Any Psysicam Media Anime Collectors Here? *VHS - DVD - BluRay*

Alcoholicide said:
The majority of my collection is manga and comics but here's my anime:

Top: Akira, Outlaw Star, Dirty Pair Flash, Black Jack Movie, Memories/Steamboy/Tokyo Godfathers, Whisper of the Heart, Tekkon Kinkreet, Castle in the Sky, Cyber City Oedo 808, The Place Promised in our Early Days, TO - A Space Fantasy, Flag Movie, Utena, Ranma 1/2, Gintama, Golgo 13, Ghost in the Shell, Shinsekai Yori, Seirei no Moribito

Bottom: Space Cobra, Cowboy Bebop, FMA: Brotherhood, Death Note, Paranoia Agent, Kino's Journey, Planetes, Haibane Renmei, Princess Tutu, House of Five Leaves, Tatami Galaxy, Baccano, Darker Than Black S1, Trigun, Spice and Wolf, Humanity has Declined, Yugo the Negotiator, Kids on the Slope, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, The Skull Man, Detroit Metal City, Mushishi, Big Windup, Ghost Hunt, Welcome to the NHK, Serial Experiments Lain, Parasite Dolls, Bakemonogatari, Uchouten Kazoku, Neo Tokyo, Redline, Anne of Green Gables


Slayers complete Collection (except the two newer seasons from 2007+), non anime stuff + some manga volumes

DigiCat said:
Hey :3 Anyone else here like to collect anime on physical media? From the retro VHS to modern BluRays

Please share your collections if you have, and any good deals you've come across :)

Grendizer_ said:


Been collecting over 30 years, a lot of stuff went bye bye only to be re purchased, then went bye bye again. Some stuff I held onto and never let go, and then built back onto what I never got rid of. As of late I have downsized quite a bit. Up until 2019 I had 1,450 VHS tapes floor to ceiling... I went back to DVDs and I still had quite a bit and am just now rebuying DVDs (I only buy Bluray when I have to, I like DVDs still and still utilize a number of CRT TVs but mostly watch on a TCL ROKU TV)

My Current Anime Collection and growing (as of this post Akudama Drive, Konosuba and Kantai Collection is inbound so not photoed)






My Gaming Collection of my all time fave system that is the SEGA MEGA DRIVE





and my ATARI 2600 VCS Collection still growing as new games are coming out all the time for both Mega Drive and Atari.

DigiCat said:
Hey :3 Anyone else here like to collect anime on physical media? From the retro VHS to modern BluRays
I'll even still burn my downloaded anime to disc

Here's my collection so far (including some very good deals from second hand shops and online):

Spirited Away - DVD (my first anime DVD :3)
Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer, City Hunter Death of Evil Ryo Saeba , and Harlock Saga OVA paert 1 - bootlegged DVDs my grandpa got me
Digimon Adventure 02 - ep. 1 VHS and ep. 26-50 DVD
Digimon the movie - VHS (3 bucks)
Tamagotchi the movie - DVD (2,50 bucks)
Akira - DVD (6 bucks)
Golden Boy - DVD complete series (6 bucks)
Ojamajo Doremi - DVD complete season 1 (30 bucks)
One Piece Gold - BluRay (1 cent, i'm not joking, there was a special deal get 2 BluRays and get another 2 for a cent each, this was in the 1 cent box!!)
City Hunter Million Dollar Conspiracy - VHS (5 bucks)
Majutsushi Orphen - DVD box set complete season 1 (12 bucks - very good deal, it's a real nice box set complete with 6 postcards, so i really hope i like the series)

Also been collecting
Dragon Ball - DVD (1-4 bucks each)
Mirmo Zibang - DVD (1-4 bucks each)
Ranma 1/2 - DVD (also have 2 movies) (1-2 bucks each - one of the movies was a present)
and have 1 Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters (1 buck - 3 eps) and 1 Fisherman Sanpei DVD (2 bucks - first 5 eps)

Downloaded stuff on disc
some Pokemon movies
Pokemon Advanced (s1) and Diamond & Pearl (s1)
Pretty Cure Splash Star - complete series
Pretty Cure Max Heart movie 1
and Yes Pretty Cure 5 movies i recorded from TV

Please share your collections if you have, and any good deals you've come across :)

Crow_Black said:


That is one sick collection of stuff dude.

