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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-05-31 05:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #4895 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4895 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2020-06-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Slayers was one of the very first anime I ever got into, right in the early 2000s. I spent probably over $100 on season one, subtitled VHS. There was only one store I could find that carried it, a Suncoast in the nearby mall. I had to buy the last several volumes in a set because I couldn't find the individual tapes. A year or so later I got Slayers Next on DVD for my birthday, a big chunky box of discs that was around $80. About ten years ago I finally re-bought the first and third seasons on disc for only $20 each and couldn't help but think of all that wasted money from way back when and how at the time it didn't even occur to me that the price was ridiculous.

It also makes me feel a little sad for all those series that were still being released in singles when the writing was on the wall and got cancelled unfinished. I have the handful of Hikaru no Go DVDs that were released and I can't help but think it might have had a chance if Viz had done season sets instead of trying to release 75 episodes in batches of 2-3 episodes a piece for over $20 each.

(Anonymous) 2020-06-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah I've spent quite a bit of money hunting down boxed sets of anime I wanted. I don't have any regrets though, I loved them and watched the heck out of them all.

(Anonymous) 2020-06-01 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Companies back then did not have the budget or the fanbase to support larger prices like today. Your money was not wasted. It supported the companies and their workers so that they still exist today.