/jp/ - Otaku Culture

https://animetheme.com/
Here's a cool old website from the time. A lot of these old sites have gone down in recent years sadly

Haruhi-chan :^)

Can't have a thread like this without Lucky Star! Here's a shot of them hanging out at the old KyoAni Studio (RIP).

>>40385284
>Angel with a Shotgun!

What's Tony up to nowadays?

Mizuho is the cutest.

>>40379356

This period has a distinct way of coloring but I'm really bad at describing it. Any artfags here who can identify common patterns in 00s art, particularly the use of color, shading etc.?

Best girl doesn't have a route.
Many such cases.

>>40391894
early monitors and default photoshop brushes?
>>40390838
an iconic image

>>40390847
he was doing the shining games for a few years but i dont know what hes up to at this point. dont know if any of those games have come out in the last couple of years.

>>40399213

>early monitors

How does that influence the colors, and is there a filter or a specific way to imitate it?

>>40379356
I'm gonna cry man I miss this era so much

>>40400241
you would probably have to ask /g/, i am not expert on crts and early lcd
but you can just color pick and use an ancient version of photoshop to resemble these pictures

>>40391894
lower visual spectrum colors don't get picked up by scanners well. a digital image scanned from printed paper will lose a lot of its original vibrancy and look a little washed out. that said there's still a trend of muted colors with bright accents in character design back then.

>>40400241
>>40400564
CRT monitors are fairly accurate in color reproduction however the majority of them are only VGA compatible, which has a low enough bandwidth to limit the amount of colors it can use. some later CRTs had DVI which can display many more colors and probably looked a lot better, but i never had one of those. i've had several TN LCD panels and i can tell from experience, the same image from the same VGA signal will look exceptionally worse on an LCD than on a CRT. hate TN panels, wasn't until i got my first IPS monitor until i felt the represented visual color spectrum was good enough.

mid 2000s i recall doing my art homework using a CRT on my computer at home and bringing it in to the art lab onto the first iMacs to ship with a TFT LCD screen, the model G4. i never realized how shitty my color selections were until that point. i'd re-work it on the iMac and bring it home and i just couldn't finish working on my projects at home anymore.

given japan is the land of technology and none of them use it, i assume they stayed behind most of this technological trend and never used macs, just continued to use old CRTs and cheap LCD TN panels into the late 10s.

Are there any artists out there who still do this early 2000s anime drawing?

I think I adore everything about this time period, late 90s to early 2010s. Crt monitors with old anime mmos, dreamcasts and ps2s, old anime forums and amvs. The early days of youtubes. I yearn so terribly in my heart for those days. These artstyles, stuck 14 years before, are truly melancholy.

I have desired a community for a long time to share my passion, so I think from now on I will create these threads and hopefully I'll find more people to appreciate this time with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdzTcFyYeww

Great thread

>>40417378
We can never go back.

>>40379356
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrgO_9ey53M
the original is gone.

>>40379356

>>40417378
It's a time period we can't go back. Mostly because of normalfags are starting to pick up anime and is starting become mainstream. I mean shit, show them a pic of Reimu and there probably going to think she's from an anime

blessed thread

Nice thread, thank you anon

>>40425162
>normalfags are starting to pick up anime and is starting become mainstream
You're 20 years too late for that.

>>40379427
>>40379447
what is this, another calendar?

>>40411208
They're definitely still here. Most prominent one I can think of is Yoshitoshi Abe. On his youtube you can see his artstyle still has an early 2000s feeling despite him using modern tools.
This Rakka drawing is from last year.

Oi.

Blessed thread

i'd do anything to go back to this era. nothing feels the same anymore.

>>40447060
The past 2 years have felt like a decade. And not in a good way.

>>40421667
Speaking of videos with lost originals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Se6b0mjVE

To this day I still haven't found the original Rainbow Girl.

>>40432407
This. All these phonies that likely weren't even alive like to pretend that fuckhuge anime conventions, entire anime channels, popular anime vidya and anime movies in mainstream theaters weren't already a thing in the west during the early 2000s

uh, Oi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcgDIUvLL6c

>>40421069
>>40425162
>we can't go back
That's where you're wrong. As long as you keep the dream alive in your heart, those times and those feelings will always remain. Our melancholy and nostalgia will guide our souls there - just maybe not in this life.

