There are people, that are over 30, that never watched anime during the fansub era...

Split in 4 parts.

I kind of agree but it would have turned to shit in 2020 anyways, i just wish the new anime fans weren’t a bunch of prudes they never talk about anime they just talk about shit they don’t wanna see in anime, we already have way less fanservice than we used to, but even now they still find something to bitch about

I watched Elfen Lied as far back as 2007 but I only decided to watch Evangelion post-2014

Am I a bad person?

Oh man, I remember that shit. Also random ass streaming sites.

Looking back, man we tolerates some absolutely atrocious video quality back in the 2000s.

Lol the gatekeping. I started with dubbed anime. There was this project between 3 countries to create an anime and it was amazing.

All that matters is that you enjoyed it. I watched the End of Eva last year

Brith is a very relevant factor, it was their first anime couldn't really blame them.

Gatekeeping is a good thing, especially on Anon Babble

I stopped watching altogether and just sticked with manga

Call me getting old, senile, and bitter, but something just doesn't feel right. I blame it flatly on the fact that quantity has increased (due to cheaper offshore production and webnovels) but quality checking did not.

Back then, the difficulty in communication means that even the bottom loser has to learn how to draw and tell a story in order to draw a crowd. You have to struggle with making a draft, making manga, joining VN companies, and so on. You have to struggle for years and cherish small victories before getting there

But now, you can just post on webnovel sites and pander to the mainstream zoomers to max out your clicks...which you can also cheat using clicker sites

I started anime in 2023

The Eotena Onslaught

I'm getting flashbacks to the shitposts just reading this.

I want Haruhi Season 3 give it nowwwww

Fate series, Re Zero

nah it was SAO and chuunibyo that got shit mainstream.

Two more weeks

Fansub era? You mean back when we had to order fan subbed VHS tapes from other nerds over the internet almost 40 years ago? Leave it to a haruhitard to get pretentious over something so insignificant.

Ok and when they are 80 they will be the super old school to the kids then. Idiot

What are you moping about, nigger? Yes, there probably are 30 year old people who started with SnK or didn't watch anime during "le fansub era" or whatever the fuck, what a monumental issue holy shit. Maybe focus on the thousands of retarded zoomers ruining the industry with their god awful takes about "gooner" anime and how fanservice is le bad.

You act like the culture warriors on both sides didn't start coming in starting on AoT.

There's a definite cut off area.

There were VHS anime that was niche I was watching in the 90s as well. Not much. But still.

I started with Love Hina fansubs. Am I an oldfag?

That passion was only good when it was put towards making good and accurate subs. Not trolling people who just wanted to watch the show like Commie and gg did.

The real oldest of fags started with the purple VHS tapes. But Love Hina was IIRC the first show to popularize "digisubs" (as they were called at the time) so yeah, I'd say that still qualifies.

Yes, that was one of my first digisubs as well.
Good times. I had borrowed series from friends. The kind people in this thread are talking about. copied VHS tapes. Sometimes they even still had Japanese commercials.Quality was all over the place.
I only had 56k at home, and even then I was luckier than most people around me. Got to college and on the college lan and started downloading new series. Love Hina was the first one I downloaded. I still have the burned CDs saved somewhere (I think)

Modern manga is pretty shit as well desu.

anime being popular is awesome. I can talk about it with my friends that used to hate it. You are just a gatekeeping faggot.

I'm barely over 30 and started with project x fansubs on bootleg VHS tapes in the 90s

And wtf am I supposed to do? I started watching anime in 2012/2013 and my first anime was Higurashi. I probably would have started earlier by my parents were extremely strict when it comes to technology. I can't change the past. What am I supposed to do?

my first anime was Higurashi

just keep having good taste

I remember streaming Elfen Lied on Daily Motion. Sure, watching each episode broken into 3 parts was shit, but shit was so cash because nobody took the site serious and they didn't ban, even if they were the uncensored episodes.

My first subbed anime was He Is My Master, it's been almost 20 years now. I don't even remember why I knew about it or decided to watch it.

I'm 38 and I had three waffles this morning.

There are people, that are over 30, that never watched anime during the fansub era

I am 23 and used to watch anime on Youtube back when the full episodes where uploaded there cut into 3 or 4 pieces. I was like 8 or so, or when Youtube videos had links to pirate sites. I forgot which anime was my first one.

Anytime you see a post asking for "your top 3 favorite anime [thing]" all I see is kids talk about Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, and something seasonal.
I can't tell if its people who refuse to watch anything beyond shounen or it's just 15 year olds discovering anime for the first time and simply not knowing about anything else. Probably both.

It's dumb to expect the average western "anime fan" to be anything other than new to the hobby or shonenshitters. That has always been the case.

Anime is mostly a social thing for normalfags so they'll only watch shit other normalfags are watching

This is my first post on Anon Babble in years, but same