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kids today have it too easy.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember when it was still called Japanimation and you had to watch cable TV really late at night to see it. meemaw

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I remember the days of Toonami.
All those episodes of Dragonball with Goku monologuing while powering up... Gone, like tears in the rain

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I GOT TO... DO SOMETHING..."

Krillin does fucking nothing

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

miyazaki-laugh
"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

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Krillin: "I gotta do something"
Krillin: family-guy-death-pose

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Yamcha: I got this, guys

Also Yamcha: yamcha oh god oh fuck

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the third level is listening to a Japanese exchange student explain the later seasons in non-fluent English

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Learning to read Japanese so you can order the manga from a bookshop overseas.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

RealMedia files on KaZaa or LimeWire that were ripped from a bootleg Hong Kong VCD.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Retvrn to downloading low quality anime fansubs via LimeWire.

monke-return

[–] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thankfully I was raised torrenting, still do tbh

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used to torrent, I still do but I used to too.

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I used to do drugs

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watching Pokemon episodes 3-7 and 51-54 on repeat because those were the only VHS tapes my Blockbuster had

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Showdown in Pewter City was a banger.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fansubs downloaded from IRC bots, taking all day to get just an episode or two with your slow-ass internet.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

anime on youtube at 360p with each episode split into 3 parts

Honestly I had to do that not even too long ago, like late last year or early this year. I was watching Sakura Taisen and one of the episodes on Aniwave (RIP) was broken, like the audio kept cutting out or something. Lo and behold, I could find an old-ass 480p upload of that episode on YouTube, split into three parts.

...Well, 480p, I guess that doesn't count.

[–] un_mask_me@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

And for some reason the 2nd part had spanish subs

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] princeofsin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe you should learn to use the internet instead going to youtube for watching anime.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Torrent files are too large sometimes

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] REgon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

STOP PUTTING THE FUCKING "SAN" AND "CHAN" SUFFIXES IN THE TRANSLATION AND INSTEAD USE TERMS OF ENDEARMENT THAT ARE ENGLISH IF YOU REALLY FEEL THE NEED THEN PUT IN A NOTE THAT SAYS "I'VE TRANSLATED IT TO FRIEND EVEN THOUGH THE WORD IS CLOSER BUT I DON'T WANNA USE BOSOM-BUDDY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT"

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Guess I was spoiled because I had toonami growing up, even if it was censored pretty badly.

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Free anime watching websites have been around as long as youtubes been

I was on them when I was fuckin 6, back in fuckin 2007

[–] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also had the VHS tapes circulated on a webring with the horrible yellow subtitles that would add excessive swearing

It's how I first watched Serial Experiments Lain and I do not regret a second

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

VHS Dragonball, baby! Also, Ranma 1/2, I think. The age of p2p was a blessing.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm of that age, but man has https://www.wcostream.tv/ spoiled me. Good stuff for it being free.

(I hope that's the right link, I usually have it on my PC in a saved tab lol)

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Just wake up at 6am on a Saturday and watch each episode on the TV before your parents get out of bed.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Thats how i watched Naruto and Naruto Shippuden till the pain saga.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Amateurs. I had one pound dvd man down the pub

[–] NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Rest in peace dbz player