Thread 281166903

30+ year-old /a/ thread
for the f/a/gs that had bootleg vhs tapes and argued about mistranslations through aol chat rooms, for the ones who were alive when painted frames became digital, and for the ones who remember when megumi hayashibara made voice acting a celebrity profession instead of just another job

>>281166903 (OP)
lina a cute
obligatory picrel

Lina love!

>>281166903 (OP)
>for the f/a/gs that had bootleg vhs tapes and argued about mistranslations through aol chat rooms
I'm older than 30 and I never did any of this.

>>281166903 (OP)
That's for 50+, 30+ came to 4chan to talk about Death Note as teenage cancer.

>>281167433
Time hasn't moved for me since 2008, so I apologize that my perspective is skewed.

>>281167494
i miss linas pantsu in her ova design..

My wife

>>281167861
Very healthy, quite religious.

>>281166903 (OP)
>that had bootleg vhs tapes and argued about mistranslations through aol chat rooms
More like 40+ then

B U I L T

>>281166903 (OP)
I blame Lina and Sakura for my love of lolis

>>281168272
I blame Lina for my love of angry, strong, independent chaotic neutral redheads.

>>281167226
same, got into anime later in life so I missed a lot of those experiences, feels like being stuck between worlds sometimes

IT'S TOO FUCKING HOT OUTSIDE

I still haven't watched Slayers. I really should get around to that.

Wizard reporting in.

>>281169087
the longer you wait the more dated the show becomes...

>>281167226
>>281168684
I feel like there are roughly five generations in terms of how they were introduced to anime:
>VHS fansubs
>Toonami or your country's equivalent
>digital fansubs and/or episodes on YouTube in three parts
>simulcasting and/or jankass pirate sites
>memes and eceleb opinions

>>281169300
can I have sauce?

>>281169505
Rui Rui Tenyu 07

>>281169488
>Oldfags
>Newfags
>Cancer
>Cancer
>Cancer

>>281169554
>Rui Rui Tenyu 07
thanks anon, I love on model lina doujins

>>281169650
It's on model because Araizumi Rui is the one publishing these doujinshi.

>>281169709
ah no kidding

>>281169488
>>Toonami or your country's equivalent
In my early 30s, this was how I got into it. And adult swim for later at night.
The good memories of hearing this at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxkMzn4et2U

>>281169723
Araizumi abandoned 3D entirely to devote himself to making lewd drawings of Lina. He is the apex of his kind. He is what 4chan enviously aspires to be. He created his own waifu and self-generates her image.

>>281166903 (OP)
>bootleg
So it was translated and sold by a company? I watched fansubbed VHS tapes in Brazil. It was done by groups of fans.

>>281169819
>Araizumi
how many lina doujins has he made?

>>281169856
At least 10.

>one year off
k, I'll just leave then

>>281169838
Fansubbers typically sold directly to fans via mail orders (send them an empty VHS tape and get a fansub copy back, you pay shipping), while bootleggers mass produced both fansubs, official subs and machine translated chinese subs.
If you bought "fansubs" in a store, they were usually bootlegs.

>>281168777
agreed, summer sucks

>>281169954
People who bought bootlegs did not know of the existence of fansub groups? Because usually the translations included where they came from in the video.

>>281170059
Yeah, which led to fansubbers also including "This is a free fansub, if you paid for this you got ripped off" notes.

>>281166903 (OP)
>for the f/a/gs that had bootleg vhs tapes and argued about mistranslations through aol chat rooms, for the ones who were alive when painted frames became digital, and for the ones who remember when megumi hayashibara made voice acting a celebrity profession instead of just another job

Just say oldfag thread

>>281170059
Bootlegs were usually bought by young and dumb kids.

>>281169488
I'm in the middle group. How will Alphas get into anime? What can possibly follow eceleb drivel?

>>281166903 (OP)
>31 year old zoomer larps as an oldfag
great thread

>>281170511
Probably "Whatever they see ads of on reddit"

>>281169488
It's a tiny bit more distinct than that:
>Fully Localized Dubs (Astro Boy, Gigantor, Cyborg 009, Gatchaman) - 1970~
>Had a dad deployed in Hawaii or Japan (Ultimate Oldfag) - 1970s/80s/90s
>VHS Bootlegs - SF Conventions (1970s/80s~)
>VHS Bootlegs - Video Stores (1980s/90s)
>VHS mail circles (1990s)
>New Dubbing / Official Tapes (SF Channel, early Toonami) - Mid-late 1990s - Extends to early 10s
There's also early IRC/XDCC groups which are distinct as well.

>>281170694
Do kids use reddit? I thought they were a bunch of illiterates with attention spans shorter than a TikTok video.

