Ganguro

yes i've seen the box set at our local suncoast and Fry's. You can also order them online try amazon or barns and noble..

here is the info i gleamed off animeondvd.com

Hope that helps!
You're still paying about 10 bucks an episode either way..
That's pretty much standard for most anime series unless you are looking at Eva, Robotech, DBZ, etc...

On a somewhat realted note, an article published by Nikkei Business Publications about the common practice of anime productions being financed by groups of investors on the basis of loans based on copyright profit potential may be of interest to English speaking anime fans primarily because it includes a breakdown of how much it costs to produce anime. According to the article:

An average current anime TV episode has a budget of 10 to 13 million yen ($85,000 - $111,000).

A year-around anime TV series (shows like Inuyasha, Naruto, One Piece, Detective Conan) that airs through 4 "kuru" (a 13 week TV "season") costs 500 to 700 million yen ($4.3 - 6 million) to produce.

An average theatrical film may cost 100 to 300 million yen ($850,000 - $2.56 million), but big budget films like Innocence, Steamboy and Studio Ghibli films can have budgets as large as 2 billion yen (as much as 17 million American).

So now you know part of the reason why anime costs so much here in the states. The other part is coporate greed, but it's nice to see some concrete numbers associated with the production for once. Abnimated features are chaper to make than live action ones, but still arent cheap. I remember reading some info a while ago about the now defunct Clerks:animated series and even cutting costs it was costing ABC about 10 grand an episode to produce.


The moral of the story: Dont download liscensed anime.. you're ripping off investors

Any thoughts on this?