Stay golden, anons

>>40454752
Thanks doc.

Just got reccommend this... I even miss jrock bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaNPn70htqs

Op here, It was actually watching old touhou vids, the ones louchan uploaded in 2008 that made me ask "why does that old anime art look so cool"?.

Couple years laters I've got gbs of old art downloaded, and I couldn't be happier, I don't see anybody really actively appreciating the art from the time

2000s gaming is a big thing for me as well, Persona 3/4 for me always screamed 2000s Urban culture, and especially as it was kind of a weebs dream at the time, being able to walk around and interact in a Japanese Suburban setting.

>>40447049
God I love Magipoka. I rewatch it yearly with my friend. It feels nostalgic.

Comrade, why sit you here, gorging yourself on the remains of days dead and gone? If our dream of world conquest is to be realized, we must have the strength of will to face the future, and guide all otakukind to horizons yet unimagined, nay, beyond imagination! Get out your tools, my brother; with pen and brush we will cut a path to a glorious tomorrow!

>>40417378
Otaku culture hasn't changed much since then, it's still the same lost generation stuff.
What I miss is the pre-lost generation Otaku culture that thrived before they blamed it for Mizakai raping those girls.

Early Nekopara

I just want to say how much I hate the 2010s and the zoomer weeaboos and discord everyone's such a faggot cancel culture SJW's and all this BS I want to go back to 2000s honestly good anime and the internet wasn't youtube/social media everyone, there was actually new games not the same game for 10 years MMORPGS use to be fun everything was better the people the culture I literally really really fucking hate the current generation. There was good stuff 2010+ too but it slowly disintegrated into shit now everyones a faggot ORZ sage IS THERE ANYONE EVEN LEFT FROM ThE BYGONE ERA vocaloidotaku was gay but I'd prefer it to the current generation, mikuchan and their irc was fun. wish I was japanese

>>40471298
shut the fuck up nerd, you sound like your dad who i fucked after trooning out
sage

>>40472230
cool story bro but you should go drink a nice big cup of STFU, u sound like some butthurt zoomer, bet you got offended from my post cause your some trannie reject, sorry ur generation is full of FAGS, the only thing they'll be remembered for is loving NIGGERS and whole bunch retarded trans kids. I bet u r gay n a fgt roflcopter ez gg no re lmao :D hahahaha LOL@U XD zoomer POS go guzzle down your daily cumbucket of nigger jizz and wave your rainbow flag retard

>>40471298
People always said they want to be Japanese, but then a lot of the culture that seems so exotic and glamorous would be utterly mundane.
That sentiment always seems so self-defeating.

>>40471298
>wish I was japanese
no you don't
the culture you idolize so much was created by a generation of people who were forced out of society into eternal NEETdom with no way out.
if you wish you were japanese at any time after the bubble burst you're an idiot.

>>40472726
Not that anon but I think that japan getting mundane should be least of your worries.
There is so much unpleasant things about their culture it's not worth living there. Maybe if you are rich and just retire there and don't give a fuck if the society ostracize you.

>>40471298
I'm falling for bait but, there's still plenty of good stuff out there, it's just harder to find now.
Even if you're not interested in hunting it down, there're several lifetimes worth of good anime/games out there that you haven't experienced.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/4Channel

Why do most modern anime character designs have become so bland and boring compared to the 2000s?

>>40499300
Because once perfection has been reached, further experimenting and diversifying always results in a strict downgrade.

I used to have lots of these otaku pics and stuff I screenshotted from old TV streams but I lost them in old HDDs or deleted them since no one cared.

>>40417378
You're like me, it's sorta my main motivation to make art nowadays... to put the spirit of the late 90s/early 00s into it. Back in the day, all of this stuff used to be much harder to come by, there was no catalog for anything, no youtube, no massive amounts of learning materials, people used to painstakingly make fan sites of things they liked and Japan was much more obscure to western audiences due to the internet not being so ubiquitous. Anything you came across that was wildly new was an experience in and of itself.

