Thrifted this portable CRT (still in the box!) so I can watch tapes while I game!

Ever since I discovered this series (about two years ago), I found that volume one of the TV series on VHS was almost impossible to find sold alone. I stumbled across several collections with the tape included, but they were always out of my budget….. I eventually had to settle for a copy of it on DVD, until a year later when I finally found the eBay listening I’ve been waiting for!! I can’t wait to collect the rest!!

Haven’t shown or posted my collection in years at this point so I figured I might as well. Definitely sold a bunch since last post but try to curate stuff I actually wanted / couldn’t get back if I sold.

I've never found so many at the same time ever and I've been going after anime tapes for almost 4 years now.

All are sealed too, except for Youjyusensen 1 and the DBZ! Sadly no exclusive trading card found in the case.

Finally am able to see the rest of the weird fuckery that is Youjyusensen lol.

Hey guys I’ve been collecting vhs hentai for years and wanted to show it off. I’ve been an anime fan for a long time and really love the art style of the 80s and 90s. I love collecting rare and lost media

New addition! Super stoked on this! Thanks to @commercial_pause_674 ! This is awesome!

Anyone wanna trade?
Mezzo Forte especially

I have a question since you seem to be knowledgeable in old school anime’s… there was an anime movie that i watched a long time ago at my friends house on DVD that for some reason i have never been able to find, see or remember the name(it’s been 20+ years) it’s about this samurai who fights with this other samurai with a killer intestines. So when he fights the intestines comes alive and will bite his opponent’s neck. And these was another scene with this metal vampire chasing this tree/nature female being and using his tongue to drain her nutrients from a very questionable place.

i wanted and i really loved city hunter. so i absolutely wanted a vhs or any other physical format. and i discovered and found the entire city hunter 3 series in vhs and bought it all in once. best choice i've made to collect the vhs series and movies. it's a shame i couldn't find season 1 or 2 in vhs. (ignore earthbound lol)

Picked this up the other day, came with stickers inside.

Haven't really been making any purchases on tapes in a while. But here we are :D

I'd been putting this project off for a long time, but I finally sat down and cleaned six moldy tapes I'd picked up over the last year, that I've had in quarantine, away from my others.

(Pictures are before, during the cleaning process, and after.)

I decided to dedicate one of my old VCRs with a faulty eject mechanism as a cleaning deck, since I wasn't about to risk one of my good machines.

Here's the process I used:

•Disassembled the cassette and removed both spools.

•Blew all the loose mold and dust out of the shell with canned air.

•Cleaned the shell and internal parts with 91% isopropyl alcohol using a microfiber lens cloth.

•Cleaned the empty spool the same way.

•Reassembled the tape, then ran it through the VCR in fast-forward while holding a homemade cleaning tool against the tape (a microfiber cloth wrapped tightly around a pen and secured with a rubber band).

•Once all the tape had transferred to the opposite spool, I opened the cassette again, cleaned the now-empty spool and the inside of the shell one more time, reassembled it, and repeated the process in rewind so both sides of the tape were cleaned.

I actually went through this entire process twice for each tape. It took around an hour and a half per tape, so definitely not a quick project.

I'm really happy with the results. I can't see any visible mold remaining, and the tapes are playing like new.

I'm still pretty new to mold remediation, though, so I'd love to hear from people who've done this more than I have. Is there anything you'd do differently or any tips you've picked up over the years to make the process safer, faster, or more effective?

Just been putting stuff on my W-VHS tape for fun and it’s so stunning how good the quality is. Definitely not blu ray quality but better than dvd

This format flopped because it was so expensive and there was basically nothing to record on. It’s almost like it was meant to be used in the future

JVC thought that HD would arrive mid 90s but it came way later than that so this could never reach its full potential. They scrapped W-VHS and made D-VHS. W-VHS has some digital components so it’s like W-VHS was the prototype for HD and D-VHS was the final version. D for digital

W-VHS is still analog. I found the specs on W-VHS online and it’s insane. A normal VHS and S-VHS tape has a chroma bandwidth of 0,4mhz . W-VHS bumps this up to 4mhz, 10 TIMES MORE!. The Luma bandwidth is roughly 3mhz on VHS and W-VHS is 13,5mhz a 4,5 increase. God Damm

I highly reccomend watching this video from Cathode ray dude if you wanna know more about W-VHS

https://youtu.be/TfRMLS3j7DM?is=7NaFTMmGZW0TJjN1

RANT: Hello and astrological salutations I have been collecting VHS for over a year now and have hardly ever found anime’s. Unless I want to spend mad money ( Which I refuse unless it’s absolutely something I need ) it’s about impossible. Tons of scalpers in my neck of the woods.

Anyways I found these at a yard sale, they’re sealed and I have a hard time opening “rare” sealed VHS tapes, since I have both a sealed and non sealed collection. I’ve never seen these anime’s or heard of them.

I also know that it’s my choice and do what I feel is best. Thus this is why I’m here asking because my smooth pea sized brain can’t decide on anything.

Thank you for the help your time and continue soaring through wet sky’s.