What was it like being an anime fan before the internet?
What was it like being an anime fan before the internet?
Isaiah Hill
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Hudson Hall
Depends where you lived. If you were a Jap of course there were plenty of outlets to channel your autism. In the West there was way less, and "anime" as a category was not something that really properly registered in the minds of many people at all until later.
Isaiah Nguyen
Dubious hardsubbed VHS tapes from a similarly dubious video store and saturday mornings were all there were
Bentley Sanchez
What is your definition of "internet?"
Nicholas Edwards
Completely before the internet or like late 90s/early 00s when the internet still wasn't as widespread? I remember trying to look up info on One Piece in like 2002 (don't remember exact year but had to have been before it started releasing in the US) and not really finding much other than a summary of the first chapter on some website. It's possible I just sucked at using the internet though on top of being 10 years old.
Jose Baker
Up until about 2006 when torrenting really started taking off, you'd just have basic shounen manga, basic dubbed shit on cable TV, and occasionally the Sci Fi Channel would show something like Armitage III. Anything more obscure was relegated to VHS tapes found in the darkest corners of the darkest video stores. I remember when DVDs got big, there was a huge craving for season box sets that resulted in a lot of direct-to-video releases of less popular anime stateside.
Xavier Collins
I remember in the late aughts watching anime on YouTube in 8-10 minute segments. I was on a dial-up connection. I would sit and read a book as I waited for the videos to buffer. I got a lot of reading done in those days.
Carson Roberts
smoke a bowl, everyone piles into the 1992 piece of shit car, we drive 35 miles to a smelly video rental place because rayray said some guy saw a bunch of anime vhs there.
burn cd's and and trade them with friends. 600 megs of anime was a lot because everyone only had dial up and a t1 line was for rich kids that could afford the 400 dollar a month bill
Elijah Thompson
you mean weebs used to actually have friends before they could talk to other weebs on Yas Forums? Sounds nice desu senpai
Eli Morgan
I would just make my mom drive me to Hollywood Video.