kids today have it too easy.
I remember when it was still called Japanimation and you had to watch cable TV really late at night to see it.
I remember the days of Toonami.
All those episodes of Dragonball with Goku monologuing while powering up… Gone, like tears in the rain“I GOT TO… DO SOMETHING…”
Krillin does fucking nothing
“WE GOTTA HOPE GOKU GETS HERE SOON”Cut to goku running on that Dragon Bridge for the 12th episode in a row
Krillin dies again
Krillin: “I gotta do something”
Krillin:
Yamcha: I got this, guys
Also Yamcha:
oh god oh fuck
I became an expert on setting the timer on the VCR so that it would record multiple shows at different time segments on Adult Swim. Then I would have to watch them the next day because I only had 1 tape that I was recording over every night. It got really scratchy looking after awhile.
the third level is listening to a Japanese exchange student explain the later seasons in non-fluent English
Learning to read Japanese so you can order the manga from a bookshop overseas.
360p? Lol. Back in the day you watched videos the size of postage stamps that were so fucked from the encoding that the subtitles might as well have been wingdings
RealMedia files on KaZaa or LimeWire that were ripped from a bootleg Hong Kong VCD.
Thankfully I was raised torrenting, still do tbh
I used to torrent, I still do but I used to too.
I used to do drugs
Retvrn to downloading low quality anime fansubs via LimeWire.
Watching Pokemon episodes 3-7 and 51-54 on repeat because those were the only VHS tapes my Blockbuster had
Showdown in Pewter City was a banger.
Fansubs downloaded from IRC bots, taking all day to get just an episode or two with your slow-ass internet.
Oh the pain of hunting around for Naruto scanlations when it was new and in the early arcs of the first volume. I remember being so hyped when the Chunin Exam dropped, peak Naruto.
Also funny story, one chat room had “orgy” in the title and my grandma found out and I had to explain to her it was for my animes.
anime on youtube at 360p with each episode split into 3 parts
Honestly I had to do that not even too long ago, like late last year or early this year. I was watching Sakura Taisen and one of the episodes on Aniwave (RIP) was broken, like the audio kept cutting out or something. Lo and behold, I could find an old-ass 480p upload of that episode on YouTube, split into three parts.
…Well, 480p, I guess that doesn’t count.
Lol i was buying bootleg DVDs at cons in 2003/2004 when it was hella uncool to do so.
Watching the local con go from 5k to 40k has been wild tbh
And for some reason the 2nd part had spanish subs
I remember downloading episodes of Evangelion on dial-up and the episode where Asuka has to go into the lava was so pixelated all you could see was a red smear.
Maybe you should learn to use the internet instead going to youtube for watching anime.
Torrent files are too large sometimes
i did! i still remember binging fucking full episodes of death note on youtube a decade back. ahh, memories. <3
STOP PUTTING THE FUCKING “SAN” AND “CHAN” SUFFIXES IN THE TRANSLATION AND INSTEAD USE TERMS OF ENDEARMENT THAT ARE ENGLISH IF YOU REALLY FEEL THE NEED THEN PUT IN A NOTE THAT SAYS “I’VE TRANSLATED IT TO FRIEND EVEN THOUGH THE WORD IS CLOSER BUT I DON’T WANNA USE BOSOM-BUDDY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT”
