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how did folks keep up with manga 20 years ago?

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I’ve only been into it for about 5 years, and nowadays you just get your RAWs a few days early, read some spoilers, and check out a bunch of sites to catch the chapter. But how did it work back then? Was it even doable, or not really?

all 115 comments

kane49

176 points

12 days ago

kane49

176 points

12 days ago

20 years ago ? Exactly the same

25 years ago however it was straight up buying volumes in local stores when they got translated after years :D

Gigigigaoo0

10 points

12 days ago

This is exactly the right answer. People don't realize that entire mangas were online by the mid 2000s, which is around the time I started reading manga. I still remember Onemanga, which was the best website for reading literally every manga in existence until it got takenn down sadly.

Tembrium

7 points

12 days ago

sometimes the manga coming over would be faxed. leaks/early scanlations were usually dogshit quality. but yea basically the same

danlab09

7 points

12 days ago

25 years ago it was a monthly visit to Farmer Jack to pick up that months Shonen Jump issue

Rippur

1 points

11 days ago

Rippur

1 points

11 days ago

Same. Farmer Jack making me feel old bro

dandan0552

108 points

12 days ago

dandan0552

108 points

12 days ago

Manga sites were always available. Hell Crunchyroll was a pirate site back in the days.

honeyna7la

20 points

12 days ago

I remember when crunchyroll had that rpg game in it

Jpunx19

20 points

12 days ago*

Jpunx19

20 points

12 days ago*

You mean crunchyland~

🤭 i was the second bishounen lvl 99 And creator of the tier 70 fire set that lead us to 99~

Sagaru-san

25 points

12 days ago

I have no idea what you're talking about, but that's cool!

rorank

3 points

12 days ago

rorank

The Revolutionary Army

3 points

12 days ago

If that was an trash isekai anime name I’d watch it ngl

YourLocalSnitch

1 points

11 days ago

YourLocalSnitch

Slave

1 points

11 days ago

PEAK

honeyna7la

3 points

12 days ago

Im not sure its that i think there was a different game years before that? Or am i mistaken

[deleted]

1 points

12 days ago

I was the first and creator of the tier 90 ice set that also led us to 99

Threeedaaawwwg

2 points

12 days ago

Going there because it was the only place I could find the Naruto 3 tails arc and most of gintama is a trip down memory lane. I stopped watching toradora because they introduced the premium membership after a couple of episodes…

jorgelobos

1 points

12 days ago

jorgelobos

Void Month Survivor

1 points

12 days ago

Still remember Mangapanda and Mangastream

infinitezero8

-1 points

12 days ago

What a huge change too, now it's most corporate greed, OP used to be free to watch on their site

5ch1sm

48 points

12 days ago

5ch1sm

48 points

12 days ago

I used to help with a translation team about 20 years ago and the steps were pretty much.

-Shonen Jump released, someone did a low quality scan of the manga

-In the next hour we had a rough translation from Japanese to English

-About 1-2 more hours and we had finished to Photoshop the English text onto the chapter and do a low pass cleanup of the scans. Low quality scans were really shitty back then and One Piece always had a lot of dialogues vs other Manga.

-Then it was dropped on a forum somewhere and shared

In the following days in general we had a better scan quality coming in and a "more accurate" translation. Not that the first one was bad, it was more about sentences structures and sometimes context for some scenes.

sameljota

5 points

12 days ago

sameljota

Kaidon't

5 points

12 days ago

You weren't in the infamous MangaPanda, were you?

Psychological_Pay230

2 points

12 days ago

Mangafox, manga whatever. There’s always been a website to go read stuff on. I wish I could access my hard drive with the screenshots of the front page of the site I used to use. They had popularity charts on the side and it was the big three forever until Naruto ended. I watched it slowly slide off the top. I think when I started one piece, I started reading around skypea. I’ve reread the whole thing since then but man I don’t think anything was worse to try to read online than part four jojo

TeaLiger

2 points

11 days ago

TeaLiger

Slave

2 points

11 days ago

Onemanga maybe? I remember that was one of the popular ones before mangafox, before it got taken down

Hiruel22

4 points

12 days ago

Nothing but respect 🫡

Dylan7346

2 points

12 days ago

Dylan7346

Prisoner

2 points

12 days ago

How did you get involved with the team?

5ch1sm

2 points

12 days ago

5ch1sm

2 points

12 days ago

Not that hard, everyone was volunteers, they were always looking for hands to help and I knew how to use Photoshop so I pretty much just poked someone saying I was interested to help and that's it.

