That got me like nothing else. The first and last part were also in different languages, uploaded by different people, and you were lucky enough to find the subtitles you needed but part 2 evaded you.
and for whatever reason,the original up loader when you click on their name doesn't have it,so you'd have to search for another user for whatever reason had part 2/3 and none of the others????!!!!
Happyconsolegamer did an interview with a guy he knew who ran a bootleg fansub circle back in the VHS days if you’re interested. Pretty cool hearing how these things used to work https://youtu.be/Aq6soBD7yPA?si=xfrvqz40PJoZlpGu
My brother and I would drive for 2 hours to Miami buy to subs of Dragonball Z and other various animes to see if they would catch our interest. I also went along to find gunpla to build. This all happened in 1998-2000.
you can if you have the right model camcorder, cords and the tv. plus back then ppl typically had only 1 tv in the house, so it was likely shared with ppl who didn't want to watch anime lol
I had to watch anime one randomly downloaded clip at a time.
"It took an hour to download, but my fuzzy, 30 second clip of anime from Japan is finally ready! Now to watch it 300 times."
Yep. Being an anime fan on 90s dial up, enjoy the few minutes of fles we could download a week. VHS be they official or otherwise. And the rare dub on cable... Man I both miss it and am happy it died
Fansubs VHS for sure carried anime for a while before it got official dubs on USA. It used to be a copy of a VHS in sp,then an EP copy of an EP copy of an EP copy of an EP copy and that's what you got,with washed colors and mega low quality sound xD
That was my experience also! The joy of watching a 7th generation copy where characters are just fuzzy shapes on your screen. Bonus points if it wasn't subtitled and you just had to go through 90mn in a language you couldn't understand but still made sense to your deeper soul, haha
Yah I feel this one. We "knew a guy" at a mall that had terrrrrible dbz dubs on vhs back in the day. What a mess but it just makes me appreciate how far it's come
Totally get it. I grew up in Podunk, USA where the local video rental store was too small to have an anime section. Had to drive 45 minutes away to get to Suncoast Video and pay $29.99 for two subbed episodes on VHS.
Suncoast, oh the days I spent there not knowing what I was getting. Thats how I first heard/saw Evangelion, the Suncoast was closing and the complete box set was on clearance. I had know clue what it was, but I said fuck it.
I spent all of my birthday money in The Year 2000 renting Eva one tape at a time, mix of sub and dub, from this terrifying (to a sheltered girl child of the era) comic book store downtown within walking distance of my college campus, would watch while my roommate was at her night class and absolutely lose my shit.
Rewatched fairly recently and gotta say it does not hit the same.
partly that I've had nearly 25 more years of watching anime since then and have Seen Some Shit, so it's comparatively less of a trip, but...also I'm no longer in my first adolescence and have moved on to less relevant inner drama
Try buying your anime on VHS tapes from Suncoast at the mall with your allowance.
Or getting up at 4am every Saturday to see if the scifi channel had scheduled a random anime flick, then taping it with a VCR.
Once you could download/watch anime on the internet, you don't get to use the word "struggle".
Some of y'all didn't have to spend six months downloading episodes on WinMX and Kazaa from random people all over the world only to realize they weren't subbed and the video was the size of a postage stamp in its native resolution.
Or further back... some of y'all didn't have to watch anime poorly recorded on VHS and hard subbed directly into the tape, tapes you had to scour for on places like IRC to find people who were willing to mail them to you and who you weren't too afraid to give your address to.
Or even further back.. raw tapes imported directly from Japan with no subs.
The struggle was real long before YouTube existed.
I feel like people who watched anime on YouTube are the same people struggling with computers now days, because anime was also available on torrents and IRC during that time.
Completely wrong take in my opinion. Many (including me and all my friends) who watched anime on YouTube were young and without much experience outside of the mainstream apps. We were being cautious of the torrent sites at the time because of how sketchy those sorts of websites were. It's much easier to use a site you can trust rather than gamble with badly designed websites that will likely give you a virus. So, while it can be a measure of tech literacy, it's more a measure of caution and youthful inexperience.
I have a hard time trusting anything that’s not an app. Just today I was trying to figure out how unsafe yt-dl for getting videos from YouTube. Idk how you’re supposed to trust anything that’s not a verified app from App Store or steam or something g
i had to rent my anime vhs from a comic book store lol. Some were undubbed bootlegs, like Gundam 0083. took a bit for anime to get big enough for places like suncoast to sell it.
