Oldschool Anime General thread - ADV DVD - You wa shock!

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TheFluff: Dec 13, 2006; FRIENDS, LISTEN TO ME
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Heavy Metal posted:

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the anime "end of history" moment equivalent to the fall of the berlin wall was probably the airing of ghost in the shell sac: 2nd gig, in 2004. there's an enormous generational divide somewhere around 2003-2005 or so, around the time internet distribution and the fansubbing explosion really started to kick off. crunchyroll was founded (as a pirate streaming site) in 2006 and adv was liquidated in 2009, and around that point we also started to get official simulcasts. there's no question that gurren laggan is a classic, but it's an internet era classic.

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TheFluff: Dec 13, 2006; FRIENDS, LISTEN TO ME
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SatoshiMiwa posted:

I get why your equating the explosion of digital fansubs with the growth of the internet but the early days of the internet absolutely lead to more VHS fansubs getting circulated around than them just staying at certain universities or fan clubs.

yes, but the internet took over the fansubbing community and transformed it to the point of complete replacement within just a few short years. fansubbing in 2003-2004 still had influential people from the vhs era around. it was fairly insular. adv would announce licenses at conventions and fansubs would be dropped. torrents existed but a lot of people still used irc for distribution (one of the first torrent link aggregators was anime.mircx.com; mircx was an irc network). by 2006 the scene had changed completely with a huge influx of people from groups that had previously done dvd rips (as well as a lot of random internet people with no previous exposure to fansubs) and turned into something completely different, and at the same time the audience also exploded because the distribution became enormously easier to access. in a timeframe of only 2-3 years the state of things went from a lot of shows being mostly inaccessible prior to an american dvd release, to basically every single show being available fansubbed within a week or two of airing in japan.

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