I first should bring up the point that Anime is a foreign entity imported from another country, and in order to view it in it's purest form, it must be viewed in it's native language: Japanese. This isn't just applicable to Japanese animation, but any foreign film. The barrier is in that quite often the audience in a foreign country does not speak the language. Not understanding the language of a program that you watch …
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…If amendment 1 held true, this wouldn't be the case. Of course then again some distributors do price the same for some subs and dubs. I believe Disney does (did). And thus the plot thickens. Of course with bilingual DVD's coming out all of the pricing debate could become pointless. But that brings up a whole new topic with region codes and why I cant buy a Japanese DVD and play it on my DVD player...