As a very old lurker there must be something said about the legitimacy of the "Malaysian Original Anime DVD Boxsets"....

The thing is that most of the time the licenses are purchased from a 3rd party distributor and not from the original producer/distro. In most cases it's a HK / Mainland china subcontract of some sort.

IF.... and this is a very big IF, the TS could sort something out like Sg's ODEON (They are hated and stuff but whatever) where they buy the distro rights straight from JP and have a decent translation team put together (and not one which blatantly leeches fansubs or has piss-poor subtitles derived from chinese subs) then maybe........ Till then it's importing straight from JP if and when I can afford it...

I've been on the receiving end of the "original Malaysian anime DVD's" with their fancy hologram stickers for years now, and honestly? for what we're paying it's not worth the money. My Gensomaden Saiyuki dvd set, which was 'original' crap subs, crap encoding, the same goes with my Hellsing 'original' VCD set from back in the day.... stole the subs straight from AniKraze.

But I'm just rambling... If you want to spurn the unsophisticated freshers.... go for it! Corner the market with your cheaper than cheap production quality, it shows... It's unfortunate though.... I would pay top money if they were more tangible...

TS,

I mean no disrespect but business practices and loyalty to your heritage have no bearing on each other. Obviously, not everyone is willing to put down RM500 just to buy a DVD boxset. But you're losing MAJOR revenue streams to the Singaporean Anime Licensors.

There is a rule is business, 80% of all your revenue streams come from 20% of your total market share. It is your return customers which should be your main source of revenue. Right now you're capitalizing on the new consumers who generally know only know "Naruto is so chuneee!!!!1111oneonene, it's dem keng chao!" And then you have the more mature market of consumers who, want something more than cheap-as-chips productions (again not RM500 but you get the point).

Just some constructive criticism