Do you feel bad for the youngsters today who don't have

No faggot

>>157443571
20 years ago watching anime was pretty much limited to what aired on your local TV stations, screw that it's way better now.

No, anime is easier to watch than ever

>>157443571
>brand new

Japanese cartoons were introduced here 50 years ago. Step up your game senpai

>>157444453
>He never ordered fansubbed VHS tapes online and went to anime conventions to buy OVAs

>>157444710
So you're 60?

>>157444780
>buying anime
>ever

Get a load of this guy

>>157445027
Online video was pretty non-existent in that era. You pretty much had to buy to get anything that was watchable in quality.

>>157445086
Don't forget those who pirated the VHS and you saw that noise at the beginning or middle of the tape due to copying too many times from one source.

Getting a h-videos on VHS was fun.

>>157443571
Nope.

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>>157443571
No, there's always new and interesting content coming out. With time, it's also easier to pick out the best from the past, as only the true masterpieces stand out enough to be remembered.

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Let's post some anime sites that are still up or archived.

Here's Apollo smiles site.

http://www.angelfire.com/pe/apollosmile/

>>157445572
normies have always been ruining everything. this never changes.

>>157445937
I'm more surprised angelfire is still up even.

>>157445572
I miss when lamer was an acceptable thing to call someone.

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>>157445572
>Sailor Moon is bad
Look at this turbonerd.

>>157444453
This!
Or the ocassional tape at the video rental place.

You can find most stuff easily now instead getting crap off earlyP2P/IRC/etc at dial up speeds.

>>157444453
This.

Back then I had to literally buy anime and would only watch few shows per year. It was a dark age and I wouldn't wish that upon my worst of enemies.

Things only got really bearable in the early 00s.

>>157443571
I only feel bad that modern fans will get mad if a new anime isn't subbed within 3-4 hours, sometimes even less when they will never understand what it's like to not even know if the group would sub that week, let alone what time

>>157443571
the only things that have been "lost" are:
1. spirit of experimentation and optimism in the anime industry (due to long term economic decline)
2. resourceful first wave adopters (not hipsters)

I am shocked at how people seem to miss the "early days". I mean, don't get me wrong, I miss "fansubbing" as like an actual thing that existed and was prominent but think about all the stuff that we don't have to deal with anymore like group names all over the place, overly delayed releases and the like

>>157443571
>Oh my god let's masturbate about how old we are guys!

Seriously, if you're old and this is your way of seeking attention, you need help. Actually, you're already beyond saving so just get a noose and get it over with.

>>157446043
>normies
Newfag please leave.

>>157443571
Back then the only way to get anime was through whatever got officially published, whatever aired on TV, and from hard to obtain fansubs. It fucking sucked. I wish nostalgiafags would die.

>>157443571
Don't tell me I was the only one who took Jap in community college just to watch all the shit I wanted to, bought from a middle man somewhere in Osaka.

I miss my man Watari. Wonder how he is doing.

>>157447460
>1. spirit of experimentation and optimism in the anime industry (due to long term economic decline)
Also, creators back in the day drew inspiration from other interests.

>>157443571
I miss when fanfiction was more widespread and read. These days it gets a lot of hate because of its quality, but back in the 90s when you weren't sure of when the next ep you'd watch would show up, you could jump back into a show anytime, meet the characters you fell in love with again. I think people today don't get that

>>157448549
>I miss when fanfiction was more widespread and read.
What the fuck

>>157448549
Heh.
>lates 90s
>be me
>play lot's of fightan games
>my ESL ass was lore hungry
>find some translated bits from gamest and stuff via Northern Light or whatever crap I used before google
>find a story I assume was translated from some mook or whatever
>completely bought it until some nigga from ruroni kenshin showed up
>WTF they are bumpin uglies now LOL

I ended up binging a couple more but got old shortly.

>>157448972
>lates
>lot's
ah goddamit
gotta proofread before hitting submit

>>157448549
Fanfic is still going strong, its just that the stigma is so strong these days that fanfic readers/writers (mostly girls) moved to different sites so it feels like its all gone now. But yeah I miss stuff like that and character web shrines.

