| a period you personally experienced or just heard about. I'd love to go back and reexperience the early 2k pokemon and yugioh craze again. Waking up on Saturday to watch FoxBox, begging my mom to buy me yugioh cereal and the days of experimentation before anime was just easily available. Imagine having to use a special catalog called Z Store to buy anime and only hearing about things because you saw them advertised on DVD And seeing anime kids meal toys at fast food places, school bags, at school bookfairs. I didn't appreciate it at the time but i want to go back :) |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| I would like to experience the period between 1995 to 2005 as a grown up anime enthusiast with vhs and dvds and anime tv channels and internet access. Basically i wanna experience how it is to be @MasterTasuke whom i greatly respect and admire for his devotion to retro anime aesthetics and analog media.        |
tchitchouanJan 2, 6:48 PM
| The oreimo era Back when we could talk about certain topics on MAL Also Nisekoi era the Chitoge vs Onodera wars |
RushingSugarJan 2, 7:04 PM
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| Mid 2000's. We really need a Wolf's Rain renaissance. Of course, it should be vastly comprised by Emos and Furries because the average anime fan nowadays doesn't deserve it. |
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| The entire otaku north american and latin american scene was better (and it will never be any better) when EVERYONE knew and had great appreciation for the works of Rumiko Takahashi and CLAMP with little exceptions. |
Reply to MR-GRAYv2
The entire otaku north american and latin american scene was better (and it will never be any better) when EVERYONE knew and had great appreciation for the works of Rumiko Takahashi and CLAMP with little exceptions.
| @MR-GRAYv2 LMAO we all hated Inuyasha in the mid 2000s. I mean. Anyone with taste back then. Really, people started to notice Rumiko was a hack with that series. |
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Reply to ComeInReiAsuka
@MR-GRAYv2 LMAO we all hated Inuyasha in the mid 2000s. I mean. Anyone with taste back then. Really, people started to notice Rumiko was a hack with that series.
| @ComeInReiAsuka No, rumiko takahashi isn't a hack, she's a one trick pony, most of her works are basically female tsundere x male tsundere romcoms. This applies to maison ikkoku, ranma 1/2, inuyasha and rin-ne. |
| maybe 1993-96 when anime was brand new in america, when there was no "fandom," nowhere to buy the stuff or hear about it and only some dubs on tape by ADV at the local video stores to let you know it exists that's when anime was truly magical |
| I wish I could answer mid-to-late-2000's. You know, using a 4:3 wallpaper in a monitor in all that, though it likely would've been an issue with my slow internet speed at the time, I guess. There's also the issue of "What if I don't find the places to talk about anime on?". Like, fuck, not much point on doing so if it's to only find forums where 90% of the posts are about Naruto. |
Reply to ComeInReiAsuka
@MR-GRAYv2 LMAO we all hated Inuyasha in the mid 2000s. I mean. Anyone with taste back then. Really, people started to notice Rumiko was a hack with that series.
| @ComeInReiAsuka because we were filthy dub-watching retards back then. I would go to the future and put my borg pod into a timemachine and take it to the past to enjoy 1,000 hours of anime a day in orbit without the needs of the flesh. |
Reply to plebrepel
@ComeInReiAsuka because we were filthy dub-watching retards back then.
I would go to the future and put my borg pod into a timemachine and take it to the past to enjoy 1,000 hours of anime a day in orbit without the needs of the flesh.
I would go to the future and put my borg pod into a timemachine and take it to the past to enjoy 1,000 hours of anime a day in orbit without the needs of the flesh.
