How did you watch anime in the early 2000s? What kind of shows were you into?

How did you watch anime in the early 2000s? What kind of shows were you into?

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I didn't.

early 2000's? Whatever was on cable. Mid to late 2000's? Whatever shitty stream I could find, which was how I first watched Haruhi.

I mostly got my cartoons off Youtube. I got some stuff off Limewire too. But most of my anime was dubbed back then.Which pushed me too specific streaming sites that tailored to that and were advertising on Youtube. When I say advertising I mean they put up files marked as specific anime episodes and then all they gave you was a crop and a message to view the full episode in decent quality at their place.

As for what I watched. Mostly the clasics and stuff that came highly recommended. Also shounen shit. A lot of my early anime binge watching was looking into the original Dragonball and a bunch of shows that aired on TV but I never got to watch fully.

I watched Naruto, Bleach, a bunch of then recent Gundams and a lot of classics like Bebop, Haruhi, Clannad, Ghost in the Shell etc.

I only got to watching seasonal anime in 2009 with that one season where Soul Eater started.

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I remember renting Haruhi DVDs for some reason, but other than that I used terrible stream sites with tons of popup ads, or I'd watch shit on youtube, the funimation channel or whatever.

Adult Swim and DVD.

Those were the days. I wanted to kill myself so much :3

I used to watch Zatch Bell in 2005 on Youtube which is how I discovered Youtube. Eventually, I ran out of dubbed episodes and started watching subbed episodes. The first time I ever watched something entirely in Japanese.

I still had a 56k, so I either had to find tiny file sizes or leave the laptop on all night. I do remember watching Flame of Recca, because there were 26MB realmedia files of it floating around. Then I said "fuck it" and just read the manga. I also remember being big into Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, so I downloaded these tiny 40MB files of Sonic X as new episodes aired in Japan. Nobody was subbing it, so I just watched them raw.

DVDs were also a thing. I remember having Comic Party, Paranoia Agent, Azumanga, and a few others. I taped all of .hack//SIGN off Cartoon Network, too. And the dumb Legend of Twilight spin-off that most people don't even know CN aired.

How old are you, Yea Forums?

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Since 2005. I was 14.

Eternal newfag, although I did go to /d/ for porn occasionally all the way back in 2005.

Newfag, feels weird

RTL 2

2008. Time is fleeting and my life is almost over.

Keit-ai here. Posting in advance.

Funimation Channel from 2004-2007
Anime streaming sites 2008-present

Albeit dubbed, Funi Channel had some kino stuff, and a stellar variety on air.
Fruits Basket, Peach Girl, Galaxy Railways, Solty Rei, Burst Angel, School Rumble, Hare&Guu & Chef Tony commercials

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DVD rental and DVD purchase.
Early adopter of BitTorrent on 56k modem.
Comedy / CGDCT / moeshit / harem

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Anime club in high school or TV

Same here. I grew up watching VHS copies of stuff like Pokemon and Digimon, Dragonball (and Z) and other stuff like Inuyasha on TV. Then mid to late 2000's I started watching stuff on the internet with stuff like Lucky Star and Haruhi.

I didn’t get into anime until the late 2000s. I either streamed or copied fansubs my friend downloaded to a USB drive.

youtube and comcast on demand bullshit

shitty VHS copies of course. I was into Ranma 1/2 a lot. I was watching everything I could get.

I wasn't into anime back then, back then I was playing 2hu, other bullet hell stuff, melty blood and KOF probably watched shitty 360p Love Hina and Death note youtube rips

In another universe, Nadesico would be the show remembered instead of Eva.

Oldfag on Yea Forums, newfag on Yea Forums.

TV and then jumped to something called Veoh

In the late 90s and early 2000s, I watched dubs on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. Then I didn't watch anime much for some time.

In the late 2000s I started watching grey-market streams in shitty 480p. Then by 2010 I was torrenting, and it's been that way ever since.

It was great, you'd load up VLC and stream it, sure it was low res as hell and artifacted but we made do!

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I love how her nose turns into her cheek.

2007

War has changed.

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winMX

Always a newfag I guess.

University dorm's LAN with vast amounts of torrented stuff, plus the torrents themselves. I was in Russia back them and back in the day there was no way to buy anything besides shipping it internationally.

