Ameria should not be bored for long periods of time...

[Captain Yaoi]

Most ppl hav sex. she had sex......................with her cd player

[ShikamaCHU]

.....?

You get weirder and weirder X3.

I'm more lost than usual with that one though 0_0.

[Captain Yaoi]

ill break it down for you who doth fear the sexual humor.

when a normal person is bored, i suggested they hav sex.

she wrote a parody.

so, it was a joke on how she "had sex with her cd player".

she got a sensation of joy out of writing this piece, which aided in the aleviation of boredom.

[ShikamaCHU]

Ooooooh, I see ^^

It was just real out of the blue-like. I get it now....sota kinda. (As much as I ever get anything you say. But hey, better than what it was X3)

[Captain Yaoi]

i feel like theres this wall between me and her

[Nervecandy]

YAY! History!
All the stuff that's in the song.^^

Actually, not really, it's more difficult.
In 1996, there weren't many anime fans. I mean, there really wasn't much available. see, anime hadn't caught on, so even if it was showing in Japan, you couldn't get it in America without ordering/buying fansubbs. We didn’t get most of the stuff that was coming out in Japan for at least a few years. Even if we had fansubb power. 1996 was the year of Yu Yu Hakusho, Romio’s Blue skies, and a million other things that we didn’t get until six or seven years later.

Only thing is: Fansubbs in the olden days (Ten years ago) were only on VHS because things like bittorrent, Youtube, and....all of the technology required to make today's fansubbs didn't exist.)

So people would tape the show off their T.V. in Japan....and make a million copies of that once they'd added subtitles. It took FOREVER.  I remember some of the first fansubbs we ever got were Kiki’s delivery service, and Fox Family ended up Licensing Totoro right after, probably in ’96 of ’97 (The first release, 10 years before Disney paired up with Ghibli
Ah~ The VHS anime days. We still have all of ours. X3

Anyway, all that was available licensed was pretty much just Ranma 1/2, hentai, and 80's stuff that had gotten popular in Japan. Nothing coming out in Japan then.

Fansubbs were happy, because you could get all the cool stuff. Like Kodocha, Marmalade boy, Hana Yori dango, Fushigi Yuugi, Kimagure Orange Road, all the stuff people these days have never heard of.
In Stores all that existed was Dirty Pair Flash, Project A-ko, Ranma, Dominon Tank Police, Akira, Nadeshiko,  The original Bubblegum crisis, and things I'm STILL too young to watch. 0_0
On T.V. We had sailor Moon, Speedracer, Star Blazers, Samurai Pizza cats, Sonic, Thunderbirds, and Dragonball.

That's about all.

1996 was really the turning point of anime though; from then on it really started picking up speed, especially because of Sailor Moon and Dragonball. The industry saw that anime was doing better than they thought it would and so they started licensing more and more. In the late 90's, there was a lot more stuff. Not a ton, and it was still generally badly thought of (People only stopped calling it ' That Cartoon Porn' in the past three years really ^^.

Then things like Mon Collie knights, Fighting Foodons, Flint the Time Detective, Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, Monster rancher, Poke'mon, digmon, Rurouni Kenshin (It didn't show on T.V. until MUCH later) Magic Knight Rayearth, and Oh My Goddess.

That was the age of laser Disks...which was short lived...

Then DVD happened (the anime industrialization era) and anime exploded into what it is today. The early stuff was Gokudo, Trigun, Arc the Lad, Houshin engi (sould hunter) Nightwlker, Weiss Kruz, Utena, and all that.  Much through the help of T.V., as annoying as (a great majority, but definitely not all of) the people who only watch Cartoon network are, it really, REALLY helped the industry ^^

anime got REALLY frighteningly popular only within the last few years (Mostly because that’s when manga started coming out really fast, we gained a ton of fans that way) and most people now have No idea how anime started.

At on point in time, on this forum, I wrote the entire history of anime and it’s trends. I’ll have to go find that for you if you wanna read it.

Ah, I found it…. it (you guessed it) the REEEEAAALLY long one. >_<;;;;;

YOU FORGET MEGAMAN!!!! And some weird show that no one remembers on Power Block....But yeah...Dark age of TV in terms of memory and anime content

[FrozenDream]

lol tat was awsome!

[Captain Yaoi]

Megaman was like Mel ibson with power tools and a lack of dislikes for rabbis.

[Rhyus]

In that list with Tank Police and all that you fergot Gatcha Man >.> I saw that at otakon this year it was really funny and well we decided next year we're gonna cosplay the Gatcha Force but yea... thats next year and you forgot Gatcha Man

Rhyus

[ShikamaCHU]

My Mom loves Gachaman....I don't really know where that one goes. Probably in the Star Blazers era (Late 70's to mid 80's? I dunno.)

