Do you buy anime?

>>134070428
Why do you ask? Do you have some good shit to sell me?

>>134070428
I would but since I'm so poor I don't.

I'm starting to run out of space on my Manga Bookcase. What should I do?

>>134070428
Holy shit, you have cat April from the original TMNT cartoon on your wall? That's so random.

>>134070428
Anime is shit, so no.
I buy only manga.

>>134070573
Holy shit, I thought that was a pig. That's fucking disgusting.

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>>134070562
Buy another bookcase.

>>134070600
I see a healthy mixture of good and terrible manga. You have nuanced taste.

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>All those useless vhs.

>Localized monmusu and nisekoi.

>>134070667
>vhs
>useless

>>134070428
>the Rei
>some Bleach whore
>Lina Inverse
>Belldandy

One of those doesn't fit in there.

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>>134070428
>la blue girl
i've commited genocides with how much sperm I lost to that series

>>134070573
>>134070595
What, you don't like catgirls?

>>134070428
Of course not.

Do you suck dicks?

>>134071157
>>134072255
I don't understand. Why wouldn't you want physical versions of your favorite shows?

>>134072304
BD region lock

>>134072313
... is easy to bypass

>>134072344
Tell me how

>>134072357
Do you use a computer? Google it.

>>134070667

You know 20 years from now people will be mocking BD and hard drives? Still, at least they weren't betamax.

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I used to back when that was the only real way for me to get it. Was over ten years ago, though. Only have a couple series on VHS and a handful of movies. Then started buying DVDs, so I've got a shelf full of those. I still buy manga from time to time if there's something I really like.

>>134072502
>and hard drives
What will be they using

>>134072526
DNA

>>134072581
Scary

>>134072526

High speed, large storage SSD, it'll all just be direct to memory. Spinning drives won't be around.

>>134072526
SSD?

>>134072587
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/writing-book-dna-8-16-12

>>134072595
>>134072590
Its true SSD never die? If so that will be the golden age of piracy

No I just buy manga since anime is shit anyway

>>134072635
>buying translated manga

>>134072702
Did he say that?

>>134072724
Its a very safe assumption, this thread is not about importing. At least with anime I get jap voices.
Whenever I get tempted to buy manga I just cant get over the fact its english only.

>>134072761
No it isn't.
It's an almost safe assumption under the condition that he can't speak Japanese. But if he can't speak Japanese, then buying localized manga is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
If he can speak Japanese, then he's probably importing.

In short, you're being silly.

>>134070428
>Do you buy anime?
Yes, I pay for anime at crunchyroll and funimation. Nothing beats the feeling of properly supporting your favorite anime and studios through official sites.

>>134073138
>streamfags

>>134073239
Don't fall for shit bait.
Save your virginity for the good bait.

>>134073262
How will I know it's good bait when I see it?

>>134073298
When it's so good your replies are moving on their own.

>>134073262
This >>134073138(you) is a good bait though to be honest with you family.

>>134070428
I stream or watch it on live TV, having physical copies is like collecting stickers.

>buying anime

I have some localized manga though, because not everyone reads moonrunes.

how do you guys feel about buying a series that might not finish in your time? perfect example is berserk and drifters. especially drifters for how long it took the author to finish hellsing.

>>134075829
Manga usually aren't written towards an end. When you read them you should try to just enjoy the ride.
Of course, it's nice if you do get a good conclusion, but really, that's just a bonus.

>>134075856
never thought of it that way. a whole different perspective.

>>134075829
I never start reading unfinished manga.

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>>134076000
one of the main reasons I don't like going into OPT

>>134070600
Volume 7 of a brides story is out,get on it!

>>134076000
>>134075856
so how do you guys feel about buying manga that will never be translated to english? nejimaki kagyu is the only eve manga to make me feel like that. but I thought it would be too weaboo for me to do that especially since I cant read moon. now that ive said it sounds really retarded.

>>134076109
If I had more disposable income, I'd start a second library with all my favorite manga in the original language.
But alas I'm quite poor, and so I buy only what I can actually read.

