Anyone here old enough to still own fansubbed VHSs?
>>137310884
I wish.
>>137310884
I have one with the first 8 episodes of DBGT.
>>137312413
>subtÃtulos en castellano
I watched it on VHS, but not keep them anymore.
>>137310884
Yup, I've got all of Kenshin on VHS as well as some other random titles (Kenshin is the only one that I have completed on VHS). I haven't watched them in years but I still hold on to them.
What the hell is a VHS?
>>137314404
video tapes, anon.
>>137314404
Nah, we're not this far into the future yet. Quit baiting.
>>137314915
Ahh, spoil sport.
>>137314915
Maybe he is from those weird ass country that called them VCRs?
>>137316076
VCR is the machine that plays VHS tapes.
I never had fansubbed VHS tapes. Lived out in bumfuck, nowhere.
I had a terribly dubbed Silverfang on VHS.
They just voiced over the original voices, and the VA's change after every fucking VHS.
There were four in total. Also censored to shit.
Yes, and I used to have to save shitty hentai .jpgs on floppy disks to jack off to using a 36.6k modem. A $1000 desktop used to only have 2GBs of HDD space. You fuckers don't know how lucky you have it nowadays. I wonder who that is on /a/ was old enough to watch Evangelion when it aired on PBS back in 2000 in the San Francisco area, which was much earlier than when Cartoon Network picked it up. They also aired stuff like Bubblegum Crisis, Ranma, Lain, Key the Metal Idol, and a lot more. Fuck, I just did a search and found a 2002 posting regarding that stuff: http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/anime-on-pbs.3033561/
The change has been interesting in just the last few years in terms of access, however. We went from actually having subgroups to pretty much nothing with nearly everything being simulcast. It wasn't too long ago we were waiting for late night Mazui releases for Hyouka or Railgun, Eclipsed for Nodame Cantabile, orggforBakemonogtari.
Nah, I threw them away at the time after I got them digitally.
So I replaced the vhs with a cd collection (it was cheaper and faster to buy pirated fansubs instead of downloading them).
I guess it would have been neat to keep them for nostalgia but VHS tapes are huge and it's not like they keep a good quality, in fact they degrade over time if you watch them a lot.
>tfw all the ecchi scenes had that noticeable loss of quality thanks to rewinding/pausing that scene too much
i have start wars vhs, no anime though.
>>137316535
https://youtu.be/QwF-dDeVRfo
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-05-06/psme-to-air-on-kteh
Damn, now I'm remembering all those Evangelion sites I used to go to to read up on theories and see pictures. There aren't really dedicated fansites like that anymore, and everything is a wikia page. It would be amazing to see cached pages for all the anime and hentai sites I used to go to from the late 90s and early 00s.
>>137316844
>>137316981
https://youtu.be/hWq4DWfrpu8
And now I just shitpost on 4chan.
retro animus
>>137310884
Not fansubbed, the only animu tape I had was the official Bardock localization and some random anime broadcasts I recorded.
>>137316844
This one is still online
http://www.evaotaku.com/EvangelionTheMovie_GeoCities/evaindex.html
I remember browsing it around 98/99
>>137310884
Old enough yes, but I wasn't into anime then
>>137316076
hey, there are two types of VCR: VHS and Betamax for consumers. VTR is a more general term that includes professional formats such as two-inch reel to reel, as well as the early home reel-to-reel formats in 1 inch and half inch
Is there anybody who owns anime on some esoteric format like Betamax?
>>137318136
hows betamax esoteric? It was literally the standard format you dumb nigger
>>137318136
VHS had already won by my time, but my parents did own a Laser Disk player. Wasn't old enough to buy or really be into anime at that time, however.
I wonder what happened to everyone around my age when we used to go on AOL 3.0 or 4.0 "Japanimation Chats" on the ANT Online site. Did they grow out of anime unlike me?
I'm already 30 and can't see myself growing out of it. In fact, I'm deeper down the rabbit hole than ever before because I love stuff the old me would have never accepted back then.
>>137317476
I'm finding more!
>>137318486
>>137318620
I used to use their email service to get stuff like [email protected]
>>137318343
Damn, does their laserdisc still work? Mad jelly of those.
>>137317086
>mIRC
Damn, that takes me back.
>>137318731
Well, we still use it in the fansub/scanlation scene.
I don't know other people that use it, I guess some forums and torrent sites.
>>137318136
betamax still sold and used in various south american and asian countries, Sony stopped making the equipment in 2002 and this year they stop making the tape
>>137318655
Also had a mail there.
I think I even remember it, it was [email protected] or something like that.
Sachiel and Sakieru were taken, so I went for sakieru.com
The Sailor Moon S and R movies, Lili Cat, that AU DB movie, all japanese audio with english subs. I had a lot more but they were lost in time
English is not my first language so as a llittle kid I didn't know what the fuck was going on
>>137318731
My guild still uses it.