In fact, what got me into anime was the fact that the people who hosted it on were very dedicated to the cause. These were the days of $1 per gigabyte HDDs, and these students that I knew were relatively poor hosted anime by hundreds of gigabytes already. No moviefags had that kind of dedication. I decided to take a look at the contents of one server in alphabetic order and landed on .hack//Sign. I still love it so much, holy shit.

Two genres were defining that time for me - "a guy's story" (Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing TV, Speed Grapher etc) and "I can do NGE better" (RahXephon, Argento Soma and the like). But there were many, many other things as well. 4C shorts, the weirdness I've come to call "Akiba-core" over the years (Di Gi Charat, Komugi-chan etc), Shinkai's experiments at single person production that were outrageous for the time, and other things without labels or with labels too narrow to be of any use, such as SaiKano, Koi Kaze, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, FLCL, Abenobashi.

Then a few years later I was back in my hometown, in a fairly remote location where only a 56k dial up connection was available. After finishing the 13 episodes of Haruhi I brought with me on an HDD I just had to download the 14th overnight. Dial up was about a dollar per hour, so I ended up paying like $10 for the kissu. Totally worth it.

Good times doesn't begin to describe it man. I felt like someone who have never seen any marine life in their life and then began scuba diving every day at the most beautiful reef for as much as he wanted.

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Early 2000s? I guess TV.

but you're 18 now

truly an amazing experience to download a 240p spanish subbed english dubbed episode of this after school every month

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Dad bought be Gundam dvds, Mom would rent me Ghibli movies in like 2001. Found Haruhi episodes in parts on early youtube. Watched Death Note on toonami or on demand. Wish I hadn't missed out on Gurren Lagann and Initial D despite being Yea Forums in it's golden years, I never visited Yea Forums.

2006

Other than stuff that aired on tv, it involved torrents and blank cd's, lots of cd's.
First one I ever downloaded was elfen lied, I think followed by azumanga.
Back then a elfen lied was a lot of people's first anime torrent, I'm not really sure why as the show is not very good but it is probably the non-kid friendly anime a lot of people saw back then.
DBZ may be violent, but at the end of the day it's just people throwing magic balls of energy at each other and the bloodiest anyone gets is a few rashes.

Also, real player was still a thing.

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Lost interest early 2004 up until later in the decade, but I was mostly renting what ever I could at blockbuster or watch on TV, I only had a paper route so I could only purchase so much. Most of it was late 90s stuff. Spirited Away and Metropolis were some of the newest anime I had seen. I still have my End of Eva VHS tape sitting on my shelf since no one wanted VHS when I sold my collection. They were pushing Gundam hard so I got my hands on lots of that. CCA, 08th Ms Team, OG Gundam, Eva, GITS, Ninja Scroll, Macross Plus, Perfect Blue, "Samurai X", and the X movie were probably my favorites around that time.

I do recall that Inuyasha was the new show they were pushing on tv right before I lost interest. I have a few volumes of the manga.

This. There wasn't any anime in the TV back then, ony the mainstream stuff like Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, Beyblade. Anime is still a taboo in my country and it's marked only for kids.

VCD, DVD, VHS, torrents.

Dubs on tv. Then I started streaming around 2005 on veoh and illegal crunchyroll, then torrenting in 2006. Haruhi was the gateway.

>Anime streaming sites 2008-present
>-present

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> all these anons give so little shit about quality that they streamed even before 2010
Sasuga neo-Yea Forums

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In the summer of 2005 I began a slow process of downloading Love Hina off of Limewire, having played the dating sim on Newgrounds. It was the first ever anime that I went out of my way to watch, only having seen dubbed shows on TV as a kid.

During that summer I had to work on sanding down a very large wood fence in our yard so that it could be stained. Since I had the computer to myself at that time, I would start a couple episode downloads and then go outside to work, coming back hours later to watch them. This became part of my daily routine until I finished.
To this day, every time I smell wood dust I get nostalgic over that summer of Love Hina. I haven't watched it again after all these years and I've been getting the urge to see if it was just hormones telling my then 12 year old brain that it was the best thing I had ever seen.

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Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing user. Also, Love Hina is pretty good.

Cartoon network and horrible quality RMVB naruto episodes as they were coming .

I didn't. I got my parents to order the Escaflowne DVDs during the 90s, but then I ignored anime to have a life. Only picked it up again in 2015, after I had already experienced what it is like to be a properly adjusted adult. Since I've grown to hate people, I've started watching cartoons again.