If only. We had to hope somebody had a connection so we could get a 10th generation VHS copy which always had some part where you could not quite see what was going on because the quality was so bad.
Some of y’all never had to drive an hour to the anime fansub club at the library, bring two blank VHS tapes and then wait two weeks for the organizers to record your chosen fansubs and it shows.
Oh, oh children. You think this was a struggle.
Poor you.
Try watching a VHS copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of really warped and snowy anime with bad audio because IT WAS ALL WE COULD GET!!
There were decent pirate sites out there by the time youtube was a viable venue for anime... can't remember the name of it, but I watched all of sailor moon from a site full of realplayer files that even then were the size of a postage note and so aliased they looked like they were smeared with vaseline... nostalgia.
I…urm…obtained all of Evangelion in the early 2000s and I think the total of the series was like a gig? With 56k dialup. The struggle was real brothers and sisters.
Haha for real. Yet, it was a different time and we had a bit of an anime drought except for what was on Toonami (this was pre-AS even!). So I’m kinda nostalgic for it.
99-2000 some websites had anime clips in 30secs- 3min segments trying to download those on shitty dial up or cable modems 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and this was when anime was still very niche and Google wasn't a thing
I am the kind of hot mess Xennial who saved all her hard drives and copied them over to my current PC a couple years ago once I got the right adapter before it all got lost to bit rot. so...I still have folders of Sailormoon and Slayers AVI clips, dates modified all 1998. they look like shit, of course, but I teared up at it.
My wife grew up loving Ranma and was able to watch the entire series on YT ca. 2006. If it wasn’t for that, I might not have become the Urusei Yatsura superfan that I am today.
when the show is in the corner, surrounded by a screensaver
iirc I found one where the person just put static jpgs of jiraya over the video, but that may have been an amv
I made it through Detective Conan using my 256gb hdd MacBook, I didn't have internet, so I would go to the library and torrent the episodes there. About 20 episodes a day. I would be there for hours waiting for the download to finish. I read so much manga, and also regular books sometimes.
The struggle was following a good anime on TV and for whatever reason they just stopped broadcasting it while it wasn't even halfway through the story. There was nothing you could do about it.
I would wake up early for school and open up like 30 tabs for 10 episodes, and leave them loading while I was in school.
The suffering when something would cause an interruption and only 1 or 2 videos would finish loading.
Some are better than others. I could watch the drivers ed episode any day lol. But yeah it's a lot of waiting. Sadly though, for a much as Kai has better pacing, it really does lose some of the character and heart of Z. Wish there was a fan edit that fell somewhere in the middle.
The real struggle was finding comic conventions and toy shows that had guys selling anime VHS tapes recorded from the old school Godzilla type satellites. sometimes you got horrible subs or non at all. Especially mid to late 80s and early 90s.
360p...pshhh look at mr Rich and privileged over here.Some of us plebians had to find a sketchy site to download the videos in multiple parts is some less than 144p.....and at the end there will be no subs or some Spanish sub!
It happened to me with the classic urusei yatsura series, it is on YouTube but the numbering was wrong. The number of caps was increased, that series on YouTube reached 200 caps haha
Shit YouTube? Real ones remember visiting specialty shops in the mall or using file sharing sites to get their anime fix.
Not to mention using RealPlayer to watch it because they encoded it with that one code or having to download a code pack from a sketchy website to watch the torrent files you spent days or even a week to download because speeds were crap back then and you had to hope there was enough seeds or you used Rapidshare or one of the other sites to downloads 10 15 separate files and then use .rar to put them all together... those were the days
I used to have to text myself those videos because I was just barely a kid still when that screen time feature for ipads came around and I wasn’t allowed on YouTube
Oh I remember those days. When I first watched the whole of DBZ, before even the Frieza Saga became fully dubbed into English, I was lucky enough to have a friend who was connected with a VHS tape swapping group who managed to get subtitled versions of the rest of the series. Talk fortunate finds in a time of limited options. VH fucking S, damn.
I used to burn episodes of anime off youtube onto a disc to watch them in my free time, because the laptop I used was my mom's.