I thought about creating an imageboard to really share otaku culture away from all the 4chan schizos and even bought a domain name but I gave up when it became obvious it'd just be another imageboard no one would care about besides one or two people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5bZZOwYnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdi1DSqBZ6Q

Early 2000s vocaloid songs are very nostalgic to me.
They have a completely different sound to them, both instrumental wise and obviously the vocaloids themselves.
Even to this day low quality videos are oddly calming to me.
I've noticed that when vocaloid first started gaining some traction producers seemed to write about the vocaloids themselves more, meanwhile OCs seem more popular now.
https://youtu.be/5dq7vM0hQok
https://youtu.be/bfbHm3L2aTQ
https://youtu.be/WnkuKddg1YU

>>40462487
Persona 3 is extremely early 2000s in all the best ways.

>>40499633
Even if you're right that not many would care , I'd still like to see that imageboard come into fruition

>>40499633
Why don't you make a blog instead? Or a gallery, even if nobody talks about it you can still share this content wirh others.
>>40499678
Old PDAs are so cute...

>>40499678
The killing of Lik-Sang by Sony and it's consequences have been a disaster for otaku video game collecting.

>>40499710
I have a tumblr but I haven't updated in 2 years, other people are doing a much better job and I'm focusing on doing other stuff currently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEnVHvOA2pk

>>40499653
Damn, I haven't heard Stargazer in years. I love VOC@LOID in love, still listen to it to this day.

https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1583280
https://youtu.be/aRb-uOscWU4
https://youtu.be/zO3l1Zp0F2U
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3945173

>>40499588
but perfection was reached in the 80's

>>40379479
Oh man, this takes me back...

>>40499633
Ah, the Dirty Pair. I like the movies, but I always kind of wished those two harlots met their demise after the constant genocides they caused.

>>40499633
that pic is from otaku no video btw
that guy has great taste from the posters in the back too

Was thinking about making AMVs with old and new anime with an early 2000's style. With 480p and maybe 4:3 ratio
Is it a good idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rsBLRFONEs
This is the video that got me into a lot of things and this japanese culture... maybe

>>40500761
for me, it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ff4s1CiPtg

涙なくならない
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jf6FVgOyJ0

>>40500761
Absofuckinglutely

>>40500761
if you do, please don't randomly smash up unrelated footage and cheesy soundtracks together instead of those that mean something,
see >>40500858 >>40500881

>>40478669
Damn exceed, I loved the soundtrack of the 2nd game.

>>40504597
faster

>>40504597
nice boat

>>40500761
Op here, some of my favs are very simple. They can end up being more meanigul like that if done correctly


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4x3JOJr1i4

And of course there's the exact opposite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE13yvrTfjA

>>40502162
Yeah, it's great. Wish Shibayan would go back to that style once in a while.
eXceed 3rd's soundtrack is amazing too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090301011531/http://ildrag.at.infoseek.co.jp/

Browse slowly, the artist's website was brought offline around 2009.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090721164125/http://www.barbelith.com/topic/24465

Thank god for the wayback machine, this is a shmup discussion on a now defunct forum I used to browse.

>>40511627
>Barbelith is an experimental online community centred around unique message-board software. The aim of Barbelith is to create an online space where the standard of conversation, discussion and debate is higher than anywhere else online and in which everyone has a say in the running and management of the board.
This place was awesomesauce, still sad it died but it was kinda obscure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071005000221/http://iichan.net/

I miss waka/iichan. Fortunately, a good chunk of it is archived here.
Check it out if you're curious what non-4chan imageboards were like at that time.

Most of the thumbnails are dead so you'll be looking at imageboards without images for the most part. However, the thumbnails that are there are easy to reverse image search making it a good source of 2000s style art.
The best board, /sgis/, wasn't archived but considering thumbnails are mostly dead it's not a huge loss.

There was a secret area of VIP quality. It is gone now.

>>40514754
Totally forgot about iichan, I used to check it out irregularly in between 4chan. So nostalgic.

How old are the people posting in this thread? I turn 27 in a few months and while I was on the internet from an early age, I was taught to be self censoring; as a result, while I was exposed to a reasonable amount of western internet culture, I wasn't in a position to dig far enough into finding obscure - especially at that time - forums or niche hobbies. I dislike being a poser or claiming I was born in the wrong era but I'd like to hear some stories about 90's and very early 2000's.

For example, I've read that prior to 2008, Akihabara's culture was very different. Men could be seen playing Yugioh in the streets, performing idol's dance choreographies and so on. Is that true? It certainly doesn't happen any more.

