kids today have it too easy.
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
Just wake up at 6am on a Saturday and watch each episode on the TV before your parents get out of bed.
the best time i ever had watching anime was watching vhs recordings of digimon that my dad did, but he somehow didn't know how to set the timer on the vcr so it was only ever half of an episode.
I remember when it was still called Japanimation and you had to watch cable TV really late at night to see it.
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.
I remember the days of Toonami.
All those episodes of Dragonball with Goku monologuing while powering up... Gone, like tears in the rain
"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
Maybe you should learn to use the internet instead going to youtube for watching anime.
Watching Pokemon episodes 3-7 and 51-54 on repeat because those were the only VHS tapes my Blockbuster had
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.
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"
i did! i still remember binging fucking full episodes of death note on youtube a decade back. ahh, memories. <3
I also had the VHS tapes circulated on a webring with the horrible yellow subtitles that would add excessive swearing
It's how I first watched Serial Experiments Lain and I do not regret a second
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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.
oh god oh fuck
