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The first anime shows i remember seeing are Grendizer and Sally the Witch, both of which i watched on tv as a kid. I sometimes wonder if they were good shows, but haven't looked at them again because i don't want to ruin the good memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7V0wqIeIMc
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Jul 14, 2020 19:45
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Not sure if it was really the first but I distinctly remember watching the second half of the Namek arc of Dragonball Z on the TOONAMI REACTOR and how insanely cool it was when Goku went super saiyan despite how I had little to no context about who any of the characters were or what was going on. I think the first episode available was in the middle of the Ginyu Force fights and to this day I haven't actually seen the rest of Z or Kai, though between numerous AMVs and Abridged I pretty much know the rest of the story. From there I downloaded a bunch of other anime with WinMX. I know some of the first were Evangelion, Lain, Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun. Sindai fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 14, 2020 19:50
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https://twitter.com/kaynimatic/status/1282590141479940096
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Jul 14, 2020 21:01
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Don't doxx me!!! But for real, some of that sounds similar to my trajectory into anime fandom. As a kid I saw a bunch of Anime on Cartoon Network, FoxKids, and KidsWB, things like Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh, Flint the Time Detective, Dragonball Z, etc. I wasn't really consciously aware of what anime was until like 2004, when I was in 6th grade, but I had noticed and was attracted to the artstyle. About 2005-6 was when I started to seek out anime, with the first thing that I found outside of cable television being airings of Vandread on some sort of Satelite channel that we only got on the big TV in the living room, so I'd have to sneak out to watch it late on school nights with low volume to avoid waking my parents and making them think I was watching softcore porn on HBO. I continued watching anime here and there into high school, and found SA around that time. Oddly enough though, I rarely paid attention to ADTRW, only checking it out on a rare occasion and mostly read LP. I wasn't clued into the classics or what was going on each season-I basically just caught what was mainstream popular at the time or what random shows I managed to stumble upon by accident. There was a sort of magic to that sort of exploration, stumbling upon YouTube 3 part rips of Abenobashi Shopping Arcade, Nerima Daikon Bros, Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu, future episodes of Naruto that haven't aired in the states yet, and even straight up porn like Bible Black. Anyways, tying back to the original question, I accidentally followed my first seasonal anime with Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt in the fall of 2010, when I just happened to be recommended the first episode subbed on YouTube when only the first couple of eps were out. I was dealing with a lot of lovely home and school issues at that time, and the show wound up reigniting a childlike excitement in me, where I would be looking forward to new rips uploaded to YouTube every friday evening to give me a bunch of laughs that honestly helped me cope with things. Outside of that though, I found a couple of shows that I wound up watching as they aired, such as Persona 4 the Animation and Mysterious Girlfriend X, but I didn't really deep dive into seeing what everything was that was airing in a season, and watching it alongside other people, until early 2016, a few months after I started regularly posting in ADTRW.
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Jul 14, 2020 22:05
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The big thing for me as a kid was there were story arcs. Most if not all the cartoons around were self contained 11 or 22 minute episodes.
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Jul 14, 2020 22:10
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https://twitter.com/OoCPokemon/status/1283168526652583942 ~do it~
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Jul 15, 2020 00:01
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I didn't really watch anime as a kid outside of the usual Yugioh, Pokemon and Digimon, and in university I wasn't super into it either (did follow MHA though). After uni when I was still job searching though? I went in hard on seasonals in Fall 2018 or so. And here I am now, hanging out in ADTRW...
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Jul 15, 2020 00:03
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Mods and or "admins" Make one of these my avatar on this website. Thanks. 
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Jul 15, 2020 00:07
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The first anime I can recall watching that wasn't just animated by Japanese studios (e.g. Inspector Gadget) was probably either Hello Kitty and Friends (thanks for putting it in a block with the Super Mario Bros Super Show, DiC) or Lensmen (I was living in Europe at the time and they aired "Secret of the Lens" which was the feature movie (except with most of the soundtrack replaced with a bunch of synth) and "Power of the Lens" which was very confusing (I have since learned it was a spliced together chunk of episodes from Galactic Patrol Lensman, thanks Harmony Gold). I also saw Little Nemo in theaters when it aired in the US. So I guess that dates my first exposure to the late 80s/early 90s. I got into Ranma 1/2 closer to the mid-90s from the pricey import section at the back of the comic shop, and thanks to tape trading I saw Gundam Wing subbed before Toonami picked it up, but I think I didn't really catch a series as it was broadcasting seasonally until Working!! because a friend wanted me to watch it.
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Jul 15, 2020 00:28
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handily avatar sized  
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Jul 15, 2020 00:29
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korone is a big dog, and she should be a big av
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Jul 15, 2020 00:30
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Back in 95 or whatever Cheez TV aired Tekkaman Blade and Sailor Moon here so I watched those, then the other anime they put on (Pokemon, DBZ, Zoids) and kinda just never stopped I guess. I think I bought a Cowboy Bebop DVD with my first pay from working at McDonalds when I was 14.
