What was the first anime you watched?
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Pokemon, but I didn't realise the difference between it and say, the Simpsons, at the time.
So my first "proper" anime experience was Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan.
Yeah, great start, eh?
So my first "proper" anime experience was Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan.
Yeah, great start, eh?
Was either Pokemon or Sailor Moon... Although, back then, I didn't know what anime was...
My first one knowing it WAS an anime is Tenchi Muyo!
My first one knowing it WAS an anime is Tenchi Muyo!
The first I watched and enjoyed?
IRIA: Zerum The Animation.
Prior to this I thought all anime was trash. After this I began eating it up ravenously. I saw it on the sci-fi channel late one night. I was jogging and it came on and the opening hooked me, with the team trying to pull a search and rescue on a ship that happened to have a monster on it.
At the time the toonami line-up and adult swim were just getting rolling. Before Adult Swim there was the Midnight Run. Soon I was swimming in Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop. Good times. Rented Record of Lodoss war, loved it. I picked the first disk of Berserk up at best buy, was only 14 bucks. I wound up buying all of them the day they came out.
Sci-fi channel was showing anime at the time late nights sometimes before catoon network got going. I got treated to Armitage the third, Ghost in the shell, Akira and Vampire Hunter D that way. This was a very good education in anime and a very fast one. To this day when the girl shouts at the end "I love you Iria!" I can't help but tear up a little. Takes me back a long way. Thanks, Iria. It's good for a person to find out when they're a fool. You showed me that.
Eventually I got ahead of the curve. Heard about FLCL from newtype, bought it before it came on cartoon network, was dling fansubs of bleach and claymore years before they came out here. Bought Memories on the author's rep alone. Bought Hellsing after a friend recommended disk one. Then I just stopped. I guess mostly the good stuff dried up, or I'd absorbed my limit. Every now and then I'll see a show I enjoy like GunXSword, Full Metal Alchemist or Cromartie High but the barrage we saw in the early 2000's hasn't been matched and I've come to learn a lot of what's produced is utter crap,(like in anything else) but I've learned there's some gems in the pile and I've still been left with a positive view on the medium.
IRIA: Zerum The Animation.
Prior to this I thought all anime was trash. After this I began eating it up ravenously. I saw it on the sci-fi channel late one night. I was jogging and it came on and the opening hooked me, with the team trying to pull a search and rescue on a ship that happened to have a monster on it.
At the time the toonami line-up and adult swim were just getting rolling. Before Adult Swim there was the Midnight Run. Soon I was swimming in Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop. Good times. Rented Record of Lodoss war, loved it. I picked the first disk of Berserk up at best buy, was only 14 bucks. I wound up buying all of them the day they came out.
Sci-fi channel was showing anime at the time late nights sometimes before catoon network got going. I got treated to Armitage the third, Ghost in the shell, Akira and Vampire Hunter D that way. This was a very good education in anime and a very fast one. To this day when the girl shouts at the end "I love you Iria!" I can't help but tear up a little. Takes me back a long way. Thanks, Iria. It's good for a person to find out when they're a fool. You showed me that.
Eventually I got ahead of the curve. Heard about FLCL from newtype, bought it before it came on cartoon network, was dling fansubs of bleach and claymore years before they came out here. Bought Memories on the author's rep alone. Bought Hellsing after a friend recommended disk one. Then I just stopped. I guess mostly the good stuff dried up, or I'd absorbed my limit. Every now and then I'll see a show I enjoy like GunXSword, Full Metal Alchemist or Cromartie High but the barrage we saw in the early 2000's hasn't been matched and I've come to learn a lot of what's produced is utter crap,(like in anything else) but I've learned there's some gems in the pile and I've still been left with a positive view on the medium.
Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh (If you consider those proper animes) and Dragonball z and its variant and a bit of digimon.
And F**k YEAR Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo!
And F**k YEAR Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo!
Princess Mononoke. Technically Pokemon then Digimon but I really don't consider those anime really just cartoons. I guess next would be DBZ but that's iffy in my opinion as well. Princess Mononoke was my first look into anime as something more then a cartoon. I think I caught it late on HBO back in the late nineties it really opened me up to anime.
Pokemon/DBZ/Cardcaptors
Watched them all in the horribly dubbed English versions as a kid and I couldn't honestly say which was first. The first anime I watched in the original Japanese with subtitles was Card Captor Sakura and the difference between it and the crap I remembered from my childhood is what sold me on the Subs > Dubs argument.
Watched them all in the horribly dubbed English versions as a kid and I couldn't honestly say which was first. The first anime I watched in the original Japanese with subtitles was Card Captor Sakura and the difference between it and the crap I remembered from my childhood is what sold me on the Subs > Dubs argument.
Damn son, I hope you be trollin'Arehexes said:
My first anime was Teknoman, the Australian dubbed version of Tekkaman Blade. And it was awesome; I only wish that Star (Aki) wasn't so whiney in the first series.
Also related moment of awesome or what the hell:
The villain of Teknoman, Saber, sounds like this (he's the red and black one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbxucmo8NeA
Who is played by.....Bulk from Power Rangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGWYhEWlXfM
Just think about that for a minute.
Eh to be fair, the original source material gets a lot more respect these days, with a few notorious exceptions.Dark-Dreymer said:
Pokémon, then Digimon, Then Yu-Gi-Oh, Then when Dragonball Z finally hit UIk shores I watched a bit of that but stopped because I had no idea what was going on at the time (The UK Broadcast started slightly into the Android Saga, so we missed the whole explanations we needed). Beyblade was in there somewhere, probably before Yu-Gi-Oh. After that I didn't watch another Anime until I started late last year. Digimon 1-4, Death Note and DragonBall Z Kai all on Disc! ^^
Calumon: I'll give you... three guesses!
Calumon: I'll give you... three guesses!