To all you people who enjoy fanfiction what forums/boards did you post on 10 years ago?
Just wondering.

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>>157445572
>I don't want to wave around 9000 messages

>you will never watch anime episodes in parts on youtube again
feelsbad

>>157449310
4chan

>>157448549
Check ao3.

There wasn't even anime in the past 200 years

>>157445937
I miss when anime fan-sites (or even just fan-sites in general) were a thing. Now it seems that everything has its own bland Wiki and that's it. There's no creative flair or unique content that was necessary for sites to set themselves apart from their peers.

>>157447959
There's a lot of inconvenient shit that I wouldn't want to go back to, but I do miss when fansubbing was mostly something that was done out of an actual passion, instead of how jaded it feels today. A lot of subbers seem like they're only doing it for e-fame and to lord it over the people who want to watch the show. It gets fucking irritating when they're half way through a series and they start complaining about how hard it is and the toll it's taking on them to continue to do it like a dramafag. 10-12 years ago, people would just go "Sorry guys, I'm just not feeling this series and don't feel like I'm the right fit for it" or "Life shit came up and I need to step away for now, if anyone wants to continue, go for it" instead of acting like some tortured savior who's putting themselves through it for the greater good in an attempt to get showered with praise.

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>>157443571
>being an anime fan
>any year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmRw9o63RM

>>157449394
>loading up parts in advance so you can watch them with no buffering

as shitty as it was i still look back on those days so fondly

>>157449258
>>157449561
Yeah but it's all gay now...I know I'm a faggot don't worry

>>157448549
I've never read a fanfiction that wasn't complete ass cancer, though. I'm glad that boom died out and got co-opted by faggots and sonic autists.

>>157449394
Aw fuck yes, I remember trying to watch early Naruto on Youtube, but the channel would only have (for example) Episode 3 Part 1/3 and Episode 3 Part 3/3, so I'd have to find 2/3 on some other guy's channel, but he split the episode differently, so I end up missing a chunk of content from the first half of the episode between parts 1 and 2, and then there's a 5-minute overlap of content in parts 2 and 3.
Those were the good old days. I hated them.

>>157450747
>Those were the good old days. I hated them.

a late /thread?

>>157449901
gay

I first started watching anime around year 2000. The few VHS releases I had as a child don't really count. I came to anime too late for VHS sharing, if that even was a thing in my country.
If I remember correctly, we got a 768kbit/s ADSL "broadband" back around 1999-ish. It was pretty early and it was expensive, like $200/month.
Trying to download blurry videos on DC++ required quite a
lot of patience, but that's where i got most of my videos. It's never fun when people put fake names on videos. You want anime, you get shitty porn.

>>157443571
Back then I would consume any form of the media. I remember renting/buying anime from the video store, getting copies from swap meets and looking for anything Japanese in comic book stores. It was fun in a way and rewarding. I feel like since everything is at our finger tips we don't appreciate it as much.

>>157443571

I imagine anime fandom then were full of neckbeard richfags

Those who were really rich can afford Laserdisc anime, and those who wanted to keep up with latest releases have "high speed" 56k internet and use /g/ tier applications like IRC or USENET to download broadcast anime

https://web.archive.org/web/19991127170348/http://www.tmffa.com:80/fanfic.html

Oh man. Used to live on this place back when.

>>157451733
>getting anime from kazaa/limeware/etc
>in chinese/korean with french/chingrish/portuguese hardsubs
jej

yellowsubs.

Does anybody have the URL of Toriyamaworld where the Love Hina torrents where released?

>>157451901
>kazaa/limeware

search "loli" in kazaa/limewire and you get waaaay more than what you bargained for, if you know what i mean.

>>157452127
lel, are those p2p crap still up.

all i remember is getting random funny crap and combat footage from there before Youtube/oogrish/liveleak were a thing.

>>157445572
That image has made me the happiest I've been in weeks.

Thank you for posting it.

>>157444453

>>20 years ago watching anime was pretty much limited to what aired on your local TV stations

That was ten years ago for me and my siblings.

