Pirated Anime

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I'm not a big anime watcher, but I have an interesting question: Have any of you ever owned bootleg/pirated anime?

My older sister used to have this pirated DVD of an anime called Gravitation. The anime was in Japanese, but it had English subtitles. However, it was translated badly. The characters were given weird names - mostly fake Chinese-sounding ones, like Kwan Ying and Lingka. My personal favorite was Kimchi (I think that's what it was) - which is actually a type of Korean pickled vegetable dish!:lol:

I don't know if it's still there. I haven't seen it in 4 years.
 
I used to have a pirated Pokémon video. Brought it from a car boot sale or something, had an official looking case, but all the episodes on it were just tapped from the channel Sky One. xD Not sure if that counts.
 
Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but I have a Pikachu toy that scares me to death, an obvious fake. It is the "Singing Dancing PUFFY!!". It's a Pikachu that stands on one of those bird-stools like the talking parrot toys, and he has drums and drumsticks. He also has a nice header over him that says "PUFF!!". When you hit a button on him, he spazzes out, his ears swing at random, his head goes all Exorcist, and he slams the drums out of rhythm with one of three English nursery rhymes he sings in a horrible Southern accent that sounds like Barney-gone-to-Tennessee over a banjo background.

I thought it was funny before I got it and saw how scary it is XD
 
I have a Mewtwo Strikes Back, which has English voice and badly translated Finnish subtitles. We got it from a cruiser, I think. Of course, the official VHS was with Finnish voice.
 
I generally don't buy bootlegs, although I have a few Sailor Moon DVDs that are bootlegged because I can't afford to spend ~$250 on one season of an out-of-print TV series... T_T And when they WERE in print i was like, 13 so i couldn't afford them. I do have a fair number of legitimate SM VHS, though.

Oh, and my brother has a badly translated subtitled version of the F-Zero anime on DVD, haha.
 
I have a quite obviously pirated DVD of Pokemon.

For starters, the box shows the Japanese logo for the show and they put POCK-E-MON KANTO LEAGUE in English over it. And it was in Japanese with (surprisingly accurate, save for a couple of spelling errors, like they spelled "legendary" as "lengedary") subtitles. I still have it.

It contained - EP001, EP002, EP006, EP035, EP012, and EP038. (Srsly)
 
one time i brought A pirated game it didnt even fit into my gba
 
Aiko Heiwa said:
I have a quite obviously pirated DVD of Pokemon.

For starters, the box shows the Japanese logo for the show and they put POCK-E-MON KANTO LEAGUE in English over it. And it was in Japanese with (surprisingly accurate, save for a couple of spelling errors, like they spelled "legendary" as "lengedary") subtitles. I still have it.

It contained - EP001, EP002, EP006, EP035, EP012, and EP038. (Srsly)
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Randomest assortment of episodes ever, haha.
 
Jean-Luc Pikachu said:
Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but I have a Pikachu toy that scares me to death, an obvious fake. It is the "Singing Dancing PUFFY!!". It's a Pikachu that stands on one of those bird-stools like the talking parrot toys, and he has drums and drumsticks. He also has a nice header over him that says "PUFF!!". When you hit a button on him, he spazzes out, his ears swing at random, his head goes all Exorcist, and he slams the drums out of rhythm with one of three English nursery rhymes he sings in a horrible Southern accent that sounds like Barney-gone-to-Tennessee over a banjo background.

I thought it was funny before I got it and saw how scary it is XD
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Oh my God! That thing sounds funny!
 
Well yeah my Sisters bought pirated CCS Season 2-3 DVD's from China town for $40. I expected the quality to be bad, but it turns out to be quite great. The graphics is DVD quality and the sub is quite between fansub and the official Nelvana one! XD

I guess we were just lucky though.

And we bought official Pokemon VHS in the 99c store and a warehouse. I was like shocked and got them to buy it. XD
 
Netto Azure said:
Well yeah my Sisters bought pirated CCS Season 2-3 DVD's from China town for $40. I expected the quality to be bad, but it turns out to be quite great. The graphics is DVD quality and the sub is quite between fansub and the official Nelvana one! XD

I guess we were just lucky though.

