360p? Lol. Back in the day you watched videos the size of postage stamps that were so fucked from the encoding that the subtitles might as well have been wingdings

the third level is listening to a Japanese exchange student explain the later seasons in non-fluent English

Retvrn to downloading low quality anime fansubs via LimeWire.

RealMedia files on KaZaa or LimeWire that were ripped from a bootleg Hong Kong VCD.

Thankfully I was raised torrenting, still do tbh

Watching Pokemon episodes 3-7 and 51-54 on repeat because those were the only VHS tapes my Blockbuster had

Fansubs downloaded from IRC bots, taking all day to get just an episode or two with your slow-ass internet.

anime on youtube at 360p with each episode split into 3 parts

Honestly I had to do that not even too long ago, like late last year or early this year. I was watching Sakura Taisen and one of the episodes on Aniwave (RIP) was broken, like the audio kept cutting out or something. Lo and behold, I could find an old-ass 480p upload of that episode on YouTube, split into three parts.

...Well, 480p, I guess that doesn't count.

And for some reason the 2nd part had spanish subs

I remember downloading episodes of Evangelion on dial-up and the episode where Asuka has to go into the lava was so pixelated all you could see was a red smear.

Lol i was buying bootleg DVDs at cons in 2003/2004 when it was hella uncool to do so.

Watching the local con go from 5k to 40k has been wild tbh

Maybe you should learn to use the internet instead going to youtube for watching anime.

i did! i still remember binging fucking full episodes of death note on youtube a decade back. ahh, memories. <3

Guess I was spoiled because I had toonami growing up, even if it was censored pretty badly.

Free anime watching websites have been around as long as youtubes been

I was on them when I was fuckin 6, back in fuckin 2007

I also had the VHS tapes circulated on a webring with the horrible yellow subtitles that would add excessive swearing

It's how I first watched Serial Experiments Lain and I do not regret a second

I'm of that age, but man has https://www.wcostream.tv/ spoiled me. Good stuff for it being free.

(I hope that's the right link, I usually have it on my PC in a saved tab lol)

Just wake up at 6am on a Saturday and watch each episode on the TV before your parents get out of bed.

the best time i ever had watching anime was watching vhs recordings of digimon that my dad did, but he somehow didn't know how to set the timer on the vcr so it was only ever half of an episode.

VHS Dragonball, baby! Also, Ranma 1/2, I think. The age of p2p was a blessing.

Thats how i watched Naruto and Naruto Shippuden till the pain saga.

Amateurs. I had one pound dvd man down the pub

Rest in peace dbz player