/jp/ - Otaku Culture

What's interesting is how rich a hardcore otaku had to be back in the day. Consider the game prices in >>16332201 and add in a collection of anime laserdiscs for the high end experience. For example, this Kimagure Orange Road JP laserdisc box set cost nearly $1000 new, and digging through old anime fan pages I found a guy who inventoried his LD collection and found he had spent $15000 USD.

Of course there were fansubs and raw VHS copies of shit, but having treasures like this was brutally expensive. The Urursei Yatsura TV series box set came on 50 laserdiscs and cost almost $3000.