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First first would be Speed Racer on the Cartoon Network, but I didn't really recognize it as any different from other cartoons. The first time I recognized what I was consuming as distinct from American stuff was when my friend bought a handful of the old colorized Viz issues of Ranma 1/2 off some kid (who probably stole them from some other kid's locker) for a few bucks in middle school. They had boobs, and were funny. My mom had finally gotten INTERNET, and through it I soon learned that there was an anime of it and that I could illegally acquire it, and, well, here I am.
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 12:18 |
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First really relevant would be Cardcaptors. In French dub, no less. I say Cardcaptors because it was, in fact, a re-dub of the heavily edited original English dub.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 09:13 |
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The first one I saw would have been Astro Boy at around age 5, but the first time I was actually aware of anime as being something distinct from Western cartoons would be Sailor Moon at age 9-10.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 10:23 |
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Same, but I didn't differentiate it from any other morning cartoon at the time like Ninja Turtles or Transformers, so the first anime I recognised as anime were Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Patlabor movie.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 10:39 |
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Devilman. come to think of it maybe thats why I'm such a gently caress up
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 14:15 |
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Kimba the White Lion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsQqOlPjhs He just keeps running and running and running... I remember watching it on TV when I was eating lunch at home on school days. I think it was showing on the PBS affiliate we got in southern Alberta. After that, no anime until Sailor Moon on YTV and FOX. My older brother would watch Astro Boy and loved it to death. I wasn't really into it, though.
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 21:11 |
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VHS horrible dubs of Getter Robo G which my mum kindly bought from a local street market, probably because the box art made it look kind of like Transformers. I remember the big bad was basically Hitler with a horn, which was hilarious. I wasn't very old at the time, maybe 6 or 7. When we got satellite TV I used to watch whatever poo poo was on, this was before DBZ was on Cartoon Network as far as I remember so it was basically just Speed Racer and Sailor Moon. Then when I was like 12 or something I saw some Guyver OVAs, Akira and Ninja Scroll followed by a bunch more hyperviolence 80s stuff they used to show late on SciFi in the UK. This probably broke me somehow but luckily I wasn't really old enough to realise how loving rapey everything was so watching some of it when I was older I was like
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 22:18 |
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I grew up in Switzerland, where we actually got a suprisingly large amount of anime on TV - except I had no idea what "anime" was or that it came from Japan. A lot of my favourite shows were actually dubbed anime. The problem is that I was so young that I actually have very little recollection of which anime was the first one I watched. All of the following are possible candidates: Heidi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fffb078iXU Maja (Maya) the Bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mCm7V7Jxo Nils Holgersson (this was a pretty drat awesome show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrCKqGdN4M or the best of them all (and my favourite): Captain Future!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8H2csE9bU Soul Reaver fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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I can appreciate it now as an adult (cause it owns), but as a kid the opening music to Captain Future always creeped me out for some reason. And yes, Nils Holgersson was p. good
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 22:30 |
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Once when I was a little kid I saw an episode of a strange but interesting cartoon about some kind of spaceship. I never saw it again or remembered what it was called, but it stayed stuck in my mind ever since. Going on two decades later I finally found out about Ulysses 31. But I probably saw Moomin before that.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 01:29 |
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Steel Angel Kurumi when I was like 13 or something. gently caress if I know why,
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 04:13 |
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Doraemon when my dad was stationed in Japan. My first experience while I was back in the states was a spanish dub of Lost Universe.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 04:40 |
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Sailor Moon on Toonami back when Moltar ran it. Then I found volumes of Ranma 1/2 in the school library.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 06:17 |
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The time: 1986 The place: HBO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6280C94UY-w I have very little memory of this, only a snippet of a song, but apparently Orson Welles was a VA in the dub. It would be fifteen years before I watched another anime...
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 06:23 |
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Excuse me. Orson Welles was the pigeon.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 06:26 |
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Superbook
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 06:31 |
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I always thought Mozgus in Berserk looked like the priest robot thing from Superbook.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 07:04 |
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I have one of the boring anime origins. Standard sort of Pokemon, then DBZ, then Digimon, then Yu Yu Hakusho, then subtitled Naruto and Bleach, etc. route. Toonami and saturday morning stuff. Technically I guess Speed Racer was my first but I barely remember it, and I don't know if Pokemon really counts. DBZ is what really triggered it.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 10:52 |
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Probably Pokemon and heavily edited Cardcaptors. Also a lot of people on the internet were going nuts for Zatch Bell when I was 10-12 (remember that?), but I didn't watch it. My first real anime experience was watching subbed Sailor Moon on Youtube.
