Nostalgia - Octopus Kingdom, NYC Was just thinking about how many years ago when Toonami would continuously loop from the beginning of the series to Frieza's death. In order to see farther in the series my friends and I would go down to Chinatown in NYC to a little shop called "Octopus Kingdom". There we would purchase fansubbed VHS that had 4 episodes per cassette. Back then it felt like we had access to secret knowledge, as we traded VHS back and forth to complete our viewing of DBZ and other awesome series like Yu Yu Hakusho, Flame of Recca, Kenshin and Evangelion.

Octopus Kingdom is closed now, but it inspired generations of anime and manga fans when licensing was almost nonexistent and we had to search far and wide to enjoy these staples of the anime world.