>>157445572
I wonder where this gentlemen is now.

Hopefully with his waifu.

>>157452127
the van?

>>157451733
I can't speak for the 90s, but I was a teen in 2003 and I remember going on IGN's anime board. You'd get banned right away for hinting at piracy. All the talk was about buying anime, so I got into buying anime -- or at least I kinda tried to. The first anime I bought was RahXephon. It was like $150+ for the entire series.

I remember buying Princess Nine because it was like $35 for the entire series. Then I never watched it. I was so dumb with money. Still am, but at least I don't buy anime now.

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>>157445572
>nihilis595

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>>157443571
That image kind of reminded me an anime I watched not so long ago but can't remember which was that had at the end of the episode the fansubbers talking and shilling for their website, it was awful.

>>157453023
post website

>>157451901
>not winMX
>>157449310
somethingawful
>>157449723
>There's no creative flair or unique content that was necessary for sites to set themselves apart from their peers.

you mean no more lime green text on a black background

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>>157443571
No not really. If anything it should be the other way around.

>>157444780
The only ones who would need to go through that are the entitled faggots these days that bitch about minor shit in subs and the low amount of time they usually have to wait for them

>>157444453
This. Fuck anyone who is nostalgic for putting up with that bullshit, I remember some outrageous prices for some of those VHS.

>>157452127
>Not using Ares
>Not lurk 4chin with the internal browser
>Not trying to download CP and another degeneracies with it and actually being successful with it

Watch this pleb

>>157453277
Whoa 20%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZuN0xXWLc

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>>157453626

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>>157452127
>>157453566
Nice thread.

>>157454353
those apps are long dead, anon

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/illegal-downloading-sites-of-my-youth-p2p-limewire-kazaa

>>157453408
>I remember some outrageous prices for some of those VHS.
You paid for them? I knew a guy that dubbed tapes and just borrowed tapes from him to copy myself. There was also some subbers that had shitty digital release even as early as '97. I remember spending days at a time downloading single episodes from ftp servers.

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The only thing I kind of miss is watching mediocre and obscure anime that would air on TV because I assume getting the rights to air them was pretty cheap or getting VHS tapes with subbed stuff. There was something more mystifying about anime back then since it wasn't so widespread so you'd pretty much take anything you were offered no matter how bad it was.
But feeling bad for people not experiencing that? Hell no, now you get access to pretty much anything you want and even get to choose when and what you want to watch is a godsend.

>>157455149™
>torrenting anime
With Crunchyroll™ premium™ you don't even need to pirate or download anything !™ why waste time filling your laptop™ with viruses these untrusworthy pages that damages Japan™ economy come with when you can see your latest animes™ on crunchyroll™ !

>>157455149
Okay Alex Jones.

>>157455477
Don't worry, our we will make sure that your country gives the Interpol a search warrant that will get you an exclusive space on guatanamo bay.
Enjoy your daily slave labour to repay society for downloading illegal indonesian cartoons.

>>157455149
When are people actually going to read that bill instead of bitching about what they incorrectly think it does in irrelevant online forums?

>>157455704
>>157455762
>inb4 thread gets derailed and becomes /pol/ tier thread

Please no one respond to this guy. You know no good will come of it.

>>157455149
You won't even know what's going to hit you. I've been reading about blockchain technology since there's huge japanese interest in cryptocurrency right now, it's going to make it so that every site you visit is recorded publicly and you pay to watch every show.
I think it'll be cheap at first to aid adoption, but it won't take long for them to ratchet up prices. Torrenting will die because you'll have to pay for the episode if you download it and there will be no more anonymous transactions.
Granted, it may sound insane to people who don't understand the technology but I think the future of anime is going to be bright in some ways. Greater acceptance as the SJWs gain prominence and the chinese get even more dedicated to it as we become a more lonely society, but at the same time we'll all be miserable NEETs living on stable government paid incomes.
4chan is the future, now.

>he jinxed it
JesusFuckingChrist:jpeg

>>157452794
From that day on, he set out to destroy anime, which he had come to despise. He's made a bit of a name for himself with his progress towards that goal.

