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It's a strawman argument because you assumed something I never said and are trying to divert the topic at hand. And good job quote mining me by stringing together two sentences from two different posts addressing two different issues. All your attempts at derailing the main argument doesn't change the fact that you're wrong about the reasons why anime dvd prices are higher in North America compared to non-anime dvd releases. They aren't "artificially inflated in order to have comparable prices to the native japanese prices" like you suggest.
But I'll spell it out for you once again. When a U.S. anime company licenses an anime from a Japanese company, they are already in the red. On top of the costs of licensing a title, they have to pay for translating the show, English dubbing, QC, etc. Compare this to a non-anime show where they made all their costs back + possible profits when they aired the show on tv. When it comes to releasing the show on dvd, the non-anime show has already made back all it's costs so it's in it for the pure profit. DVD sales becomes one of the sources of revenue. In the case of anime dvds, dvd sales is THE source of revenue. They have to make the costs of churning out the dvd (the reasons were previously mentioned) and break even before they can start making a profit, and they have to do this mostly from dvd sales. Anime companies don't have the luxury of having their shows exposed in the mass media like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and other non-anime shows do. And on top of that they are catering to a much narrower market. This is why you see anime dvds priced higher than non-anime dvds.
You know, this discussion might be worth continuing but only if you stop using fallacies.