05-08-2003, 11:56 PM
I don't think its fair to compare Japanese manga with R1 DVDs. Japanese manga is alot cheaper than the translated english version. The Dragonball manga published by Viz runs at 15$ a volume, thats 600$+, its probably still cheaper than the anime but thats because they scretched out the Dragonball/Z anime like crazy. Dragonball and Dragonball Z are 444 episodes so thats abut 10 episodes to one volume of the manga. That ratio is alot higher than other series.