Don K. the ever ? said:

<Well, the BEST place I have ever seen is "That's Rentertainment."  It's =
in
Champaign, Illinois.  I saw it when I was visiting a friend.  They had
virtually every Ranma tape released.  A few years back, I was snagging
every tape as it was being released, and my friend at U of I had seen
everything I had! :o  Eventually, he even saw more than me! :(>

I've been down there too. My two best friends live down there, and they've =
been going out for quite a while, now. When I asked them about anime in =
UIUC, and laughed, thinking no one had any regular place to go, they just =
laughed and showed me that place. That pretty much shut me up ^_^

It's the same rule as it is across the country, really, since anime, and, =
by
association, Ranma, is still kind of in the in-between stages of cult hit
to nationwide craze. The small chains of stores and stuff in the country,
(with the exception of Suncoast Video in Lincolnwood Town Center and
in other places across the country), are the ones more likely to carry
things like anime.

I've see two-bit video stores with bigger anime selections than Blockbuster=
's...

<BTW, I didn't know you were from Chicago, Frank.  I can see it now,
though.  "luc."  Anyway, just wanted to say hi to a fellow Chicagoan. =20
Your web site rocks! ^_^>

Thanks! Hi to you too. Actually, here in Chicago it appears we have the
most concentrated base of ML'ers and ex-ML'ers. We're thinking of
getting together sometime soon, too...

--Frank Sanchez (fsanch@wpo.it.luc.edu)
Maintainer, Ranma 1/2 Library - http://ranmainfo.simplenet.com
Columnist, Otaku Opinions
1/2 of Super Deformed Gaijin Productions
"I am me. No one else is that." - Rei Ayanami, NGE