>It's 2002 >You're at the Mall >Your parents

>>150155178
The walking dead

>>150155178
DVDs were out by then. Bad choice.

Battle Angel

>>150155178

There are one of these in the Park City mall in Lancaster, pretty Neato.

Probably some shitty Funi DBZ dubbed episodes.

There's a chance that I'd come across Ranma or something, though, and buy it two years earlier than I actually did - I would have recognized it from the Super Nintendo RPG, which I enjoyed.

fucking outlaw star

>>150155178
IRIA

Mofuckin pokeymans

>>150155178
Silver Fang.

Consistently.

ninja scroll (subtitled, even though it is $5 more)

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>>150155178
I moved out of my parents house in '98 and by 2002 I was living on my own and buying my own anime. Mostly from the Virgin store that was across the street from my apartment.

I remember when I bought Excel Saga asked to see my ID (I have a babyface). I couldn't figure out why until I watched the last episode.

So if my mom was buying me anime I'd ask her to buy this one and demand the cashier ask to see her ID.

>>150155518
>Mostly from the Virgin store that was across the street from my apartment.
Did you find it ironic around the time?

>>150155580
At the time I didn't think much of it but looking back I wonder what people who weren't from around there would think when I'd say, "Oh I'm gonna pop off to the Virgin store for a little bit and check out their goods."

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>>150155332
>mfw I found my old Outlaw Star VHS tapes at my parents house

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>>150155178
Shit, son. Just one?

Probably a Ranma OVA or pic related. I'd try to keep my power levels as low as I could even if I was dying inside to get me stuff like the Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon movies.

>>150155231
and personally with the late teen refined tastes I'd acquired at that stage without 2nd thought would've taken out (don't shoot pls don't shoot officer I'm white!) Sponge Bob Squarepants. Dead seriously not a shit post but is if you view it with an eye not influenced by previous influence of "this thing belongs here since this is what is said and those other things go over there" but in some ways if there was an anime that absolutely didn't take itself(or it's fans) seriously it wouldn't be Walt Disney type cartoons it'd be nonsensical comedic genius like Spongebob (Genuine no shit post and I say this with the authority of a junior one brown stripe belt 8 week manga afficionado;)

Dragon Ball Z every month. This was literally my childhood.

Probably Escaflowne movie or AKIRA.

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Literally did buy this around that time.

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>>150155344
Holy shit, somebody else remembers Iria. Ur mah nigga!

did any of you actually get rm during those days?
i pretty much just remember avi etc
probably not a single file under 100mb

>>150156391
>did any of you actually get rm during those days?

Yes. The Tenchi Muyo movies off of Direct Connect.

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Was this good?
Why did I even buy it?

>>150155178
the fuck is a suncoast?

Probably one of those Pokemon volumes with five random episodes on them, not even in chronological order.

>>150156013
Is this pasta?

>>150155178
The Big O Season 2 hasn't been made yet

Did some anime studios have somewhat well known financial problems around that period? Stuff like Square dying and never coming back.

>>150155178
>2002
>VHS
You smoking some crack, nigga?

>>150155178
>>150156801
This.
Everything else about OP's scenario is accurate for me except the year, however.

And it was Ranma 1/2.

>>150155178
I bought the Sailor Moon R season, Doom Tree Arc box set on VHS. It was the dub.

>>150155178
Looks like those blockbuster cancer threads have finally made it to /a/

I remember getting dubbed Ranma tapes back in those days

>>150155178
By 2002, DVD's were becoming common, so if you were buying VHS at Suncoast it was probably clearance discount stuff. Still a year away from torrents, and mail order Netflix was available. A good choice would be something that is not being released on DVD.
Ranma is probably a good choice since it was past peak popularity and Viz never did the DVD's. Or some of the Central Park Media OVA's, since a lot of those got orphaned. Urusei Yatsura or Oh My Goddess were good. ADV was doing a good job releasing their back titles on DVD like Evangelion and Nadesico.

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Power Stone motherfucker.

I would do anything for it to be 2002 again and to be watching this on my ps2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOptWysmZc

>>150156801
>>150156883
I remember buying anime VHS from Suncoast at around that time.We didn't have a DVD player yet, also I remember DVD's being more expensive than VHS back then.

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i bet you bitches didn't even have one of these

I was trading illegal kiddie 8mm/vhs to DVDs by then on USENET.

>>150157049
WTF, I didn't even know a Power Stone anime existed. I gotta check this out.

>suncoast
is this some flyover state chain?

>>150156931
It's like those shitty trope threads too. Other boards do the "HE'S FAST" crap more than the board about anime.

James Bond Jr.

>>150157155
Anon, I found out yesterday that there's a fucking Xenosaga anime. This industry will never cease to amaze me.

>>150156931

People miss the nostalgia of going to Blockbuster and getting a film, along with the snacks and microwave popcorn. It was a process.

You can still simulate it if your public library carries movies.

Nadesico

>>150155178
EVA

>>150157235
I got cool devices, Faux News, story of little Monica and some other catgirl hentai dvds at my local library.

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Remember this place?

>>150157212
>Shion being an insufferable bitch
>Animated
Best part of the series was when she sided with Kevin and you got to kick her ass.

>>150156931
You couldn't rent movies at suncoast

>>150155178
oh shit I remember this place had a hentai section

>>150157340
I bought so much fucking manga there, since with the card you basically got one free for every two/three you bought.

>>150157342
It makes me wonder what a Xenogears anime would've been like. The anime of the Evangelion of video games.

>>150157303

In 2002 or now?

>>150157090
>20 dollars for two episodes dubbed, or 30 for the same two subbed
>30 for 3-5 episodes both dubbed and subbed, often with subs in 2 or 3 languages
A 26 episode anime would be 12 vhs for 240 dubbed or 360 subbed, vs 6 dvds for 180 getting both. Granted that's full retail, and only idiots paid full retail.

>>150157431
3 or 4 years ago.

Anime and manga was obscure in my country back then. And the people into that stuff were almost part of a non-existent underground community.
At most they only showed dubbed Pokemon and Dragonball on tv once a week

>>150157396
It's fantastic until the 3/4s mark. From that point on it's just a different character each episode narrating what happened, how it happened, and why it happened without any visuals until they get to the final fight which is fully animated.

Naked children interest me.

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I quite literally did buy all of Cowboy Bebop volume by (subtitled VHS) volume each month from the Suncoast at the mall.

This is too natsukashii.

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>>150157123
only the rich kids had those when i saw those around. i wasn't doing too bad myself though as i acquired one of these off the teacher's desk during detention one afternoon and my friends started pretending i was a chad just so i could reset their LP's, happy days

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>>150155178
>VHS
Sorry, but that was back in 96-99. I started switching over to DVDs as soon as I realized I can have both dub/subs.

>>150158744
First DVD set I ever purchased.

>>150157049
>>150157155
I never saw that but I still have an MP3 of Rise in My Heart on my 17-year-old external HD.

https://mega.nz/#!VEtgGQDZ!Z0bXr-JechMiUsmvXThbilflD6z0rWQClbBsanPVFN4

>>150158744
>>150158821
Was this decent enough for someone who's never seen it to watch it today? It did have groovy music.

>>150157212
It's super low budget and terrible. It's seriously one of only two anime I've ever dropped (the other being Futakoi Alternative); I tried to watch when it was airing and gave up by ep 2.

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I still purchased some VHS stuff around that time, but that was primarily because I could only find tapes around here for some shows.

>>150158931
It is a pretty fun ride. It is like X-Files of fighting off ancient Japanese plant gods.

>>150155178
Dai Guard

>>150159055
>Dual Parallel Trouble Adventures
>Pioneer extras
That takes me back

I didn't even know anime existed in 2002.

I was three years old for most of 2002.

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>>150159436

>>150159055
Dual was a mediocre Evangelion rip off.

>>150159468
Even so I still enjoyed Neon Tenchsis Evangelion :Harem edition.

I'd tell mom "N-No, I'm too old for anime now".

I didn't watch anime in 2002. I didn't watch anime until I got to college in 03 and was introduced to it.

In 2002, I was probably buying Godzilla vs Biollante.

>>150158970
>Futakoi Alternative
Hey Futakoi Alternative was fun. A lot better than Futakoi was.

>>150159055
this anime made me realize i wanted to be a girl

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>>150162079
okie dokie