| I remember my early days watching new anime on the internet being on YouTube. Back when they use to have episodes of One Piece and Zatch Bell! in 3-part chunks on youtube. I remember the kind of wordy subs, with an extensive vocabulary attached to them. There are still a certain amount of words I only know because they were used in this old fansubs from back in the day. That was definitely a rewarding experience. What is your memory of the early internet and the anime you've seen on it? |
| Well, old anime is still found on certain piracy websites (which I won't link here). |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| I remember the times of watching anime on YouTube as well xD One Piece, Conan, Yugioh GX. Bur I started those on TV. My first anime online was Hajime no Ippo followed by Death Note. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| I began by watching episodes I missed back when I used to watch anime on TV. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| I think it might have been a season of Digimon I couldn't find on TV which lead me to starting to watch anime subbed online. I am not sure though. |
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| Death Note used to be on YT but it's been long taken down by now. |
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| Akasaka. Definitely watched it on a pirated streaming site, as I did with around five or six other anime before switching to MPV. |
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| the very first's kuroshitsuji + code geass + steins gate + some random eps of other animes |
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| My little monster on YouTube and first overall |
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| I watched Pokémon episodes online, my region's Cartoon Network programming wasn't up to date with the episodes so I started to search for the English dubbed episodes. |
"Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!" - Bill & Ted´s Excellent Adventure Check my introduction to Char´s Counterattack interest stack if you´re interested in watching UC Gundam. Also check my Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA Chronological Watch Order for LoGH info! |
| Probably Haruhi because it was so popular on 4chan. Naruto also. Playing Runescape and watching anime on YouTube... those were the days. siiiiiiiiip |
| Taiga best girl forever. |
| Kirby Right Back at Ya and Pokemon on youtube, excluding those, Fate/Stay Night 2006 also on youtube. |
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| Kirby I watched on YouTube, then when I turned 11, I also watched Urusei yatsura (1981) on youtube |
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| Hyouka, it was the first anime I've watched on the internet. |
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| The World God Only Knows Watched the whole thing on Youtube since I saw EP 10 of the first season in Animax and I didn't know that streaming sites were a thing kek |
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| Pretty sure that I answered a forum post like this before but once again: it was naruto on youtube and it was the ep videos where you could only watch thru 1/4th of the screen. Fun times fr. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki |
| I found Youtube in the yee olden days by looking up Bobobo on Google. I watched episodes of the Dub I missed in 3 parts and glorious 144P. Also watched Sailor moon (OG Dub), Paprika, an Episode of Tokyo Mew mew, and Blood+ on there. |
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| Streaming didn’t exist, and torrents were pretty new and not widely used by fansubbers quite yet, so my earliest internet anime were downloaded on IRC. I’m not 100% sure of the very first one, but a handful of the early ones were Fruits Basket, Angelic Layer, Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar, Getbackers, Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou, Onegai Teacher, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, D.N.Angel, and Ningyo no Mori (TV version). A lot of people fondly/not-so-fondly remember watching episodes in multiple parts on YouTube, but this isn’t something I ever experienced. Once I realized I could use the internet to get anime, I jumped into downloads right away. IRC was a pain, and it was slow, but it was the only option at the time, so it didn’t feel like a big deal. And after so many years of having to get anime from a bunch of random sources (TV, buying and renting tapes, Netflix, VHS fansub distributors, bootlegs from eBay, etc.), I was ecstatic to finally be able to watch virtually any anime I wanted to. |
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| For official releases. Perhaps it was megalobox, i watched it on ani-one asia. For fan translations.... i think it was rezero. |
  Not a bad view Do you have time to take in the sights? |
| I don't remember the details, but probably the ones that got me into anime, which was either Sword Art Online or Railgun. I specifically remember anticipating each episode of SAO and downloading them from some kind of website. For some reason i suddenly found myself watching it, probably as coping mechanism for miserable college life, some kind of escape. Railgun on the other hand, primarily accompanied me when i was recovering at home after surgery. |
   To keep learning is wise. To avoid action is fear pretending to be wisdom. |
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I don't remember the details, but probably the ones that got me into anime, which was either Sword Art Online or Railgun.
I specifically remember anticipating each episode of SAO and downloading them from some kind of website. For some reason i suddenly found myself watching it, probably as coping mechanism for miserable college life, some kind of escape.
Railgun on the other hand, primarily accompanied me when i was recovering at home after surgery.
I specifically remember anticipating each episode of SAO and downloading them from some kind of website. For some reason i suddenly found myself watching it, probably as coping mechanism for miserable college life, some kind of escape.
