u/Arzakhan

I am not the biggest anime fan, but there are some anime I desperately want. I am also a massive physical media collector, who mostly collects retro games, vhs tapes and DVDs. Some of my goals in life are to spend as little of my time in a streaming service menu, and to never pay for an anime streaming service. But I also don’t want to get fleeced by the Malaysian eBay scam rings. The main ones I’m most concerned with, and am struggling to find, are region 1 dubbed releases of Darker than Black and Fate Zero. I recently got this gorgeous box set imported from Japan and it’s amazing, but the seller said it had English, and did not specify in any of the places I initially checked that it only had English subtitles, and it’s too pretty a set to send back when the English compatible version is 3x+ based off of eBay and if it’s real.

So how do seasoned collectors do it? Find their non 480p shaky cam ones? I like the sub, don’t get me wrong, but I just want things with the dub primarily for easy sharing with others or background noise (do people still argue over sub/dub?) though ideally it’d have both.

And if anyone’s interested, the only series I’m really interested in owning are Fate/Zero, Darker than Black, Parasyte a Maxime, full metal alchemist (and brotherhood), hellsing (and ultimate), soul eater, and the Normy pick of cowboy bebop. Maybe throw in blue exorcist, psycho pass or the first season of Tokyo ghoul if that fancy strikes. You can tell when I started/stopped watching anime as a practice

I recently discovered that this comic series had a PC game that coincided with the comic, which so happens to only have been on PC. It was also the first telltale game (company that made the walking dead, wolf among us, etc). I have a friend who is absolutely obsessed with Bone, who also doesn’t know about the game, so I’m hoping to buy him a copy of the game on CD-rom, as well as putting a second hand steam key inside of it since those are pretty cheap, and sending it to him. The only issue is the game is impossible to find online

I am looking for a physical copy of Boneville out from Boneville CR-Rom as a gift for one of my friends. I know that steam keys are quite easily available, but I have a friend who’s super into the comics and I think it’d make a great gift for him.