Violet_Sky fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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When I was a kid I saw a bunch of Voltron and probably some other older anime on Cartoon Network. I didn't really know what it was, but hey, it was on TV, I was a kid, I'm gonna watch this because it's on TV. After that I occasionally caught an episode of something on Toonami around the turn of the century. I remember seeing one episode of Blue Sub No. 6, part of a Sailor Moon movie, and then seeing an episode of either Tenchi Universe or Tenchi In Tokyo and thinking "It's really weird how they keep changing the name of this show depending on where he is " I didn't really care enough about any of it to make an effort to seek any of it out. When I was 12 I randomly tuned into a Cowboy Bebop marathon on Adult Swim. Got totally spoiled on the ending of the show, but Jupiter Jazz 1/2 and The Real Folk Blues 1/2 back to back was a hell of an introduction, so it was worth it. At the time I thought all anime series were hundreds of episodes long like Pokemon or DBZ, so my first impression of Cowboy Bebop was that it was a massive saga spanning the lives of countless characters all over the galaxy. "It's like... The Sopranos in space!" (I had never watched The Sopranos.) I still think Bebop's universe could be the basis of an amazing long-running series -- the pioneer setting and gate accident make a good starting point for a lot of stories, and in 26 episodes it gave us little glimpses into so many different worlds and cultures and stories. I was instantly hooked on Bebop, and from there I started sampling pretty much any shows I could find, from the other shows on Adult Swim and Toonami (most of which were... mediocre) to whatever I heard about online or looked interesting at the video store (most of which were... mediocre). I gave a lot of bad shows more of a chance than they deserved, just because I kept hearing they were good. Bought lots and lots of Newtype USA, reading about interesting-looking shows that I finally tried watching a decade later and found out they were total garbage. I think FLCL was the next thing I saw after Bebop that was an obvious standout above the rest and kept me interested in what else was out there. Getting to see Spirited Away in a theater was also pretty amazing. Then at some point, thirteen-year-old me reached episode 16 of Evangelion and my mind was thoroughly blown, not least by the fact that you could even do something that abstract in a tv show.
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# ? Nov 10, 2015 21:08 |
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My Neighbor Tortoro. I don't think you can introduce a child to anime better than that.
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 02:54 |
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I watched a whole bunch of Voltron really early on. But the first time I knew that anime was a thing was Saturday Morning Anime on SciFi. I don't remember too many things I saw there, but there were a few A-ko movies, Roujin-Z, 8 Man After, Iria... maybe even Armitage III? This was, of course, soon followed up by bootleg VHS copies of Akira, Vampire Hunter D, and Ghost in the Shell. And then DBZ started on Toonami and the real obsession began.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 04:59 |
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The first subbed VHS I bought was Cyber City Oedo. I thought it looked cool in the store! I bought it and didn't even hear about it until, honestly, 15 years later being mentioned on a podcast.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 05:21 |
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EVIR Gibson posted:The first subbed VHS I bought was Cyber City Oedo. I thought it looked cool in the store! I bought it and didn't even hear about it until, honestly, 15 years later being mentioned on a podcast. Cyber City Oedo owns and is criminally underwatched. I think it might be the most obscure thing Kawajiri has ever directed.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 05:32 |
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Cyber City Oedo owns and is criminally underwatched. I think it might be the most obscure thing Kawajiri has ever directed. There's no way it's more obscure than Demon City Shinjuku. Or the segment he did for Cockpit. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Nov 16, 2015 |
# ? Nov 16, 2015 05:46 |
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or goku midnight eye. cyber city oedo at least has an region 1 dvd
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 05:51 |
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I was about to edit and say Goku: Midnight Eye was probably up there too, but Demon City Shinjuku? Really? I thought that was one of his more well-known works (not counting Ninja Scroll, and... half-counting Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, since that was well-known before he got to it).
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 06:14 |
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No because most people think you're talking about Wicked City when they're two different films. Well, not 'most people' but you know what I mean.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 06:34 |
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Love Hina in the school computer lab with a bunch of other nerds maybe around 6-7th grade. That show seemed like borderline pornography at the time.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 10:43 |
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voltron, lots of voltron
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 11:55 |
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First anime... was probably My Neighbor Totoro. If it's TV though, that's probably Cowboy Bebop.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 15:07 |
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First anime was almost certainly Voltron, though I was a little kid and assumed it was just a regular old cartoon. I remember being obsessed enough with Voltron to insist on renting the movie and finding it super confusing. First anime to leave an impression on me as anime...probably DBZ, followed shortly by Samurai Pizza Cats and later Sailor Moon/toonami in general.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 22:23 |
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Samurai Pizza Cats got me into anime. Then I watched Sailor Moon on USA before school. I think it was the same block that had that awful Mortal Kombat cartoon.
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 22:48 |
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Hail to thee, o Pizza Cats Please ring your little bell
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 23:22 |
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Project A-ko. Really stood out in my child mind in a way voltron and thundercats didn't, but I couldn't explain why.
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# ? Nov 17, 2015 09:20 |
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The panty shots?
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# ? Nov 17, 2015 09:24 |
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haha
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# ? Nov 17, 2015 09:31 |
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My weird friend from America had an older brother and he showed me Akira when I was like 10 and it hosed me up man But really all the Arabic cartoons as kids were dubbed anime. Grendizer, Captain Tsubasa, and others were extremely popular. Popular Kuwaiti Urban legend says that when Saddam invaded kuwait a distress signal went out to the effect of something like "Even grendizer can't stop all these tanks"
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# ? Nov 17, 2015 09:44 |
All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku, when I was nine, maybe ten? It was a bootleg VHS at a birthday party.
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# ? Nov 18, 2015 02:45 |
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Stuff on Toonami and Saturday morning cartoon channels like FoxKids, then nothing until ~2007 when I got into anime thanks to Evangelion thru NEtflix.
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