ITT: It is 2003
What were you watching 11 years ago?
>>114538566
I recall my beloved Toonami blocks back then.
>>114538566
this show sucked dick. the ova was infinitely better.
>>114538997
fuck you fag, paper sisters were love.
>>114538936
Toonami's back, bro.
>>114538566
>It is 2003
Jesus, I was so young back then, 18 years old and my whole life ahead. What went wrong /a/?
Love Hina.
Galaxy Angel
>>114538997
Fight me.
>>114539090
My nigger
>One mowah ting
>Aiyaaaaaaah
>Bad day bad day bad daayyy
>Jackieeee
this
Shaman King
On TechTV
>>114538566
Kino, of course.
>hikago
>onegai twins
>peacemaker kurogane
>nurutu
>>114538997
I wish you had used a tripcode so I would know to filter you.
>>114538566
Card Captor SakuraThe english dub
>>114538566
>>114538566
Anime on 4kids and adult swim
>>114538566
what ever was Toonami/Adult Swim
American cartoons and sometimes Cowboy Bebop with my dad. Didn't get into anime until years later.
>>114539162
And that awesome intro!
>>114539023
>>114539118
>>114539441
My brethren of colored skin pigment
>>114539367
the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7he8dPDUpKk
I like anime
Lolis are disgusting
>>114538566
Nothing, old animes are fucking shit
>>114538566
Some kid show.
Internet was just spreading here in my country, so i didnt know much about anime. I was watching Hunter x Hunter 99 on TV with the last good mexican dub made before they went shit. Also watching the first season of naruto on DVD rips.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex non-english bootlegs.
>>114538566
"This seriously one of the best anime I have seen. I know mom made pie for desert today, I better log off the computer soon. I hope the ending doesn't fucking blow."
still funnier than most animes I've seen
>>114538566
I was 9 in 2003, so probably Pokemon or Yugioh
GTO, Excel Saga, Big-o
And then my anime "friends" killed my love for anime at the time. I didn't start watching anime until last year at the ripe old age of 25 with Blue exorcist. I guess that was a start.
grinding through architecture
and watching some jap drama
>>114540275
>animes
>>114540318
Shaman King
>>114539047
The internet, bro
>>114538566
Just getting back into anime and watching Slayers for the first time rented from Netflix back when the only way to get their movies was in the mail.
>>114540570
>back when the only way to get their movies was in the mail.
>there are kids nowadays who have no idea that's how Netflix started out
Shit's come a long way.
>>114540275
>animes
>>>/co/
>>114538566
>>114539118
>>114539884
You are all my Negros.
Also these
>>114539367
>>114539951
>>114538936
Same here. It was Gundam Wing and Zoids, and DBZ.
Times were simpler then.
>>114541000
>waking at 5am to watch chinese cartoons
>simpler
>>114538566
anything that came on toonami and adult swim
>>114541079
We woke at six though.
Superior Austrklaian time.
Though Gumdam Wing was advertised with Çrawling' By Lincoln park, so now whenever I see Gundam all I can think off is that fucking song.
>>114541211
Oh god the memories. That show was weird, yet adorable.
>>114541211
man, the memories
removing it off my backlog
its a never ending cycle
I didn't know about /a/ yet but I was watching this.
>>114538566
Air Master, Ancient Chinese History, Avenger, Battle Programmer Shirase, Chrono Crusade, Cromartie, D.N.Angel, Discipline, Divergence Eve, Eiken, Full Metal Panic, Gilgamesh, Green Green, Gungrave, Gunslinger Girl, Kino's Journey, Last Exile, Maburaho, Mazinkaiser, Mouse, Onegai Twins, Planetes, RahXephon OVA, R.O.D. the TV, Requiem from the Darkness, Saiyuki, Shadow Star, Stellvia, Texhnolyze, The Big O, That Nonexistent Anime, Tokyo Godfathers, UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, Zatch Bell
11 years later and Ancient Chinese History is still going strong while Sunrise continues to fuck us over with Mai-HiME.
>>114538566
Why was the second half just so awful?
>>114542561
>Mai-HiME
But I liked that show, fuck you anon.
>>114541393
As was I anon. Loved that show.
>>114538566
On this stupid fucking website.
