I’m gonna hope you mean stuff like Ghost in the Shell and 20th Century Boys and not … the other kind of manga.

“How many vegetables had to die for your stupid salad” kind of beat.

Everyone is saying Piracy but I say Public LIbraries, which often have CDs/DVDs/BDs/games now (depending on your locale). They’re taxpayer funded, so you might as well get your money’s worth, and they keep track of how often stuff gets borrowed which determines future financial support.

(And if you are tech-savvy enough to be on Lemmy, you probably know how to make a … permanent copy … for yourself to keep)