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**It is highly recommended you check the latest posts in this thread as they will often have the most up to date deals. I will attempt to reflect these sales in the OP, but always check the latest posts.**

Rightstuf

Rightstuf runs studio sales every week, sometimes even twice a week. These range from anime, manga, and even artbooks. Prices are decent, and Rightstuf has amazing customer service. I highly recommend them for that alone.

http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/

You can save an additional 10% off a majority of their items (Including preorders) by buying their Got Anime membership

http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/action/store/item/Item?ItemName=gotanime1

Amazon 

Amazon tends to offer lower everyday prices on their anime, and often run sales on Funimation items routinely. Keep track on your favorites or check your daily deal's for a possible 5% off of some based off your history on Amazon. 

(Also, I'd also recommend to check out Amazon's top 100 deals in Anime Bluray/DVD as they tend to show what's popular, or what is on sale.)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/movies-tv/2959127011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_mov_1_3_last   (Blu Ray)

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Movies-TV-Anime/zgbs/movies-tv/2959100011/ref=zg_bs_nav_mov_2_2958934011 (DVD)

DVDPlanet / Deep Discount

Known by many for their bad customer service, they often make up for it with their lower prices on a lot of their items. This and they routinely run sales specifically for anime. 

http://www.dvdplanet.com/Pages/Search/Category.aspx?ec=42000

http://www.deepdiscount.com/index.cfm

I highly suggest when you order from them to only order in stock items, and not ones that are backordered. Save yourself the displeasure of having to deal with the headaches. And patience is a must with these sites.

Cheapassgamer

Maybe you will find something here on our own forums! We have a thread dedicated specifically to Anime and Manga for sale from fellow Cags.

www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/306304-anime-blu-raydvd-buy-sell-or-trade-thread/

 
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My wife is hearing-impaired, too, but is Samurai Pizza Cats any good?  I want to get it, and I love stuff from the late 80s early 90s but I don't want to buy it, and constantly facepalm as how bad it is.

 
Not even 25 days into the year and Netflix adds Detective Conan online. Then Rightstuf has a 33% off Viz sale (which also works on Case Closed manga). 

Your move, Discotek.

 
elessar123 said:
I don't, but I don't buy stuff without captions because then I'd have to watch alone (missus is hearing impaired). It was godsend when Netflix and Amazon all added captions, cause only Hulu originally had it.
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There was a post someone linked to explaining the reason for lack of captions...not saying it's b.s. but at least there's a b.s. reason for it

I'm hearing impaired to and it does suck
 
Squarehard said:
You didn't miss the last one, you just ignored it like the rest of us. Since it's owned by AoA, just assume one never existed, and there won't be on either in the near future, but even if there will be one, it won't be in one set anymore, and it'll be split up into 6 parts with 4 episodes per disc, and it'll only cost you a very low price of $129.99 per part, and you get a nifty slipcover and postcards per set.

WHAT A DEAL!
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So mad that I never picked up the ROD BD set when it was $150.

 
Cage017 said:
Not even 25 days into the year and Netflix adds Detective Conan online. Then Rightstuf has a 33% off Viz sale (which also works on Case Closed manga).
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thelonepig said:
$150? I'm still upset it went out of stock before I could buy it during the Christmas sale for $50. :(
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He who hesitates is lost. That R.O.D. Blu-Ray set looks really good on my shelf. I got it on sale during one of the winter sales. I had to pay more than $50, for it, but I did get it for less than original retail. I have no regrets, I really like that series.

 
thelonepig said:
$150? I'm still upset it went out of stock before I could buy it during the Christmas sale for $50. :(
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DONT REMIND ME ;_;

Olengie said:
Wasnt even aware R.O.D came out on Blu Ray here. Lol. Or maybe I was and didnt care bout it due to the price. Lol.
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It was back when BDs were still niche. I'd like to get the Yukikaze set too someday.