Grendizer_ said:


Used to be much bigger. Back when I was married and owned a 1900 square foot condo I had my own in house video game arcade too. A lot of stuff went bye bye after the divorce. Then I got into a long term relationship that ended in Sept 2021 after 9 years and went from a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment with my (now) ex GF, where I had even less space. Now I'm in a Efficiency sized place and even more strapped for space [Thanks a whole lot Covid Variable Era! ---Shakes Fist]

But I intend to have a 10 upright Arcade + 2 pinball machine and a Air Hockey Table Arcade in the new future and an indoor gun range custom built on the property. EVENTUALLY. But this is stuff collected over time. I didn't get this stuff in a week or a year. So it's more bad ass looking than it is.

Crow_Black said:


First person i've seen here planning on owning a arcade system interesting.

Crow_Black said:


BTW while your topic is interesting, unfortunately not alot of people here care about physical media and if anything you're going to be harassed for liking physical media and not spending it on the cancer trash shit known as genshit or any other fucking gacha games or having a steam account either its a harsh reality of life here sadly. So best report any idiot who tries to cross your way.

Grendizer_ said:


Been collecting over 30 years, a lot of stuff went bye bye only to be re purchased, then went bye bye again. Some stuff I held onto and never let go, and then built back onto what I never got rid of. As of late I have downsized quite a bit. Up until 2019 I had 1,450 VHS tapes floor to ceiling... I went back to DVDs and I still had quite a bit and am just now rebuying DVDs (I only buy Bluray when I have to, I like DVDs still and still utilize a number of CRT TVs but mostly watch on a TCL ROKU TV)

My Current Anime Collection and growing (as of this post Akudama Drive, Konosuba and Kantai Collection is inbound so not photoed)






My Gaming Collection of my all time fave system that is the SEGA MEGA DRIVE





and my ATARI 2600 VCS Collection still growing as new games are coming out all the time for both Mega Drive and Atari.

Crow_Black said:


BTW while your topic is interesting, unfortunately not alot of people here care about physical media and if anything you're going to be harassed for liking physical media and not spending it on the cancer trash shit known as genshit or any other fucking gacha games or having a steam account either its a harsh reality of life here sadly. So best report any idiot who tries to cross your way.

And your collection of anime is pretty interesting i must say and again nice topic to talk about.

DigiCat said:

Wow! 30 years of collecting anime, that's dedication!
I hope my collection will be as nice in 30 years time :D
I also still like and have a CRT TV, also have my mom and dad's old Sega MegaDrive along with other videogame handmedowns from my uncle and some new stuff
And hope you enjoy Akudama Drive, i watched it recently and it's one heck of a ride :)




Thanks :3
Ah don't worry, bring on the idiots, i like a good brawl 😁 (long as the thread doesn't get locked)
Which anime in my collection interest you?

Grendizer_ said:


Well I had that mini arcade in my house before, so I want to get back to that in the future. Just don't have the space at the moment. ---You gotta' remember, my first game system is the ATARI 2600 which came out in 1977, I was born in 1978. So between that as a home console and living through the 1980s Arcade Scene and then it's resurgence in the 1990s starting in 1991 when Street Fighter 2 dropped... when owning a NEO:GEO MVS or AES home system was all the rage, well naturally I'm going to be the guy who has a private video game arcade. Hell I MISS that scene and what it was. No everything is online stuff only, and what remains for video game arcades are museums, barcades and stuff like that. The best arcades are in people's private collections.

I'm getting back on the horse so to speak after Covid Variable Era uprooted my life. I figure 3 to 4 years and I'll be back where I was before. Be about that time I'll prolly start the dating thing again too, so when I'm 47 or 48. ---This mofo still throws down like a 20something though on all fronts. Right now is just the rebuilding era for me.



I know the above wasn't aimed at me, but REALLY!!!???What do ppl have against owning their own stuff? I get the whole "not enough space" thing but seriously. Like there are HATERS of physical media around here? That's pretty sad.

Grendizer_ said:


I know the above wasn't aimed at me, but REALLY!!!???What do ppl have against owning their own stuff? I get the whole "not enough space" thing but seriously. Like there are HATERS of physical media around here? That's pretty sad.

