Why does anime blu rays cost so much?

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Look at this shit. Normally 65 bucks for gay men on ice. "Genorously" discounted to 45. I own quite a few much better than this, most of the time the discs are made in Mexico just like the DVD's in the Walmart bargain bin. Why?
 
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Waifu Denier
Originally, physical sales of anime media like Blurays were targeted towards places such as rental stores rather than individual consumers, unlike in the West. As a result, they were high price low volume affairs. They never really changed this dynamic, it's just that it turns out besides rental stores, hardcore otaku were willing to pony up the large sums for the Blurays, and it was more profitable to cater to the few hardcore fans than going for the mass market and making a small profit margin (cf. anime figurines).

The one silver lining is that Japanese Blurays at least, while fleecing you for $100+, come with a bunch of extra goodies, like an exclusive game, VN, or merch.
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Licensing fees. If you think that's expensive, you should check out how much Aniplex charges for some of their releases:
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If you want a physical copy of a series, check on ebay or mercari. You can usually find titles at a cheaper price. I know Crunchyroll purchased Right Stuf, but they occasionally had decent sales on the site.
 
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part licensing fees and part the included packaging, the box the blu ray in is likely contributing to the price, also if your on amazon you could try shopping used if you want a lower price.
 
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Because anime doesn't make money from airing. Daytime timeslots are directed at children who don't have disposable income or an interest in most products so nobody wants to advertise, and the anime directed at people who have a disposable income airs in the middle of the night so nobody wants to advertise. Merch, BDs and figures are overpriced because it's broadly understood to be basically a donation to the production company so they can actually make money to fund more of whatever you're buying.
 
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Because physical media releases of anime are exclusively the domain of embarassing NEET otaku in Japan, and they absolutely WILL pay 50 dollars a piece for 6 boxes of whatever shit-ass anime they want to have the full collection of.

Western weeb otaku have to follow suit.
 
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The Token Ethnic said:
Licensing fees. If you think that's expensive, you should check out how much Aniplex charges for some of their releases:View attachment 5666232
If you want a physical copy of a series, check on ebay or mercari. You can usually find titles at a cheaper price. I know Crunchyroll purchased Right Stuf, but they occasionally had decent sales on the site.
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Oh I fucking HATE aniplex. At least sentai film works puts their shit on sale.
 
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it's not even worth it unless it's some sort of shelf piece. It's a better investment if you like anime to just buy an external hard drive you can have on your computer or tv and download whatever show in HD on nyaa. I used to try to buy shows I liked on DVD or whatever but now I only ever get the blu ray if I literally can't find whatever it is with the dub I want or whatever it is I can't find. A lot of people upload bonus features too if you're into that.

I have a bunch of videos of dragon ball, z, gt & most of the tapes of Gundam 0079 but I'd never buy that shit again for the prices they go for on a current format. I keep those because it's kind of a cool shelf thing to have, but just pirate that shit and make your own blurays if you need to have a copy. The only recent anime physical editions I own are I bought Gundam thunderbolt because the 4k version has English subs and the dub and I collect 4k discs
 
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Originally, physical sales of anime media like Blurays were targeted towards places such as rental stores rather than individual consumers, unlike in the West. As a result, they were high price low volume affairs. They never really changed this dynamic, it's just that it turns out besides rental stores, hardcore otaku were willing to pony up the large sums for the Blurays, and it was more profitable to cater to the few hardcore fans than going for the mass market and making a small profit margin (cf. anime figurines).

The one silver lining is that Japanese Blurays at least, while fleecing you for $100+, come with a bunch of extra goodies, like an exclusive game, VN, or merch.
 
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Hembruh said:
it's not even worth it unless it's some sort of shelf piece. It's a better investment if you like anime to just buy an external hard drive you can have on your computer or tv and download whatever show in HD on nyaa. I used to try to buy shows I liked on DVD or whatever but now I only ever get the blu ray if I literally can't find whatever it is with the dub I want or whatever it is I can't find. A lot of people upload bonus features too if you're into that.

I have a bunch of videos of dragon ball, z, gt & most of the tapes of Gundam 0079 but I'd never buy that shit again for the prices they go for on a current format. I keep those because it's kind of a cool shelf thing to have, but just pirate that shit and make your own blurays if you need to have a copy.
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Bro pirate quality rips are ass. Stop lying to yourself.
draggs said:
It costs a lot of money to uncensor all those nipples
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Oddly enough I've never found one of these elusive discs that contain like 15 minutes of extra booba. If they do anything, it's mostly cleaning up the Animation
 
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Hembruh said:
you never heard of a remux you retarded faggot?
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Sounds like less that a 35mb bit rate.
Waifu Denier said:
Originally, physical sales of anime media like Blurays were targeted towards places such as rental stores rather than individual consumers, unlike in the West. As a result, they were high price low volume affairs. They never really changed this dynamic, it's just that it turns out besides rental stores, hardcore otaku were willing to pony up the large sums for the Blurays, and it was more profitable to cater to the few hardcore fans than going for the mass market and making a small profit margin (cf. anime figurines).

The one silver lining is that Japanese Blurays at least, while fleecing you for $100+, come with a bunch of extra goodies, like an exclusive game, VN, or merch.
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This I've heard in my research. They just never changed the rental era prices because people paid. Very Japanese, keeping with tradition
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
I've never had a poor quality anime blu ray. The sound alone is superior
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you're a retard, the sound in a remux is the same. Its just the blu ray verbatim moved to a container file. the bdmv is literally just the bluray disc as a digital file. you probably don't even have a sound system beyond possibly a sound bar to hear the extra channels properly regardless but even so, this is how this works. I download shit (not just anime) as remuxes because I have the space on drives and so where applicable I have full 4k and 9.1 channel atmos sound and shit for my home theater set up. With anime you almost never get releases like that on blu ray anyways but you get 7.1 channel sound and full HD in them
 
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The Token Ethnic said:
Licensing fees. If you think that's expensive, you should check out how much Aniplex charges for some of their releases:View attachment 5666232
If you want a physical copy of a series, check on ebay or mercari. You can usually find titles at a cheaper price. I know Crunchyroll purchased Right Stuf, but they occasionally had decent sales on the site.
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I'm sorry hold the fuck up. "I want to Eat Your Pancreas"? The cover and title together are so confusing, wtf chinese cartoons.
 
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Hembruh said:
you're a retard, the sound in a remux is the same. Its just the blu ray verbatim moved to a container file. the bdmv is literally just the bluray disc as a digital file. you probably don't even have a sound system beyond possibly a sound bar to hear the extra channels properly regardless but even so, this is how this works. I download shit (not just anime) as remuxes because I have the space on drives and so where applicable I have full 4k and 9.1 channel atmos sound and shit for my home theater set up. With anime you almost never get releases like that on blu ray anyways but you get 7.1 channel sound and full HD in them
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It may be a just a file, but it's on a disc that'll last 100 years. A hard drive crashes in 10.
 
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