Anyone ever gets a bit depressed from nostalgia?
I had my huge Japan-phase from 2000 to 2008 in which I discovered and consumed all kinds of Japanese music, trash, movies etc. When I look at stuff from back then, I suddenly realise how much time has passed and how old everyone got (including me).
Can we share memories/feels? Also post vids to go along if you want.
Starting with a song I used to listen to a lot with headphones on while drawing anime characters in my shitty room.
It's Kotoko - Re-sublimity. At that time I had never heard such a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_6Mvxk34Lk
>>14175102
The first truly Japanese thing I remember running into was Ai Otsuka's Sakuranbo. It had an extremely high energy that I fell in love with immediately despite not understanding a word of it. I don't remember when or where. It was at the time in my life when I thought Megatokyo was hot shit and spent time dicking around random graphics forums trying to show off my l33t graphics skills and anime girl photoshops.
Five years after that (which is five years ago now) I came to 4chan and my life ended. Checked back on those little forums and seems like they all died a few years back.
Same with this one. I remember being really attracted to Tomiko Van back then, because I loved her voice. Seeing her aged and having kids made me feel really old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWv_sxR9owM
>>14175122
Yeah me too. I remember being so hot for her, I actually jerked off to the cover of 'love jam'. They obviously aimed at the bukkake comparison with that cover. My friends smirked at me for listening to this quirky China music.
I think this is her latest tour before she got pregnant. You can see the 'Asian granny cheeks' forming on her face and she lost a bit of hair too. Why is it so depressing to see popstars age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROWYdt6-Gfg
>>14175105
KOTOKO is wonderful. I wonder how many people she converted.
>>14175151
>Why is it so depressing to see popstars age?
The passage of time is always depressing.
But even as I grow older, fictional characters and high school girls will both continue to stay the same age, so I'm safe! Safe...
>>14175102
I didn't watch basically anything from around 1998 to 2004 that wasn't on TV, plus a few DVDs I bought, so I don't really nostalgia over anything people on the internet nostalgia about. Just about everything old 4chan and so on talked about was from that period.
I miss the old 80s and 90s style of anime and Japanese video games though.
>>14175122
>I came to 4chan and my life ended. Checked back on those little forums and seems like they all died a few years back.
I was a regular on neo-tokyo forum to leech pics of anime girls. It seems the website doesn't even exist anymore. I was so obsessed and fapped to normal artwork of EVA and co. When I discovered doujins for the first time, the real insanity began.
If you remember this, you're childhood was literally awesome
>>14175158
>KOTOKO is wonderful. I wonder how many people she converted.
She definitely converted me. Turned from casual anime watching normie kid to full blown weeb in a matter of a few songs.
>>14175168
>didn't watch basically anything from around 1998 to 2004 that wasn't on TV
Me neither, but you do realise 2004 is over a decade ago? Most of my old school mates are married with children now and I'm still sitting in my cave in my parents' house, watching anime and sneaking through university.
>>14175187
dem small perky tits
>>14175187
>you're childhood was
*your childhood was
>>14175228
Um, quit acting like your my english teacher, dude! :/
>>14175230
>your my english teacher
*You're my English teacher
>>14175234
Now see, that right their is why nobody likes you. I literally could care less. Fuck off!!
>>14175238
>that right their
*that right there
When I saw Evangelion for the first time, I felt like a member of a club of enlightened gentlemen. In reality I was just a greasy haired loser who spent his parents' hard earned money on Chinese pirated anime DVDs.
I don't remember which was my first subbed anime I watched, it was either the Tales of Eternia anime or the Air Gear one. And at the time, I thought "yeah I'm not gonna watch AND read something I don't really understand" ((I didn't speak english as much as I do now)
I wasn't fond of japanese music very much, a lot of fangirls gave me some music to listen to, but I didn't find it particulary interesting. Not bad, but not good either.
Japanese movies eh... I like japanese horror but that's much more recently. Like a couple of years ago.
But I didn't had much exposure to jap media until I got the internet at home when I was in high school, in 2004. I guess it's not that old compared to some people here.
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>>14175271
Stop spamming
Either put your links in one post or don't post at all
Who /BoA/ here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skbnuIhVQUA
Technically not 100% Japanese, but OMG was I crazy for her. Literally the biggest obsession I ever had in my life. Now she looks like a tired hag selling noodles on the night market and her career is in the gutter.
Jesus christ, fuck off OP.
>>14175273
This. Either post them together or at least share a story with each vid.
>>14175286
Spamfag is not me. :(
>>14175295
M-my bad, dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeRDZx6y5M
In my country there was little anime other than kids shit. But one broadcaster in the late 90s showed subbed/dubbed anime every Monday after midnight. I stayed up and watched Aika, Blue Submarine No.6 and sometimes they even showed hentai. :^)
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You're sad dude.
>>14175371
Just file a feedback for spam. Reporting individual posts is hard because there's too many of them for any one post to get stacked up and there's no context.
When they first showed Golden Boy, I was really naive. Neglected school, smoked weed and thought I could just head out into the world like Kintaro. This mind set is probably responsible for the predicament I'm in now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pSD9T7RhkM
The story aspect was always belittled, but I actually thought it had some nice values in terms of romantic comedy. Still wish sometimes I could travel and switch work places here and there, meet cute girls...
>>14175376
Not worth the effort I guess. But thanks.
Hope you're happy spamfag. This could have been nice.
>>14175391
>Not worth the effort I guess.
If you neither report nor ignore then you will never have anything nice.
That's basically the story of /jp/, so see you never.
>>14175222
>you do realise 2004 is over a decade ago
Yeah but basically everyone is nostalgic about that time period I mentioned. I should go actually watch some of the shows(besides Azumanga Daioh, when I saw before in Japanese with subs and only recently heard the english version). Even though a lot of stuff has probably passed on and out of mind, I still sort of want to see what the big deal about all those shows like Mahoromatic, Digicharat, and Love Hina, and Chobits was though.
I'm kinda glad 2004 is so long ago though. I can call Nanoha an old school classic. Also I'm glad we're finally mostly past the shitty later 2000/early 2010s.
Every time I look back at anime I watched long ago, I am repulsed by how badly drawn it is, how corny and cliche, and how stupid the plot. To summarize, I'd rather not look in the past for any reason.
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>>14175122
Well duh, it is one of the earlier 4chan meme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5dSwqSv3s
>>14176067
>basically everyone is nostalgic about that time period
Back in the good old days, people were nostalgic about better times.
very first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQELeF_6SE
>>14176067
>I still sort of want to see what the big deal about all those shows
I think (as with most nostalgic notions) that this particular era of anime inhabits a kind of unique quality which people miss in current media. The early 2000s were a breaking point in the industry, both in terms of art style through establishment of fully digital produced anime and in terms of economics with the emergence of wide spread internet. A lot of smaller studios rose to fame quickly during that time, because a lot of small fishes with great ideas suddenly had the chance to manufacture their product in a relatively cheap way and also market it to a worldwide audience. I'm not saying that the shows from this era hold more value than any other, but at the particular moment in time, people took them as a new messiah generation. From the shows you've mentioned I only watched Love Hina (mainly because I fapped to the girls) and Chobits, which IMHO was a really simple but nicely portrayed story. Would I rate them amongst my personal GOAT shows? No. But compared to the sheer mass of mindlessly produced, dull and repetitive no name productions you get today, I'd gladly take them.
>Also I'm glad we're finally mostly past the shitty later 2000/early 2010s.
Not sure what exactly you're referring to (feel free to elaborate) but I assume you mean the 'transfer era' from cell animation to (actually decent) digital. It's clear to see that all the early pioneer digital productions looked like shit compared to cells. Colors seemed lifeless, outlining contours had all the same boldness without any feeling of an actual pen being set in motion. It took them a long time to perfect digital and some may argue it still needs work.