For me there's not many things that scream early 2000s more than this artstyle

I just realized there's a thread for these types of wallpapers at /w/, search ''y2k aesthetic''

>>40516199
What a legend

>>40515231
21 here. I had the luck or sin of being an internet addict as a kid so I could experience the last years of the 2000's aesthetic. Not much from forums or imageboards though.

>>40515231
27
I got into 4chan and anime somewhere around 2010. Some /v/tard introduced me, but I quickly moved to /a/ and /jp/ and found my place here. Even thought I've only experienced the very end of that culture first hand, I have been interested in it from the very start.

>>40515231
35 with a friendly reminder that you will, indeed, be here forever.

>>40515231
30. Started browsing in 2006, but unfortunately I was far less true to myself then than I am now, so I missed out on a lot of good things that I'm only beginning to enjoy retroactively now that I have time and don't care about being judged.

>>40514754
I miss wakachan and iichan more than anything else on the internet. My favorite board was /yuu/, and I have a truly massive folder of scenic images because of them.

>>40515263
I love late 90's and early 2000's VNs, especially Liar-Soft games. there's just something very particular in them that I crave. I always have the urge to bonk younger people over the head when I talk about them because invariably the first comments I get are "wow that art style looks so old!"

>>40391894
My own theory is that it's a bridge between the PC98 era of shading with sharply defined colors rubbing up against new brushes and tools and techniques, such as >>40399213 proposes.

>>40519775
Mind recommending some VNs and eroges?

Fairies!

>>40523424
Fairies erotic ToT.

>>40522125
Admittedly I may not be the best person to get recommendations from, as my taste is decidedly entry-level outside of a narrow and specific focus on Liar-Soft VNs (which I like specifically because they're often built around strange concepts and were illustrated by artists of the period that I quite like.)

Can you read Japanese or do you need translations? Because the one I've enjoyed the most in recent memory is Seven-Bridge, which I mostly read using MTL and want to re-read after I'm more fluent in Japanese in a few years. Nakamura Tetsuya's character designs are quite charming. Cannonball got a translation patch a few years ago and if you don't mind flat chests, it's a fun ride with some wonderful CG work by Koume Keito.

To my understanding, Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ is a true classic of the genre, but I only got a little bit into it using MTL before I decided it would be better to just learn the language and shelved my VN reading efforts entirely for the moment (outside of already-translated ones.)

One thing I can definitely say about all of the above is that they have wonderful music and a whole lot of charm.

>>40525370
Thanks for the recommendations, I'm pretty new to VNs desu and I can enjoy any archetype of girls in these games so I'll play the translated ones and listen to the OSTs of the rest. Who knows maybe I can find some that arent translated to English but are to Spanish

Just wanted to make sure. If the thread get archived, we are continuing this right?

>>40529376
No

>>40529376
No, I already contributed everything I had and got no (You)'s.

>>40529376
Yes.

Kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCrLMwDz5qE

>>40534905
Heaven

>>40529640
Different device's

>>40379356

>>40411208
Reverse Noise
https://www.pixiv.net/users/23621

Maybe that Akiko guy too. I've also had some luck finding artists when searching for Key/Tactics games (Kanon, One ～輝く季節へ～, etc.)
If an artist is making fan art of older series then they have a higher chance of drawing in this style.

>>40411208
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/41477

>>40550024
Giant buttons and tiny hats are definitely quintessential 2000s character design.

I got everything I wanted out of Genshiken. Too bad the follow up was so "eh", there was a lot of things you could've talked about with the fujoshis.

>>40553907
Nidaime just made me uncomfortable...

>>40555195

>>40555418
>>>/pol/

>>40555475
I'm serious though. There were so many transgenders in Nidaime.

>>40555195
I guess it was the romance plot for me. I loved the SoL parts from the original, and some bits of Nidame, but with love taking most of the time (and Madarame being so passive too), I couldn't find any reason to reread Nidame while I already did so for Genshiken.

>>40553907
> Genshiken
The episode where Madarame was stuck alone in the room with Saki must've been the most relatable visual depiction of a socially inept person I've ever seen.

We have to go back.

