Hattori admits to selling the discs, and in the description for his e-commerce listing he was upfront about them being overseas-sourced, also admitting that the picture quality was below that of most Japanese-market anime home video releases. However, he is claiming that he was unaware that the discs were bootlegs, and instead believed them to be legitimate overseas releases. set of the Demon Slayer TV series in Japan.
Hattori wasn’t arrested for his criminally low prices, though, but because the anime he was selling were bootlegs from overseas.
Specifically, he’d been buying the Demon Slayer discs from a supplier in Malaysia and offering them for resale in Japan.
Collecting anime isn’t a cheap hobby, and that’s especially true in Japan.