On Sci-Fi channel.
It was all up from there onwards.
It made me genuinely upset for weeks.
>>114540372
Shit, are you me? Also, RahXephon, probably.
>>114542854
I was the same way to this.
>>114542807
I don't remember Genocyber even being on Sci-Fi, but I remember way back in the days, shit like Roujin Z, Iria, Tenchi Muyo in Love and Armitage III. That's what got me started.God, I'm old.
>>114542941
Hey at least childhood friend one.
Despite being missing from the pic.
>>114541393
>"I want to be your sister, but then we can't fuck! Oh no!"
Thank God we've moved on from that.
>>114543034
won*
Well shit, now I'm depressed it's been 10 years since ROD TV ended and we still haven't gotten more. S3 never I guess.
>>114542854
My anime club back then nicknamed it Angst.
>>114543084
ROD TV was shit
>>114538566
I was fucking 11, I would have still been watching whatever was on WB's and Fox's cartoon blocks.
>>114543124
If it ain't anime related nobody gives a shit
>>114543034
>one
I'm assuming you meant won, to which she didn't and also the reason this made me very upset.
>>114543150
Pretty sure they had anime, if only shit like Pokemon, Digimon, maybe Yugioh, I don't remember.
>>114543156
In my head she did
>>114538566
Holy shit, the taste of anime from all of you were so horrible back then.
>>114540725
>>114540570
>read "mail" as "mall"
Made me think of this. This place was my Mecca.
I only remember loving Vampire Hunter D and still being obsessed with Evangelion despite discovering and watching it three years prior. 2003 was the year I started hiding my power level because I discovered that girls liked me and was afraid that they'd stop liking me if they knew I watched anime, so I wasn't watching a lot of anime...I was a dumb kid.
>>114543199
>taste
Look who's talking
A buddy of mine had some VHS of Hellsing
Soundtrack is still neat at least
>>114543216
I once tried to buy anime DVDs from there. Got a nice, thick, tin case of GitS:SAC for 50 bucks thinking it was the entire series.
Got home and read the box and saw it was just the last disc of the series with three fucking episodes.
Needless to say, it went right back and I got the whole series for half that price on Amazon.
>>114542561
>Eiken boob physics
>The first thing I thought of when watching Code Geass with /a/ was Mouse.
Onegai Teacher > Onegai Twins
I didn't realize I haven't watched the original Gunslinger Girl in ten fucking years.
When was Azumanga? I can't remember.
>>114543216
As much as I loved that place while it was open, I loved it even more as it was closing. 90% off complete box sets. What a glorious day that was.
Either inuyasha or dragon ball
>>114540152
School rumble was aired in the year 2004 you faggot.
>>114543216
God I went to a little mini con event those places were hosting for a while. The funk in the back of those places, shit
>>114543216
Is that Fiesta Mall?
>>114543188
I can do one better, she has her own good end in the VN.
>>114543364
Maybe he's Australian
>>114538566
Sailor moon and my dick while faping
>>114543340
Anyone else watchSailor Moonwhen it was originally airing as a young teenager? At first I was pissed that my friend would not start playing GoldenEye until the show was over, but then I started watching the entire episode with him and his sister.
>>114542693
I think you're misunderstanding.
I love Mai-HiME, yet Sunrise continues to fuck us over with no new Mai-HiME on the tenth anniversary.
I waited up all night for that announcement.
>>114543375
Park City Center in Lancaster PA
>>114538566
oh yes, forgot this shit.
>>114543216
>>114543282
>>114543340
>>114543371
>>114543375
You think my coupon's still good?
>>114543321
Those physics were quite the thing.
Has there been anything like Mouse since?
I agree, Onegai teacher was better.
I forgot that a lot of these came out that long ago.
Azumanga was the year before, 2002. ;_;
>>114543587
Fucking this, my nigger.
>>114538566
>2003
Honestly I can't even think back that far back. Maybe some shit on Toonami or Adultswim at like 1am-3am on my school holidays. Life was so much simpler back then.
>>114543623
I think I've had Gospel on a watch list for a decade
>>114543623
>Coupon expires October 31, 1995
I say give it a go.
