I think they are pretty legit, been around for over 10 years or so.

How dare you doubt me...?  ~ Just joking... 

First of all, those company don't 'sell', they produce\manufacture\distribute. If you want to get them, try finding them at either Yesasia, books.com.tw or jsdvd. They are much more affordable than the North American release, but beware the pricy shipping fees though. And yeah, sometimes their packaging especially the repackage price down edition are really 'cheap' looking...

Well, there's one thing about legit distributors that is completely opposite of illegal ones - legit distributors often have a much more limited catalogue, they only distribute what they can afford to get (japanese licenses are never cheap), and sometimes some of them are official sole distribution which means that the other company won't be releasing products from the same japanese production company if it's belong to that sole distributor.

So, you won't see the same title release by two or more company at once, unless the original license had expired (most likely after more than 5 years - maybe, according to their contract of agreement.) and transfered to another new licensee.  - This is not the same with the local release, where you can see two company compete with each other by releasing product of the same title. 

And yeah, you can put all the faith in Madman since they are pretty much the biggest anime\japanese series distribution company in Australia (probably the only one, if I remember correctly).

Yeah, don't forget to add in duty fees and sale taxes... 

Wait...? So prowaremedia ship internationally...?  I never knew that...

Well, the taiwanese tend to follow the japanese release strictly during the first press run, sometimes their artbox and even gift item are the same as the japanese counterpart.

I tried to order stuff from Madman before,  I tried but never actually done it. 

Bluray is the future, man. Well, atleast for the next 5 years maybe...

I buy according to favour, if I like the title so much, I would probably pay more. I might even double dip just for the sake of the packaging or bonus content, if I have the money of course... 

PS: Mind PM me how you get Prowaremedia to work? There's nothing about international customer on their site. Thank you very much. 

And that's something to be proud of? :/

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