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Old 2012-07-07, 22:34   Link #48
Greenish Growth
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I believe it was around ?May-June 1996. That was when my sister told me about a nearby book/gaming/anime store had commercial anime tapes available for rental. I started renting tapes out every week starting with their Ranma tapes. My sister and I enjoyed a number of anime titles before she passed away several months later. I always wonder what shows she would have liked if she were still alive.

Around January 1997, this guy at work told me about how he had requested "fansub tapes" and that's when things really got rolling. I had to check out the Anime Web Turnpike anime websites to get an idea on what anime I might like and then I sent for them. Sometimes the tapes would arrive within days, but sometimes they would take months.

It was kind of cool when we got to watch anime TV series within a year after they first aired, but that didn't happen very often.
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