DigiCat said:

Yes REALLY, and i seriously don't know why, it's beyound idiotic, and i'll tell you why i've sworn by never buying something that i can't physically hold in my own hands ever again:

Picture me as a snotty kid with her first iphone (uncle's handmedown) whining like there's no tomorrow "uncleeee, buy me Angry Birds! Buy Monkey Ball! I want Monkey ball!! i want (insert whatever game was a fad in early 2010s)"... none of those games run anymore! Yeah Angry Birds still exist, but it's been updated so many times you don't even have to buy the full version anymore, there's just a shittone of in-app purcheses, which are also a ripoff

DigiCat said:

Wow! 30 years of collecting anime, that's dedication!
I hope my collection will be as nice in 30 years time :D
I also still like and have a CRT TV, also have my mom and dad's old Sega MegaDrive along with other videogame handmedowns from my uncle and some new stuff
And hope you enjoy Akudama Drive, i watched it recently and it's one heck of a ride :)

Grendizer_ said:


The biggest pain has been trying to list everything I've watched in 30 years on MAL. I think I got most of it, but every now and then something pops up back in my mind. ---Yeah, I started on the DVD thing and then somehow jumped onto VHS again from 2010 to 2019 when I decided to sell off all buy 30 tapes I couldn't live without (mostly stuff never on DVD). Then I got back into DVD full swing. Since I still watch stuff on CRT TVs as well as on a lower end HDMI Flatscreen set, I'm not worried about super duper fidelity and all that and prefer DVDs over Blurays. Sadly, the industry (especially in anime) has just about phased out DVDs in favor of Bluray, so a good chunk of my stuff will be Malay DVDs since they still put out Anime on the format and I'm not being forced to buy Bluray. I of course try to still support the mains in R1 as much as possible. But I come from the era where one had to daisy chain VHS Decks with others to a Central VHS player and get anime that was fan subbed in 2nd and 3rd (and sometimes 4th) generation copies, before the advent of companies like Animeigo, US Manga Corps, US Renditions, Manga Ent. and more.

I have yet to see Akudama Drive but everything from the character designs to a snippet I saw just jumped out at me. A good portion of what's in the photo from my collection I still have yet to watch (stuff like Akagame Kill! Dimension W, Kill la Kill, season 2 of Kakegurui, etc.) that is more modern... but I'm watching Akudama as soon as it comes in. ---Starting DECA-DENCE tonight.

Good to see another URUSEI YATSURA and City Hunter fan too. Can't go wrong with either in my book.

Crow_Black said:


Pro-tip arguging with lifeless zeptograms is also going to increase your chances into getting thrown in the banner and the key to survivng an arguement here is to be cryptic with your insults as you possible can be. Chances are they get thrown into the banner instead of you since mods wouldn't have the braincells to process it.

So my best advice to you as well is to just stay outta the drama and toxicity at all times imo hence why i'm only really here on seldom boredom these days only to interact with friends or update lists.

spirited away and godlen boy are what intersts me the most

DigiCat said:

🤣🤣 Yeah i'm quite good with criptic insults, i remember literally the day i joined MAL getting into an argument with a "lifeless zeptogram" as you put it, it was a thread about "how much of your room is decorated with anime merch" and this zeptogram came after me and a few others, i didn't need to hurl one insult, i just played overlly sweet and innocent and i got him to spew out the worst of the worst, then when i got sick of fighting i just ended it with probably the worst insult ever incripted in a joke :D I wonder if this dude's still on MAL?

Oh, and since then my wall of anime, superhero, and Star Wars posters has grown expedentially, and i'm very proud of it 😆

I don't think the mods are that dumb though, at least not the ones i've interacted with, i don't know everyone

Spirited Away was my first anime DVD, my uncle got it for me when i was 6, i've watched that DVD over 20 times :3

Golden Boy i've been wanting to watch it for a while, it's a 2 DVD set and i found part 2 for 1 buck at one of my local comic shops so couldn't not get it, then i found part 1 online for 5 bucks

Grendizer_ said:


The biggest pain has been trying to list everything I've watched in 30 years on MAL. I think I got most of it, but every now and then something pops up back in my mind. ---Yeah, I started on the DVD thing and then somehow jumped onto VHS again from 2010 to 2019 when I decided to sell off all buy 30 tapes I couldn't live without (mostly stuff never on DVD). Then I got back into DVD full swing. Since I still watch stuff on CRT TVs as well as on a lower end HDMI Flatscreen set, I'm not worried about super duper fidelity and all that and prefer DVDs over Blurays. Sadly, the industry (especially in anime) has just about phased out DVDs in favor of Bluray, so a good chunk of my stuff will be Malay DVDs since they still put out Anime on the format and I'm not being forced to buy Bluray. I of course try to still support the mains in R1 as much as possible. But I come from the era where one had to daisy chain VHS Decks with others to a Central VHS player and get anime that was fan subbed in 2nd and 3rd (and sometimes 4th) generation copies, before the advent of companies like Animeigo, US Manga Corps, US Renditions, Manga Ent. and more.

I have yet to see Akudama Drive but everything from the character designs to a snippet I saw just jumped out at me. A good portion of what's in the photo from my collection I still have yet to watch (stuff like Akagame Kill! Dimension W, Kill la Kill, season 2 of Kakegurui, etc.) that is more modern... but I'm watching Akudama as soon as it comes in. ---Starting DECA-DENCE tonight.

Good to see another URUSEI YATSURA and City Hunter fan too. Can't go wrong with either in my book.

DigiCat said:

Malay DVDs are a good (and cheaper) alternative for eng sub anime, not 100% sure but i think they do the subs themselves and not just rip it from official merch, it's basically fansub DVD, which considering the state of companies like Funimation now a days i trust more than the official subs
Hopefully when all this covid crap is over, i can go to south east asia and visit aunts, uncles, and cousins, and eat lots of good food 🤤🍜🥘🍧 and stock up on any anime that didn't get a dub in my home country

The character designs are whar got me curious about Akudama Drive too, also there was a cat in the trailer 😸 Got Akame ga Kill on PTW list too

BTW, what don't you like about BluRays? Saw you have a PS3 wich plays both DVD and BluRay

Crow_Black said:


LOL, i never once had any interest in any fucking smart phones since i'm super anti social af or any mobile game at all and even i did had a phone i wouldn't have had a sperg out like that snotty tik-tok tard type kid you mentioned.

Crow_Black said:


LOL, dude must've prolly got perma'd by now as i may probably not have seen him since your first day but then again i only got active like farily not too long ago.

Maybe i should use the cutesy uwu larp to get people to bring out their darkest shit out to the light i mean i did cryptic insulting to someone during my time when i used to be on f.g a while back and it led to him getting a visit in purgatory instead of me. XD Maybe it must have been someone i reported a while back as well too. I mean i reported alot of people here and thankfully the mods always responded to my reports.

But yeah just absoultetly and completely stay out of drama and toxicity at any and all times online and offline like me and you'll be totally fine.

Got spirited away from my parents as a kid and i saw it alot as well too and golden boy i'd love to find at value village one day.

Crow_Black said:
you can import the JP version though and the lns you can also get translated as well too thankfully.

DigiCat said:

I can't stand smatphones either, for me back then it was just the coolest new videogame console with an incorporated ipod, and that's it! They work shit-all as actual phones, the few times i've actually neede a cellphone for work the smartdumbphone malfunctioned and i couldn't receive important calls, on top of that, i kid you not, every smartphone has a one year lifespan, when that year is up, the battery that used to last you almost a week now last under 12 hours, and the storage space, you'll get a messege "storage 99% full" and no matter how much shit you delete it's still 99% full!?!?!?! Switched to a flipphone when i got my first paycheck

And the snotty kid, now a slightly less sotty grown-up can't stant tiktok either


Drama's kinda unavoideble for me irl as i literally live with it, but on the bright side it's given me the experience needed to not get banned from MAL XD

I've only ever reported a couple guys and mods dealt with the situations very well, first one didn't get banned but he got a warning which was enough to make him stop
Second one got reported, banned, kept making new accounts multiple times, by multiple people i assume, considering he was spamming fg with porn and poop gifs
Now i mostly report porn-bots :D

Good luck finding Golden Boy :)

DigiCat said:

Does that mean JP anime DVDs have eng sub??