>>14176073
>Every time I look back at anime I watched long ago, I am repulsed by how badly drawn it is, how corny and cliche, and how stupid the plot.
corny and cliche, depending on the show/movie. same for plot. but badly drawn? I'd say it's pretty even.
>>14176067
Didn't Kaolla Su start the whole brown fetish on 4chan?
>>14175187
why do I even like that show. I really like it a lot but I don't know why. I even went to see the movie (and I don't go outside often)
"Pierce the heavens!"
I really miss niconico's prime, back when akuryou taisan, ryuuseigun, tomitake-flash/ウッディ, futahenokiwamiaaa, etc... were all the rage. Yes, it's stupid looking back, but everything was fresh and felt amazing to me back then.
I also miss when mainstream media didn't really touch the internet. I was pretty taken aback when I first saw ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! show up on Japanese television out of the blue as a subtitle on some stupid variety show.
装甲悪鬼村正、素晴らしき日々、Dies Irae, MuvLuv, etc... aren't as old (except MLA), but they're over half a decade old now which is making me feel old in turn.
I think the biggest thing that gets to me is the disconnect between myself and the younger people when it comes to what's fun. I'd hate to admit it, but I'm no longer a part of the "majority" of the internet. Closer to one of those old grouchy people that would bark at me back in the day of my personal internet golden age.
>>14175187
Remembering the stupid hiatus from the Earthquake incident that lead a long ass drag for the last two episodes?
I really hated that, I was about to visit Gensokyo early learning how it was close to cancellation.
I got really big into Visual Novels for a time a few years ago, the more nakige the better.
It feels kinda lonely when youre the only person within probably a 50 mile radius who has played a VN, let alone 20 of them.
Atleast there's anime nerds you can talk to sometimes , even touhou has gotten relatively popular , but VN nerds are rare.
>>14177645
Don't feel too bad, I've only met a person in the US that played VNs and he didn't even know what Muramasa or Baldr Sky were all he did was rave about Key games.
>>14175102
I know that feel
My anime phase was from 1997-2010
First thing I remember was Akira and Lensmen, granted these where 80's shows and I got them on bootleg VHS but on about 08 is when moe shit started to get overwhelming I only occasionally watch anime now because most of it is generic pandering harem moe garbage.
I'm nostalgic for the 90's-00's Internet.
I would trade the speed and technology that we have now to change it back, without a doubt.
>>14177741
I sometimes miss the screech of analog couplers,
>>14177741
NEDM
Running in the 90s
Nightmare City flash
Kikko Man
WinMX
No embedded flash videos only downloads
Mice with balls that clog up all the time
.divx
モナー
4chan being relatively obscure
2ch being unheard of in the west
burning anime on to CD/DVD to save HDD space
I remember it all like yesterday
>>14177653
Was he a short white guy?
>>14177786
He was half white/half japanese.
Give the old internet back
>>14176928
>Not sure what exactly you're referring to (feel free to elaborate) but I assume you mean the 'transfer era' from cell animation to (actually decent) digital.
No, I mean the moe dark age. They've started making anime about things other than "small group of girls who go to school" again. Look at all this moeshit, goddamn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2007_anime_television_series
>but badly drawn
He probably means like 70s era anime and long running 70s-80s shit. Some of that stuff was pretty low quality.
Speaking of drawing, they still have to draw anime. It being digital is no excuse for poop drawing and outline unless it's full 3D, although lately they've been getting better at making 3D have a 2D look in certain games, so maybe anime will follow.
>>14177558
>Closer to one of those old grouchy people that would bark at me back in the day of my personal internet golden age.
>"I'm 28, I feel so old guys"
>>14177333
I personally only like the music and the fights from it. The plot is dumb, & weak, and I don't like the way the characters look. I'm not who you quoted btw. -
>>14175102
Same, I keep everything saved though so I do enjoy going through and remembering older times
>>14177800
>28
God, do I really sound that old? I'm 24.
>>14177760
Half of those were yesterday. Go on /f/ sometimes. they still post the same shit from years ago, over and over, forever.
>>14177741
>The speed
Trust me, you don't wanna go back to 56kbit, ever
>>14177896
>10mb MP3
>Let it dl overnight
quoting my past life.
>>14178080
One of my first video game pirates, I downloaded an .exe of Worms armageddon of 600MB and had to let it download for one whole week. The fucking thing ended up being corrupted and I had to wait another week before I could play the thing.
I'm glad we don't have to deal with this kind of shit anymore
>>14177896
>56kbit
MFW I had a 33.6
4chan is for posters between the age of 13 and 22, it's time for you guys to retire.
>>14178126
Isn't it past your bedtime?
![[Exiled-Destiny]_Tsukuyomi_Moon_Phase_Ep02_(7AEDDF2B).mkv_snapshot_04.30_[2015.09.20_15.22.32].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8QtJ6lE.jpg "[Exiled-Destiny]_Tsukuyomi_Moon_Phase_Ep02_(7AEDDF2B).mkv_snapshot_04.30_[2015.09.20_15.22.32].jpg")
Reading Love Hina and Rave Master back in like 2003. Hanging out with a friend and loitering in book store manga sections and cutting the 18+ stuff out of its plastic with our edgy spiked wristbands. Downloading awful 75mb .rmvb anime and loving it. It's how I watched Di Gi Charat and Mooh Phase. I remember the day when I got a 256mb flash drive, I thought I was amazing. I would skip lunch at school so I could go to the library and download anime. We even had a sort of anime club at the time, but then it was disbanded when this kid stole everyone's Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
hanging out at my friends house back in 1999, watching dubbed Tenchi on VHS after school.
>>14178104
Physical media pirating used to be a thing. Imagine those 14 part rars on mediafire or something, but with floppy disks.
>>14178126
I remember when the proper internet was mostly college ages and kids stuck to their chatrooms, cybering with each other or making shitty shrine webpages and stick figure flashes.
>>14178147
Tenchi series is like the only harem series that should be allowed to exist.
>>14178266
What about Ah, My Goddess?
>>14178287
I have literally never experienced anything about that series except through erodoujins. Tenchi is a better series about goddess girlfriends though, and doesn't have a troll ending like what happened a few years back or whatever that fuss was about.
>>14178296
At least watch the OVA.
>>14178301
Is that loli goddess in it? Does she do loli stuff?
>>14178312
Yes. Yes.
>>14178266
>Physical media pirating
the sneaker net
>>14178266
>shitty shrine webpages and stick figure flashes.
Yeah, I too used to make shitty stickdeath animations in flash back when explosm was called sticksuicide and let you upload, with green day and sum 41 songs too. I spent most of my middle school years doing that or playing pc games like counterstrike religiously
>>14178328
How is it that companies can literally promote "DON'T SHARE THINGS WITH YOUR FRIENDS" and not be thought of as absolute pure evil?
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>>14175102
what the fuck is this piece of shit thread
fuck you
>>14178402
Shouldn't you be in bed, don't you have school tomorrow?
>>14178458
Toke up Vicki.
My Japan crush dates from mid 90's.
If I begin to think, it would be devastating.
>>14178458
What's up with old TV? All those magic girlfriends that drop out of the sky and loli robot maids that people spite anime for started with shit from old America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
>>14175102
Depression from nostalgia isn't that different from the depression I feel at any other time. For other people they look at good parts of their life, but I've always escaped from reality into fantasy and it doesn't change. Although I guess that's not entirely true;I do miss the old internet communities of the late 90's/early 00's.
Overall, though, my life is one grey blur of meaningless nothing.
>>14178668
When it talks about a bunch of stuff that wasn't shown, it sounds like it's just a malfunctioning robot babbling.
>>14178896
No it doesn't. It sounds like someone describing memories of their past. Do you really need the androids past "shown"?