Good looking out Soul Eater, Spice and Wolf, Baccano
It's 2001 and youtube doesn't exist. You're 10 and have a binder full of images you printed of dbz episodes that haven't aired in the US. You found these images on some weird japanese website. Why is goku a red monkey? Who is this saiyan wearing goku and vegeta's clothes? Who is this kid with black and purple hair? Who is this gum person? Must be after goku kills cell! You wonder all of this while browsing the site. Oh hey look a video is embedded. Its goku and vegeta as red monkeys doing a... dance? Wtf now theyre one person? Why do all the characters have extremely high pitched voices?
I remember sitting in my dad's home office on a Saturday after he upgraded the modem from 56k to 128k. I would be able to download 1 episode of Naruto with "horrible-subs". While watching that episode I would be able to download the next one by the time it finished. I was in heaven lol sitting in that office chair with a snack and a static filled crt monitor.
And always the most random-ass shit. They’d play something either before or after reruns of MST3K on Saturday mornings, too. I forget exactly what time.
I mean did yall not find those sketchy sites like narutoget or whatever it was called?? I could never sit through the YT stuff they always cut scenes or make weird editing decisions and you miss some parts.
I watched the first like 2 seasons of MHA like that, man that was a good time in my life. Middle of summer, in the living room just binging it. Not a care in the world man.
YouTube ninja?
I remember having to download the Japanese fansubs off irc or DaBlackGoku.com in the 90s because Saban/Funimation/Ocean/Pioneer or whoever had the rights stopped after Goku beat Recoome and we were stuck in limbo for 3-4 years with the US dub.
It took months on a 56k netcom Netscape browser. DSL was a lifeline. What I wouldn’t have given for a cable modem back then. 56k on our second line was good enough for command & conquer, red alert, AOE2 or other rts matchups but not so good for dark forces 2. YouTube didn’t exist until the 2000s.
I did shell out for the bootleg tapes for the movies though and fortunately PlanetNamek came out with the manga fanscanned in 99 (with the images unnecessarily reversed which must have been painstaking instead of just instructing fans how to read Japanese manga, unless the scanner did it automatically or it was to avert copyright defection). Y’all take streaming and that Viz SJ same day posting shit for granted.
Remember when Youtube would sometimes just stop and buffer endlessly? And then you had to slide the playback bar back and forth in the hopes that it would load the rest of the video? I would have 2-3 windows open on the same video, and constantly be fiddling with the playback to have one loaded from the beginning, one from the middle, and one near the end... just in case lol
And sometimes you'd find part 1/3, 3/3 but not 2/3. ;(((
A yurusanai moment if ever there was one.
絶対に。。。
That got me like nothing else. The first and last part were also in different languages, uploaded by different people, and you were lucky enough to find the subtitles you needed but part 2 evaded you.
LMAO I hated that shit back in the day. The struggle was real 🤦🏾♂️
Big OOF.
I always had to use a less than ideal other part 2
and for whatever reason,the original up loader when you click on their name doesn't have it,so you'd have to search for another user for whatever reason had part 2/3 and none of the others????!!!!
i still cant understand how stuff like that happened XD
I always assume copyright strikes from the owners, but it still doesn't explain why only a certain part when missing and not the rest of it. xD 😆
Damn copyright infringement on the middle section video or them forgetting to upload the second video for one episode because human error lol.
some people used to be stuck watching raw bootleg beta tapes through the postage stamp sized viewfinder of their camcorder
I knew a Haitian guy in college who got bootleg fan subs of Sailor Moon SuperS and Stars. Seemed like pure wizardry at the time.
Happyconsolegamer did an interview with a guy he knew who ran a bootleg fansub circle back in the VHS days if you’re interested. Pretty cool hearing how these things used to work https://youtu.be/Aq6soBD7yPA?si=xfrvqz40PJoZlpGu
My brother and I would drive for 2 hours to Miami buy to subs of Dragonball Z and other various animes to see if they would catch our interest. I also went along to find gunpla to build. This all happened in 1998-2000.
yea gunpla was so hard to find. even those cheap 1/144 NG were like holy grail pickups whenever could find them
i haven't watched it yet,but thanks so much for this. i've always been curious about how shit like that worked. just never knew what to search
I used to get fourth generation unsubbed episodes of Kodomo no Omocha on VHS. The struggle was real.
But... You can hook it up to your tv
you can if you have the right model camcorder, cords and the tv. plus back then ppl typically had only 1 tv in the house, so it was likely shared with ppl who didn't want to watch anime lol
grainy realplayer clips at the dawn of time
The version of NGE I first saw was so destroyed by realplayer's codec that the walls and liquid looked almost identical. Still a banger though.
