Our local Anime retailer in Bend is Anime Mountain (yeah, the site seems to be closed just at the moment tho). Charlie sells and rents anime on Video DVD, sells Manga illustrated novels, and some various Japanese niceties like figurines, candy and gum.
Recently while I was down there, I asked about the Tenchi Mouyo anime series on OVA that he used to have around. He said it's gone. He sold it off since there seemed to be zero interest in it.
I always thought that Tenchi was like the most popular anime television show of the late 90's, like Ranma ½ was in the 80's. Is this incorrect?
Who out of you guys watches anime, and then who out of you has seen Tenchi? Is it a good series or not worth keeping in stock?
Posted by jesse at August 29, 2004 08:57 PMHoo boy. This is a toughie.
I'm a big-time Tenchi fan, but a fan mainly of the original OAV series (the videos in question, luckily), not so much of the TV series. Tenchi was big, yes, but I'm not sure it was the most popular show of its time. After all, ask any five random otaku and you'll get five answers as to "best anime of XYZ timeperiod."
If nobody was renting the thing, he made the right business decision in selling it off. There are undoubtedly better anime titles that would be more appealing to whatever anime contingent is in your neck of the woods.
That said... first thing next year, supposedly, the Fullmetal Alchemist DVDs should start appearing. Two words: HELL YES. Two more words: MUST SEE. (Yes, it's that good. Thank the goddesses for digisubs.)
Posted by: GreyDuck at August 30, 2004 10:08 AMWell, ok. I'm not questioning his business decisions, just the market that drives him to do insane things like pulling the tenchi OVA ;)
So Full Metal Alchemist eh? I haven't heard of them
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at August 30, 2004 07:54 PM