I miss 2006 anime culture. I didn't watch the most back then. But I did love it. I wish it never got as big as it did today.

those were the days, fuck Haruhi

I miss watching anime airing live in Japan on keyhole with /a/

>>280255442 (OP)
Part of being into anime in the 2000s was smaller communities. I guess they still exist now with Discord and shit but the internet was just seperated into so many more groups and websites than the few that everyone only uses now.

You mean watching piss quality anime on youtube with episodes broken up into parts because you didn't know how to torrent yet?
Or waiting for 5 days to torrent a full series because your internet was ass?
Or hooking up a laptop to whoever in your friend group had the biggest TV and watching anime on the TV with friends? Bonus if it was a plasma screen TV and not a big box CRT so you could actually read the subtitles.

>>280255721
Only if "Part (2/3)" was missing on Youtube.

>>280255603
They don't. Not really. At some point, somehow every nerd community all galvanized into one obnoxiously huge mess with no room for anything negative.

>>280255721
Not all of us lived in shit holes with lousy internet. It took longer than the two seconds it takes now but it was far from a problem.

>>280255721
I figured out how to use torrents in 2006 when I was 13. Not everyone was a retard like you

>>280255764
And that's the final motivation that pushes you off of youtube and onto a shitty streaming website that at least has full episodes. One or two more baby steps to learning about torrents and being forced to learn how to work a computer in earnest.
It was a requirement for at least one person to actually learn how to use a computer if you wanted to actually watch anime.

>>280255831
You underestimate how big a full series is. For one episode of something like Bleach, Naruto, or One Piece (assuming anyone was actually subbing the most recent episodes), sure, there were seeders. But for something older or not popular, not only did you have to deal with ass internet, but no seeders.

>>280255442 (OP)
I just hate the anime culture post-2020. So many normies joined who basically hate everything that makes the medium unique, and deep down are ultimately just very insecure and scared of being perceived of as "weird" by other normies, especially when it comes to sexual stuff in anime

>>280255442 (OP)
>2006
This art style reflects the 2009 designs.
FAKE FAN COMMIT SUDOKU

>>280255902
There are plenty of people browsing /a/ who have been watching anime long before 2020 and still hate "weird" stuff

Cool, now go back to gaia.

>>280255902

I hate post 2011 culture. Too many fucking idiots joined.

>>280255889
2011-ish is when I noticed anime streaming sites going up. Then they'd get taken down frequently and you'd move to another one. Still torrented most stuff back then because of unreliability, but yeah a big series could take forever. I think all of DBZ was over a week with plenty of seeders.

>>280255973
>>280255978
lol I guess I can see the reason. accessibility.

>>280255889
>But for something older or not popular, not only did you have to deal with ass internet, but no seeders.
Yeah you're a child who wasn't there. There was WAY more open seeders and trackers back in the day. That's only a problem that gotten worse as time went on. But the big sites were huge with seeders and dedicated ones at that.

>>280255994
I don't remember file sizes. But I remember being grateful for 30 kbs per second back then. I didn't watch that much. But I loved what I watched

>>280256025
If I spent hours or days downloading something you're damn sure I'm gonna watch it

>>280255978
I know crunchyroll was around in 2007 as a pirate streamer website.
The video quality was ass, the forums were ass, the elitism was different from /a/'s and very strange to behold.

>>280255994
And yet it still took days to get GXP, Hare+Guu, and Escaflowne downloaded because there were no goddamn seeds.
Taste not withstanding, I sure as shit was there.

>>280256091
Nah. I didn't like Monster >:3. In fact. I read 20th Century Boys and Happy back then. Didn't finish any of the 3. I knew as far back as 2006 that Urasawa was a hack.

>>280256110
He MIGHT be a hack, but Monster is good before you finish and realize that it was retarded.

>>280255442 (OP)
>I miss ___
You miss being a teenager. It's not the media or this or that thing. You wish to be that young again.

>>280256167
It's both. Anime being this big is obnoxious. I miss when it was a real counterculture.

>>280255442 (OP)
I fell like "realism" anime like Clannad just cease to exist after 2012. Every slice of life anime either so dramatized, too hobby oriented, or too passive. They in essence 'healing' anime but, they don't have the relatable struggle for said healing so they often left me feel empty and unfulfilled at the end of the season.

I feel like "realism" anime like Clannad just cease to exist after 2012. Every modern slice of life anime are either so dramatized, too hobby oriented, or too passive. They are in essence 'healing' anime but, they don't have the relatable struggle for said healing, so they often left me feel empty and unfulfilled at the end of the season.

>>280256187
Yeah I won't pretend there's no nostalgia bias here but when I see the kinds of discussion that comes from dealing with modern fake nerds it's insufferable. It's all people who don't know anything if it's no mainstream or streamed. And they don't want to know. And it's the same thing for any other nerd hobby.

>>280256320
>clannad
>realism

>>280255442 (OP)
LiveJournal was definitely a better fan space than Twitter.

>>280255721
>You mean watching piss quality anime on youtube with episodes broken up into parts because you didn't know how to torrent yet?
The joke's on (You). I still watched anime on Youtube long after I learned to torrent. It was just more convenient and quicker with my shitty Internet connection.

>>280256320
>'healing' anime but, they don't have the relatable struggle for said healing
It's not 'healing' - it's developing a drug addiction from inhaling anime copium.

>>280258213
livejournal is for the best avatars and gifs

>>280258213
Remember when people actually had fan sites and not everything on the internet was governed by four places people look at on their phone.

>>280255721
Actually, my dad taught me how to torrent back then, and we were early adopters of fiber-optic that very year.
>Or hooking up a laptop to whoever in your friend group had the biggest TV and watching anime on the TV with friends? Bonus if it was a plasma screen TV and not a big box CRT so you could actually read the subtitles.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing???

I was 9 years old in 2006 and my parents are boomers
how was I supposed to be into anime then

>>280255902
Yep. Pretty much all "weeb" hobbies got flooded by normalfags during covid.

>>280258397
should've been born earlier pleb

>>280256187
Nahh it's nice that nowsays even girls watch anime.

>>280258387
Those sites having their dedicated fanfiction sections with fanfics you couldn't find anywhere else was such a blast.