How did boomers(millennials) find and access anime before streaming services like crunchyroll became widely available and popular?
>>83289711DVD/blu-rays or finding stuff online
i mean they had toonami, DVD releases they could buy/rent, plus other websites similar to 9anime existed back then too.
In the 90's? We either had to buy the VHS tapes or pray that whatever stations aired it had good shows. Early 2000's, same thing, but by then, downloadable ones became easier from newsgroups and IRC. Around 2005: torrents became better and we also had megaupload. Since then, torrents are so much better. >crunchyroll>streamingAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
>>83289727people actually bought anime they didn't know on dvds?
Its a shame many early anime websites and forums are probably lost media at this point.
>>83289736We didn't have much to go by. There were sites like Anime Critic or Arctic Night Fall to give "decent" reviews, but there wasn't much choice.
anyone remember having to go to irc to download anime?
>>83289747Why did people even watch anime then instead of well reviewed movies and series?
>>83289745There are heaps that are still active anon
>>83289761Because we liked anime. We were exposed to great ones like Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network. Too bad there were a lot of bad ones back then that would air on something like Encore Action Channel like Demon City Shinjuku, Darkside Blues, and Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma. There were some decent ones like Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, and Blue Seed, but most were terrible. But they were all new to us so it was cool. Back then, you didn't let your power level show because it'd be a subject of bullying if you were still in high school.
>>83289711ggkthx.org, failing a [gg] release, whoever the fuck had it on nyaa. using the patrician's torrent client of choice, of course: Deluge.
>>83289711>Youtube>[anime show] EPISODE 12 part 1/3
>>83289711Same way I do now, torrents and direct download.
>>83289711before all the copy right stuffyou could watch any anime on youtube
>>83289753it was limewire for me, but i am mostly a zoomer so i was also able to just eventually google it
>>83289711I watched all of demon slayer on anigo, without even going to crunchyshit, same with chainsaw man
>>83289711The first anime I downloaded was in 2003, and I used Morpheus. I burned it to a CD in DivX format to watch it on my TV after I bought a DVD player that supported "video CDs" and had a DivX logo on the box. I'll be 40 next year.
I used to rent vhs tapes of dbz movies from the local comic book store
How do people unironically use anime streaming services? I've been using Nyaa for well over 15 years at this point. Just torrent and stop being a poorfag and get external hard drives
>>83289711tv, they didnt even know it was anime btw, just thought it as a sharp trait cartoon
>>83289722I bought Evangelion on DVD, also saw Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll way back when. You could even rent movies at physical locations. And it was possible to pirate shit since the 90s, forget it on 56k dial up though
>>83289711nyaayoutubegoogle video
>>83289711one guy told me he used to go to anime conventions in the early 90s and they just swapped vhs tapes imported from Japan. Then sat around trying to figure out what the hell it meant since it wasn't subbed and nobody spoke japanese.
The newer generations are getting less tech illiterate aren't they? I don't even know how this is a question, even today crunchroll is a waste of time with how easy it is to torrent anime.
>>83289711>crunchyrollyou have a moral duty to not give crunchyroll money
During the 90s we had VHS tapes, mostly few and far between so you just made due with whatever you got regardless of if it was "localized", had bad dubs or subs, or was overall low quality. There wasn't a lot so you made due with what you could get your hands on. 00s is when American fandom really opened up. You could watch some (usually heavily editted) shows on TV and cable. You could find DVDs of more obscure stuff (though the prices even back then were awful), fan subs were exploding, you could download (usually low quality) stuff using P2P file sharing, and you were just starting to see anime pirate streaming sites. Also early youtube, dailymotion, and the like, was full to the brim with pirated anime. The quality wasn't great but it was free and relatively easy to access. 10s were the big time for pirates. Nearly everyone has high speed internet and storage is cheap. Everything from torrents to pirate streaming sites came into full bloom. Fan subbing was at it's peak with robust communities and enough bilingual people floating around as informal quality auditors to keep the fan subs honest. Also had even more stuff on cable TV and movie channels.Blu-rays were out but again their prices and value offered were still horrible. That said, thanks to bluray and high speed internet, true high definition piracy options were now commonplace and slowly became the default expectation over the decade.
>>83289711TV, video stores at the mall, pirated copies of VHS tapes, the theater sometimes and eventually torrents. They sold cool merch at stores sometimes. I bought a plushie of ryo-ohki from tenchi muyo one time.
there was quite a bit of anime on broadcast TV back then, probably more than there is now even (since there are other ways to watch anime). DVDs were too expensive for most people since they only had 3 episodes per buy. torrenting was another way, i would leave my computer on over night and download an entire series.
even normies back then would have at least seen an episode of pokemon or speedracer
>>83289711piracy sites, looser online copyright law enforcement, torrent.
>>83291075I got some ancient ranma ovas burned to disc from my sister. I looked up the fansubber and they were from 2004.
>no one remembers rmvbs