DigiCat said:


BTW, what don't you like about BluRays? Saw you have a PS3 wich plays both DVD and BluRay

Crow_Black said:


Tik-tok is total cancer and i honestly don't see any value of it being lost at all whatosever if it closed down altogether one day.

Still a fucking snotty cunt imo no matter how old they are.

Never had and never will really bother with the latest trends or get myself into some normie circlejerk over how i should or shouldn't live my life.

LOL, i already know who're talking about and thank the composer they got perma'd.

And thanks of course hopefully i do find a copy of it one day.

Anyways i'm going to be afk shortly so just remember completetly stay away from drama and toxicity at all times and stick with your friends and you'll all be good imo. Good whatever time it is in your area lol.

DigiCat said:
I'm especially curious as to why contractors have to drink, smoke ecc?

Alcoholicide said:


That's just kind of how things work in that universe? Like FMA has the equivalent exchange thing or One Piece has devil fruits or HxH has Nen. It was established that that's how things work, does there need to be a detailed scientific explanation? There's no reason the law of equivalent exchange exists except that it was established that this is how things work in the FMA-verse, and the same goes for Darker Than Black and how its abilities work.
Lots of things in anime are just established as part of the setting and how the universe works without having detailed scientific explanations provided or needed. So I don't really understand what kind of explanation you're expecting or hoping for tbh.

DigiCat said:

The biggest question about TikTok is, how do doctors have so much time to dance on it in the middle of a pandemic?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not sure if you're joking or if you just didn't get what i was saying, but the snotty kid i was talking about was ME!!
And yeah, i couldn't give 2 shits about what the latest trend is, but trending doesn't automatically make it bad :)

Good whatever time it is in your area too

Swiggy said:
Aww, I have an anime collection, but it's all split up right now so I can't take a picture. Some are at my house while some are here at my parents' house. And then the ones that are here are a bit all over the place. If I could gather all the anime that's here at least then I'd try to take a picture. I'll see if I can if I have time. Most of what I have are DVDs. I only have a few VHS tapes and BluRays. I guess I have a decent amount of manga too, but we're talking about anime.

As for good deals, I've come across many! I wanna say a lot of my collection came from when Hastings-- especially when they were closing all of their stores. They had everything for like 50% then later 70% off whether pre-owned or new so I hit up multiple Hastings and loaded up. I do sometimes buy a bit when Rightstuf has big sales or certain things on clearance though. Also, the 99 cents store used to have certain anime for sale so I'd sometimes get those too (like Brigadoon, Inuyasha, Trouble Chocolate, Rave Master, and such). I never see them sell anime anymore though. :C

Kuroni_Kuru said:
Even though I've got access to various streaming services, I am a sucker for physical media. Off the top of my head, my anime DVDs and Blu-rays include...
- The R.O.D OVA and TV series
- Free! season 1-3
- Various Pokémon episodes and most of the movies
- Most of TransFormers Generation 1, sans a few episodes from season 2
- School-Live!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1-5
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky
- Princess Mononoke
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- Summer Wars

My manga collection is significantly smaller, but I'm hoping to expand it. Right now it includes...
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
- Forbidden Scrollery
- R.O.D: Read Or Die
- R.O.D: Read Or Dream

I know these aren't exactly the biggest collections, but it's a start. :3

Kuroni_Kuru said:
Even though I've got access to various streaming services, I am a sucker for physical media. Off the top of my head, my anime DVDs and Blu-rays include...
- The R.O.D OVA and TV series
- Free! season 1-3
- Various Pokémon episodes and most of the movies
- Most of TransFormers Generation 1, sans a few episodes from season 2
- School-Live!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1-5
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky
- Princess Mononoke
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- Summer Wars

My manga collection is significantly smaller, but I'm hoping to expand it. Right now it includes...
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
- Forbidden Scrollery
- R.O.D: Read Or Die
- R.O.D: Read Or Dream

I know these aren't exactly the biggest collections, but it's a start. :3

jdhp said:

Hastings was the best! Still kinda miss that store. A lot of my collection came from Hastings especially in the days before I could buy online and I spent far more than I probably should have when they went out of business. Half price books had some decent prices sometimes as well. And a long time ago I could usually find some harder to find stuff at a place called suncoast but they were pricey