>>157455917
>Every single side, right or left, is trying to censor the internet
>Nobody is looking to protect internet privacy because of either muh mooslims or muh feelings
Is suicide our only hope?

>>157456110
Why always suicide and not murder?

>>157443571
The only thing I miss from the 00s is the various sub groups making their own experimental fansubs. I remember most of my enjoyment from One Piece coming from kaizoku fansubs and their custom animated fonts for attacks.

>>157455846
It's turned into absolute shit since they opened the floodgates to reddit and social media sites.

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>>157456155
I like your style. NEET revolution when?

>>157455917
Cryptocurrencies are a doomed idea because fiat currency will always be better in every conceivable way as you can actually do things like monetary policy. (now if only governments would actually remember this.)

>>157456155
Because murdering the right people is too hard and murdering the wrong people just makes things worse.

>>157456340
Actually each cryptocurrency has it's own monetary policy. And you can program it. There's lots of applications even if it isn't adopted as currency for ID, transferring money across national borders for cheap, legal contracts, etc.
Governments have monetary policies, they do things like SHADOW DERIVATIVES intentionally to make money look like there's more money when there is really less money you can just spend more.
>>157456219
The national attention that 4chan got during the election didn't help either.
>>157456110
You could always dedicate yourself to constructing a strong internal fantasy. It's only you who is getting in the way of your life being decent despite your situation.

>>157447443
/m Had to wait weeks before they could get this one movie subbed by working together not too long ago.

>>157443571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE

>>157454940
>it wasn't so widespread so you'd pretty much take anything you were offered no matter how bad it was
Over-satiation kinda sucks. I feel something changed for me when I discovered seasonal charts. Before that, I'd just cluelessly try out anything I saw anyone mention, and I'd end up watching a lot of crap and loving all of it. Then I got to /a/ and found one of those chart threads, and I'd be fucking amazed at how much interesting stuff there was in just a single season. So I had to start prioritizing so I could get through it. Suddenly every single show I watch needs to be judged in terms of whether it's more worthwhile than other shows I could be watching.

You'd think I could just pick the top shows from that whole pool, but without any reliable measure, I just end up in constant doubt with every show of whether it's actually good enough to justify watching it.

>>157456436
There are no wrong people in our CURRENT YEAR culture. Just open your window and take a look outside.

>>157456436
Nah, everyone is a legal target, if you can't let a caveman be a caveman in peace you deserve any social unrest you get.

>>157445572
It sounds to me like you follow current anime. Is that true? If so, why?

>>157452127
I remember trying to download a an episode of Outlaw Star and when it finished, it was a chubby chick getting railed by a pony

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I was too young for the VHS wave, but i remember downloading shit on limewire and having it take 100 hours. As well as using torrents back when they were barely used, trying to forward ports to avoid NAT errors because UPnP was shit back then. I was real young but computer savy. Used to download games and anime so slowly. A 1gb game would take me like 1-3 days.

That and when i had anime i had to run it through 50 fucking converters in order to burn it onto a dvd with relatively good quality. Created a lot of coasters trying to get the best quality vs space. This was all in 5th-6th grade. Torrents are so sick now in comparison.

>>157460357
Shit cracked me up man. I would hate when the screens would be what you wanted but the actual video file would be a padded .avi with a single advertisement picture. So you download like 200mb for a damn picture.

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>>157448121
Respect your elders, young man.

>>157448121
Think of it as preserving the past. OP phrased it in a kind of pretentious way but whatever. I for one wish i could have caught the anime wave back in 1997.

>>157462929

The oldest weebs on imageboards are in their mid 30s. I wonder where are the even older ones.

>>157466098
not even close, m8

>>157444453
I used to do anime vcd bootleg back then and I made pretty money out of them

I made almost a grand before other kids started doing the same thing and local PD got a sniff of what's going on.

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>kids born in [X} year are [Y] years old

>>157466180

Are you a warlock?

>>157466335
I've seen guys in their 60's.

it's really not a young man's medium anymore.

