http://product.bandaivisual.co.jp/web_service/shop_product_info.asp?item_no=BCBA-4428) / 3 (http://product.bandaivisual.co.jp/web_service/shop_product_info.asp?item_no=BCBA-4427))

[MacrossForever]

Akage no Anne did have a previous DVD box (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E8%B5%A4%E6%AF%9B%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3-DVD%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E 3%83%9C%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E5%86%8D%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9-%E9%AB%98%E7%95%91-%E5%8B%B2/dp/B0016GISMO/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1345547328&sr=1-3) released on 22 August 2008 with a re-press version on 27 July 2010, 4 months before the Alps no Shoujo Heidi HD remaster DVD box. It was the same price and used similar packaging to the Tom Sawyer box. It is OOP now. I've been waiting for a cheap box since the singles were dropped to 1890yen each, the box will be an even cheaper way to finally buy the series. I will buy the other two as well. Now if only Bandai would release a cheap Peter Pan no Bouken box...

Edit: Having just looked at the pages on the BV site, I see that all 3 are listed as single layer discs. A damn shame BV could not do new encodes on dual layer discs and reduced the disc count, but they are cheap boxes after all. They've been using the same discs for every release of these series for 10+ years now, it's very cheap of them. I am guessing the 5 episode discs in each series are in fact dual layer still.