kids today have it too easy.
Rest in peace dbz player
Never forget the experience of downloading DBZ episodes on Kazaa, and waiting for episode 37 or whatever which got stuck at 80% and hasn’t moved a blip for almost a year and you can’t find any alternatives.
Lol i was buying bootleg DVDs at cons in 2003/2004 when it was hella uncool to do so.
Watching the local con go from 5k to 40k has been wild tbh
Thankfully I was raised torrenting, still do tbh
I used to torrent, I still do but I used to too.
I used to do drugs
I remember when it was still called Japanimation and you had to watch cable TV really late at night to see it.
I remember the days of Toonami.
All those episodes of Dragonball with Goku monologuing while powering up… Gone, like tears in the rain“I GOT TO… DO SOMETHING…”
Krillin does fucking nothing
“WE GOTTA HOPE GOKU GETS HERE SOON”Cut to goku running on that Dragon Bridge for the 12th episode in a row
Krillin dies again
Krillin: “I gotta do something”
Krillin:Yamcha: I got this, guys
Also Yamcha: oh god oh fuck
I became an expert on setting the timer on the VCR so that it would record multiple shows at different time segments on Adult Swim. Then I would have to watch them the next day because I only had 1 tape that I was recording over every night. It got really scratchy looking after awhile.
the third level is listening to a Japanese exchange student explain the later seasons in non-fluent English
Learning to read Japanese so you can order the manga from a bookshop overseas.
Just wake up at 6am on a Saturday and watch each episode on the TV before your parents get out of bed.
360p? Lol. Back in the day you watched videos the size of postage stamps that were so fucked from the encoding that the subtitles might as well have been wingdings
Retvrn to downloading low quality anime fansubs via LimeWire.
Watching Pokemon episodes 3-7 and 51-54 on repeat because those were the only VHS tapes my Blockbuster had
Showdown in Pewter City was a banger.
Maybe you should learn to use the internet instead going to youtube for watching anime.
Torrent files are too large sometimes
the best time i ever had watching anime was watching vhs recordings of digimon that my dad did, but he somehow didn’t know how to set the timer on the vcr so it was only ever half of an episode.
RealMedia files on KaZaa or LimeWire that were ripped from a bootleg Hong Kong VCD.
Fansubs downloaded from IRC bots, taking all day to get just an episode or two with your slow-ass internet.
Oh the pain of hunting around for Naruto scanlations when it was new and in the early arcs of the first volume. I remember being so hyped when the Chunin Exam dropped, peak Naruto.
Also funny story, one chat room had “orgy” in the title and my grandma found out and I had to explain to her it was for my animes.
I remember downloading episodes of Evangelion on dial-up and the episode where Asuka has to go into the lava was so pixelated all you could see was a red smear.