>>134076143
im poor too. but since I do a little something alone. I'm able to get at least 1 or 2 books a month.

I own a decent amount of manga but only a few anime movies. Mostly because I don't like reading on a computer.

>>134075829
What's the problem. I've been buying one piece religiously for 15 years or so.

>>134076250
im talking about series like berserk or drifters or hell even d-gray man. where the release date for each chapter is long as hell. and some times might not even release at all.

>>134076250
>Buying battleshounen

>>134076109
Solution: learn moon, like I did. I'm now running out of space on my second bookshelf and will soon have to build a third.

>>134076389
>battleshounen
Fuck off.

>>134070600
>wan piss

>>134076302
Have faith anon. Even if the series never finishes, you'll read the old volumes again and have good memories and fun again.

>>134076389
>memetexting

>>134076409
No you didnt.

>>134076410
Kill yourself.

>>134070428
I live the minimalism life. I don't buy anything unless its a necessity like food

>>134076484
Better get rid of that computer then.

>>134076442
alright I guess I could buy up to specific points like for d-gray man buy up to level 4 demon arc and wait till the story progresses to another "save point".

>>134076474
Shitpost harder, retard.

>>134076508
>Buying battleshounen shit like a nigger

>>134076502
but I need a computer to post on /a/, anon.

I have 3 book shelves full of mangos

have i gone too far?

>>134076521
>battleshounen
Again, fuck off back to /v/.

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Only things I enjoy enough

>>134076529
No you don't. A phone is completely sufficient for that.
In fact, you don't even need that.
Go to the library and post from public computers that are available for free.

>>134076604
>not posting from your digital watch

>>134076539
Are you fucking retarded? Battleshounen is the only thing someone from /v/ would read. But i guess i can't expect much from someone who reads that trash.

>>134076538
You should eat them before buying more.

>>134076604
>posting from a phone

Kill yourself.

>>134076652
>not just paying two pesos to my gardener to sell them on the street corner

>>134076672
>having a phone

Kill yourself

>>134076695
>typing the word phone

Commit suicide

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>>134070428

>that parlabor spine

Man, I miss big media.

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>>134076461
うそじゃねーけど

>>134076745

You sound like a fag.

>>134076638
There are good manga and bad manga, calling an entire genre (a genre that doesn't exist) trash is just shitposting.

>>134076729
Has someone gone to archive all this? They really should.

>>134076793
if /v/ likes it, its automatic trash. sorry, but new people like you need to understand that anything /v/ likes must be shunned.

>>134076728
>typing things in general

Commit seppuku

>>134076819
I know a guy on /v/ that likes living and breathing air

>>134076842
that's a terrible analogy, shame on you.

>>134076819
You are a fucking retard.

>>134076871
>implying you need to breathe air to live

lol get a load of this guy

>>134070428
have you seen the price of BDs these days?
I'd rather just buy manga.

>>134076745
Was learning moon hard? How did you do it?

>>134076914
Ate the brain of a japanese person.

>>134076547
7.5/10 gr8 taste

>>134076871
Your rule is a terrible joke. It doesn't deserve a good analogy.

>>134076924
what does a japanese person have to do with the moon

>>134076914
take an astronomy course at your local college its not that hard actually

>>134076819
>>>134076793 (You)
>if /v/ likes it, its automatic trash. sorry, but new people like you need to understand that anything /v/ likes must be shunned.
/v/ likes anime and manga so everything is trash.
Calling me new is pretty ironic considering that your post is pratically screaming "I'm n-not a newfag I s-swear!"

>>134076957
>/v/ likes anime and manga
No they don't. They hate everything Japanese.

>>134076957
>/v/ likes anime and manga so everything is trash.
/v/ only likes specific genres, usually stuff like cowboy bebop that is more serious and has a story to it. there is a huge difference to what /v/ likes and what /a/ likes. anything /a/ likes, /v/ calls it weeb shit.

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>>134076871
When you speak in absolutes like "everything" and "always", that's exactly what you open yourself up to.

