So even the great, inerrable Mike O'Toole
doesn't pay full price for his anime? Tsk tsk,
perish the thought.
No. It would be a poor business choice to pay
sticker price when better deals for the licensed
product are available. Five bucks may not seem
like a lot on its face, but that adds up quickly.
Not true. So very not true it's painful. In
fact, that seems to be the way things are GOING
nowadays.
What are you talking about? VHS has been an
essentially dead format for almost a year. TV
series are no longer packaged with any fewer than
three episodes per disc (and only holdouts like
Viz are that stingy). Princess Nine has five
episodes per disc for $19.95 retail (which works
out to about $10-15, street).
Eva, released in 1998 here, was 2 eps
per tape and $30 per tape.
Where are you located? Evangelion was first
released on VHS in the US in 1996 (August, to be
precise), and was reissued on DVD (4 eps per
disc) starting at the end of 2000.
Cowboy Bebop is two
eps per tape
Both Bebop and EVA have been LONG out of print on
VHS. The Bebop discs contain 4-5 episodes per
disc at $29.95 per disc, and there's even extras
on the discs.
Not everyone has a place to rent anime.
If you're in the US, you should be able to find a
Blockbuster or Hollywood video in your
neighborhood. Most of them stock anime, because
they know what's popular.
Here's a piece of advice: Never take a
critic's
judgement of a piece of work to heart enough to
make you avoid something.
Point taken, but I usually check out mrqe.com for
a spread of several reviews of a title if I don't
know anything about it. A single review isn't a
good gauge of quality, but half a dozen reviews
is a little more telling.
A clip never encompasses a series.
And music clips never encompass an album... but
didn't you cite going to cdnow.com as a
substitute for buying a CD?
And what if THEY don't have any?
Then it's time for some new friends! (j/k ;-) )
Maybe not for you. But remember, we're not
you.
Maybe you should try harder. Our just save your
pennies for the legit DVDs. |