SolidSnake86 said:
I liked the way the box art/design looked, but I read that the quality wasn't much of an upgrade from the DVDs.
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Better than not having it lol.

 
nagpo said:
Anime is getting much more expensive now than it was a few years ago
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and it's still way way way cheaper than it was a few years before a few years ago :p *glances at $30 per 4 episodes chobits disks*

though I imagine if you want funimation aniplex shows you might want to start collecting them. beyond the loss of darker than black I am hearing rumblings baccano will soon lose it's license, I imagine funimation will lose rights on all of their aniplex shows in the next few years (and they have a number of them including full metal alchemist) man can you imagine the price of an aniplex complete release of fma brotherhood lol.

 
zulux21 said:
and it's still way way way cheaper than it was a few years before a few years ago :p *glances at $30 per 4 episodes chobits disks*

though I imagine if you want funimation aniplex shows you might want to start collecting them. beyond the loss of darker than black I am hearing rumblings baccano will soon lose it's license, I imagine funimation will lose rights on all of their aniplex shows in the next few years (and they have a number of them including full metal alchemist) man can you imagine the price of an aniplex complete release of fma brotherhood lol.
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Good point. Thank god I already have fmab on bluray. That show was truly on of the greatest shonen shows of all time.

But it seems like for a while we could get a series or a season for thirty something dollars. But now that been bumped up to 60+ average. I don't think anime fans are going to be able to keep that type of business alive.

And any ways, there arent any good show coming out right now(in the west) which is also disappointing.

 
nagpo said:
Good point. Thank god I already have fmab on bluray. That show was truly on of the greatest shonen shows of all time.

But it seems like for a while we could get a series or a season for thirty something dollars. But now that been bumped up to 60+ average. I don't think anime fans are going to be able to keep that type of business alive.

And any ways, there arent any good show coming out right now(in the west) which is also disappointing.
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you can still get plenty of series for cheap right now, it's just that there aren't as many because a lot of shows funimation would normally pick up are now being released by aniplex thus that market is a lot thinner than it used to be. I mean no game no life from sentai is 33.50 for the dvds on amazon right now (a little over $40 for blu ray) and it's not really on sale.

as for the 60+ average... anime fans kept things a live just fine when a 12 episode series used to cost $90 and a 26 episode series was on average $240.

The anime bubble popped, but it's still a decently healthy market. There has just been a bit of a shift in the market like with a lot of stuff that uses physical media. The prices are going up for those reasons (market changes, increase prices on competition) but they are still much cheaper than people who have been collecting anime for the last decade used to deal with.

I mean, if you just want to watch the releases you have more legal choices than ever. Funimation streams pretty much everything they own for the price of one new anime series a year. Crunchyroll has a nice library now and is slowly picking up more. Hulu got in the game, and netflix is even dubbing some anime. Physical media has partially gone on the rise because the number of buyers has gone down. It's not cheap at all to license anime. that info was from years ago, but lets assume to license a cheap series is around 100k. lets assume that it costs them oh another 100k to dub the anime and release it physically. and lets assume that when it is sold 20% goes to the seller so if priced at $50 they see $40 per set. Basically low budget anime pick up with a cheap dub. At that time to merely cover their costs they would need to sell 5k copies of the series. Lets call that series oh Divine Gate and then think about how the different markets effect this. 5 years ago you could put out a flashy trailer for Divine gate and get people to buy it because it looked interesting and there wasn't anywhere to really watch it. Now you can check it out on funimation.com and discover while it looks decent in trailers, it's rather generic and not really worth owning, a watch maybe but not worth owning, so $50 for the series sounds like a lot. Your market is smaller so 5k people is harder to reach. If you move the price up so that you get $50 per set you only need to hit 4k sales to reach your cost. a bit easier for a smaller title and most people willing to buy it at $50 would still buy it at $60.

I mean at this point anime companies need to have the prices to break even on the cheaper titles, and then use the same prices on bigger titles to actually turn a profit. It's sadly the state of things right now. Maybe we will get lucky and at some point the head of ABC or NBC figures out that they could get the rights to anime far cheaper than making new tv shows and make friday night an anime night to push out the more adult and interesting stuff from japan such as Erased causing anime to become more mainstream again. It's not impossible that even someone like Fox couldn't one day add a single anime to their sunday night line up ect just to save costs and fill in a hole.

i've rambled long enough.... I am just gonna hit post >.>;

 
I really doubt broadcast networks will ever air anime. Hell, they don't air foreign programming at all unless it's sports. For example, NBC could have just brought over the various British series they licensed but instead remade them.