I may not live long. What bug me is i still don't know who is the girl in this picture. She was my first crush. There are so many reposts these days, it's impossible to find the original source.
>>14175102
Same here. 2008 is when I got really disillusioned with all this Japanese stuff. I had a more personal reason to "break up" with Japan. I wasted years on a Japanese studies course in uni which I regret now.
As for music, I remember Mr Children was the first Japanese band I got into, this album from 2002. I used to pirate Japanese music from IRC, lol good times. But then I got quickly into X-Japan and become a visual kei weirdo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKe5kV8y_bw
Everything spiraled downhill once Naruto/Bleach picked up speed in the late 2000's and exploded. It's sadly how many, many people really became introduced to anime/manga and Japanese culture since stuff like Dragonball and Sailor Moon were just those "weird and/or cool cartoons" they saw as kids and not what turned them on.
>>14178922
It's a movie about rebellious malfunctioning androids. I don't believe anything he says, especially as he's dying and his mind is fucking up.
>>14178941
I liked Dragonball, but it's not really different from Naruto/Bleach. Even while watching them, what made me like anime was all those weird movies and ovas from back then. Heads exploding, detailed guts coming out, naked boobs, technology, all kinda stuff. DB actually technically has all that but not in the same way. There's no invisible naked chick running around killing dudes.
>>14178927
She's probably an idol, so the idol threads will probably know.
>>14175102
No fuck off with your depression blog to /r9k/ or kill yourself.
/r9k/ culture is NOT otaku culture.
>>14178949
Ninja Scroll was such an eye opener
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QwNU1aGSA
>>14178968
awful blog threads were a /jp/ cultural institution from its inception up until the staff finally annihilated the NEET threads for good
though all the people who posted in those old threads are dead or gone or both
>>14178949
>There's no invisible naked chick running around killing dudes.
Oh man... when I first got the original GITS on VHS, I felt as if god himself touched me. Getting anime on VHS as a kid was nearly impossible. Not even most video rental stores had them. I remember there were small mail-order niche shops who sold them for horrendous prices.
>>14178927
I was one of the first people (perhaps THE first) who posted this exact pic on 4chan. It was around 2006/7-ish and I can assure you she is an idol. This picture is part of a series where she is doing stuff in the kitchen.
>>14178124
I had a 28.8 which theoretically does at least 3kB/sec but the speed I usually got was 0.9kB/sec
>>14177741
I remember the first time someone put stuff on the internet behind a paywall and I was like "Is this guy an idiot. That will never work."
Why couldn't I have been wrong?
Anyone else been around since 2003? I don't know any other kind of life anymore than coming to this site.
>>14179074
I've been here since after the first time the site "died". I used to go to other stuff alongside 4chan, but everything became rotted and shit and I'm unable to bring myself to post on forums you have to reg for because of their shitty communities.
I'll probably have to go meet real nerds and gather in their basements like in caveman times after 4chan dies, or just pick some MMORPG and never log off. Maybe I'll surf the japweb. There's still all kinds of interesting treasures to be found there. It's too late for America, too many old services have shut down.
>>14179074
Me I guess. I lost track of time, but I was pretty much on 4chan since day one. I think the site's peak was in 2006 and it only got worse after that. All of 4chan had this Jap flavour to it, because it was mainly used by weebs and social outcasts who had a strong liking to anime. It served as a safe haven we were all seeking for throughout the 90s.
Now it's the cool place to hang out after school for edgy kids. Ironically the posts on /b/ back then tended to be edgier than nowadays, it's just that nobody gave a shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6SocIROEbA
>>14176955
>brown
Why do brown girls get automatically sexualised?
When I was a kid, I used to love Secret of Blue Water. But I was really hesitant to watch it when my mom was around. Even at that age I sensed the adults' discontent for what was shown on screen. Now in 2015 you find shitloads of doujins and fetish cosplayers who all centralise on Nadia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmqOhGno6Y
>tfw watching anime as a kid
>tfw you consciously notice nipples on an anime character for the first time
Fucking Gainax man.
>>14179164
First thing I remember from here was /b/ being the anime board and seeing a bunch of Azumanga pics in there. I think it was really early on.
>>14179265
Azumanga and Tsukihime. It's kind of weird that people got tired of Azumanga but still talk about Tsukihime all the fucking time.
>>14179220
literal shit taste
>>14179220
I watched that clip about 10x it's fucking great.
>>14177575
I remember the last two episodes came out on my birthday. It was fucking magical.
>>14179352
Tsukihime is part of a setting that has quite frequent new releases, attracting spergnerds from the eroge, anime, and gaming crowds, and even promises to be remade. I don't see how it's weird that people still care about it.
>>14180164
>Tsukihime is part of a setting that has quite frequent new releases
Like what? Melty and Carnival Phantasm? Please.
If you're lumping it in with Fate and KnK or something, that's just stretching.
>>14179074
Yeah, I dont remember when exactly but my oldest pictures are dated late 2003. At least I remember when most people on the site were on a username basis with each other.
I used to go to lots of forums, but net 2.0 killed them all off. This site is getting worse and worse to the point where i'd be happy to see most of it deleted, but you can find some good niche corners still.
>>14179164
This is accurate, I have a metric truckload of guro from back then
What's with this thing recently where some sites will say "checking your browser before continuing?" Is it some particular service doing that or what and what for? It makes me feel like they're scanning my history to check for loli or something.
>>14180248
It's not stretching when Arcueid is actually in Fate/Extra. And even so, the reality of it is that new people are getting drawn to type moon because of stuff like the ubw anime and grand order, and some of them end up reading Tsukihime. I really don't know why that would be hard to grasp.
>>14180313
DDoS protection mainly, I think.
>>14180467
I find it hard to believe many of them would read Tsukihime, mostly because I never see people talking about how they just read it. It's just the same old stuff as always. Even if they get drawn into Type Moon, it doesn't mean they're going to read all the games, or do you really think Prism Illya is giving people a taste for Tsukihime?
>>14180537
Of course not everyone who likes new type moon stuff reads Tsukihime. But even if 0.01% of everyone who watched a fate/whatever anime read Tsukihime, that's pretty significant.
>>14178395
I used to remember when most of the weeb internet and much of the FOSS community were moderate leftists and it was the height of enlightenment to attack Bush for invading Iraq for its oil.
Even 4chan used to not really give a shit until feminism suddenly became a thing. Who cares, it's not like your shitposts are going to change much.
>>14179478
Yeah, that opening gave me chills each time as a kid. The singer is kinda cute too. Back when idols didn't have leek hair and plastic smiles.
Although I've never seen the show, IMHO this is the most epic opening I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu533OKYHyc
Is Saint Seiya any good? It seems to have a large fan base and even got a new movie not too long ago.
>tfw I joined the internet in 2008 because my family was poor and we couldn't afford a computer
>>14180721
>it's not like your shitposts are going to change much
that was never the point.
>>14180763
Damn, that makes me feel old. I've been online since 89.
>>14180763
Been on since about '98
These days I hate this net 3.0 garbage. I'm considering limiting myself to rendering five non-work related webpages per day, see if I would be any worse or better off. Guess I should start now.
>>14180798
A worrying number of /pol/kids actually believe that they're making a difference, though. This is in addition to drawing more mainstream media attention to us. Although it doesn't matter at this point, 4chn is already normalfied.
>>14180837
I think Chanology was the turning point, before that it was all prank calls and "not your personal army" now everybody has a cause they are fighting for.
>>14180851
Which is hilarious, because most of these causes are mostly opportunities for media parasites like Milo or Anita to leech money and pageviews from dumb teenagers.
>>14175105
I never listened too much to Kotoko or the others, but Face of Fact was a favorite of mine in StepMania pre-2010 (roughly when I stopped playing). And obviously all the big songs from shows like Onegai Teacher (which I've yet to watch completely tbh.)
