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>Art style hasn't improved for shit in 10 years

>>89118023
An artist's style doesn't change much once they're in their comfort zone

It's just really fucking sad that THAT is his comfort zone

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>>89117803 (OP)
I'm pretty sure the original weeaboos were 19th century Frenchmen.

>>89119055
Did anime even exist in the 19th century?

>>89118578

The art style itself isn't terrible. What's terrible is that he has that art style and still can't figure out how to put out more than two or three pages a month.

WHY IN GODS FUCK
IS THIS SHIT
FUNDED?

>>89119233
You can be a weeaboo without watching anime.

>>89119696
I'm not really sure why I even thought that you needed to watch anime in the first place

>Fred-chan
>doing anything
>Piro is still his avatar

I bet he's bald now.

I thought Megatokyo stopped being relevant in like 2007

>>89119055
http://www.usagi.org/doi/doi.html
1994

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Did he get any better?

Toren Smith was ten times the weaboo Fred-chan ever was. The motherfucker went to Japan, lived in Gainax House, got laid a bunch of times, made a bunch of contacts, and used those contacts to blaze the trail for mangoes getting published here.

>ann arbor

that is so close to where i live

Wasn't KS funded for even less than that amount? Was it even funded it all?

And it looks a whole lot better too.

>>89119852
It stopped being relevant the moment Largo left.

>dat feel you read Megatokyo when you were underage b&
>dat feel wizardom is in 4 months
>shit looks the same.

Fucking hell.

>>89119989
manga didn't really take off until tokyopop did the unflipped thing in 2002, even though the quality was shitty

>>89119930
I bet he'll be vastly disappointed with Miky Holmes S3 as well

>>89120191
Foundations were made thanks to Smith.

Even when I first discovered this shit as a young weeaboo in high school in the early 2000's I thought this guy had shit art and could not understand why he was popular

why the fuck was he ever popular, /a/?

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>>89119233
No but they did have stuff like this. Japanese woodblock prints are the whole reason for the Impressionism era of art.

>>89120372
Dude will be 50 this year. I wonder if he achieved wizardom.

>>89118578

I see doujinshi artists change their styles in half that time, all while remaining good. Fred's art is simplistic and ugly.

>>89120433
it was a smidge of quality in an ocean of webcomic shit

>>89120520
He's also probably the only person in Japan using Linux

>>89120075

Shit...shit never changes

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>>89119055
I miss old anime fan sites. They were so much fun.

>>89120191
Except Viz was already doing unflipped manga in like 1998. Albeit, still in American comic book releases.

>>89120825
That site was practically my homepage in the late 90s

>>89120851
but the audience was still small, and would be for several years

>>89120986
I know twas was the same for me.

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>>89120825
How things change

>>89121066
I attribute that more to the availability of fansubs and early manga scans than anything. As well as the rise of internet usage, etc. Brought a ton of new people into the fandom.

christ, 1337 was still relevant then.

I used to get all my anime reviews from Anime Academy.

>site was last updated July 4th
holy shit

>>89120825
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/

I was never part of that time but here is a website researching geocity pages. There is a blog that goes with it that shows every website they dig up.
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/ You see anime pages appear a lot on it.

>>89119930
I wasn't looking the oldest page. I just wanted to show a weaboo before megatokyo. And it's kinda cute.

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jesus christ megatokyo still exists? I remember reading that shit in 9th grade

I'm fucking 24

I seen Fred Ghallager host a panel on Madoka, he had no idea what he was talking about and spend the time talking about which character was cutest.

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>>89119618
He used to do it faster but him and his wife have had tons of medical problems getting the way for the last few years.
Probably isn't helping that they're both fat fucks.
>>89121390
I loved the l33tsp34k when I first heard of it since I was still full chuuni.
Doesn't have the same appeal now but Largo wouldn't be himself without it.
Been following this for 8 or so years now, just hope we get some real conclusion to it all before he dies.

>>89121662
> he had no idea what he was talking about and spend the time talking about which character was cutest.

Sounds like /a/ discussing Madoka now.

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animeondvd.com was part of my daily routine, back when I cared about dvd releases

>>89121487
>the internet will never be this raw and insane again
I don't have a sadfrog sad enough

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>>89119233
Not 19th century, but there were bijin-ga of the Taisho period too. It's elegant girls doing elegant things.

this must be my very first anime website.

15 years and counting

http://www.furinkan.com/

>>89121892
RIP Dan

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>>89121892
I'll never understand why the man hates porn of his characters so much.

>>89117803 (OP)

>Red dude's hair

Excuse me?

>>89121767
a rare example of a rule 34 of a webcomic before the term was coined

>>89122210
His hair is a bird

>>89122147
because dautherur

>>89122147
loses money ? i doubt it probably MUH ART NOT YERS MUH.

>>89122147
I managed to find the nude drawings he did on a different page before he deleted them. Naturally, I uploaded them to 4chan

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>>89121487
Thanks based anon. You just made this person very happy. I love the nostalgia that comes with looking at these old websites.

