Has it been that long? Cassettes are fun!

I found two cassettes I made when I was a kid. Back then, I barely had access to the internet (totally different story now) and even less access to Japanese music so I would record all the anime music I could onto these two cassettes using my mom's really old radio with a mic that recorded like a speaker. Usually mics only record what's being played on the radio but this one picked up sound from anything. It was a big radio so I took the speakers off and would lug the thing around the house recording anime music off the TV or computer. I didn't really know how to work the thing at first so in the beginning you can hear my sister or me sneezing or something. ^^

It was really nice listening to the tapes. There is a lot of music recorded on there I haven't heard in years, like the opening song for Rurouni Kenshin, called Freckles, in English by Sandy Fox. I have the Japanese version too. Some songs are from games, like Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven and Final Fantasy VIII (first game I ever bought). There are even songs from trailers of anime I've never seen because I just love Japanese music. It was a long time ago but I still remember most of the words to most of the songs. Good 'ole 90s anime. 

One really great thing about listening to these songs is that it connected me to my past self as a hard-core anime fan. Like I've said before, I still love anime but not to the extent or same way as I used to when I was 10. My sister and I had lots of fun talking about the old anime we used to watch and saying things like "Omg! I cried when Edward left" or whatever.

Of course, all of the anime we used to watch are mainstream now and anime fandom has turned into something else in the past few years but it's nice to remember what it used to be like. 

Maybe I'll write down a playlist of the tapes. That would be fun. ^^