>>14175187
Kek
>>14175285
I remember a birthday party at my friend's where he played the Jpopsuki stream. Can't remember whether BoA was played at that time, but that video sure reminds me of the feel of a lot of stuff that was shown. (Come to think of it I haven't seen that guy for two-three years, I'll have to check up with him whenever he's back in town.)
>>14175384
Golden Boy's awesome, though I watched that pretty late in my career (4 years ago I think.)
>>14176067
With most of those shows the main thing was that they were anime. Love Hina and Chobits, for instance, a dreadful bore. They are the predecessors of current harem-service-moe -shit.
>>14176074
My god, I played this video all the time in secondary school. Come to think of, I still haven't read through Heaven's Feel; they'd just translated UBW and then I sort of lost interest in translated work (I do own a limited edition copy of F/SN which I bought back then as well).
>>14176547
I listened to this song from time to time, but never watched the show. Have to check it out sometime.
>>14178935
X Japan was the first serious band for me. Before them I mostly listened to random anime and radio tunes. I remember crying while listening to Endless Rain and reading of hide's fate. And also the surprise and excitement when I notice that YouTube had introduced HD streaming and watched a Silent Jealousy live performance in HD for the first time.
>>14178941
I'm still sort of glad I dropped out of the Naruto bandwagon around the time Sasuke left the original gang for good (the last fight I remember reading was with that cool bone guy), and with Bleach I dropped pretty soon (like 5-or-so episodes of the anime, manga a bit further). I'll have to check those shows one day. Naruto is also the first thing outside of my own life during which I cried (when Haku died in the manga.)
>>14179164
The AMVs man, the AMVs... I used to watch them all the itme. Stuff like Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5lcu6ekfi4), Engel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OeHrNdK43E) and Insomnia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zSMKep1o0), among many others. They were my first touch with many different kinds of musics,
>>14179220
Outlaw Star was very dear to me back in 5th or 6th grade, but I remember being very embarrassed with Aisha's bust, and I couldn't even watch the damn pool episode due to boobs (our one computer was in the living room). Even after I got a comp of my own to my room I remember being very fidgety about watching 'serious' stuff like Ao no Rokugo with its syringes and mermaid boobs in the first episode.
>>14179352
I don't follow the discussion as much as I used to, but Azumanga is still the stable in slice-of-life comedy. If it's no longer mentioned at all t is most likely due to people believing that everyone has seen it than not knowing about it. Though I guess that's possible as well, better keep reminding comedy fans of AD and Exile Saga etc. just in case.
Tsukihime is also getting a re-release (the new designs were released what, a year ago?), so obviously people are still into it. Not even taking Nasuverse as a whole into account, which itself has already shown itself to be very popular among weebs.
>>14180730
I actually ended up buying the MAKE-UP memorial box, and we did play a Saint-Seiya game on PS2 with my brother a lot.
>>14181154
>Outlaw Star
Did you catch Angle Links?
It was a spin off set in the same universe
>>14181229
Never saw that one, thanks for the tip! Here's an AMV-blast from the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcCCb3MgpKw
>>14181089
>I never listened too much to Kotoko
Like some anons already suggested, she's highly infectious. Holy shit, I was such a huge, incurable weeb at that time. I just sat in my room all day, drawing on my Wacom tablet and listening to her and other I've sluts all day. No friends, never went outside. To be perfectly honest, now when I think about it... I was actually happier back then rather than in my current 'adult life'.
>birthday party at my friend's where he played the Jpopsuki stream.
Ah Jpopsuki. I was a regular there before for some reason they kicked out a lot of members and you couldn't use your old log-in anymore. Good place. But LEL your friend must be pretty bold to show his weeb-level like that in public. (if he's not Asian I guess)
>X Japan was the first serious band for me.
Their old stuff was pretty damn awesome. I actually think no band, Wester or Eastern, has ever managed to merge classic orchestra with rock this good + Yoshiki is an insane drummer and composer.
>>14181295
I could definitely see the appeal of Kotoko, but I just never got around to her stuff with all the random VK and metal shit I was listening to at the time. I'll eventually check an album or two of hers in the future.
My friend was definitely among the boldest guys from our group (first to get laid etc.), but it was a small town with few people so most guys were either pro-anime or neutral, nobody was really anti-anime. We were sort of outcasts, but not outcasts at the same time. It was a bit weird to be honest. I don't remember what happened at Jpopsuki, I just managed to be there at the right time to renew my account for the 2.0. I have an invite if you want one.
X Japan is hella awesome. I like their entire oeuvre even though I don't listen to it as much as I used to, and I'm going to see them in London next year. I was a bit too young when they first got back together, but man, one of those shows would have been awesome. And this guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5vN-hfwl0qf2cJhDmozew) really inspired me with my bass playing through his vids. Damn, now I also remember watching Young Guitar vids on YouTube all the way till dawn...
>>14181295
>No friends, never went outside. To be perfectly honest, now when I think about it... I was actually happier back then rather than in my current 'adult life'.
This is what gets me the most. Those halcyon days when I first got that high speed internet connection in my house in 2005. Watching things like Evangelion and Lain for the first time, being forced to make the switch to headphones when my sister and I switched rooms; that was when I started to get really into music. Buck Tick, X-Japan, L'Arc~en~Ciel, I thought it would never end. It didn't end, I've just been super depressed for the past couple years. Even anime, reading and games are hard to do and those are things I enjoy. I do hold out for a day when I can finally get myself together, because I've got loads of catching up to do.
>>14181392
And speaking of X I just remembered this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmarB5nH4_U
which was my absolute favorite around 08-09.
>>14181426
Man, B-T and Laruku are other big favorites of mine. Particularly Laruku hit me hard once I got a decent 2.1 system. Sorry to hear about your depression, I have no advice in that regard. Take a nice Laruku gig from the 90s instead (my favorite song of theirs btw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dVxGbqIg3k
It saddens me that I was supposed to see them in London back in 2012 but I ended up not going due to superficial financial reasons (I could have just gotten a small loan).
>>14181445
Thanks for your kind regards, anon. This thread introduced me to I've Sound, so that's lifted my spirits a bit.
>>14181552
If you like that, you may also try a few of Ayumi Hamasaki's remixed songs. It's also has a trance flavour with a similar vibe, just not as cute voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthMCiuIQvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3faMIOgl0
>>14181426
>>14181445
It's crazy L'arc is still around and surprisingly bigger than ever. I sometimes feel they only want to do their solar stuff and just do a world tour every few years to make money and soothe the fans.
Also WTF Hyde is either a genetic freak or he has seen the surgery room more often than the toilet. Not a single wrinkle or anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbS5Bqp9Tw
>>14181977
He'll be the next Joan Rivers.
>>14181954
This was nice as well. Thanks again.
>>14181954
Second song is reminding me of Thousand Arms(the original was used for the game OP).
I can't believe I played that entire game with its shitty battle system and huge eyes that bordered on being creepy and my still inability to watch the girls kiss the screen, but fuck the story and characters were entertaining.
>>14180815
>These days I hate this net 3.0 garbage
I agree even if I haven't lived in first person the old web.
I've been playing for years an old 2004 online game called O2Jam, now closed, and I browsed all the old forums and sites to 'study' the history of that game. I could see how much better everything was back then, making me sad of nowadays.
I wonder if this thread would like this song I made many years ago...
http://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2587500
>>14183566
>http://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2587500
can't access without account :(
>>14183820
Who doesn't have a nicovideo account?
>>14177741
I still cry at night when I realize TOTSE is dead.
>2007
>Find Kumikyoku on youtube
>Holy shit this is awesome
>Spread it to a select group of internet circles
>Enjoy this secret club feeling for a month or two before it gets really popular in English web
>Parodies like the Yaranaika version start popping up
Same thing sorta happened with seven colors of nico nico douga, but it got popular on youtube much faster. God I miss those days.