Anime and manga are readily available now with internet speeds fast enough to download them in a few minutes. Sure, younger people aren't able to appreciate the sheer quantity of content at their fingertips but I hardly think not having to experience downloading a title you've never heard of only to get a bungshow or something entirely unrelated is worth feeling bad for.

At least with a few titles here and there with CR/Daisuki subs, anime viewers today can appreciate the same guessing game that were more common in older fansubs.

>>157445937
>angelfire
Fuck that hit me

>>157466471
tripod, geocities, angelfire, even fucking anipike are still around. I wonder if people left up those anime character shrine fanpages they made too.

>>157444780
Fuck dude i remember working all sumer to get enough money to order shitty Philippians english dubbed dragon ball movies.

>>157445572
oh boy, a nostalgiafag.

>>157455500
>tfw crunchyroll is doing more damage to Japan than fansubbing

>>157460357
Fond memories...

I remember trying to get Blue Sub 6, instead got an amaeteur vid of a legless girl getting fucked with her own crutches.

I was born just in time to experience the anime boom of the 90's and I have mixed feelings about that time period. On one hand, I miss the feeling anime used to give me. I would record every episode of Yu Yu Hakusho on VHS and rewatch it so many times I could quote the dialogue right along with the characters yet it never lost the sense of wonder and adventure it had the first time I watched it. I was already reading Inuyasha by the time it aired on AdultSwim and I remember hyperventilating in excitement when the first episode came on (I was like 11 or 12, cut me some slack). I definitely miss that intense pleasure anime used to give me and I wish I could get that back.

But on the other hand, I don't miss how overpriced everything was. I only had a handful of VHS's because they were too expensive for my grandma to buy for me. I don't miss the struggle of trying to find out about shows or, worse, trying to track them down. I had a few anime magazines and I would voraciously read through them but the chances of me watching any of those shows back then was slim to none. Early internet was a joke with rumors and lies being presented as facts, it was almost impossible to tell what was real. Like the rumor about Sailor Moon being R rated in Japan because the girls are actually naked in the henshin scenes. Or I remember my cousin telling me that Chibiusa was canonly supposed to be strawberry blonde but pink was the closest color they could get to that, which I'm sure she read on some fan site. Like, theres definitely still misinformation today but nothing like it was back then. Also early torrenting was another kind of hell that I wouldn't wish on anyone so we really do have it much better off now. Anime is so accessible today that I would honestly take the current state of things over getting that feeling back simply because there was too much shit to wade through back then. If I want to watch something I just find a torrent for it and call it a day. Theres no guessing.

>>157444453
Yet they had better taste than /a/

>>157444453
disagree. it's like videogame magazines. they were better than what we have now, which is just a bunch of sites that post little blips throughout the day. it's like eating a bunch of snacks instead of a full meal. it's not satisfying. and tv tended to curate and filter out the rubbish. that meant more actual good shows, especially ones that pandered more to western tastes, as opposed to moeshit.

>>157466933
how so?

>tfw you will never hit the anime turnpike and link your way all the way through some shitty hentai

>>157468542
spotted /v/

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>>157462873
>tfw trying to explain how to use torrents to friends in high school
>they look at me like a fucking crazy man
>even to this day I don't think they know how to use them

>>157468582
Because fansubbing is mostly dead anyway, and they're basically just providing free subs to anyone who knows how to work a torrent.

>>157454940
I agree with that first part. There are anime movies I remember seeing as a kid that, at this point, I'm certain only exist in my head. A lot of bloody mecha stuff.

>>157444453
Man, I remember that all you could do back then on 56k is to download animes' opening and glorious 320/240 video in RMBV format.


Fuck that shit. I am not going back.

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This thread makes me feel bad because the only thing I used Limewire for was downloading software and video games.

I didn't have the privacy to download any porn, or videos back then because my computer was right in the living room right next to the kitchen, on top of that my parents probably would've found it and I was already in hot water for telling homework to fuck off in favor or computer time.

>>157469104
>not downloaded dragonball x sailormoon back then.

I feel sorry for you.

>>157450661
Some of the overlord light novel fanfics are quite good.

>>157469035
So not paying the producers is better than paying them?

