How long have you been watching fan subbed anime?

[Foomanchew24]

Just curious to know how long people here have been watching fansubs. I have been watching since march of 2004. Jus a little over a year now.

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[Mut]

Last month. Seriously.

I just took over my bro's account.

[Lefty]

It'll be a year come this monday.

[Y]

I guess it'd be six years or so.

[Psyke]

Fansubs? Around 3 years I think. Anime? My entire life.

[basey44]

bout a year for me

[hopeknight]

Hmmm... that would be back in junior high, when it was still vhs tapes being shipped around, I'd say about 7 or 8 years now.

[Assertn]

fansubs would have to be.......5 maybe 6

[yallo]

freshman year summer... so I guess it'll be nearing 3 years now.
damn... time flies...
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[Terracosmo]

4 years. Started seriously 3 years ago though. Saw it the first time like 10 years ago and back then I loved it too but never really got a chance to pick it up (I was 8 years old and didn't even have a computer).

[Turkish-S]

1 year ago i saw 1 episode of naruto at a friend. love at the first sight. since then watched a shit load of fansubbed anime.

[Deblas]

One year ago. My cousin showed me Naruto and I was hooked.

[DDBen]

I'm thinking atleast 10 years back in the dark ages of 2400 bps modems and when you had to find someone with VHS copies i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[SK]

year or two

[Xollence]

Ever since I was little I use to watch anime with Korean subs.

[anime050]

Mmm. I've been watching for about 2 years now.

I've gotten into the fansubbing scene at about... June 2003. Around when I was still really active on this forums.

[GLS]

Its been a little over a year for me. A friend showed me Ep. 71 of Naruto (great starting place btw i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif ), and I been watching fansubbed anime since.

[Death BOO Z]

started watching anime in general about 3 years ago, first DBZ, then DB, Trigun, and then i kinda lost track of which anime came later, it's all a blur.

[NM]

Its been a year for me. My friend first showed me Naruto (my first time watching a fansubbed anime) and after that, I was hooked. I asked him to teach me about BitTorrent and after that, I've been downloading and only watching fansubs.

[hiddenpookie]

For about 3 years i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[Board of Command]

Since last Christmas (that's Dec 2003).

[Swallow Your Soul]

A few weeks before I first joined Gotwoot, think it was around the time when early episodes of GitS:SAC were on the site...thats all I remember cos I had been google searching for eps (I was new to anime) and found them here...

[PSJ]

3 years or so.

[Goingin]

1,5 years now i think

Started it all when i came across Initial D eps i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[Roko]

however long Naruto has been out. Started when Naruto was at around ep 20.

[Board of Command]

That's 2 years.

[Arcn3ss]

I use to watch old old Japansese version Dragonball Z episodes on computer in ram format, but iam not sure how old that is. I even remember this format of video called vivo or something like it.

But when i started downloading hardcorely was about 2-3 years ago, using the old p2ps that were around at the time.

I've been a sucker for alot of years prior to finding fansubs, by buying the old vhs tapes. ( over 150 before i stopped buying that format)

[Souryusen]

About 8 years but I've only been downloading fansubs about a year and a half.

[Assertn]

yep, my first fansub download was the 1st episode of DBGT, back when it was only on realplayer

considering that it was back when the frieza or android saga was still being aired, the very concept of actually seeing a japanese ep of GT was THE SHIT

[kAi]

Fansubs for about 3-4 years.

[Mae]

About 6 years for me. I remember (back in the day) getting anime from sketchy VHS groups. You'd email them your order, send in $12, and a couple weeks later get a box of 4 tapes of uncertain quality via snail-mail. Surprisingly I never did get ripped off. I still have a box of them somewhere (including all of Hellsing). And today I get free copies of eps a few days after they air in Japan.... Yay internet!

[ChaosK]

whenever GS or PoT came out (which ever was first) i believe it was like 2 yrs ago?

[Zinobi]

ummm lets see for about hmmm since about 5 months maybe

[Hakeem_21]

Two years has it been since i started downloading subs. Saw anime for the first time in Robotech in 97 but it was dubbed and crappy so i didnt get into anime until i rented The Cowboy Bebop movie in 2003 after it i have downloaded many shows. Kenshin was the first anime i downloaded.

[Crows_Kill]

Damn I feel old. I've been watching fan subs since the early 80's, so about 25 years now.
I stil have plenty os fan subs on vhs and beta.

Now where my cane?.....

[Hakeem_21]

Crow are you kidding or something?

Is fan sub that old?