>>114543482
How old are you? Just curious, because I was 9 when it first started airing in the US in 1995...GoldenEye didn't come out until 1997, though, which means you didn't start watching it until I was 11.
>>114543496
My wrong interpretation of what you meant, my apologies anon.
>>114543623
Might want to call that number and check.
>>114539090
>Those four characters on the far right
>That fucking little boy
What the fuck, when did this Mary-Sue shit show up?
>>114538566
Great times.
Ghibli movies
I was reading some written rewiews about Gunslinger Girl and Eva back then. And getting money to buy Saint Seiya tankos. Time were simpler, the only thought I had in those days were about buy mangos and play some games.
>>114543482
Here here. I'm gonna say if you go further back has anyone ever seen Macron 1 aka GoShogun?
a!
>mfw watching initial D burned on CDs for the first time
>mfw after waiting 8 hours of downloading 1 episode of anime
>>114543738
I'm 29. ;_;
>>114543897
Glorious .rmvb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTa5CS-ZM9I
THATS SO WONDERFUL
Its fucking over ten years old and overall its still better than SAO.
Fuck me...
>>114543908
Don't cry, anon.I'm 29, too. We can be old together.
gundam wing and belldandy? I wasn't doing anything on the internet back then, just watching stuff my cousins abroad got a hold of
>>114543959
>better than SAO
That's not hard, anon.
Getting your testicles shaved by a rabid badger's teeth could be considered overall a better experience than SAO.
>>114543908
Ah...I'm 28. That's why I was asking...I usually feel like I'm the oldest person in /a/ threads.
>>114543897
>Mfw when Kazaa hits 100 kbps
>>114543994
Sorry anon I beat you by three years, I'm 31 turning 32 in December. Uug why can't time freeze already.
>>114544030
>100kbs
richfag detected
>>114543882
Nope. Sailor Moon was the first anime I ever watched.
>>114543974I'm married.Her first anime was Sailor Moon.She hates Homura and doesn't like it when I tell her "Homura did nothing wrong."
>>114544065
Thank you for being as old as you are.
>getting a worm on my computer
I was still using Windows98
>>114543974
>>114543908
>>114543994
>>114544065
Don't feel too bad, you whippersnappers.I turned 41 this year. I still don't know why I stay here with you all.
>>114543623
dude this is awesome
Probably Digimon or some shit like that.
>>114544100
>Windows 98
Eh, still better than ME.
>>114544120
>>114544120
>You are old enough to be the father of some people that browse /a/
>>114544179
>>114544156
>tfw you had a computer with ME for 5 years
>>114538566
Flunked out of university. Spent that summer watching Full Moon wo Sagashite and .hack//SIGN. Probably the closest I've come to being a hikki.
I remember seeing raws for this show on Monday and then waiting 2 days for subs to arrivedivx/xvid hardcoded subs
>>114539278
fuck this show, I rewatched it a while ago and I hated it so much
>>114544074
Hell yeah. Playing the latest pc games on a Cable Line with a Voodoo3. Spoiled as fuck.
>>114544120
You're a true inspiration to everybody who has ever felt that they'll never grow out of anime, sir.
>>114544197I guess it's slightly more depressing that I don't have any kids.That I know of.
Stay on topic. No one cares about blogshit.
>>114544250
I did grow out of anime after college when I got married. Then divorced. Then depressed for several years and then saw Eva and realized just how much like Shinji I had become, which opened me back up to anime(>>114540570 is me).
It feels funny because it was brown girl Shinji that got me into anime as anime the first time around.
Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu Gi Oh, Saint Seiya,
CCS, corrector yui and Kaleido Star.
Don't remember anything about KS except that blonde was best girl.
>>114544287
Sorry.
Well, what were you watching in 2003, anon-kun?
>>114543482
I started watching that when it first came out in Canada. Always kept the remote in my hand to fast-change the channel. Nobody knew my secret.
>>114544120
I'm this anon >>114544065
I see your powerful is bigger then mine.All my respects sir
Anyone here still watched anime on VHS at the time?
Planetes. Or maybe that was a little bit later. I can't remember.
>>114543959
As much as I love //SIGN... the director is a pretentious fuck. Absolutely no reason why that went on for 24 episodes when 13 would have sufficed.
