Do you collect physical anime blu-rays and dvds? Why?

I'm not a streamfag. I want to contribute to the distributors here in the UK.

Anime here is very vulnerable to cuts due to the BBFC, most anime gets age restricted to 15 or occasionally 18. Plus the cost to get an anime age rated goes up by £7 for every minute of content, distributors have to pay thousands of pounds for just one series.

I don't collect anime, because I hate it when one format makes the previous one obsolete. I collect manga.

>>159626040
How about them aniplex prices?

>>159626040
>I'm not a streamfag. I want to contribute to the distributors here in the UK.
Disgusting, how about supporting the JP industry by importing shit, faggot?

Because I like having the physical thing, I don't want to risk getting viruses, and it feels good not to break the law.

>>159626867
See I like having the physical thing but I still torrent. Sucks that Sentai doesn't add any extras 99% of the time yet charge like $50 per blu-ray.

>>159627047

I torrent a lot of stuff as well, but I do buy stuff like mangas and dvds to help creators and publishers make some money, Guess that kind of makes up for pirating stuff right?

>>159627385
You are still breaking the law. From the perspective of a brainwashed copyright supporter, no your purchase does not make up for your torrenting.
See, the main problem people have with torrenting is not that you acquire the files for free. It's that you are also giving them to others. That's why DDL is so much safer than torrenting.

>>159626844
I'm not that far down the slippery slope and I never intend to go that far.

>>159625892
No, they look uneven/bad on the shelves. I buy all my manga tho, if it has an english translated release i buy that instead of reading it online.

>>159627467

Yeah I should probably stop torrenting, And look into DDL alternatives. Its still not legal but its better than torrenting stuff I guess. And hope that I never get sued or go to court.

>>159629740
With anime it doesn't really matter, unless you are really fucking stupid.
Live action stuff (especially recent releases) and music are more interesting to the bounty hunters.

>>159629823

Like Marvel movies or game of thrones for instance?

>>159629861
Yeah. And also anything from your country.

Shitty TL, shitty quality, overpriced manga. Would not buy again.

no, i do have some collectible lain vhs' but that's about it

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Rate my taste the first week I was into anime /a/

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>collecting localizations
Why would anyone ever do this

>>159633841
To watch them with one's parents, obviously.

>>159633841
I was under the pretense when I was a noob that "official" meant "quality". It took me a few thousand dollars to figure that out. Now I have a large piracy record and could probably be sued for millions.

WhatEveryoneWatched/10
Most people will deny this.

>>159634058
Look up what "pretense" means.

>>159625892
i would if i were a rich fuck, but charging $30 for a season on blu ray is like throwing money away to me. Manga on the other hand i buy what i want if its cheap or on a whim but i wouldn't collect that either.
>i feel like after years of collecting you'll look at your collection with regret

>>159626094
how big is it mate? pics?

>>159633786
>owning the shitshow that is angel beats

>>159634944
I've been collecting for over 15 years, and I am only getting happier with my little library.

>>159634994
Some 800 manga, give or take. No pictures.

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>>159635202

>>159636479
>Other
How many bins of things that don't matter do you have?

>>159626040
http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/strike-witches-video
http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/fate-kaleid-liner-prisma-illya-video

>>159634302
Yeah? And? Pretense too big a word for your ESL ass?

>>159636512
I'm the anon with picture you replied. That's a different guy. Only shows from that pic I like are Clannad, Ookami, and Bebop. All those were blind purchases. Essentially just burned my money

>>159639104
No seriously, look it up.

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>>159639229
Fine, I'll play your shitty ass game, Pajeet. Now quit giving English lessons and get back to being a normal retard

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>>159639324
>>159639229
He was indeed under a pretense. Ur making yourself look bad anon. Just stop.

>>159629740
Just pay for a VPN... I pay 20 bucks every 3 months to Torguard, and never have to worry about getting a letter in the mail or comcast pushing a warning to your modem etc. As far as anyone knows, its a machine halfway across the world Torrenting..

>>159639530
>torrenting
>VPN
That's pointless. Your IP is still visible.
If you want to protect yourself, buy a seedbox somewhere in Eastern Europe.

>>159639207
but death note, baccano, and black lagoon are pretty good anon

>>159639530
>>159639612
I've torrented terabytes within two years and never heard a peep from anybody. And I'm just on a fucking Comcast plan. There's no boogeyman out to get you.

>>159639726
It really depends what you download and what trackers you're on. I've never bothered to apply any costly protection to my set-up either, but that's because all I want is anime.

I have box sets for Planetes, Evangelion, Gankutsuou and a couple other ones. I used to have more but sold a bunch since I really don't watch dvds anymore.

I have a lot of manga but my collection's also getting too big so I started downloading scans and rips instead.

That dbz shelf is nice

>>159639530
you don't understand why people multi proxy do you?

ew. I do buy manga and will eventually increase my figure collection. Also some light novels.

>>159641094
>ew

Females are not allowed here

>>159625892

look at all that normalfag entry level shit

and yes i do buy dvd/bds sometimes

>>159625892
used to have a shit load of vhs back when I was a kid but I don't really have any now since I don't have a dvd/bluray player.

>>159625892
yes to support the creators

>>159633841
Some of them are good.