Anime 2 Manga Forums

While browsing the retail forum on animeondvd.com, I started wondering: Where do most anime fans get their anime and manga (other than downloading)? I used to buy only from brick and mortar stores because the prices were usually cheaper at the local Best Buy than any other place (when shipping was included, since I didn't have enough money to buy a lot at once and get free shipping), but lately I've been doing more internet shopping. I've used rightstuf.com a fair bit in the last few months during a few of their really good sales to pick up some items I couldn't find in stores (volumes of series that places in my area no longer or never carried) for some really good prices. I also just started using deepdiscount.com, which has even better prices when you can catch the right sale (though I've heard their customer service isn't that great).

How about you guys? Do you buy from electronics stores like Best Buy? Specialty stores? Favorite websites? Or do you just download? I'm curious ^^

LOL I just download. Though I am collecting one manga series and I buy that at Barnes and Nobles. Does that count?

Approximately 95% of anime that I watch are fansub. When I go to the mall and see some good titles (that I've already seen and I'm sure they're good) and I have the budget, that's the only time I buy original DVDs. I haven't tried ordering over the internet yet.

I usually rent anime. I have a subscription to Netflicks. $19 per month gets me three at a time, which is fine since I don't have time to watch more than one or two DVDs per night. If I watch and return them promptly, this works out to five or six DVDs per week. They usually arive in a day or two, although a new disk from a popular series can have a waiting list. Netflicks doesn't have everything, but they have most series that were commercially released in the US, including yaoi and uncut versions of series that were altered for American television. I think that anime is the only thing that makes Netflicks worth paying for. (I wouldn't want to rent that many regular *movies* in a month.)

Best Buy, for the easy/more popular stuff, but suncoast for the older/harder to find.

I shop Shadro's bookshelf ;P

Roberts anime cornerstore. Used to shop at amazon but they sell WAY to many bootlegs.

I buy my anime from M'sia and China mostly, since the titles I want are either too expensive or not available in my own country.