Hehehehehehehehehehe, I get the impression you think anime is just what you saw on the store shelf, and maybe a couple of tv stations.BasharOfTheAges wrote:I wasn't aware there were that many series that aired on TV that never made it to R2.lestheanimesarge wrote:I have a 3 inch binder full of dvds with fan subbed anime that might never actually make it to dvd. Dvd is never assured after all.
I could fill several more binders, but a person needs to at least want the stuff.
I regularly go to places like Animesuki, and it takes only seconds to realize the "holy crap is there a lot of anime out there".
The days of vhs were the days also before most of the web was www friendly as well.
Dvd has made anime MUCH easier to sell though, and the web has made it much easier to circulate. Torrent file format has likely greatly aided in the process.
My binder likely has over 100 series in it of varying durations, although single season runs of 26 seem the common size. 13s are also common.
But I like the older 90s stuff just as easily as the stuff that is airing as we speak.
I've been encouraged that box sets are increasingly priced in a way I can actually think about getting them myself. I just made the dramatic step to buy Air TV recently. But having friends that can loan it so casually, does take a lot of the fire out hehe.
As for the durability issue, people, there is NO place to store it aaaaaaabsolutely safe. I had a friend have a 250 GIG! back up drive get a bad partition on him. Talk about panic. He was soooooo lucky to be able to find a utility to tranfer the data elsewhere. Almost lost 250 gigs of anime. So don't think you can hide from dvds going stale.
It means the DVDs that come out in the stores in Japan. And all the series that air on TV do get sold on DVD. Some of us actually import them because we want to support the industry, not to mention the video quality is a heck of a lot better than downloads for AMV source.
