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Ouran High School Dropout
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Rane's dub came from an age of uneven quality in script and performance, but by and large it worked quite well. I have a great fondness for this dub from my early fandom, and even today I can still recall many a hysterical line. I have the DVD, and I'll never part with it! It's a shame Discotek hasn't picked it up. As for VHS, I had perhaps 150-200 tapes back in the day, and can still remember the "picture" boxes of many series. I scrapped the tapes as DVDs became available for show after show, and lost what remained when I moved in 2009 and the tapes proved far too heavy and bulky. The only title I still miss is The Adventures of Kotetsu, hysterically bad dub and all! Anyone else out there remember it? Last edited by Ouran High School Dropout on Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:12 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Levonr
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I actually threw most of my anime on VHS in the trash. Although I did sell the rare uncut version of Violence Jack on Ebay for a few hundred, I don't remember the exact price but I wasn't aware and started it low. I'm glad I didn't throw those away.
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Alan45
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Ouran High School Dropout Wrote:
Yes, I still have it in a box in the back of a closet. |
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Violynne
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It's not a typo. Many had only 2 episodes per tape. It didn't help most anime was sold on the cheapest VHS tape companies would buy, which made collections difficult to keep. The tape degraded with each play, and oxygen degrades the iron in the tape. I can't recall the number of times a tape would get chewed up by the machine. The day I trashed my (thankfully) small VHS collection was a good day. It's amazing how many DVDs can be stacked per VHS tape. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 9840 Location: Virginia |
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@Violynne
Actually that was a typo (since corrected). He initially reported 79 tapes for a 26 episode show which would be about 1/3 an episode per tape not three per tape for 9 tapes. I started buying anime during the VHS era. I had a largish collection which I eventually disposed of at about $0.75 a tape for those I could sell. Two episode tapes in my experience were limited to early OVAs. As I said above most TV series came out on a mix of three and four episodes a tape for eight volumes. Interestingly, they carried the eight volumes for a 26 episode series into the era of the DVD singles. The last I remember getting that way was Moribito. The initial run of that series also came in odd hard plastic cases like large CD jewel box cases. They were pretty but also rather brittle and broke easy. |
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