The 4chan irc channel used to be a lot of fun too in the early days
>>137318731
It's still a thing?
>>137310884
I still have Slayers although I think at least one of them is shitted up now. You know when the tape snags and gets cinks/wrinkles trying to stuff it back in even using a screwdriver to properly wind it up? Yeah.
Not to mention I believe for basically anything recorded on VHS that that consumer tape degrades faster than the professional grade stuff. All of that stuff is degrading though; I also have had bit rot fuck up a few of my oldest PC games (sometimes they still work but are weirdly glitchy).
>>137319615
also >cinks
Kinks
This thread makes me wish I didn't sell my VCR.
Still have some good VHSs
>>137319780
You can probably find one on Craigslist or eBay or something for like $20. Or not; no idea if working ones are becoming collectible or not. Mine still works so I haven't given a shit to look.
>>137319780
You can go down to a thrift store and buy a VCR for around $2.
>>137318816
>>137319197
>not using HexChat
How pleb can you be?
>>137321478
Dumbass we were talking about irc in general.I do use hexchat, right now even.
I had some bootleg Lain tapes that got thrown out years ago. It was the dub, but it also had Chinese subtitles. Wish I had still had them.
I don't think I managed to finish it at the time, though.
>>137316212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7IurlevvA
How did people add subs to them?
>>137322605
A vhs editing deck connected to a computer probably
>>137322605
With video editing equipment. The same kind used to edit wedding videos and what not.
Were any of you in clubs/local groups where people traded/borroewed VHS? That's how I saw Ranma.
>>137323796
OP here, I was part of a sort of group of people that gathered every weekend on a park to talk, trade, share anime and manga, met some of them at a convention in 1998, because I was doing a cosplay of Trunks, and met other cosplayers there, one of them was a Pan. They invited me to go with them on the weekend and I went with my mom, lol, I was 12.
After that first time, I started going alone, and met all sort of people. There were actually a lot of people there, probably over 50 or 70. There were all sort of people there, fans of sci-fi, fans of shoujo, some people would bring their drawing portfolios, others would bring their trading card collections, I remember this one girl who had hundreds of Sailor Moon ones on a folder.
I made a lot of friends there, everyone was friendly because everyone was excited to meet other people with similar tastes. I borrowed a lot of manga and videos, in fact I saw Death and Rebirth and EoE for the first time thanks to that group, otherwise it would have been hard to come by those movies back in '98.
>>137323796
My town has a permanent fleamarket of sorts, there's a corner that is dedicated to video games and anime, so you could buy copies (of copies). No renting but we did trade a lot in there.
Also there was a dude that had a store dedicated to trading cards, and there was an anime club that used that as gathering place or to recruit people, which was basically only a trading group.
I got some betamax fansubs from both places and I had to ask a neighbour for a betamax player because we only had a vhs one.
When CDs/computers were more common we had a dude in our local group that had a burner (remember how burners/writers weren't norm) and he made copies for us for a buck or so (we just gave him blank cds).
This is how I got my first evangelion rip, which I still have backed up.
![2x2_=_SHINOBUDEN_-_03[DeathSquad][75AE770A].avi_snapshot_01.08_[2013.01.26_17.05.49].png](https://i.imgur.com/nAcSwkf.png "2x2_=_SHINOBUDEN_-_03[DeathSquad][75AE770A].avi_snapshot_01.08_[2013.01.26_17.05.49].png")
I can remember my first anime I torrented was Nin-Nin-Ga Shinobuden in 2004, subbed by DeathSquad....but they died before subbing the last two episodes. Took me a few years to find those subbed by another group.
What was your first torrented anime, /a/?
>>137318343
I know the top left is 1 pound gospel, but the rest escape me, although the art is familiar, is it Takahashi?
>>137326761
First torrented I don't remember, but I do remember what was the first anime I actually downloaded when I first got broadband in 2001, Street Fighter Alpha movie from Kazaa, and Initial D episodes, which I remember I found for direct download on some website. I couldn't believe I was able to download whole episodes in an hour or so. With 56k I had to wait hours for 5 or 10 minute videos.
>>137322418
I keep forgetting how old lain is, didn't age too badly really.
>>137327084
>Kazaa
So much accidental CP donwloaded over that thing
>>137328545
Yeah, I remember that.
>>137312413
why does this cover reminds of this fucked up chicks writing with their period bood
I really miss the blocky charm of Internet 1.0 design. When everyone and their mother had their own shitty Geocities page.
Which of you were with USFJ and got to send tapes and shit back to the US?
>>137327084
The best part was 56k was a major step up from older ones like 28.8k.
>>137328545
What the hell were you searching for, I never got CP
Remember downloading from BBs via 14K/sec dialup?
>>137312413
>>137310884
Those covers are fucking works of art
>>137316981
Man, that is one cute website.