I'm 23 but I'm here to shit up your thread. I still need to watch Slayers but I just started rewatching Excel Saga for art ideas. Next summer :).
>>281167433
The youngest guy I saw that bought fansubbed tapes was probably 38 or so, and that was a couple years ago.
>>281169300
what's wrong with a show being dated? I've been watching and rewatching the same shit for like 15 years now.
>>281169488
I was introduced through DVD and VHS releases of Inu Yasha, Robotech, and Kimba. I spent a little time downloading from kiss anime then bought a VPN much later in life and started torrenting fansubs.
>>281167494
it's fine, time basically hasn't updated for me since 2014
>>281170059
I did this once in Chinatown at a bookstore that had a titty magazine just lying out in the open. It blew my mind at the time because my interactions with anything even lewd was far and few between.

>>281171134
Fuck if I know. Whatever they see ads of on Tiktok then.

>>281166903 (OP)
I was never into fantasy so I never had any interest in Slayers back in the day. I would only watch the original TV series a few years back. Didn't enjoy it. I dislike how there is zero effort in trying to flesh out the characters. They have these quirky personalities, but no depth at all.

>>281171257
I'm just here to see looney tunes slapstick magic nonsense . Most of the time it's trying to be a comedy with some'serious' adventure/drama every so often

This is a circlejerk thread, so if you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all!!

>>281169488
Accurate, I have good memories of watching eva out of order in parts on youtube
>>281171257
I used to feel this way but at some point my mind changed. When show writers intentionally try to add depth to characters it usually comes off as shallow and artificial. The cast of Slayers are fully formed and feel real and full of life

>>281170511
Currently it's a mix of easy availability and the nose dive in quality of western media

>>281171731
If you watched anime back in the day, you know there is a lot of crap from those days. It is nonsense to try to immerse in the nostalgia. The ratio of good to bad seems quite similar throughout the years. There is a lot of good stuff from the past, but there are loads of crap too.

>>281166903 (OP)
This reads like that trainspotting monologue

>>281171731
You can only say nice things because there were NO bad shows back then. Faux-nostalgia tells me that if something was on tape, it was a certified WANRAR

>>281172065
lmao

Only reason I watched anime was because my sisters would rent Sailor Moon/Inuyasha/Escaflowne/Nadesico/Gundam/Slayers and what not. I honestly am amazed at how little I remember of the plot of these shows despite spending many hours watching (I think Slayers, those who hunt elves, and Orphen are the only ones I remember the plot enough).

>>281172902
Do your sisters still like anime?

>this thread made me grab the first volume of the Slayers lns, never read them before
Hope they're good.

>>281173058
Yeah, though only 1 still goes to Anime Expo every year. Never liked conventions honestly.

>>281173137
Conventions are more for young people. Interesting to see a family that enjoys anime.

wapstream thread

AAAAA LINA SEXOOOOO

Eh just siblings isn't uncommon. Back then it was better to agree one what to rent from VHS stores since parents would only get so many at a time.

>>281166903 (OP)
>flat
>147 cm
>15 years old
>gets mistaken for a child
Lina is a loli who doesn't get interpreted as one by viewers

>>281166903 (OP)
I dont watch modern anime anymore and barely watch old stuff, i switched to eroge and that medium is also dying just like anime so its literally and unironically over
The only saving grace is the amount of old media before japan became mainstream is still intact and can be consumed for many decades to come

>>281173456
Why is Lina so flat and small?

>>281166903 (OP)
>30+ year-old /a/ thread
>posts an anime for 13 year olds

>>281173481
Sounds like you shouldn't be a mod any more

>>281173676
Many of us were teenagers back then.

>>281173630
>uses sorcery as well
Probably a jew

>>281173825
Lina is a "daughter of merchants", by her own admission.

Early 30s was watching subbed anime on youtube with 20 different parts

>>281173846
Very interesting

>>281171120

You got the bootleg stores and mail circles mixed up.
The mail circles came before the stores.

amelia wil tesla seiluun

>>281174080
I never did mail circles, so my knowledge on it was mostly secondhand from talking to bloggers and convention goers. From the sound of things I figured that came out of tapes at video stores.

>>281170645
>31 year old
>Zoomer

slayers is one of my favorite anime but slayers revolution was ass and now Im scared to watch evolution r. might just call it.

>>281173825
>>281173846
>>281173979
What could they have meant by this?

>>281174341
Revo/Evo are pretty ass.

>>281174380
it is truly a mystery...

Recently reviewed every single TV anime and OVA between 1990 and 1999 to pick some for a marathon. Was stunned to see how few new shows there were per season, sometimes as low as just one, for the entire decade. We have more new anime every season now than entire years had in the 90s (even including OVAs). Oh and basically everything was 2+ cours.

Really made me think about various things.

>>281173969
Nobody but cancer watched anime on youtube. XDCC and torrents were the only way, aside from physical media.

THE MONSTROUS ZOAMELGUSTAR is always watching.

>>281174583
Sex with Yuuko

>>281174583
Things were better back then, when shows were longer and fans were usually watching a lot of the same things.

>>281174747
The monoculture, as Weird Al Yankovic put it. I miss it too. Algorithms ruined society.

