Fansub chain-mail?
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:14 pm
Was catching up on the Anime Origin Stories project, and noticed this reference:
This is the first time I've heard of tapes being moved along a mail-chain rather than being permanently traded; was this practice very common? What groups were doing it?
(http://www.animeoriginstories.com/95-ian/)Ian wrote:When I was in middle school, a friend of mine from a few houses down the street (name omitted by request) acquired a VHS tape and some photocopied papers with a script printed on them. He invited me over, because I was better and faster at reading than he was. Between myself, and the few friends that gathered, we watched Ranma 1/2 each taking turns reading the script out loud as we watched the show in its original Japanese language. We got tapes mailed to us, and each box came with scripts for some, and they always contained a piece of paper with the name and address of the next person we were mailing them to. These were not even fansubs, and they had commercials from early 1990s Japanese television stations during the episodes.
This is the first time I've heard of tapes being moved along a mail-chain rather than being permanently traded; was this practice very common? What groups were doing it?