As to your question of why I don't watch when the anime hits stateside on DVD... First of all, I live in Canada. If it takes 6 months for it to hit US shelves, it'll take 12 months to reach here. If it takes a year to see it in the US, it'll take at least two years here. That is, if there were actually shelves to buy them off of in the first place... There are very few anime viewers in this area, and that kind of thing simply isn't sold. This isn't Hollywood theater made for a North American audience.
How would a person in Japan feel if you told him that in order to support the anime industry he should pay to buy every show he watches on DVD, and not leech it off the television broadcast? Even if he was willing to pay that much, and even if he was willing to wait that long to see what everybody else has already seen, I suspect he wouldn't be able to get them all even in Japan.
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