Some companies are doing better - FMA was 13 volumes in Japan, same as it'll be in the US. Oddly enough Azumanga Daioh is 6 volumes here, too.badmartialarts wrote:A lot of anime companies are getting bitchy about the Japanese otaku buying their anime from America where even after import taxes it comes out much cheaper than Japanese DVDs of a series. Pray that the Japanese start putting more episodes on each disc rather than forcing all the American companies to conform to their dumb ideas of profit protection.
Of course, for each one of those cases (in which you're still paying 2x as much as you would in the US), there's a $60/2 episode DVD.
I'm hitting the Tokyo International Anime Fair in April, if I can find a right way to word the questions in Japanese I intend on asking company reps how long they want to get away with applying 1980s pricing to 2000s technology.
