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Originally Posted by Taiyz
It's bad enough we've got a genius in this topic who's on his way to archiving a terabyte of fansubs; try buying ****ing DVDs after watching this ****, people.
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To be honest, the anime industry will forever be in trouble as long as they try to sell their stuff on DVDs along with dubs.
DVDs:
- Cost a ton of money, partially because they insist on making expensive dubs and trying to feed their niché products to mass audiences. Apparently Bandai just licensed Lucky Star in America. I bet they'll dub it, it'll be a massacre.
- Take forever to come out after the initial airing in Japan.
Fan subs are fast and are often better translated than the commerical product and you don't pay some 50+ Euros for a few episodes. I don't know about you, but I'd rather just abandon the hobby than submit to that kind of robbery.
The anime industry really needs to rethink its business formula. They need to make something like the iTunes service. Stuff needs to come up there within days of the initial airing and it needs to be dirt cheap, possibly with a monthly fee rather than pay per download.