>>80315292Anime used to be extremely niche. Shocking, I know, but this rarity also lead to TONS of bootlegs in the market. We have the convenience of torrenting now, but back then pirated anime content was on VHS and DVDs.
Further, a subset of "bad quality" bootlegs were always making rounds. Essentially a "grab bag" of content recorded by someone wanting to make a quick buck, episodes of DBZ, naruto, and other easily-available Toonami shows would find its way from its official release into hundreds of copies of mashed-up shows, identified only by Marker on the cover.
I don't think you need to guess who'd be the primary watchers of these bad bootlegs.