>>281166903 (OP)
Did not read your shit thread also you guys know a good gore site? The character designer of Slayers is a tranny BTW

>>281175015
best girl and autist comfort character

>>281173790
Yeah but you're supposed to move on. Something for 13 year olds doesn't stop being for 13 year olds because you are older. Even if your 45 years old if you only care about old anime for little kids, well it just feels like I'm talking to a weird little kid. And that's boring.

i miss her bros...

>>281175086
day ruined

I watched Ruin Explorers recently and it was great
reminded me a lot of Slayers

>>281174670
>XDCC and torrents were the only way
I'm finding it weird how no-one seems to have been using other p2p stuff from back then. I'm sure things like kazaa and ed2k were much bigger than torrents for years.

>>281175318
Sure we move on, but we don't need to throw everything away. Like it or not, it is part of you. Desperately wanting to be seen as mature is something only little kids do. If they have great memories of watching Slayers, Escaflowne, Lodoss, etc.; great for them. It made them what they are now. Pretending you are above it and posting on a board that talks exclusively of chinese cartoons only makes you look like you are the one who can't move on.

>>281169488
Well I was introduced through toonami, but then stopped and it took me many years to get back into it, so I don't really feel at home in either the toonami gen or the later gen.
I think age and some measurement of how invested you are is more meaningful of a divide than when you started, though obviously all of it matters.

I think this old thing was my first anime purchase ever. It's how I discovered that disk drives can have fuckin region locks.

>>281175318
>you're supposed to move one
I'm not 'supposed' to do anything because I am a free human being. Enjoy being compelled by jewish societal manipulation I guess.

>>281176521
I have been told on here that the Jews also don't want you to be pedophiles, either

>>281176882
Isn't it a Jewish strategy to try and use reverse psychology on strangers in a pedantic effort to win an argument?

>>281166903 (OP)
I'm not old like you guys, but I watched the first two seasons recently and really enjoyed it

>>281177207
Oh look, the old jewish tactic of using facts and evidence to make a point. Nice try, Schlomo

>>281175860
>Sure we move on
You didn't move on though. 90% of the catalogue is people nostalgic for naruto and dragon ball because retarded 2016 tourists who live forever in y2k have taken over. If you don't like anime any more it's time to pack it in and find a new hobby.

>>281177434
>the old jewish tactic of using facts and evidence to make a point
That's not a jewish tactic. Jews abhor facts and evidence. It always proves them wrong.

laid off next week
i can feel it

>>281169628
>being a newfag is suddenly not so bad
I don't know how to feel about it

>>281179476
>thinking being a newfag is EVER acceptable

>>281167433
I've never been a fan of the "swim" meme

>>281166903 (OP)
Got the 3 90s series on LD recently. Is it worth modding my player for RF capture/ld-decode?

>>281179882

No.
maybe

>>281167226
Yeah most 30-40 year olds were like 10 years old when Gen X were collecting VHS tapes and hanging out in AOL chatrooms and usenet.
People need to remember most remember today's 40 year olds were still teenagers in the early 2000s.

Today's 30 year olds were the teenagers/children over Naruto, Gundam seed, Inuyasha, Full metal Alchemist, gurren lagann, azumanga, lucky star and shit.
People who genuinely watched Slayers in the 1990s when it was first being made available in the West (rather than later) are in their 40s and probably pushing their 50s now

>>281181294
That's one of the main things I find fishy about "30 year old oldfag" threads where 90% of the stuff being posted is from the 1980s and 1990s.

If you're in the 30-35 your formulative anime years was watching Naruto, Inuyasha, Hamtaro, Pokemon, FMA, Gundam Seed, Dragon Ball reruns.

Tenchi Muyo and Slayers were before your time unless you were somehow watching them when you were like 8.

>>281181367
>formulative
Formative*

>>281181367
I'm 34 and the first anime that made me think "Man I really like anime, huh?" was Wolf's Rain desu

>>281181420
This anime's ending made me cry, not many animes do that. Just too sad.

>>281181367
Tenchi muyo was on tv when I was in middle school.
I remember seeing slayers vhs tapes at some video rental store too.

>>281166903 (OP)
You're at the peak of your life. You should take a wife and make children, what are you doing talking old anime here?

>>281169488
What does 4kids count as?

>OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>HO HO HO HOOOOOO

Lina has great fucking tits and I'm tired of pretending she doesn't.

>>281182028
Anon...
No one CHOOSES to be here

>>281169954
My first experience with Dragon Ball, before it aired on TV, was picking out unlabeled black spine unsubbed bootleg VHS tapes from chinatown grocery stores. That one Simpsons "Steamed Hams" meme that edits it in the style of Dragon Ball really hits me hard, that yellow tint and everything. So good.

In the earliest days of tape subs, not every sub advertised a distinct group, because the internet was a pretty nascent thing. This is before the days of "realvideo", internet file distribution didn't exist*, it was more "if you know a guy who knows a guy". Hardware was needed to print subs onto tape so it'd typically be a college student with access to an AV lab, and if you wanted copies you'd mail him a blank tape with a SASE (there's a term genz will have to google, and get the wrong answer) and he'd copy it from his "SVHS masters", if you were lucky.

