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Cheez:
Hello!

I grew up in Latin America, so we get a lot of anime in the free channels (read: not cable) I used to watch Knights of the Zodiacs, Robotech (I don't know the English name), and a whole lot of others.  They all spoke with a Mexican accent (I think most of them go through Mexico for the voiceover, but I could be wrong...)

My family moved to North America and of course those shows were no longer available... Boo-hoo  :'(!  And funsubbing... I didn't even knew it existed until last year! To think that breaking my leg and boredom made me surf more.... Wow! I'm way behind!

Cheez

Tsubasa:
Well, I moved to Japan when i was in Grade 2.  Then in Grade 4, we got cable and I came across this channel known as Kids Station..anime channel.  I goto soo hooked into it that before I knew...anime was my life.  Thats how I started learning Japanese.  I came back to BD after Grade 7 semester exams...no anime for 4 years.  Then stupid English dubs on Animax..and sixth months ago, I discovered the fansubbing world!

Galen:
Well, my first anime would have been Kimba, mixed with some Speed Racer, followed by Voltron, and then the first broadcast of Robotech in '85. After that I was more into comics/manga for a few years, until anime started appearing in Diamond Previews. Diamond required long lead times, so when Right Stuf offered anime by mail order, I bought from them -- and AnimEigo, since they were happy to sell direct in an age when most companies thought their market was retailers. I eventually got a Pentium 1 for use as internet (dial-up) access (which it still does),
and started getting VHS fansubs from various people who were offering them back then. The MPEG 1 Digisubs were too large for the speeds of the day, and the Real digisubs were too poor, so digisubbing didn't really take off until the Divx codec appeared. And then the explosive growth with BT followed a few years later.
-Galen

KunoMochi:
My first Anime experience...geez, it was so long ago... ^^; Most of the cartoons I've remembered watching were in the U.S. starting with Robotech, Voltron, Technoman, Speed Racer, Thundercats, etc.

Before my family moved here, the things I mostly remembered were the Famicom (and Disk System), the 3-D goggles, and the revolver guncon. XD

However, I do remember watching Doraemon and a few Miyazaki films, like My Neighbor Totoro.

Sindobook:
It must have been in the early to mid 90's, I saw a 'ranma 1/2' comic book published by Viz comics.  It was #3 (1st serie) and I bought it b'cos I thought the cover was cute.  I read the story and it made no sense (since I  had not read #1 and #2) but I still liked the art so I eventually hunted down the rest of it and followed the serie for about a year.  But eventually I grew bored with it, until I saw Matt Thorn's book (another one published by Viz 'four shoujo stories').  Online, which was different back then, mostly mailing lists run by Hitoshi Doi; Matt was one of the experts on Shoujo manga.  Still, on the local scene there wasn't very much I was interested in, there wasn't much to begin with and nearly all of it was all popularized shounen or sometimes porn.  Still, one day Robert DeLoura posted a translation of Hime-chan no Ribon manga to one of the mailing lists I was on (mid 90's).  I got the original manga and read it, I started following Ribon (the magazine that Hime-chan was running in), then a little after that Nakayoshi (which ran things like Sailor Moon), and other similar things.  As for anime, I wasn't that interested, until later when DVDs were beginning to catch on and websites like 'dvdexpress.com' started appearing.  These sites were practically giving away DVDs, many ran free promotionals or deals like 'give us your e-mail address / sign up a friend / get a free DVD'.  With e-mail sites like geocities out there, which offered free e-mail accounts (paid for with advertising) this basically became a limitless supply of free DVDs.  After about a year those sites started to disappear, but by then I was interested enough to keep up with the local scene.  Late 90's I was rather active in a club that made and showed fansubs, then in 2000 I was in an active digisub group (even though I didn't actually do anything), since then I've been really into it.

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