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Why are anime Blu-rays in Japan so expensive?
Why are anime Blu-rays in Japan so expensive? I saw some on play-asia going for around $88 USD. Is that typical of anime Blu-ray prices in Japan?
Also, there is the reverse-importation. A lot of Japanese anime fans buy NA anime Blu-ray releases because they are so much cheaper. I read something about a company called Kodakawa trying to stop their anime licensed in NA from getting Blu-ray releases, probably to fight reverse-importation. Is Kodakawa still restricting Blu-ray releases in NA? Are other anime companies following suit? It'd be so bad if they were. That'd mean they don't know how to combat their problem with reverse-importation. The best way to do that is to make anime Blu-rays in their country affordable.
And that circles back to the question from the beginning of this post. Why are anime Blu-rays so expensive in Japan? It is just causing problems with reverse-importation and the ridiculously high prices for anime Blu-rays in Japan really are not fair prices at all.
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