Forum - View topici want to rent anime
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dudesup
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How come anime is so hard to get. Also it would be expensive to buy every dvd it would cost like 6000 dollars. And blockbusters don't really have anything and netflix sucks. I should put an anime renting store
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4556 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Well the number of stores that rent anime in a given city really depends on the size of the city, doesn't it (and, to a lesser extent, the proportion of the population that is of East Asian origin)? Here in Montreal, we have at least 3 stores with a wide selection of anime to rent (Sci-Fi Anime, Empire and Marche Clandestin), but we're a city of about 2 million. Most Blockbusters in the Montreal area went through a period around 1996-1997 where they did stock up on anime, but then they stopped getting in any more anime, except for the high profile movies like Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke and Kiki's Delivery Service, and the stuff that's shown on TV like Dragonball Z.
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10468 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Been a while since you looked at a Census Tenchi? The new city of Montreal itself (not including any subburbs) is a bit over 2 million people... with Suburbs we'er at 4 million (apparently we've actually been growing again). |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4556 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I'm talking about the city of Montreal proper, not the greater metropolitan area, which includes Laval, Longueuil and all of the other off-island suburbs. Before amalgamation, the population of the old city of Montreal was just a hair above 1 million, with about 800 000 other people living in the former suburbs of the Montreal Urban Community, so now the population of Montreal is 1.8 million, which was close enough for me to say just under 2 million. But you don't have to take my word for it; here's a paragraph on "Population and Size" taken from the Tourism Montreal Website: Montréal is the second largest metropolitan centre in Canada and the largest French-speaking city outside France. Approximately one million seven hundred thousand people live on the island and over three million three hundred thousand in the greater metropolitan area. The city of Montréal has an area of 177 square kilometres; the island of Montréal, 494 square kilometres and the greater metropolitan region, 3,509 square kilometres. |
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nekochanm66
Posts: 7 Location: Bellingham, WA |
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Depending on where you live and your current situation, you might consider starting your own anime store.
Starting a business in the U.S. isn't as terrifyingly complex as it seems, as long as you pick up a couple books and maintain some small business contacts. I just started my store in September (the 15th- ugh) and have been doing none too badly (for a start-up) in a city of 50,000 with one of the highest unemployment rates in Washington. A less daunting proposition may be to search Anipike for any local clubs, join them, and borrow from their selections, or at the very least ask if they know of any rental places in the area. Your friendly local Otaku will no doubt also be willing to lend to you from their personal collections if you beg enough. Good luck! |
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Ataru
 Posts: 2330 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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You can try www.netflix.com It's $20 a month and you just got to return in a pre-paid envaple within one month. They have a nice collection of anime DVDs. |
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Vicious
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You skimmed over his second to last sentence Ataru :)
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Ole Goatweed
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In terms of the bigger video chains, such as Blockbuster, the choice of anime is fairly sparse, though some of the ones that they do have are fairly good (for instance, quite a few of the local Blockbuster chains closest to where I live have Ninja Scroll, Akira, Blood: the Last Vampire, and Ghost in the Shell available for rental). Even other competing video chains (such as Hollywood Video or Super Duper Video)tend to carry more anime titles, though the choices aren't always that great- and rarely will the videos available be anyting but dubbed versions either. Then again, living in a major metropolitan area (In my own case, the area in question would be Southern California) does help, especially if there's a diverse population present- and even more so if the influence of "morality watchdogs" are not so prevalent.
Still, I've been fortunate enough to also know of a few places that have a much more extensive collection of anime for rental- and I'm sure there might be some place like that where you live, but it might take a bit of searching around though. I've found that smaller one-shop video stores tend to have a bigger collection of alternate videos to view; however, this would be true though with anything considered not part of the "family values" mainstream, such as hardcore porn, "Faces of Death"-type of videos, etc.- and anime, being a specialized rental genre for a specific audience, would be no exception to this as well. I've also found that comic shops, when they're not being harangued by religeous nuts, are an excellent place to find anime, though most tend to sell rather then rent, but I'm sure there are quite a few out there that do so (I'm fortunate enough to know of a few places that do so ).
Other places that are good for anime finding would be sci-fi/anime/comic book conventions. The internet tends to be a good place to find out about other anime that you're not familiar with. Some streamload accounts or other such similar things are sometimes choked with plenty of anime to get, if you happen to be into downloading media files on the internet and happen to have the required bandwith to download all of the media files too. Another way to get anime that aren't so expensive would be to try getting onto a fan-sub site/list- the only real drawback would be that fan-subbers tend to put out more recent anime series- ones that aren't known to the general public outside of Asia or haven't caught on in popularity (ie, hasn't been officially licensed yet). There also exists some outlets selling Hong-Kong distributed DVD anime as well, which tend to sell for alot less than most normal DVD's. The catch is that they aren't always subtitled in english (They are made for the Hong Kong market after all!)or the quality, be it in subtitling or audio or pictures, might not be all that great, but they do tend to be a great bargain in terms of price. |
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Ataru
Posts: 2330 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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*L* Well, it was just a suggestion. I usally find the larger video rental stores that also sells a large amount of videos sells/rents out anime movies. Besides you can also ask the manager to start rent/sell anime movies. |
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