Did you ever own "foreign language media?"...

Not really a lot of my will be in PAL stuff but do have a one pegi 7 game and that’s Nintendo land

Also forgot to mention-some neighbors of mine managed to get their hands on a copy of Pokemon Silver that was in Japanese (I suspect a flea market, since this was the late 90s) and none of us knew Japanese. We made do with my English language strategy guide though!

Haha, I remember being in an Asian country years ago and just seeing all the bootleg DVDs for sale right on the street. Pretty much any show you can imagine, with American shows/movies and anime being particularly popular. I was tempted to buy one called "Harry Potter the Lord of the Rings" (the characters were just spliced together on the cover on some stock background) but never did. Was this in Europe by any chance? It would be fun to see how "close" you were in your translations.

And no kidding, early Youtube was pretty hella lenient when it came to uploads back in the day, you could find so much just waiting there. Though copyright WOULD strike here or there, a friend of mine remembers trying to finish Excel Saga and resorted to watching it in Brazilian Portuguese. I remember watching some terrible late 90s/early 00s OVA called Tenbatsu Angel Rabbie in Italian too, but that was the only language there SO...

And agreed, sometimes, sometimes you don't mind watching something as long as you can just "see cute/cool stuff." I remember trying my hand at a new "raw" anime since I was trying to learn Japanese (yes, one of THOSE people, though I do read a decent bit now). NOPE. Didn't understand like anything. I've also tried Nippon animation (Heidi, Akage no Anne, etc.), but for a while like the only stuff you could find on Youtube was in Arabic subtitles since Nippon had a massive following there. I think their stuff is still not localized here in the USA?

Not Europe, actually, I lived in a few Middle Eastern countries when I was younger. I used to be able to read (well, sound out words, I could never speak it fluently) a little bit of Arabic my first few years of school, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten all of it. And speaking of Heidi, they had a poster of that series up in the German classroom of one of my old secondary schools. What does and doesn't get officially translated into English is really fascinating to me.

Kids' anime takes up a really unique place in terms of English localisation, a lot of series still try to market themselves as 'Western cartoons' by erasing the cultural differences. I think a lot of people have probably watched it without realising it was anime, just because of how far some of them go to get rid of all that stuff.

I own exactly one Japanese DVD, and it's the Fuuun! Takeshi Jou (Takeshi's Castle) Volume 2 set. A rather disappointing DVD as the episodes featured are butchered beyond belief (the first New Year's Special that's featured on it is missing over an hour of footage.) I only have one DVD player that will play it, and it's a portable.

Other than that, it's all Japanese import video games.

Ah that makes sense-I have heard a number of dubs around the world are actually based on English dubs first! And with English being a global language, an English dub could also be available elsewhere, sort of like French being in so many places.
I know Maya the Bee at least got a release on Nick Jr here in the states.

Ah, they had Boomerang there? It would be pretty neat to compare what aired there vs. here, since I imagine what would be "nostalgic" probably defers culture to culture!