Does anybody like to buy anime on VHS, or own any collections from back in the day?
Not going to try and make any hipster argument about VHS being superior to DVD or anything like that. Just think it's neat. It's a good format for enjoying official releases of 90s anime on. The thickness of the boxes also adds to the shelf art charm when you have a complete set. The early history of the anime home video industry is also pretty interesting to me.
I only have Magic Knight Rayearth (complete), some Sailor Moon and some Dragon Ball, I'd like to find some series from the 90s that had small enough runs to get a complete set relatively easy.
I'd rather digitalize it, and make several backups of it.
>>2
But you can't flip a digital collection for more than you paid when you bought it.
Yes, I have several anime tapes. I have a bunch of DBZ tapes, Pokemon tapes, a few The Slayers tapes and Yu-Gi-Oh tapes, and some movies. I don't look for tapes, but if they appear in second hand stores I will buy them
Speaking of old anime-related stuff, what exactly was this: https://archives.4-ch.net/politics/kareha.pl/1111851720/2 ? Anyone remember http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/ ?
From https://archives.4-ch.net/politics/kareha.pl/1111851720/ :
>Heavy Metal music used to torture (4)
>1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-03-26 15:42 ID:yTVz4Nk9
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=U1ZT2AHYZ4QQYCRBAEKSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=8005978
>American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners at a military base in Mosul but nobody was court martialed over the abuse, U.S. army documents say.
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>Deafening heavy metal music was played, and guards threw cold water onto hooded prisoners and sounded bullhorns beside their heads.
>
>Ouch, Heavy Metal. That's mean.
>
>2 Name: Citizen 2005-03-26 15:56 ID:Heaven
>MOE METAL:
>http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/stats.html?info_hash=b18a6013c5c60ef3568585492d71995952177e75
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>3 Name: Citizen 2005-03-26 19:04 ID:dXsPvnfV
>TOI TOI TOI TOI TOI
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>4 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-03-26 22:23 ID:yTVz4Nk9
>>>2 Oh man - that's horrible "music" and "singing", it hurts.
From https://www.awopodcast.com/2006/09/anime-world-order-show-33-listener.html :
>alexander strange
>SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 AT 12:48 PM
>The Musashi parody subs are yet another fake name Studio ADTRW project; you can get them here.
>http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/index.html?search=Musashi
>I can get raw versions of an episode or two and the actually seriously translated one if you really want, but isn’t that kind of boring?
From https://archives.4-ch.net/anime/kareha.pl/1120838150/ :
>20 Name: Random Anime Otaku 2005-07-26 12:00 ID:dewe7Huo
>Episode 3 kitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/stats.html?info_hash=f64219697209a14e464b5c5dad22cec619ea19f7
From https://archives.4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1106805509/ :
>449 Name: Not in Employment, Education or Training 1993-09-4369 09:43[no]
>>>439
>http://raspberryheaven.net:53284
>
http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/announce
raspberryheaven.net = reference to Azumanga Daioh
Info hash = sha1 torrent info hash, so the magnet link would be:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b18a6013c5c60ef3568585492d71995952177e75 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
(probably dead)
I still wonder what the http://raspberryheaven.net:53284/* web pages looked like (*=zero or more characters).
Raspberry Heaven was the name of the ending theme for Azumanga Daioh
I just finished getting a complete set of Sorcerer Hunters. I enjoyed the series a lot, watched it for the first time this way.
I have a huge collection of anime on laserdisc. Huge import LD boxes are the peak of physical media, 12 inch art is great. Have stuff like the Maison Ikkoku 24 disc set, the Studio Ghibli box, which cost an incredible amount back in the day (but are cheap now).
My physical collection is 90% bootleg. I have a more official music collection than I do anime/movies. I definitely don't buy expensive anime box sets these days, because I want anime sales to plummet in America and a good majority of the western world. The less money anime makes outside Japan, the less interest Japan has in appealing to the American market, with CGI and western values.
>>10
Older media is pretty affordable. $2-5 a tape generally unless it's highly collectible, but even then they're generally more affordable than DVDs. I'm surprised to see the prices have stayed so low, as I would assume that the market would react similarly to the retro game market - old technology, scarce quantities, will never be made again, and so on - but shit's still the same price you would find at an early 00's flea market or garage sale.
>>11
VHS tapes in general are affordable, but subtitled Japanese anime on VHS/Laserdisc is pretty rare to find unless it's popular stuff like the OP mentioned (sailor moon, eva and dbz). Unless you're talking about RAW anime, which in that case is pretty reasonable no matter where you buy it from. eBay's the #1 home for scammers on the internet and even there I managed to buy a shitton of anime laserdiscs, and even a few animation cels from the original minky momo anime from the same seller.
i agree subs on tape would be hard to find i myself have dubs of which include pokemon and digimon also teenage mutant ninja turtles. vhs is pretty cool although i am not a collector they truly do have charm in the way they are packaged and contained
Mass-produced VHS collecting is retarded since all that shit is online anyway. Collecting those just come off as tryhard "retro collector". I used to have a bunch of TV recordings on VHS, but my uncle's house got fucked up by a tornado so all of those tapes went bye-bye.
>>14
Eh, why collect anything if everything's online? It's fun, cheaper than DVDs, and I don't have a bluray player.
Things that are "online" are very easy to go offline forever and without a warning. But I'd rather invest in a digital tape storage if I had an opportunity, it's pretty expensive.
>>14
VHS tapes are likely to go extinct. It would be a pretty damn cool collection to have in 50 years as everyone thinks that it just takes space and you can find it anywhere so they destroy it.
Not everything is online and there are very rare VHS tapes out there that you can find which makes collecting them fun and interesting.
>Collecting something that slowly degrades in qualiity
how retarded can you get?
>>19
You're supposed to keep a digital backup anyways. I think it would be pretty cool to visit a jii-san and see a full collection of VHS anime. I would definitely be impressed regardless of playability on some of the tapes. The cover has value too.
The only one I have left is my old fansub of End of Eva before we ever had a domestic relief here in burgerland
