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Originally Posted by getfresh
The fact the love hina was .rm though and Pilot Candidate is .avi pretty much says it is older though.
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If you have a file that was a .rm, I'd say it's probably a re-encode and not the original release. You might have the lunaarts one or something like that, very common since they were web-downloadable. They were basically half-episodes, a 22-minute episode was split into two files 10-15mb apiece if I remember. I think I remember love hina being put on that site at some point, as was vandread. If you look at the archive, keep in mind most of his stuff was captured VHS tapes, not digisubs.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...rts.com/anime/
You also had other people re-encoding stuff for a variety of different reasons.
The best I can find for the actual release time of love hina is 'mid-2000'.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/sub-culture/2000-11-17
If you look at the above link, he says it was one of the most easily available (on irc) by then.