For a certain generation of Black kids — the ones who still remember recording songs off the radio with blank cassette tapes — anime didn’t arrive through old manga volumes or imported VHS ...

For Fox Kids, one of the ... with the VHS and DVD copies routinely selling out the Mobile Suit franchise. Despite the series’ impact on the anime world, and acting as a nice introduction for ...

where lucky kids could rent two episodes on tape for a small price. Back then, though, owning an anime VHS was a costly endeavor, with fans often spending $30 or $40 for a tape at mall staples ...

The kids were equally perplexed by the idea of VHS tapes; especially the idea that the quality of the tape degraded the more you watched it. "I think that's so bad I'm just going to barf," one boy ...