No only that, but if for some reason /v/ discovered Valkyrie Drive or OPM, does that instantly negate all the good things of those series?

>>134076957
/v/ is your avarage normalfag cunt who hates video games and everything /a/ likes. They crossboard whenever something like opm airs.

>>134077021
/a/ likes Cowboy Bebop though. /a/ just doesn't want to discuss it with /v/.

I mostly import artbooks and anime magazines every now and then, I also have a decently sized manga collection, a limited edition boxset of Eva (tv version), and a couple of movies

>>134077040
if /v/ started liking it? I know for a fact they'll turn it into cancer at the very least.

>>134077075
>>134077094
>>134077073

/a/ and /v/ are not one person

shut the fuck up

>>134077097
Do we have to spell out ''in general'' for you?

>>134077097
/a/ is mostly me samefagging and you forcing a shitpost in between my monologues every once in a while.

>>134077123
There is no general either.
In both boards there are all kind of opinion, if anything the word you want is "retarded stereotype"

>>134077145
Stereotypes exist for a reason you idiot.

>>134077176
Yes to let idiots generalize and feel superior to highly diverse groups of people

>>134076914
It took a while but wasn't really hard. Got a few books on grammar, used a spaced repetition system (anki, later iknow.jp), kept grinding vocabulary.

Recommendations:
1) Start by taking a weekend to cram all hiragana and katakana into your head in one go, and refresh your memory on those once a week and later on once a month or so.
2) Don't learn individual kanji in isolation; learn them as part of actual words.
3) When learning kanji, learn to write them (pen on paper) in the correct stroke order, which gives a tremendous boost to retention and understanding.
4) Read and translate manga and books; translating forces you to really consider intent and meaning while reading allows you to subconsciously skip parts that you don't really understand.

>>134077230
maybe you should go back to /v/ if you can't handle how things work on /a/.

>>134077243
I browse like 7 boards at the same time all day long.
I dont have to "go back" anywhere

>>134077268
Anywhere but here.

>>134077268
>browse like 7 boards
like what?

>>134077277
No thanks.

>>134077283
Why does it matter? Why do you want to judge me so badly?

>>134077292
since I know you visit boards like /v/, I want to know if you also browse cancer boards like /tv/.

>>134077355
Well since you bothered being specific no I dont browse /tv/ if only because I dont watch any TV series and I dont see the point in discussing movies.
I know is famous for baneposting but I think If I liked TV enough I would go there anyways.

>>134077021
>/v/ only likes specific genres, usually stuff like cowboy bebop that is more serious and has a story to it
These are liked by /a/, you are clearly one of those who think "everything I don't like is /v/". You are wrong, I lurk on /v/ sometime and they're more into things like oreimo, yuru yuri and umaru.

>>134077414
>and umaru
Complete cancer as expected.

>>134077414
He's clearly a newfag that is trying to fit in, not realizing that the "/a/ likes only moe anime" is a recent meme forced by a vocal minority.

>>134070428
Yes.

>>134072502
Actual film student here. Betamax is far superior to VHS. The reason VHS 'won' was betamax tapes were shorter (because of the higher quality) meaning you 'could' tape for 2 hours with betamax you would likely miss the end of your TV movie if you recorded it and left. But since betamax was superior sound and image quality it was rather successful in the home video market for years (I grew up in the 1980s and remember several friends had betamax and the video stores were 1/3 betamax for years)

After that beta was used clear until 5 years ago or so by every single Television station on the planet due to it's higher archival quality (it's since been replaced by digital recorders). When I was in my internship I used to swap out betamax tapes the size of your computer keyboard as one of my primary jobs as an intern. I admit I spent the vast majority of that summer sitting in office chairs and chatting with the staff or screwing around in the soundproof room when I was bored than getting any actual work done but I did spend time swapping out betamax tapes from their array.

>>134077699
>"/a/ likes only moe anime" is a recent meme
except its not. look at the catalog, almost all of it is slice of life/moe anime.

>>134077242
That's pretty cool, thanks.