Subaru/Tsukasa is still my OTP and always will be.
>>114544349
Fuck yes. In fact, I still do, occasionally.
>>114544349
I collect anime on VHS...Probably because of nostalgia for my teen years.
>>114544307
It's kind of amazing how much you connect with Shinji after going through a bout of depression. Hated him on the first viewing when I was 15, watched 15 years later and had a "I understand everything" moment through out the entire show.
>>114544349
If there's a word meaning better then the word yes, it is that.
>>114544307
Shinji has been the primary catalyst for change in your life.
>>114544349
I have a few VHS fansubs... somewhere in my room. Started out buying DVDs at the time tho, without owning a player. Was kind of interesting going around to all the video game places trying to find a PS2 to rent so I could watch my just released Utena movie.
>>114544437
His revelation before being congratulated never resonated with me until I started going through therapy and realizing that I was just like him and needed to go through pretty much the same revelation.
>>114544337
Heh, I had my TV stuck to YTV. No one didn't really care but I did watch Gundam SEED on the lowest volume with ear close to the TV. I can't remember why.
>>114539090
the art has, not aged well to say the lease
>>114538566
Well, we didn't have no internet, but man I never will forget the night-anime on german MTV.
Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Lupin III, Inuyasha, and on VIVA we had X1999, Aika, Najica. I think there was a rerun of Digimon 1 on Tele5 around this time.
I pretty much watched everything available, for obvious reasons.
>>114539449
Wish I could find the outro instrumental somewhere.
>>114544120
Pharrell plz go
Nothing.
But I'd watch Bible Black in 2004 thanks toidlechan
>>114544156
Had that OS for three years and for the life of me I can't recall any particularly outstanding negative incidents as far as inherent defects are concerned. It did catch the klez, but that was because my dad opened an e-mail attachment. Pic related, my reaction when (except I was not amused in the least).
Love Hina. Also I was 8 at the time. I'm in deep now motherfuckers.
>>114544523
That is strange. Next to DBZ, Gundam was this most acceptable show for a guy to watch back when.
Came out in 2003, but don't think I was watching it in 2003.
>>1145452667, step up senpai. Btw I was watching Angelic Layer.
>>114542854
To think, the MC managed to get sex. Yet, he was still a major fuckup.
>>114545404
Kissu?
I remember going to AnimeNation and looking through their selection of H titles. A lot of that stuff seemed pretty niche in retrospect; I wish I could remember them all...
>>114539285
my nigger
sk was my jam
literally my first anime
>>114545440
>AnimeNation
I use to stay up late just to rewatch this over and over on Adult Swim
Pretty sure I was picking up the ADV Azumanga Daioh DVDs around then.
>>114545598
>ADV
>>114545618
It's fine. They're just sentai now.
>>114545412
Everyone was a fuck up in that show, that was sort of the point. I was really pulling for Mitsuki to drown herself in the end.
>>114545634
ADV used to put out great releases. Sentai's shit is... well, shit.
I still miss US Manga Corps.
>>114545598
I feel kinda bad for having been around when this show was hot shit on the fansubs, yet never watched more than a few episodes.
>>114539449
I watched this when i was a little tyke. I had no idea what is was. I just watched it because it was on cartoon network.
>>114545649
I don't see much difference in ADV's grab everything some of this might not be shit and Sentai's grab everything some of this might not be shit tactics.
They still had a better batting average than goddamn CPM.
Akira. Repeatedly. It was the only anime I'd seen at that point. I didn't seriously start watching until about 2006. Also, Digimon Adventure, but I considered it a cartoon
>>114544387
Agreed. It's a shame the series is dead.
>>114545679
ADV used to do lots of unique and interesting packaging for stuff and had lots of extras on the discs. What I've seen from Sentai has been bare-bones and generic in its presentation.And Sentai's dubs have been consistently horrible. At least ADV managed to make SOME that were passable.
And the only thing I can think of from CPM at all is the original three Slayers seasons. Which I got in box sets for just under 30 bucks each. Which is a whole lot better than Funi's releases, which have been asking 35-40 and up for just 13 episodes.
