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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

That's interesting. How much would this Kabuto Blu-Ray release cost if it were, say, an American product?

And how much does the surrounding economy really play into the cost of a DVD? I'm sure there's some sort of unanimous base price that's intrinsic to production of these discs. Or does Toei only pay for the most choice quality Blu-Ray production and Americans always pay for the mediocre slop Blu-Ray quality?

One of the things that factors into these prices in Japan is like Kain mentioned that so little people are actually buying DVDs/Blu-Rays. So they have to set the prices high for the collectors out there that do buy them so that they make enough money out of those releases.

For instance in germany our prices for japanese media is also pretty high. For six episodes of Psycho-Pass on Blu-Ray we pay around fourty to fifty euros. This comes also from the fact that there are not that many people over here that buy animes on home video anymore also the production of the dub is insanely expensive plus the high licensing costs.

How much do you guys pay in america for those kinds of stuff?