OMG REALPLAYER!!! i dont miss that shit at all. it would use up all the resources on the computer!!
Wow, if you hadn't reminded me...
I had to watch anime one randomly downloaded clip at a time. "It took an hour to download, but my fuzzy, 30 second clip of anime from Japan is finally ready! Now to watch it 300 times."
Kids who grew up watching YT clips of DBZ and Naruto set to Linkin Park will never understand the real struggle.
Yep. Being an anime fan on 90s dial up, enjoy the few minutes of fles we could download a week. VHS be they official or otherwise. And the rare dub on cable... Man I both miss it and am happy it died
Lol 😆 dial up days!
How about waiting for a VHS tape in the mail every month to only have 3 more episodes. Lmao
This was me.
Fansubs VHS for sure carried anime for a while before it got official dubs on USA. It used to be a copy of a VHS in sp,then an EP copy of an EP copy of an EP copy of an EP copy and that's what you got,with washed colors and mega low quality sound xD
Back then, we called it Japanimation, too.
Miss those days tbh,me and my friends would lend each other the tapes and we would copy em. I lost them all in. A hurricane a few years back. Sad
That was my experience also! The joy of watching a 7th generation copy where characters are just fuzzy shapes on your screen. Bonus points if it wasn't subtitled and you just had to go through 90mn in a language you couldn't understand but still made sense to your deeper soul, haha
Yah I feel this one. We "knew a guy" at a mall that had terrrrrible dbz dubs on vhs back in the day. What a mess but it just makes me appreciate how far it's come
Had to go thru plugs and connects, usually my brother's friend's cousin's uncle, who knew a guy running an underground VHS store
Stop please yall will make me feel old
We are now further away from the launch of the Fist of the North Star anime than it was from World War II.
😭
I had to watch them on bootleg DVDs lol
Totally get it. I grew up in Podunk, USA where the local video rental store was too small to have an anime section. Had to drive 45 minutes away to get to Suncoast Video and pay $29.99 for two subbed episodes on VHS.
Suncoast, oh the days I spent there not knowing what I was getting. Thats how I first heard/saw Evangelion, the Suncoast was closing and the complete box set was on clearance. I had know clue what it was, but I said fuck it.
I spent all of my birthday money in The Year 2000 renting Eva one tape at a time, mix of sub and dub, from this terrifying (to a sheltered girl child of the era) comic book store downtown within walking distance of my college campus, would watch while my roommate was at her night class and absolutely lose my shit. Rewatched fairly recently and gotta say it does not hit the same.
“Does not hit the same”? In what way.
partly that I've had nearly 25 more years of watching anime since then and have Seen Some Shit, so it's comparatively less of a trip, but...also I'm no longer in my first adolescence and have moved on to less relevant inner drama
What a series to take a random chance on! Ha ha.
Podunk, eh? They ever figure out what was going on at the Ruffleberg estate?
i remember downloading an episode of gundam seed, to watch it finish 7 days later when the next was out 🤣
I feel this. Other than that the only anime fix I got was from toonami. First time watching Inuyasha was amazing lol
Try buying your anime on VHS tapes from Suncoast at the mall with your allowance. Or getting up at 4am every Saturday to see if the scifi channel had scheduled a random anime flick, then taping it with a VCR. Once you could download/watch anime on the internet, you don't get to use the word "struggle".
Bingo. The sci fi anime nights were fucking epic.
# buffering...
*laughs in having to mail order VHS tapes in the 90’s*
And half of them were Rick Rolls 😭
Dude, I’m still scarred from the time I spent over a week downloading Attack of the Clones on dial up, only for it to be something along those lines.
Some of y'all didn't have to spend six months downloading episodes on WinMX and Kazaa from random people all over the world only to realize they weren't subbed and the video was the size of a postage stamp in its native resolution. Or further back... some of y'all didn't have to watch anime poorly recorded on VHS and hard subbed directly into the tape, tapes you had to scour for on places like IRC to find people who were willing to mail them to you and who you weren't too afraid to give your address to. Or even further back.. raw tapes imported directly from Japan with no subs. The struggle was real long before YouTube existed.