*I remember spending all day downloading .AU audio files of 3 seconds of Sailor Mercury shouting her attack names. I remember early windows pcs STRUGGLING to run .MP2 songs if you closed down every other program. I'm a digital packrat so I still have a lot of these files saved from the 90s.

I've gone from letting friends borrow anime VHS to letting my cousin's zoomer kids borrow my physical manga and anime blurays
Time passes too quickly

>>281174380
Really, this again? So you're NOT 30+.
Anime FREQUENTLY used both 5-pointed and 6-pointed stars to reference magical arts, without any direct connection with judaism.
How many times do we have to keep answering the same question. Next you're going to lose your shit when you see a manji sign on a temple.

>>281183294
Holy shit japan is nazis!?

>>281183334
um akshoolly it means something different if its reversed something something

I love Slayers, it truly is the most comfy anime and that makes it the best anime for me. The filler episodes are almost always great and I think I enjoy them more than the actual plot episodes.

>>281182920
flat-chested c-cup runt

>>281183568
>15 year old girl
>personality of an unmarried wine aunt
how to acquire this

>>281182920
I agree, I like them small and manageable anyway

lina a sex

>>281181367
>formulative anime years was watching Naruto, Inuyasha, Hamtaro, Pokemon, FMA, Gundam Seed, Dragon Ball reruns
But anon, the plight of those years was that I hated Naruto so the only place I could find the discussion and anime I liked was online. (Though I enjoyed all the other shows you mentioned). If you talk something older like CCS, Sailor Moon or Slayers, I likely caught a rerun or had a clip taped. But even if I couldn't remember much, it was still an influence on my taste so of course I seeked them out later

>>281183637
Well first you have to go to a high school and--
>cop sirens

>>281174583
There's way too many anime now. The same could be said for media in general. Just total oversaturation, and it gets harder to find quality through all the noise. I miss when 26 episodes was the standard and 50 wasn't uncommon, instead of every manga and LN under the sun getting a 12 episode ad.

>>281184320
Either we get total media saturation or several hundreds of thousands of nepotism babies are going to be out of work, and we can't have the world's collective middle classes collapse on themselves while the global debt fraud is still believed and accepted and keeps the world economy running.

I've been to one anime convention in my life: Anime Expo 2006
Saw CLAMP
Watched Patlabor 2 just a few feet away from head mech designer Yutaka Izubuchi
Met Noboru Ishiguro, director of LoGH and Macross:DYRL
Still, my favorite moment of all was pulling up to the video room and watching Slayers Great with a bunch of people who really enjoyed like I did.
I've never gone back because I can't top that. Such a good feeling.

>>281184459
Based oldfag.

>>281181294
The way I see it:
>Gen X = Robotech, Ranma 1/2, VHS fansubs from the import store at the mall
>Early millenials = Sailor Moon DiC dub, Pokemon, DBZ on Toonami, Toonami in general
>Zillenials = Naruto, Bleach, One-Piece, Death Note, early p2p fansubs
>Zoomers = JJBA, Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, MHA
>Aoomers = whatever flavor of the month their favorite "influencer" recommends

>>281184459
hello mr. lich, how's the milk today?

Anybody here watch Golden Bat? It's really good stuff i even imported the tapes straight from japan back in the day. Shame only 4 episodes are fansubbed because i know it would be a cult classic if it was subbed however you can roughly make out the story without knowing Japanese as it is fairly easy to make out each of the stories in the episodes purely by visuals like i did back in the day.

>>281184593
Only thing I know about Golden Bat is that he's the "first Japanese superhero" or something like that, and I don't like superheroes regardless of the color of their skin.

Except Japanese Spider-Man, but that's different.

>>281184506
It kind of sucks being a zoomer but not having zoomer tastes. I went to an anime convention with a group of them and we basically couldn't relate the entire time I was there. My friend from highschool was there and all he could do when I genuinely talked about the anime I liked was spout off all the references and "memes" he had gathered about them in succession with no explanation. It was fucking annoying.

>>281184853
I can vividly remember giving a stare to a halfrican broccoli-haired 20-stomething as he asked me if I watched Wan Piss and Jewjewtsoo Kysin, and being told I'm insane because the overanimation and the ground and walls turning into dissolving squares wasn't making me soiface.

At least you don't have to hunt for the goods nearly as hard as your ancestors did, yeah?

It kind of sucks being a zoomer but not having zoomer tastes. I went to an anime convention with a group of them and we basically couldn't relate the entire time I was there. My friend from highschool was there and all he could do when I genuinely talked about the anime I liked was spout off all the references and "memes" he had gathered about them in succession with no explanation. It was fucking annoying.
It's nice not needing a smartphone glued to my face so that I can "obsess" over the latest astroturfed scam game or be completely unable to put myself into a different historical context when talking to older people, but the older guys I talk to usually aren't looking to be very sociable and have their longtime friendgroups already established, so I'm stuck in this middleground.