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>>134070600
Entire set of GON, that makes up for all the other shit on that collection.

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>>134080495
Oh shit and Dorohedoro as well hadn't noticed, talk about good taste.

I only buy manga.

>>134076745
>999
>VLR
Great taste mate.

>>134080495
That looks like the dinosaur from Tekken.

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>>134080746
Because it is, he was added to Tekken for some reason.

>>134080806
So what's this dino all about?

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Only manga. I don't really buy discs of any kind anymore.

Got some stuff coming in the post, though now it's so close to Christmas it'll probably be here in January.

>>134075829
I'd like to think all series I buy will finish or get axed before I die.

>tfw all of /a/ know japanese now

What the fuck happened. You fags will make me feel out of place in the only place I have left.

>>134080875
Just fucking read it, there are only like 4 chapters with good quality scan anyways.

>>134080963
Plenty of /a/ still don't know Japanese. Most people are happy enough just reading translations and don't really feel like they want to buy anything so there's not too much point for them.

You should probably learn some though. It's good not to be too reliant on people that have no obligation to actually translate for you.

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Sometimes.

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Mostly manga, anime only from time to time.

>>134081525
>patlabor
Good man.

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No. Just manga. And video games. And movies, but that's a different picture altogether.

>>134070428
No, but I did buy a Crunchyroll account to help support the anime industry, unlike you faggots who just steal it.

>>134082627
>he plays xbox games

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>>134083118
actually I have one too, not to support the anime industry directly but the translators on our end (but Crunchyroll sucks!) no worse than fansubbers

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I only buy manga.

>>134070428
From the 99 cents store, yes.

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>>134083995

Where are the Blame! my french bro ?

Also nice start of a collection.

>>134070600
What's that in the bottom right next to Tokyo Ghoul

>>134077242
How long did this all take assuming you are a master now?

>>134085883
Something is weird here, what am I looking at

I buy raw manga when I can't find scans online

>>134086209
30 minutes

>>134083118
>I'm supporting anime industry!
>Shitroll
kek

>>134083598
What are you trying to say here?

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>>134086279

You are looking at a wall of manga nothing weird here except maybe the extra stacking.

>>134085883
Satan please. I have to finish 6 series. Don't tempt me.

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>>134086623
My god. How many manga do you own and how many shekels have you spend into your collection ?

>>134086901

I stopped counting them a long time ago but I seriously started collecting them about 5 years now.

I usually buy 20 manga by month thanks to French strong manga industry, price varies depending on the edition but I roughly pay 150 Euros each month (about 158 Dollars) so you do the math because I don't want to know.

As for the number of manga probably over 700 not far from 1000 I bet.

>>134070428
i used to buy a shit tonne of anime (see: blackmarket bootleg editions) some 20 years ago. But now that anime has become so shit, and it's infinitely easier just to download for free, and to add i make minimum wage and is poorer than shit since the cost of living has gone through the roof, no, i don't buy anime. i would buy it were it easier to do so and if their was a way to transport value from here to there, say if there was a way to send money to an account from my bank to said acccount and they charged me upwards of a buck or so for an anime download, then sure, it's all gravy.

Anyone here bought the MVM release of monogatari? aniplex is fucking expensive and i dont know if the mvm releases are good

>>134087344
Tu as les Nausicaa et Gunnm ?
Perso j'ai bien du mettre un an pour trouver et réunir les 7 tomes de la vallée du vent à des prix raisonnables. Et pas moyen de trouver Gunnm. Scandale. On t'innonde de torchon à la Naruto mais les classiques, eux, sont introuvables.

>>134088723
Keep it English.

>>134088723

Je vois pas trop comment ta fait pour mettre 1 ans a acheter les Nausicaa vue que je les aient tous payer d'un coup il y a 2 mois de ca sur Amazon.fr avec la nouvelle Réedition qu'ils ont fait Glénat.
Mais ouais ils sont dans ma collection sauf qu'ils sont cachés derrière.

I don't have the Gunnm though not really a big fan of it.