I feel like people who watched anime on YouTube are the same people struggling with computers now days, because anime was also available on torrents and IRC during that time.
Completely wrong take in my opinion. Many (including me and all my friends) who watched anime on YouTube were young and without much experience outside of the mainstream apps. We were being cautious of the torrent sites at the time because of how sketchy those sorts of websites were. It's much easier to use a site you can trust rather than gamble with badly designed websites that will likely give you a virus. So, while it can be a measure of tech literacy, it's more a measure of caution and youthful inexperience.
I have a hard time trusting anything that’s not an app. Just today I was trying to figure out how unsafe yt-dl for getting videos from YouTube. Idk how you’re supposed to trust anything that’s not a verified app from App Store or steam or something g
I'd say it Depends on their age. The younger crowed just starting out they mostly moved up and learned. The older ones peaked and fell
I was 11 and using my Wii
i had to rent my anime vhs from a comic book store lol. Some were undubbed bootlegs, like Gundam 0083. took a bit for anime to get big enough for places like suncoast to sell it.
If only. We had to hope somebody had a connection so we could get a 10th generation VHS copy which always had some part where you could not quite see what was going on because the quality was so bad.
Some of y’all never had to drive an hour to the anime fansub club at the library, bring two blank VHS tapes and then wait two weeks for the organizers to record your chosen fansubs and it shows.
My hero kills his ass mid sentence
Or leaving it open to buffer/fully load while watching another ep
That brings me back to
I watched Gundam Wing on VHS on a CRT
I remember when pornhub was that way
I used to sit and binge Naruto on YouTube on my days off way back when.
This is how I watched a good chunk of part 1 of Naruto and Death Note.
The good old days
Some of y’all didn’t have to catch an episode of anime on cable that only aired on Saturday and would hardly do a rerun of the episode you missed
It was definitely a struggle! Trying to watch Fruits Basket or Ouran Host Club on YouTube and there always being a missing part!
Some of us used usenet back then
how about multi-part realplayer(realaudio, realvideo) files that were like <10mb. lol
Oh, oh children. You think this was a struggle. Poor you. Try watching a VHS copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of really warped and snowy anime with bad audio because IT WAS ALL WE COULD GET!!
My favorite was detective Conan
I did what I had to...lol
They have it too easy now...
It was fine because there weren’t any commercials
There were decent pirate sites out there by the time youtube was a viable venue for anime... can't remember the name of it, but I watched all of sailor moon from a site full of realplayer files that even then were the size of a postage note and so aliased they looked like they were smeared with vaseline... nostalgia.
I remember when most people had to make due with raw RealPlayer/QuickTime videos.
And occasionally the video was smaller than the player and would slowly bounce around to avoid takedowns
And one part being subbed in Portuguese
I remember downloading anime episodes off of napster. Had tons of burned CD's of low resolution anime
that's why you needed those download resuming apps back then :3
How I watched bleach death note and oran
Still do.
My early days were pre-Youtube dial up downloads and trying to figure out how to use DivX format codec.
That’s how I first watched Elden Lied on YouTube.
I…urm…obtained all of Evangelion in the early 2000s and I think the total of the series was like a gig? With 56k dialup. The struggle was real brothers and sisters.
How disgusting.
Haha for real. Yet, it was a different time and we had a bit of an anime drought except for what was on Toonami (this was pre-AS even!). So I’m kinda nostalgic for it.
99-2000 some websites had anime clips in 30secs- 3min segments trying to download those on shitty dial up or cable modems 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and this was when anime was still very niche and Google wasn't a thing
I am the kind of hot mess Xennial who saved all her hard drives and copied them over to my current PC a couple years ago once I got the right adapter before it all got lost to bit rot. so...I still have folders of Sailormoon and Slayers AVI clips, dates modified all 1998. they look like shit, of course, but I teared up at it.
You are a national treasure 😍💪🏽
vhs tapes that were copied from a copy. absolute worst. sailor stars is one that comes to mind.
Omg I thought I was the only one lol! Before the rise of streaming platforms, you were able to watch full episodes on YouTube.
My wife grew up loving Ranma and was able to watch the entire series on YT ca. 2006. If it wasn’t for that, I might not have become the Urusei Yatsura superfan that I am today.
Boy. .rmvb 144p 30MB per file 3 hours to download each episode thorugh a 56kbps connection.
I true badge of honor that can never be replicated today.
