Let's Return Those Bitter Days...

optimalgorilla

If you ever wonder why piracy overtook DVDs for anime in America remember that they released FLCL a six episode series on three DVDs instead of two and not in a set.

moontouched-moogle

Don’t forget about that time Bandai made a 6-part DVD special collection for Gurren Lagann which were released in pairs, including a special box with the first pair, only to turn around and go “ha ha fuck you” and release something like three different runs of the series with similar numbering/notation, so it was a massive pain in the ass to properly complete the set.

nocturn-kitty

It still costs $50.00 new to get 12 episodes from any anime Walmart doesn’t end up carrying BUT NO, ITS THE PIRATES WHO ARE WRONG!

smashkopalace

this is completely normal in japan.

your average anime depends on BD sales basically.

a 13 episode series will have their episodes spread out over 6-7 something BluRays. All, 60 dollars a part.

cutielamerr

Japanese blu-rays at least come with extra exclusive merch with their blu-rays or sell Event tickets with their blu-Ray.

American blu-rays don’t even come with captions for the hearing impaired for their dubs. Do you know how frustrating that is when the series has a great dub like Cowboy Bebop and your hearing isn’t that great and there’s no captions for English audio? Like wtf, I watched this series on TV and it has captions. Or this used to be on Netflix with English captions.

WHAT GIVES 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