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>>134089039
It was a year ago, before they printing again the N.E
Mine were printed between 2011 and 2013

>>134070600
Your Solanin is upside down. Please change it for me.

>>134087344
Assuming each manga costs an average of 7.9, with 700 volumes, you've spent over 5530$.

That's not too bad.

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Sometimes.

I'm actually deciding to get an account with Crunchyroll, they use the money to fight loli and Oreimo moral degeneracy which I support and can do a better job with the money than I can.

I buy, encode/sub and share.
I wish more people on /a/ would do that instead of complaining that good raws of something aren't available. Buy them and upload the rips on ADC/NT or something.

>>134088723
tue-toi mon homme

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No, but I buy manga.

>>134089462
>Letting natural light into your room
Don't touch me, you filthy casual.

>>134091674
Wait, where did you buy that Museum of Terror book?

>>134091895
At a shop called Forbidden Planet in London. Is it out of print or something?

>>134092133
>London
It's a rarity to see Junji Ito books here.

>>134092216
I've found Uzumaki in Waterstones.

I have no income
If I had some income I would buy a few figures first, if I had plenty of income I would buy some of my favorite series

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just manga

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I used to buy manga when I was like 12. The only series I have left is Yotsuba and Ichigo Mashimaro.

>>134093195

and now you are 15

cool story

>>134093195
>"Outgrowing" manga
Get a load of this faggot.

>>134070932
Rei a shit, right?

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Guess what I bought!

>>134095220
Shit?

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>>134095220
Dead careers!

>>134095220
shit

>>134095439
Not enough Yoshinoya-sensei.

>>134081525
The only post admirable in this whole thread.

>>134092391

>It's a rarity to see Ito books in the UK

I've bought Fragments of Horror off of Amazon not long ago and I saw Uzumaki and Gyo in my local Traveling Man all the time, I plan on picking up both towards the end of the year.

>>134070600
>azumanga daioh
>yosuba
superior taste

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I figure I have similar taste to alot of people on /a/.

>>134070428
Yeah, I bought Geass R1 and every piece of GisT stuff can get me hands on

>>134076547
>wakfu
>anime
Similingduck.jpg

>>134070428
Only manga, and usually only short series.

>>134080272
I actually don't know what is this

>>134098655
Since when is Biscuit Hammer localized

>>134098894
Since at least 6 months ago, that's when I bought 1+2

>>134098894
Get with the times, also keep your eyes open for Franken Fran in 2016.

>>134070600
>Buy another bookcase.
I wish my room had more room for another book case. My vidya and book collection are taking up too much space, and I regularly buy more of each.

Thank fuck I dont buy manga, I would never have space. I dont get people who buy figures either, dont they realize how valuable space is?

>>134089462
Man, that room just looks cozy.

>>134099334
>physically being video games
Manga I can kind of understand, as there is a certain feel to reading it in your hands.

Dvd's/bluray as well, you might need to take that somewhere without internet access.

But vidya? Any place you play video games on a regular basis will have internet, no need for physical storage

>>134099491
I'll understand physical media for installing the games, good chunks of the perceived civilized world still have bongo-drum, unstable or metered connections.

>>134099491
>Any place you play video games on a regular basis will have internet, no need for physical storage
Didnt you learn from steam removing songs from GTA, Pantyshots being removed from Skullgirls, PT being removed from everywhere, etc. That the only way you garuntee ownership is by having a physical copy?
Because I like not having devs fuck me over and rob me of content.
Also in cases like Touhou, I can support the dev by buyingtheir games. Zun doesnt offer digital iirc.

>>134099698
>That the only way you garuntee ownership is by having a physical copy?
No, the only way you guarantee ownership nowadays is by pirating it. Modern games come requiring internet connections unless they're cracked.

>>134100085
True but I want to support some devs, and other times emulators arent working.

I would start collecting manga, but I want Japanese manga. I am learning, but I'm not at the elevel where I could use Jap sites to order things. So to save buying it twice, I wait.

>>134081050
>read
There's nothing to read.