Every once in a while the internet just blows my mind. Not that it is anything special, it’s just the things it lets people do.
I’ve been getting a lot of fansubbed anime online lately. Basicly what people do is get ahold of the a show or movie and they translate it and lay the subtitles onto it. They they make it available online. This has been going on for a while. The thing that suddenly blew my mind was realizing that the show I’d just been watching (Chobits) had actually aired for the first time under a week before. So basicly people are getting a copy of it right away, translating it, and putting it up online within days of it. This means that we’re able to get a sampling of shows in almost realtime.
Of course the downside is now I probably will have to wait forever for these shows to come out on dvd here.