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(incl. Anime News Nina!, ANNtv, ANNCast, Answerman, Astro Toy, Brain Diving, Buried Treasure, Chicks On Anime, Crashing Japan, The Dub Track, The Edit List, Epic Threads, From The Gallery, Hai Fidelity, House of 1000 Manga, Ima Kore Ga Hoshiin Da, Old School, Pile pandora bracelets of Shame, RIGHT TURN ONLY!!, Shelf Life, Sound Decision, Sub Culture, Super Plastic, Tales Of The Industry, Tankobon Tower, The Click, The Gallery, The List, The Mike Toole Show, The Set List, The Stream, The X Button)If people want to wait for cheap SAVEesque lines or otherwise good sales, like getting a 13 episode series for $11 on Rightstuf, that's their prerogative. It is what the market will bear, they just exchanged money for a commodity. It looks like the anime disc market is shrinking regardless of how items are priced, but low prices are always the most attractive the widest selection, but AoA style prices will only exacerbate and accelerating the NA industry's problems to retain fans and grow. It works out for the company's bottom line, so the question to ask is: what's more important here? The Japanese otaku not being able to buy relatively dirt cheap American BDs, or we not being to pay moderate prices?NISA has yet to dub a single one of their releases, the majority of Sentai releases are subtitled only, AniplexUSA's pandora jewelry outlet releases are close to being split down the line for dubbed and subbed releases, and I'm pretty sure Nozomi and Discotek have a handful of both dubbed and subbed releases now. FUNimation (and maybe Viz? I can't remember how their anime business model works when the only "active" anime company beating them in no releases ever is Media Blasters) is the only company I know of focusing solely on releases with dubs, and given their recent survey they might be thinking about opening a second branch in house for subtitled only releases too.Have you been keeping up with Sentai? 90% of their current releases are billingual (their Persona 4 Blu rays are even dub only). They only released ALL their shows sub only back when they were new and recovering from ADV's bloody death. Now, they only release titles sub only if it's extremely niche. They've even said that all their Blu ray releases will be billingual (except for Persona 4 being dub pandora outlet only at Aniplex' request), since they say it's extremely difficult to even break even on a Blu ray if there's no English dialogue track (Blu ray releases are far more expensive to produce than DVDs).Read my entire post. I said it's understandable for more niche titles to receive sub only DVDs, and that makes up NIS America's entire catalog (except for maybe pandora charms sterling silver Pandora Hearts, but that's up for debate). NOT their imports.), Nozomi's new licenses fit into the incredibly niche category (not including their saves, which were usually dubbed anyway), Discotek only releases retro titles (again, most of them already having dubs), and they understandably don't produce any for older shows never to see our shores.While English dubs aren't on EVERY release, they're still very much standard. Fact: there has never been a point where every anime DVD was billingual. Media Blasters, Bandai, Geneon, Manga Entertainment, and AnimEigo have all done their share of sub only releases. Heck, Viz originally released the later episodes of Maison Ikkoku subtitled on VHS back in the 90s with no dubbed equivalent (which would be considered a sub only release back then), granted they did go back and have the later episodes dubbed for the DVD, but that's quite similar to some releases now done sub only, and later re released billingually.