While in Germany, I have looked for cheap anime DVDs that I also had at home so I could compare technical details such as compression rates as well as more thing like dub voices. So far I have grabbed volume 3 of .hack//SIGN and School Rumble Vol. 1 (should get the R1 version by the time I get home) as well as one disc each of Inuyasha, Shaman King, Tenchi Muyo, and King of the Hill. I can’t wait to hear the German version of Boomhauer.

Also on the manga front, I bought the first volumes of Honey and Clover and Love Hina to accompany the Japanese copies I have. This brings me to the new poll question: Do you own multiple physical versions of any anime or manga? This is meant to exclude fansubs or scanlations. After the jump: final results from the month-long “classic in 10 years” poll that I should have ended a while ago.

Q: Which anime is most likely to be considered a “classic” in ten years?
Poll ran from July 18 to August 21, 2007. Percentages rounded to nearest hundredth.

01. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – 68 votes (29.44%)
02. Naruto – 33 votes (14.29%)
03. Death Note – 26 votes (11.26%)
04. Bleach – 19 votes (8.23%)
05. Honey and Clover – 15 votes (6.49%)
06. Ouran Host Club – 11 votes (4.76%)
07. Samurai Champloo – 10 votes (4.33%)
T08. Gankutsuou – 9 votes (3.90%)
T08. Mushishi – 9 votes (3.90%)
10. Monster – 8 votes (3.46%)
T11. Maria-sama ga Miteru – 6 votes (2.60%)
T11. Eureka Seven – 6 votes (2.60%)
13. Code Geass – 5 votes (2.17%)
14. School Rumble – 5 votes (2.17%)
15. Kamichu – 1 vote (0.43%)
Total Votes: 231

Interesting Tidbits:
* Two of School Rumble’s five votes came from French IP addresses.
* One of Samurai Champloo’s votes came from a Louisiana K-12 school.
* Haruhi got 16 votes – 23.5% of its total – in a 24-hour period from 11:53am PST August 7th to 11:39am PST August 8th.

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