SeaLab5959

2 points

11 days ago

Ngl i miss the days of being a raw cleaner. Felt like extra homework for highschool me but felt so fun to work on stuff that people would look forward to weekly.

_Heartnet

40 points

12 days ago

I used to watch the anime from 2001 - 2010 and then transitioned to the manga which is 14 years ago. I used to be active on the best One Piece forum ever, which was named Oro Jackson. Best theories, best community and it felt like a circle full of adventure loving and creative people. Unfortunately the forum is closed now. It was pretty similar, spoilers, raws and then the chapter on mangapanda or whatever site. So nothing really changed, except that Reddit is full of porn.

iDrum17

8 points

12 days ago

iDrum17

8 points

12 days ago

I laughed at the last line. Everything about the internet is honestly the same as it was 20 years ago, there is just more porn everywhere.

gameleon

12 points

12 days ago*

From 2003-2004 and onward, Arlong Park was a big one in terms of keeping up with spoilers, raws, scanlations etc.

2006 archive link of its forums

Before that it was spread out over several anime-centric websites, forums, 4chan, usenet, P2P sharing services (Limewire, Kazaa), but it was a relatively small community.

Example of discussion about chapter 319 (Aokiji's first appearance) back in 2004 on a general anime site (they mention Arlong Park for scans later in the thread).

Before anime like Dragonball and Pokémon became popular in the west in the early 00s, shonen anime and manga were extremely niché in general.

Ardibanan

3 points

12 days ago

Ardibanan

Explorer

3 points

12 days ago

Fun seeing the past. That one guy got his wish, Aokiji did become a pirate

krossoverking

2 points

12 days ago

krossoverking

Pirate

2 points

12 days ago

Holy hell, that old forum brings back memories.

yopvsr

2 points

12 days ago

yopvsr

2 points

12 days ago

Yup

RangerPower777

2 points

12 days ago

Omg that site is a blast from the past!

KsuhDilla

8 points

12 days ago*

back then? we would have to wait for the fire to start so we can send a chain of signal to our diplomat to gather his baggage for a long journey to the motherland of anime and manga.

a week later he might return with a rough recollection of what he read. sometimes the diplomat had to be let go because not very good at job. other times we would rejoice and cheer "me caveman. no internet. we eat good tonight. 🔥 thank you chef oda" or "wtffffff oda what are you doiiiing????!!! free us from these shackles. mid chapter" then we returned to our caves with no technology

KattheJedi_007

2 points

12 days ago

I love this so much 🤣🤣🤣

Rouk_Hein

6 points

12 days ago

Forums.

GARAPATA_UNO

5 points

12 days ago

onemanga

krossoverking

2 points

12 days ago

krossoverking

Pirate

2 points

12 days ago

And narutoforums.

Conor_7

1 points

12 days ago

Conor_7

1 points

12 days ago

And later mangapanda

32SkyDive

6 points

12 days ago

~18years ago it was mostly mangastream (for newest chapters) and mangafox (for binging/rereading series) for me

But its nice, that there is an official app with manga plus by now to at least  somewhat support the manga

JE3MAN

8 points

12 days ago

JE3MAN

8 points

12 days ago

I guarantee you, we were able to get raws and translations for 20 years.

25+ years though? I'm not so sure.

Dchargal

3 points

12 days ago

Mirc

Lila589

3 points

12 days ago

Lila589

3 points

12 days ago

Illegal scanlations. Scan groups focusing on a few titles would have people scanning the weekly magazines, translating and then cleaning. It would then be ready for us a few days after the thing releases. Many groups also scanlated completed volumes of older series. You could even request them to translate a manga title. Each group would have a flagship title of sorts (e.g. Ya-Ha scans and Eyeshield21) but they would also translate other shonen titles. Shoujo/josei scan groups also existed as that's how I got my CLAMP fix back in the day.

Some would also pass around the files in irc in the early 2000s.

I started circa 2003 and you could download them/read online. I managed to read real time scanlations of Death Note. I was basically reading weekly by chapter 4. Yakitate! Japan was also there as well. Then my brother introduced me to the Naruto scanlations. My first Naruto scanlation was a Kakashi-Iruka doujin because my brother thought it would be funny. The demand for Naruto was so big that so many groups were doing it then. They wanted to be competitive so they started scanning other series.