Plus, any anime that would air on broadcast TV would need top-of-the-line animation. I mean Production I.G./Kyoto/whatever A-game and it would absolutely have to be an action series. Dramas and comedies will not cut it. And if there are a lot of scenes of characters standing still and talking, that will lose a lot of viewers. I know you could argue that a lot of the current Fox comedy shows are mostly the characters standing still and talking, but your average joe will definitely notice the difference. Add in that a lot of people are prejudiced against the standard "anime style" with the big eyes and spiky hair, and it will be a tough sell.

Also remember that the show doesn't just need good ratings, but it needs to drive ratings to its following show. If Fox were to air, say, Attack on Titan and it got a 0.6 rating, that would likely more than pay for the fees to license the show and make all the ads, not to mention getting a higher rating than on Adult Swim, but it's less than half the ratings an average Simpsons episode gets. And since it would air towards the back of the block, it has to be a lead-in to the local news. Look up The Jay Leno Show to see what happens when a bad lead-in to local news is continually aired.

 
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DNukem170 said:
I really doubt broadcast networks will ever air anime. Hell, they don't air foreign programming at all unless it's sports. For example, NBC could have just brought over the various British series they licensed but instead remade them.

Plus, any anime that would air on broadcast TV would need top-of-the-line animation. I mean Production I.G./Kyoto/whatever A-game and it would absolutely have to be an action series. Dramas and comedies will not cut it. And if there are a lot of scenes of characters standing still and talking, that will lose a lot of viewers. I know you could argue that a lot of the current Fox comedy shows are mostly the characters standing still and talking, but your average joe will definitely notice the difference. Add in that a lot of people are prejudiced against the standard "anime style" with the big eyes and spiky hair, and it will be a tough sell.

Also remember that the show doesn't just need good ratings, but it needs to drive ratings to its following show. If Fox were to air, say, Attack on Titan and it got a 0.6 rating, that would likely more than pay for the fees to license the show and make all the ads, not to mention getting a higher rating than on Adult Swim, but it's less than half the ratings an average Simpsons episode gets. And since it would air towards the back of the block, it has to be a lead-in to the local news. Look up The Jay Leno Show to see what happens when a bad lead-in to local news is continually aired.
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I doubt it as well, but it's not impossible that they could try it at some point. I disagree about it having to be an action though. Something like Monster likely could have done decently. likely will do decently if Guillermo del Toro's live action adaption gets picked up. Sadly HBO passed on it.

 
zulux21 said:
I doubt it as well, but it's not impossible that they could try it at some point. I disagree about it having to be an action though. Something like Monster likely could have done decently. likely will do decently if Guillermo del Toro's live action adaption gets picked up. Sadly HBO passed on it.
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The general populace doesn't get animated drama. There's a reason why every single adult animated show made for US networks is a comedy.

Hell, I remember when general TV critics first saw Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) when it aired on Adult Swim they called it incomprehensible.
 
You kids don't know how good you have it. Us old people remember paying $25 for a single DVD with three-four episodes on it, and that was on sale. And that's just taking DVDs into account. Before that you were stuck with terrible VHS tapes, which you would be very lucky to get subtitled instead of dubbed, or ridiculously large/expensive Laserdiscs. $50+ for a single series isn't expensive. I used to have to pay $120+ for a single series, and that was for a bare-bones DVD set. The 8-disc series runs would often be around $200 to collect the whole things.

A slight upswing in prices in recent years doesn't bother me so much. Especially since some of the recent pricier sets have also been getting higher-quality packaging. I still like to get some of these sets on sale, but I'm not complaining.

 
I'm sick of the inelastic demand for anime stance.  There are more companies producing more anime on home video than ever before.  You can buy things with amazing value like the complete series of Fullmetal Alchemist for $29.  Companies are outbidding each other for distribution rights.  B&M stores like B&N are fully stocked with an entire aisle of manga.  Take yourself away from the insider banter for a minute and take a quick overview of the whole industry as an ignoramus.  These companies are making good money.  Outward appearances would suggest that the industry is healthier than ever.  As customers, we have more options than ever, as well as more avenues with which to watch our favorite shows. 

 
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The missus still has Berserk on VHS, I think. If we didn't get rid of them.

I was too poor to buy VHS tapes back then, but I do remember spending $25+ a volume on anime. Haruhi comes to mind.

