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⌈ Secret Post #1826 ⌋

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[Labyrinth]

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[The Meek, String Theory]

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[The Baby-sitters Club]

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[Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame]

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Notes:

Early because New Year's stuff to do. (:

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Re-releases make me mad some times. I've spent loads on the first Utena boxsets and nearly purchased the first sailor moon english mangas on ebay for just as much. In the 90s, I had no idea what manga was, thought it was the SAME story so I figured I'd just watch it on USA network and be lazy. Meanwhile saving pics of the Outers via AOL because I didn't know who they were. :/

tldr, I feel like I wasted my money but I always justify it by saying "But what if it never gets re-re;eased/signature series? I have to buy it now before it goes out of print!" Looking at you Sailor Moon box sets.

While I can kind of understand what you mean...that's no reason to be MAD that a series is being re-released. The re-release of Utena has the best picture I've EVER seen for this series, and the amazingly detailed booklets that were published with each set are a wealth of information on the making of the series. Plus, younger anime fans will now be exposed to the series, breathing some new life into the fandom. I love that!

Back in the day, ALL anime box sets were expensive...before DVDs came out, entire sets of VHS tapes for one season of say, Ranma 1/2 for example, was almost $300. Technology's gonna advance, we're gonna get media being released and re-released in different formats. Hell, I still have old LDs and VHS tapes of older stuff.
But I'm GLAD that the prices are cheaper now. It saves me money and space! And I never feel bad for buying expensive sets in the past because 1. I was supporting a series I loved and 2. I was supporting the anime industry in America. (It's kinda funny to me now to see series I bought years ago now on 2 discs for like $20, though.)

My sisters and I bought Cowboy Bebop one VHS at a time (2 episodes per tape) in 2000-01, from the only physical store around that sold anime. Then about halfway through getting the tapes, our parents bought a DVD player! Back then DVDs were more expensive than VHS so we still got a few more tapes, but then we got the last two DVDs with the end of the series.

Oh wow, suddenly memories of spending 2 years saving up for the first Ranma VHS boxset (dubbed). And then a few years later, getting the latest Viz catalogue advertising the DVD sets that were not only considerably cheaper, but had both languages as well.

I still have no regrets. Whenever I start to feel like I don't want to spend $60 on a complete-series DVD set, I walk out to the hallway where I have that Ranma set and look at it and remember that my middle-school self had the willpower to save her allowance for years to buy ONE series, so why the hell can't my adult-with-a-job self bare to spend a fraction of the amount she did on an equivalent amount of anime? It's usually enough motivation to get me to buy that $60 set.

And in fact, I think I will use the $100 Amazon card I got for Christmas to buy a Ranma DVD set or two. I owe it to my past self.

omg wasnt that ranma thing almost $200 a season??????????

It's not like a new complete print, LIKE EVERY ANIME THESE DAYS.

BUY INDIVIDUAL - ALL DONE - HERES A BOXSET LOL
FINISH THE SERIES ALL SEASONS, MORE COMPLETE BOX SET

IM LOOKING AT YOU, FULL METAL ALCHEMIST...

I don't even wanna think about how prices have changed, UGH.

I have all the SM manga, and all the DVDs (literally... complete dub, SMS thinpack + individual DVDs, SMSS thinpack + individual DVDs, SM sub, SMR sub, Movie boxset ALL FIRST PRINT + bootleg of specials & Stars).

AND I LOVE THE RE-RELEASES.

I bought all of them in the past year, except some manga, SM sub, and Movie boxset.

Oh, I have the individual comics too. I got all but 2 during release.

SAILOR MOON WHAT WHAT

Also, I totally remember seeing pics of JPN stuff and being all OMG THEY LOOK SO KEWL

Edited 2012-01-03 11:24 (UTC)

Oh my goodness, I love you. SO MUCH SM STUFF. *___________*

I only have S1+2 of the USA subbed ADV boxsets, individual DVDS of S3, DVD boxset of the movies, all of the manga, some of the S1 subbed VHS tapes, and some other random SM stuff like the card game+trading cards and the action figure dolls (only Mako, Minako, and Rei though). I am seriously impressed by/jealous of your collection, especially the SMS/SMSS thinpacks and specials/Stars boots. ♥!

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