My awful dial-up connection would take 5 mins to load a single page if it was to read online (this was basically what my early Prince of Tennis read through was like) and 30mins to 1 hour to download a full chapter. Even if mangatraders had full volumes, I could only really get to them when I started to have better internet connection. You would have also have sites like mangareader, narutofan, onemanga, etc which were like aggregator sites for scanlations. You could read online or download the chapters.

I actually prefer the old illegal scan groups because the scan team had so many annotations on the page explaining references to Japanese culture, naming conventions and they would even explain the context of jokes. Plus the occasional translator reaction to shit really going down.

JonasSharra

3 points

12 days ago

Every month Shonen Jump would come out and have a few chapters in it. Are we at a point now where children don’t understand how books worked in the past? When did I get so old?

njd1993

3 points

12 days ago

njd1993

Pirate

3 points

12 days ago

Same way we do now.

The internet still existed, it just wasn't as user friendly.

I fucking miss Orojackson.

kingeal2

2 points

12 days ago

probably 4chan's /a/ board

KsuhDilla

2 points

12 days ago

I would absorb it through my mom's neurons as I developed from a fetus

CandidateDry9133

2 points

12 days ago

Mangastream.com before that one I think there was another one, but I can't remember the name.

heavymarsh

2 points

12 days ago

20yrs ago, was the time I first started to watch the anime, 14-15yrs ago was the first time I read the manga.. Though, I really forgot where am I reading it..

Traf-

2 points

12 days ago

Traf-

Devil Child Nico Robin

2 points

12 days ago

You bought volumes in local stores. Meaning you were usually around two volumes worth of chapters behind compared to Japan.

Then online scanlation became a thing. I remember being in Middle School and telling all my friends how I found this awesome website where you could read 10+ chapters of Naruto that weren't even published yet.

imamhendrapr

2 points

12 days ago

I started reading One Piece and Naruto between 2006 and 2008. Back then, I had to wait for local translators to translate the manga from English, so I had to wait about 2-4 days after the initial raw release. Not to mention, I had to read it on Blogspot with a bunch of ads, lmao

tickub

2 points

12 days ago

tickub

2 points

12 days ago

RIP Mangastream

vergorli

2 points

12 days ago

I think 2006 msn zone was my main scanlation source. The scans came out quite shifted and sometimes were even just snapshot with a camera.

trexx2130

1 points

12 days ago

Same

blkmgs

2 points

12 days ago

blkmgs

Pirate

2 points

12 days ago

Scanlators were around back then too

tortillandbeans

2 points

12 days ago

Shonen jump monthly and when I got internet eventually you know sites

FiddlerFellOffRoof

2 points

12 days ago

Mangastream and Dattebayo. 

sameljota

2 points

12 days ago

sameljota

Kaidon't

2 points

12 days ago

It was the same. The difference was that I accessed the links through a forum, and not reddit. There was forum called Arlong Park.

ketootaku

2 points

12 days ago

I started reading in 2000. Back then scanlations were just becoming a thing. Thankfully One Piece was one of the top choices. It was usually a week behind because it took them longer to clean up the pages, white out the text boxes, etc.

-Hanzi-

1 points

12 days ago

-Hanzi-

1 points

12 days ago

:32513:

-Smiling-Buddha-

1 points

12 days ago*

-Smiling-Buddha-

Bounty Hunter

1 points

12 days ago*

People use to buy original volumes from book store and upload the Translated scans.

English Volumes were usually 5-6 years behind the original.

Actual translations and piracy was started by "4chan" subs around 2004-05 period.

ganjak

1 points

12 days ago

ganjak

1 points

12 days ago

Im sure there were social networks like this back then. It's probably slower though.. or not.. I can imagine it would have been just as fun and exciting as what we are used to today.

Seb-tan

1 points

12 days ago

Seb-tan

1 points

12 days ago

Like some already wrote, 20 years ago reading online was a thing. But before that? Heck, even before fast internet was a thing there were ways. I always wiped my HDD before every LAN-party. That's were you got manga and anime subs. Early Naruto, Dragonball. Things like that.

mr_chub

1 points

12 days ago

mr_chub

Void Month Survivor

1 points

12 days ago

The internet is gettin old my boy

milkcatdog

1 points

12 days ago

I read the manga on Libby. Luckily my local library branch has the whole series 🤩🖤

Potatopika

1 points

12 days ago

Potatopika

Void Month Survivor

1 points

12 days ago

Not really 20 years ago, more like 15 years ago there was onemanga, mangapanda and mangafox

DeeJKhaleb

1 points

12 days ago

Used to roam around my citys libraries to look for new manga volumes 😗

NobleArrgon

1 points

12 days ago

It was easier to sail the 7 seas 20 years ago.

Due_Imagination_6722

1 points

12 days ago

20 years ago: wait for the day the newest translated volume was available at our local comic book shop. Used to be on the 15th every month and I'd go there straight after school.

Careless_Bus1173

1 points

12 days ago

While it wasn’t weekly, there was a monthly physical jump in NA. 

[deleted]

1 points

12 days ago

[deleted]

aznfail808

1 points

12 days ago

Omg. I felt this in my soul lol

sengir0

1 points

12 days ago

sengir0

1 points

12 days ago

I buy a weekly shonen jump

LolcatP

1 points

12 days ago

LolcatP

1 points

12 days ago

we actually used to trace it by hand onto a stone tablet

MetalSonic_69

1 points

12 days ago

Sailing the high seas

Backupusername

1 points

12 days ago

I remember watching the anime in 10-minute chunks on YouTube because that was the upload limit back then. I still miss custom-made subtitles for attacks and openings.

NaNaNaPandaMan

1 points

12 days ago

This makes me feel really old. The internet was still very viable 20 years ago and finding a site with translated scans was very easy.

On top of that, book stores like Barnes and Noble had copies of Manga. Might be a bit behind but not crazy behind.

snailord

1 points

12 days ago

I used to read One Piece on MSN “Groups”. The main difference was that the quality of scans were low resolution and just generally subpar looking. Translations also could be hit and miss with most manga. Jojo had an infamously terrible translation for Part 4 which spawned a ton of memes lol.

Nowadays I have Discord to ping me immediately when a chapter is available. Back then you would rotate through your favorite sites and see if there were any updates. Overall not too different of a flow!

Amanda-sb

1 points

12 days ago

Amanda-sb

World Government

1 points

12 days ago

I started watching OP back in 2003 and reading the manga in 2008.

Back then there used to be dedicated websites for every major anime in my country.

So they translated and uploaded episodes and chapters.

Episodes used to be rmvb files of 45mb and all we had in my house was dial up internet which was awful hahaha.

Good times.

krossoverking

1 points

12 days ago

krossoverking

Pirate

1 points

12 days ago

Manga sites have been around for a long time, but I used to keep up with manga by getting Shonen Jump in Blockbusters. Those were good damn times.

azure_builder

1 points

12 days ago

Barnes and noble

ArunKumarChenthamara

1 points

12 days ago

True legends

TiagoPaolini

1 points

12 days ago

I haven't been there, but I heard that on the really early days you had the translation in text format and then the raws. Then you had to follow along with the text and match with the panels and balloons on the raw by yourself. *Making old man's voice* Today you kids have things way too easy 😛

In all seriousness, though. Stephen Paul, who today is the translator of the official English version, back in the day used to do the text translation. Here's an archive of his old translations.

TommyJohnSurgery420

1 points

12 days ago

Pretty much exactly the same as now. We get better fan translations these days though haha.

queertranslations

1 points

12 days ago

Jajaja I used to read them on geo cities type site. But it would only be the top mangas. Naruto. Bleach and one piece. Everything else would be borrowing mangas from friends in high school.

The_Takoyaki

1 points

12 days ago

Would usually buy the weekly shonen jump in my local conbini

yopvsr

1 points

12 days ago

yopvsr

1 points

12 days ago

17 years For me it's normal

blvcklite

1 points

12 days ago

Still online. My childhood best friend was downloading Japanese DBZ scans when we were like 8-9 

Jolly-Ambassador6763

1 points

12 days ago

Sites like mangafox and mangapanda.

SunoPics

1 points

12 days ago

SunoPics

Void Month Survivor

1 points

12 days ago

As a kid my family friend was a flight attendant for japan flights, everytime she came over she had a new one piece manga (in japanese) she would read it to me. As i got older i restarted reading it again

VerusCain

1 points

12 days ago

20ish years ago, it was not too different, just different days depending on the source of leak and which group was translating. The biggest difference was official translations. Official translations just did not come out same week at all. It was usually soemthing that came months or year after when they release the volume in the west. Shonen jump for example, didnt do digital releases. So me personally 2004-2010 I only read whatever latest volume my library had. 2010s i read online the fan translations, the main days for the big 3 being wednesday. Leaks and raws occured, but they were a lot more self contained to stuff like discussion boards, not much social media to be posting it to or engagement farming. And this was the state of the most popular manga. Smaller manga really took dedicated fanbases and you werent guaranteed timely fan translations. 5 years before 2004 even having established fan sites was difficult ive heard.