>>114540054
Implying anymay you are watching now isn't kid show
>>114544156
>>114544210
Why go full retard when you could have installed Win2K? That shit was solid as a rock, no memory leaks, and ran XP drivers so video drivers were still fine.
I had a pared down install at one point that booted at 52mb RAM usage with full functionality. And my record uptime was something like 4 months -- nothing amazing and would have been longer had I not needed to install some new hardware. But compared to 98/ME that would bluescreen every 2 days, it was glorious.
Back when usenet was still relevant and torrents were just a fledgeling gimmick.
Also busy fapping to doujins of some manga called "Bleach" and stumbling through the internet to find out what it was until ending up on some weirdo lolicon site called 4chan.
Well in my case it was whatever anime was being broadcast on TV at the time as downloading took an eternity to do, manga wise and I was not going to inflict an animation wait on top of that.
lots and lots of AMVs
>>114538566
Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Akira, rewatching NGE probably, Gundam Wing. Basically whatever I could find on DVD/VHS.
>>114541214
It was? It was advertised with Building Steam with a Grain of Salt by DJ Shadow in the UK.
>>114545741
It's legacy lives on as the trend of mix media franchises (most of which never show up in non-Japanese languages) has stuck around.
>>114545757
Oh, packaging. Yea the boom year sets were great. I have their Chevlier d'Eon box and I think it's the best non-Aniplex/NISA set in my collection.
On the topic of Sentai dubs, Steven Foster quit so their dubs should improve. I read an interview with him and it's full of so much spite and resentment towards anime and the fandom.
>>114544156
>>114544210
>>114545806
I used ME for a year and don't see why everyone hated it. It was basically 98 with USB drivers.
That said, 2000 was probably my favorite version of Windows.
>>114545958
I fucking loved excel saga
>>114545987
>All GOAT shows
Good taste.
ME was as mess that cause memory leaks galore. And when I had a computer that had a whopping 256MB of RAM, and a 768 mhz processor and 3.6gb of storage on a 5600 rpm drive, just a small leak of memory could fuck the whole thing up.
>>114546355
>Wing
>GOAT
>Not Goat piss
im trying to remember. narutaru, stellvia, fumoffu maybe. there were plenty of others since that was when i was most into anime but i cant remember. if i had a chart of shows from 03 id be able to pull more.
>>114546355
There was some other stuff too, Tenchi Muyo, was Tenchi universe out then too? I can;t remember, Outlaw Star, Devilman, Martian Successor Nadesico...
>>114546387
It's pretty damn cheesy, but it's fun. Zechs best girl
Has anyone watched something they loved back when, but tried watching it recently and found it to be actually not that good and/or interesting?
I loved the shit out of Fushigi Yuugi 10 years ago. Couldn't make it past the first episode when I tried watching it again years ago.
>>114546433
FMA, Brotherhood killed it
>a decade ago was 2004
>not 1994
what a sad time to be in
>>114546440
I forgot GIRUGAMESH airred that year
>>114546440
>Wolf's Rain
>.hack/twilight
>Ashita no Nadja
>Stellvia, holy shit, Stellvia was 2003?
>D.N.Angel
>Kaleido STar
>Narue no Sekai
>Astro Boy 2003
>Gash Bell
>Last Exile
>Kino's Journey
>Scrapped Princess
>Tantei Gakuen Q
>Texhnolyze
>Gad Guard
>Divergence Eve
>Narutaru
>Popotan
>Ikki Tousen
>FMP:F
>R.O.D. TV
>IGPX
>Godanner
>Cromartie
>Bottle Fairies
>FMA
>Planetes
>Gungrave
>Peacemaker Kurogane
>Gunslinger GIrl
>Uninhabited Planet Survive
>Chrono Crusade
I didn't see all of these in 2003 obviously but holy shit what a great fucking year.
I've never heard it brought up here but has anyone watched Ground Defense Force Mao-chan?
It was cool how the vehicles were made from giant plamo kits.
>>114546513
And it was an ugly piece of shit that had nothing to do with the actual Sumerian tale.
>>114538566
Gundam Seed
>>114546440
>Tsukihime
Did anyone here watch >>114546440 these shows as they aired?
I had the internet back in 2003, but it was 52kbps, and would have taken a week to download 1 episode.