My first anime DVDs were Key the Metal Idol, and that was like $90 for 3 DVDs.

 
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Yeah some people are just way too young to realize how things used to be in the VHS days.  The DVD era can't even hold a candle to the options, performance, and value we have today either.  Prices are going up a few bucks? meh.  We are presently getting more value for our dollar than ever before. 

 
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I'm still ok paying a premium for series that I'm really a fan of. Cowboy Bebop Amazon edition, the Korean GitS (which I really want but actually don't have), and I'd pay up the wazoo for Gate.

 
elessar123 said:
I'm still ok paying a premium for series that I'm really a fan of. Cowboy Bebop Amazon edition, the Korean GitS (which I really want but actually don't have), and I'd pay up the wazoo for Gate.
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Exactly dude, those are some of the few premium versions I have purchased as well. Point is, we have so many choices these days. There are standard versions to complement all of the LEs too.

 
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I mean, yeah, we're all Cheap-Ass-Gamers here. A certain degree of sticker-shock is only natural for people on a message board focused on paying less for things. We all like and want sweet deals here, nothing wrong with that.

When I start to hear people make blanket statements about the entire industry getting too expensive, it does set off my old-person alarm. And sometimes it can be good to step back, take a look at where things are now, and compare it to how they really used to be. I picked up all of the original run of Fullmetal Alchemist on DVD. 13 discs, none of them less than $15, even when I got them used or on sale. Just the other day, I ordered a brand-new copy of the recently released Fullmetal Alchemist on Blu-Ray. $30 for the entire series in high-definition.

Examples like that make me quite grateful to be shopping in the current industry. I reserve my ire for the import-only releases. I can weather a few expensive sets here and there.

 
It doesn't help that the best series being released right now are shows that have already been released in English. Seems like nowadays we only get 2 or 3 worthwhile brand new series every 6 months.
 
When I'm blu ray shopping at Best Buy the majority of the other people I see buying BDs are generally 30-50+ dudes as well lol.  That demographic appreciates the quality, convenience, and ownership of their favorites in high definition.   If prices are indeed going up on anime, well...time to get while the gettin is good!

Target has an amazing selection of $10 BDs this week btw. You should go check it out in-store if you haven't already.  I picked up a bunch of blind buys including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Power Towns (Cara Delevinge soooo hot), and Gotham season 1 blu rays for $10 each. 

 
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Pretty off topic, but Kingsman is also on sale for $10. Kingsman and Man from U.N.C.L.E. are both entertaining. And Alicia Vikander is in the latter.

 
Man, I still remember this guy in college that had like 3000 movies on DVD, back when they were $20 a piece. Bet he regrets that.

 
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elessar123 said:
and I'd pay up the wazoo for Gate.
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Please don't say that and give them any ideas. :p

Another show that I hope gets dubbed probably won't. It'll be ok as I believe Sentai will probably get the license so it'll be decent price as long as they don't go the LE route and then split it into Volumes 1 and 2.

 
only thing I miss from the old days...

the rightstuf 25 for 100 sales.

granted with those great sales a series was still $28 on average... but... the limited edition box sets were included.

it's amazing how expensive a raffle table looks when you put $100 into it and have 25 different disk one art box limited editions to raffle off LOL.


slowdive21 said:
Don't get me started on VHS stories.
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walmart was awesome, they had dbz tapes for merely 9.97 each during the time where everything else was 30. I skipped lunch for the week of dbz releases to have the money to buy them each time. I collected from the middle of the freeza saga through the cell saga on vhs (and then like 8 years ago just threw them all to goodwill lol)

 
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Speaking of overly expensive anime sets,

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and yes, it is new/sealed.

Only took forever to track this down without paying an arm and three legs.

 
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Somewhere I have between 3-6 NEW copies of this:

Bleach: The Substitute - Season One, Limited Edition Box Set w/ Chain of Fate Wallet Chain (2007)

I think I sold one for $150 about 5 years ago and I forgot about the others. Not sure if they are worth that much anymore. The Witch Hunter Robin vol 1 box used to sell high too, then RS clearanced them out for $27 or something. I should still have 5 of those too. I can't get to my sealed Anime. I know where they are though.

 
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