![]() ![]() I’d lean close to my monitor for hours on end, squinting at a 320×240 resolution. Looking back, it wasn’t a particularly pleasant experience. This is how I ended up watching a lot of random stuff like Igby Goes Down and Grosse Point Blanke, neither of which made much of an impression on me. This was also how I ended up watching anime that hadn’t been curated for me by one of my more knowledgeable friends from high school. Not that I didn’t try to articulate a set of standards for myself-albeit arbitrary standards that positioned me as too good for Tenchi Muyo! yet not too good for Golden Boy-but browsing those lists of video files marked the true beginnings of me developing taste in what anime I watched. Really, what I’m thinking about is how I had to pirate anime in the age before torrents. My first year at college, the intranet there had a indexer called Phynd that crawled the shared folders of all connected computers and allowed people to download the files on them via FTP. Granted, I never had to buy bootlegs or use a mail-order catalog or anything, but my first box set of Trigun, made by Pioneer/Geneon before the first anime bubble burst in the late naughties, did cost a hundred and eighty-five dollars, so it’s not like I didn’t suffer! ![]() I was reading an article yesterday about the trials and tribulations of American cosplayers in the late seventies and early eighties, sometimes watching unsubtitled anime at conventions with a translator on hand to explain what was being said, and it really struck me how the landscape for finding and watching anime has changed so much, even in just the decade and a half since I became a fan. ![]() Welcome back and happy Fourth of July! This week’s OP is from the 1997 anime Berserk, “Tell Me Why” by the Penpals. ![]()
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