>>40559433
Good times

I think a large part of the nostalgia we all have for this era is because it's the last time we can remember being happy. Genuinely so, without a caveat to that joy. Everything is so serious now. There's so much to worry about and stress over -- not just because we've gotten older as an audience, but because the world itself has changed, and because the modern internet is louder, faster, and more direct than it ever was before.

Those halcyon chuunibyou days may have been cringe, but at least we were free.

>>40559809
Hm? I wasn't necessarily happy, there was a lot of angst and depression in those days for me, but everyone has different circumstances. I still had a "family", unlike now, and that allowed me to be comfy and ignore time and responsibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cCsHX6PEQ
How about music? Knife twists in my heart every time I hear this one.

Reminder that EXIT TRANCE's ウマウマできるトランス and アニメトランス series are required 2000s Otaku culture listening.
https://nyaa.si/view/1279134
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XxVJ2vEcf4&list=PLKa8lWmBni_j0kHhCrSkIEZCnhVdCfOvo

>>40474181
his point about culture disintegrating is valid, it goes beyond "stuff"

>>40516211
Was Kozue really that popular?

>>40569245
Built for BBC

>>40515263
Kanon is from 99, but I agree. Itaru Hinoue's art has only gotten worse with time unfortunately.

>>40575312
>>/jp/thread/S16170418
I posted in this thread.

RIP Kogeya.

If any of you has an archive of his webcomic, please let me know.

>>40468252
If you look at popular themes in otaku media I think the biggest change is that the degree of escapism has deepened consistently and finally took a complete nosedive in the last 5+ years. I feel like the early otaku spirit was like "Hey, wouldn't this be fucking cool" which has regressed to "I hate life, just give me everything I want" (late 90's and 00's: "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to get a gf... in this fucking banger setting").

This scratchy, pixelly, MS-painty style is nostalgic to me
>>40574974
Close enough
>>40581291
Perhaps I'm just looking at things with pink glasses on, but I really do feel like humanity as a whole is sadder now

Toranoana is pretty iconic of 2000s otaku culture. So I should probably mention that all but one location is closing.

https://www.siliconera.com/toranoana-to-shut-down-five-physical-locations-in-japan/

>>40582254
Turns out most people literally can't handle having easy and always present access to the internet.

>>40582684
Humans weren't meant to know this many other humans or opinions I don't think. Bad news/retards are also harder to avoid now than ever.
Early 2000s internet wasn't great either, but people seemed happier and less judgemental, in a good way.
I think the rise of social media has made people too afraid of being 'cringe' and being anything even slightly out of the norm. Now being passionate about anything is looked down on by many and everyone wants to be picture perfect.

But maybe I'm just an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about.

>>40586490
I don't think you are wrong.
A lot of people seem to be behind so many layers or irony that they can't even decide if they actually like the thing they are obsessing about or not.

It's gotten so bad that you often see things like "real talk" or "honest thoughts" used just to make clear that they aren't trying to pretend to be retarded for once.

>>40586490
>>40586560
It’s less embarrassing to be dumb and wrong by being overly cynical rather than too optimistic. It's a self-defense mechanism that unfortunately releases a lot of poison to the social environment.

>>40425162
>I mean shit, show them a pic of Reimu and there probably going to think she's from an anime
That was the case 10 years ago too.
The difference is that now normies like anime, albeit mostly shoen.

>>40581291
I don't think it's only the increase of escapism but also the sentiment behind it.
Before it was optimistic in a sense that they wanted to explore space, live in a world with high tech or sometimes wanting a downfall of society out of boredom for that decedent bubble economy.
Now it's all reminiscing to a time where life was slightly easier in the form of high school sol or wishing for death from truck-kun in hope of an afterlife harem. The cynicism started in the 90's but its been slowly getting filled with dispare until now.

>>40582254
>This scratchy, pixelly, MS-painty style is nostalgic to me
They're made by artists on imageboards using the built-in drawing application, hence why the art looks pixelated and primitive.

>>40586951
That's just because every movie in the theaters is a superhero movie. Shounen anime is a superhero movie, too.

