Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[kernow]

http://media.heavy.com/post_assets/2010/02/1612/1266340870_my-name-is-kelly.jpg

better? (slightly nsfw I guess), I bet she likes bbq'd pig if you know what I mean. cough.

[merf]

Best name ever for base of the back tats on girls -

Tramp Stamp

[Spatial]

Ah, Cyanide and Happiness, how I love thee.

[abigsmurf]

Perry Bible Fellowship > *

Irk: Why are PBF updates so rare!

[Darwock]

It's not as if people in Japan are any richer than people over here, so they're surely pricing themselves outside of a potential audience with those kinds of prices. I want to give them my money, I really do, but I'd have to get a mortgage to afford them. I'd love to know how this is viewed in Japan itself.

The trade in market is extremely well developed. I obtained a bunch of old anime DVDs in a bulk auction last year.. not a full set, not mint, not even a popular series - but I took them to Sofmap and they gave me 20,000 yen on the spot! I imagine most people trade their stuff back in to fund new purchases.

[importaku]

The price of Japanese DVDs and Blu-Rays irks me. They seem to be significantly more than over here for anything 'less mainstream', about ?30 for DVDs of Sailor Moon containing about 2 or 3 episodes, and the complete box set of Cardcaptor Sakura on Blu-Ray is a staggering ?590. It's not as if people in Japan are any richer than people over here, so they're surely pricing themselves outside of a potential audience with those kinds of prices. I want to give them my money, I really do, but I'd have to get a mortgage to afford them. I'd love to know how this is viewed in Japan itself.

I share your pain, i have no idea on this too the only reason i can think of is the disks are made of unicorn horn. Still after the Doraemon time machine box set but at ?160 it's no casual purchase. Amazon Japan owns my soul

[teddymeow]

Isn't the rental Market ma-hoo-sive in Japan too?

I want the Spice & Wolf Blu-ray box set and that's ?300 for 12 episodes.


Saddens me that 3 years ago it would have been ?100 cheaper.

Irk = poor exchange rate.

[kernow]

*bombs japan*

[speedlolita]

People who think Blu-Ray anime is worth purchasing.

[randombs]

Depends on the price, surely? Tekkonkinkreet BR looks lovely and cost me a whopping tenner. I was also watching Akira on BR a few weeks ago and I thought that looked gorgeous, too. Need to try my Akira DVD though, as the last time I saw it was on VHS...

To be honest, I would go nowhere near saying I need BR anime, but I find with a lot of BR films, if the DVD transfer was pants to begin with, it at least forces them to redo it the second time around.

Japanese DVDs are an absolute rip-off. Here's me worrying about the complete Lost boxset dropping at around £130, and over there Densha Otoko was about £100 for the whole single series. A single series of 11 episodes. That's £9 per episode. For that kinda money, I'd want to be in the damn credits

*bombs japan*

Don't do that, they'll just get even more expensive and R@RE!

[Lyris]

I'm mediumly sure Ebay have bots that search for certain words in some categories and flag up auctions that contain them.

They do, there are "trip words". I got my Multi region Xbox removed.

To get around it, type the item description as an image, upload it to Photobucket, and include that in the description.

[noobish hat]

People who think anime is worth purchasing.

[randombs]

They do, there are "trip words". I got my Multi region Xbox removed.

I had my Xbox 360 motherboard listing taken down because they said it was about console modding but it wasn't. I told them it's just a motherboard and relisted it and it was fine.

[speedlolita]

People who think anime is worth purchasing.

Touch?.

I've never paid for anime mind so meh. Prefer fansubs, just easier.

[randombs]

People who think anime is worth purchasing.

Surely not Akira? EVERYONE loves Akira!