[ SECRET POST #229 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #229 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- A request to commenters, some secrets may indeed have more details than others, but please excersise respect instead of commenting with 'tl;dr'! Don't have the attention span to read it? Don't read it. ♥ At the same time, secret-makers, try and see if your secrets can be summed up in fewer words, due to this same reason. That's all!

- Obviously I must never be allowed to count on my 5am self to post and queue secret posts. :3;

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 51 secrets from Secret Submission Post #033.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, August 23rd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ouo]

1. That's awesome. I've never done that much myself because I live with four other people, so I'm paranoid that someone's going to randomly pop up and laugh at me, even if no one else is actually home.

12. I don't think there's really any excuse for this -- with coupons and discount websites, you can get manga for $4-$8 consistantly (for normally-priced volumes). As for anime, if you have access to a credit card and check a good discount-reporting website, nearly everything goes down to, like, $10 per disc. And then there are rental services and libraries. I'm not saying that you should buy everything that have ever even vaugely caught your eye ever, but if you pay attention, paying for anime isn't all that crazy.

And, of course, if anime in English had higher sales, you can bet it would get cheaper (just look at how much more pricey things used to be).

Of course, this does depend quite a bit on your location, so if you happen to be in some country that never releases anime domestically, feel free to hit me or something.

17. I'm not in the fandom, but I always figured that people liked this pairing because it was so messed up. As long as they're enjoying the dynamic for what it is, I don't see a problem.

[(Anonymous)]

But free is always better ~

op here

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, free IS always better. :) like I said in another reply, I don't ever really plan on rewatching an anime after i've seen it, so wasting money on them is retarded. I also don't mind reading manga on my computer and i don't understand what the big problem everyone else has with it. maybe if you have eye problems or something, but what else can be better than getting manga in a language you can understand FOR FREE??? like paying hundreds of dollars for dozens of hardcopies is going to do you any good in a blackout or if you lose your internet or your harddrive takes a shit or wtf ever kind of situation you find yourself in that = you - your computer.

even if everyone in the foreign markets stopped buying anime and manga, it wouldn't stop the stuff from being made. you gotta remember that it all starts in Japan and there is a VERY big market there for it already and THAT IS WHO IT IS BEING MADE FOR. just because you don't buy manga licensed in your home country is not going to put mangakas or animation studios out of job. i mean come on let's just be realistic here.

Re: op here

[(Anonymous)]

It can make it harder to get if it's not available in an English market. There are plenty of things that aren't commerically available that I read that the scanlators/fansubbers just drop because they were tired of it. At least if it's commercially available, there is a better chance it won't get dropped (although that has happened too)

With the way they are cracking down on online piracy, not something I wish to involve myself with any more than possible.

On the other hand, I won't crank out money for something to own good DVD quality stuff until I've checked it out first, ala fansubs/fantranslations for free.

Re: op here

[dia-aren-marie.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, what would you do if say, you produced a series and everyone pirated it and you're like 'lolz where is my moniez :('? HYPOTHETICALLY. XD;

BTW regarding the secret I'll buy it if I love it liek woah. :P Heh. Otherwise, bye files. o_o;