Were there ever anymore medleys like that? I basically fell out of niconico culture after 2010.
>>14184255
God I remember sticking that on an old Zen Stone mp3 player when I first heard it.
Listened to it over and over on a coach trip to Bristol.
Those were the days. I wish I was still neet.
Huh, Isaji's original has been copyrighted from nico. By Studio Ghibli no less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6nqFsf33I
>>14177741
This, this so much.
The days when someone would make a website instead of use facebook.
The days when FTP was known by all to be better than sadpanda.
The days when people used email and IRC instead of Skype.
Plebeians kill technology.
>>14184362
>The days when FTP was known by all to be better than sadpanda.
Maybe if you set up a large network of FTPs around the world that continually synchronized stuff between them to make sure new uploads circulated quickly and data wouldn't be lost if a server imploded, then it might be the technically superior option.
But that's not what it actually looked like. Everybody had their own server, mirroring was manual (or nonexistent), and when servers went down all the files died.
That feel when Tamura Yukari and Horie Yui are almost 40.
I only started using 4chan in late 2010 but since I delved so much into archives and history, I feel nostalgia even for things before my time.
I wish more people had respect for the fact that everything has a history and a culture.Even things like system administration and operating system studies have a culture, often but not always stemming from Bell Labs.
>y u surpris box ur text
>whu u quot
>>14184457
I'm right there with you
I've done pretty much the same thing, however, I started in 2012
I really wish I could have been there
I remember before Touhou got popular, I found it out because I was scouring the web for more STG to play. Couldn't find anyone to talk to about it. Even 4chan was still newish at that time(This was before IN came out.) I think only that project shrine maiden forum was around although that might have been later.
Back in that day, I was only able to find demos of EoSD and PCB and I played them over and over until I could do them on lunatic. EoSD had some weird thing going on where I couldn't see the middle of the screen, except my character, so I got real good at that game.
When it finally started picking up in western popularity, I was happy to be able to have such privileges as being able to obtain and talk about the games. This eventually started going wrong as all kinds of cancerous stuff started popping up, from iosys to "touhou hijack".
I also got a new PC eventually, and realized my old one had been running the games at half speed.
Nowadays, I want to just report half the Touhou threads I see and sort of hope Heero Yuy makes a NSFW /jp2/ - 2hu/Random board for them to go and shitpost about fat feet giant mommies all day.
I miss the wonder at the pretty patterns and hearing the nice music for the first times. I also miss the English loading screens. They felt so quaint and nice. The newer games are too hectic. Also ZUN hasn't learned how to make a non-boring stage in all this time, so I keep hoping he'll make more StB and Phantasmagoria type games.
>>14184377
Mirroring should always be manual.
If your server admin is a good person, he can choose the large percentage of what he wants to mirror, and leave some space on his server for his own personal hobbies he wants people to see.
It's kinda like RAID or Freenet, but with the generosity of individual humans working together as a community against capitalism.
Servers do go down, that's why you need to convince every person to buy a server, no matter how small or slow.
The number of people hosting servers as a percentage of people using the servers needs to be high.
>>14184486
>The number of people hosting servers as a percentage of people using the servers needs to be high.
You can say that, but it doesn't make it true, and it isn't going to be true. In the world we live in today we can't even stop old torrents from dying for lack of a single person in the world who wanted to seed it. And the amount of setup work necessary to keep that going is basically zero.
>>14184457
I first came here around the end of 2008, I feel nostalgia for the way things were at certain points over the years in content.
But overall I feel nostalgia for the websites were, everything worked so much better. Even as far back as 2010 websites weren't as overly flashy, garbage loaded, slow moving trash. It seems almost everything has went downhill design wise. Little has been made more efficient, they just made it worse and gave it a more modern appearance.The internet today absolutely sucks with the only good thing being how much more content is available if you know where to look.
>>14184362
I miss those days too, facebook may be a simple way of hosting a business page with pictures and info but it looks so sterile and boring. No personality to anything anymore.
>>14184478
>realized my old one had been running the games at half speed.
Jeez, that must have been a huge bummer
>>14184507
Some people still host their own websites, you know. It used to be a thing.
And even if you couldn't host your own website, sometimes an online friend with extra bandwidth and space would donate a subsection of his website to you.
Nonworking example:
http://www.friendsdogwebsite.net/yourwebsitesubsection/cats
It only needs to become popular again. But it won't become popular until Facebook, Google, etc get DDOSed or bombed.
>>14184529
>Some people still host their own websites, you know.
I have a website. It has its own wiki and imageboard. Nobody visits except me.
>But it won't become popular until Facebook, Google, etc get DDOSed or bombed.
Might as well wish for a communist revolution or the second coming of Christ.
>>14184415
I was already concerned about Haruko Momoi, Tanaka Rie, and Mizuki Nana's ages, but damn. Everyone I like is ollllld. Even I am old. (but still younger than every one I like.)
Hayashibara Megumi is a granny. A GRANNY.
>>14184537
>Nobody visits
Link it, I'll visit.
>wish for a communist revolution
I do, as I believe anarchism and communism are one and the same.
>>14184510
In the sense that I got wrecked hard until I got better, yeah. But like I said, I played the games over and over until I could do lunatic mode because I liked them so much, so double speed normal wasn't THAT bad, but I noticed something was a bit different when I started playing again.
>>14184551
>Link it, I'll visit.
I have linked it in /jp/ before, but only when it was relevant to the discussion (which has happened before, but very rarely). I'm not interested in pity visits.
You'd better wish hard.
>>14184559
>thinking I'd visit from pity instead of curiosity
You should have higher expectations for your fellow man.
If people don't meet your expectations, it will make you a stronger person.
>>14184559
I want to see it tooo
>>14184554
That sounds kinda weird. Clarification: Normal seemed a bit off but I got wrecked beyond that (and realized what was going on,) until I got better, but it's not like I can 1cc above normal now or anything. (or even normal on most of the games because I barely play them anymore since around SA's time.)
>>14184565
>>14184567
I made a boatsluts website; it's embarassingly shitty and hasn't been updated in a year and a half. If you can find it in the archive, happy hunting.
>>14184377
>Maybe if you set up a large network of FTPs around the world that continually synchronized stuff between them to make sure new uploads circulated quickly and data wouldn't be lost if a server imploded
Like torrents? Provided they stay seeded. Why do people even use E-hentai anymore when you can just download and archive? Also E-hentai is old as shit, now that I think of if and is nostalgia worthy along with EZmanga. Does the normal old E-hentai site even still exist?
>>14184362
>The days when people used email and IRC instead of Skype.
People still use e-mail, IRC, and Skype. Be nostalgic over AIM or ICQ or MSN or something.
>>14184580
>Provided they stay seeded.
They don't. Half the point of the retarded, gamified system that e*hentai manages is that it incentivizes people to keep hosting shit that they (and 99% of people) don't care about.
>>14184591
People laugh at me when I mention the idea of using email or IRC, rather than Skype.
Don't lie. Go on a university campus, ask people if they use IRC. You won't find a single person.
>>14184509
>Even as far back as 2010 websites weren't as overly flashy, garbage loaded, slow moving trash.
Sites have been awful since Javascript was invented. It's just gone from shitty floaty things to shitty entirely flash based pages, to whatever crap they use today.
>>14184580
>start thinking about hentai nostalgia
>check some old sites out of curiosity
Well I'll be, it's still up
>>14184082
go to bed hiroyuki
>>14184595
I won't find a single person who uses Skype either. They use like kik and facebook based messengers and whatever phone based shit. Even a few years back when I was in college, people didn't use Skype, though I did use e-mail a lot to talk to people. Skype seems to be weird on phones and I can't imagine them using not-the-latest hot shit to hit the normiephone to message each other anyway.