>>89121792
>webcomics
>conclusion
Oh anon...

>>89118023
I think even his architectural work went to shitter too. I pity the man, it's as though he lost his soul and is little more than caught in the web comic comfort zone.

>>89122372
Hey, 8 bit theater got a conclusion, just took 10 years to get there.
I'm going to be fucking pissed if he dies before Piro/Kimiko and Largo/Erika get anywhere.
Plus (at least as of book 6) we still haven't got a decent explanation for Miho other than 'lol dark magical girl, don't gotta explain shit'.

>>89121487
Oh man, those days were ugly and chaotic. I miss them sometimes.

What was that one webcomic with the catgirl living with some dude?

That was the only good webcomic. All the rest were shit. Except Machall was alright.

My favorite website as a kid in 98 was called Ryoko's Main Cave.

It sadly does not exist anymore. So I can't show you any pictures.

>He's going to take the money and use it for medical expenses

>>89121487
Oh man, I remember making a shitty DBZ site like those on my second computer.
It had shitty gifs everywhere, fake SSJ5 pics, flashing text, the works.
I didn't even have it online because I couldn't into webhosting yet. I just showed it to friends.

What the fuck. It's been like 7 years since the last time I read Megatokyo. I can't believe Largo's hair has gotten even more fucking retarded.

>>89122714
mine was anipikes, some porn site with mai on top


frames or no frames /a/?

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>>89122714
Whoops I forgot my picture.

>>89122695
you're gonna have to narrow that down a bit

>>89122548
the thing is, 8-bit theater was written by a competent person

>>89122789
come on now is ssj5 really worse than ssjgod? I bet you someone thought it up at least.

>>89119934
Oh fuck, I love XKCD.

>>89122866
Nah I found it, Anime Arcadia.

The site is long gone and I was never able to find a collection of the strips.

>>89122819
FRAMES, ALL THE WAY

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>>89122819
>frames or no frames /a/?
No frames cause frames are a pain in the ass and slowed shit down.

Does anybody remember image shires?

>>89123048
want to join my web ring?

>>89121767

holy shit ghastly

I remember him trying to push his comic Fark

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>>89122970
>Anime Arcadia
HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER NOW.
I had a massive hard on for the catgirl.

>tfw I once read this shit

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>>89123095
Is it a Tenchi web ring?

If it is then I'll gladly join.

>>89123048
Wait, that site still exists, right? I'm not going mad, right?

>>89123048
I remember the wake up hon pic.

jesus my nostalgia.

Time to get off aol now.

So... in a literal sense

do we really know who the very first weeaboo was?

Please, this thread is destroying my heart.

I loved a site called Anime Theme that I just discovered is still updating regularly. I've had to fire up Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to listen to midis and properly appreciate the DHTML format. At least MS' software is still good for something.

http://www.animetheme.com/

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>>89121792
>Left to right
>Honorifics
>Zombi3
>A55

Reminds me of Trades.

>>89123229
>I had a massive hard on for the catgirl.
You were not alone.

Don't happen to have a zip or somewhere I can find the old strips, do you?

I looked maybe a year ago but the only one I found was megaupload hosted...

Anyone else remember fapping to bondage faries on HentaiSchool?

>>89123176
It is good to know that some remember.

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CLICK TO SEE ALL MY TENCHI MUYO ANIMATED GIFS

>aerisdies is still up.

Huh, I'm surprised it's still up after all of these years.

What is this shit and why does it have 225k in funding?

>>89123351
I don't, but I'm sure as hell scouring the web for at least one full strip.

>>89123427
>aerisdies

Oh boy, has it been a few years.

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>>89123272
>>89123280
Yeah its still exists. Here have a link to it.

http://ironmouse.za.org.nyud.net:8090/dragon/index3.html

Its fun to know that people enjoyed this site as much as I did.

Does anybody has that old picture of Fred showing his "manga" to Ken Akamatsu?

>>89123367
I spent more than a minute downloading each page of Oh! Great's early eromanga on dialup, and it was worth it

>>89123483
post it if you find one. on a mobile so my searching is rather slow.

>>89123297
trixie turnpike?

>>89123497
>>89123048
Hey, it's that site I used to use before I discovered 2chan, danbooru and pixiv

>>89123264

I should really get around to watching Tenchi again.

I liked it when I was little, but I was never able to watch consecutive episodes, so I never really could follow the plot beyond bunny spaceships and everyone wanting Tenchi's dick.

>>89123297
historians will be debating that 100 years from now

>>89123846
I just hate the guys penchant for making rat tails on his MC's.

Must have one himself.

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>>89117803 (OP)

Goddamn can her eyes spread any farther apart?

>>89117803 (OP)
Oh wow, that takes me back.

>Kickstarter for visual novel

No thanks.

>>89123954
if you meet the 500,000 extra goal it will happen.

>>89123297
I remember reading somewhere about a circle created in the US in the 70's that would bring back these massive vhs hauls from Japan and fansub over them for other people in the circle.