>>40582254
nah I feel the same way

Being a kid is easy to look at with rose color, but I was very depressed for most of the 2010's and finally overcame it and now I find out everyone is just a doomer since 2016. Seems impossible to find people who just want to talk about things at any sort of positive level

I didn't interact offline very much back then so maybe it was always like this though

>>40589012
>>40586490
>>40582684
Sorry to burst everyone's rose tinted bubble. But over at /v/

>inb4 /v/

We stumbled into a digital archeological digsite one day and pretty much learned that everyone was just as divisive and hateful even before 2000.

And looking back even when I first joined 4chan all those years ago in 2009 everyone was shouting "nigger" and "faggot" to each other.

And it's not just videogames, here's a keyboard warrior from the BBS era posting about how anime is not just for kids, okay?!?!

>>40591217
there's nothing wrong with that post.
no one ever claimed that the internet used to be a hugbox and that people liked bad translations.

>>40591217
This post is perfectly reasonable. Americanization of Japanese products tends to ruin them, and many are made for teen to young adult audiences.

>>40389251
just wondering, was the man in the shot being Yutaka Yamamoto? Or who was the man?

>>40575360
If you know, you know.

Does anyone have a list of producers just so I can mass subscribe to them on YouTube?

>>40593248
>>40594410
Okay, so even if you think that one post is reasonable. There's still plenty of posts out there that are good examples of people "back in the day" getting pretty angry.

Also the GIFT (Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, where Normal Person + Anonimity + Audience = Complete Fuckwad) has existed since 2004.

>>40602085
>40mP
>DECO*27
>Ke San VOXX
>FuwariP
>Last Note
>Omoi
>ManboP
>Nishizawasan-P

Not that it's anything bad, but majority of stuff ITT(especially vocaloids) are from late 2000s to early 2010s

age

Just remember you can never go back.

https://youtu.be/FyiR-EaQBQw
https://youtu.be/uARn2MCUZN4
https://youtu.be/9ZogSzW-9bk

Would you consider Majikoi the end of these kind of vibes for that time period?

>>40411208
This guy has kept the same style since at least 2008.
https://www.pixiv.net/users/195493/artworks

>>40614065

Soul

>>40581291
I think they made protagonists more relatable to their target audience.
There was still escapism in old anime and even issekai was a thing but it's different now.
Most issekai tries to turn the world into a RPG and not in an actual different world.
Compare something like Those Who Hunt Elves to something like Gate.
I'm not saying Gate is bad it's just that they handled the fantasy world more like a world and not a place to make video game or self deprecation jokes.

I miss this era so much...

>this wasn't posted yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DV9b0x7v4

Tenmu Shinryuusai, an artist I've recently become a fan of. His artwork from early 2000s-2014ish was jaw-droppingly beautiful but his art style has unfortunately changed since then and become generic.

His recent artwork for comparison.

I like Koume Keito's work. It felt incredibly ahead of its time, especially in the mid/late 00's. Even today it's pretty nice, and hasn't changed much (at least since I last checked in.)

>>40499633
Why don't you make the imageboard? Even if it fails I'm sure you would get something out of it

>>40625189
>Thread theme
https://files.catbox.moe/vru8s6.webm

Being a latino weeb during the 00' was comfy latino dub was SOVL now it's all bland AF

>>40625189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs_3JW5i_vA

>>40625907
The style on this reminded me of picrel. It's not old or anything, 2019 I believe, but has the same feeling.

>>40632563
That album is from 2011.

>>40632714
Shit, it was? I saw a release from Comiket 97 and assumed that was the date. My bad, thank you for the info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR-kTGD5VZc

>>40417378
I like this stuff a lot too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa-uF8b_9ZU

Bump for interest

Memes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PumFnlu9EIY&ab_channel=bussan00

>>40636004
I've lost track of how many times I've listened to this. The 10th anniversary remix was pretty great too.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31414204

Some artists never did quit. I wish I had their endurance.

I'm not sure if it's a side effect of more people getting access to high speed internet and tools but 00s had much less artists who could do coloring on professional level. So lots and lots of art felt much more amateurish.

>>40643938
Artist ability as a whole has decreased, I believe. The general trend of 95% of artists having the same artstyle has been a sad loss. Perhaps artists focus too much on what sells, and in that they change their artsyle to match that of industry giants which leads to the same artstyle.

>>40611955
Well, it was released in 09. It is definitely in the transitional period between later 00's style to what would become 10's style.
I just wish 10's style was not all made by the same 20 Vietnamese slave workers who make all the anime nowdays...