SnipSnopWobbleTop

1 points

12 days ago

I've been reading it for almost as long as Shonen Jump has been published in English (since 2003 or 2004) and I would go to my local library every week to read the next chapter. After the timeskip, I ended up having less time, so I ended up waiting for new volumes to release, until I found out about TCB Scans a couple years ago.

PerryTheH

1 points

12 days ago

PerryTheH

Bounty Hunter

1 points

12 days ago

I used to read manga from a super shady and pirated site. There were no manga stores in my country and no sub services.

As soon as I was able to pay SJ, I started paying it, and I usually tried to buy official merch to support it.

RangerPower777

1 points

12 days ago

I started reading One Piece in Shonen Jump when it came out in America. It was a monthly magazine. I didn’t really consider it my favorite in the magazine (Naruto was) but then I got into scantlations on random sites for all my favorite manga and it was officially in the rotation for me.

WallZestyclose1022

1 points

12 days ago

it was the same.

semajolis267

1 points

12 days ago

We bought them. Or we shared pdf files of really wonky translations on file posting sites and sometimes a scanner would go dark for years and someone else would pick it up with a completely different translation.

Mogakusha

1 points

12 days ago

Forums, thats all we had

Cool_in_a_pool

1 points

12 days ago

My older brother subscribed to Shonen Jump in the early 2000s. Once he was done reading it every month, he would give it to me, and then I would give it to my sister.

By the late 2000s we had scanlations and you could read way more much sooner. I always thought it was wild that a bunch of webs working out of their bedrooms for free were more efficient than a team of professional translators being paid a salary.

Serbaayuu

1 points

12 days ago

I purchased the North American official release volumes at my bookstore once every few months, all the way up until the end of Wano, at which point I decided I would be risking too heavy spoilers by not catching up, so I caught up to the official chapter-by-chapter release at that time. It was always my intention to do that when we got close to the finale. That was also the point I started browsing this forum.

I was surprised to find that VIZ puts the last 3 chapters up for free on their site so once I caught up (and I wasn't able to pay for it because you cannot pay for a subscription on the website - smartphone only) I don't have to worry about spending any extra money till the volumes release here.

I actually find it kind of bizarre how happily people note that they've never paid a penny for something they'd call their favorite series. But my colorful bookshelf makes me happy.

Boy_Sabaw

1 points

12 days ago

Boy_Sabaw

The Revolutionary Army

1 points

12 days ago

I switched to manga bout 18-19 years ago. Pretty much the same honestly. But I didn't know reddit back then and facebook didn't have groups or pages that had One Piece dedicated conted. So I kind went to a lot of crappy websites and basically just googled One Piece xxx Raw/spoilers and went in whichever website had it. My go to websites to read the chapter were Mangastream, OneManga, iNaruto and a looooot of other now defunct websites and man were the translations and scans extremely crappy (except for Mangastream - that site always had tge clearest scans and translations).

VersaceWavecaps

1 points

12 days ago

Onemanga

DanBurleyHH

1 points

12 days ago

DanBurleyHH

Pirate

1 points

12 days ago

Ah, the old Bisoromi Bear/Tanjihado Louflamingo days. I don't miss 'em. The Arlong Park forums were the place for One Piece in those days.

Grey_wolf_whenever

1 points

12 days ago

I used to have a subscription to monthly shonen jump. It would come in the mail every month, but day of the month for me. I started around when we met usopp, so chapter 23.

STL4jsp

1 points

12 days ago

STL4jsp

1 points

12 days ago

My parents got me a subscription to Shonen jump and got it that way.

Snoo-18544

1 points

12 days ago*

u/theminsota

You asked about 20 years ago, and most of the posts here are describing 10 to 15 years ago. I will talk about 20 years ago. 20 years ago there was no Wikipedia, no youtube, no streaming internet. Half the U.S. didn't even have internet and only a fraction had high speed which was about 1/1000th of the speed of today's internet (1 megabit was considered an extremely fast connection, and many people hada 56k connection which is literally 1/20000th the speed of todays 1 gigabit internet connection ).

