Well, for the translated manga, switcing shops is easy.  Finding a place
that carries the videos is just too frustrating.  The stores around here
just aren't willing to risk money on it.  I had to order my own boxes on
Ani-mayhem, just because no one in the are was willing to order it.  Oh,
they were willing to take my money, get the cards, mark it up and sell it
to me, but otherwise, we're talking 1/2 drives out of town to get any kind
of response on a retail level.

Frank


On Fri, 24 May 1996, Marisa Price wrote:

Geeze. You have GOT to switch shops. My comic book shop has the nicest
people working there. They are as excited as -I- am when a shipment
comes in from one of the various manga/anime companies they purchase
stuff from. If it is out, they are the first to get it in. Also, the
people who run the store are REALLY REALLY into anime and produce
fansubs and have a bunch subbed by other companies. The fansubs are
free, you can borrow them for 3 days and then you have to return them.
They also have TONS of Anime movies... TONS... even hard to find ones...
and they rent those for $1.50 for 3 days. They also carry the following
comics:
        Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura*Lum, One Pound Gospel, Mermaid Saga
        3x3 Eyes, Ah My Goddess!, You're Under Arrest!, Gunsmith Cats,
        Ninja High School, and The Secret of Miss China's Ring

And that is just mentiong the ones that -I- like! Anyway, all this is
in EUGENE, OR, where I thought it would be an anime-barren zone after
growing up within 45 minutes of Japantown in San Francisco. However,
there was this great store 1 block from the University of Oregon. I
HIGHLY recommend that you push your store owners to carry more anime
or find a different store and let them go out of business as they
deserve ^_-.


-misachan
Marisa Price
marisa@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Anime Page!!! includes my Ranma and MI picture pages!!
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~marisa/
Mermaid Saga Web Page!!
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~marisa/mermaid.html
Member of COR and UDIC.
Anime otaku forever! Medieval Studies and English major.

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