'No-one shall beat my R model car...'

[doxximus]

tarwin

THANKS FOR TRIGUN!

especially in jap with english sub

the english dubs usually sound goofy lol

[Cortide]

pretty cool having someone i know working at madman, considering they release some cool dvds.

hehe, english dubs do sound goofy, so true, plus its funny listening to japanese characters have long fast conversations, when you don't understand a single word, especially with the different emotives etc.

[fattdex]

yeah dude group buy! im up4 that brotha!

[Chunks]

HobbyJapan in Box Hill has just about every anime series and for a whole season (3 discs usualy) its $75

[predator]

i know that one, yer, good selection in there..

GO TAKUMI!

[tarwin]

3 Disc sets for a whole season is more than likely just VCDs that have been put onto DVD. The quality will be really really crap! 24 eps for a season, /3 = 8 per disc. They'll more than likely be DVD-5s as well ... what else can I say.

Hobby japan sells lots of priate stuff so I'd be careful, china or other asian imports (that are pirates). A friend of mine got End of Evangelion and Death and Rebirth on DVD about a year before they were actually released in Oz. The quality was crap and they might as well of downloaded a fan sub off the net (the quality would have been better).

Now a note for all those who download da fan subs. As far as I know Madman is pretty happy with people downloading and sharing fansubs as long as they arn't licensed as yet in Australia. (Not that I'm saying it's legan anyways but we just don't look).

I'll talk to the boss about group buys too.

[chopobo]

ah anime

kazaa is ur friend

i got a whole book of anime

[predator]

3 Disc sets for a whole season is more than likely just VCDs that have been put onto DVD. The quality will be really really crap! 24 eps for a season, /3 = 8 per disc. They'll more than likely be DVD-5s as well ... what else can I say.

hmmm, i beg to differ when it comes to InitialD that i have it sitting right here...

Anyhow, buy local, support local people

[funkymonkey]

yeah its fairly easy to get unreleased anime from HK and china, and they're pretty obvious fakes, but the quality so far I've found is good. They're basically copies of the Jap DVD with english and chinese subs most of the time. You hardly ever get a DVD box set from HK that has english soundtrack on it.

I thoguht what madman sold was dubbed anime, so if you really think about it, the pirate DVD box sets available shouldn't affect your sales.

But meh, its still illegal at the end of the day.

[funkymonkey]

true, the initial D box set I got is basically a replica of the original Jap DVD's plus chinese and engrish/japlish subtitles

[Chunks]

Actually Initial D has almost perfect subtitles. A lot of the other ones you need to get used to before you can understand them properly. Yes they are NTSC discs but the quality is surprisingly good.