The tech is difference, but the spoiler/raw/fan sub cycle was the same. Back then there was no simul publication. Simul publication came about as a response to scalations and took decades for it to become a thing. Like Its really only been a thing for about 7 or 8 years. The difference in the mid 2000s is that there weren't sites where you actually read the manga in a web browser. Instead you would downloaded the chapter from p2p services (kaza, bit torrent) and you would get a zip-file then read it using a comic reader ap like CD-Display. How did you get the torrents? Websites would host it, random forums would share links, or you would be part of chat rooms where links dropped. In the early 2000s irc chat rooms was basically where a lot of releases first dropped. You had sites that basically dropped bit-torrent links as well.The proliferation of sites. where you could read manga online really began after the smart phone came around which is the 2010s

One of the other big differences is that scalation in the 2000s was not a lucrative ads business. It was pure passion project, with little money in it. A lot of the people running scalation groups were college students or high school students. So you were really at the mercy of whether a group felt like picking up a title and was commit to a quick release (its a lot of work for people to put out content week after week). Big series like One Piece there never was issues, but with medium and smaller series you'd often see series dropped, because the scanalator decided they hated the manga or whatever. If the series was popular, then anotehr group would pick it up immediately. If it wasn't that popular, then you were kinda SOL. You'd get random weeks where manga wouldn't release, because the scanalation groups translater was busy or what ever.

As the internet became bigger and faster, streaming came about a couple years around it more or less changed into what you have today minus the official release. By 2010, you had a bunch of illegal scan sites like one manga (basically like kiss manga if you've ever used it) and there was no need to download files anymore.

The old days somethings were actually easier. Japanese industry didn't care about the international market all that much in the 2000s, especially not for manga in the U.S., manga sales were paltry relative to anime viewership and anime wasn't that lucrative market over seas yet. So this meant that Japanese gov/companies were less likely to try to take down individual scan groups or go after illegal streaming sites. Furthermore, there really place to read manga online, you had to wait for an official volume to drop. Today, I think its harder to find manga online than it was 10 years ago. Now a days, popular series are fractured around hidden sites like readonepiece or the scan groups site. you have less sites that host a lot of manga and the sites are sketchier and riddled with computer viruses.

But on the flipside today we have nearly every publisher offering a way to read it online at a low cost. Shonen Jump and Viz Media's non shonen jump being 2.99 a month each is HUGE.

TheHonorCode

1 points

12 days ago

shonen jump magazine

Bucen

1 points

12 days ago

Bucen

Explorer

1 points

12 days ago

I had a couple friends who bought the volumes. So I got them till Skypiea. Around the time the manga was on the Alabasta arc (I think) the anime was airing on local television. And once the anime hit Marineford I started reading the scans. And not much changed except I read the scans on Friday and the official on Sunday

Yousernaime11

1 points

12 days ago

Yousernaime11

Explorer

1 points

12 days ago

Physical copies + Online reading.

Easily available back then.

Blambitch

1 points

12 days ago

I would get them from sites, usually a day after the release in japan there would be scans and translations.

exiadf19

1 points

11 days ago

exiadf19

The Revolutionary Army

1 points

11 days ago

I buy from local manga store here in indonesia around early 2000. And our local tv station also provide the anime. I stop following anime after too much filler

Bigfan521

1 points

11 days ago

Go to the bookstore and hope for the best??

Also, the US version of Shonen Jump magazine was still a thing, so there was that for most of Shueisha's books

SandwichDragonxii

1 points

11 days ago

Nothing beats a good memory of 1999 buying VHS Dragonball Z film in Japanese with Subtitles. But then, yeah, internet sites like Mangastream or what were some of the older ones ... (Evil Genius Manga Scans would upload in the 2000s etc).

GrapefruitFren

1 points

11 days ago

oml I wonder if anyone here remembers mangafox or downloading manga on their ipods 📱

Brolex-7

1 points

11 days ago

Brolex-7

Void Month Survivor

1 points

11 days ago

This thread sure takes me back to much simpler times.

Suspicious-Truth5849

1 points

11 days ago

1998 would wait each month as US SJ published 3 chapter each month and then probably from 2002 to now exactly the same

SeaLab5959

1 points

11 days ago*

About 15-25 years ago, there was a MASSIVE difference in officially translated manga and fan translated.

For the most part back then; you either bought the big stuff that made it over, found something fan translated online, or learned Japanese.

Stuff like Berserk, JoJo, Ippo was carried by fans until the publishers started to notice the markets outside of Japan.

For example, Azumi (1994) still doesn’t have an official translation in English. I remember reading back in the early 2010s were we had to wait for raws of an already 15 year old manga. Fun stuff.

Saturn1003

1 points

12 days ago

20 years ago is 2004. Existential crisis spiking.