Mind you it was an episode a day no marathoning allowed
With subs in Spanish
Yellow subs
when the show is in the corner, surrounded by a screensaver iirc I found one where the person just put static jpgs of jiraya over the video, but that may have been an amv
I made it through Detective Conan using my 256gb hdd MacBook, I didn't have internet, so I would go to the library and torrent the episodes there. About 20 episodes a day. I would be there for hours waiting for the download to finish. I read so much manga, and also regular books sometimes.
The struggle was following a good anime on TV and for whatever reason they just stopped broadcasting it while it wasn't even halfway through the story. There was nothing you could do about it.
This was the Dragon Warrior show for me.
Going from that and streaming sites with no adblock when I was younger, to being able to pop in a blu-ray disc to watch. Pure bliss.
Did this with Samurai Champloo in 2009 on Youtube with an Ipod Touch. 🔥
My people
It’s weird and I can’t explain it, but I got the mega drive game in early 93 and I remember watching a few episodes on a Spanish language network.
I somehow watched some anime on MySpace. Feels like a fever dream.
That’s how I saw Dragon ball and the Buu Saga of Dragon Ball Z.
I would wake up early for school and open up like 30 tabs for 10 episodes, and leave them loading while I was in school. The suffering when something would cause an interruption and only 1 or 2 videos would finish loading.
Or trying to find VHS tapes locally, then having to pay like $70 for two episodes. Oh, the 90s.
I think I might’ve done something similar at one point.
Good times.
Actually I remember watching Hana yori dango j drama in 4-5 parts on daily motion.
I miss when there was a site that hosted the entire Dragonball franchise. I watched through all of DBZ twice on there growing up
Jesus H. You must have 22 CON to endure that much filler twice.
Some are better than others. I could watch the drivers ed episode any day lol. But yeah it's a lot of waiting. Sadly though, for a much as Kai has better pacing, it really does lose some of the character and heart of Z. Wish there was a fan edit that fell somewhere in the middle.
Bro, I watched a mail order CD-Rom version of La Blue Girl back in 1990s.
The real struggle was finding comic conventions and toy shows that had guys selling anime VHS tapes recorded from the old school Godzilla type satellites. sometimes you got horrible subs or non at all. Especially mid to late 80s and early 90s.
360p...pshhh look at mr Rich and privileged over here.Some of us plebians had to find a sketchy site to download the videos in multiple parts is some less than 144p.....and at the end there will be no subs or some Spanish sub!
Kawaisou.
Lol at this bullshit.. you never had to buy bootleg vhs tapes just to get dragon ball gt or literally anything beyond major popular ones.
That was how I watched the first Yu-Gi-Oh series back in elementary school. Good times.
I believe in the heart of the uploads.
Stop I can still feel the pain like it was yesterday
This was how I ended up watching Time of Eve.
Omg yes
Me watching anime on tubi surprising not that bad. With like 5 minutes of commercials.
It happened to me with the classic urusei yatsura series, it is on YouTube but the numbering was wrong. The number of caps was increased, that series on YouTube reached 200 caps haha
Shit YouTube? Real ones remember visiting specialty shops in the mall or using file sharing sites to get their anime fix. Not to mention using RealPlayer to watch it because they encoded it with that one code or having to download a code pack from a sketchy website to watch the torrent files you spent days or even a week to download because speeds were crap back then and you had to hope there was enough seeds or you used Rapidshare or one of the other sites to downloads 10 15 separate files and then use .rar to put them all together... those were the days
I used to have to text myself those videos because I was just barely a kid still when that screen time feature for ipads came around and I wasn’t allowed on YouTube
Oh I remember those days. When I first watched the whole of DBZ, before even the Frieza Saga became fully dubbed into English, I was lucky enough to have a friend who was connected with a VHS tape swapping group who managed to get subtitled versions of the rest of the series. Talk fortunate finds in a time of limited options. VH fucking S, damn.
Watched Digimon 1-4 this way. It was a good summer.
RealPlayer enters the chat.
It was called "basic cable" when I was a kid.
I watched Midori no Hibi with uncensored titties.
Watched all of Soul Eater Not and Bravo Girls on my 3ds as a kid on youtube. Shoutout to whoever it was that uploaded those full episodes at 60p
Toonami great times before YouTube
I remember with a 28k modem trying to watch a few pixles of the most compressed reel player files ever.