| @plebrepel Yes yes Haruhi was watched dubbed in 2006. That's precisely what happened. You're telling on yourself. |
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| @ComeInReiAsuka I did not know anime was anime back then. |
| Even though it was a huge pain in many ways, I'd relive the early 00s. I was past the phase of being an excited new fan, and just starting to follow seasonals, establishing the same basic viewing routine I still have now. I had a subscription to Newtype USA, and I'd pick up Animerica now and then. In 2002, ANN opened their Encyclopedia and "My Anime" (these features combined were kind of like an early MAL), and I signed up on day 1. Nothing like that had existed before, so having detailed information for virtually all anime in one place felt incredible, plus a way to track what you'd seen and wanted to see (again, a first), and I'd spend hours combing through it. I also ran lots of anime websites, terrible by today's standards, but totally normal for the time (all listed on Anime Web Turnpike, of course). One of them had a forum where I met people I talked to long after I closed the site, and another had a really active fanart section that tons of people submitted their art to. I was collecting all kinds of anime merch, so I was always getting exciting packages delivered. I was active on several different anime forums, and really enjoyed talking to other fans. There's a lot I don't miss about being a fan during these years, but overall, it was just a really fun, memorable time for me. |
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| Haruhi craze era, sounds like it was fun. |
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| I think i want to experience the 80s and 90s era the most... It's just so different from how i mainly consume anime. I think having to actually went and buy VHS sets in the OVA era not knowing what you buy and not knowing if it was good or not is a great feeling in on itself. The same goes for the 90s and early 2000s as well with it's online community and mostly pirated fansubs. The thrill of not knowing what you got into is an interesting thing to experience. Oh yeah sidenote, for most of what i said you actually has to be japanese to experience this... But still here in Indonesia anime was already popular even back then, so maybe it could work? i dunno |
| i'd want to experience 2004-2014 again. throughout that decade we got shows like hellsing ultimate, bleach, naruto, death note, gurren lagann, code geass, fmab, spice & wolf, clannad, sao, DxD(yes im including dxd with these GOAT anime lol), log horizon, ngnl, aot, etc...imho this was the peak of anime. there was little censorship, along with extremely creative and new ideas coming out for LN's and manga, which meant we got incredible anime...were there some flops from that decade of anime? of course...but i feel that the masterpieces we got vastly outweighed the mediocre anime(which i feel are still better than most anime today) that came out along side them. |
| I would give a kidney to be able to go back to 2009 and relive my personal anime fandom experience, holy shit the memories. I guess mid-2000s would be even better but I'd like to be a little older. Being a cringy 12yo wasn't the best look even though I enjoyed those times. |
| So in these fissures I sacrifice a mortal path in favour of thee. ♪ |
| I mean you tell us at least once a day you like Yugioh. So I've considered how I'd love to relive parts of my childhood again, parts of it, up to a certain age. But I never think about things like a 'fandom' Who cares? Don't shows with big followings always have an active fanbase anyway? Like Trekkies and Bronies. |
| The anime fandom doesn't matter, but you just don't refuse time travel, it's too abusable. |
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧May the winds of change transform you entirely.*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ |
| I liked many anime from the 2010s, so I’d love to go back to that era. |
| Mid-to-late aughts. 2007 was great for me, personally, because it's both when I started watching fansubs, and first started talking with people online about anime (amongst other things). I was probably even more cringe than I remember, considering I was in my mid-teena, but oh well. I'd love to be able to talk both with the people I used to talk with back then (only in contact with one after all this time), and be able to talk about things the way we did back then. In a way, I was more appreciative of stuff back then. Wasn't as disillusioned and cynical, I guess. |
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| I'd say the early to mid-2000s (around when I was born lol) as that was when the online anime community really started to take off with fansubs and the like, but hadn't yet become the mainstream mess of today. Honestly, reading some MAL threads from 15+ years ago makes me nostalgic for an era that I wasn't even part of. |
Reply to ShiftyKitsune
Mid 2000's.
We really need a Wolf's Rain renaissance.
Of course, it should be vastly comprised by Emos and Furries because the average anime fan nowadays doesn't deserve it.
We really need a Wolf's Rain renaissance.
Of course, it should be vastly comprised by Emos and Furries because the average anime fan nowadays doesn't deserve it.
| @ShiftyKitsune I just started watching Wolf's Rain as my first "new" anime of 2026, since I've been wanting to catch up on some classics. Definitely a very engaging story so far. |
| 2009ish, most likely. Specifically the Polish side of the animanga fandom, when one of the most comprehensive sources on anime/manga was a strange 2004 lexicon compiled by one extremely dedicated enthusiast, the local manga releases kinda sucked, and every other person largely relied on their terrible English skills to learn anything about anime. Oh, and Polish Vocaloid fans weren't an extinct species (I recently found some ancient club and its last messages were people talking about Lily being the newest upcoming release. Hilarious archeology). |
| Your planet is really bright. |
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