>>281184888
>At least you don't have to hunt for the goods nearly as hard as your ancestors did, yeah?
I mean, with the Internet finding anything isn't too hard. I hang out inanything else. If I really want a physical copy of something there's eBay. But in terms of hearing about interesting shows, all the discussion's been had. I'm used to rifling around the remains of old shows' fanbases and attempting to spark discussions.

>>281184888
>the overanimation and the ground and walls turning into dissolving squares wasn't making me soiface.
A lot of them don't seem to fully internalize that you can like a show just because you like the characters, not for other, more "cerebral" reasons
>At least you don't have to hunt for the goods nearly as hard as your ancestors did, yeah?
I mean, with the Internet finding anything isn't too hard. I hang out in #subsplease to pick up recent shows and troll nyaa for anything else that catches my eye. If I really want a physical copy of something there's eBay. But in terms of hearing about interesting shows, all the discussion's been had. I'm used to rifling around the remains of old shows' fanbases and attempting to spark discussions.

>>281184908
This makes me a little sad for you. I hope you find some friends but you're always welcome here.

>>281184888
>At least you don't have to hunt for the goods nearly as hard as your ancestors did, yeah?
It's amazing how ironic this statement is.

To my friendly anons: The Dragon-Half TTRPG has recently been translated! Enoy, and have fun with friends!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QA94Ve1vfw6ZLQxhjona2X1wYDVTlmNb

>>281185039
>This makes me a little sad for you
It's all good. I've been going to conventions for a bit over thirteen years now and I've only had two that were somewhat messed up this way. The times when I find a group of randos and join them were the best. Speaking of which: if you see this Nate, you're a sick fucking dude.
>>281185047
>It's amazing how ironic this statement is.
How so? Anyone who's used to filtering the deluge of crap can find good shows pretty easily nowadays.

>>281185115
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

>>281185184
Of course, anon. There's also the entire Sword World 1.0/2.0/2.5 folders in that same link. It's good stuff, and I wanted to spread the good news.

>>281185122
Anime was vastly more fun when you actually had to work to get it. Used to take road trips, 6 hours with my bros JUST to go to one of the few anime stores in the country. No Barnes & Nobles shit. Just a guy who flew to Japan and came back with every tape, laserdisc, manga, wallscroll, and paperback hentai doujin he could carry. Most fun I ever had in my life. 2000s brought torrents which was fine. Now there is so much slop, and of such little quality, and it is all equally disposable and unmeaningful. Now compare a primitive hunter bringing back his fresh kill to the celebration of the tribe, and the fat cows sitting on the couch eating infinitely accessible goychow through plastic tubes.

>>281167861
Strange taste but have more.

>>281166903 (OP)
I'm 29.
Is this anime good or is it just nostalgia?
I liked Ruin Explorers for reference (I think they're related somehow aren't they?)
Something to avoid? (like for example you know how the Eureka 7 or FLCL sequels are terrible)

>>281185229
Your analogy compares something that took millennia to accomplish to that of a few decades. Calm down.

>>281185214
I might be retired because I can't find it.

>>281185397
Click on the Sword World 1.0 towards the top of the link.

>>281185372
better skip it, it aged badly

There certainly was something different about discovering new anime through a friend loaning you a VHS tape. It’s not just the novelty - when you finish watching, you have someone to actually talk to about it, someone you know.

Slayers always going to be one of my favs. Yeah it’s rough as hell but it has its own vibe, great sub AND dub, and Lina is objectively the best female protagonist.

>>281185229
>Anime was vastly more fun when you actually had to work to get it
Oh, I totally get this sentiment. I've gotten so much more enjoyment out of the anime I get on random disks and tapes from resale stores than I would've if I downloaded it. The only reason I watched Cosplay Complex was because I got the DVD for two dollars from Book Off. Thankfully my tastes align with the bargain bin of video stores.
>Now there is so much slop, and of such little quality, and it is all equally disposable and unmeaningful.
Eh, it isn't like ALL the anime from back then were all hits. There were a fuckton of shows where the typical Three's Company-style humor of "misunderstandings are funny!" was the sole writing device. I liked the older artstyle more, but that could just be because it's what I'm used to.
>compare a primitive hunter bringing back his fresh kill to the celebration of the tribe
I agree that the fresh kill could have been muskrat and would still have tasted better than if you'd bought it (the "muskrat" here being fucking Ragnarok, LOL).

>>281173846
Lina's greed is infinite

>>281185376
Why post at all with such a meaningless passive-aggressive response. Ego bruised?

>>281185372
The big series aged badly, but the OAV & movie should be good.
Just avoid anything that new like Revolution and anything after

>>281185372
First three seasons are all great in their own way. The two that came later are not as good. It’s one of the longest-standing franchises, you should at least check it out.

>>281177567
You understand nothing. Old /a/ loathed Naruto and Narutards for good reason, you knew the board was dead when newfags started posting threads about it which not only survived but were posted in by a significant number of other newfags.