On the internet, things like subber groups and other nerds use irc though. Some people use Skype, but I actually can't say much because it seems to be becoming less popular. I should have just said people still use e-mail and irc, BUT they don't use it on their phones, because as far as I know, it's a hassle/they can't. You just need to stick with people who still use PCs.
>>14184661
Not really. For a lot of the university clubs I've tried joining, having both Facebook and Skype was nearly mandatory.
I absolutely agree, people who use phones are incredibly degenerate.
I also agree that online, IRC and email still exist.
![az-hot075[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/een3vnO.jpg "az-hot075[1].jpg")
I found stuff from the last century on my hard drive, there's even Xing player! Here's a picture from 2001, I remember fapping to it.
>>14184699
I was looking for ancient images to post but then I saw this and now I miss this visualizer.
http://www.hirahira.net/products/ringo/
They also made that old Osaka Sim. I wonder whatever happened to them.
Also classic engrish
>>14184635
Goddamn the internet used to be so good. I'm sad I was too young to appreciate it until the mid 2000's.
![dir_en_grey_by_rinsohma[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aFWO3c5.jpg "dir_en_grey_by_rinsohma[1].jpg")
There was a wonderful j-pop j-rock webradio station called sick onion that I loved very much. I really regret never downloading any of the music it played or even writing down artists and song titles. I've tried to find a tracklist but the more time passes, the less I can seem to find. I can barely even find reference to it anymore.
Listening to old dir en grey and miyavi makes me happy sometimes. I don't much like their new stuff, though.
I was a huge weeb 2006-2008
But around 2010 I calmed down but was still into Jap shit, just not as much of a faggot about it. I watched a lot of good anime both old and new and I think it was probably my golden age in terms of anime and manga. Looking back I guess I was kind of pretentious but who cares, Tatami Galaxy and Trapeze were masterpieces
After Yuru Yuri things started going downhill for me for several reasons and I haven't had as much fun as I did back then.
![rei_ayanami_winamp_skin_by_rum_and_ginger[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0bOBngh.jpg "rei_ayanami_winamp_skin_by_rum_and_ginger[1].jpg")
How many of you weeblords had some grotesque winamp skin with your favorite anna mays on it?
I still listen to Okui Masami songs from 20 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3A7IFr4rQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22O9KfjRIEs
I always liked her more than Mizuki Nana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmWScW_SXls
>>14177558
>I think the biggest thing that gets to me is the disconnect between myself and the younger people when it comes to what's fun.
This
It's hard to meet a Japanese person my age online who isn't obsessed with League of Legends. I just want a classic otaku Japanese friend ;_;
>>14185234
>Japanese Person
Why? 日本語しゃべれるの？
>>14185241
普通にしゃべれるよ
I'm listening to a Japanese woman who is over 10 years older than me snore on Skype right now. I love me some 熟女 pussy.
>>14185248
確かに最近は昔よりPC用ゲームが普及してるけど、家庭用機や携帯の方がまだ主流なんじゃないの？
ただ、classic otaku Japanese friendと言う言い方から察するにげんしけんみたいな感じが言いのかな？俺もそういう奴らがいたら友達になりたいと昔は思ってたけどもはや絶滅危惧種だろうね。アキバやコミケに行っても古参を除いてかなり柄が変わっちゃったしね。まぁ、アメリカに住んでる俺なんかはそもそもそんな奴らと出会う可能性なんか皆無に等しいってとうの昔に諦めたけど。
tl;dr - I get you, bro.
You guys seem cool. This thread seems to bring out a lot of good shit.
>>14184529
>It only needs to become popular again. But it won't become popular until Facebook, Google, etc get DDOSed or bombed.
Remember MySpace? (the old one) It was actually a pretty nice social network and dimensions better than FB. You could basically design your profile to look whichever way you like. The only thing it lacked was a chat function. What I liked was that there was no constant updates for anyone, so it actually encouraged to check up on people you're interested manually and didn't give this depressing feeling of constantly seeing how wonderful everyone else's life is and how shitty you are. I personally believe that with the emergence and monopolisation of FB, MySpace was bought and intentionally run into the ground.
>>14184415
>That feel when Tamura Yukari and Horie Yui are almost 40.
>>14184544
>Hayashibara Megumi is a granny. A GRANNY.
God no... it's so depressing to see these people age. Though Horie Yui hasn't changed all that much. But at the same time I believe it won't change much. They are not loved for their looks, but for their work and continued effort to give everything for their fans in an industry for which they're probably smirked at by most people from their age range.
Just take KOTOKO. She started as a young woman and now reaches mom/granny status. Granted she was never a beauty even back then, but she's still does gigs around the world and sings Chinese cartoon songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Q26vvRN48
>>14185190
Dude if you like that you might love this kind of shit too. All female band from the 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJm-GELWX_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOky2SyiNic
Funny story: I was a huge metal nerd a decade ago, played guitar in a shit band beside my weebdom. I was afraid hearing this in the car would reveal my power level to the outside world with rolled down window until I realised the average normie has no clue what Japanese sounds like, so they just thought it was some random filthy foreigner music that I was native to.
>>14185383
Did I ever tell you about the 1980's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5HYr_e0C1g
>>14184255
There's a ton more, but I think the original artist only made like 10 medleys.
This may help youhttp://kumikyoku.rintaun.net/wiki/Main_Page
>>14183566
That was a pretty cute medley. I never heard it before but it sure felt really nostalgic, good job.
So, is it okay to bash modern anime now or am I still gonna get told I have nostalgia goggles? Last time I tried that back when Komeiji and his faggot ass crew were around on /a/ I was flamed. So, I'm guessing with a nostalgia thread and now that the generation that got into anime around the digital fansub boom is tired of it. We can finally acknowledge that Japanese popculture has been shit since the mid millennium.
>>14186101
You'll get no argument from me.
>>14178935
Mines ended in 2009. I'm still recovering.
I was hardcore weeb from about 1998 to 2009. I was crazy back then, even wanted to go to Japan and develop vdeo games. Then I dunno, everything went to shit. But, I couldn't let go. I spent years as a shut in. [I finally went back to college at 28.] I spent 6 years nit working and just staying inside because I couldn't move on with my life. Even now, I'm still having trouble. I took a Japanese language course as a language requirement in uni. Thank God the intermediate course was cancelled because lack of interest, because I signed up for it. I'm still trying to pick up the pieces of my life post weeb. Hard as shit. I'm almost 30 and I socialize like a 19 year old.
>>14186145
>>14178935
Well, this is concerning. It's ok if it's just a hobby that you don't even like to make public, right? It's okay if you're studying for/have a real job, right?
Your posts worry me. I don't want to become a burnout.
>born too late to be old enough get in on the interweb business bubble or invest in apple/google/amazon
>born too early to be young and hip enough to develop/exploit social media and streaming services
>>14186187
>It's okay if you're studying for/have a real job, right?
I'm not ashamed of my hobbies, I completed college, expanded on learning Japanese from courses I took early on as part of language requirements, don't give a fuck about Japan itself, and I have still been a worthless, jobless shut in for 3 years.
4chan is the cancer that ruins your life and destroys productivity. They should rename this fucking site cottoneyejoe.org.
I miss finding extreme enjoyment out of every single little thing I consumed. It sucks going into everything nowadays and only thinking about how I can pick it apart and find shit complain about. Is it because of depression, or just a part of growing up? Oh well, who cares.
>>14186187
I don't even like anime anymore, but I still diligently study Japanese out of habit. Becoming a weeb was the biggest mistake I've made in my life. Literally set myself back half a decade. The worst thing is you won't recognize it when you're just outta highschool. No. you'll only realize it when you're almost 30, have no job and live off your parents.
