Arsenette wrote:

Having already gone though an anime bust where companies literally went bankrupt because no one was buying their stuff (granted they wanted an arm, a leg, their unborn child and right butt cheek but I digress), giving CR 7 bucks a month to watch without commercials on my television screen in HD is worth it. The point of going premium is to not see the commercials for me and quite frankly I think it's worth it. It's subtitled and shown to me usually day of from Japan. I'm like hpulley where we didn't have this stuff back then. We used to jump up for joy when someone got a bad VHS copy of a program with no subs like a year after it was shown in Japan because they didn't have CR and Funimation, Hulu, Netflix back then. People use the internet for everything now thinking because you can download it it makes it right to rip people off. I support wherever I can legit releases whenever possible. I guess because I have the history to know what it's like to NOT have anime I can make that determination. Those who were born during the internet don't really "get it" and think everything is owed to them. Makes me sad honestly.

hpulley wrote:



I still have my VHS collection, I bought those too and I paid $35 for subs instead of $25 for dubs if I had a choice; that price is per tape, usually one or two 30minute episodes per tape from A.D. Vision, Manga Video, Orion Video Comics, Streamline Pictures. Not sure if any of them are still around... i usually bought them sight unseen at my comic book store with my manga... no bad copies for me, the originals were bad enough after ten views... bought them when I was a starving college student too, priorities LOL

papagolfwhiskey wrote:

I was lucky my local comic book store started branching out into anime rentals after the owner got hooked on Maison Ikkoku. Until crunchy roll I've never found anything even in the bigger cities to match what Hill City Comics and Cards had, back in the day.