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Originally Posted by ultraali453
Well i live in Pakistan and regardless of the low pay rates here i'm willing to save up to buy licensed manga and anime but my problem is that no one here sells that stuff. The only option for me and many other fans around the world is to get them online and because the base price + shipping costs and custom pay on the goods there's no way im going to pay that much. I would benefit from such an online service. If such a service is available
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I fully agree with this. Here it's slightly easier as there's Amazon/Ebay etc. but the cost of buying some anime/manga here is outrageous, because a lot of the time (to get the latest stuff) I'd have to get it shipped from abroad, and then if it's over a certain ammount pay a huge tax. If I don't buy it abroad I have to wait six-twelve months for it to get released here, and the animes are rarely (if ever) aired on television here, so I have no choice but to buy it abroad too.
I also want to add I think 'stealing' manga and anime can be justified. I'm quite a fan of Bleach (for example) and the latest chapters/episodes I have to read/watch online, because by the time it takes for it to get translated officially and published/aired I'll be years behind the rest of the world. If my only choice is to 'steal' manga online and read it there, or wait over a year in hopes that it'll finally be out for an outrageous cost, then I'll read it free online. It isn't fair to expect people to wait or pay such costs.
Edit: For the record, I would buy anime/manga if it was made available for a reasonable price. A lot of the time I watch anime online, but then later buy it when it finally becomes avaliable because I enjoy it. I think sometimes watching things online gets people interested in a series, thus making them more inclined to buy a series (sometimes, of course not always). Although for the series that never get translated or are not avaliable to buy overseas there
isn't a choice but to watch online.