>>14186187
Same, I'm several years in and still going strong, my greatest fear is I'll burnout one day and be left with very few things to entertain me since most of my free time is taken up doing j-subculture stuff. I have never really understood growing out of your hobbies so I think I might be safe, but these past few posts are frightening to me. I don't really care about Japan, but I love the stuff that it produces so I think not being a complete weeb is part of the safeguard from burnout.
>>14186232
4chan really is a double edge sword for me personally. I like talking to people about new stuff and to share experiences with, but at the same time I have become very lazy because of it with my only saving grace being able to put forth the minimal amount of effort to get by in life so it's not all bad, I just wish /jp/ hadn't become so dead.
>>14186247
Let these idiots find out the hard way. There are still people on here who believe the Japanese stem major gaijin who watches anime and post on /jp/ inbetween fucking his hot japanese wife.
>>14186284
What do you even do for a living?
That last part is obviously a lie though, we all know that sex stops at marriage for the Japanese.
>>14186284
Why is /jp/ filled with autistic liars. Who believes this shit?
>>14186295
Landscaping.
>>14186304
Why is /jp/ full of obnoxious faggots who will bring their crusade even to threads that haven't mentioned what they're talking about in any way?
>>14186284
>>14186316
I wish Alice was my lovely wife.
>>14186240
It's because everything is actually shit. At least for me. Whenever I go consume something that happened in the past and is in my interests, I enjoy it, but newer shit still fills me full of blah.
>>14186252
There is only slow /jp/ and shitpost filled /jp/.
(and every page deleted /jp/ whenever we had decent janitors)
>>14186316
Alice isn't Japanese.
>>14186101
People who bash modern anime for being modern will always be rightfully ridiculed, and you have the additional problem of being a refugee from neo-/a/ crying on /jp/ after losing a flame there. I, for one, will show you no sympathy whatsoever. Take them goggles off.
>>14186240
It may or may not be depression. Please get yourself checked out as soon as you can.
Trying to convert being an adolescent weaboo into a respectable career. If you guess what, I'll be surprised because it's out of the ordinary
>>14184478
I had a weeb STG fan friend who showed me PCB and IN maybe a year after they came out, made me play PoFV, even linked me to Pooshlmer and the wiki every once in a while.
Then suddenly it was all over 4chan and I was like, damn, I know all this shit (well not all actually, for a long time I didn't know who Suika is because nobody told me about the fighters), is it really this huge?
If only I listened to him. I could have been one of the pioneers, now I'm forever secondary.
>>14186448
"Angry Anime Nerd" is not a respectable career, no matter how much you curse.
>>14186468
Secondary just means someone who hasn't played the games and just indulges in memes.
>>14186576
That wouldn't be a respectable job, now would it
>>14186145
Maybe I'm still in that stage. I went to Japan twice last year and absolutely love it. I'm trying to go back right now.
Are there even any sites left like 4chan was in the "glory days"?. I wonder what it would take to make a website that had the same feel to it
Sometimes I like to remember times when I was younger and all these Japanese stuff was so amazing and magical to me. Now I realise how low quality Japanese media is, how most of people involved in this industry is barely making any money, how they are pandering to the target audience that consists mostly of lonely men or schoolboys and how they bring almost nothing new to the culture.
I'm actually happy that I don't have such a shitty taste anymore though enjoying it time to time.
>>14185074
>After Yuru Yuri
I wonder if you could actually pinpoint the moment where the fandom hit peak moe saturation. I know that I abandoned YuruYuri S2 after one episode even though I watched S1 throughout.
I don't think I've actually really enjoyed an anime since 2011.
>>14186145
>>14186247
>>14178935
I'm not sure whether the problem was with your weeb interests or just you as people that you're currently in such situation
>>14187730
You can still find some pretty good anime if you keep an eye out for it. But yeah, 90% of the industry has moved to the moe artstyle. It's just the way things evolve i guess
>>14187749
I also wonder whether people feel similar resentment towards other nerd interests like video games and all
>>14187730
The general consensus seems to be some time between 2008-2011.
Moe shit really ruined it for a lot of us.
>>14186581
I thought the ``````official''''''''' division was:
- Primary: Plays the games and/or reads the official media (manga, books, music CDs)
- Secondary: Only consumes fan-produced derivatives of canon material (dojinshi, h art, walfas)
- Tertiary: Meme indulgence
>>14187771
I only watch moe anime these days. Even so, I didn't really appreciate the first episode of Yuruyuri S3 - no creativity, only recycled jokes. Hope that GochuuUsa won't disappoint, or else this season is already over.
>>14178935
>2008 is when I got really disillusioned with all this Japanese stuff.
Sound like me.
I was way into the hobby from early 00s to 2007. That was when the nico boom happened, watching niconico medley everyday, got into 2hu with PCB, played my first VN like tsukihime, planetarian, clannaids, Ever17, utawarerumono and then spamming UBW with message avatar.
I think 2008-10 was when I got burnt out and went full normal and gradually stop doing anything /jp/ related. I barely watch anime anymore and there wasn't any new interesting stuff @ nico anymore. I think nico never recovered after the initial boom, the creativity just died out.
Where are the new Iosys flash?
Where are all the current gen meme video like tsurupettan, mou ikkai, buri hamachi and fukkireta?
Sharing my 2absolute medley.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6753349
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7351754
I only got back into the hobby around 2011.
>>14187797
I'm not liking the OP/ED of YuruYuri S3, but I thought the show itself was ok. The cooking class part was fun
>>14187771
>>14185074
Ironically it was the opposite for me.
I am >>14187800 and I only got back into anime thanks to Yuru Yuri and stuff like GuP. I think I got too old for action chuuni anime or try hard intellectual anime. Slice of life is all I read or watch now.
>>14187797
>>14187815
>moe anime
I don't know man, I just can't get into it.
I can appreciate cute girls doing cute things but at some point it just gets I don't know just uninteresting, especially if they use the same stale things over and over.
>>14184095
did you ever go to zoklet? it was the spinoff forum from totse.
last time i went there was what, probably 5 years ago+ people started posting illegal shit so who knows if its still there (no energy to go)
id be a little hesitant in checking it out either way
Do you guys have any actual good 4chan memories?
I remember when I posted how I embarrassed myself in a job interview and found out when I got back to my laptop that the thread blew up over the course of an afternoon with anons making edits of my story.
I really regret not saving the thread to disk because this was back during the era of god-awful third-party archivers that would sometimes crap out for hours. I've looked for the thread and have never been able to find it. Reading the replies made me real giddy and warm and fuzzy because I was feeling pretty down at that point.
For the record, the crux of my story was where I noticed that my interviewer had some Gundam figs on her desk; I tried to suck up by complementing her as I finished up the interviewwhere she informed me that they were, in fact, Transformersof course, I didn't get the job
It's depressing to know that in this year of our lord 2015 such a thread would be frogposted to death
>>14184509
god yea.. every site i make is still basic HTML/CSS with a frame and thats about it. back in about 2012 on probably when things started turning into flashyweb 2.0 with the 'super clean' grey white with a bright pop of color webdesign and flash everywhere sort of look it really just took the aesthetic of the old web away.
when geocities died it was a big blow to that too and now the weird old geocities style website with a badly tiled background and somewhat random content is an 'aesthetic' for tumblr kids who like vaporwave and posting pictures of plastic bags.
i still love that old aesthetic but from the POV of someone having been there.
theres no age limit to loving internet history, but so much of it has become a fad that its almost sad to think about. this thread is definitely making me feel things.
>>14187829
I really shouldn't be surprised, but I always kind of marvel at the fact that the author of KnJ actually finished the series withDaisuke fucking Rin. I know it was a partial cop-out with the timeskip and all, but still, the final chapter was basically a hardcore loli H manga at that point (not that I'm complaining)
>>14187586
Specify what you mean. You mean a site for weebs that post image macros and say zomg and rofl only semi-ironically?