Speaking of the 90s and 2000s, do the japanese still make Windows themes anymore? Back then I used to download cursors, windows alert sounds and backgrounds, etc.

For some reason western zoomers developed obsession with early 00s anime figurines. Now you have old trading figures going for $100+ when you could buy them for like $5 five years ago.

>>40644020
A lot of art styles from 90s-00s look similar too though...Even old paintings in fact. People just tend to pick up others stylistic choices when drawing.
Though I'll say now it feels like it stagnated a bit since algorithims choose what is popular or not rather than having the evolution occur naturally.
>>40646928
It's called "animecore" and they tend to freak out over series with lolis despite buying figures of like Moetan in underwear. It's a strange subculture.
I'll give them props for at least having them buy and sell so much shit means I don't have to pay up the ass for importing figures. You can usually bully them into lowering their prices.

>>40645836
Nope, the vast majority of Japs are phonefags and the desktop holdouts all use modern OS

>>40627512
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE8DcDUfa6I&t=81s

:)

Those dreamlike days.
Just take me back bros...

https://youtu.be/kvwT1N2Ai8A
ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

>>40652565
>Just take me back bros...
Ok, are you ready for the time travel?
You may die during the temporal shift so write your last will before, ok?

>>40644020
>Artist ability as a whole has decreased, I believe.
If you're talking about anime, I agree. Manga is debatable, but the illustrator scene is better than it's ever been.

>>40653781
If you're gonna do it take me back a little earlier than that

>>40659709

>>40379356
God-tier thread. I had this image as a poster on my wall in middle school.

>>40461821
I LOVE the images louchan uses on their vids

>>40389251
Here's a wallpaper from the Konata okiraku box, why can't we go back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNixp-wvWM
ITSUDEMO I LOVE YOU
KIMI NI TAKE KISS ME

>>40653781
Take me back to 2004 at least... so I can fix my life and eventually become a bitcoin millionaire in 2020.

>>40664945
i miss oc like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5vkb1lmpg
Another day, another regret of having lost my pre-2010 HDD.

>>40625189

Waha~!

>>40669780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abHC1vvx30s
Uploaded in 2007, links to /f/ in the video description.

Also RIP iichan, although there's still uboachan and tohno-chan for those in the know.

I bought this 2000's magazine in Marketplace some weeks ago. The CD-Room has some trailers, direct links to pages that dont work anymore and some wallpapers. I dont know how to rip the videos though... I'll see if I can find them online. Cant post the images because 4chan says It has an embedded file or some shit like that. I'm a techlet
https://files.catbox.moe/dipi5j.jpg

>>40670050
Posting the wallpapers. There's a third one but I couldn't find it in the files. The CD-ROM Dowloand buttom doesn't work

>>40670067

>>40670067
I looked at the site through the wayback machine but there wasn't much there, it's all garbled. Seems they pulled the plug in 2002 and in 2003 someone bought the domain and linked to some other official sites.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101120041914/http://www.wonderfarm.co.jp/hand-maid/

>>40670294
I was refering to other websites that the CD program has linked throught buttoms. I'll post some screenshots later

>>40379356
Why is Hatsune Miku in Jashin-chan anime?

>>40670067
>>40670081
Hot damn, Hand Maid Mei. A pity that we never got Hand Maid Mai. It was supposedly already animated and voiced, but because of some legal issues it never went beyond the first episode. Damn catchy ending theme too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_w1nYR-2M&ab_channel=Renbail

https://youtu.be/P2W7U7Q91No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I_IJwPnasc

>>40670050
I know you're a self-proclaimed techlet but please rip and post the iso.

>>40673492
Was planning to record a video while browsing throught the content of the CDROM. But I guess I could also do that. Just be patient I have to watch some tutorials first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fOsLdqDAM

>>40674946
godspeed based learner-kun

>>40670050
>>40670294
>>40672371
>>40673492
>>40674946
>>40684466
Well, that was easier than I thought. What was not easy trying to make a 4:3 video of the ROM with OBS and Sony Vegas. At the end I put the ROM in fullscreen and recorded that. Anyways here's the iso and the wallpapers https://mega.nz/folder/31YjgRgI#zdfDfhnJRxlk1EwbVs5pwg
And the YT Video if you don't want to install it https://youtu.be/bY1aCBLlmAs

>>40686461
Very cool, thanks for your efforts anon. Consider adding this to archive.org too

>>40691882
Speaking of it, is it legal to upload a game if the maker no longer exists?

