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Beltane70
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You guys are making me feel really old as an anime fan since I actually had to rely on bootleg tapes bought at sci-fi conventions since anime had not yet started to be released domestically. Funny thing is that I know that Alan45 and maybe you, Blood-, are actually older than I am (soon to be 56)!
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Blood-
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Yes, I am older than you Beltane70... I'll be 61 soon. However, I was a late anime bloomer. I had some exposure to anime in the early 2000s (including Legend of the Overfiend!), but my addiction didn't really kick in until early 2009 when I was 43. Arrested development, indeed.
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10364 Location: Virginia |
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@Beltane70
You just started earlier in life. I was already 52 in August 1997 when I watched my first anime. That made it not feasible to join the local high school anime club. I had to turn to the internet for my "fandom". I'll be 81 in a few weeks. The forums back then were dominated by people who had been in the hobby as long as you. I felt like a complete newbie at the time. @Blood- I don't want to give the impression that all that hunting and running around was a burden. It was part of the hobby. In addition to anime I got heavily into manga. Walking in to a comic shop and finding a complete run of the floppy version of Mai the Psychic Girl was a real trip. This was one of Viz's inaugural offerings and had been sitting there almost a decade when I found it. The same place also had all of the Bubble Gum Crisis tapes. |
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Blood-
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@ Alan45 - oh, I get the thrill of the chase/hunt, believe me. There's a remainder/used book store in Toronto I haunt that has a pretty decent anime section and when I find something I want at a decent price, my heart skips a beat. Same if I happen to find a seller online. I have no problem meeting them somewhere to exchange cash for anime. I'm just saying that I'm glad I wasn't active during the "three episodes for $29.99" era.
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Panino Manino
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I'm watching Kirio Fanclub, which revealed to have more potential and stuff going on than I believe I knew.
And Awajima Hyakkei, which may be a bit hard to follow because of the various entangled stories across at least 3 decades, but is sure gorgeous looking. Plenty of good anime this season. |
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Edjwald
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The crazy thing is that I had to make some painful cuts to get my anime schedule down to 24 anime. But even watching 3 anime on a weekday is pushing it now that the weather is getting nice.
As to ye olde days...why I remember when I had to draw my own pictures, photoshop them down to card size, laminate them, and riffle them real fast to make it look like the images were moving...okay, maybe not. 
I didn't seriously get into anime until Netflix was a thing - somewhere around 2013 as near as I can figure - and I also count myself lucky. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10364 Location: Virginia |
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@Blood- Well back then it was mostly OVAs. Those frequently were two episodes per tape. Of course, since they didn't have to accommodate commercials they tended to be at least 30 minutes an episode and were sometimes longer. Oh, and $29.99 was for the subtitled version, dubs ran about $24.99. I think that earlier they may have been even more expensive.
Back in the early 2000s, Animerica Magazine would run articles from people in the Japanese anime industry. I remember reading one where the expert said that most of the acceptable OVAs had already been licensed. He further wondered what was left to license and expressed the opinion that Americans would not have the patience to follow a full season anime. Granted then most TV series lasted 24 to 26 episodes and some ran considerably longer (Ranma 1/2 for example). So much for prophesy. |
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Blood-
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When I got into anime in a big way at the beginning of 2009, the single volume era was just ending, more or less. Distribs like Sentai (which had just emerged from the ashes of ADV at that time) and Funimation were switching to half-season sets and then later releasing an entire collection. Back then I think Crunchy was streaming only about 5 titles per season! It was no longer a pirate site when I discovered it.
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Alan45
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@Blood- Ah! Singles. I hated them. A two cour show was spread out over 6 to 8 DVDs and could take as much as a year to complete. If you were lucky, they offered a box with the first or last volume. The box usually had trinkets inside to make it a "special edition". I have a whole shoebox full of the stuff, key chains, pins, tarot cards, a shot glass. At least the tee shirts came in handy for sleep shirts.
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Blood-
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That's what I'm saying, Alan45 - kids today don't know how good they have it! I also remember how not long after I got into anime, the big debate was whether streaming would kill off physical releases completely. Clearly it hasn't, but it's sure had an impact. I remember years ago there was a flourishing business in people selling and buying anime off sites like craiglist. Now I just see the same listings for years on end.
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Tony K.
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The physical media market in North America is quite spoiled. Single-cour sets for an SRP of $70 USD is a drop in the bucket compared to the single-volume releases from two decades ago. And some younger people still complain it's "kinda' expensive" and then make a fuss for Aniplex for trying to be Geneon 2.0.
When Crunchyroll bought FUNimation, I had hopes they'd supercede FUNi's shitty tech specs and faux-5.1 dubs. But alas, they've kept the same business model of cramming too many episodes per disc (causing lots of compression artifacts), and the English tracks still sound like they were recorded with tin cans. At least Aniplex releases try to spread the episodes across more discs (resulting in higher video bitrates) and use LPCM native audio mixes (way more robust than TrueHD, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with stereo sound) to make them as close to the Japanese releases as possible, while still not being nearly expensive as $60 USD per disc like they do over there. I pretty much only buy physical media releases from any company, except CR, now.[/rant] |
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Blood-
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I'm not sure why I post messages that I know with 100% certainty nobody cares about, but I do... and I'm doing it right now!
Just an update on my progress trying to grapple with the Spring Season given that for 9 days during the roll-out, my anime watching opportunity was very limited. Right now I have 17 titles in my Currently Airing folder and I am fully caught up on 14 of them. I'm only behind on Dr. Stone, Scum of the Brave and Agents of the Four Seasons. Once I'm fully caught up with those shows, I can turn my attention to a folder I call The Fridge which is where I have put Spring shows I just haven't been able to properly deal with yet. There are 12 titles in The Fridge and I actually have seen the premieres for 4 of them. So I'll watch the 8 titles I haven't sampled yet first and slowly figure out which shows I'll be keeping and which I'll ditch. God knows how long that will take given that any show I keep I will have to get caught up with as quickly as possible (thanks to my OCD about such things). Oh and then there are still 5 more titles from Spring to deal with. 2 are shows that haven't gotten a legit release but I'm still curious about, 2 are OceanVeil titles and I don't have an OV sub so I'll need to pirate them to sample and the last title is the 7-episode ONA Dandelion which is on Netflix. That I can watch any time since all 7 episodes are available so rightly or wrongly I don't consider it part of my Currently Airing bunch. Told ya you wouldn't care! |
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smurky turkey
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Yeah, staying up to date is pretty tricky in such a busy season. Lots of juggling plus making painful choices. If you happen to fall a few days behind it is a pain to catch up again, if you even manage to do so. There is also the risk of burning yourself out, at some point you might find yourself going from list to list like a certain other person here on this forum (though I won't mention his name).
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Edjwald
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Oy, if writing posts that nobody cares about was a crime, what legitimate anime fan wouldn't have a few consecutive life sentences piled up?
Anyway, I agree with the general sentiment. I went on a little trip this Saturday (no, not the drug kind though that would explain a lot) and I'm still behind. I legitimately hope we go back to the 1.5 to 2 week break between seasons this summer. That's traditionally when I retry some of the borderline drops or catch up on the shows I fell behind on. |
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Piglet the Grate
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You could try a hospital stay with just a phone (and not even that after being given certain drugs) if you need a break. I got tired of the small screen and outside background noise.
Fortunately we had inter-library loan and could get most stuff within 4 to 6 weeks.
Stay away from narcotics - I have (legally) had way too much this year, including morphine after surgery and fentanyl (used as a sedative before invasive imaging tests). So to get to the point, what in Spring 2026 is worth checking out after I finish the shows I started in January? |
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