>>281185521
Slayers Try is timeless and I will die on that hill.

I’ve been playing old school VNs originally created for pc-98 for the full nostalgia vibe and it made me wonder when was the last time /a/ actually talked about VNs. Even after the /jp/ split, I remember there used to be some discussion every now and then during the 2010s, but I don’t see them anymore. Is it just because the industry only adapts LNs into anime these days or what?.

>>281185581
Fuck I hated when that started. Naruto was and still is absolute dogwater. Same for OP and Bleach. At least I have my manga collection to keep me company.

>>281185581
Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterscrew of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive shipping ------ry and DARKNESS. The normal anon can see this as the poop it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad.

However, these very aspects that try to smear over the poop of its core make it a breeding ground for aspie, unsociable underageb& ------s who engage in every kind of ------ry both online and in the real world. The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja ------ry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity-party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary-sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self-importance towards the world. Exactly the kind of poop that makes little kiddies and underageb& retards eat this poop right the screw up.

Naruto is basically THE series to attract the most hated anime fanbase known to /a/, which is why, regardless of individual opinions, it is the responsibility of every anon to troll the screw out of this show and everyone who likes it, and ensure that no Naruto threads ever encourage the newfags to show their faces here.

>>281185608
I'm really not sure on that. I'd love to see an adaption of Bishojo Mangekyou for example. Streamed to the entire world in all it's glory..........Imagine.

>>281185581
Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive shipping faggotry and DARKNESS. The normal anon can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad.

However, these very aspects that try to smear over the shit of its core make it a breeding ground for aspie, unsociable underageb& faggots who engage in every kind of faggotry both online and in the real world. The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity-party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary-sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self-importance towards the world. Exactly the kind of shit that makes little kiddies and underageb& retards eat this shit right the fuck up.

Naruto is basically THE series to attract the most hated anime fanbase known to /a/, which is why, regardless of individual opinions, it is the responsibility of every anon to troll the fuck out of this show and everyone who likes it, and ensure that no Naruto threads ever encourage the newfriends to show their faces here.

>>281169932
does he ever draw Amelia getting fucked? She looks great here

>self-censoring
You may be right, but you don't belong here.

>>281185665
No, but the official manga Hourglass of Falces has some exquisite Amelia ryona in it. The most Araizumi has done with Amelia are tasteful nudes.

>>281185678
It's a pretty deep cut. I knew someone wouldn't get it.

>>281185608
Nukitashi is a VN whose adaptation is currently airing but I'm not really interested in gooner stories. Also, I can't believe Saya no Uta never got an anime adaptation.

I think my first ever anime memory was of Robotech(at least I think it was because I have never actually watched it as a teen or adult) when a guy and a girl were trapped in some space wreckage and there was a big floating spacetuna outside. I liked the sexual tension, even though there probably wasn't that much by later romance anime standards, and the strangeness and creativeness of it; it was like nothing I'd seen in any western cartoon.

After that I watched all the late 90s early 00s Toonami stuff until I gave up in my eary teens and didn't touch anime again until 2007 when I was 16. I came to /a/ as it was over-run by Code Geass threads and spam. One of the first things I watched was TTGL, which I think had ended earlier that year. I lurked more than I watch or posted at first. I remember that I near marathoned the ENTIRE Zatoichi film catalog and only watched a little bit of anime. One of the first series I watched 'with' /a/. at least that I remember, was Toradora; which was a major presence on the board when it was airing.

How things have changed.

>30+
bitch i'm 42

I got a CRT tv to play retro games, but I've also started to use it as a 3rd monitor for my PC to watch old anime like Battle Athletes. It's pretty comfy.

>>281185804
My condolences.

>>281185818
Is it a new CRT or did you need to pass it through some adaptors to make it work?

>>281185850
No it's an old CRT and I only have a cheap adapter that converts an RF cable to HDMI. It's definitely super non-optimal, but I haven't experienced any significant audio/visual noise. I honestly prefer watching old 4:3 anime on it compared to my desktop monitor.

>>281185832
i feel better than ever, but thanks

>>281185601
>I will die on that hill.
Luna said you still have to take the job, get out of your tomb Lina.

>>281185897
Yeah I can imagine it just looks right for older stuff.

>>281166903 (OP)
Our (millennial's) Frieren

>>281169488
VHS and local anime channel for me, quintessential 90s experience and most millennials would have gone through this path. Watching anime via YT is for mid-late zoomers, I remember a Thai guy was exuding his mediocre power level around early 2010s anime boom era but it seems like he became a somebody, not that I give a damn.

>>281185581
>You understand nothing. Old /a/ loathed Naruto and Narutards for good reason
How about you actually read his post and stop pretending like you belong here.

I'm working on a fanservice page, summarizing the parts I consider the spiciest. I'm not an editing expert, but I'm doing my best haha. Any comments or advice are welcome. I've only done 5 episodes of Slayers so far, but I'll cover them all. I work on a few each week. Anyway, greetings.

https://animefpp.wordpress.com/s/

>>281183294
NTA, but I think it was a joke

>>281185681
>Hourglass of Falces
I remember really liking the way that artist drew Amelia too

>>281186259
The first thing I see is Shuffle. Blessed post, great job anon.