>>157469104
and now you're here.

should've done your homework.

>>157445937
This site crashed the fuck out of my PC for some reason

>>157469296
You know that there's like a stupidly low split going towards the studios, right?

IIRC crunchy keeps +80%.

>>157469296
apparently. shows how much otakus respect the people who entertain them. they just think of them as anime producing machines who don't need to make an income.

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>>157468542
ha ha ha ha

>>157469375
If you actually want to support the studios, BUY BDS. Holy shit it's not that complicated.

How far do you think 20% of your $60 (spread out between every single studio that has a show on Crunchy) a YEAR goes compared to $90 a BD?

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>>157469309
My shortcomings extend far beyond anything 4chan is responsible for, and my successes in spite of those same shortcomings have landed me in a comfortable position.

>>157469104
>I used Limewire for was downloading software and video games.
Fuck that shit. You had a good chance to get porn anyway using limewire and a 50% chance of getting what you actually wanted.

>>157449394
That sucked, you had to find the guy who was uploading with a directors account.

>>157469344
better than nothing.

>>157469529
I don't like buying physical copies. I guess renting? was gonna say that new amazon anime thing, but I heard it's sort of terrible.

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>>157469548
>here starving man in the middle of the street
>have this penny
>HEY DON'T GET MAD AT ME, IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING

>>157469541
Seconded.


God bless the guys who uploaded full episodes though. This was before YouTube became DMCA trigger happy,

>>157469536
shit anime.

>>157443571
Is it bad that I was aware of this site back then but I don't remember ever using it?

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What's the matter? looking for something?

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>>157469868
Friends.

>>157443571
>>157469663

https://archive.org/details/THEINTERNETOnApril4th1998

It's fairly old so not really. I remember the only way for me to access the internet way back and all the way until 2004 was with some prepaid internet cards so you needed to download and navigate shit fast before your "time" got over. Bad memories.

>>157469170
That shit is still widely available.

>>157469868
BRING BACK GEOCITIES YOU FRIGID CUNT.

>>157445937

http://freecartoonsex.com/

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>>157469950
>prepaid internet cards

Time for a blast from the past.

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>>157469375
>shows how much otakus respect the people who entertain them. they just think of them as anime producing machines who don't need to make an income.
Well the companies that make it fell the same way. Have you seen how little animators are paid.

>when you realize you make more than everyone but the overpaid va

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>>157470030
even japan knew the horror of AOL.

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One thing I do sort of miss about VHS days was that things weren't really overrated or underrated, because they weren't 'rated' at all. Unless you went on Usenet or a convention, you didn't really know what was "supposed" to be good or bad. This led to people trying movies and shows that they might not otherwise try, sometimes good, sometimes bad (e.g., pic related).

These days you'll usually have a nice consensus on a new show just a few hours after it airs, which too many people rely on.

I always thought that the biggest thing that would happen to the medium outside of Japan would be the ability to watch "together" as we did with prime time television rather than people's viewing experiences being staggered apart by months at a time. In retrospect, I'm not sure it really improved the experience much at all.

>>157469344
It doesn't really matter how much goes to who, because the studios agreed to what was going where. It's better to get 20% of something than 100% of nothing. If anything they advertise the products (sex pillows and keyring etc al)

>>157468542

>>>/v/

>>157449394
Literally how I got into anime for real (IE, discovering it online with subs, not just stuff that aired on TV) in my early teens

>Naruto airs on Toonami
>Think it's super cool
>Goes on break for some reason I can't remember
>Want to watch more, look up when the next episode airs
>"What the heck? The episode is on Youtube already? Hmmm, well for some reason it's in another language"
>"Holy the OP is totally different, but it sounds better! And the voices sound better and...WHAT THE FUCK, THERE'S LIKE OVER 100 EPISODES ON HERE?"

And that's how I descended into today

>anime shrines

Not really.

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>>157448549

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>>157448549
>hundreds upon hundreds of Ranma becomes Sailor Earth fuku fics

I kind of miss it.

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>>157445572

>this guy is probably in his 40s now, if not 50s

I wonder what life he lived, in the end.