I have no problem paying money for things I like. I bought "Sea Prince & Fire Child" and that's not even a very good movie!
Back in the 1990s I bought almost ZERO anime. I think I bought the Voyager Be Forever and the AnimEigo My Youth In Arcadia on VHS. It wasn't until DVDs came along and made things cheaper that I started actually buying actual anime. And sure, I'm a cheap guy, but I was super broke throughout most of the 1990s.
Part of the problem is that the R1 industry seems to be aiming right directly at an audience of late teens and early 20s - EXACTLY the brokest-ass people in the world. You and me, we're boring old peoples with jobs, we can afford to buy DVDs. God forbid they'd try to sell things to the people who have money.
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2011-01-18 04:09 am (UTC)Back in the 1990s I bought almost ZERO anime. I think I bought the Voyager Be Forever and the AnimEigo My Youth In Arcadia on VHS. It wasn't until DVDs came along and made things cheaper that I started actually buying actual anime. And sure, I'm a cheap guy, but I was super broke throughout most of the 1990s.
Part of the problem is that the R1 industry seems to be aiming right directly at an audience of late teens and early 20s - EXACTLY the brokest-ass people in the world. You and me, we're boring old peoples with jobs, we can afford to buy DVDs. God forbid they'd try to sell things to the people who have money.