I have given up hope on the 'original' DVDs being sold in Malaysia after I was duped into paying big money for Wolf's Rain OVA (very nice packaging/tulen stickers/yaddayadda) - I fell for the trap and learned from it. It was after that incident that I finally realise that there is no ori anime sold in Malaysia. Well, at least I know for sure that in KL there's none

Kena duped into buying so-called original DVDs is bad enough - adding insult to injury, the subtitles are horrendous! Direct chinese-english translation or nonsensical subs.

Truth be told, I've BTed most of my anime nowadays. *strokes 1TB HDD* Instead of paying money for sub-quality bootlegged DVDs, might as well go for FOC high-quality subs.

BTW, I'm sure most of you guys know that alot (well, most) of the anime OSTs being sold are bootleg OSTs ya? I also learned the hard way after buying the 'original' OSTs from Tower Records. Oh well - I'm wiser now

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Added on February 28, 2009, 10:51 pm You can purchase anything for a price in Malaysia. Stickers are just sap sap sui.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Feb 28 2009, 10:51 PM

It is Midori no Hibi.

Anyway, there's two types of original I guess. One from Japan (no subs) and those with english subs/dubs like Viz Media.

Sometimes it did cross my mind to find a group of anime/manga fans who wants to buy stuff from Amazon and then share the shipping costs together. However, some of the kiasu people complained that they only purchase 1 boxset and shouldn't share equal costs with those who purchase 2-3 boxsets

Hey guys, is it possible to pre-order US licensed manga from Borders or KinoKuniya? There's several titles that Viz Media had already licensed but it's not available on Amazon. Please advice ya.

Thanks for the info

Hmm but those are in japanese. I was looking for the english version. You know anyone ordering english translated manga?

Hmm, I checked for the mangaka that I wanted but it's not available. Worst is that I check in Amazon also don't have but I read online that Viz Media already licensed that manga. Maybe it's not translated yet?

Deng... No wonder I can't find some of the titles that's been licensed by Viz Media laa. Some already licensed for several years but still can't find it on Amazon. Now want to finish the manga also cannot. (T_T)

Well, in my case I'm looking for Yoshihara Yuki's manga - Since most of her titles are considered smutty (there are several josei titles which are very good), there's no way it's gonna be translated and distributed locally. I really appreciate some of her works and don't mind to fork out the money to buy her manga (as a collection le). There are some mangas worth paying the big moolah for. Damn Viz Media licensing her manga but not translating it. Damn them.

BTW, you guys who bought original translated manga - do they change the japanese names into english names or are the names retained? I hate it when they start giving them english names. If that's the case, I sure as heck won't buy the manga.

As for Speedy selling original anime - I highly doubt it. Maybe selected outlets, I don't know, but most of the Speedy shops sells bootleg anime and same goes for Tower Records (bootleg anime and OSTs).

Heck, I paid RM60+ for a LOTR extended version VCD (ok, so I was in a hurry to watch it and couldn't wait for the DVD) and the quality was so freakin bad that I stomp back to Speedy and demanded a refund. Knew what the idiot told me? "Speedy punya quality memang macam tu le". Bad visual (very blur like pirated cinema version and you can't even read what the subtitles clearly) and bad audio (can barely hear what they're saying). Ever since that incident, I NEVER bought anything from Speedy ever again.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 4 2009, 07:34 AM

Last time out of desperation, I bought chinese translated manga and had to half read manga-half read dictionary ( can only read simple chinese characters ). Imagine that - Fushigi Yuugi vol 1-18.

Malay translated manga likes to censor by putting on 'bodysuits' on naked body, even though the said naked body are only the outer silhouette. At least if there's some shounen-ai-ish or shoujo-ai-ish dialog, they don't change it.

If there's good malay translator, I seriously don't mind to pay for a locally distributed original anime. However, after watching countless shows on Astro/TV, I seriously doubt there's any good japanese-malay translator (since the english-malay ones do only crappy to tolerably translations)

"Sleep tight, cupcake" = Selamat malam, kek manis <-- ( sweet cake... Goodness )

(some friends commenting on bride's gown's length) "...the train looks great!" = keretapi ni nampak bagus!

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 4 2009, 05:32 PM

The OSTs being sold in Speedy and Tower Records (and most of the music stores) are all bootleg OSTs. I've bought 30+ OSTs from Tower Records before I found out... ( my fault for having blind faith that stores like Tower Records only sold ori stuff )

Anyway, if FFAC bluray is coming out, I'm gonna get it from Amazon - see what's the exchange rate is like first tho....

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 22 2009, 08:42 PM

Hmm but the OSTs that I bought was around 8-9 years back (before they went bankrupt) I stopped buying OSTs and DVDs from local stores since 7 years ago.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Mar 22 2009, 09:15 PM

That's why I learned my lesson the hard way That time (1999-2000ish), there weren't that many anime-related stuff being sold in KL, so whenever I see any anime VCDs and OSTs, I'd just grab 'em, thinking that it's original since it's being sold in Tower Records. It was only after I changed to Streamyx (I used dial-up in the early 2000) that I started doing research on the internet.

Adoi, last time used to be so naive.