[Zack]

YAY! History!
All the stuff that's in the song.^^

Actually, not really, it's more difficult.
In 1996, there weren't many anime fans. I mean, there really wasn't much available. see, anime hadn't caught on, so even if it was showing in Japan, you couldn't get it in America without ordering/buying fansubbs. We didn’t get most of the stuff that was coming out in Japan for at least a few years. Even if we had fansubb power. 1996 was the year of Yu Yu Hakusho, Romio’s Blue skies, and a million other things that we didn’t get until six or seven years later.

Only thing is: Fansubbs in the olden days (Ten years ago) were only on VHS because things like bittorrent, Youtube, and....all of the technology required to make today's fansubbs didn't exist.)

So people would tape the show off their T.V. in Japan....and make a million copies of that once they'd added subtitles. It took FOREVER.  I remember some of the first fansubbs we ever got were Kiki’s delivery service, and Fox Family ended up Licensing Totoro right after, probably in ’96 of ’97 (The first release, 10 years before Disney paired up with Ghibli
Ah~ The VHS anime days. We still have all of ours. X3

Anyway, all that was available licensed was pretty much just Ranma 1/2, hentai, and 80's stuff that had gotten popular in Japan. Nothing coming out in Japan then.

Fansubbs were happy, because you could get all the cool stuff. Like Kodocha, Marmalade boy, Hana Yori dango, Fushigi Yuugi, Kimagure Orange Road, all the stuff people these days have never heard of.
In Stores all that existed was Dirty Pair Flash, Project A-ko, Ranma, Dominon Tank Police, Akira, Nadeshiko,  The original Bubblegum crisis, and things I'm STILL too young to watch. 0_0
On T.V. We had sailor Moon, Speedracer, Star Blazers, Samurai Pizza cats, Sonic, Thunderbirds, and Dragonball.

That's about all.

1996 was really the turning point of anime though; from then on it really started picking up speed, especially because of Sailor Moon and Dragonball. The industry saw that anime was doing better than they thought it would and so they started licensing more and more. In the late 90's, there was a lot more stuff. Not a ton, and it was still generally badly thought of (People only stopped calling it ' That Cartoon Porn' in the past three years really ^^.

Then things like Mon Collie knights, Fighting Foodons, Flint the Time Detective, Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, Monster rancher, Poke'mon, digmon, Rurouni Kenshin (It didn't show on T.V. until MUCH later) Magic Knight Rayearth, and Oh My Goddess.

That was the age of laser Disks...which was short lived...

Then DVD happened (the anime industrialization era) and anime exploded into what it is today. The early stuff was Gokudo, Trigun, Arc the Lad, Houshin engi (sould hunter) Nightwlker, Weiss Kruz, Utena, and all that.  Much through the help of T.V., as annoying as (a great majority, but definitely not all of) the people who only watch Cartoon network are, it really, REALLY helped the industry ^^

anime got REALLY frighteningly popular only within the last few years (Mostly because that’s when manga started coming out really fast, we gained a ton of fans that way) and most people now have No idea how anime started.

At on point in time, on this forum, I wrote the entire history of anime and it’s trends. I’ll have to go find that for you if you wanna read it.

Ah, I found it…. it (you guessed it) the REEEEAAALLY long one. >_<;;;;;

Horribly late in this, but...

Congratulations, Shikama- I award you with the title of "Ultimate Otaku"...you would probably destroy everyone on the forum in any given Anime Jeopardy contest...you win an internet.


In addition to the horribly long rant, I would also like to add that I believe Pokemon was one of the major factors that got anime to lift off in the United States, because  a:  it played a part in breaking the ties between anime and pornography (it was so popular, but it was a kids show!),  b: it introduced the gaming culture to anime, (it started off as a GameBoy game, back before color graphics) and the card game was also frighteningly popular, and  c: it was a popular KIDS show, therefore creating a much wider community of Americans who are GROWING UP ON ANIME!!!  japan is culturally eating away at the US as we speak! and WE'RE SO HAPPY!!!

[Captain Yaoi]

just remember, your new internet is a series of tubes.

[ShikamaCHU]

YAAAY! I've always wanted an internet!

What does this button do?
Splody- BOOOOOOM
Dude, I totally just watched Poke'mon movie #87.3 today X3.
I love it so......
It will never die, and yeah, It MADE (Or, at least, carved in stone forever and ever) the place of anime on kid's T.V.
Other things existed before, but none that everyone on the ENTIRE United States knew of.
There is no one, no matter how old or in the middle of no where, that hasn't at least heard of it.
Mmmmm Love <3