And we bought official Pokemon VHS in the 99c store and a warehouse. I was like shocked and got them to buy it. XD
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Oh man that reminds me of the best family reunion I ever had. All the kids were playing bingo and we could have as many cards as we wanted, so I ran like 4 at once. All four official Pokemon VHSes there from a quadruple bingo!
 
Hmm, I've owned a few pirated sets in my lifetime. I have a 3-cd set of Kanto bootlegs a friend bought for me when he was in China a few years back. Crappy quality, old .rm format... Chinese dubbed (badly dubbed as well), and subbed also. Don't know why... lol go figure.

I also have a bootleg set of Panyo Panyo Di Gi Carat, Cowboy Bebop, Fist of the North Star movie, Initial D Stage 2, first part of Naruto (forget how many episodes) and Serial Experiments Lain. I think I might have some old vhs bootlegs lying around as well. Basically if I see a boot set at Goodwill or the local used music/movie store, and if it's a good price, I'll buy it. The video quality usually sucks ass, and sometimes you get some pretty crappy subs (sometimes you get some really good subs though, and sometimes you get the official dub track as well).
 
Satoshi-kun said:
Hmm, I've owned a few pirated sets in my lifetime. I have a 3-cd set of Kanto bootlegs a friend bought for me when he was in China a few years back. Crappy quality, old .rm format... Chinese dubbed (badly dubbed as well), and subbed also. Don't know why... lol go figure.

I also have a bootleg set of Panyo Panyo Di Gi Carat, Cowboy Bebop, Fist of the North Star movie, Initial D Stage 2, first part of Naruto (forget how many episodes) and Serial Experiments Lain. I think I might have some old vhs bootlegs lying around as well. Basically if I see a boot set at Goodwill or the local used music/movie store, and if it's a good price, I'll buy it. The video quality usually sucks ass, and sometimes you get some pretty crappy subs (sometimes you get some really good subs though, and sometimes you get the official dub track as well).
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My bootleg copy of Sailor Moon S is actually direct copies of the real deal sub/dub DVD set (but compressed to fit more episodes per disc).

Oh and no idea if this counts but I found a fansubbed VHS copy of the Sailor Moon SS movie in a thrift shop once. The translation/grammar is pretty good so I think it's actually just a really old sub from before the movie was dubbed.
 
I own the complete collection of Mazinger Z pirated. The english subtitles are horrible, but better then the only other sub available for it.
One thing that got me is how they would constantly change each character's name with each dvd. They had the names right in the subtitles at first, so I don't know what they were thinking.
 
I have a crapload of bootlegged Anime DVDs, but in my defense, I was 13 years old when I started really getting into anime (so about 8-9 years ago). Anime was rare. Suncoast was one of the only mainstream places that sold anime, and they wanted 30 bucks for 4-5 episodes of a series, so naturally I was drawn into buying the Chinese Bootleg Boxes. 20-25 bucks for a series or part of a series (usually 25-35 eps.) was a dream come true.

Probably the funniest boxset I ever got, in terms of subtitle quality, was the Yugioh Battle City box set. Those are the worst subtitles I have ever laid eyes on. XD They called Kaiba "Seahorse" and Mokuba "Wooden Seahorse". I'd have to watch it again to pull out some more terribad stuff, but gawd, that was just hard to read. I spent more time laughing at the subtitles then anything.
 
sorry about the triple posts ok btw pirated anime looks weird that the original
 
When I first started purchasing DVD's of my favorite series, I ended up purchasing a bootleg box set of Death Note (from eBay). Luckily I noticed the error before it had shipped and promptly informed the seller that I didn't want his/her bootleg products, I quickly got my money back. It was a beginner mistake on my part for not researching to see if it was real or not but I, like many other buying anime for the first time, had no idea this was such an issue. The seller argued that it was legit when it obviously was not. But due to the fact that the seller refunded my money so quickly lead me to believe that they knew they had sold me a fake and did not want to bring attention to themselves by giving me problems.

tl;dr, make sure to spend a bit of time on Google before throwing down money for your shows, look for guides on how to spot fakes on eBay even if you might not be purchasing on there as they seem the most thorough.

(I really hate these Chinese bootlegs X_X)
 
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