What was watching anime and reading manga like outside of Japan in the 70s? How did you get access to it?
>>287742369you go to your local chinese market and buy bootleg cassetes from the 70 year old chainsmoking grandma sitting next to the astro boy shirts
>>287742369There was a documentary on youtube about the first manga publisher in the us, it was like being a hippie who is interested japanese esoteric shit instead of indian
>>287742369It was very easy to purchase bootlegs of all Japanese media in Chinatowns back then. Third worlders always tell me how us Americans didn't have anime & manga back then so I guess they had this stuff as well.