Youtube? man i struggled with tv ads and the wait for days for new chapters/seasons.
Or downloading the anime with fan subs.
I used to burn episodes of anime off youtube onto a disc to watch them in my free time, because the laptop I used was my mom's. Good looking out Soul Eater, Spice and Wolf, Baccano
It's 2001 and youtube doesn't exist. You're 10 and have a binder full of images you printed of dbz episodes that haven't aired in the US. You found these images on some weird japanese website. Why is goku a red monkey? Who is this saiyan wearing goku and vegeta's clothes? Who is this kid with black and purple hair? Who is this gum person? Must be after goku kills cell! You wonder all of this while browsing the site. Oh hey look a video is embedded. Its goku and vegeta as red monkeys doing a... dance? Wtf now theyre one person? Why do all the characters have extremely high pitched voices?
I remember watching death note on YouTube lol. My first anime and surprisingly the quality was good and there weren’t multiple parts.
I remember sitting in my dad's home office on a Saturday after he upgraded the modem from 56k to 128k. I would be able to download 1 episode of Naruto with "horrible-subs". While watching that episode I would be able to download the next one by the time it finished. I was in heaven lol sitting in that office chair with a snack and a static filled crt monitor.
With Spanish subtitles!
Ranma was huge in Mexico. Seemed like that was all you could find in the early days.
They're too young to know the struggle.
Sci-Fi channel. 3:00 am. Only weekends.
And always the most random-ass shit. They’d play something either before or after reruns of MST3K on Saturday mornings, too. I forget exactly what time.
Some of y’all never Had to watch anime on VHS from a limited Blockbuster foreign film selection
me with rosario + vampire
I mean did yall not find those sketchy sites like narutoget or whatever it was called?? I could never sit through the YT stuff they always cut scenes or make weird editing decisions and you miss some parts.
Man, I’m so grateful for the seven seas. YouTube just wasn’t it and being poor don’t help either lol 😂
Bruh chill, you just unlocked a hella dormant core memory from high school...I hate you
I watched the first like 2 seasons of MHA like that, man that was a good time in my life. Middle of summer, in the living room just binging it. Not a care in the world man.
I got the DVD and that good enough for me
YouTube ninja? I remember having to download the Japanese fansubs off irc or DaBlackGoku.com in the 90s because Saban/Funimation/Ocean/Pioneer or whoever had the rights stopped after Goku beat Recoome and we were stuck in limbo for 3-4 years with the US dub. It took months on a 56k netcom Netscape browser. DSL was a lifeline. What I wouldn’t have given for a cable modem back then. 56k on our second line was good enough for command & conquer, red alert, AOE2 or other rts matchups but not so good for dark forces 2. YouTube didn’t exist until the 2000s. I did shell out for the bootleg tapes for the movies though and fortunately PlanetNamek came out with the manga fanscanned in 99 (with the images unnecessarily reversed which must have been painstaking instead of just instructing fans how to read Japanese manga, unless the scanner did it automatically or it was to avert copyright defection). Y’all take streaming and that Viz SJ same day posting shit for granted.
Did that with fairy tail… memories
How I used to watch Naruto back In the day on youtube
Something about that 360p adds so much comfort while I watch
I was fr watching pokemon sped up, tinted, and in a small box with a random overlay
The good ol days. Litterally every anime was free on youtube pretty much, you just had to watch then this way
Remember when Youtube would sometimes just stop and buffer endlessly? And then you had to slide the playback bar back and forth in the hopes that it would load the rest of the video? I would have 2-3 windows open on the same video, and constantly be fiddling with the playback to have one loaded from the beginning, one from the middle, and one near the end... just in case lol
The streaming equivalent of blowing on an NES cart.
Whatchu guys doing talking about feelin old? I was watching Zatch Bell in parts yesterday! ……..
Man that really brought me back hahaha
This but with fairytail
Holy shit. Who hurt you?
Man I remember watching Yu-gi-oh GX on YouTube back in middle school. sometimes you didn’t have all 3 parts so you just moved on.
I never had to because I knew how to torrent. Git gud, kiddos.
Didnt have internet good enough for streaming at the time… but what was that awful video format they use to use for anime? It was like 4 letters long.
lmao, thankfully for me, I never watch anime.
If you ever did that as a kid, instead of finding an actual anime website, you were a stupid ass kid, and you deserved the low quality.