[ SECRET POST #2884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2884 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[thelonebamf]

I grew up during the mail-order-VHS-fansubs era of anime in the US so when fansubbers started posting their work the *day* after an episode aired in Japan it blew my mind. When I started hearing people complain about how certain these spreedy translations weren't "good" or "accurate enough" for them, I didn't know how to respond. Like.. do you realize how amazing this is?

I had a friend who worked for several years an Funimation, including when they started doing livestreams. The amount of QC that went into these things was astonishing, and she admitted to me that if even the slightest thing was off or delayed, they'd hear it from the "fans" for forever. Again, I was baffled. Free anime, translated for your convenience the same day it's airing in Japan? What? And people complain?

I wish I could make these punks time travel to the era of when there just was flat out no anime available to buy, or when we paid 30.00 for 45 minutes of an OVA on VHS tape. Is it any good? Who knows! It's what the distributor could get! Or I could sit them down and let them watch the entire season of "Kodomo no Omocha" I had burned onto a single CDR. Yeah. Real Media. Yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL yes, I remember the days of vhs fansubs, and finding something that was are and less than 9 generations removed from the source was a great thing! Ah those were the days. I had a tape with 15 episodes of Fushigi Yuugi somehow crammed on it, and I have to say that I later bought the FY boxed set and it just wasn't the same with the wavering audio and washed out colors XD

[iggy]

No, same. I got into anime during the tail end of the VHS fansub era, and digital fansubs period just kind of blew my mind when they started. And the price of anime (unless it's aniplex)! It's so, so much cheaper now.

That I can pay 6.99 a month now and watch 40+ shows the same day they air in Japan (in addition to all the older shows they have on the site), is freakin' awesome to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I still have some of those fansub tapes!

Things have changed a lot and hopefully they'll change more.

[(Anonymous)]

I started by watching Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Escaflowne on TV when they first came out on public TV super edited. Then when I graduated HS and got a job started buying dvds, and VSH was semi being phased out. I remember handing Suncoast all my profits. Paying $40 a dvd for five episodes of Sailor Moon, and $200+ for all of Escaflowne with a stupid special LE Escaflowne figure that fucking broke. I remember when Walden Books only had one measly half shelf of manga, and it was mostly Peach Girl.

I really wish I could take these fans back to those days, not that they'd probably care or it would change their minds. That and give them dial up and have them wait five or more hours for a real media file... only to have to screw up half the time. Or watch the true pixelated horror of a VCD disc crammed with 25-50 episodes.