>>281186329
Hourglass is great because the artist said, "I'm going to be horny and no one can stop me!"

>no fantasy priest waifu specializing in magical nuke
Why live?

>>281186600
If God did not want you to suffer, then he would not have allowed you to feel pain.

>>281185662
Narutards are just Potterheds in a different font. I too hate the fanbase and the culture it spawned but I love Hinata. I wish she wasn't in this shit series. Ignoring the bad writing The Last and the wedding episodes and other Hinata filler eps are all comfykino.

>>281186979
Hinata is just a cardboard rip-off of Sylphiel from Slayers. Hinata is such a non-character that I think you just like her himi cut, her demure personality, and her massive honkers.

>>281185927
Lina has more personality than the entire cast of frieren put together. I liked frieren for what it was, but besides casting magic there’s nothing in common with slayers at all.

>>281187017
I’ll shit on Naruto all day with you, but this is also a bizarre comparison. Hinata is a true wilting flower doormat who can’t fight her way out of a paper bag. Sylphiel is an airhead, but extremely competent at her actual job.

>>281187017
Don't presume to know my reasons. There are many girls in anime who are similar to Hinata, who I also like, but her appeal for me goes beyond being merely demure or having a hime cut. While I of course think she's captivatingly beautiful and plain at the same time, with her gentle smile, and stark white eyes which can he tender or terrifying, she's such a kind soul so she never wants to hurt people. Even though she could be stronger, she never truly desired a warrior's life because her heart wasn't in it. As she matured she understood that being a warrior wasn't only about supremacy over others, but protecting the innocent, and people she loves.

She appears meek and submissive but is quietly defiant all along which leads to her losing her inheritance. Early in her life she decided that her family's acceptance wasn't more important to her that her dignity and happiness, which is very unorthodox for a woman raised in such a traditional household. She rejected it all in lieu of simply wanting create a home full of love. Yet it's in knowing Hinata isn't the strongest kunoichi in the village but also isn't just a placid wallflower either and had cultivated physical and mental strength throughout her life, is what shoots the love arrow through my heart.

She's a character I admire deeply, because she represents a positive selfishness, the pursuit of happiness, the desire for self-love and outward expressed love which is inherent in all anxious people. For me she represents the meaning of life itself. Looking at her grounds me. She calms me down. Her strong sense of self worth for its own sake makes me want to better myself too. I don't see her as a girlfriend or my wife. She's my friend.

>>281166903 (OP)
>for the f/a/gs that had bootleg vhs tapes and argued about mistranslations through aol chat rooms, for the ones who were alive when painted frames became digital, and for the ones who remember when megumi hayashibara made voice acting a celebrity profession instead of just another job
Uhh buddy I think you wanted to make a 40+ thread not a 30+ one, I did none of that and I'm 31

>>281169488
depends on the country. I was born in 98 and to mid 2000s were a really good period to be a kid in morocco or in an arab country. On national TV, we had :
> OG yu-gi-oh
> megaman battle network (all seasons)
> Code Lyoko
> TMNT
> Ippo
> Naruto.
Everyone had a satelite antena, so everyone watched Spacetoon and MBC3 for the cartoons and MBC action for wrestling. Spacetoon had some 80s and 90s shows, Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Digimon, Captain Tsubasa, Slam Dunk, Detective Conan, Nadia, Sonic X and so on. MBC 3 was more cartoon oriented but it still aired all of yu-gi-oh and GX, Oban star racer, and good stuff like Chaotic, Di-gata, and Dragon Booster. Of course all of it was dubbed in Modern Standard Arabic, which nobody fucking speaks, and ranged from decent to atrocious.
When I got into anime in 2013, youtube still had anime episodes cut in 3 to 4 part on 480p max.

>>281181294
>>281181367
Yeah, born early 90s and to me stuff like Pokemon, Digimon, Yu Gi Oh, Medabots, Beyblade, Doraemon, Shinchan, Hamtaro, Rantaro, Inuyasha, CCS, Doremi, Detective Conan, Azumanga, Lucky Star and Naruto (even if I never liked it) among a long list of others resonate with me more than older stuff.
I definitely watched old stuff like Heidi, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, Candy Candy, Sailor Moon and Mazinger (which is stuff from my parent's time) when I was very very young on TV and of course the DB reruns up to GT and even not-so-old NGE, etc, but I was so young that I don't remember it all that well, and grew up watching most of the anime previously mentioned on TV and official VHS movies like Akira and some ghibli stuff until I got my pirate ship called a PC and ADSL internet and started watching subbed anime like Azumanga and Lucky Star and playing RO and only then started seeking older stuff seriously. Then I realized dubs were terrible. Then I guess I became a newfag and watch mostly seasonals ever since. /blog

>>281185911
is luna in any of the anime?

