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ikillchicken
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If I understand you correctly, you're saying you buy nothing at all right now. If so, then clearly even if you buy a few DVD sets for now and then never watch anime again, that would still be an improvement over what you're contributing now. If you buy nothing, you are valueless to the industry. Better you buy a few sets and then disappear forever. |
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Dark Paladin X
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Well, streamed anime in legal sites are usually there for those who are unable to afford buying anime. However, they do take those episodes down eventually to encourage the viewer to buy the actual product. Not to mention, many of these anime episodes are usually censored because it's there for public viewing. spoiler[Case in point, the ending of School Days where Makoto and Sekai gets their bloody deaths are censored at Crunchyroll].
However, there are some few concerns in regards to taking down anime series that haven't gotten licensed for R1 DVD distribution. Most of the episodes of Sketchbook ~full Color'S~ (something I wanted to rewatch) were taken down about two months ago and Crunchyroll never gave a reason why they did so. As for the DVD prices, if you are referring to buying in volumes, that would be even more expensive than buying in complete collection. Compare trying to buy the DVD volumes of the third season of Bleach to buying that third season in a complete collection. You'll realize that you will end up saving a LOT more money if you go for the complete collection ($40 in complete collection vs $200+ if buying in volumes). |
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Kruszer
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As do I, legal and free is better than illegal and free with a small chance of criminal prosecution. 
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garfield15
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Uh, that wasn't censored, they just only put the censored version that aired on TV. Not the uncensored DVD version. |
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RHachicho
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JohnCasey wrote :
I don't get it how is it elitist to assume that someone is intelligent enough to pull a prank rather than stupid enough to ask a silly question? And don't give me .. maybe he dousn't know he should be paying for Anime. Seriously if people can't work that out they are just thick. |
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KanjiiZ
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Dude, I wasn't aware of anime DVDs until I walked into a Best Buy when I heard about it on the Anime Network. I thought the only way for me to watch anime was on youtube. Say what you will about my intelligence, I didn't know that I should be paying for that stuff.
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Kruszer
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Well, then don't mind the hecklers and chalk it up to learning something which is always a worthy endeavor.
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RHachicho
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I am slightly flabberghasted by that. I mean surely working out that such a production takes alot of man hours and that those man hours need to be paid for is simple common sense? who in the world would do so much work for free? I can understand if you are like 8 or something but otherwise there really is no excuse lol. And no I am not trying to insult you or start a fight I am simply genuinely shocked that someone can be so ignorant of how the world works. |
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Soundmonkey44
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well its as they say ignorance is bliss. But yea, its amazing these days what people do & don't know at times. But getting back on topic, hopefully the closing of illegal Anime & manga streams & scans will get more people off their lazy rears, and get them to SUPPORT the thing they love, instead of mooching off of it.
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garfield15
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You serious? |
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Ryujin99
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I admit that I've watch fansubs in the past, but as with many other people that was when there were fewer and more limited channels of watching a show legally. Far as I can tell there're hardly any series worth watching this season that aren't being legally streamed or licensed.
So I'm glad to hear about an illegal site getting shot down. More power to the legal channels and more power to license more series in Japan. By the way... I can sort of understand how someone (under 15 roughly) could be unaware that there is a lot of anime on DVD since the few brick and mortar stores that sell it usually have a pretty limited selection. It's still pretty pathetic... but it also goes to show that licensing companies could do to work in a little more publicity. Though I also realize that commercials cost money, so it's sort of a sticky situation... |
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ZakuAce
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ROFL that's actually really funny. I didn't know what fansubs were until I visited the Anime Network forum. |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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I have serious doubts about this being a legitimate query - why create an account here (with a rather random name), where this topic is such a hot-button issue, just to ask this question rather than just posting on the site in question or somewhere like anniemaysookie?
I'm sincerely hoping that was sarcasm, although for a lot of the people who infest the comments on Youtube and Crunchyroll (at least before it went legit, but I haven't really had the courage to venture anywhere other than the news and support forums since) it may not be all that far from the truth. |
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ikillchicken
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Why would you 'sincerely hope' that was sarcasm? Should people have some inherent knowledge of a niche product like anime being released on DVD? I'd say it really all depends on how you are introduced to anime. As unfortunate as this may be, it's a lot easier to come across illegal streams or downloads online than it is to find legit DVDs without actually going looking for them. If you're one of the many people who get introduced to anime either by finding it streaming somewhere or by friends who use fansubs then why would you know any different? I know that's what happened to me. A friend of mine was into anime and showed me some of his burned fansub DVDs. I asked him where he got these cool shows and he told me you could find them online. So I went ahead and searched online and found a bunch of fansubs. That was how I watched anime for the first year or two and why not? As far as I knew, this was how you got anime. Of course eventually, as I got more involved in the fandom I found out that you could buy DVDs too so I looked into that and eventually found a few places you can buy em. For someone newer or more casually involved with anime I think it's probably pretty easy to not know about legit DVDs. |
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