[Magnugiga]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

In 2000, fanboards (ie places like this) are just starting out, so you're pre-all that. I'm far too young to remember it, but you'd probably still be relying on alt.whatever groups in the West, and something similar in Japan. Completely different Internet to what we're used to today.

Yeah, and when Kuuga was aired at my country (same year it was aired in Japan, just behind by several months), dial-up modem was a luxury that most kids watching the show had no access to anyway. You keep up the old-fashioned way: watch the show from Mon to Fri at around 6pm-ish, and if you miss an episode, you'd just ask a classmate to break it down for you (everyone was into Kuuga at the time) the next day.

During the time of Ryuki (the last time I watched KR show through TV) though, access to bootleg CDs and Internet has become way more common. I remember the first ever online recap I read was on Ryuki, and the person actually wrote it in a narrative novel style, even taking the liberty to describe imaginary character thoughts in a given scene. It's borderline fanfic territory, but I enjoyed reading that and was impressed by the dedication.