Buying or downloading?

Feniks · 2006-04-02T18:30:56+00:00

So, do you guys (and girls) buy your anime, or do you download it? It would be nice if you also tell us why you download/buy it. I absolutely download nothi...

Mishrak

Well in short: I buy manga and I download anime.
This is because ony of my hobbies is reading and a printed one is never that much fun/quality as a bought one.
However there are so money anime's I would like to try but eventually I don't like every anime I see, in this way I won't spend my money on something useless

conyaku

i buy alot of my manga because i enjoy having a hard copy of it...and because i can read enough chinese...i buy the chinese manga versions...why? because its so much cheaper...>_<

joker_mashadi

as long as i have many friends who give me dlk link to the newest version of differnt type of manga ,, I dont think so I I NEED to waist my MONEY ON manga, however some of them have a really bad quality.

but YOU will be amazed if I TELL YOU WE have plenty of EBOOK VERSION even colorful VERSION even better than the orginal book.
!lol

joker_mashadi

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i like to buy
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Me too , AS long as find some extra money to spend on new manga .

joker_mashadi

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I don't download any manga because I don't know how xD, and I'm too lazy to find out.
I have a friend who buys manga, when he's finished with them I can borrow them. Soon I'm going to buy my own stuff :)
The sucky thing is; they don't sell any manga in my hometown so I will always need to go somewhere eles or order it.
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What do you mean " you don't know " ???
The only trick it always works for me is IRC channels ( you must track all the best fan-subbing group channels) .
The other thing you must notice is the quality , because during the scanlatiion process nomaly we are loosing the quality due to scanner or main source material .

The best way is buying the orginal one , however you have to wait so long for the new releases to show up
at bookstores .

Himeno

Im always buying manga;s and anime^^

Himeno

I usally buy animes and manga's,but I also downlaod them:) (animes)^^

Nightsky

I prefer buying but most of the series i want are only available as imports and then the price of one dvd is about 30€ or more so I download them as long as i can and wait for lower prices. Mangas I buy or rent them from library.

anika

i like to buy

jae

i once prefer to buy the anime because downloading takes time , but the thing that interest my about downloading it is that :romance:

Omg it's FREE! only take couple to download the whose episode
some anime available to download aren't been sold in any anime store,
the quality sometimes exceed your expectation
in my recent experience, some of the anime been sold in store are currently been censored and some of them been cut. due to the copyright thing?
we can find a lot i mean bunch of those that we haven't seen or heard before .
"The Forum" usually when downloading an anime we must go to a "hosted forum" there we can meet really nice person like cheerfull akibastyle , superman [COLOR=purple]mjsh83[/COLOR] , our beloved [COLOR=red]rjd22[/COLOR] :blush2:and Mr know everthing [COLOR=green]GhostHeLL[/COLOR] .:bow:
the most sweetest thing about downloading is that if we download the wrong anime "that we didn't like" you will feel like " luckly i didn't buy it"
some of the anime avaible to download comes from fansub and "its a good thing"
we can know about the pro's and con's in that anime by discuss it with other people that seen's it.
finally we can save money! to go to JAPAN! and lose money there!
save energy to walk and find the anime that we're looking for:m-bata:
if you got other advantage in downloading tell me. .:nihonjin::socute:

i think i wrote a bit too much . .am i bored you? hahaha:relieved::sorry:

volcano1234

Mostly i buy mangas but now i mostly download from sites cuz their free

nicoletan

I will buy the manga if the quality is good and not too expensive ....... but sometimes the manga book is too expensive and the paper is so low quality that I am forced to download them from the internet ...... sometimes , i just eager to read the latest chapter of the manga I like ... so , i download them from internet or read them online ....

syukochan

i download the manga. becouse i don't have so many money. but i i search anime fo down load i buy the manga in the store near my house

Sentou_Ryoku

I generally download and just buy the ones I really really really like.

blakbunnie27

Most of the time, I read the whole series first online, and if it was good enough for me to say, "That was a good manga." I go and buy it. I don't get any trouble with the money though, because I buy mine in Japanese and L.A, California has nice cheap places where a pre-read manga can be bought for at most $3.

Xyw13

Hmm, that is nice, here I don't know about any shop that offers manga... :(

Xyw13

hehe, I wrote somewhere, that there are only few mangas translated into my language, and translating translated is a bit..... hmmmmm... ...Strange?
Not to mention that if I really order something, it will go through more than one bookstore and the costs will rise too much for me.

Katuron

I'm completely torn on the issue.
In the world where i have a limited money supply the reality is that I buy only a fraction of the stuff i download online, and then only when it's on special. I would love to support the industry and to have a large library i share around with people i know, but I'm scared of being ripped off in buying $20 volumes and episodes at $5 each.
In a world where i had the money, I would certainly buy manga volumes but I still doubt the value of having a solid DVD case in my hand would outweigh the seemingly outrageous price of DVDs.
So for now i'm going to stick with downloading, it may be economically bad karma but one day i'll buy all the serious i liked the most. Oneday... o_o"

Genjuu_Mugon

Xyw13;16677 wrote
Hmm, that is nice, here I don't know about any shop that offers manga... :(

Just go to a normal bookstore and ask them to order a specific item.
As for myself I prefer to buy manga. The reason why is I'd rather take my manga anywhere and read it.
The cost does add up but it's all a matter of budgeting and pacing for myself.

Though, If I cannot purchase something in my area at all I will download it.

lesenfanteribles

i prefer to buy manga. although there was one time where manga here in the Philippines was so rare...you can even empty a whole bookstore by trying to find at least one title that you like but you won't find any. the usuals like Slam Dunk, Ragnarok which were easy to complete were still overwhelmingly in stock even today. thanks to some hobby/specialty bookstores even though they're too far from my where i live it's the only place i can buy some manga and find more. i still find scanlates good too,but i only do that when i want to preview the title first, to make sure i won't regret buying the whole book, it's kind of costly here but if i really like the story then i won't have any regret on that.

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