>>114544120
You are 20 years older than me. Am I too young or are you too old?
>>114546605
Yes to both.
>>114540965
yomiko readmen the paper aka the mother fucking best girl of all time just saying
>>114546540
i have the ost cd somewhere
>>114546604
>Mfw people have completely forgotten about Stellvia
>>114546600
I was like 12 or something back then. I didn't even know how to use internet
>>114546600
You technically couldn't since subbing back then was a +7 day affair for a decent group. It was mindblowing when a.f.k. did 48 hour turn arounds on Haruhi in '06.
Semantics aside, I did watch a bit of Tsukihime and Mermaid Melody when they were getting subbed. And Da Capo. But fuck that show.
>>114546600
>2003
nigga you don't know about love hina episode waits in IRC?
>>114546646
I wanted to like Stellvia. Watched the first DVD and not even the allure of Aipon got me to watch more. OP/EDs are great tho.
>>114538566
>>114546440
God damn, what a year for anime.
You can count the number of worthwhile anime released in a year on one hand these days.
>>114546676
>>114546668
Ah ok, I was 17 in 2003, and much more interested in thinking that NGE made me a tru filosifer
The country I was in at the time tended to have older series. So probably Kenshin.Moved in '04 with new broadband and became a distro for Inuyasha of all things just because a friend wanted to watch new eps.
>>114546440
>L/R: Licensed by Royalty
>Bought Vol. 1 at a bargain store years ago
>Still haven't watched it.
One Piece, The ride never ends
>>114546722
Sure 2003 looks great, and it was, but it's not a representation of anime back then. I'm looking at 2002 and 2004s shows and it's kinda lackluster. Shit comes and goes in cycles.
>>114546540
I felt like being rippoff from buying this anime. urgh.
>>114546831
Yeah 2003 just stuck out a lot. The early 00s wasn't as great
>>114546829
Oh man, remember the days of Kaizoku Fansubs?
>>114538566
Love Hina. I would spend all afternoon downloading subbed episodes off of Kazaa with my shitty dial-up internet, but I could only do it on Sundays because nobody was around and I could tie up the phone line all I wanted.
The episodes were 30 megs apiece and sub-youtube quality. Love Hina isn't even a good anime, but I sure as shit didn't know any better at 14.
>>114544120
>>114544098
>>114544065
>>114543994
>>114543974
>>114543908
What if...
after our death we are going to be imprisoned in this never ending realm of /a/?
I loved MIT bots. Salute to anyone who knew of one.
>>114546855
Most things from the early 00s are unwatchable now due to shitty digipaint. Took years for the Japanese to figure that one out.
>>114546878
>Love Hina isn't even a good anime, but I sure as shit didn't know any better at 14.
I'll drink to that.
>>114544120
You are older than my dad, I'm 20
>>114538566
Watching Gundam Wing, dropping Hellsing. I was more into manga but still just a couple of them, maybe six.
I wasn't into anime much when I was at that age. I watched the anime that was on Cartoon Network/Kids WB and that was basically it. I didn't know about fansubbed anime until Naruto came to the US (which is also how I found YouTube).
>>114546882
Heh, I'll be in Gensokyo.I hope
>>114546440
>Divergence eve
>Radix
back then Radix was like Xebec in the millennial days
Sad to think some series from that year are still only subbed with TV caps.
>>114546440
>Ashita no Nadja didn't get finished subbed until 2010
>>114546949
>youtube wasn't till 2006
>>114546911
Your that is a retarded.
You are probably one too.
>>114546965
Jesus, I remember that. It was like two episodes a year at some point. I don't think I ever got to finish it. The last thing I remember was them revealing the tuxedo mask clone was twins.
>>114546973
2005 actually. I remember finding a fansub of the Naruto movie around that time and telling my friends in school about it.
>>114546855
Kaizoku man that brings me back, It was one of the first forums I browsed a lot. I think I still have some episodes of theirs burned to cds.
>>114546421
>Tenchi
>Outlaw Star
Matey you're an anime pro. Good shows.
>>114538566
I don't quite remember if it was in 2003, but I know this was rere(...)airing at the time in Quebec along with "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" and Remi sans Famille.
Probably Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh too.
>>114546421
Nigga please, Tenchi Universe was the mid-nineties. I used to mow lawns so I could buy that shit on VHS.
>>114538566
Whatever was on Adult Swim. Bebop and Detective Conan.
I was also torrenting episodes of Hellsing at the time
>>114546882
That would be alright. I would opt for being god though.
>>114547067
Hahaha, I thought it must have been. I've still got it on VHS somewhere.
Any other UK fags get their stuff from Blockbuster back when they actually had anime?
>>114547079
I think that place is promised for Moot
>>114546993
I was in college that year and was used to torrenting the Naruto fansubs. I remember being pretty stoked when it was announced that it got licensed for US distribution and dubbing. As in, calling people just to tell them.
When the dub started airing I knew it was supposed to be a kids show, and wondered if US kids would actually pick up on it. Hearing from you gives me a weird sense of coming full circle
I was watching Kimi ga nozomu eien, thought it was just your average romance anime and then episode 2 or 3 hit and everything changed. I was very moved by it back then, but now it seems kind of lame. The opening theme is very good and I still listen to it from time to time.
>>114546988
2003 - 12 episodes
2004 - 14 episodes
2005 - 5 episodes
2006 - 3 episodes
2007 - 2 episodes
2008 - 3 episodes
2009 - 0 episodes
2010 - 12 episodes;_;
>>114546440
Why do you have an anime on there that doesn't exist?
>>114546855
Friend who doesn't know a lot about anime started watching OP. Saw him watching streams and that Kaizoku Fansub logo came up. Man, the memories.
>>114546965
So is it good?
>>114547138
Death is a schrodinger's cat. It could be anything at all. Why not make it exactly what you want?
I miss the old era internet. Too many normalshits around now.
>>114547146
I was in 6th grade at the time, so I remember hyping it with my friends. We discussed the new episodes every day as they aired during lunch. I remember telling them about fansubs and writing down website URLs for them. Later on, I imported the Naruto GC game (GNT4) and spent my entire middle school life playing that every weekend at my cousin's house.
Back on topic, I guess I watched a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! at that time. I still don't think the dub is that bad; it's just shit.
>>114547259
I miss the old era internet. Too many "NEET and proud of it!!" shits around now.
>>114547259
I don't.
You can keep your week long waits for subs and egos that made gg look sane.
All these shows... fuck. It's been a while.
>>114546513
>>114546542
Avenger was better than that shit.
>>114547259
You just need to find out where they aren't.
>>114546965
Pretty shocking it took all this time for Ashita no Joe to get subbed and scanned too.
Watched Azumanga, hyped for Fullmetal Alchemist and Planetes
>>114547314
I think half the reason I thought 07 was so good was because practically everything from 06 ended up in sub hell 'till the next year.
Even the final 2 episodes of Death Note took a month to get subbed.
>>114538566
Rurouken, Slam Dunk,YYH and DBZ
>>114538566
I don't exactly remember, but maybe Love Hina or whatever else was popular at the time.
This thread made me realize that there are people on /a/ who were born after NGE aired and are not underage.
Time flies.
>>114547471
I imagine Socrates was saying something to that effect when he was watching anime BC
Huh... Dragon Ball Z, maybe?
>>114547471
Original airing, PBS airing or Toonami?
>>114547471
I was born when it came out
Being Latin American, I watched whatever was in Locomotion or Fox Kids.
There were also whatever TV anime, OVA or hentai I got from friends on either CD (VCD) or VHS.
I remember paying a guy around $10 for the Blue Girl collection and almost literally spending my week long vacation in my room masturbating.
I think I even had problems with dehydration.
>>114547326
Debatable.
Avenger was easily the worst thing BeeTrain did. Hell, are they even still around as a studio?
>>114547560
>american airing
Kill yourself
>>114540965
Yomiko was my waifu before I even browsed /a/ and learned about waifus.
>>114547583
no u
>implying you watched the original airing in japan in 1996
>being this much of a tryhard
>>114543587
this
I can't believe this was my first anime.
>>114547613
>implying I didn't watch shit on laserdisc in 97'
>>114547471
This thread made me realise there are people on /a/ who experienced entirely different anime and internet culture than us
Being in 20s in '90s must really be cool
>>114547576
Group TAC isn't around either, though. I don't think I could sit through Girugamesh again.
Personally, I think Madlax was worse than Avenger. If nothing else, Avenger did have a unique atmosphere about it. I was interested in the story even though they didn't exactly bother to say what was going on.
Hellsing.
I remember being really young and watching this since my dad burned some DVDs of it, all I remembered from it was the cash intro music and Seras licking a lot of blood which arroused me and confused me since I really didn't know that feeling well being young and all.
Generator Gawl.
Saw it in the bargain bin at my local Hollywood Video and thought the cover looked cool. I don't think I even knew what anime was then. I don't think people even remember that show.
It was simpler times.
>>114548090
>Generator Gawl
The intro was great. Anime, not so much.
>thought the cover looked cool
This is how my friend rented Legend of Black Heaven. Actual content was radically different, but awesome nonetheless.
>The Gundam Wing dub
Don't even act like this wasn't 10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtI0Aal3C6w
>>114548230
He didn't stick around for long. Rest of the cast was fucking great.
>>114548230
Also Une was so good. Kick a guy out of a plane and then shoot him in the head for good measure.
>>114547471
Welcome to Getting Old
>>114548343
The worst part is that we're only a few centuries away from solving aging. If you were born then, you could watch anime forever, be NEET forever, have a perpetual backlog, etc.
>>114548531
be a*
Ushio and Tora.
>>114548531
heh you underestimate todays technology. you can very much expect for life spans in first world country's to grow even higher with the shit thats in store within the next couple of decades.
>>114548882
Is Samurai Jack considered an anime?
>>114544120
Well, are you married and have children
?
>>114549343
Lifespans will increase but it's pretty likely that we missed out on never aging and dying.
>>114538566
Fellow Aussies will understand.
>>114538566
I had a 40+ hour a week job back then.
Arrived in PA from Cali, staring from scratch.
So, lots of NFL.
At that point in my life, I thot anime died out w/ Space Battleship Yamato, and thot Pokemon was some Saturday- morning US marketing scam 4 kids.
Online poker finally dried up in 2011, then my world changed...slightly. After trolling several episodes of The Booth at the End, I accidentally discovered Raildex. Same thing happened w/ Toonami after watching Squidbillies and Aqua Teen one night. Then they temp-banned me once from 2+2[it's a poker forum], I got bored, and found u guyz by accident.
Ya know what?
Fuck Naruto and Bleach. I miss Speed Racer, dammit.
>>114550619
Speed racer was the hypest shit.
>>114550619
How old are you?
Shinzo? I'm not sure. Probably started on Naruto, too.
>>114544255
>not a wizard
You have failed us, oldanon
I didn't get into anime until about 2007, and then really get into it until 2010.
I was 12 in 03 so I suppose I would have maybe watched the odd Pokemon or Yugioh ep, although I think I was past that then and I just played Fifa.
>2003 was 11 years ago
Holy shit.
>>114550197
mah nigga
>>114543587
;_;
Fuck
>>114550197
I always missed that show, literally in 2003, was put on the late Midnight-start shift and by the time it was over I was back home.
>>114550852
at pre 2000's I still feel, like I just watched Attack no 1, on a dutch channel and I couldn't understand shit.
Fuck, living in a commie state is not the best thing if you want to watch animu on TV.
>>114540965
>>114547609
Yomiko my waifu
>>114538566
I think it was .Hack//sign or Dragonball GT maybe.
>>114538566
One piece i guess
or some other anime on axn
>>114538566
At the beginning of the year, I watched Love Hina which made me want to puke. At least the music was enjoyable and the manga was at least 10 times better.
Later during the same year, I was watching Azumanga Daioh.I never watched a slice of life/comedy as good as this and nothing to this day came close to it.
I dropped Last Exile at the 7th episode, should I continue?
>>114551096
No, proceed to death.
>>114542854
I'm not gonna lie, thought that was muv-luv for a split 2 seconds.Felt the same way.
>>114547567
Fucking Fox Kids plus national channels played a big role in popularizing anime back then.
>>114539162
I needed to laugh, thanks.
>>114538997
>this show sucked dick. the ova was infinitely better.
this is objectively true