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Jul 15, 2020 00:37
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My earliest exposure was in the mid 80s watching Voltron on tv as a kid, and when I visited my grandma who had the Disney channel which aired the Unico movies. Those movies sort of blew my mind because I loved the animation style but had no idea why it was so different since I was like, 6. I watched the first one on Crunchyroll last year and tbh it holds up pretty well, still pretty fun to watch. I was just stuck with what came on tv for years and even then was picky enough I refused to watch Tenchi when it was on Cartoon Network In college the timing was just right that I could buy a lot of stuff used on dvd because it was right in that early 2000s boom when all sorts of random stuff got licensed, and there were a lot of used video stores around campus that always had anime. I also was dating a guy who had way more disposable income than me and was friends with a guy who ran an import store so through him I watched a few vhs fansubs and some other less accessible stuff I probably wouldn't have been able to see otherwise. A lot of porn too Our tastes didn't always align well and sitting through entire shows I didn't really like to begin with really burned me out on some stuff, but I'd go along with it because he wanted to watch things together and he was the one buying so he got to pick. We marathoned the entirety of Fushigi Yuugi over a couple of weekends and by the end I couldn't imagine hating a show more than I hated that show lmao (to be fair I liked it at the start but it got really old really fast). Once I found manga online and started reading scans I watched a lot less anime though. There was a several year break where I watched a few shows I bought on dvd but manga was a lot easier to download than videos so that was the bulk of what I viewed that was unlicensed. I'm pretty sure one of the factors that led to me following shows more seasonally was when my parents got dsl and it was suddenly way easier to watch (tiny, grainy) videos online.
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Jul 15, 2020 01:30
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homeless snail posted:korone is a big dog, and she should be a big av Agreed.
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Jul 15, 2020 01:31
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speed racer | all the other anime you see on tv as a kid born in the 90s | finding out about torrents and fansubs in the early 2000s, gradually moving from naruto/bleach/d.gray man (because dattebayo and black order were the first subgroups i got into) to seasonals in like 2007 i feel like i have said the story too many times so now it's brief
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Jul 15, 2020 01:38
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My anime trajectory was seeing the trailer for Kiki's Delivery Service at the end of a Disney VHS once, but I didn't know it was anime at all. Then I caught Pokemon a few times, and finally Digimon was when I realized what anime was thanks to an issue of Fox Kids Magazine that talked about it. Didn't truly start to get into it until high school when I bought several volumes of Initial D from RadioShack because they sold them alongside the ZipZaps RC car versions of the cars and I thought the AE86 looked cool, then I ended up reading more of the manga and watching stuff like Azumanga because of YTMND memes and that led to me just looking for whatever was dubbed at the time on Youtube. That led to me seeing stuff like Galaxy Angel and ROD, then I got into Negima and that was when I was knee deep in it. I was so into Negima the way it just abruptly ended was loving devastating to me Zeether fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 01:38
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Not sure what the best part of Korone's doom experience, her singing the Precure Max Heart Theme when fighting a boss or the reaction to every Single Cacodemon (including calling a pair Precure)
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Jul 15, 2020 01:50
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homeless snail posted:korone is a big dog, and she should be a big av Mm nah lol
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Jul 15, 2020 01:56
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Dryzen posted:Mm nah lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRoM9KlizTQ&t=42s
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Jul 15, 2020 01:58
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who will be the okayu to ibram's korone
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Jul 15, 2020 02:06
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the korone doom run ftw
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Jul 15, 2020 02:39
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what a good doog
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GorfZaplen posted:The cop one sounds like angel cop Nah not angel cop, it was way more "anime" looking, like huge hairdos of every color and giant eyes, that sort of 80s/90s style I'd go check but I threw out all my vhs tapes ages ago because why wouldn't I Gimme more DOOG fanart please
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Jul 15, 2020 04:14
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Not sure what the best part of Korone's doom experience, her singing the Precure Max Heart Theme when fighting a boss or the reaction to every Single Cacodemon (including calling a pair Precure) It's all the best Whenever she's running away like "oh no oh no oh no" and whirls around and like, pinpoint accurately takes out 5 enemies with four shots and shouts victoriously is probably my favorite though Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 04:16
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Captain Invictus posted:Gimme more DOOG fanart please
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Jul 15, 2020 04:18
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Perfection.
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Jul 15, 2020 04:20
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Thank you, to the mods.
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Jul 15, 2020 04:26
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Thank you, to the mods. nice av(s)
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Thank you, to the mods. Excellent
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Jul 15, 2020 04:50
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Av tech is more advanced than i thought
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Jul 15, 2020 05:01
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lol
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Jul 15, 2020 05:15
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Gotta keep moving or the demons will get you
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Jul 15, 2020 05:43
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Captain Invictus posted:Nah not angel cop, it was way more "anime" looking, like huge hairdos of every color and giant eyes, that sort of 80s/90s style Burn-up W?
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Jul 15, 2020 05:55
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I saw the first eight episodes of bleach as a small child. That was about it, until seven years later when I rediscovered anime via megatokyo recommendation columns
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Jul 15, 2020 06:08
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 [x] Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 06:13
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First anime I watched was 20+ years ago, early seasons of Ranma 1/2, rented Viz vhs cassettes from a local comic book shop with my friend who introduced me to it. I was 15 (playing a lot of psx jrpgs at the time, too) and thought the animation quality, whimsy, and earnest 'feelings' were really refreshing at the time because I was so downtrodden. I went down the rabbit hole from there renting just about every anime series cassette in the store. I pretty much overdosed on everything, and by 2002 I was completely done with anime, jrpgs, etc, and wouldn't revisit any of that stuff for like 15 years. The last series I watched before that big break was the entirety of Kimagure Orange Road and it ended up leaving a profound impression on me right as I was going into college. I recently revisited jrpgs, manga, and anime in general in the last 3 years (due to my nieces who love Ranma) and the Kimagure anime/manga specifically very recently just for my own sake, watched the entire series and it's still my absolute favorite. I may be a washed-up jobless x-ennial locked in a quarantine...but that show just makes me f~e~e~l . a~l~i~v~e .    
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Jul 15, 2020 07:53
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Paracelsus posted:Burn-up W? That's the one! Thanks! I dunno if you can identify the other on comparatively little info, that being "women who pilot mecha, the mecha have gigantic thighs"
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Jul 15, 2020 08:09
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do the women have gigantic thighs? asking for me
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I literally don't remember what the characters looked like or anything else about the show, just that the robots had really weirdly wide legs.
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