What was your first anime?

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#38

My first was probably Transformers, I saw that years before I knew the distinction. I also caught the occasional episode of Sailor Moon back when USA was airing it, since it was on somewhere between Sonic and Street Fighter IIRC. I believe the Megaman series aired around this time, as well (dadada super fighting robot! dadada MEGAMAN).

I think the first I actually recognized as such was DBZ. One of the local independent channels had the Ocean dub on Saturday mornings in 96. Then Toonami rolled out in 97 with Voltron, later picking up Beast Wars and Robotech, pretty much cementing the mechahead in me.

#39

Transformers wasn’t really anime unless you’re referring to either a) the Japanese series like Headmasters or Victory, or b) anything in between Beast Machines and Animated (which included Robots in Disguise and the Unicron Trilogy, of which only Armada didn’t completely suck).

Aside from that we share a similar viewing experience. Although it was Sailor Moon and Speed Racer that I first recognized as anime and I didn’t gain my interest in Mecha until the SRW games (I’ll attribute this to not having watched Robotech). Also I ended up watching Beast Wars at 6AM on what is now the Hot Topic channel back when it was a local channel that offered stuff that didn’t suck like Freakazoid (I suck for not spelling this correctly), Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, and Earthworm Jim (among other things).

Those were the days.

#40

Those were the days.

Indeed! And I’m very, very sad to discover (now that I gave up Cable) that good cartoons have disappeared from local (Puerto Rican) television entirely! With the exception of The Simpsons, the ONLY cartoons on the air here are the “safe”, aimed-at-very-little-children type, like Piggly Wiggly. Where are the Spanish dubs of Avatar or Justice League!? And Anime? Forget it! Did Morality in Media take over while I wasn’t looking?? There ARE local “Kid’s shows” but they’re more the “Barney” type, with costumed hosts talking down to children. I feel very sad for the kids here who will grow up without experiencing stuff like Ghostbusters or Reboot… or even The Flintstones!
:bowser:

#41

That’s when you sneak around at night, handing out old videotapes of various classics.

Just wait a month and dress in red and you’ll be fine. :wink:

#42

Fixed (on account that nobody has a fully functional VCR anymore).

#43

I do. I use it to watch old Disney movies.

#44

My mom used to show me these old animes of Japanese folk tales—Momotaro, the Crane Wife, and the like. I don’t know who produced them, however.

#45

The first one made way back in the 70’s I think. Great anime I remember watching anime on the Sci Fi channel way back before they took it off, anything that’s cool must be removed from TV I suppose.

#46

Umm… it came out in 1985, and you say “of course” as if it’s automatically the first one everyone has seen.

#47

  1. That was kind of the point.

  2. I have a fully functional VCR. >_>

#48

I remember watching Hunter X Hunter it was my first anime and after watching it I got addicted with anime already

#49

For me, my first anime was no doubt the original Pokemon series (Indigo league) and yes… i did get the occasional glimpse of Sailor Moon as it was right before Pokemon in the mornings on Cheez TV (which no longer airs… but was the best kids show on Earth).

#50

I also have a fully functional VCR.

#51

The first one I ever watched was sailor moon & Dragonball Z.

#52

Berserk

#53

My first anime was Death Note.

#54

Mine was Dragonball Z, started watching it when i was 6. Man i loved that show

#55

I can’t recall exactly when I started watching various series, but Sailor moon was probably my first series. Sailormoon, Dragonball Z, Digimon, and Pokemon were the only ones I really got into as a child, and I stopped watching sailormoon not long after that pink haired brat showed up. I probably would have gotten more into anime as a child if I could be bothered to actually wake up early enough to watch the saturday morning cartoons on a regular basis.

The first subtitled works I watched were Papuwa island and Planetes, back when I was still grabbing my anime from the rpgc fserv as my only source of the stuff. I should find someplace to watch the rest of Papuwa, that shit was trippy.

#56

I’m thinking it was either Sailor Moon or Dragonball, or Samurai Pizza Cats; it was so long ago I can barely remember. Of course, being no older than 8, I had no idea any of it came from Japan.

I was into Dragonball Z growing up, but otherwise it was high school and series like Outlaw Star and Saber Marionette J that really got me started on it.

#57

I think Pokémon and Digimon is my first anime I’ve watched. I start watching when I was a little kid.