Anime Video Rental

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Try to remeraber back then when anime was kicking in, you go to a Video Rental Store ( Hollywood videos, BlockBuster, public video store, etc) and in that rental video store you see a very small selection of videos ( DVD's wasn't made yet) of random anime shows and anime movies. Some of the anime dubs were ok, some of them were edit, and some of them was plain subs...Did you ever just picked one randomly and hope for the best?



I did. My Hollywood Video gotten a lot of Ranma 1/2 videos. Most were Subs, but I was young; I didn't know. But the one's I did found that were dubs, I personally liked!

How about you? I know there were many early dubs back then that wasn't so good unlike now dubs. OPINION.
 
Oh yes...back in the old days I remeraber taking my bike to the local rental store and getting VHS tapes for Escaflowne and Slayers. Good times.

I never ran across anything super old school...sure, this one other rental store had some cult flicks (Ghost in the Shell, 8 Man, who knows what else), but I didn't exactly find Gundam or Galaxy Express 999 either.
 
Most of the Hollywood Videos I went to were lucky enough to have complete series of Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis, Ranma 1/2, and many others. Not to mention there were a lot of AnimEigo titles.

Renting those tapes was not only my gateway into the genre, but was also my primary means of first watching all those show.
 
My local Hastings (wich is a smaller chain of movie rental/book stores) has a whole bunch of anime to rent they have the myazaki films, Akira, all of the Lucky star, Bleach, Naruto,Baccano, Claymore & more! even a few Negima?! DVRAB. sadly most of the older ones are gone by now, no more Ranama 1/2 DBZ movie, Sailor moon or EVA rentals for me.
 
The only anime the local movie gallery had was:
Akira
Howl's Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
(and probably) Spirited Away.

Central PA doesn't have a big anime following, apparently.
 
Back in the '90s, my local videostore here in Queens only had Akira and Legend of the Overfiend. Not much.
But walk into any place in Manhattan and there would be Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis, and a few others.
 
The local Blockbuster hasn't been updated in forever, which sorta annoys me.

But...anime such as Steel Angel Kurumi is there, but I don't remeraber any more, but that's as obscure as an anime title can get in there.

However, Video Avenue has a lot of anime in stock, but the disturbing fact is even the filthy ones are there (you know what I'm talking about).
 
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