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1. ICScaryThings (icst@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:57:14 JST ICScaryThings

   • Heavens Feel
   • NotAWeeb
   @NotAWeeb @heavens_feel lol so was that the main way to get anime back in the boomer era. That's pretty funny.
   • Heavens Feel (heavens_feel@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:57:14 JST Heavens Feel

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     • NotAWeeb
     @icst @NotAWeeb I was there (I am an "old taku") so I can tell you. There were a number of tape-trading circles. You'd get a VHS tape and would send it to them in the mail along with a money order. A few weeks later you'd get back a tape with some anime on it. What you got might be a multi-generational copy that looked bad, and the subtitles on it were soemtimes iffy, but you were very glad you had some anime to enjoy.
     
     Later on toonami and the sci-fi channel (that's how it was spelled back then) would show dubbed anime. If an anime got a dubbed release in the USA, it'd often be censored or revised - Cardcaptor Sakura was chopped up to make it look like Li Shaoran was the main character, Sailor Moon was missing many episodes, had altered character names, and many elements altered (they tried to say the lesbian couple were two cousins, etc.)
     
     I wish my area had a cool PBS station like in the above video. That was a really rare exception.
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   • Heavens Feel (heavens_feel@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 08:09:34 JST Heavens Feel

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     • NotAWeeb
     @icst @NotAWeeb I neglected to mention how important those anime-screening rooms were at conventions in the past.
     They'd show all manner of subtitled (or not, sometimes it was raw) anime which had been acquired from diverse sources. The young otaku would have a chance to see what all this mysterious stuff looked like, which evoked the desire to find out more about this strange thing they were looking at.
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