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Originally Posted by AbZeroNow
The Japanese market sells anime in singles at something like $500 to 1000 per cour(this is a rough guess from what I've read in threads here, feel free to correct me on this).
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While Japanese market prices are much, much higher than in the west (although home video used to be a lot more expensive in the west too), $500-1000 sounds high. Even given that import sites tend to charge more and that the US dollar sucks against the Yen right now, most single cour series barely break $500 from what I've seen, and multi-cour shows tend to be less per cour because of lower per cour disc counts - most two cour shows are 8-9 volumes compared to 6-7 for one cours. Kadokawa stuff like Gosick and Nichijou is an exception and can get into the $650 per cour range, they charge a significant premium per volume
and insist on making their two cour shows 12-13 volumes.