>>137317092
>PUHUTTU SUOMEKSI
ebin :--D
>>137310884
Does bootleg count?I live in a third world country
>>137327079
Looks like it.
http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e176365963
http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e175021130
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w134025796
Don't own any, no. I remember watching some though. I mostly borrowed them from friends at school. I remember watching Patlabor on VHS.
What does age have to do with hoarding trash?
>>137316535
Anime andvidyawent corporate/mainstream anon.
>>137310884
And then some, yeah. Back in the dark days of having to know groups and be involved in trading.
I really should dump them because LOLVHS but I still keep them for stupid nostalgia. Even stuff like Teki wa Kaizoku has digital versions, but I keep the tapes anyway.
>>137328545
Kazaa was how I discovered anime. I was convinced that the TV studios were maliciously withholding episodes from everyone because they would only show one a week. And I thought "The internet has EVERYTHING! Surely some ally of justice has uploaded all the un-aired episodes to the internet already!" Then to my excitement, I actually found stuff on Kazaa, but alas, the video would not play, it was a black screen but I could hear the audio! That was how I discovered video encoding. And of course you can imagine my confusion after realizing that the entire show was in Japanese and not just the opening song. But hey, since I'd be able to watch, I didn't mind having to read the subtitles. And that was how I became a fucking weeaboo. After a year or two of being exposed to it, I was already at the point where I wouldn't be caught dead watching a dub.
>>137316981
FUCK NO ANON STOP MAKING ME REMEMBER MY ULTRA-WEEB PRETEEN YEARS!
>Would browse fansites for full versions of Inuyasha EDs.
>Would then crudely sing the kanji in my house around my older brother and mom.
>Geocities pages with fanfiction, remember one specific site that I lost a long time ago that would do weekly questions that you'd E-mail in for Inuyasha characters.
>>137318343
>Laughing Target
>Fire Tripper
Holy shit Rumic Theatre nostalgia.
>>137326761
Using Kazaa to download the DBZ movies.
>Mfw finding the old horrible quality DBZ Nookie AMV I would bump to back in early 2000's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0ozxbHGdE
>>137310884
Oh man, this brings me back.
I think I still have the old Sailor Moon R VHS and the old orange Rugrats VHS somewhere
>>137331086
Besides nostalgia, they look nice. Would be a shame to get rid of them.
>>137327079
>>137330654
It's all Takahashi.
One Pound Gospel, Laughing Target, Fire Tripper, Maris the Supergal and Mermaid Forest.
>>137310884
The library had loads of anime vhs except it was always random. The reservation system wasnt as easy as it is today with a few computer clicks.
Today the library has several shelves of complete manga series and dvds. Check out your local libraries anons.
>>137331496
Most of my fansubs don't have neat covers, but I do have a fair number of commercial VHS tapes from the US and Japan, along with some laserdiscs.
Now laserdiscs, those had some great covers.
Sailor Moon lemonfics. Remember them?
>>137331555
Well those I posted there are official releases too, not fansubs.
LDs look great and have amazing inserts from what I've seen, but I never owned an LD player.
>>137331753
I know, but the thread was about fansubs, not commercial releases. Hence my comment.
Still, it was pretty neat how old US releases used to come in clamshells with different coloured tapes. Damn this thread is making me nostalgia hard.
>>137331499
Thx anon.
I've got a tape with Cyber City Oedo on it around here somewhere. Knew 'that kid' in high school who would rent or buy tapes and had the equipment to make copies. Think I payed him $15 for this one. Great OVA, was not disappointed.
>>137331532
Librarian here, can confirm. We have tons of manga and dvds. Been flipping through Read or Die this week. Bit of a guilty pleasure for a bibliophile. Fuck Donnie, though.
>>137310884
Surprisingly enough, I tend to keep these in storage boxes rather than on display
>>137310884
>>137312413
Holy fuck., do I love these covers
It's Evangelion in a nutshell.
>>137322901
Back in college, I used the university's AV lab equipment that looked like this to add subs with a group of friends who had gotten me into anime.
Those were some fun times.
I have a dragon ball movie on VHS that I bought long ago at my local Chinatown. I think it was a Babidi/early Buu arc movie. I remember being so disappointed coming home and realizing it was subbed in Chinese. I'm guessing it's not an official translation too, so I suppose that counts.
>>137326761
Tenchi muyo from Kazaa and bearshare. Then the viruses got me. But first big DL was Elfin Lied...
>>137310884
For people who weren't in the scene back in the day, where exactly would you buy this stuff when it was new?
>>137335208
Conventions, mail-orders from catalogs or you had to know a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who could get stuff from Japan.
>>137336956
Oh, and occasionally small, indie video shops would have a selection because the owner knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who could get stuff from Japan.
>>137335208
Pretty much >>137336956
I spent a lot of money at Nikaku Animart back in the day.
