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Jul 7, 2019 5:02 PM
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what do you identify more as?

how much monies do you spend on this hobby?

if you do spend money, where does it go? legal streams? merchandise? conventions? other?

or none of the above and you spend nothing?
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Jul 7, 2019 6:20 PM
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I'm relatively cheap, though a good chunk of my spending has been on CDs.

DVD sets, art books, like two figurines, some other accessories, and a few convention tickets round out the lot.
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Jul 7, 2019 6:22 PM
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got those premium services so i can watch ad free on mobile and not worry about malware from pirate sites. apart from a poster or two thats it. cheap weeb.
Jul 7, 2019 6:33 PM
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Cheap weeb. Never bought anything anime related besides CR
Jul 7, 2019 6:34 PM
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Honestly, I spend more money on games than I do anime.
Jul 7, 2019 6:34 PM
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I pay for streaming because it fits the budget and the rest goes to manga. I buy quite a lot of that.
Also figures from my favorite shows, if I can. But none of the ultra expensive ones.

So not exactly cheap, but I guess I could do more to support the industry.
Jul 7, 2019 6:36 PM
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I'm super cheap, so I haven't spent a dime on anything. I actually would like to go to some conventions, but I never have the time to go to them. I pirate the shows, so I'm living the good life :D
Jul 7, 2019 6:41 PM
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I probably spent about $400 or $500 on anime related stuff this year; about $300 in art books and the rest on DVDs and Blu-Rays. If I had to give a rough estimate on the total cost of my entire anime related collection (which also include three PVC figures and Chie Satonaka's jacket), $1,500 was probably spent, but over the course of 10 years.

Jul 7, 2019 6:42 PM
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I've only spent money on a huge Kakashi canvas and a Ken Kaneki canvas that isnt as big
Jul 7, 2019 6:43 PM

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I am obviously watching anime the legal way and obviously contributing to the anime community by buying dvds and blu rays. So I'm in the middle
Jul 7, 2019 6:56 PM

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I spend most of my money on conventions and merchandises. I'm planning to go to a convention in December, I will probally spend $800 or more (hotel + cash to buy merchandises).
Jul 7, 2019 6:59 PM

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I have both Crunchy Roll and Funimation, a tiny bit of anime merch, and a bit of manga. I wouldn't consider myself an expensive weeb though. Probably somewhere in the middle.
Jul 7, 2019 7:02 PM
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I have like 50 anime figurines, an entire bookshelf of manga and a whole wall of posters.

I've bought Blu-Rays for my favorite anime and animation stills too.
Artbooks, Keychains, Tshirts, Accessories. Idek why I do it just feels right.
Jul 7, 2019 7:04 PM

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cheap weeb, it's only manga and the few pokemon plushies I have


I can't talk about the harakiri tiger that I have though, that's pushing moderate weeb territory


Jul 7, 2019 7:16 PM
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I'm not even a weeb to begin with. But I may be a cheap otaku.
Jul 7, 2019 7:19 PM

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Rabb2t said:
cheap weeb, it's only manga and the few pokemon plushies I have


I can't talk about the harakiri tiger that I have though, that's pushing moderate weeb territory


we need more weebs that like to spend.
Jul 7, 2019 7:21 PM

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laviha said:
I'm not even a weeb to begin with. But I may be a cheap otaku.


how cheap? convention, posters, or figures.
Jul 7, 2019 7:24 PM

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~900 spent on figures and posters. I don't count the money I've spent on subs but I have crunchyroll, funimation, netflix, hulu, amazon prime.
I still stream animes that don't show up on those services though.
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Jul 7, 2019 7:28 PM
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Fafano16 said:
laviha said:
I'm not even a weeb to begin with. But I may be a cheap otaku.


how cheap? convention, posters, or figures.


Just one pikachu plush

Bc there is nothing else available in my place, I may buy some mangas from an another place though
Jul 7, 2019 7:30 PM

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I'm a very cheap weeb. The only anime item I own is a Death Note, and even then someone else bought it and gave it to me. The only money I've ever really spent on anime is for my Crunchyroll Premium subscription.

I would buy more anime and manga merchandise, but I live with my dad and I am kinda embarrassed about liking anime.
Jul 7, 2019 8:14 PM

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Malkshake said:
I'm a very cheap weeb. The only anime item I own is a Death Note, and even then someone else bought it and gave it to me. The only money I've ever really spent on anime is for my Crunchyroll Premium subscription.

I would buy more anime and manga merchandise, but I live with my dad and I am kinda embarrassed about liking anime.


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Jul 7, 2019 8:35 PM

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Expensive in the past, I guess. I have 5 figurines and a poster, some of the Naruto Shippuden seasons on DVD, Halo Legends DVD. Now, cheap, since I only buy anime games now.
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Jul 7, 2019 8:40 PM
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Not too cheap but I have decent amount of figurines, mangas, novels, visual novels but i never tried to pay for legal streams.
Jul 7, 2019 8:45 PM

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Expensive because I have standards and because I'm worth it.
Jul 7, 2019 8:47 PM

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Is there a medium tier? I have one cheap figure, some DVDs, and a sizable manga/magazine collection.
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Jul 7, 2019 8:48 PM

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im 7 years old so i dont have the money to spend on anime stuff sadly. real poverty hours


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Jul 7, 2019 9:02 PM

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Cheap man I'm so poor lol I have some sub to Watch legally, some figurines and anime relative games even if I play less than before ( just bought the switch for the new era ), and the majority of manga was obtained in occasiosn strores or directly to resellers ( like 400 of my 600's collections ). Got one cosplay too.
Jul 7, 2019 9:05 PM

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I fall in the "medium" group.

