Best Place to Buy Anime DVDs

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Best Place to Buy Anime DVDs

Postby Red Wolf » Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:11 pm

In my local area I have found that Best Buy has the best selection and price for the drive. I have another place I like, AllDirect.com, for a lot of anime DVDs that are both dubbed and subbed. However I would like to know a few other places to find purely dubbed anime like FLCL (and any other anime DVDs for that matter) so I thought I'd ask and see what places everyone gets their DVDs at and what price range.
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Re: Best Place to Buy Anime DVDs

Postby mexicanjunior » Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:15 pm

Red Wolf wrote:In my local area I have found that Best Buy has the best selection and price for the drive. I have another place I like, AllDirect.com, for a lot of anime DVDs that are both dubbed and subbed. However I would like to know a few other places to find purely dubbed anime like FLCL (and any other anime DVDs for that matter) so I thought I'd ask and see what places everyone gets their DVDs at and what price range.


Best Buy always seems to have good prices for me as well. A few other places with decent anime sections are F.Y.E and Sam Goody at the malls. They are usually a little higher prices than Best Buy though.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:27 pm

FYE - all the dvds are $30
BestBuy - all the dvds are $22
eva = 8 dvds
8 x 30 = 240
8 x 22 = 176
240 - 176 = $64
$64 = 2.9 dvds at bestbuy

what does all this mean?
u can almost get 3 extra dvds if u buy 8 at best buy instead of fye
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Postby Red Wolf » Thu Oct 03, 2002 6:33 pm

Well I'm glad to know Best Buy seems to be the best retail store. Especially since they are opening one 5 miles from me next Friday :twisted:

Any thoughts on online anime sources?
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Postby Gotenksisdabest » Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:22 pm

I get my dvds at fye :?
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Postby Outlaw Desire » Thu Oct 03, 2002 8:02 pm

Well, online i have to say http://www.animenation.com, they have a lot of imports, some expensive, some cheap, and they have a lot of non import dvds(anime, of course). But as for retail, i must say bestbuy does have the cheap factor going for them, but they dont have the selection(well at lest mine dosn't), ok they have a selection, but nothing compared to a Suncoast, which is more expensive, but they have a hell of a lot more dvds than bestbuy, but not everybody has a suncoast, so bestbuy would do as a substitute.
Here's the suncoast link, if you have not been there yet. Remember, suncoast does rip you off, in the store and online, but they have a better selection than bestbuy, I reccomened that you go into a suncoast store rather than the online one because the reg. store has a better selection.
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Postby TaranT » Fri Oct 04, 2002 2:26 am

Local retail stores:

Best Buy and Tower Records, usually 20% off. But for Tower that's only during the first week after release.

Target and Circuit City have started carrying anime, but it's scattered among their normal movies (hard to find) and they only carry popular titles like Akira and YuGiOh. Good prices, though.

Kinokuniya Bookstore for some region 2 discs.

Online stores:

DVD Planet almost exclusively. Generally 20%-30% off. Best part is that if they say it's in-stock, it really is (unlike ULN/BestPrices.com).

CD Japan for region 2 discs.

And The Right Stuf for those limited Bandai boxes.

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Postby stormybaka » Fri Oct 04, 2002 3:33 am

I get a large amount of my anime from
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Postby Gotenksisdabest » Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:20 am

Outlaw Desire wrote:Well, online i have to say http://www.animenation.com, they have a lot of imports, some expensive, some cheap, and they have a lot of non import dvds(anime, of course). But as for retail, i must say bestbuy does have the cheap factor going for them, but they dont have the selection(well at lest mine dosn't), ok they have a selection, but nothing compared to a Suncoast, which is more expensive, but they have a hell of a lot more dvds than bestbuy, but not everybody has a suncoast, so bestbuy would do as a substitute.
Here's the suncoast link, if you have not been there yet. Remember, suncoast does rip you off, in the store and online, but they have a better selection than bestbuy, I reccomened that you go into a suncoast store rather than the online one because the reg. store has a better selection.
http://www.suncoast.com


ohhh yes all my best buys have......dbz :shock: yes dbz I saw arkia (dont know if spelled it right)but thats it and fye has a huge anime selection :D
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Postby Declan_Vee » Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:38 am

I'm not sure what the postage cost would be, and they'd only work if you had a region 0 player that can do PAL. but you may want to try http://www.madman.com.au

approx US$15 a DVD.
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Postby artfreak13 » Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:42 am

best buy and suncoast are the best places. fye only has the ultra popular stuff, like dbz :?
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Postby Miyur » Mon Oct 07, 2002 11:39 am

fye is to expensive and they dont have a lot of titles.
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Postby Castor Troy » Mon Oct 07, 2002 12:47 pm

My best buy has the EVA dvd boxset for $100.
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Postby MAS PRODUCTIONS » Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:09 pm

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Postby clickbangburn » Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:08 pm

some conventions carry REALLY cheap items.
like @ otakon 2002 i bought a bunch of rayearth movies for only 2 bucks each!
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