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Anime DVDs don't drop like that.

Typically, the only time anime DVDs go down in price, is when they are a 3-5 episode DVD from a TV series or OAV series, that gets released as a "Value" set in a single, multi-DVD, case later.

For example, prior to the re-release of the first Rayearth series as a single-case set, the 5 DVDs doubled in price, and the original 5 single-DVD-per case boxed set went up to $250.

The Aura Battler Dunbine DVD #12 still sells for almost that much, when it can be found. The only reason why DVDs #1-11 went down was because you couldn't get #12 to complete the set, except through E-Bay (it was only released in a sealed boxed set with DVDs #7-12 in their individual cases in it).

The original Megazone 23 Part 1 Streamline/Orion DVD still sells for considerably more than the ADV redo, because the dub sounds better, and the sub reads better, than the ADV version.

As a result, while most anime series end up with "value collections" with less packaging for about twice the original 1-DVD price (and the leftover individual DVDs getting seconded to places like Big Lots, Dollar General, and the yearly 10/$50 or 25/$100 blowouts from Right Stuf), instead it typically takes about 8-10 years for most anime movie DVDs to start dropping in price, typically from the license running out and the company having to liquidate the remaining stock.

Of course, back about 5-6 years ago, I saw where Walgreens had apparently broken up a bunch of Robotech boxed sets, and had the DVDs mixed together with others in a $10 bin (of course, that was actually maintaining the Boxed set price, since the Bonus DVDs were in there and ALSO $10)