>>281167861
I remember when this manga gave her even bigger titties and a miniskirt. Good times.

>>281189756
I thought her ttis weren't much bigger, but they did have a nicer shape.
It's a pity it's a short series, I would've read 60 volumes of this no matter what the story was, just for the way he drew Amelia

asahi is a saint

>>281185804
I'm 39 and feel like I was born just a few years too late for all the good stuff. Lucky you.

I actually still have a bunch of oldass fansub VHS tapes. Including all of Lodoss War. The tapes themselves actually look pretty decent for the most part, but a few are in such shitty quality it's like analog horror.

>>281182028
You fags are so fucking annoying, goddamn. I browse 4chan with my wife.

>>281182028
I don't like kids.

>>281181294
Proper 30 year old nostalgia should be 2000s anime, yeah. Maybe late 90s at the earliest.
Though to be fair I did watch quite a few English dubbed OVAs when I was like 9-13 years old because the rental store had a few.
A bunch of dubbed hentai was just obliviously sitting in the cartoon section which was just a hodgepodge mix of anime and Western cartoons.

My grandmother rented me pic related (Magical Twilight/The Hex Files) because she didn't realize it was hentai, it was my first exposure to pornography and sex in general and I was so fucking confused because this show did some weird "artistic" censorship where the penises were invisible (but still solid so fluids like saliva were still on them floating in midair) and girls were holding and licking at nothing.

>>281191057
I LOVE kids.

Who has killed more people?

>>281191090
Lina was an apex predator because of how much hype circulated her and other characters voiced by Hayashibara throughout the 90s. Lina is responsible for the birth rate crisis in Japan due to the trillions she killed.

>>281190961
Good for you couple of degenerate
>>281191057
Then what are you doing here?

If someone is 30 years old today, then that would mean they would have been watching anime released between 2003 and 2008. We're talking Fullmetal Alchemist, Samurai Champloo, Code Geass, Gurren Lagann, and Soul Eater.

For someone to have been alive for Slayers to be a part of their formative years, they'd have to have been born between 1983 and 1988. They'd be 42-47 years old today. Anyone younger than that claiming they "grew up" with Slayers is lying their ass off.

>>281191266
>born between 1983 and 1988. They'd be 42-47 years old today.
Anon...

>>281191266
nice math, did your mom do it for you?

i was only able to catch what was on tv, but most was crap like fighting foodons and samurai pizza cats and i always gravitated towards whatever OVAs and movies i could find since they had smoother animation, no filler and more ultra-violence and nudity. funny enough they had more villains with rational reasons for doing what they do instead of the retarded evil boss that kills his own guys and is evil just to be evil

>>281191431
Did Gourry do this math?

>>281169488
Anime started getting dubs in my language in 1976, and then they started airing them in various channels with it peaking with early Spacetoon. Stuff like Tetsujin 28, Grendizer, Mazinger Z, Romeo's Blue Skies, Future Boy Conan, Aoki Densetsu Shoot, Captain Tsubasa, Virtua Fighter, Hamtaro, Remi, Nobody's Girl, and many more. Most of the 80s and late 70s generations would often quote these anime. They also made a lot of memes in the early 2000 when the Internet became more accessible. Some of the anime openings and voice acting were even better than the original. Their choice of anime was great, too. I'm not sure what the process was, but the anime they chose to dub were really good picks. I think they still get reruns to this day, I know they did up till 2019, so exposure is a bit similar. Too bad mobiles became more popular and with it making kids more inclined to consume worthless, easy to digest media.

>>281190961
Pillows don't count faggot, we are talking real breathing women here.

>>281191431
How embarrassing...
>>281192134
Nobody here is talking about 3dpd.

>>281192134
2D > 3D

they dont make anime girls like they used to

>>281192485
Lucifer was hotter.

>>281193136
she was, had good taste in bikes too

>>281166903 (OP)
GrumpyJiisan was excitedly watching the latest seasonals on his deathbed at age 89. You don't like anime.

>>281194223
you're right
i don't

>>281176882
Correct, they want the fun for themselves.
I realized this and broke free of the brainwashing when I saw a cute beautiful little girl in the supermarket.

>>281175318
You sound like a fun person to be around

>>281169087
it's not that good. people say they like it because they were teens with nothing else to do when it first aired. you've seen better.

Slayers is good but it's kind of slop at the same time. You need to be in the mood for it.
If you haven't watched it but want to watch some fantasyslop, it is the series to watch instead of the dogshit we've gotten in the past 10 years of the genre.

>>281196849
>>281197291
Is it better than Girumasu? I thought that was decently fun.

>>281197396
If it's new it most likely sucks ass compared to Slayers.

>>281197396
Much, much better it's an actual fantasy anime not some native isekai bullshit.
Wait wasn't the author of the novel the guy that just got arrested for having sex with a 14 year old prostitute?

>>281197648
Not the author, the illustrator. They recalled the novels and are going to rerelease them with new art from a different guy.

>>281197691
Kekaroo.