Ill still buy the dvd/bluray if its something I really liked and would prefer to own. I bought Steins Gate on bluray recently, and I intend to buy the Spice and Wolf bluray collection as well. plus I did just get in on 2 rounds of the mystery boxes, so thats 60 more dvd's right there, though their not whole collections.

I love collecting, though it's blu rays now if I can help it.

My Bakemonogatari BDs came in today and I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or satisfied. The packing was smaller than I expected and the booklet was a huge letdown. For something worth $150 I feel that I did not get my money's worth. . . Nonetheless, I'm happy to own the series on BD despite not having a BD player -- I watch most of my anime on my laptop.

Here are a few images of them; they're quite big filesizes so slow internet will take a while to load them.


I really like the cover art for the box. The BDs have two sides -- both of which contains artwork -- so it's a nice touch and adds to the aesthetics of the product. I am most disappointed with the booklet as it really adds nothing to the set. . . Well, it does. It has a nice paper quality but I fear that it will damage easier, especially the cover. I was hoping for it to be hardcover but it wasn't so I won't be touching the booklet much. As for its actual contents, it provides synopsis of each character's arc, character illustrations, and art by animators/artists. The problem is that the booklet is about the size of the BD casings so you don't get decent sized images of the artwork and illustrations. I don't think the BD LE is worth $150 and it would be far more worthwhile to get if it was around the $100 range. It's nice to own this but I think it could had been better if it was cheaper.

Yes, I love buying anime.

Here's a pic of my most recent pickups (received them in the mail yesterday)

Yes, I'm more likely to watch it on a dvd/blu ray then online lately

I still buy them just because I don' t trust the online sources to keep the ones I like forever. A lot of times the license expires and the site has to discontinue the anime (happened with Deadman Wonderland on crunchyroll, for example). Only buy the ones I care enough to see more than once though.

Looks good to me!

You guys who buy anime here don't know what expensive is! Imported from Japan, this set is ￥ 29,400 currently on sale for ￥ 21,452... I prefer the imports but I pay for them... Dusk Maiden of Amnesia BD 6, three episodes and sound track, booklet, ¥5918... on sale, but I absolutely love it!

I've been really spoiled with Funimation's pricing and other R1 distributors, too. I would love to import items from Japan but sometimes they're just too pricey for a part timer who only earns around $400 a month to sustain a decent lifestyle. I kind of expect Japanese DVDs/BDs to be more expensive partly due to the reason that some come with OSTs/art pamphlets or booklets so they make the purchase much more worthy.

First discs from some of my favorite series of the year:

http://t.co/tN89DGaz

I still buy DVDs but i am makeing the switch to blu-ray, but i only buy the shows that i really love now. Back in the day there was nothing worse then putting down a ton of money on a show you ended up not likeing.

For imported discs I always buy BDs if available as the DVD price is almost the same now. I have to play region 2 DVDs on computers mostly as proper players refuse to play them. BD quality is amazing, so good! At import prices I have to be careful but so far, just love them and all the accompanying goodies, audio CDs, booklets and such are just great, I know I am a sucker for that sort of stuff but it makes me happy

As long as it makes you happy that's all that matters

As much as i love collecting series on DVD/Blu-ray, it's kinda sad how little is available within my region. I'd love it if more series would become available with Region 2 coding. I don't have words for how much i want to own series like Katanagatari. etc on Blu-ray or DVD.

The most "exclusive" series i own is probably the two Fate/Zero Box-sets. They cost me A LOT of money, but they were so damn worth it.

Thats great. i know how you feel. As long as you are happy i hope you keep up with it ^_^

I'm just starting my dvd collections and would rather own the dvds than have them all downloaded on devices. gives me that wonderful anticipation of watching a favorite show.