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BSLIONS:
I don't know how much they make off of it but a lot of the anime I wanted to watch is on Hulu or Netflix and I subscribe to both. The problem is I only watch one English dubbed anime and I don't want the cut version which is usually what you find on both so I download it.
Lord of Fire:
I buy the occasional licensed DVD or manga, and plenty of figures and other merchandise (such as CDs).
I'd import DVDs directly from japan, but I have a few issues that prevent me from doing so:
- DVDs are expensive (I don't own a Blu-ray player and don't intend on getting one soon)
- Price and shipment costs aside, custom tax can be a real killer. There have been cases where I had to pay almost half of the total price I paid for the DVD itself. And since I don't exactly have a high income, I can't just buy whatever show I want without going bankrupt.
- Most of them aren't subbed. Japan is slowly getting the idea that they could sub their own DVDs and sell them overseas for maximum profit, but it'll probably take years before this really gets significant enough to compete with American licensers.
I'd subscribe to CR, but as long as there's still region blocking on some shows, I'm not going to bother. And I dare not touch Funi's streams, assuming I can actually view them. Furthermore, I want to watch anime whenever I like, without having to visit a streaming site.
Triltaison:
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on May 18, 2013, 07:10:37 AM ---I'm not going to buy movies directly from Japanese producers simply to assuage guilt of not supporting an artist. I'm more than willing to purchase North American releases of movies, box sets of television series, and manga I like. If that doesn't translate into money for its creators that's not my problem.
I don't want streaming either, if I'm paying money I want something I can hold in my hands.
--- End quote ---
This, pretty much.
I buy series that I have an interest in and try to support specific cases, also. When Viz released the first box of Monster in Wal-Mart stores of all places, I made sure to snap that up so it would continue to be made and stocked in a store like that. Apparently not many others did like me since Viz never even finished releasing the series, but at least I put my money where my mouth was for that show. I also try to buy my Nozomi/RightStuf releases directly from their website, and get many of my purchases over the last couple of years directly from Funi, ADV/Sentai, Media Blasters, or whoever at cons.
I probably have too many now according to my barcode listing (way over 800 individually scanned DVDs and VHS, which doesn't include multi-volume box sets and the like), but I've been doing it through the whole boom and bust. I honestly don't really understand not wanting to purchase series you like when they're cheaper and easier to buy than ever before - Gundam Wing cost $200 altogether and Rurouni Kenshin was upwards of $600 when they first came out on DVD. I remember buying the first volume of Outlaw Star for $42 in 2000, and I got the entire series of Casshern: Sins for $15 last week. The subs have gotten better, the dubs have gotten better (we may never see another Garzey's Wing), the prices have gotten better, you can buy stuff in something as easy as Wal Mart instead of sniffing around mail-order catalogs and searching out specialty stores that are willing to order you the movie you want, more series are getting picked up that would have been ignored in the past, and it encourages more of it to get released.
Maybe I'm just old.
EmptyMemory:
https://www.daisuki.net/movies/watch/tBc/sBc
Well, that's pretty cool.
Ruhl:
That's very cool indeed! Damn. Goodbye bakaboxtorrents, thanks for everything.
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