Your Name Steelbook Is $36.14 Live — Frankenstein Criterion Pre-Order Hits $45.99
Live Amazon today: Your Name. limited-edition 4K steelbook is $36.14 in stock (catalog still $39.99; list $49.98). Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Criterion 4K is $45.99 pre-order for Oct 27 (matches catalog; list $59.95). About $9.85 apart. I would take Your Name now unless you are collecting that Criterion spine.
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Verdict: The Your Name. Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray is the disc you can put on the shelf tonight. The Frankenstein Criterion Collection 4K UHD is Guillermo del Toro's take, a pre-order that ships around October 27, 2026. Live Amazon today, September 11, 2026: Your Name at $36.14 (list $49.98, about 28% off; our catalog still shows $39.99) and Frankenstein Criterion at $45.99 (list $59.95, about 23% off; catalog matches). About $9.85 apart. I would keep the $9.85 and take Your Name now unless Criterion is the point.
I watch at home in Austin. I am not posting a bitrate chart or an HDR meter reading. I am asking whether nearly ten dollars and a Criterion pre-order beat an in-stock Makoto Shinkai steelbook for a Friday night on the couch.
What it is
The Your Name. steelbook is a limited-edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray of the anime feature (PG). Live buy box is $36.14, in stock, ships from and sold by Amazon.com. List $49.98. Our catalog card is still $39.99 — use the live $36.14. Amazon's review blob is roughly 3.7 from about 30 ratings, not the perfect 5.0 our catalog card showed from two ratings. Treat that blob as thin. Confirm the limited-edition steelbook line on the buy box before you click.
The Frankenstein Criterion is the Criterion Collection 4K UHD of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (R), starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi — not a random Universal TV rip. Live and catalog both $45.99 against $59.95. This is a pre-order with a street date around October 27, 2026. Criterion is the transfer package, the extras, and the spine — not a metal case. Different product language for the same living-room job: put a disc in and sit down.
I am not comparing these as the same SKU family. One is an in-stock limited anime steelbook. One is a Criterion pre-order of a 2026 gothic remake. The compare is "what is $9.85 and six weeks of waiting buying you on the shelf."
Who it's for
Buy Your Name at $36.14 if you want the limited edition on the shelf this week and a 4K+Blu-ray disc night. Gift for someone who already streams it and still wants the object. First "steelbook-looking" case for a small collection. The $49.98 list is a real-looking crossed-out number; $36.14 is the price I am using.
Buy Frankenstein Criterion at $45.99 if you collect Criterion spines or you specifically want del Toro's director-approved 4K package (theatrical + Reborn Cut on the listing copy). If the Criterion logo is why you clicked, do not cheap out into a random Frankenstein disc. Confirm the Collection line and the October street date before you pre-order.
Who should skip
Skip Your Name if you only stream and you do not want another case on the shelf. Skip it if your player will not do 4K and you already own a cheap Blu-ray. Skip it if the case-quality complaints below are a dealbreaker for you.
Skip Frankenstein if you do not care about Criterion and you just wanted "a Frankenstein movie," or if you are not willing to wait until late October. Skip both if your weekend plan is already a subscription queue and the discs will sit unopened.
Honest nits
- Case quality on Your Name. Several Amazon reviewers say the case does not stay closed, and a few call it hard plastic that looks like steel rather than a true steelbook. I have not opened a unit in Austin. I am flagging the complaint pattern, not inventing a hinge test.
- Catalog drift. Our Your Name card still shows $39.99. Live Amazon is $36.14. Frankenstein matches at $45.99. Always confirm the live buy box.
- Pre-order vs in stock. Your Name ships now. Frankenstein is a pre-order into late October. That wait is part of the price.
- Tiny rating blobs on our cards. Catalog showed perfect 5.0s from a handful of ratings. Live Your Name is closer to 3.7 / ~30. That is still thin data. I am not pretending otherwise.
- Different jobs. A limited anime steelbook and a Criterion del Toro disc are not substitutes the way two meat thermometers are. The $9.85 gap is real money only if you already wanted one of these titles.
- I will not fake a transfer shootout. Criterion's reputation for transfers is why that card costs what it costs. The Your Name card's reputation is the limited packaging. Different nits.
Value verdict
Buy Your Name if you wanted the limited edition and a disc night this week. Buy Frankenstein Criterion if the spine, the Reborn Cut package, and the October street date are the point. Buy neither if you were going to stream both anyway and the shelf is already full.
Worth the extra ~$9.85 and the wait over Your Name for Frankenstein? Only if Criterion + del Toro is why you opened Amazon. Otherwise take Your Name at $36.14 and keep the change for popcorn.
Compare
Live catalog cards, September 11, 2026: compare the Your Name steelbook and Frankenstein Criterion.
Live Amazon prices checked September 11, 2026. Catalog cards may lag. Confirm the live seller, edition, and street date before you buy.
Products in This Review
Your Name. - Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Rural schoolgirl Mitsuha and city kid Taki awaken to discover that they've switched bodies. The total strangers struggle to navigate each other's lives, walking tightropes of intimacy and distance. But when they finally resolve to meet, the true nature of their connection threatens to seal their fate.
Frankenstein The Criterion Collection
Guillermo del Toro’s spellbinding take on one of the most enduring of all modern myths, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, imbues the classic tale with new depths of humanity while pushing it toward dazzling heights of gothic grandeur. Shifting between the perspectives of the brilliant but callous Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) and the creature (Jacob Elordi) he fashions from flesh and then cruelly mistreats, del Toro movingly reframes the legend as a story of fathers and sons struggling to break free from cycles of trauma. A decades-in-the-making triumph of darkly ravishing visual invention and operatic storytelling, Frankenstein is a deeply personal statement from a director who has long been drawn to the realm where men and monsters merge.DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES