Remember fansubbed anime on vhs?

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>vhs

>>156979058
remember when we had to use smoke signals to watch anime

>>156979058
Most of /a/ wasn't even born by 1996

Born in 1979 and hell yes, I remember it.

>>156979058
Nah, I only remember watching Eva with real player

Yes

Yellow subs

Fuck that horrible subs is better

>>156982485
Why even watch something that was made before you was born? It makes no sense

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>>156982485
and that's why /a/ is going downhill

>>156979058
No I was born in 1999

>>156982485
1986 reporting

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>The majority of todays /a/ don't know Daicon IV

Why the fuck am I still here? I don't even like todays anime

>>156982485
1998 here

>>156982834
sucks to be you faggot

>>156982895
underageb&

>>156982924
epic

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>>156982485
Was literally born during 1996 so I can attest to this

>>156979058
Yes, and I envy everyone that got to skip it. Mail order and tape trading was a pain in the ass. God bless the future

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>>156982708
The future is great, isn't it?

>>156982924
I'm 19, Anonymous. Next year, people born in 2000 will be able to post.

>>156979058
No, grandpa.

>>156982954
No you don't understand

That's gold compared to what we had

VHS resolution was shit (240 lines?) And full of noise, plus the CRT grid meaning the subs were all fuzzy and messy

Then again I mostly watched Italian dubs as a kid

>>156982976
>Implying they aren't already

1996 here.

But I think my dad used to watch Dragon ball on vhs...

>>156982485
I'm only 20 and I watched old Disney movies on VHS all the time as a babby.

I was aware of such a scene but never got into it. It seemed a bit shady to me at the time. I was paranoid of losing my hard earned allowance sending money orders to some random people I found out about on the internet in the hope I would get anime tapes in return.

>>156979058
No

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>>156979058
I remember getting up at 5am every Saturday morning to watch 4kids anime and recording them on VHS, no subtitles tho I don't think I could read very well yet anyway...

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>>156982485
1993, only anime I had on VHS was Pokemon though and at the time it was just another cartoon.

>>156983043
Way to out yourself.

>>156983253
Yeah when I was young I thought anime was just the drawing style people used for the srs cartoons

I still have bunch of horribly dubbed galaxy expresss 999 vhs somewhere

>>156983307
Idk man considering how many fresh /v/ poster flood into /a/ on regular basis I think most of this boards cancer were probably born after 2000

>>156982485
1969 here
im too old to be here I know, started to watch anime with my son and now im an addict

Honestly, no. I only ever watched Dragon Ball and Doraemon on VHS, and they were dubbed

>>156983417
Ranma 1/2 is closer to 1969 than 2017

>>156982485
1988 here

>>156983036

Don't forget about adjusting the tracking.

But even with all that, watching subs underground back then was somehow more satisfying than how mainstream torrenting or using YouTube or Crunchyroll is now.

Laserdiscs were also GOAT. I was a teenager by the 90s and had a pretty extensive film and anime collection on LD. I still miss the fuck out of that format.

>>156983417
I don't believe you, but I also don't really care.

What about betamax?

>>156983545
>beta

>>156983545
>What about betamax?
Lived too short

Remember hd-dvd? Yeah me neither
Everyone knows Blu-ray tho

Same thing

>>156983578
Just like /a/

>>156983608
I almost sided with hd-dvd instead of bluray. Good that I decided to hold back on buying anything back then. Really thought that hd-dvd would be the one that would win

>>156983545
it's called betamax for a reason
because it's a fucking loser, that's why

>>156983658
You need to see where porn goes

VHS > Blu-ray

Flash > html5

720 > 1080 > 4k

As soon as porn moves, everyone does

>>156983708
Forgot dvd but you get the idea

>>156979058
I didn't even know there was other anime except Dragon Ball and YuGiYo until about 2007

>>156983543
There are more of us here in our 40s than you think, my other main board /out/ seems to have an older userbase too.

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>>156982883
I'm in the same boat as you anon. That's just the way it is.

>>156982485
1998 reporting in

Nothing greater than anime with shitty compressed composite NTSC video at 480i and "Hi-Fi" audio that would distort the pitch depending on the temperature/relative humidity that day.

No, I was only exposed to normie-tier dubbed anime in the 90s.

>>156983516
>watching subs underground back then was somehow more satisfying than how mainstream torrenting or using YouTube or Crunchyroll is now.
That's because it was far more communal back then. I swapped fansubbed VHS anime in college and rented VHS dubs of Ranma 1/2 in Los Angeles Koreatown videostores in the early 90s. Even the guys who didn't understand the funny dubbing still loved it, it was very much something you gathered around with friends.

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>>156983818
There's a lot of scattered oldfags here. Been around /a/ literally since its inception in late 2003. Since then, I've had 2 kids and am now 2 1/2 years shy of retirement...

I remember getting miss-mailed a sneak peak VHS for pokemon when I was about 8. I can't remember if I later recorded Inuyasha onto VHS or DVD. I more fondly remember the first time I torrented. It was some python-written program that used 100% cpu, took me 3-4 weeks to download gundam wing. Dual audio .ogg format, 11g in total.

>>156984389
I used to download really low quality stuff using dc++ around 2002-2004 or something before moving to torrenting. Before that I just traded anime with other people who happened to have it

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>>156979058
>this is a free translation if you paid for it you're an idiot

A buddy of mine was Mexican so he recorded Dragon Ball and Z on VHS. So I saw a good amount of Dragon Ball in Spanish.

>>156979058

Yes. I remember paying some Japanese exchange student for Bubblegum Crisis and the Tenchi Muyo OVAs. The AV club pretty much was dedicated to making cash on the side subbing anime on to VHS by the time I graduated high school. Hastings used to also have really cheap VHS and Laserdisk imports of anime during the 90's.

>>156983253
1993 too. I had internet so i quickly found out what anime was and couldnt get enough and scoured the local videostores, movie channels that played anime movies, and anywhere to get it. Luckily with the help of my older brother i eventually ran across some fansubbed vhs of DBZ but never got anywhere further than that to really feel like I was apart of the VHS fansubbing scene.

>>156985427
You would eventually find risque pictures of characters and transitioned not only looking for anime but more hentai.

At least that's what happened to me

>>156984297
1974 here. I never traded for fansubs on VHS, but I watched them at my college anime club when it was shown by people who did.

I miss fansubs in general I still have my Lucky Star batch that's in 480p.

>>156979058
I remember watching Cantonese dubs on VHS without subs

>>156982485
1993 here

>>156982708
>Yellow subs carried over to digital age as VOB subs
KUYASHIIIIIIIIIII

>>156982485
1975, it used to be a big thing back at my school

>>156982485
1988 here. I use to trade anime on vhs; i stared back in the late 90's with my neighbors help and one of the guys at a local video store before it closed down.

I was born in the best decade so no. Feels good knowing I'll experience technological advances well after you die and have tons of anime at my fingertips.

>>156984750
>not for sale, rent, or e-bay

1998 here
im a 90s kid hahah xD
>>156987007

>>156983708
Except more porn was released on HD-DVD than Blu-ray in 2007.

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>>156982485
93 signing off

>>156987007
>>156988817
>xD
Fuck off.

I didn't know this existed until /a/ brought it up a few years ago.

>>156982883
Isn't this thing posted nearly everyday?

I would assume the early works of Gainax would be known to any weeb.

>>156989283
:^)

>>156982883
The fuck is that? Earliest Gainax show I know is Gunbuster

>>156989283
:v

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>>156982485
1997

>>156990525
>The are actually people on /a/, right now, that don't know what Daikon IV is.

I fucking hate this place sometimes.

>>156979058
>tfw was never a part of any trade circle but bothered to go to Chinatown every other weekend to pay some chinese bootlegs $5 a video that either had fansubs or DVD rips of HK bootlegs

>>156982485
You are now aware that the primary age demographic of 4chan has always been, and will always be, 13-24 year-old white males. Everyone else is literally an outlier.

>>156979058
I still have them. The player broke down years ago though, and my usual repair guy said he can no longer find any spare parts for it.

>>156995312
ＶＣＲｓ cost like nothing just buy a new one dumbfuck. Who sends them out for repairs?

>>156995312
I'll buy your tapes off you.

>>156979058
I only watched dubbed/raw anime on vhs.

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>>156985753
>but I watched them at my college anime club when it was shown by people who did.
Great times, weren't they? I remember my college anime "club" sharing old episodes of Conan, Bubblegum Crisis when it was brand spanking new, and even girls contributing with Candy Candy.

My mom watched and read Candy Candy when she was younger and got me and my younger sister hooked on Japanese anime and manga as children. When she had cancer a few years back my sis and I took turns watching old episodes of it on DVD when she was recovering in the hospital.

My kids are too young to watch stuff I like and frequently prefer watching Teen Titan Go and Spongebob.

>>156982485

1989 master race reporting in

>>156979058

>wearing out the rewind button while fapping to la blue girl and urotsukidoji

that was true dedication

>>156995312

You can buy a VCR for like $3-5 at thrift stores. I paid $7 for a VHS/DVD combo with component output.

People are just giving them away.

Of course not im not a fucking mummy

>>156998280
If he was getting it repaired he probably had a pretty high quality one (all things considered). A shitty one at a thrift store could chew up his tapes.

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>Says he's a fan of Eva
>Doesn't own the entire series on vhs
How young are you people ?

>>156998306
>Of course not im not a fucking mummy
Do you kids think you're living in a better era than we did? I frequently feel sorry for you millenials.

>>156998547
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ

Watch it then you talk gramps

Even the pope said traps were ok

>>156982485
1983.i remember nge, akira. alita dragon ball and saint seiya.

>>156982485
1995 standing by

Yes, it was awful.

>>156992714
What of it? Its importance is based on what it would lead to, not what it was. Is it really such a moral sin some /a/nons haven't seen less than 10 minutes of some old music videos? Stop trying so hard to fit in you ass hat.

>>156997041
Epic blog, subscribed.

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>>156982485
Born in 1988 but I never watched anime until I was 21

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>>156982485
1978 here. What am I doing with my life?

>>156998527
>one black tape
My autism would have forced me to unload this set years ago.

>>156982485
91
I got into anime by watching Dragonball on YTV.

>>156979058
Never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhE4cRFJ7A

>>156983253
93 also here as well and I don't even consider pokemon an anime at all

>>157002263
Is Bulletproof Comics still run by sleezeballs?

>>157002656
Oh, I remember that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwF5Ho3Se9I

>buy tape from the weird store
>it's some 8th generation copy that makes HBO seem legible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES3CHEnVyI

>>157002263
Been looking for this, thanks.

>>157003110
That's some real VHS gore holy shit I just kept getting uncomfortable as it went out after 12 gens

>>156982485
In my defense I usually only lurk and I think even the kids born in 2000-3 know vhs.

>>157003110
>20th generation
Trying to play a PAL tape in an NTSC machine looks better than this.

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>>156983818

>>156979058
I knew of them, and actually watched a VHS fansub or two with my older brother. By the time I got into anime though that was already starting to fade out. I do have some of the strange transitional relics of CD-Rs full of AVIs from a distro in California. Before broadband was really widespread.

>>156982485
tfw 96er

My brother was born in '81 and used fantapes.

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>>157003673
>it's actually real
>william shatner posts on 4chan

Never forget rmvb

>>157004425
My fondest memories about that is buffering: letting it sit to download while I sleep so that I could watch a 2-3min clip upon waking up.

>>157004425
I watched the entirety of Ranma 1/2 in 240p with each episode split across 2 rmvb files. Most of the episodes were just split at the 15 minute mark instead of the commercial break.
It was hell.

>>157004626
I first started getting into anime when a friend gave me a DVD with 200 episodes of bleach in rmvb on it.

I still have my Utena fansubbed movie on VHS.

no, but i remember buying a really weird-sounding dub of Broly 2nd Coming and Fusion Reborn several years before they were ever officially dubbed (think the dub was only on androids saga/early cell at the time) at some stall in the mall.

everyone had super highly pitched voices, the quality was ass, and somehow goku, gohan, AND goten were all named goku.

>>156982485

86 here, and I SORTA remember them. The problem is by the time I got into anime the earliest versions of the original bittorrent client were out

>needed a separate client open for each torrent

>>156983036
>Then again I mostly watched Italian dubs as a kid
Yeah but Italy has one of the best dubbing industries as a world as a holdover from the Mussolini era.

So /a/, what was the first anime you watched where you were aware it was the product of another country and not just another cartoon?

>>156983516
>Laserdiscs were also GOAT.
Because LD was far less compressed than even DVDs were.

>>157006137
Probably pokemon

>>157006137
Patlabor: The Movie

>>157006610
I work with 18-21 year olds (Military). It truly is the worst age group. They shouldn't be considered 'adults'

>>156979058
I remember.....

Good times, you asked your Canadian friend to send you the latest few episodes or a whole series and then because you're using long play ntsc they would ask if you want to fill the the rest of the tape with hentai

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>>156979058
>Remember fansubbed anime on vhs?
Those were the good old days when there were dedicated fans. Some people were happy to give back to the anime hobby and spent their own money to buy laserdiscs and subtitling gear to make free fansubs. The subs were put on SVHS and distributed to various other clubs and groups that would then make lots of VHS copies from those. A big thank you to Phoenix Japanimation Society, Tom's Cat House, and the Northwest Anime Society for all the free high quality distro tapes. The ones they sent out were typically directly subbed from laserdisc onto that tape so it really was a secondary master.

>>157006137
>aware it was the product of another country
probably Speed Racer, but possibly Sailor Moon

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>>156997041
>Teen Titans Go & Spongebob
They are okay-ish but i highly recommend showing them something better! Example: Ed,edd&eddy, Danny Phantom, lilo & stitch. If you have to go by modern: MotorCity, Steven Universe, Loud house.
Do it before it's too late-ish!

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1989 masterrace. I grew up on Robotech and bootlegged vhs ultraviolent ovas. I was a kid during the golden age of vidya, it was amazing. I feel bad for you 90s babbies. Do you even Japanimation?

>>156982485
1988 reporting, all was well with trading VHS till I fucked up and sent the last episode of Cowboy Bebop to one of my friends. Any other episode would have sufficed.

>>156979058
> never tape traded by mail
fucking casuals

>>156982716
But how are we supposed to watch birth of a nation?

>>157006137
Evangelion or Sailor Moon.
When a black kid in my middle school was telling me about something called anime I thought anime was the name of a TV show.

>>156979058
1988 here and I member.
I would prefer not to member VHS players acting up and having to open them up, pray that the tape isn't too fucked up and if it isn't reposition it all by yourself.
Fansubbed VHS were great stuff, but I honestly don't miss them, much like I don't miss the pseudo Shonen Jump expies that were published here in Italy back in the 90's.

I do kind of miss those catalogues and small magazines for Mail Orders, which during my time were almost always aimed at metalheads but also had stuff like fansubbed anime, imported(read pirated) videogames, various weed related stuff like bongs, action figures and so on, now that there's internet they're completely gone.

>>156979058
No, I remember watching the Pokemon and Digimon movies in VHS thought.

>>156979058
Sometime around 1998 I managed to acquire a fansubbed VHS of Omohide Poro Poro. This was convenient because it's official English release wouldn't be until eighteen years later.

The thing I miss most about anime fandom in the 90s was the type of person it drew and how limited technology shaped the fandom. Anime otaku in the 80s and 90s were less moefags and were a more sci-fi oriented bunch with jobs in technical fields. Anime, believe it or not, used to be seen a high-brow and more acceptable hobby back in the 20th century because anime back then tended to be more classic genre oriented such as action flicks, sci-fi, horror, romcom, etc. It was always some amazingly animated OVA or cool fantasy TV series rather than K-ON or Kobayashi. That was back when you could invite normies to watch anime with you and they would think it was cool.

It's nothing worth remembering

My first real dive into the weeb zone was buying DVDs of shows that were on toonami, which I stopped when I finally got high speed internet and downloaded everything. The first thing I torrented was gundam seed destiny, so that's like 6 years of being a buyfag.