Shadow1980 said:
When did you first get into anime? I started watching back in the mid to late 90s. Back then the only way to watch was either on TV or to rent VHS tapes from the local Blockbuster. Starting around 2000 you started to see anime on DVD proliferate, and that was probably the best way to watch a large amount of anime. We didn't get affordable broadband internet around here until around 2004-ish, so downloading fansubs wasn't even an option for me for years. I still kept buying anime DVDs, though, but money issues kept me from buying much over the past decade. Fortunately there's Crunchyroll and Hulu for streaming. |
I have an absolute ton of VHS tapes in boxes, both fansubbed and commercial, but if I were to show you my collection since then, I'd have to post a picture of my external HDD. I started using torrents many years before streaming became the norm. I probably have less than 10 anime DVDs and less than 20 DVDs of any kind.
As for anime goods, I actually have several and almost all of them were gifts. Small Pikachu plush, Panda Kopanda plush, 2 Jiji plushes (the small one purs), small Catbus plush (purs), P-chan plush, large and small Totoro plushes, Hamtaro plush, small Cutey Honey Flash figure that's in a box somewhere, Totoro figure with Mei sleeping on his tummy ... I think that's it. And they were all gifts. Once my sisters and girl friend found out I liked anime they decided I should decorate my home with it. I think they just liked looking at plushes. Only one I think I bought myself was a Totoro wall scroll, which I got because my niece was living with me for awhile and Totoro was her favorite movie (thanks to me). Later on, I gave her the same scroll for Christmas.
