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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: Western OTAKU Blast from tthe Past... Posted: 05 Dec 2015, 03:53 |
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elahrairrah wrote: I have some issues of Animag--most notably the "Wings of Honneamise" cover.
Should probably throw them up on Ebay and see if anyone wants them. how many do you have? how much would you want for them all?
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Western OTAKU Blast from tthe Past... Posted: 05 Dec 2015, 12:19 |
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harlock wrote: ... The Urusei Yatsura LD50 can be yours for just $3500 Oldschool otaku were not kidding about having to take out a mortgage to afford that behemoth. Single disks average like $100. Wow, that is just crazy! The original price was 330.000 yen in the early 90s. Using the exchange rate that was in 1995, that's 2279 USD. They really slapped on a good amount on that price. Luckily I got my box set for just a fraction of that price, still sealed. The other discs, like OVAs, movies, etc, I paid 5 bucks each for. Thanks for sharing those pages, fun to see the prices. This is a good example for the phrase "buying today what we couldn't afford yesterday".
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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: Western OTAKU Blast from tthe Past... Posted: 05 Dec 2015, 18:05 |
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being an OTAKU was indeed a rarefied, privileged hobby for the Old Gold's kids before the mid/late-90's or so.
being the son of middle class parents that took an unfortunate dive bomb into something resembling lower class squalor in the 90's, i missed out on some fine things, but i consider myself fortunate that by the time my family began crawling back up the social stratum again, Anime began to hit the prime time, and i could become an OTAKU in relatively unbridled earnest.
indeed, though i very much appreciate the efforts of the well heeled trailblazing early western OTAKU, and enjoy collecting artifacts from that era, i fear the period in which Anime was wholly democratized, the term of virtual mainstream appeal in the U.S. that pretty well seemed to had alienated the majority of old guard western Anime fans, was my personal all too brief golden age...
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Western OTAKU Blast from tthe Past... Posted: 05 Dec 2015, 20:42 |
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Joined: 14 Jan 2010, 09:44 Posts: 6006 Location: Ann Arbor Has thanked: 1307 times Been thanked: 1116 times
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If you've ever bought a JP DVD or BR you'd know that prices haven't dropped all that much since back in the day. I'm still paying $100 an episode for Gundam: The Origin. The typical "half box" from Bandai still costs hundreds of dollars. Btw, if you think LDs were a fleecing, check out VHS prices!
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Western OTAKU Blast from tthe Past... Posted: 06 Dec 2015, 07:08 |
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Everything I've gotten on BR from Bandai Visual has loaded either straight to a static launch menu or, even better, straight to the feature. No logos or warnings or anything most of the time. Basically an LD.
That alone is honestly worthing paying double for, IMO. These Disney DVD/BRs...geez...I have to babysit the dumb Bluray player through the startup sequence and choose a bunch of crap, why? None of it makes any difference. The FBI warnings just get cut from the pirate version (meaning that ONLY people who actually paid for the thing are being hassled) and the promos are all basically just one big wank fest about how great Disney is, even if the movie you are watching was made entirely by Jim Henson or Ghibli.
Tacky animated menues are bad enough, but, honestly, the *nerve* of utilizing the unskipable menu for anything is just appalling. Think of the trillions of man hours that have been wasted waiting for an unskipable menu to play so that you can hit Play All once the menu loads when the dumb thing could just play as soon as spun the disc. Truly there is some psychopathy here somewhere.
BTW, I've been meaning to make a post about it, but they are selling Gundam: The Origin in 12x12 boxes with an obi and everything. It looks just like an LD, although the paper is thinner everywhere. I'll post pictures...probably.
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