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[davemerrill]

This got brought up on the Twitter and now I'm bringing it up here. Anime fans of the 1980s, what was the first fansub you ever saw? I know we showed a fan sub of the Macross movie at a C/FO Atlanta meeting in 1985, fall of 1985, and as far as I know that's as early as fansubs ever got. What are your early fansub experiences?

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[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

Well, now you jog my increasingly feeble memory...boy, I'm not gonna score with the chicks if I decay much more!

Let's see. OK, yes, the Star Dipwads movie, and of course Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman, I have vague memories of a couple of the middle Giant Robo episodes, I think one of the Gatchaman OAVs, and the Captain Harlocks, I think that was like 50/50 fansub/raw.

See, proof I am crazy, when I hear 'fansub' I automatically go to the Internetwebtube age with the bittorrent and the download and the rezeenfrazzen. Ha Ha ha.

And I need to stop watching I Spy episodes on RTV because I just flip-flopped between doing Robert Culp and Bill Cosby impressions. That's the wonderfulness of me.

OH! How the hell could I forget Flying Phantom Ship?

fnord.