Decent manga collection, a few CDs here and there, and a blu-ray.
Least degenerate visual novel enjoyer.


Jul 7, 2019 9:08 PM

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Not exactly cheap but not very expensive either?

I like to watch anime movies in theaters so if there’s anything airing around me, I will go watch it for sure. I haven’t been to many conventions but I want to invest more time and money into going to them. Probably will spend a fortune trying to make my own cosplays though so that would be the most expensive thing I would do.

There’s a lot of random, not exactly weeby things I have because of a subscription service I enrolled in. Mostly Gudetama and Sumikkogurashi items.
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Jul 7, 2019 9:16 PM
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I like streaming services like crunchyroll cuz it feels like ur watching on TV idk gives a good feeling also having a huge torrent file so it feels like a huge Set of animes since it's impossible for me to get blu rays but im also addicted to buying mangas having huge collections
Jul 7, 2019 10:26 PM
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Kind of in between but more cheap, I pay for streams, buy official releases which is more anime than manga - bluray and can often be a CE if my region has it.

There's next to no anime related cons where I live and no one wants to go with me, last time I actually wanted to go though the only guests I remember were someone who played as one of the old doctors on dr.who and a stormtrooper from star wars. Then I seen how much the charge for anyone to sign something, total cash grab, screw cons
Jul 7, 2019 10:30 PM
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Provably in the middle i think got some manga,
Some dvd, some figure an expensive one of kurumi though, and some other stuff like game poster and some random merchandise.
And obviously legal stream in my country (wakanim, crunchyroll and ADN)

Jul 7, 2019 11:36 PM

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I buy anime movies and I sub to every service that offers anime and is worth a damn. I'm on a budget but not completely cheap. You could call me a frugal weeb.
Jul 8, 2019 12:31 AM

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Cheap for sure. I've only bought some manga, half of which is for cheap from a used book store.
Jul 8, 2019 12:36 AM

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I'm as cheap as they come. I guess I bought Netflix and CR but thats about it. I would love to buy anime apparel or go to stuff like AX, but I honestly don't know where to start or how to do stuff like that.
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Jul 8, 2019 12:49 AM
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I spent mainly on DVD, bd and a few manga. If space wasn't an issue, I'd have bought more. Let's say 100+ cases and box sets
Jul 8, 2019 12:58 AM

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While I did use legal streams, the problem was that in my region I can't see certain anime I want to watch.

But I do spend on mangas and Light novels tho
Jul 8, 2019 1:16 AM
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Pretty cheap, i own a few posters and 15ish volumes of manga, and i used to pay for crunchyroll, but i don't really have the money for dvds or figurines at this point in my life. Living far away from conventions doesn't help either
Jul 8, 2019 1:22 AM

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I am a "no money" weeb. I don't think I ever spend anything for weeb shit things but the most probable thing I can buy is Yotsuba&! eng volumes
Jul 8, 2019 1:53 AM
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Somewhere in the middle I guess.

I own manga, a few CDs/DVDs, handful of figurines, maybe a dozen or so posters and some random merch like mugs, keychains and stuff that were mostly presents of unimaginative friends -.-
Jul 8, 2019 1:56 AM
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I guess I'm pretty cheap. But I did spend a bit of money during an anime convention.
Jul 8, 2019 4:26 AM

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I spend no money on watching t.v.

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Jul 8, 2019 5:17 AM

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I haven't spent a penny, I tried to buy something I liked but it was well into the thousands of pounds so I torrent everything.

They say piracy is a supply problem, well the above is a first class example of that.
Jul 8, 2019 5:19 AM

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cheap weeb and even if i have extra money im sure i will only subscribe to legal streaming sites like CrunchyRoll and maybe even buy a subscription to Viz manga
Jul 8, 2019 5:28 AM

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I collect figures, manga, dvd's and other miscellaneous things related to my favourite series. Collecting figures is probably what pushes me to the expensive weeb level. They eat your money!
Jul 8, 2019 5:35 AM

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I've spent two thousand euro on Noragami merch so that's something

I've also have bought random love live and bang dream merch, as well as a bunch of anime OP CD's
Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's.
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Jul 8, 2019 5:43 AM

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Cheap, I only bought Claymore volume 1 manga.
Jul 8, 2019 5:45 AM
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Poor weeb, have only few goods over course of years.
Jul 8, 2019 6:18 AM

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Fafano16 said:
Rabb2t said:
cheap weeb, it's only manga and the few pokemon plushies I have


I can't talk about the harakiri tiger that I have though, that's pushing moderate weeb territory


we need more weebs that like to spend.


I may be a cheap weeb, but that's mostly because of my status as a student atm. Once uni is over, I may or may not spend more, who knows.


Jul 8, 2019 6:23 AM

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You missed the opportunity for a poll. Why you do this.

I spend as much disposable income as possible on anime merch, but I don't support CR, Netflix or any other popularizer of anime as a mainstream product. I support the elements of the industry of I want to support. I went to Akihabara and dumped a large sum of money right into the arterial veins of the industry this year and I'll doing the same next year.
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