[Crows_Kill]

It sure is. First fan sub I saw was a very poor quality sub of the original "gatchaman" not the corny battle of the planets/g-force, but the real gatchaman. Must have been about 80/81, by a fan sub group from college station texas, later known as corn-pone shorts productions. No kidding. Also saw fan subs of the original pre-robotech macross sent over from friends in the air force stationed in okinawa, fan subed using milatary recording equipment in their off time. Fan subs have been around since vhs became popular and easy to edit, starting in the late 70's. Lots of fan subs were produced by one man sub/editing outfits that had no name. US Manga corps started out as a fan sub group in the 80's, and manga and adv films got their start importing fan subs and unofficial translations. I still have a few of adv's "white box" releases of miyazaki films and other semi-bootleg productions. Of course they wont admit to it now, but if you do a little googling on the subject you might surprised what you find.

[Hakeem_21]

I watched vhs rip of the 1993 nba final so i geuss fan subbing isnt so new.

Then you are a true veteran i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif,i didnt even know anime existed until the Cowboy Bebop movie.....

[Black ops]

since its may..... 3.5 months.

[Ryllharu]

For fansubs, since my freshmen year of college, so I guess its about 2 years now.

Dubs though, I watched for some time longer. Samurai Pizza Cats, Dragonball (the first, the good one), and Sailor Moon back when they were on American network television really early in the morning. I guess that was almost 10-12 years ago.

[Nachtvogel]

About 4 years, whereas i got nearly every sub by dc++ in that time.

[DeluxSkillz]

fansubs i think maybe 5 or 6 years don't know exactly when i started but yeah 5 or 6 is about right

[Def_X]

Lets see here. Since I had to buy Flame of Recca on VHS in B- quailty for 20 bucks. So that was when I was a junior in high school. About 5-6 years now.

[Bearer]

I only started watching fansubs less than 7 days ago, started with naruto, well i've only been watching naruto but am sure there will be lots to come. I cant understand why i've left it this long it's great i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[monkeyman]

I've been watching anime for about 3 years now but have only been watching fansubs since augest 2004.

[TruthofMistake]

A little under a year, one of my friends started dling it and showed it to me after and iv been hooked since. i used to bitch about the subtitles (i was used to dubs) but now i dont even notice it and from my experience the japanese voice actors are better anyways

[Bishounen]

Bout a year... maybe 1.5

[Kovash]

First ever episode of Anime I saw was a Teknoman episode, back when it was the ONLY anime released in Australia, aired at a decent time for the primary-schooler that was me.

So I suppose i fall into the 'been watching it for as long as I can remember' crowd, though I only started watching Fansubs when my friend gave me the beginning of the Trigun series on CD (quite a few years ago), and since then I've been into anything I can get my hands on.

Wait, that doesn't even answer the question... I don't really know - I think 6 years, maybe a bit more?

[Alhuin]

Hmm.... about 3 1/2 - 4 years.

[bluesakura]

I remembered my first discovery of fansubs were Love Hina ones. Back then they still are in low resolution 320x240's and all that, but to me to looked so good already back then.

My first fansub I downloaded myself was Angelic Layer ep. 1. Amazing that I got it because of my 56K back then.

[EpoC]

watching fansubbed anime about 3 years maybe. 3 years allready huh.. times goes by!

[YaGaMi]

I've been watching fansubbed anime for 6 years, but I started watching anime itself 17 years ago.

[BioAlien]

Oh well.. since this topic was bought back from the dead..

Since I first watched Tenjou Tenge. There was around 11 episodes out when I started watching it.

[kenren]

4-5 years ago.. that was when i got addicted to Geusomaden Saiyuki

[Yukimura]

Going on 5 years ago a bunch of nerds kept coming into my dorm room and watching/talking about this show called Naruto all the time with my roomate. After a semester of listening to them talk about it all the time I broke down and downloaded the first season. I was kicked off the school network 2 weeks later for for downloading every anime I could get my hands on.

[itadakimasu]

i've been watching fan subs since 2001/2002 when i used to have to buy them off of ebay because i only had 56k modem and couldn't dl any large files *sigh*

[oyabun]

about 6 or 7 years.

[David75]

I started actively maybe 2 years ago.

First anime was in 78 or so, on TV.

[complich8]

Fall 2001 was the first time I started going out and finding stuff.

But holy hell, thread necromancy!

http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/files/3/1/2/Necro1.jpg

You get a custom avatar, YaGaMi :)

[Xrlderek]

4 years I think. As a lot of other people here, I got introduced to Naruto by a friend. He read the manga, and always spoiled me. After that I got about 5 friends to watch it, and forced my cousin to watch trough 35 eps( I literally kept him locked in my room). He didn't start liking it until the 20th episode or so, that's when I could unlock the door. He's so stubborn.

[YaGaMi]

Fall 2001 was the first time I started going out and finding stuff.

But holy hell, thread necromancy!

http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/files/3/1/2/Necro1.jpg

You get a custom avatar, YaGaMi :)

Thanks for the avatar. I actually like it.

Breathing new life into the forums!!! :rolleyes: