Love Hina

Canaan.

Naruto, 3 years ago on crunchyroll

Yugioh

Inuyasha

Naruto

also Love Hina

The Melancholy of Haruhi

same, OP

Magic Knight Rayearth back in the VHS days.

honey and clover

i remember cause this was my first screencap

Desu noto

Dragon Ball Z?

nostalgia ;_;

love hina for me as well... year 2000 on kazaa

remember kazaa? man shit sucked

love hina

Love Hina was one of the first. I can't recall if it was the first.

Dragonball Z, many moons ago. Those lovely rmvb subs with the yellow font.

Love Hina followed shortly after.

Elfen Lied...
Stop looking at me like that!

Ranma 1/2. The first and the best.

Mother fucking Gungrave even though the dubs are also excellent.

Kiddy grade.

dbgt

>>35140882
probably this. feels bad man

elfen lied

naruto

Naruto sadly

naruto

SCHOOL RUMBLE!!!!

Fullmetal Alchemist. Even though my friends ranted about how subs were better than dubs, I never really cared and was happy with the dubs.
That is, until Adult Swim started reruns of this series for like the 8th time.

Samurai X

Yakitate!! Japan

Kenshin lol

>>35140930
Love Hina was the first. If you watched it when it was being subbed than you got in on the ground level of fansubbing.

DBZ - Don't remember.

Ranma 1/2

The shittiest FMA Movie subs ever. Whoever did it translated Gluttony to Gurrase, Winry to Wendy, and Envy to Enpi, and nothing fucking made sense. Didn't watch anime for two years after that.

bakemonogatari

>>35140930
it definitely wasn't the first, but if you only got shit online then it's pretty far back there unless you were rockin the priv usenets back in the day

Naruto, I'm sorry to say.

Elfen Lied

Many many moons ago.

Suzuka, atleast I think it was.

The first Japanese voiced anime I saw was Gatekeepers, no subs, only final destinations. The first fansubed I don't remember, something about a ninja or someshit protecting his ditzy neighbor. Ending was something like a reset with her slipping from a banana shit or some shit like that. Maybe Anon can help me out with this?

I... don't remember. It's been too long. It was probably something incredibly shitty.

Ah My Goddess. thought that shit was pro or something.

Saiyuki.

Sailor Moon

waiting for fucking hours just to download only one episode. hell, sometimes less than one episode.

ah, those were the days!

Hunter x Hunter

Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu

K-ON

FMA

I still have the original shit quality fansubbed Love Hina from back then on motherfucking cd-rs.

Fuck yeah.

Joining the Naruto wagon on first fansub.

The first Mobile Suit Gundam compilation movie.

First Pokemon movie, I bought the VHS in NYC from a very shady store. I think that was 1998 so about 12 years ago.

Gurren Lagann. Shit was cash, BSS knows what's up.

Fushigi Yuugi on VHS

Excel Saga

Full Moon Wo Sagashite

Code Geass

Girl's High

naruto

Rozen Maiden

Haruhi. It was on an online game forum, recommending anime. Have no idea why it stood out to me.

Angel Beats

Love Hina was kind of a landmark for fansubbing because I think it was right around when divx came out and people started subbing the episodes as the show was airing in Japan. I was like omg wtf 100+ mb per episode!? Omg karoake subs for the OP and ED?

I think first fansubs I saw were either Kenshin or Flame of Recca.

Summer

All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.
That was before divx was even out. It used an obscure coded I don't even remember what was called.

naruto episode 198, before that it was all DVDs and television.

Fuck, Love Hina here as well.
There seems to be a lot of us.

boku no pico

Gundam Seed Destiny.
...yeah....I know...

rosario+vampire
before it was all dubbed shit

Astro boy

Monster

Trigun

ghost in the shell on vhs

I don't remember
Do you expect me to remember that?

Slayers was my first one, actually. Love Hina was my first self-downloaded subbed anime. I remember the ridiculous file sizes of about 30-40MB per episode. Too bad I deleted those, would have been fun to get eye cancer.

boku no pico

>>35141211
FANsub

School Rumble. By Wannabefansubs.

Oh nostalgia..

Bakemonogatari

>>35140990
This...on bad quality tapes subbed by Shinsengumi IIRC.

Hold on...watching the original opening for nostalgia's sake.

I think it was Ah My Goddess TV, way back in 2005.

>>35141036
>>35141116

Oh god, shit, it was this! The opening song and the first insert song just came back to me! I never finished watching it. Only got like three episodes of it.

Love Hina is where it all started for me. Look where I am now, it ruined me. Curse you Akamatsu!!

>>35141251
hold on there whippersnapper, there were vhs fansubs back in the day.

Fruits Basket.

>>35141251
>Implying VHS can't be fansubbed

Scrapped Princess

>>35141335

>>35141338
nigga sure is newschool in here

love hina =)

Azumanga Daioh ... on youtube

Bleach 5-6 years ago.

>>35141272
You say it like it was long ago.

>>35141251
Newfag detected.

>>35141278
Fuck I watched a few rips of those on a livestream. Damn those were bad. I swear there was like 3 lines on the screen at once and I kept seeing this japanese commercial with a dolphin or something.

>>35141361
Not sure I follow you.

I would say FLCL, but those were rips of the official versions that Gainax released with English subtitles for some reason. So yeah, Love Hina a little more than 8 years ago.

hmm, really can't remember.
I'm leaning towards Tenchi Muyo

Love Hina like everyone else. Downloaded from Kazaa

Flame of Recca.....I thought it was the best thing ever back then....

Haruhi, I believe?

>>35141251
Man the anime community was so much better back in the mid/late 90s because people actually had to go outside and meet people to see new anime.

If you didn't know the right people you didn't get a chance to see shit.

Mai Hime? Melody of Oblivion? Naruto episode 90?

I can't remember if it was Slayers or Nightmare Campus....

>>35141494
I remember that...And then discovered the scanlations from Snoopy Cool later...Damn the anime missed out on some good fun.

Death Note

If you didn't buy fansubs on VHS, you're small time.

>>35141608
>Buy
>Slayers Try

no

Kodomo no Omocha. Got the first 20 something episodes on VHS from a shady place in downtown Toronto. Shit was cash.

I don't really remember for sure. I think it was Love Hina.
This was back when p2p was still in its infancy and I still downloaded though Kazaa.

Macross Frontier, last year.

I'd just discovered that Robotech was actually made up of different things...so I had to see the sequel.

Now I've got damn near a terabyte of this stuff. Not sure how I feel about that.

Magic Knight Rayearth OVA
Feels bad, man

Patlabor, 16 years ago
I bought ten VHS tapes with the hole tv series from a guy that used to do fansubs at the time.

Naruto I'm fairly sure...

>>35141608
Brought bootlegs of hentai if that's what you mean.

Samurai Pizza Cats.
.rm files

horrible, horrible quality.
Took forever to download that....5 MB file (iirc) on 14.4k

Mega Man Star Force. Yeah, I know.

>Old PC dies
>Get new PC
>Look through old discs
>Find one with "Ruouni Kenshin" on it
>3 Episodes
>300mb
>mpg files
>Go to play them
>Fucking awful quality

I think those were the first ones I watched, I never watched any beyond those 3 episodes.

Digi Charat, 11 years ago

FANsubs? Probably Love Hina, possibly GetBackers.

Cardcaptor Sakura

>>35141663
>back when p2p was still in its infancy
>Kazaa

Prince of Tennis.
It has been a very long time.

Bleach, when the latest ep was at 15

Sailor Moon in horrible horrible low quality real media files. Downloaded over dailup. In the mid 90's.

azumanga daioh

>>35141719
Fuck yeah, Samurai Pizza Cats. Only time a made up dub track will be acknowledged by the Japanese creators as being superior.

Lucky Star I'm being serious

>>35141778
I assume he's talking about dedicated P2P protocols.
It is kind of crazy though, especially if you look at something like torrenting, a decade ago it didn't even exist, today it accounts for as much as 43% of ALL internet traffic.

I wonder if its creator had any idea just what he was about to unleash.

Naruto, really guys? How old are you?

Cardcaptor Sakura..

bokusatsu tenshi dokuro chan IIRC

First episode of Naruto. Didn't go on to watch any other episodes.

Z Gundam. Even then, I tried to watch it from Kazaa....with a dial up connection. I guess that was about.....9-ish years ago.

Fullmetal Alchemist

Full show? Love Hina.
Though I used to watch clips of dragonball and such off of IRC because they weren't horribly censored. Those had subs too, so if that counts...yeah.

Vandread

Evangelion back in high school. A friend hijacked the sci fi club at my Catholic high school and we ended up showing the whole series and movies on VHS.

Good times.

Also I remember watching Ronin Warriors on TV in middle school not really knowing about anime.

>>35141982
Fuck year! Same here

Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. I think getting close to 2 years ago.

Some guy I talk to online showed me some clips from it, so I decided to watch it. (Looked up some stuff about what it was about first, so I wasn't totally lost in the story). Watched the rest of the series later.

Actually, they might have been legit copies of Eva on VHS, but the movies were VHS fansubs.

Love Hina and FLCL were the first fansubs I downloaded freshman year of college in 2000. Got them from a friend's ftp server. We didn't have no torrents or even kazaa back then. Kids today with their YouseTubes and BittyTorrents.

>>35141982
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Thank you man, I have been trying to remember the name of that show for like...hours now.

Don't suppose anyone remembers the name of a mecha anime, can't remember a lot of the plot, the main characters were students learning to pilot them, I think it took place on a space station and occasionally monsters would attack.

Pretty sure that was the first truly fansubbed show I saw.

Probably Rozen Maiden

Hmmm.. actually maybe Kazaa was just starting around then. I remember another friend getting the rest of FLCL off of IRC and we shared the ep on burnt CDs back in the days before flash drives. Shit. I remember using re-writable CDs for that

>>35140999

Fansubbing was around for years with VHS tapes before digital fansubs took over.

Street Fighter II Movie

>>35142101 Don't suppose anyone remembers the name of a mecha anime, can't remember a lot of the plot, the main characters were students learning to pilot them, I think it took place on a space station and occasionally monsters would attack.
That's the description of like two dozen anime series from the 90s.

Gunbuster? That was kinda one of the earlier ones...

>>35142101
Pilot Candidate maybe...

Love Hina, wasn't using Kazaa fun.

Either Escaflowne or Utena.. it might be 12 years ago.. I am 22 now.

saber marionette or kenshin... i guess

Yugioh GX, before then I watched them all Raw. I learned a good amount of Japanese that way.

First anime I torrented was Shuffle! a year after I got broadband

When I had dial up I would leave the internet on overnight so I had to be specific on what i downloaded - so it was mainly porn.

Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo's Counterattack

Love Hina

DL with Kazaa Lite and a 33.6K modem. Logged on all night 12hrs for a week PER episode. 3-4KB/s

Now I have Fibre @ the lowest speed offered (Cheapest too) 21 Mb/s I re-downloaded the whole series (DVD) in an very short time just recently, cause it was quicker to do that then look for it in my old DVDs.

Tokyo Underground

Now that I think about it... it sucked. But I loved it back then.

Not my first subbed anime, but I watched Groizer X in 1979.

Dragon Ball

>>35142315
>GX
No. After the years it's been out it's just now getting subbed. The only episodes that were subbed completely as of a couple years ago was season 4.

>>35142050
>>35142101

Sweet, I have some Vandread bros

Shit's so fucking cash

Dokuro-chan

naruto. Before that I'd seen Evangelion, Trigun, and Samurai Champloo but they were all dubbed.

Fuck. I was at Northeastern a year or two after Fanning created Napster. Shit was awesome back then, but looking back it was so primitive.

Also somehow every other comedy mp3 was attributed to Weird Al. Fuckin morons....

Ranma 1/2

Fucking 12-15 years ago.

That fucking awesome shit got me into anime. That and Sailor Moon. I always wished to find a complete series torrent a few years back. I was given one by a man named ZODD, from a forum dedicated to a Warcraft III custom map. That man gave me a series that's unforgettable in my eyes.


ZODD, I thank you.

>>35142411
Ive seen the whole series fansubbed.

Inu Yasha. Luckily I got better taste pretty quickly and watched Rurouni Kenshin next.

it was either Weiss kreuz, the Kenshin ova or hana yori dango, I can't remember which one.

mid 90s VHS tapes in horrible quality
i remember kero kero chime and kenshin (shinsengumi fansubs! oh yeah - I even converted them to Real Media later on when the digital age hit us and uploaded them on some hotline servers)

Angel Beats
shit is so ca$h

Either Tenkuu no Escaflowne or Master of

>>35142704

of Mosquiton, d'oh

i have to say I think mine was azumanga daioh. maybe 5 years ago?

kodocha-001a.rm Hell yeah!
Kodomo no Omocha

Fansubbed, love hina. First ever, ruin explorers.

love hina

>>35142757
Pic related.

>>35142602 Real Media
Aaaaack! I'm having flackbacks...

Negima, back when it aired in '05.

I can't remember... It had this wooden puppet monster attacking this guy with magic, and the guy was spilling more blood than a human being has. Then this girl saved him with her own magical powers.

I saw a few episodes of it, but this is all I remember about it. It's older. Early nineties, late eighties. If someone wants to take a guess, please do. I wanna know what it was.

slayers on international Chanel
GET ALONG TRY AGAINNNNNNNNNNN

Evangelion, in super compressed .dvx files.

There's still scenes I don't remember seeing just because I couldn't make them out the first time I watched the series.

>>35142101
...Stellvia?

>>35143044
>international Chanel
>first fansub
wut?

>>35142757 Kodomo no Omocha
>>35142891
Oh geez. I remember going to MIT's anime club and watching the fansubs on that. Amazing how a group of college kids, some from one of the most brilliant tech school on the planet, sat around enjoying a Japanese kids cartoon. Though it was a pretty amazing kids cartoon.

Sailor Moon. Back when you had to buy fansubs

Bleach... years ago.

>>35143110
HAHAHA O WOW my mistake i thought it was just subs in general.

Same here. Sent away for tapes from Canada.

X movie, in a fucking VHS I ordered from a fansub group probably 7 or 8 years ago


jesus christ

>>35140828

Same here but 5 years ago.

I remember when too, 1-1-2005 at 00:02

Chobits
from some IRC channel group down in DynastyIRC.net
Still have 7 CD-R's of those subs stored somewhere.

Love Hina, 2004.

>>35142097
Seconding the friend with the FTP server thing. My computer was so shit IRC wouldn't work, but I could leech whatever he had. Only reason I ever saw Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar.

And then came Direct Connect...

one piece ep 264 my first experience with bit torrent on dial up. had to leave my computer on for 2 days straight to download it. FUCK YEA ADC SUBS

I believe To Love-Ru.

Or at least that's as far back as my memories go at the moment.
Still have that OP engraved in my head for some reason.

akazukin chacha

>>35143230 And then came Direct Connect...
Funny enough, I'm still using Direct Connect, especially since I got that warning from the MPAA on a torrent.

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, it even aired the year of my birth.

>>35143191
VHS fansubs in 2002? Where do you live, the Congo?

ranma 1/2 in 2001

>>35143393 Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, it even aired the year of my birth.
Fuck.. I wanted to yell underaged ban... but... fuck I feel old...

Pokemon.

Fullmetal Alchemist, coincidentally the first time I used a torrent to download something.

That was back when Azureus almost didn't suck.

ichigo 100% bitches

Love hina, 7 years ago

>>35142557
Forgot this thread was here. If you're still here, what the hell group subbed it or did you watch those HK subs that I watched for 200 episodes of Yugioh DM?

>>35143386
Oh wow, really? I need to look into that. With torrent trackers going belly up left and right, I'm going to need to diversify my methods of acquisition soon.

Cowboy Bebop.

Yes, I didn't watch the dub first.

Ginga Densetsu Weed

dragonball z

JANEMBA MOVIE MOTHER FUCKER

Either Evangelion or Prince of Tennis

Evangelion, about 2/3 years ago.
I just read manga all the time beforehand.

>>35142256
Yep, that was it. Thank you, that's been bugging me for a long time.

A college roommate of mine lived in Jersey and used take the train to go to Chinatown in NYC and get fansubs even back in middle school. He took me to some of the stores that were still selling them just as VHS was slowly dying and online fansubs were becoming king. They had also moved onto DVD fansubs and outright bootlegs.

One friend got a Bebop bootleg. Four discs. We pop one in to watch Mushroom Samba. The subs start. "Look now not here for food." We never stopped giving him shit about it. Made Anime Junkies seem like grammar nazis.

Dot Hack Sign

Ayashi no Ceres

Cardcaptor Sakura 9 years ago.

Dragon ball, 1992

I think inuyasha.

Oh wow....

I think it was Loveless? I didn't watch Naruto or Bleach until later.

Elfen Lied

itt: underage b&

Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna

I liked it a lot, but the ending blew total ass. It was basically a commercial for the manga.

naruto from dattebayo

4 years ago

i still watch them right now

fuck you haters

Oh man...its been along time...I think the original FMA was among the first...can't think of any others. I don't think i knew what fan subs were at the time either lol

Trigun. Fuck Yeah

Love Hina

seems like a common point for people

The Dragon Ball Z movies.

Di Gi Charat, 10 years ago

Evangelion, I can't remember how long ago.

hellsing or evangelion 7-8 years ago

Fansubbed? Love Hina I think.

Though I do remember watching Slamdunk and You're Under Arrest! subbed around late 2000/ early 2001ish.

Dragon Ball Z bootlegs
Hueg Yellow subs
Cell Saga
Cursing everywhere

Sailor Moon S, in realmedia format.

Love Hina.

I'm not sure. Probably
Naruto

.hack//SIGN

Stayed up all night watching it with a friend at college...at the end, we were both like, "WTF did we just watch?"

...and then he decided to watch Eva...

Evangelion and Love Hina, about the same time.

I'm not alone, sweet.

FMA

I am a sad little man.

Fullmetal Alchemist, fuckin 40mb episodes off of like Kazaa or whatever the fuck was in at the time.

>>35140828

Fullmetal Panic

...it would have to be Haruhi, in 2008, actually.

I have letters on my hard disk from orders that I placed for Sailormoon fansubed VHS tapes in 1996.

>>35146926
Dear god, me too. This has been a weird day.

chinese subs, dragon ball z/gt
english subs, love hina, so much hivemind.

I have the three SailorMoon movies on VHS

>>35146829 Stayed up all night watching it with a friend at college...at the end, we were both like, "WTF did we just watch?"

> ...and then he decided to watch Eva...

Ha!

Sailormoon R movie, it was the only way to see it back then. OLDFAG IS OLD

Either Love Hina or Eva but im pretty sure i watched Cowboy Bebop first with subs... DAMN that was so long ago!

Also, the VHS tape that had the Sailormoon R movie sub also had the Lupin III: Secret Files on it which is how I got into Lupin III

And the movie was directed by Ikuhara which made it even more entertaining when I rewatched it ten years later

>>35140828
Same here. Watched it on a winamp stream. Desync, I think.

Chobits, whenever that came out.

Naruto... Maybe, 4-5 years ago on youtube. My, how I've grown.

Dragonball Z. I remember it clearly too. It was the movie where cooler comes back in fucking robot form to raep everyone.

Saber Marionette J

It was the first anime I downloaded too.
Ah...sweet memories.

>>35143191
Haha I sent away for that one too. It's probably from the same group

Rave.

Saw a "only in Japan" column in PS Magazine for the first Love Hina game back in 2001, got a raging hardon for the promo image and downloaded episode 6 off of WinMX, files were 60mb and in .rm. I watched that fucking episode 10 times before downloading episode 9 and later the rest. After that I ordered the AMG! movie DVD, watched that some 100 times. The rest is history.

Scrapped Princess.

bleach

Ages ago, the first episode of Gundam Seed Destiny by a Spanish fansub. I downloaded it with fucking 56k!!

>>35147628
>Gundam Seed Destiny
>Ages ago

>>35147929
he said 56k not ages ago idiort
those mexicans are pretty backwards up there.

Bleach

trigun in what, 2006? when i was just getting back into anime i think

>>35141278

Saw it when it was called Hecto and it was TV ripped...to tape.

whats with all the love hina

also jap/banned pokemon eps for me, must have been 2001 or something

Akira.

Eremantar Gerad

Pic related.

>>35143191
I think X/1999 was the first actual fansub I saw, on VHS. It didn't make any fucking sense.

Years later I got Vandread on a bunch of CDs from some distro. I didn't figure out torrents until roughly 2003.

Sailor Moon R and S. Back when sending money orders to strange men living in Canada was how one got fansubs.

in 2003(?) i left my fucking kazaa on overnight to download ONE episode of some subbed anime and it is annoying me to no fucking end as to what it was. trigun maybe? love hina because i'd just gotten into fapping and i thought it'd be sexy? fuck knows.

Also i had 56k up until 2006, felt bad man

Angel Beats

Evangelion on PBS, 10 years ago. Fuck yeah, KTEH is awesome. Anime, Red Dwarf, and Doctor Who. Best PBS station ever.

ancient bastard tier:
VHS shit like sailor moon

grew up with linkin park tier:
anyone who used kazaa

teenager tier:
anyone who used a torrent

summer tier:
'naruto' as answer

Love Hina

Yakitate!! Japan, 6 years ago

i'm sorry /a/. it was hentai. i needed a fap so i downloaded a sub of Elven Bride.

I felt bad fapping because it was actually very cute and sweet for a hentai.

>>35148369
how do you get fansubbed anime on a VHS (obviously not an oldfag here)

Not going to lie, it was Naruto, circa 2004.

japfag here

never have to sub anything

feels good man.jpg

Majority of you seem to be oldfags. Rejoice, brothers.

>>35148412

Elven Bride does work well as a 'my first hentai', its generally lighthearted and there isn't much gross stuff in it.

>>35148419

You'd send off for them. They were made and distributed by shady, mysterious men.

Naruto. About 6 years ago. Downloaded off Limewire.

Sailor Moon, first grade, on Toonami.
Unless Little Nemo counts.

Chobits? Ranma 1/2?

fansubbers all over the world

join hands

>>35148503
my first h title was la blue girl
hilarious stuff
I remember the dub being good in the sense that it paralleled the ridiculousness of the plot,
or maybey im seeing things too much with nostalgia goggles.

I'll admit mine was Naruto as well. I was curious what all the hype was about so I torrented it. Shortly after I discovered 4chan and eventually /a/.

After that I started Rozen Maiden and after Haruhi I was hooked.

Dragonball Z; got it in horrendous quality off of Kazaa

>>35148419
You would send the fansubber money to cover the cost of tapes and shipping and they would send you subtitled anime on VHS. They typically used two VCRs and a device to place the subtitles in the video stream. I used VKLL to get Sailor Moon R and S. Never did order Saint Tail like I had wanted to.

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

>>35148412

>Elven Bride

holy fuck, I watched that shit in 2002, and only just found out how old it is. 1995??? porn cartoons where unheard of to me back then!

>>35148720

how did you get in contact with the subbers in the first place? internet?