2010-06-03, 10:31 | Link #21 |
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Very rarely, these days. They're just way too expensive for me to manage, and half the time I usually find that the manga version is much better anyway. I'll still buy a title if I really want it or if it catches my eye and isn't too expensive, but I haven't bought have as much anime lately as I used to.
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2010-06-03, 11:36 | Link #23 |
Aiutante Ordinaire
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Indonesia
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Seeing as how my wallet is mostly very thin, I don't buy anime. Although when my wallet is in better condition, I might buy them if I really like the show. But most of the time, I borrow them from whoever I can borrow them from and save the content into my computer's hard-disk.
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2010-06-03, 19:49 | Link #24 |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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I leave at least one day each week to look for any new anime, manga, or maybe artbooks if not too expensive. If I find something interesting, I pick it up. Even though I can afford to buy whatever interests me, I limit my purchases (by choice) just so I don't go overboard.
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2010-06-12, 20:43 | Link #28 |
耳をすませば
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Age: 34
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I'm assuming you don't mean "buying" access to legal streams, so in terms of DVDs, I just buy the releases of anime that I enjoy very much, which usually only amounts to a few purchases an year. For example, this year all I've bought so far is the box sets for Kodacha. I buy all of it online.
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2010-06-14, 21:15 | Link #29 |
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Virginia
Age: 46
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I go out and buy once a month. Usually Best Buy or the local F.Y.E store. Only recently have I began to hit Rightstuf.com!
Generally I buy three to four DVDs and it's either one show in particular that I'm really following, or multiple samples of new shows.
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2010-06-14, 21:54 | Link #30 |
In 7/4 tyme
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: The Pit
Age: 30
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I pirate just about all my anime but, if I am every out at Best Buy and I see a anime I may be interested in and it is reasonably priced I will buy it. I have only 20 anime DVDs so I don't pirate all my anime just most of it. If a Best Buy was closer to me, gas was cheaper, anime was cheaper, and I don't have to wait as long for an anime to come out on DVD when there is already a fansub up on Piratebay then maybe I would buy more of my anime. So all in all I don't buy that much.
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2010-06-17, 12:54 | Link #32 |
~defying fate
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bodhum
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When most of the anime being sold locally here are almost like bootleg copy, with badly translated chinese -> english subs and don't make any sense... downloading is the only way I go now. Note that I don't own a credit card.
Bad experience with 1 series of anime was enough for me.
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2010-06-18, 01:04 | Link #34 |
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Not as much as I use too since I am kind of strapped for cash now. Once in a while I'll pick up a boxset from Best Buy. And like Pidgey, I usually grab up all the anime I see at Big Lots because $3 for a volume is a good deal. I actually got the first 3 volumes of Devil May Cry there during my last visit.
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2010-06-18, 16:18 | Link #36 |
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
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I have quite a few DVD boxed sets, but recently any and all spending is stopped because of available formats.
I absolutely refuse to buy anything that's not blueray these days. It's a joke when the fan subs online are better visual quality than the DVDs I can buy. In fact, it makes me very sad.
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2010-06-21, 01:51 | Link #37 |
Otaku!
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Northern California
Age: 34
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It's so hard lately! When I was a kid and had an allowance for doing chores, but did not have any bills, it was a lot easier. Now I read, stream, or download the little bits I do watch. As a teenager, before I got a job and spent my money on other things, I would be in Walden Books for my manga and Suncoast for my anime, every weekend.
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