User blog comment:Udarsha45/Operation Against Foreign Sites For Uploading Manga-Anime/@comment-24974663-20140731110324/@comment-1268838-20140731173005

That is perhaps the case for anime (those blurays are ridiculously expensive), but most manga volumes are relatively affordable, assuming you have disposable income. The real issue is that many series are not localized to begin with, or that it takes so long for them to be.