Obligitory Animes Thread

Which anime eras are you into?

  • Old School

    Votes: 29 17.7%

  • New School

    Votes: 13 7.9%

  • Both

    Votes: 107 65.2%

  • Anime? What's that?

    Votes: 15 9.1%
  • Total voters
    164
wow, i'm amazed anyone buys anime these days with the dawn of bittorent. I remember pirating it off morpheus back in the late 90s, and i had friends that used newsgroups. torrents make life sooo easy compared to the old days (okay, so ppl still use newsgroups). Then again i guess localization groups are bigger than ever and anime is now cheap compared to 10 years ago. I remember when 3 episodes of any given anime on vhs was $20+ for a legal copy (keep in mind i speak in 1998-200 USD). boxsets were upwards of $150

Thats why i put up with crappy pirated fan subs on vhs for all those years. it was sooo much cheaper.
 
whitey said:
wow, i'm amazed anyone buys anime these days with the dawn of bittorent. I remember pirating it off morpheus back in the late 90s, and i had friends that used newsgroups. torrents make life sooo easy compared to the old days (okay, so ppl still use newsgroups). Then again i guess localization groups are bigger than ever and anime is now cheap compared to 10 years ago. I remember when 3 episodes of any given anime on vhs was $20+ for a legal copy (keep in mind i speak in 1998-200 USD). boxsets were upwards of $150

Thats why i put up with crappy pirated fan subs on vhs for all those years. it was sooo much cheaper.
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Prices havent changed only thing that has is the medium instead of VHS were buying DVD's. Most box sets are 100-300 and single DVD's are 20-30, thinking about it now i suppose 29.95 for 3 episodes on VHS is pretty crazy now that we can pay the same price and get dual audio and extras plus in some cases dual video.

I bought all my anime when i first started collecting but back in 05 i discoverd boxtorrents and the wrold of fansubs so now i only buy the series i really like. Fansubs are really the only way to get some series too, never getting brought to USA for various reasons and being out of print in japan there is really only one way to get them then.

I dont like companies who localize anime because when you buy a DVD you have to pay extra because they decided to hire some shity voice actors to do the dubing process. Those companies would make more money if they skiped the dub and released good subs and sold the DVD's at a lower price. something like that wont ever happen though because there are stupid people who actually think dubs are better for some reason.
 
Ruko said:
Prices havent changed only thing that has is the medium instead of VHS were buying DVD's. Most box sets are 100-300 and single DVD's are 20-30, thinking about it now i suppose 29.95 for 3 episodes on VHS is pretty crazy now that we can pay the same price and get dual audio and extras plus in some cases dual video.
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LOL, dual audio+sparse extras do not forgive such a high price.

because there are stupid people who actually think dubs are better for some reason.
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Yeah, alot of people don't want to be reading when they're supposed to be watching something. Television isn't meant for watching: it's meant for background noise with a laugh-track so you can look up to see what was so funny.

Honestly, the reason people prefer dubs is because they don't want to have to read. I can understand in some cases...these people aren't all stupid, they're just not weeabuses.

I gladly accept retarded subs of Naruto over the English dub. I hope that voice actor dies, he's like Ash Ketchum only wearing Pikachu as a hairpiece.
 
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