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What really got you into anime?
SeventyX7:
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Wow, I can't believe I just read that wall of text.
Anyways, cool story, I wish what got me into anime was a long story like that. Yours even had character development in it. :'(
RenDiz:
--- Quote from: bobjoe on May 19, 2009, 10:50:12 PM ---(..)
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Cool story bro.
bobjoe:
Guys, please trim your quotes. Of course, from what I can see of RenDiz, the second one was probably done on purpose to teach SeventyX7 a lesson. Either way, trim those quotes. Everyone will know what post you are talking about if you just replace the text with *snip*.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read that chunk of my life story!
Jarudin:
Let's see if I can equal that wall of text :D
As most I started out with Pokemon and Dragonball Z because those were airing on TV at that time (some 7? years ago). Dragonball Z had gone into it's umpteenth rerun and I was getting bored. A few of my friends were already starting to get into anime and one of them kept bugging me about NGE. I didn't really like the prospect of a Japanese boy trying to speak German while piloting a giant robot that would run out of battery power after 60 seconds so I never thought much of it.
This was also still back in the time Internet was still upcoming. I think at the time I had a 10GB transfer limit per month so I was very weary of downloading anything at all. Then another friend linked me to DDL site where I could get Hikaru no Go. I had no idea what to expect but being extremely bored with everything I decided to give it a go. I was literally sold after 2 seconds. The very first scene of the very first episode was already so much more interesting than anything I had ever seen before. I think I downloaded a few more episodes right after that but the site only had the first 5 or so I think so I was left hanging. Then I found ftp://ftp.hikago.flirble.org/pub/ (seems unresponsive atm) where I could download ALL episodes of Hikaru no Go. The next few months I downloaded a few episodes every week, I was completely sold. Shortly after my family got better Internet with a higher limit (still nowhere nearly enough of course :D) so I could download the episodes even faster.
Again a while later I was holding home LAN-party with said friends and some brought 'all' their anime, being 5 series. I remember watching .hack//SIGN at 7am in morning and wonder what the hell that music sequence at the start of every episode was. I sure liked it. I also got Serial Experiments Lain on that LAN. I didn't understand much of the story at the time, partly due to the fact that I had renamed and mis-numbered the episodes. I was also surprised to find that a DVD-rip I downloaded later actually did have the OP and ED songs as I forgot I had cut them out to save hard disk space.
Serial Experiments Lain is probably to me one of the most influential series. I had always liked computers but I never liked the whole hacking thing too much and I found it very confusing. Partly through this anime I got this insight that there is more to be done with computers and it has definitely influenced me to study Software Engineering. Now some 6 years later I have finished the Bachelor and I have a job doing exactly what I had hoped to be doing when I chose that study.
But back to the earlier days. Somewhere around this time I got into torrenting, downloading stuff off animesuki and such. The first show I got there was Saishuuheiki Kanojo which is of course amazing. I was a real leecher back then, having almost no bandwidth to spare to seed back, still using the original BitTorrent client. I remember waking up one morning and queueing all 26 episodes of Vision of Escaflowne (a4e rip) and littering my screen with so many simultaneous downloads. This was a sure way to make sure I didn't waste any bandwidth uploading. After a painful week or so the first episodes were finally done but wth? ogm? what? Found an ogm splitter on Google, loaded it up in Windows Media Player and whoo! :D The sad part is that I only found out after 7 episodes the file was actually dual audio and I'd been listening to the English dub all that time.
We've seen many improvements since then, not in the least in broadband Internet getting faster and better. The creation of codec packs like the CCCP have severely reduced the number of codec issues. DVD-rip are now no longer preferred as they're deemed low quality.
Oh, some two years later I did actually watch NGE and wondered why I never watched it before.
I think I downloaded NGE from BoxTorrents, I'm not totally sure. I do know that when I found BoxTorrents I couldn't quite understand why I hadn't found it before and why people weren't more enthusiastic about it, it's a leechers dream. I don't think I have to explain in too much detail how my time spent on BoxTorrents went from there, the result is obvious :)
As bobjoe also mentioned, a few of the first series I saw were also comedy/harem type like the legendary Love Hina. At the time I wasn't too bothered with it, I watched many of the harem shows that came out at that time but after a while I noticed a decline in quality. It might also have been that my standards went up. I still remember being very disappointed after finishing Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex. Why isn't there more anime like it? I have since avoided too much harem and I get bored easily on Slice-of-Life shows unless they're brilliant like Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star and K-on. I still remember watching Azumanga Daioh only my laptop at 5am in the morning during a holiday. Those were the days .. :)
--Jarudin--
bobjoe:
--- Quote from: Jarudin on May 20, 2009, 10:05:24 PM ---Let's see if I can equal that wall of text :D
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Ha, Nice wall. Interesting story too, since it plays out over time, with your actions and opinions changing as the technology and times did.
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