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Mag-X:
I generally don't puchase domestic DVDs. Why pay good money for dumbed down translations, standard definition video, and a dub I'll never watch?

When it comes to buying online, I've purchased mainly from animeniacs.com. Their "imports" section is mostly bootlegs. I haven't purchased anything in a few years though.

...and as to why anyone would purchase bootlegs? Well, I have a ton of them. My parents refused to upgrade to broad band internet until the last year and a half I lived with them. When they finally upgraded, they got 512K DSL. DVDs traveling by USPS are faster than 512K DSL.

CHMakoto:
I try to buy US released versions even if I already have a good version since I think that I should, as much as possible, encourage US releases.  I'll admit that has gotten me some pretty poor material on occasion, but such is life.  I'm well past being a student, so funding my obsession isn't as tough as when I was one.  I tend to use Amazon or Rightstuf for online buys mostly.

I luckily live near Japantown in San Francisco and there is a pretty good video store, Japan Video, there where I've bought several of the series I have.  They have a pretty good selection and don't limit themselves to dubbed.  Nice Hentai :o section as well.  The Kinokuniya Bookstore has a whole floor of manga with a pretty decent English section.  If you're ever in SF or live nearby, check them out.  There's a food spot in the Mall which sells pretty authentic taiyaki.

HazukiChan:
As mentioned by many above -Rightstuf .
They have very good deals in the Bargain bin and even though it said they may have scratches and dents, the stuff I have bought has been just like new. 

$6 for a anime dvd is money well spent-burgers can run more ;D

Scudworth:
Vancouver has a pretty big Asian populous so it's not hard to find a Sakura Media store around here. They have anime, manga, anime themed bags and other crap.
right now they're selling some very cute Fruits Basket plush characters though.

Havoc10K:
hate to admit but l rarely buy anime or mangas, in my country it's not very popular, but it becomes popular slowly with the help of cartoon channels like Cartoon Network and Jetix (formerly FoxKids) wich airs some of the anime but nothing special, there are sites l can purchase anime from and the money goes to the makers l think, mostly at least, but there isn't much of a selection so l am forced to download and burn, sigh, l'd blow up my government for making a raid on Dragon Ball Z episode where bulma shows off her breasts, they pretty much banned anime/manga, altough banned is not the term, they made it evil, so most parents don't fucking know what actually happened, funny thing we made a raid on raiders and used their own clip to bann them, they showed a bookshelf of some bitches son who had the DBZ manga with that scene, and she trashed it live, what we DID see also on that shelf was no other than Bible Black DVD set XD we rofled at that stupid bitch on the internet, and the raid stopped, but still, anime and mangas arent as popular in my country but there are cons and ppl do go to em, the yarent as big as in other countries due to lack of goods. also l blame translation to our language cuz sometimes l saw so mistakes l couldn't fucking watch the anime anymore and had to DL from internet >.<

so there is my story, can't buy good stuff cuz there isn't much to buy from what l don't have already.

l once asked if the company l bought from (they also make translations witch are good l think) if they are gonna release Spice and Wolf and some other titles, the yreplied that they cannot untill it is licenced, so fuck em :P

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