The Great Anime Fansubbing Scare of '07 (Or not)

[PrBlahBlahtson]

Originally Posted by Snowglare

3. Licensed anime comes out at a snail's pace and is prohibitively expensive. $30 for a disc with four episodes on it is no bargain. Even with most series being 12-26 episodes, I'd generally have to spend $100+ to get the whole thing, or wait for every disc to come out, then wait a while longer for a cheaper series boxset to come out. Then wait until someone drops the price on that so it's actually reasonable. And that still leaves the problem of whether the damn thing's worth watching once, let alone multiple times.

That begins and ends my reason for not buying anime in stores. If I felt that it was reasonably priced, that would be one thing, but $30 for four freaking episodes is just taking the money out of my pocket and slapping me with it. I'm not even sure what anime you're buying, because about the tmie I stopped it seemed like it was $30 for THREE episodes.

If they want to make their price a bit more reasonable, we'll talk. Until then, I consider their efforts to steal from me and excuse to steal from them. And somehow I doubt that you can break it down to actually show that they're barely breaking even with that pricing scheme.

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Yes, PrBlahBlahtson just advocated stealing. And it's the only category that I'll do it in, too.