Railgun on the other hand, primarily accompanied me when i was recovering at home after surgery.
| @Xavion SAO is so overhated, first season was so good especially if you played mmorpg games back then |
| "Which anime did you first watch on the internet?" I think it was The SoulTaker - https://xss.now.cc/anime/1048/The_SoulTaker__Tamashii-gari That's before YouTube was even a thing. The idea of fansub sounded revolutionary to me. - Translating and distributing anime which would never air on european TV...well, this particular anime aired later on german TV (which I got via cable). - With cool fonts and effects for the subs. - For free on internet... Also the first anime to impress me with its initial episodes, than nosedive as production values and plot, but coming back with animation bump for the final (the story was still lacking tho). |
alshuYesterday, 11:52 PM
| Hmmm probably Code Geass as my friend showed it to me and then I started watching more anime. I might've watched something before that on the internets but not sure |
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@Xavion SAO is so overhated, first season was so good especially if you played mmorpg games back then
| @Isaiah- 100%, cheers my fellow SAO enjoyer, even other seasons with their obvious flaws can still be entertaining to some extent |
| To keep learning is wise. To avoid action is fear pretending to be wisdom. |
| tokyo mew mew on youtube thanks random speedover beethoven mv! |
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I started with OPM then helpful fox senko san and then i watched my roommate is a cat. they where were underrated masterpieces.  |
| It was Bleach around when I was at 1-2nd grade at primary school, the episodes took eternity to load, there were maybe around 120-140 episodes out back than, I had on my notebook written down by my classmate whom recommended me to watch Bleach, a whole URL into an illegal site with Polish subs as such thing as Messenger wasn't a thing. I was watching there Bleach TYBW cour 1 as just when cour 2 was about to come out, the site has been sold and now it is with 0 episodes and acts like an journal/info/data for anime titles. |
| Hmm, back in the early to mid 2000s I was watching a lot more western cartoons still, but I do remember going on YouTube around 2005/6 to watch that banned Porygon episode. Also pretty sure I was looking up FLCL online too at the time after seeing it on Adult Swim. |
| I don't rember, it wuz 20 or 21 years ago. I have a black hole in some of my memories. Must be diabetes causing my brain to rot. |
| Which anime did you first watch on the internet? At the beginning, I was using Clipfish to watch shows like Cowboy Bebop, FMA: Brotherhood and Samurai Girls. |
Rally- said: I remember my early days watching new anime on the internet being on YouTube. Back when they use to have episodes of One Piece and Zatch Bell! in 3-part chunks on youtube. I remember the kind of wordy subs, with an extensive vocabulary attached to them. There are still a certain amount of words I only know because they were used in this old fansubs from back in the day. That was definitely a rewarding experience. What is your memory of the early internet and the anime you've seen on it? Yep, YouTube with full anime eps was a goldmine 🤩 i think first one i watched on there was either Digimon Frontier or Zatch Bell back when the first I-Pads were new xD |
| My friend first showed me some episodes of Naruto and Gakuen Alice online. The first series I watched fully was Hoshi no Kirby on youtube. I watched the episodes in poor quality without subtitles sometimes. I also watched Soul Eater and Kuroshitsuji soon after. |
| There is no good or bad anime. There is only anime you like and anime you dislike. |
| SAO, but I got bored with it half way through and never completed it. |
「夢だから、目が覚めたら忘れてますよ」 「じゃ目を覚ましたくない」 |
| First intentionally watched anime on the internet on my own was the first episode of Elfen lied. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| Pokemon XYZ (i don't remember what episode tho) |
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| I remember watching part 3/4 of the spanish sub (my ass was not reading) of Sora no Otoshimono on Youtube. It was so damn funny that I skipped class and completed it in the shed. Good times... but can anyone explain to me why parts 1 to 4 were always on different yt channels lol |
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| First anime that I've watched on the Internet were Familiar of Zero and Midori Days, both on YouTube. I remember the time when the episodes were split into 3 parts from YouTube videos, maybe because the uploaders didn't have access to uploading videos longer than 10 minutes? I honestly don't remember. I vaguely remember Crunchyroll being a website where I could watch anime for free(?) because that's where I watched Clannad back in the day. I watched One Piece first on TV, then I followed the next episodes on the Internet. And then the rest is history. x) |
| Naruto was my first Internet anime. I watched it on YouTube. |
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Naruto was my first Internet anime. I watched it on YouTube.
| @LuxuriousHeart which year did you first watch Naruto? |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| Naruto Shippuuden Some time between 2010-2012 when Naruto was still airing on TV, after the Pain-Arc I desperately wanted to know how things continued. Thats when I started to look things up on the net and opened the floodgates. After that I continued to watch just a few more anime like Death Note. I completely lost it when SAO came out in 2012, watching and rewatching stuff over and over again every single fucking day, haha. |
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@LuxuriousHeart which year did you first watch Naruto?
| @DesuMaiden I don't remember the exact year, but definitely in the early 2000s. |
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@DesuMaiden I don't remember the exact year, but definitely in the early 2000s.
| @LuxuriousHeart so are you in your 20s? |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
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