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Import and/or Aniplex | 2 | 12.50% | |
Funimation and Sentai only, the rest are too expensive | 0 | 0% | |
Stream | 2 | 12.50% | |
Merchandise (DVDs/Blu-Rays are too expensive for me, keychains and figures are fine) | 6 | 37.50% | |
Buy whatever comes out (Funimation, Sentai, Aniplex) | 2 | 12.50% | |
$100-200 a month (regardless where it came from) | 1 | 6.25% | |
"Other methods" (no not really, I just don't want to buy) | 3 | 18.75% | |
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2013-11-27, 03:13 | Link #1 | |
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Buying habits (no need to post collection here)
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Funimation: $40-50 Any other: $50-60 Sentai: $60 (disc/12 episodes) NISA: $65 (hybrid/12 episodes) Aniplex: $60 (rarely), $75-100 (sometimes/mostly), $150 (complete series box) So who here has their buying habits changed? EDIT: (Maybe I should have put the title to: "Future of Anime Blu-Rays/DVDs and Physical Merchandise: Buying Habits" or something) And I probably forgot to account for 'crowdfunding', which is probably 1% of where Blu-Rays come from (Time of Eve, Bubblegum Crisis, Little Witch Academia 2, Kick-Heart, WONDER....)
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2013-11-27, 08:06 | Link #2 |
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The lack of an overlap option displeases Akito. But anyway, I usually pay for streaming services and buy one or two series a year from FUNimation or Sentai. Back then I used to buy from a wider range of companies, though I'm fortunate enough to find as passable a selection at a retailer as online (roughly). I don't care enough about the few titles Aniplex has to pay an arm and a head for them (except maybe Madoka movie 3. If/when they get it. I don't keep track of that).
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2013-11-27, 08:41 | Link #3 |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
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I prefer buying Merchandise personally as it's definitely area I've spent the most on, but I do occasionally buy DVD/BR as well for select series I really like or consider reasonably priced (I don't really follow who released it).
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2013-11-27, 09:31 | Link #4 | |
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2013-11-27, 13:01 | Link #5 |
The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 48
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In terms of anime, I'd say whatever fancies my interest, not so much who releases it.
And I was tempted to say I don't buy much anime, because it's expensive, but then I remembered I don't have any trouble buying figurines of $50 or more (and I got quite a lot of those), and I pay almost double for them when they arrive due to custom tax, which (when totaled) is sometimes enough to get two anime DVDs.
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2013-11-27, 14:09 | Link #6 |
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Voted for "other methods", though to be honest I do spend at least $500 a year on random merchandise if not more (everything from figurines to keychains!) Couldn't be bothered to buy DVDs anymore though. Also, I do buy a lot of manga as well.
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2013-11-27, 21:25 | Link #9 | |
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It just usually increases to 6-8 DVDs but that's it. I'm surprised the DVD/Blu-Ray prices didn't go up (if people are buying less DVDs/Blu-Rays), but then, the only one with a high price would be NISA and Aniplex)
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2013-11-27, 23:03 | Link #10 |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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I used to buy DVDs, but got fed up with the industry in recent years intentionally censoring/textrolls/other broadcast idiocy, or crippling broadcast version (eg SHAFT) to "encourage" people to buy DVDs.
So I started diverting my DVD money to figures. Which have been vastly more expensive. I've spent almost as much on figures in three years as I had on DVDs two decades prior. So your poll option saying merch is cheaper is quite false. |
2013-11-28, 00:52 | Link #11 | |
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2013-11-28, 00:53 | Link #12 | |
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2013-11-28, 01:56 | Link #13 |
Horoist
Join Date: Oct 2007
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The poll says figures, not nendos. Nendos aren't much cheaper than DVDs, anyway. I spent about $22,000 on DVDs through the 90s and 00s, now at the end of 2013 I've spent almost $20,000 on figures, and I only started collecting three years ago. Damnable hobby.
Nendoroids too, are like crack. So it's not like they're just some cheap replacement for DVDs. |
2013-11-28, 02:19 | Link #14 | |
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2013-11-28, 02:35 | Link #15 |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In line to confess his sins.
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Not to mention that shipping for figures usually ramps the price up even higher compared to DVDs/BD. (And even many other forms of merch.) Another factor that makes figures more expensive than disc media is the availability. For most titles, you don't need to run out and buy them as soon as they're released. You can wait, and snag up a bunch of them at a sale, or simply wait for the prices to drop, which they usually do. You can save a lot of money that way, and that's not as easy to do with figures, which often go out of print very quickly in comparison. (And then they might increase in price, rather than decrease )
Being a collector in any significant way within our niche is very expensive. I think we can all agree on that. I'm mostly a DVD/BD collector myself. I buy quite a few series, whenever I can spare the expense. (Which sadly, has taken a bit of a nosedive lately.) I've only recently ventured into the figure market, I own about 7, and they're quite lovely. They are certainly expensive as well, most of mine were in the 80 dollar range, but they're well worth the investment and really spice up the collection. I don't think I'll ever make a full switch and stop buying DVDs/BD, but as my economic stability (hopefully) improves over the coming year, I think my figure expenditures will increase, making for more of an even split between the two. There's other minor things I purchase such as wall-scrolls, posters, soundtracks/singles and the occasional wallet/key-chain/mug, but even all of these combined don't add up to more than a fraction of my disc expenditures.
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2013-11-28, 17:05 | Link #16 | |
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