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Ahh, anime's heyday. I remember borrowing Samurai Champloo on VHS from my friend around that time when I was in high school... good times!

duggan 2y ago
Champloo came out in 2004, wasn’t VHS a distant memory by then, or was I just “living in the future”? :) Sure you’re not thinking of Cowboy Bebop?
- djaouen 2y ago
  It might have been. Even then, I remember thinking that it was odd that it came on VHS. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
- pjc50 2y ago
  Could well have been a "fansub" circulating on copied VHS.
- justsomehnguy 2y ago
  [not the OP] I find it quite amusing what many people (including myself sometimes) have a pretty blurry memory about when we moved from VHS. But I think it mostly contributes on what for some people VHS were a dominant media for quite a while, because they didn't had the means to see the digital media. It's easier to understand what the first [commercially] successful DVD player was PlayStation 2, which became available ~2001. Before that DVDs were quite a costly[0] endeavour. But at the same time people with the access to a computer (and a local 'everything for $15' totally-legit-shop) had the benefits of DivX ;) releases on a plain CD-ROMs, which every home computer had. Some anecdata: I first seen Blade (1998) on VHS, but The Matrix (1999) on DivX rip, yet (I think) Spirited Away (2001) on VHS. I frequented a local VHS rental (because a friend worked there and so it places it up to 2002? 2001?) so I had seen a lot of films on VHS, but again, by 2002 it was a meme how people searching for XXX on DC++ got XXX (2002) instead. [0] https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/your-1st-dvd-player-vs-1st-blu-ray-player-how-much-and-when-did-you-buy.273256/ https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/your-1st-...
  - duggan 2y ago
    This is fascinating, and yeah, since I was a teenager around then, VHS probably just became ancient history as soon as I could play DVDs.
- runamuck 2y ago
  Disney released "Cars" on VHS in 2006. (The last big studio VHS release)
christiaanb 2y ago
Perhaps the only anime where the voice actor for one of the Dutch characters actually speaks proper Dutch (as opposed to e.g. German or very broken Dutch). Although they picked a weird translation for the concept of boss/chief/ranking officer, and they chose “opperhoofd”; which as a Dutch person is something you associate as a person that is the head of a tribe, not ranking officer.
- Murskautuminen 2y ago
  Actually, the term opperhoofd was used by chief ranking officers of the Dutch trading companies in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_opperhoofden_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_opperhoofden_in_Japan
  - christiaanb 2y ago
    Ah, did that know that! That makes the voice acting and script even better then.

duggan 2y ago

Champloo came out in 2004, wasn’t VHS a distant memory by then, or was I just “living in the future”? :) Sure you’re not thinking of Cowboy Bebop?

djaouen 2y ago
It might have been. Even then, I remember thinking that it was odd that it came on VHS. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
pjc50 2y ago
Could well have been a "fansub" circulating on copied VHS.
justsomehnguy 2y ago
[not the OP] I find it quite amusing what many people (including myself sometimes) have a pretty blurry memory about when we moved from VHS. But I think it mostly contributes on what for some people VHS were a dominant media for quite a while, because they didn't had the means to see the digital media. It's easier to understand what the first [commercially] successful DVD player was PlayStation 2, which became available ~2001. Before that DVDs were quite a costly[0] endeavour. But at the same time people with the access to a computer (and a local 'everything for $15' totally-legit-shop) had the benefits of DivX ;) releases on a plain CD-ROMs, which every home computer had. Some anecdata: I first seen Blade (1998) on VHS, but The Matrix (1999) on DivX rip, yet (I think) Spirited Away (2001) on VHS. I frequented a local VHS rental (because a friend worked there and so it places it up to 2002? 2001?) so I had seen a lot of films on VHS, but again, by 2002 it was a meme how people searching for XXX on DC++ got XXX (2002) instead. [0] https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/your-1st-dvd-player-vs-1st-blu-ray-player-how-much-and-when-did-you-buy.273256/ https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/your-1st-...
- duggan 2y ago
  This is fascinating, and yeah, since I was a teenager around then, VHS probably just became ancient history as soon as I could play DVDs.
runamuck 2y ago
Disney released "Cars" on VHS in 2006. (The last big studio VHS release)

christiaanb 2y ago

Perhaps the only anime where the voice actor for one of the Dutch characters actually speaks proper Dutch (as opposed to e.g. German or very broken Dutch). Although they picked a weird translation for the concept of boss/chief/ranking officer, and they chose “opperhoofd”; which as a Dutch person is something you associate as a person that is the head of a tribe, not ranking officer.

Murskautuminen 2y ago
Actually, the term opperhoofd was used by chief ranking officers of the Dutch trading companies in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_opperhoofden_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_opperhoofden_in_Japan
- christiaanb 2y ago
  Ah, did that know that! That makes the voice acting and script even better then.