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daxomni
 Posts: 2650 Location: Somewhere else. |
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I'm interested in hearing what the anime situation is like over there, wherever you happen to be (or have recently been). As long as it's outside of the US and Canada I want to hear about it. Tell us what's hot and what's not, what's easy to get and what's hard to find, what's on TV or DVD and how you get it. Feel free to comment on otaku-level aspects like serious figure collecting and cosplay and how they're received in your location.
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Steventheeunuch
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Australia. Very similar in terms of what you guys get (much less on the obscure stuff front). Our DVD releases more often than not are atleast two months after yours, and we reuse the same dubs, subtitles, coverart etc normally. Cons I'm not sure about, but they seem more elitist than U.S cons. |
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EVA fiend
 Posts: 314 Location: Somewhere in the UK. |
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Anime in the UK is nowhere near as big as it is in other parts of the world, even our neighbor across the water (i.e., France) has more anime (& manga) than we do.
Anime for the most part is expensive, an average DVD for a 26 part series costs between UK£15-20 (roughly US$30-40) each, so an entire series, e.g. Noir, which comes on 7 DVD's, can cost upto UK£140 (approx US$ 270), though with some shrewd shopping around you can find R2 anime releases for cheaper than the RRP. We don't get anywhere near the volume of releases as you do in the US, or the number of boxsets either. As for anime on TV, there have been a few shown on the satelite/cable channels, stuff such as Wolf's Rain, Fullmetal Alchemist, Mezzo, & a plethora of Miyazaki movies, but I haven't watched that much anime on TV because I generally prefer to watch all my anime subtitled. Truth be told though, I don't really consider myself to be a typical UK anime fan, primarily because I've been a fan for a very long time (over 20 years), & I don't buy UK R2 releases, I import from the US & Japan; 90% of my anime DVD collection are US R1 releases. As for cons, I haven't been to any, & I doubt I will in the future either; rabid anime fans, no matter where they are from, scare the crap outta me. 
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UKfan
 Posts: 280 Location: Manchester UK |
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Yep pretty much the same for me although I haven't been into anime as long as you (well not knowing it as anime anyway). Importing my anime from R1 is my only hope of catching most shows which is a shame really. I also like art boxes as well and they just don't happen over here that often. |
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TestamentSaki
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I've complained a lot about the anime situation in Colombia, but I'll explain it one more time
Unlike in other South American countries, anime is practically banned in Colombian TV. The last thing a local channel tried to broadcast was Fullmetal Alchemist, but it was cancelled after 6 episodes. Luckily, I was able to watch and record the only series that lasted long here recently: Captain Tsubasa (which is my very fave series) Otherwise, we have to have Cable TV (and hence Animax) to watch any There was an anime boom (in the early 90's), but now, we Colombiasn have to resort to buying anime series on CDs (and even so, it's really hard and expensive to get any) |
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Kidder
 Posts: 188 Location: Bat country! >.< |
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I used to live in Dubai (U.A.E) in the Middle East. I only got into anime during my last year or so in Dubai so I've not experienced properly how "popular" (or unpopular) anime was over there. As far as I am aware, there were extremely few animes that made it past the censorship board. I don't remember seeing many anime DVD's in Virgin Megastores and they were usually either in the family section or the "international" section. Sufficed to say, anime was an extremely niche thing in Dubai.
I'm now living and studying in the UK. The situation is better (but not really by much). As EVA fiend posted previously, anime DVDs are ridiculously expensive, especially 13 or 26 episode shows. We rarely see any special box sets and so we have to buy about 5-7 volumes worth of dvds at a price ranging from £20 to £30. There are some stores in big cities which specifically deal in comics, manga etc. however there's VAT taxes which mark up the prices a generous amount. I've seen a few Miyazaki films aired on TV (usually on Sky but sometimes on terrestrial), but those are few and far between. There's a small arthouse cinema in Manchester that airs anime quite frequently, but I've never been. I believe there's an annual con in London, but I've never been and I don't really plan to. |
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trebors
Posts: 24 Location: Somewhere in far east. :) |
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here in Philippines yesterday i went to world trade just for anime there were a lot of anime cosplay ,dvd, manga, computer device like drawing in photoshop without using mouse!, mini car race(don't know the name),show, etc etc it was fun. it is always happening once every year.
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hayakunero
Posts: 61 Location: 日本 |
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Japan.
I'm not an otaku and know only a few manga and anime. The anime situation is mmm....not bad probably. But I don't think anime goods are cheep. |
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EVA fiend
Posts: 314 Location: Somewhere in the UK. |
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Umm, you're kidding right? You guys have anime on a multitude of TV channels, your manga is dead cheap, especially if second hand, & the prices for your merchandising isn't all that expensive (it's why I import nearly all my merchandising through online sites based in Japan). 
There is one thing that I do feel sorry for the Japanese fans though & that's the prices of your DVDs; they are astronomical. I may complain about the price of anime DVDs in the UK, but compared to what they charge for anime DVDs in Japan, ours are cheap by comparison. The last Japanese DVD I bought was the first volume of Strawberry Panic! It only has two episodes (no subs) & that set me back just over US$50 including shipping to the UK. The one before that was Hellsing Ultimate vol 2, & that cost me US$60 for one 45 minute episode. 