>>14187876
I guess it's hard to say sincei wasn't around back then, but it seems like people fawn over those times a lot, and act as if it had a certain specific culture to it. Surely there are still forums out there that are very similar to what 4chan was like back then. Or maybe its true that 4chan was always shit
>>14187791
How is meme indulgence different from indulging in fan produced derivatives? Those are the main proliferators of memes.
>>14187800
>Where are all the current gen meme video like tsurupettan, mou ikkai, buri hamachi and fukkireta?
What do you think all those gayporn meme videos are?
>>14187797
>>14187810
It's the next season already?
>>14187852
lol fag
>>14187896
Old 4chan is literally everything people on modern 4chan hate. It's only real benefit is that
A: There were no worksafe boards
B: Loli wasn't as much of a grey area(although it still prevented the site making money)
C: It wasn't full of non-nerds who can only contribute porn and whining about their lives instead of making interesting cultural comments.
I honestly miss comics. I mean people probably still make them, but /v/ and /b/ were the main producers and they are just crapholes nowadays.(/b/ is probably better off since they're too busy making dick threads to raid sites and act stupid offline anymore.)
I don't know if there's anything like old 4chan, but here's some random thread. Make sure the html and the folder with the thread thumbs are in the same directory. http://a.uguu.se/pudews_thread.7z
>>14175105
Thank you! She seems awesome for learning Japanese.
>>14187970
Oh, that image wasn't supposed to be there but whatever.
I wonder if this tripfag and investment banker and pedo ever killed themselves.
>>14186145
>>14186247
>>14178935
You are all autistic retards seeking something external to blame for your really shitty lives.
There is literally no relationship between a hobby centered around japan and what you do with your life, your job, your studies, nothing.
>Becoming a weeb was the biggest mistake I've made in my life. Literally set myself back half a decade.
Being you was the biggest mistake of your life. It's got nothing to do with hobbies.
>>14187970
>that thread
I used to have a crush on dakota fanning.
Seems that if there's one thing that hasn't changed about 4chan, it's the obsession with young girls.
Thanks for that though anon
I hate how fucking cynical 4chan is lately. At least back in the old days I could act like a complete retard and have fun with other idiots spouting stupid shit like "POOLS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS AND FAIL" and all the other shit that's considered "cancer" these days.
4chan got way too fucking big, and it has not handled the popularity well at all.
People don't even use 'orz' or ':3' anymore.
>>14188003
Weren't they the same person? That guy seemed like a good troll, at least one that actually put some effort into his writing
>>14188090
god damn, we sound like a bunch of grumpy old men.
>>14188090
you could go be a retard on /s4s/ as much as you want
>>14188046
Keep telling yourself that. I bet you're one of those retards who believes half the shit /jp/ spouts. Good look with your STEM field.
>>14188108
Possibly, I don't know nor have any way of knowing.
>>14188150
Everything is ruined nowadays. But it is the fate of everything to grow old and decay. This is even why threads get purged after time. (Generals are like liches spitting in the face of death, while eternally rotting)
>>14188090
It's just a result of "memes" becoming popular. They aren't cool anymore because some site will monetize it and you'll sound like you're part of the "us internet users, huh?" bunch. Somehow it's become this rampant elitism and trying to disassociate yourself from whatever enemy site of the year. Even here, you've got the people posting "Ohnoes!! crossboarders!1!11" to everything they don't like. It's sad you can't use pics like this any more, even if there was a reason to.
> I could act like a complete retard and have fun with other idiots spouting stupid shit like "POOLS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS AND FAIL"
Raids were always cancer, the very cancer that drove people to the site and killed it(even though they did sometimes produce funny things like "muddy dicks"), but that kind of idiocy was sort of harmless compared to how people are being aggressively intentionally idiotic lately.
>>14188160
This is true, but /s4s/ is so creatively dead. Also a board founded on dubs posting is kind of a bad first impression.
>>14188286
Now that I think about it, this insularity is also why this site isn't as creative and free anymore. It was just a place where shit from the internet drifted in. Stuff from Something Awful, stuff from 2ch and futaba, stuff from Newgrounds, stuff from YTMND, stuff from other random forums, stuff from the internet culture in general. Nowadays everyone's afraid to be associated with some other site, or only browse facebook and reddit besides 4chan, or don't even watch anime and play video games anymore and so are out of touch with online culture. People are getting stuck here and unable to go anywhere else to harvest fresh content.
>>14187815
I'm >>14185074
I tended to also watch a lot of really comfy SoL stuff like Aria and sketchbook full colors. It was cute but it was also very slow, maybe even contemplative I guess? You would sit back and just look at the world. There hasn't been much SoL like that lately aside from I think NNB at times. A lot of SoL shows are much more fast paced and focused on comedy as well as whacky antics that you of course did see in the old ones but not as much. I think the decline of shows like Tatami Galaxy as well as YKK (the manga), full colors started sometime after 2011 but I don't think Yuru Yuri was to blame or really any show in particular.
However, I think Hidamari kind of sold out the SoL genre by becoming more and more moeblob-ish.
>>14188316
SOL went to shit when garbage like K-on and Hidamari sketch destroyed it. Stuff like Aria is where it was great.
>>14188286
>/s4s/ is so creatively dead.
Does this imply that there was a golden age of /s4s/?
>Also a board founded on dubs posting is kind of a bad first impression.
I disagree, for a while the board was a brilliantly subtle metaparody on the board culture.
What was your favorite /jp/ moderation?
Permissive, pre /q/ and /vg/ style before all sorts of topics got cast off and only really cared about spamming.
Lazy moderation that showed up once a day and deleted 7 pages of shit, and everything else that was posted in the next half hour.
Heavy post /q/ moderation, with occasional bouts of insanity, but allows any thread with a Touhou character in the OP
Near 0 moderation we have now.
>>14188316
>decline of shows like Tatami Galaxy
Thank God
>>14188388
fuck you buddy
>>14188341
Pretending there was a golden age of /s4s/ is /s4s/'s past time.
You're even suggesting there was.
And no, I don't think there was a golden time, I think it was just stillborn.
I don't find myself sympathizing with old anime fans. Anime has always been a medium of bastarding other works with subpar animation. Learn Japanese and a brand new world of manga (I realize quite a bit of manga is translated but most translations are quite terrible), VNs, LNs, and novels will open up to you.
If you're 100% fluent and literate in Japanese and still feel this way I'm not sure what to tell you.
I'm >>14180815 and I'm surprised how little I actually missed 4chan when I banned myself from here for two days. For once I was able to form my own opinions and didn't need to run to the big Jay for instant validation.
I guess there really is nothing new here left for me to enjoy, huh?
>>14188327
>>14188316
I used to remember a time when Hidamari had lese majeste and anons who insulted it went to the guillotine. I'm not disagreeing, I haven't even bothered to watch the graduation arc or read the latest chapters. The series should have been ended or at least spun-off. A new series with Nazuna and Nori could have taken a different direction away from moeshit.Since the thread is already going to cap soon, I want to sincerely ask: am I the only guy who didn't find Madoka interesting? I remember watching half an episode and thinking "what overdramatic, predictable tripe"
So anyway, what is the reigning genre now?
>>14188402
>bastarding
sorry, I meant bastardizing.
>>14188402
Alot of these guys aren't old fans, though. Just guys from the bubble era where there was alot of money and alot of stuff was being made. The money stopped and people moved on and yes, you're right. There is alot more better stuff. I mostly mess with Doujin games, specifically horror ones. Hell, the biggest otaku works aren't even anime anymore.
>>14178927
This is Yuko Ogura.
>>14188410
>So anyway, what is the reigning genre now?
I dunno, the LN and SOL period is over, that's for sure. I don't really follow, but there doesn't really seem to be any type of show that is dominating.
>>14188418
How is this LN period over?