>>40693033
>Implying we care about such things as ''law'' in LatinAmerica
Unless you're an anglo cuck you can do whatever you want in the internet

>>40693033
You should do it simply so that it isn't lost to time, especially if it is already obscure media

>>40699732

>>40699746

>>40699762

CUTE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUzri2ybm_Y

>>40672489
This album is amazing, I still can't believe it came out all the way back in 2001.

>>40704093
There were lots of great albums back then.
Even the 90s had some great doujin music.

.

>>40704093
I'm back at time...

>>40462487
P3 encapsulates perfectly late 90s-early 00s culture, and it's surprising it was realesed in 07

I've been going through some older stuff and I'm surprised by how good some of these random /i/ drawings are.

>>40581291
>>40582254
>>40468252
>>40618937
>>40588427
I wasnt going to type this out because nobody would give a fuck but since this thread has been up for far longer than I thought it would, I might as well.

James Bond movies make more money during recessions.

https://thepangean.com/Economic-Indicator-007

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/what-james-bond-movies-tell-us-about-economy

>Who gives a fuck? And how is this related to this thread?
James Bond is the OG escapism. Ian Fleming was an actual Spy. Intelligence work IRL is boring as shit. So when Ian Fleming wrote of high-tech gadgets, fast cars, and sexy ladies. It was all an escapist fantasy to him.

Just like how Ian Fleming's escapism makes the most money during times of hardships, the explosion of escapism with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in America and Isekai in Japan are both fuelled by the fact that nobody has any money. The economy has been fucked for the past several years, especially for young people.

So yeah, I'm definitely echoing all your sentiments on the lack of hope, and increase in cynicism over the past few years. All of which is tied into an explosion in escapist fantasy.

Interesting video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbM0bydWWM

it feels sad to know that this era is gone and probably won't come back. technology is obviously more advanced that its ever been, and social media at that. Nobody cares anymore about the culture as much as they used to, and even if they claim to its half assed and is all for aesthetic and not for actual enjoyment of it. This all means no more customizable anime desktop themes with characters sitting on your screen or downloable custom mp3 menus, no more forum-surfing until 3 am, no more buying posters and figures for less than 50$ (at most). now you can be lucky to even find a decent figure for atleast 50 or 40 bucks. everything in otaku culture has gone so overpriced and bland, I believe it's due to mainstreaming. The internet has changed so much, and it seems like nobody wants to enjoy THIS part of the culture anymore since it's all been abandoned and stripped from the internet for years. Now most weebs would find it incredibly stupid and of course back in early 2000 it was considered stupid too, but not by otaku themselves and actually enjoyed by the community. That's all that mattered. I still have hope in my heart that this era will come back, people like us are the ones that keep the culture alive.

>>40742435
Ifail tosee how this is related to 00s otaku nostalgia

>>40752919
The topic was (if you read the posts I quoted) that anime in the 2000s was a lot less escapist.

There certainly was a lot more gritty and/or tragic ending anime back then such as Kino no Tabi, Stand Alone Complex, Ergo Proxy, Ga-rei Zero, Darker Than Black etc.

>>40753417

>Darker Than Black

I need to re-watch both seasons

>>40753498
I really liked the first season, but I didn't like the 2nd season that much.

>>40742877
lol I commented on that vid

>>40742435
>He's happy here and I'm just some adventurer who has to wageslave, we need to go back!!

>>40602085
164, YuuyuP, LamazeP, VocaliodP (also known as noa, love this guy), junky is doing Vtuber stuff!, Oster Project, HachioujiP

>junky is doing Vtuber stuff!
Hahahaha holy shit, I remember thinking it was wild that 96neko was doing vtuber stuff.

>>40742877
"Part 2" was released a few hours ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIn2yTA1mhs

Good thread.
See you next time.

Thanks to every posters ITT.

these 2000s threads are always great, see you all in the next one~

I enjoyed a lot too, sorry if I just lurked this time ^_^
Hope to see it again sometime.