Question about paying $60 for anime streaming services each month

I added up my monthly subscriptions last week and was surprised to see I'm spending about $60 a month on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Netflix just for anime. That's over $700 a year for shows I sometimes don't even finish. I started thinking about whether it's really worth it when I could just buy the physical DVDs of my favorites instead. A box set of a complete series like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood runs around $40 on sale and you own it forever. But then I miss out on new seasonal shows that everyone talks about online. Has anyone else dropped a service or gone back to buying discs to save money?

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charlie_stone7220d agoMost Upvoted

Just buy the box sets and pirate the new stuff nobody remembers past a month anyway.

coleman.derek20d ago

Notices the same pattern with people buying fancy cookware but never learning the basics, just skip the noise.