central NJ (Score 1)

i live in west central NJ (mercer county area) and one of the problems around these parts is that all of the 'independent' chain stores that were any good (particularly palmer video, less so choices) were bought out by west coast video...which promptly closed all of the stores, leaving us with blockbuster and a few dinky, hanging-on-by-a-thread indie stores that stock about 50% popular movies, 50% porn (which they make the most profit on, i'm told). palmer in hamilton used to have a large anime section ranging from the standard stuff (macross, akira) to more obscure things (they had urusei yatsura, too) and the ubiquitous pr0n anime stuff.

real tragedy they went out of business, they were the only place you could rent anime and they even had a decent foreign/art section (they had "salo," fer chrissakes) and stocked stuff like "nekromantik" and "der todesking," which blockbuster wouldn't even think about carrying.

oh well, the homogenization proceeds apace.