you can check their license stickers, or box,and xref it with online sites especially directly from manufacturer. additionally the price is also a decent guide, if its too cheap, something can be very much wrong. if they sell bootlegs at original item price, then it'll be harder to detect, though with experience, it shouldnt be that hard

at the end of the day buying from reputable sellers is the easiest way.

How to differenciate Ori / bootleg figure?

1. Price - If you have always update the latest figure release/news, u'll find that the price range for ori figure is quite high. The bootleg figure price maybe 30% of the ori.

2. Quality - If u own / see a ori figure in DETAIL (Box printing, figure painting, finishing) before, u'll be able to see the lousy quality of the bootleg figure in 1 sight, & most bootleg figure do not hv plastic paper to protect the figure inside the box.

With the experience of this 2 is enough for any1 to judge ori / bootleg figure easily.
Hope this help.

Thanks for the info.

Then I believe most action figures on Ebay are bootleg.

BTW, do you think this is bootleg or not..

Original anime DVDs will takes century to reach Malaysia

Options :
~ Watch it online
~ No choice , buy it .

Japan don't distribute anime DVD/Blu-Ray here. And no local companies have any relations to Japan distributors so only downloaded animes are sold here.

That means, the police cannot do anything if I sell 'cetak rompak' version of anime at my house.

Since others also sell the pirate one.

uhh oh ... my figurine took me 1 week to 2 week to arrive. so it is quite fast

Uploading to file hosting site to make money is worst.

They can because you didn't pay them to get the "Tulen" seal.

Nice sarcasm.

BTW, where do you order the product?
Ebay, Amazon or others?

I'm sorry, for those who have wallets to bust, money to burn, credit cards to be maxed out, sure, original animes DVDs sounds lovely as compared to pirated animes downloaded from BT.

We, mostly rakyat marhaens - cheapos that we are due to high living costs, have to contend with the original 'pirated' copy that mostly availabe in anime stores here.

Thankfully, now there are streaming sites for mostly all anime series, dubbed & subbed.

I got burned buying the pricey originals for Macross series (imported from Japan & Australia) and Robotech DVDs.

But that's it. Being married recently & stocking up on animes ain't that appealing anymore.

just no.

I'm speaking hard truths here. We're complaining about the affordable original 'BT' copies of animes readily available. Most comes with LPF standard stickers.

If most of us are high middle income earners, then its our rights to demand only original animes. But the rest, are simply mid to low middle income earners.

Either buying legitimate original 'BT' copies or leeched 'em direct from BT or even the gazillions streaming sites out there.

No, I'm not encouraging buying pirated goods ... but hey, I still smelled hypocrisy when those self proclaimed anime lovers with money to burn still cheapos in their own rights as they watch animes via streaming sites ... the free ones ...

There are cheap anime streaming sites. Just a few dollars. HD quality. Repeatable watch. Affordable for low-mid income earners (for instance, a site offered about USD 100 per year and that's about RM 25 per month and it's all access). If this low-mid income earners can buy RM 2k android phones with Digi line at RM 58 per month while subscribing Unifi at RM 150 per month, why not subscribing such site?

because there will always be "people" that bought an iphone (for $199+ 2yr contract / $659 unlocked), and complain about paying $0.99 or $1.99 for app / game from the App store

downloading anime from the internet illegally and buying bootlegged copies are the same... both are piracy.

I don't understand why anyone should condone one act while happily doing the other.

At Hobbies and Collectibles section, we even have ppl selling bootlegged gundam model kits...LOL

^
this man speaks the HARD truth.

rich and righteousness fag detected.

>got free streaming sites
>but pay cheap streaming sites

Are those sites paying royalty to the said anime...?
The only legitimate one I think seems to be crunchyroll and many of the those said sites are illegitimate and take your money for illegally streaming it online, so that itself is pretty vague to support.

And, further most,
When you see something you wanted to buy in a shop on the floor, do you likely take it?
That's sums up the majority of normal people.

Some people normally try to support the industry. Pirated figurines is pretty much a big NO still(at least in my book)
But anime, does it look any different if in original DVD/BD or stream/downloaded online? No, it's just a matter of feeling righteous of supporting the industry or not. And truthfully most people would rather stream or download. It's sad but but who are we kidding, most people want everything but don't have the money but still want it.

ADDED: Actually both are pretty bad but not paying for those pirated goods is slightly better I guess. And I mean who still buy piratedDVD/BD when you have the internet. Though I didn't know that anyone would condone one while ignoring the other.



This post has been edited by Senjou: Nov 2 2011, 01:25 PM

your cold hard truth is shaped by succumbing to the society of whiner and tidak kisah

being poor or having shitty govt or having shitty currency or all of the above/more does not justify for piracy. if you're gonna do it, dont do it with pride.

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Added on November 2, 2011, 11:58 amnot exactly all access. most sites have regional licenses that applied to only USA for instance. majority of "cheap" paid streaming sites (even NND, which is free) have licenses that only governs USA. for malaysia, if the anime production studio does not extend the license to say, malaysia, we wont get to watch it, period.

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Added on November 2, 2011, 12:00 pmfor the sake of "the better side" anyways, at least downloading you're not paying anyone. buying pirated/bootlegged copy pays the pirates, and in turn funds them to pirate more.

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Added on November 2, 2011, 12:01 pm

if you're not gonna get your facts right, please just shut up.

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Nov 2 2011, 12:01 PM

Except that some of the streaming sites that does it for free are legit?

Granted that its only available (currently) for the US and Canada; but still, its legit.

NicoNico Douga broadcasts Fate/Zero one hour after it is aired in Japan which, if you really didn't know, is legit.

Other animes like Guilty Crown, Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) etc are all stream by NND for free, which are all legit.

So there is no fault to be a cheapo if its legit in the first place right?

If they gave me an option to watch anime for free without having to pay Crunchyroll, then why the hell not?

This post has been edited by radkliler: Nov 2 2011, 12:25 PM