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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In the UK we generally get less anime, later, with less extras (boxes, and indeed any off-disc extras, are rare but thankfully at least sub-only and dubtitled disc are also a rarity now), and for more money. We also have people moaning about NTSC>PAL transfers but (thankfully?) I don't have good enough equipment for it to bother me.
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Gamaker
 Posts: 29 Location: Amsterdam |
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Down here in the Netherlands it's not that good being an anime/manga fan either. The only anime that gets broadcasted here are endless reruns of Pokemon and YuGiOh on the cartoon channels. Looking for anime here is a pain in the ass, because you would have to go into 50 stores just to find in the 51st some anime... And usually you only find some old patlabor dvd's or something. (this of course excludes the pokemon and YuGiOh dvd's you find in the toystores, and some really famous movies like Spirited Away and Howl's movin Castle)
With manga you have exactly the same problem. i know only one store in the whole of Amsterdam that sells manga. (A three floor high bookstore with only one or two shelves of manga.) Yes! 700 coffeeshops in amserdam, but only one that sells manga... (and if you don't know the Dutch meaning of that I suggest you try to look that up.) |
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Quadraxis
 Posts: 54 Location: Holland |
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I've got to agree with Gamaker, I'm also from Holland.
Manga is something you have to search for here, you just have to know the right shop if you want to find it. Usually the places where you can find manga are small shops, tucked away in some alley. The manga's are usually also imported, meaning they're not cheap. No way you'll find anything but the kiddy stuff (Yu-Gi-Oh manga's are fairly common) in the mainstream shops. Things are improving though, since some French companies are releasing more and more titles here (Naruto just started and they're also releasing stuff like 20th Century Boys now). Furthermore, there are also good shops on the internet. But with anime...it's near impossible to find here save for the kids stuff (Pokemon), big titles (Miyazaki-movies) and some older animes (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Lain). No way we have such a diversity like in the US. And like Gamaker said, you can look forever before you even find one good DVD. The internet isn't much help with this either. On TV it's rare to find anything but the things on FoxKids and things like DBZ. They've showed Cowboy Bebop, the first 'real' anime, not too long ago, although that was just an experiment. I hope they'll be showing more stuff, but it could probably take years before we have things like Adult Swim, or just not at all. Seems I'll be watching my anime from the computer for the time being... |
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mikaal
 Posts: 7 Location: United Kingdom |
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United Kingdom;
Though it has already been posted to some degree I thought I'd throw in my opinion all the same, the current state of Anime here in england is pretty abysmal on all major high street stores, niche markets are either extremely rare or just don't get given the time of day (HMV in Manchester being a prime example, and other major retailers) Although I have noticed a somewhat more progressive stance from online retailers in the UK, Play.com being one good site along with Amazon, I know the prices can be inflated but sometimes you can find a real bargin, as sales and other promotions are quite frequent, with regards to the VAT issue Amazon does operate a Jersey site (being exempt from Duty and VAT) where you can pick up some limited titles although it isn't a broad stock, but at least on one front some progress is being made. Stat: 80% of my current anime collection is R1, due to as mentioned by Eva Fiend and UK Fan greater choice and earlier release dates although I am making more R2 purchases these days. Not seen much in the way of anime on TV, apart from at ridiculous times some I'm a novice on that subject. Anyway all in all, the current situation is not great but getting better (slowly) in my opinion. |
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unhealthyman
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Anime on TV in the UK:
I know that Rapture TV showed FMA and some other stuff on rare occasions on sky. Naruto is currently showing on Cartoon Network. I think I've also noticed One Piece and Shaman King showing. However, I only see sky tv when I am at home for the holidays and we have now canceled most of our sky subscription. The Sci-fi channel used to show random episodes of Cowboy Bebop, and CNX before it got cancelled/combined with another channel, showed a slightly larger selection. There was also the Ghibli season on Film4. But overall, it really is pretty limited. It doesn't show as much as in America, and a smaller proportion of the country has sky or cable TV (I think, I don't have the stats to back me up,) but there is some out there. |
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mjgeo
 Posts: 133 Location: Australia |
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Australia also.
As mentioned before, DVD releases are months behind America. Also, we rely on one company to import about 95% of anime. The only anime they don't get is what Sony already has the rights to, so the lack of competition could be a factor for getting more expensive DVDs than the R1 region. Outside of big anime movies, I have not seen any small releases like you guys got with FMA. As for TV, well to begin with out choice of stations is quite limited to begin with. However if you have free-to-air only, then you are lucky to get the standard kids anime in the morning. Cable is a little better. The Cartoon Network channel also has the standard kids shows. And the Adult Swim time slot on CN has 3 anime series running at a time. However, all the series running are pretty outdated by now. The only new show I can think of is Naruto, which got to about 26 eps before starting again. The 3 Adult Swim series are Initial D, InuYasha and GitS second gig. |
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