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Is buying from Mandarake supporting Bandai/toy companies?
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02-27-2014, 12:48 AM
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Deathryuger
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The answer to this question has to be different depending on whether or not you live in Japan. For most of us, we can't walk into a store and buy these products off the shelf. The reality is that we don't factor into Bandai's equation. It leaves us consumers to search for the most bang for our buck. Even buying from stores like CSToys, Amiami, or HLJ is indirectly supporting Bandai, since it is the store who pays Bandai before we pay them. I try to buy from these stores when possible, but most of the time it is easier to find it on Mandarake. The way I look at it is that my money goes to helping out the overall toku community that is over there making the purchases from Bandai. Hell, we aren't even able to by directly from Bandai on web exclusives without the use of a middleman. I mean the only way we consume the media is through downloading the episodes, so the whole fandom is in a gray area.
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